Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, March 2, 1879, Page 6

6 THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE: SUNDAY. MARCH 2, 1879—SIXTEEN PAGES. FINANCE AND TRADE. Less Activity in Government Bonds ===Foreign Exchange Strong. Ths Produce Markets Irregular—Provisions Turn Downwards, under Large D:- Jiveries and Heavy Offerings, Grain Strenger—Wheat - Excited by News from Frauce—Hovement of Produea for the Week. FINANCIAL. Government bonds were in only moderate de- mand. The 6s of 1551 declined 3, to 106343 the 5-20s of 1867 were unchanged. at 1013{; the 5-20s of 1865 advanced %, to 102}¢; the 10-40s were quoted, ex-interest, at 101%; the new 5sof 1851 were steady, at 1043 ; in the4)¢s there was a de- cline of 1, to 105; and in the currency Gs a gain of 3, to 1213¢. The4 per cents are quoted at 100 to 1003, Gold is nominally quoted a¢ $2.00 per $1.000 for Jarze amounts, and 104 for small Jots, but the quotation is nominal, as there is nodemand. Foreign exchange rates were strong, and are pow within 3¢c of the specie exporting point. Sterling grain-bills or **‘documentaries” were 4531¢, and French bills 5213. The actual Chi- 220 rates for sterling were 485%¢ and 4853%. In New Yoak the actusl rates were 458 and 4689. The posted rates for sterling were 4563 and 459%. French benkers’ bills were 516) and B18¥- Consols opened st 9 5-16, sod advanced to 96%. Chicazo bankers received the bulk of their ‘business for the day from the Board of Trade settlements. Heavy deliveries of lard were a srominent feature of transactions, and one bank ‘was reported to bave paid for sbont $1,000,000 worth of this commodity, which has gone into the same hands that bought wheat by the million ‘bushels a few months 2go. The loauable surplus of the banks is incressing. Money hasbeen loaned on the street at 6 per cent per anoum for sixty and ninety days. Baokrates are @7 per cent on call, and 7@10 per cent on time. Country orders for currency are light. The supply of XKew York exchange is large, owing to increased shipments of stuff Esstward. 7 The ciearings of the Chicazo banks for the week is reported ss follows by Mansger D. R. Hale, of the Chicago Clearing-House: clearings. FBalances. $ 37.874 331,459 383,942 211,611 162,457 638,957 £2,102,33¢ JRSE YOATs ceneenen-..r 17,985,561 1,862,823, There was a sale of South Side City Railway stock 8t 16734, - J Railroad bonds, in New Yorkon Thursday, were irregular, and, in the main, weak and Jower. The greatest change was in New Jersey Southern firsts, which sold at 45@44, 3 decline of 11@12 per cent from the Jast-reported sale. The New Jersey Central issues led the list in point of activity, and declined sharply early in the dey, closing, however, at a partial recovery. Consolidated firsts, assented, fell off from §5% to 83, and rallied to E3£@S#3{. Con- vertibles assented fell off from 85% to 83,and closed at 84. Adjustment, sfter selling down from 973 to 863, recovered to 973¢. Lehizh & Wilkesbarre consoiidated sssented fell off trom 503 t0 50, and rose to 51 at the close. 3is- sourd, Kansas & Texas consolidated assented declined from 55% to 55, and do seconds from 19 to 163, but the latter rallicd to 19- Winona & St. Peters seconds advanced 23{ per cent, to 103%{. Rock Isiand 6s declined 3§, to 11233 St, Paul firsts 3, to 1243¢3°C5 C5C. &L cosol- sdated 3£, to 853¢; Union Facifle’ Sinking Funds %, to 114; Kausas Pacific 6s of 1898 with coupon certificates 1,/ to 112; do Denver Division with coupon’ certificates 3, to 973 do Trust receints 24, .to 963¢; Toledo & Wabash St. Louis Division ex. matared coupon 3{, to 90K; do seconds ‘ex. conpons 3¢, to 83; Chesa- peake & Ohio fixsts Series B3{. 1033; Denver& Rio Grande firsts 5, to 90; Southern Pacific firsts 34, to 94%¢; and Great Western seconds ex. coupon 1, to 82, Ohio & Mississippi seconds fell off to 92, and subsequently recovered to 93. C.,C. &1. C. firsts dropped 2}, to 63, and closed at 633¢; do seconds were 1 lower, selling 8t 24 Totale...en --e0e0 $21,533,986 Corresponding week BY TELEGRAPH. NEW YORE. 0 the Westorn Associated Press. XEw YoRE, Morch L.—Governments firmer. Railroad securities weak. State bonds dull. Epeculation on the Stock Exchange to-day was quite active, but very weak in tone. Prices, un- der» sbarp and vigorous selling movement, made a marked decline. Early in the day a break occurred in the entire list, and prices went off % to 23¢ vercent. Towards noon the market became steadier, and a partial recovery took place, but during the afternoon the selling movement was renewed, and a decline cnsued ranging from @49 ver cent compared with the highest prices of the day. Coal shares, Granger stock, and Western Union were weak. Delaware & Lackrwanna fell £3§; Northwestern common, 23§; NewJerser Central, 21{ ; Delaware & Hudson and Morris & Essex 13{,and Western Union 15 per cent. Eric made the least de- cline, goinz down only % per cent. Investment shares participated in the general weakness, especially Rock Isiand. which sold down 10128, against 1513{ at yesterday’s closinz. Trapsactions were 255,000 shares, of which 1.009 were New York Central, 19,000 Erie, 27,- 000 Lake Shore, 2,700 Wabash, 33,000 North- western common, 21,000 preferred, 22,000 St Paul common, 11,000 preferred, 56,000 Lackn- wanns, 16,000 New Jersey Central, 2,000 Tnion Pacific, 3,600 Ohio & Mississippi, 15.000 Western Tnion, 1,600 Missouri, Kansas & Texas, 1,100 Rock Island, 2,300 Delawsre & Hudson, 2,000 Hannibal & St. Joe, 1,600 Michigan Central, 6,800 Morris & Essex, 1,600 Kznsas Pacific, and 1,200 Pacific Mail. Money market active at 3@4, closing at 3. Prime mercautile paper, 325. Sterling exchange, 60 days, active at 4863 sirht, 459X, The weckly bank statement is as follows: Loans, increase, $2.709,900; soecie, decrease, $1,474,500; legal-tenders, decrease, $§2,725,200; deposits, decrease. $2,952,900; circulation, de- crease, $103.500; reserve, decrease, $3,461,775. ‘The banks now hold $3,750,27 in excess of their lezal requirements. GOVERNMENTS. Coupons of 18S1...105%' New 45, 10015 Coupons, *67s......1025:110-40s. 101% Coupons, *68s.-....102% 10-40s, ex conpon. 102 “.I30is|Curreacies. ... ... 1213 sTOCES. W. U. Telegraph..104X N. J. Central.. .... 35 Ctiver brones 12 (Bock Isiand. 3 32 St. Paal 236 Welle, Fargo & Co.. 99_iTerre Haute, pfd. American Express. 49%'Chicazo & Alton... 75 S5 C. & Alton, prd... 105 Y. Central Ohio & Mississippi. 11 Erie .. 555 Del., L. & Western, 52 Ene, pfd 111 33%'a. & P. Teleeraph. 454 Harlew. 1151 issoun Pacitic.... 1% Michiran Central... B6X C., B, & Q.ex.div.113%5 Panama... 122 ‘Baunibal & St Joe. 14 Taoion Pacific....... 3% H. & St. Joe, pfd.. & Lake Shore. 70% Canada Soutsern. .. 54 Tihinois Cen! €1 Cent. Pac. bonds...109% Clev. & Prutsby 901 Tnion Pac. bonds..110 Northwestern 527 T. P. Land-Granis. 11255 orhwescers, $6% 0. P. Sinking-F"ds.110 ITATE BONDS. Tennesese 61, old.. 313 Virginia 6s,new.... 28 Tenneesec ts, new. 2415 Missouri -..108% ¥irginia 6, old.... 28" | FOREIGN. LoxDOX, March L—Consols, moner, 96 5-16; m&mmmfimflm—wng. 18; Edle, 26365 Tnited States bonds—'67s, 104; 10-40s, 104 vew 5, 1063C; £3g5, 1053 RERY Amonnt ot bullion gone into the Bank of En- glend on balance to-day, £14,090, Panis, Feb. 23.—Rentes, 110f 25¢. COMMERCIATL. Latest quotations for March delivery on the leading articles for the last two bnsiness days: Friday. Saturday. 1020 'S 30.10 6.72% 3824 Short ribs. boxed. Whisky. 77 @i 80 %8R % e The following were the receipts and ship- ments of the leading articles of produce in this city during the twenty-four hours ending at 7 o'dlock on Saturday morning, and for the cor- responding date twelve months 3502 REcEIPTS. |, i SHIPNENTS. eT. | 17s. || 1w, | 1678 Flour, brls. 12,501 12,753) Wheat. b 71071 g 163,044] s ies-biia G avpies. bia.| Bfln{ bul... Withdrawn from store during Friday for city consumption: 363 bu wheat, 773 bu corn, 1,850 bu barley. The following grain was inspected into store in this city Saturday morping: 9 cars No. 2 winter wheat, 2 cars mized. 1 car No. 2 hard, 29 cars No. 2 spring, 76 cars No. 8 do, 29 cars re- jected, 1 car no grade (147 wheat); 41 cars high-mixed corn, 27 cars new do, 27 cars new mixed, 47 cars No. 2 corn, 8 cars rejected (145 corn); 23 cars white oats, T cars No. 2 mixed, 2 cars rejected (32 oats); 9 cars No. 2rye, 1 car No. 2 barley, 6 cars No. 8 do, 6 cars extra do (13 barley). Total, 346 cars, or 150,000 bu. In- spected out: 70,470 bu wheat, 32,235 bu corn, 3,154 bu barley. . The following were the receipts and shipments of breadstuffs and live stock at this point dur- ing the past week, and for the corresponding weeks ending as dated: Jlm;dl 1, Feb. 22, March 2, 1878. 84,206 1870, 44,490 15,07 The following table shows the exports from New York for the week ending Thursday even- ing last, with comparisons: B AMarch 1, Feb. 179, 1 . Live hoge, No. Cautle, No... 22, March?, 870, 1878, 55, 785 45,435 465,570 691025 610 720,273 884,660 205,360 The question is often asked, ““ How much more grain can the elevators take care of?” Some of them are undoubtedly as foll as is consistent Wwith economy “in’operating them, bat there is room forat least 1,000,000 bu more in the South Branch elevators alome. That would allow five weeks more of filling up at the recent rate of excess of receints over shipments, aud by that time we shall not be very far from the opening of navigation, with plenty of vessels in the harbor waiting to load up. The prospect is making vessel-owners hopeful of hizher rates, and they now talk confidently of 7c or over to Buffalo. The latest sensation is that two men who belong to the F. F.’s, if not to theF.F.V.’s, are buying up all the cargo wheat on the other side of the Atlantic, and are responsible for the advance of 1@2s ver quarter of Saturday in the British markets. The rumor is a little fish(er)y, but none the less palatable to those Whoare 2lways on the qui vive for sensations. The number of car-loads of wheat inspected jnto store in this city during last month was 183 winter, 8,721 spring, and 18 mixed. Total, 3,922 car-loads. ‘The leading produce markets were more ir- regular than usnal on Saturday, both in regard to quotations and the volume of business trans- acted. Provisions wera weakeued by large offer- ings made by prominent packers, which was supposed by someto be owing to mousually large deliveries on March contracts. There is Flour, brle.. reason, however, to think that the onc only ‘helped the other. One firm 45 understood to have been selling very frecly in a quiet way for twoor three days past, and the example was followed more opealy Saturday by cnother large holder. ‘Wheat was very strong, 2 material advance re- sulting from higher Liverpool® quotations, with light deliveries here on March contracts. Bar- ley and corn were firmer, and there was little chauge in other grain, while flour was generally held bigher, The demand for staple and fancy dry-goods continues to show dailv improvement. There is a steadily-increasing attendance of buyers, and some departments of the market already display gennioe activity. Prices remain firm, with standard cottons showing a tendency to ad- vance. (roceries were rather quiet, with cof- fees and sugars ruling easy, and other lioes about steady. Common and roasting Rio cof- fees were quoted off. The aried-fruit market wras without marked new features. Trade con- tines fair, and prices. are firm, both fordomestic and foreign descriptions. Valeacia raisins -are up a ¥c, and evaporated applesalso were ¢ higher. Fish continues active and firm at previous quotations. 'Canned goods were moving freely at full figures. ” No changes of moment occurred in the butter and cheese markets. Oils, paints, and colors re- mained quiet and unchanged. Coal was firm as previously quoted. ZLamber continues to mect with a far inquiry. Prices are without quotable change. In the oine regions the work of hauling logs is still prosecuted with vizor, the weather and roads being favorable, and the lumbermen will prob- ably bank all the logs they want to, and a good many |more than ther act- ually mneed. Broom-corn was unchanged. Seeds were qufet, and geuerally steady. The demand for poultry.was fair, and prices were strong, except for chickens, which weak- cued on account of larze offerings. The sales of cges were light, and the tendency of prices secrmed to be downward. Potatoes were steady. Hay, wool, hides, and salt were steady, the de- mand being up to the latc daily averaze. g Rail freights werc quoted at 20c on g1ain to New York. The market seems tobein a very upsettled state. and it is intimated that. some of the rival lines who are unsole to furuish morc than a few cars are doing all they can to make it so. The shaky condition of rafl freizhts has sbut off the demand for vessel room. Carriers are asking 6. for corn to Buffalo by sail, and report no inquiry. During the four months ending with February —the regular packing season—the pumber of hogs received at the Union Stock-Yards was 3,202,040. This is sn increase over the receiots for the season of 1877-'78 of 562,423, the arrivals during that period having been 2,633,628, Statement showing foreign invoice value and duty paid on goods for copsumption at the port of Cticago during week enaing March 1, 187: Foreign 17..3. customs Tiaze of goocs. ralue, Dry goods.. 3,262 Tin-plate. .. E’e:dile!. i ooking-g] 3dachinery. 477 Optical goods. 508 ‘Mustard.... 364 Watch material 260 Pigiron... 2,592 Mausical mecchandise. . 3,328 856 403 3.183 1737 169 11,357 3.189 Ale. beq porter. Wines snd liquors.. Earthenware. Toye. Nails Dooks, etc. Total - . -.ceeo-..-§109, 2,281, 50 .The following table shows the movement of live and dressed : Season. Season 1878-'79. 1877-'78. Total number hogs received. live #d dressed. .3,284,859 2,733,431 Total number bogs shipped, live and dressed. .. 481,163 263,728 Leaving for packing and city consumption 2,469,703 Increase over 187 STOCKS. Flour in Chicago, 67,000 bris, against 77,151 brls a mooth aro, and 65,000 brls a year ago. Pork in New York, 71,930 brls, against 57,459 brls 2 month ago, and 71,719 brls a year ago. Lard in New York, 100,072 tes, against 67,206 tes a month ago, and 96,704 tes a year ago. Pork and lard in Chicago, as reported by the Secretary of the Call Board: JMar.1, Fev, 15, Mar.1, Mar.3, M 1879, T 1579, 1878. 1877 Mess pork, brls, new. .........189,034 171,714 274,081 183,102 Mess pork, brls, v cer 17,500 22,870 ... il 210,137 178.830 71,226 83,501 IN NEW YORK YESTERDAY. March 1. eceipts—Flour, 10,713 brls; wheat, 112,900 bu; corn, 100,794 bu: oats, 19,053 bu; corn-meal, 859 pkgs; rye, 2,026 bu; barley, 1,109 bu; malt, §,310bus pork, 1,284 brls: beef, 4,192 tes: cut-meats, 5,660 pkgs; lard, 2,202 tes: whisky, 709 brls. . Exports — For twenty-four bours — Flour, 16,000 brls; wheat, 140,000 bu; corn, 113,000 bu; oats, 2,000 bu. MOVEMEST OF WHEAT- The following shows the receiots and ship- ments of wheat at points named Saturday: old....... Lard, te: Receiced. Shipped. Chicago, 71,071 56,308 Milwankee. . 38)580 11.808 New York. 113(000 110,000 Derroit.. 35,000 9.000 Toledo 14,000 4,000 5t. Lou 24,000 2000 Baltimore.... ... 55,700 « 110,200 ‘Philadelphia 12,0 Total ceoueranne GOODS RECEIVED at port of Chicago, March 1: Charles Gossage & Co., 1 case dry goods; Chicagb Public Libra- 1y, 4 cases books; Field, Leiter & Co., 61 cases dry zoods; George W. Sheldon, 1 octave wine; Fowler Bros., 222 sacks salt: Stettauer Bros & Co., 2 cases dry goods; T. M. Sinclair & Co., 923 gacks salt; Grommes & Ullrich, 5 cases An- gusturn bitters; Grommes & Ullrich, 2 casks gin. Collections, $6,338.: PROVISIONS. = HOG PRODUCTS—Were fairly active,and rather sweak. The receipts of hogs were small, and there was little change in the tone of advices from other points. But the deliveries on March contracts were quite large, especially on lard; indeed, about all was sent round that was to zo round, and some of it came back on the market. This. however, was less than expected. A'good deal of the property was taken and paid for by capitalists, 2 Jarge sam coming fron: the East for that purpose, and on the strencth of this a rumor was started that there is going to be a corner in lard. The two leading firms in the packing businees here were free scll- ers of all kinds of stuff, and tacre was not. mugh demand for shipment, exporiers preferring to wait il they could sec what effect the March movement will have on the market. ‘The following table shows the packing for the two previous seagons, and ap estimate for the sea- son of 1878-'79, made by Cowles & Dunkley: *Total otal Z'otal Seazon Season Season 1877-'78. 76-"77. 2,471,379 1,616,200 523,518 632,302 Indlanapolis Milweukee Louisville.. "Total, eix cities 5, Kansas Cit) 2 Cedar Ravids Sabula, In.. Est. totals... 7,564,202 6,475,542 5,000,421 The Cicinnati Price Current of Thursday last suys: 4450 far as numbers are_concerned, there can be 10 important variation from the present indica- tions—but the question of weights is didicult to determine reliably withont full retarns and de- tailed caiculations. 'In our 1st of Jaomary state- ment_we enggested s probable decrease of 10 pounds, ne compared with last year, and this now secms likely to be fully verificd. In regard to oar_esiimates then pointed to & total 063,000 hoza for the six large cities, and 2.000,000:at other points where packms was done a yearazo. To this shonld be added, say., 100,000 for mew polute, chietly representea by Atchixon, Kan.. where @ Jarge house was opened about the middle of December. These figures make an aggrezate of 7,165,000, Hogs were then and had been sellng at’ $2.35@2.75 per 100 Ds, and subscquently advanced ‘sicadily to a point S1.50 higher. This sumalatec drovers 1o more Zctive efiorts in purchases, and they have ‘topped’ out the pigs feeding for soring and eummer to an extent of probably balf a million, which would not have been markoted at this datd had prices kept below $3.00. The current exhibits of packing 1n the stz large cities now show an aggregate of 5,090,000 hoes, with two days’ work to be added. This, with the additlons that may be espected by comeplete fnal rcturns, will make a total of abont 5,200.000.. In regard to other points, in- cluding the additions by new places, we regard it doulitful if the total shall exceed 2,200,000, mak- ing an ageregate of 7.400,000, ngainst last vear's 6,505,000, or an increase of $95.000 over last year, anc an_excess of 155,000 over the figures inven above as 1st of Janury estimates.™ The following is & detailed statementof the ship ment of provisions for tne week, and since Nov. 1, 1878, with comparisons: : 3—,259, 181 Articles. Stioniders, tes. Shoulders. bri wouiders. Tongaes: pho. Hocks, pkgs.. Total FToss w't, Ibs— Lard. Hinm Sides. | Shouiders 1,511.675/103. 541,806/100.381, 225 8A3| ¥0°046.301] 63,035,081 3 i3 a,ns.rm’mms,m;x 1,5 43,533,253 H, Mrss Ponk—Declined 12tc per brl_from the Intest prices of Friday, thourh selling 7iic higher at the outset. Sales were repurted of 250 btls (old repacked) at $8.37% spor; 2,250 bris seller March at S10.00@10.25; 5,000 bris seller April 21 §10,204,10.375¢ ; and 18,000 brls seller May at S10.3320. 473 Total, 45,500 brls. The market closed dull at $10.10 for cush; $10.0752¢z10.10 for Maren: $10.17}4@®10.20 for April; and 321:@10.35 for Mav. Oldpork was quoted at §8.25 when not repacked. Prime mess pork was quoted at $9.00@9.23,and extra prime 2t $8.50@8.75. Larp—Declined 2£@5¢ per 100 1bs from the Iatest prices of Friday. Sales were reported of 2.250 tes selier March at $6.672:@6.72%; 7,000 tes seller Apnl_at 36.774:@6.821 5 ana 8,750 tes selier Ma7 at $6.85@G.92t¢. _Total, 18,000 tes, %‘l&e prarket closed dgg st £6.70 for epot: 56.675% .70 for March: $G.77%@6.50 for April; and $6.85@6. 874 for May. % 3 Meats—Declined aboat 10¢ per 100 1bs on salted lots. while green were relatively steady. thougn probably easier. There was very little doinz for shipment. _Sules were reported of 100 bxs shoul- ders at $3.80; 150 lonz clears and 125 bxs long ribs,-on private icrms: 000 1bs short ribs at $5.00@5.02% for March: 5. 3\:?{%: and .\_{1&7%@1&5‘.‘_‘;’5 for May; . 20 #pot. e following were the closing es Per 100 1bs on the leading cuts: Pag Shioul- Short |L. &8.; Short ders. | ribe. | cleare. | clears. i boxed; Cumberlands, $5.00@5.25 boxed; long- cut hams, 8728%c; swect-pickled Lams, T@7ic for 16 to 15 Ib average: green hams. 8X@Tiic for same averages; green shoulders, SE@3xc. Bacon q;:&red ar 43 @5¢ for shoulders, 5%@5%C for ehort tibs, C@6Lc for short clears, 6@9¢ for hame, all canvased and packed. - GrEASE—Was quoted at_$5.00@3.50 for No. 1 white, 43@5¢ for good yeliow, snd +4@4¥c for brown. BEEF PRODUCTS—Wers firm and _gquiet at dflglas. 50 for mess. 59.00@0. 25 for extra mess, and $17.75218.00 for hama. (FALLOW—\Was quiet at 65@63c for city azd 6 @6%c for conntry. BREADSTUFFS. FLOUR—Was in - very good demand, snd prices generally ruled 2 shade higher, in sympathy with whest, bat the volume of trade was restricted Dy light offerings of the grades wanted by ship- pers. The stock of flonr here (67,000 brls) issome 10,000 bris less than a month ago, and dealers eay that flour is now cheaper than wheat, £o that mill- crs cannot afford to buy whest and make foor at current quotatione, Hence they say there must be a further reduction in stocks prless a change in 400 bris winters on private terms; conble extras, partly at S3.70@%.23 Sipors at $2.50Gp3.25; and 00 i private terms. _Total, 2,600 bris. Tae’ following was the nominal range of prices: Choice winters. . Goud 1o choice winters. Fair to good winters. Choice Minnesotae..... Fair to good Minnesotas. TFair to zood sorings... . Low springs Patents. DBuckwheat. BRAN— Wi g tons ot $0. 10. 00 per ton on track. Cony ME. arse was nominal at abont $12.65 Der ton on trac} MippLINGS—Sale was made of 20 tons at $10.00 frce on board car. % WuEAT ScrEENINGS—Sales were 30 tons at $14. 000G 19. 30 per ton. SPRING WIEAT—Was fairly active, and much stronger, sdvancing 1xc, and closing 1ic above the latest prices of Friday; the dillerence berwween the top figures of the two days was 1c. The Brit- ish markets were stronger, 2 materal advance be- ing noted in carzoes, and New York was firmer, while our receipts were not farge, with a_fair vol- ume of shipments for a winter's day (soring does not commence till March 20). The deliveries here on March contracis were very light. Newd was re- ceived fromn Frauce to the effect that the outluok for the mext crop is poor, while the native wheat of 1878 i& of such ' inferior guality as to be considered dear nt 2 francs be- low the price of forcien whent. Thess things indoced a very good demand here, nnder which the market advanced rapidly. The buyins seemed 10 be chictly Jocal, the newsreferred 10 not having penetrated into the conntry districts. Toere was & good smpoing demand, the closinzs being 944G 9434c for No. 2, and 8liec for No. 3. Seller April opened at 94%c, improved to 953%c. . fell back o 95¢, advanced to 93¢, and closed at 953c. Moy was quiet at 3@3Y;c above April, with eales at 98 @9%c. Seller the month was hearly nominaiat t and 033;@94%c, closing. at 0414304 3c. Spot sales were report 000 bu N, 2 aL 91@94sc: of B4, . 12,400 bu_No. 3 at 813:@S2c; 4,000 bix rejected at 63@68Y;c; and 17,000 bu by sample at 89cd $1.01. ‘Total, 118,000 ba. Harp WHEAT—Sales were §00 bu No. 2 Minne- sota at 93¢ y WisTER WaEAT—Sales were 10,400 bu No. 2at 95¢: 5,000 bu do setler April at.59%ic: and 7,000 ou by rample at 88%c@S1.01. Total 400 bu. CORN—\Vas only in'moderate demznd, but was stronger, in eympathy with wheat. The market advanced X@dic. and closed %@%c above the latest prices of Friday. The British markets were quict, and Xew York was tame, while tne deliver- ies here on March contracts were rather large. But sympathy witn wheat caused holders to be unwill- ing 10 sell without an advaace, and prices dragged upwards, though there was not much gemand, and the shipping movement was tame, thouch rail freights were underatood to oe qaite low. Fresh receipts_closed at 34c, with regular corn at about 3314c. Formew mixed in store $2¢ was bid, with nosales. Seller May sold early at 375¢, advanced 10 3714c, and closed av 37%c. June was quoted the same as May, =nd July was quiet at 373@373c. - Selier April sold at 33y @33%c, =nd March at 33@33Yc, inz at 33lc. Spo: sales were reported of 48,000 bu No. 2 and hich mixed at 33@334c for regulsr, and 333 @34c for gilt-edzed receipta: 1,200 pu new high-mixed at 323;c; 00 bu rejected at $1i%c; 10.000 ou by sample at 33@33%c on track; and 3,600 bu doat 3343333 c free on board cars. Total, 63,200 bu. OATS—Were quict, except samples, with hittle change in prices. The receipts were larger, and sold freely by sample, chielly 1o siipoers. ~Fair deliverics were reported on month contractsa The bulk of the trading was in May, which sold =t 2613 c and closed at 263¢c. April were quiet at 31ic, and March ot 2533@23%¢c. June sold and closed at 261@26%c. Kegular No. Cash rales were reported of 2at 23%c; 7,200 bu by sample at 24@27c on track: and 30,000 bu do at 25 @27 free on board. 'Totsl, 47,2200 ou. RYE—Was quict apgd firm ander a fair inquiry, with light offerings aud in sympathy with wheat, No. 2 sold at 46t2e, and-round lots were auated at 464c. Seller the mosth was firm at 463:c. April at 371G 48¢, and May at 5lc bid. Fair deliverics were reported, but the stuft did not appear on_the marker. Samples were 1n moderate demand. Cash eales were reported of 400 bu No. 2 at 46 L, b by sample at 4734@49¢; 2. 000 bu do at 18@49c free on bourd. Total. 4,000 b BARLEY—1Was quict: No. 2 being higher. while the lower grades exhibited little change. The de- mand for N¢ was cniefly from March shorts who falled to get their deals charnged to April oa the previous day. ‘i he line now out is said to besmall, and prices bave not reacbed the tigure some dealers expected 10 sce. Extra 3 futnres were quict, ana easier for ALH'H. moet of the transfers having been made, and the March deal is believed to have oeen settled. The grain delivered has not come out. No. £ winter receiots in A., D. & Co.’s kold at 80c, and regular was _guoted at 7S @S0c. March was quoted at 7Sc early, and at the close 80c was big. Aoril also closed at 80c. Extra 3 sold at 42c for March. and Aoril was quiet at49ic. Cash orders were received for extra No. 3. but the offerings were meagre. Rezular sold at 42¢, and winter receipts in A., D. & Co.’sat 45c. The lower gradesand samples were guiet. Cash enles were_reported of 1,200 bu No. 2in D& Co.’s at 80c; 7,800 bu extra 3 at 42@45c; 1,600 bu by sample at +5@72c on track, and 1,200 bu do at £5@72c¢ delived. Total, 11,500 bu. MORNING CALL.} Mess pork—Sales: 19,000 b:e, at $10.30@ 10.32%%¢ for April and $10.45@10.47% for May. Lard—2,500 tcs, at $6.724% for March and $0.82% at 2635 2 closed at_23%c. 10,000 bn No. for April. _Short-ribs—300,009 s, at $5.10 for April and $5.2234 for May. Whea 5,000 bu at 9433c for April. “Corn—5,000 bu at 3 y. LATER. Saturday nfternoon—Szles of wheat were re- ported at 055 @Y55%c for April, which closed at 95%ic; corn sold_at B7iictor 3ay; and April pork was auoted at 51020 BY TELEGRAPH. FOREIGN. Spectal Dispateh io 4z Tribune. Laverroor, March,1.—11:3Qa. m.—Flour, 10s. No. 2, 83 6d. Wheai—Winter, 8s 2d; No.2, 8s 9d; epring, No. 1, §s 1d; No. 2, 6s 11d; white, No. 1, 0s3d; No. 2. Ss 10d; ectab, No. 1, 9s7d; No. 2, 952¢. Corn, new, No. 1, 487d. Toris, 50s. Lard, 34s. Lrverroor, March 1.—Cotros—Easier, but not quotably lower; sales,” 5,000 bales; speculation and export, 500; American, +,100. BrespsTGFFs—Dull. Loxpoy. March 1. —SgeAn—No. ard, 22s Gd; afloat, 21s.. AsTwEnr, March 1. —PETROLECN—23%d. 1% Duteh stand- NEW YORK. New Yorw, March ).—Corros—Dull and un- changed; futures quiet; March, 9.77c; April, 0.94c; isy,10.08c; .June, 10.23¢; July. 9.%dc. Frove—Nominally nachanged; receipts, 11,000 brls. GRAIN—TWheat quiet but firm; receipts, 313,000 bu; rejected spring, 84c; No. 3 epring, 05@0Sc: ungraded do, 93@9:!4c; ungraded winter red, 80c @113%; No. 3 do, $1.10%@1.103; No. 2 do, SL1313@L14%; No. 1 do, S1.14@L144; un- graded amber, S1.12,;@@1.14; No. 2 amber, §1.124@1L.13%; No.1 amber. $1.13%@1.14; un- ed white, S1.094@1.13; No, 2 do. $1.10 fl%fi; No. 1%0‘.’%‘911 fdx 1335 Rycs{uuc?; Western and State, 61@6Jc. Barley quict. NMalt —AMarket duil. Cornguiet; receipts, 102,000 bu; 413 @14 c; steamer, @10c; old do, 46%@18}4c; Oats—Market dull do, KD ungraded, 46@46ic; X 43 @453%c; No. 2, white Western, old, 47¢ d ceipts, 19,000 bu; No. 3 white, S3izc; No. 34izc; mived Western, 33@34c: white do, ixc. : Har—In zood demand at 40@45¢. llors—Quict and steady. GroceriEs—Coffea nominally unchanged gar quiet but stendy: fair to good refiniaz. G5c. _Molasses—Market dull; New Orleans, 40c. Rice anll and unchanged. . - PsTROLEGXN—Quie but steady; united, 96% @97i2c: crude, S%@S%c: redned, Bxc. Tatzow—Steaay at 6 9-16B61iC. Market dull ot $1.40& L 4% NTINE—Quiet at 20%@0c. Eccs—Firmer; Western, 16@1834¢. LeaTHER—Quiet bat firm: hemlock soles, Buenos Ayres, znd_Rio Grande, light, middles, 3 chts, 19721¢. WooL—Firm: domestic flecce, 27@40c; pulled, 17@306c; unwashed. 10%25¢- Provisioxs—Pork—Market dull; mess, $0.75 for old; §10.75@11.00 for new. Beef dull and un- re- changed. Cut-meats guiet; long clear middles, quiet;’ prime steam, 3%c: short do, 5%c. Beno0 4 METAL: chanced; new shenthinz: 22c: Ingot Jake, 15lzc. big fron— ; Scotch, ; American, 15@17t¢. Russia sheeting, c. Nails—Cnr, $2.108: E cilnch, { Loose, part cured. |§3.673 54, 9753: 4. 9734 185. 173¢ Hoxed.. X g ieR e i id april, boxea. 1| 00 | B2%| Biasd) 3575 May, boxe: 3.00 | 5.37%! 5.32%| 5.47% “Long clears quoted at§4.80 loose aud $4.95 Charles Ublemann, a_liquor-seller in Peoria, was arrested and brought to this aity yesterda; on a charze of violating the Revenue law. H{ was fined $25 in court, in default of which he went to the North Side cooler. ~ REAL ESTATE. State Street Wins the Two Great Prizes. Tield, Leiter & Co., and the New Music Hall. The Negotiations fer Central Hall Finally Completed. Foll Particulars of the Finest Musle & Hall in the Conntry, Sales and Building Permits of the Week. Two events of great importance, affecting the same locality, have stirred the real-estate mar- ket during the week,—the sale of the Singer Building to Field, Lelter & Co., for $750,000, and the close of the egotiations for the sale of the neighboring vacant corner of State and Ran- dolph to the Central Hall Company. Both transactions are of great interest-to the general publicand to real-estate dealers. ‘The sale of the Singer Building Is the LARGEST REAL-ESTATE TRANSACTION ‘between private parties that has been made in Chicago. Its purchase by Field & Leiter fixes for years to come the retail centre of this city. Central Hall will put the musical centre at the other end of the same block, and both will give State strect fmmense prestize in its competition with Wabash avenue for the control of the South-Side trade. The superiority of the street- car travel on Wabash avenue is an element of the first fmportance in this question. Of the price stated by the President of the Singer Company to have been paid, $750,000, $100,000 is for’the purchase of the lease of Car- son, Pirie, Scott & Co. This firm had rented the property for five years, at $50,000 and balf the ' taxes a year, with the privilege of-five years more at §30,000 and all the taxes. The taxes are about $5,000 a year. The price paid for the land and building by Field, Leiter & Co., was $650,000. The cost of the building was $275,00 in addition to the materfal saved from the old building. The val- ue of this, with interest, etc., {ncreased the cost. of the building to something near $330,000. As it stunds to-day it is claimed to be, and no doubt is, the__ z BEST STORE IN THE WORLD. The Tot hasa frontage of 160 feet on State street, and ruos back on Washington strect 150 feet to the forty-foot alley. The pur- chase of the Cenotral Hall Company is the vacant lot at the morthern end of the block which has the Singer Building at its southern extremity. The lot is 150 fcet on Randolph by 124 on State. The price is $125,000. The Central Hall Company, composed of -gentiemen like N. K. Fairbank, George M. Pullman, Sidney Kent, R. T. Crane, Edson Keith, Nelson Ludington, Martin Rverson, J. Russcll Jones, Marshall Field, and L. Z. Letter, have bought this prop- erty to carry out @ project, years old, of providing Prof. Swingwitha suitableauditorium for his Sundav services, and giving the people of Chicazo an accessible and properly-construct- ed hall of the first class for musical and other entertainments. ‘The site chosen is an admirs- ble one for this purpose, standing as it does at the horse-car centre of Chicago. The long time these lots have stood vacant shows that the profitable use of them was something of a puz- zle. They stand too far north for the best re- tanl trade, the streets are not clear enough for wholesale business. The locality is THE BEST IN THS CITY for a hall and office-building, and the Central Hell Company, and West Division Railway Com- pany who were the owners of the land, both maae a good trade. Mr. George B. Carpenter, whose ample ex- perience has given him every qualitication neces- sary to takecharge of such an enterprise, has been working for several years upon plans for a srand music and_art building to be erected on this particular site, which immediately after the firc be saw was a pivotal point in the amuse- ment circle of our city. Chicago isso peculiarly constructed that a public puilding intended to be convenient and accessiole to all parts ofthe city must be erected within the district of Clark, Madison, Lake strcets. and Wabash avenue. ‘fhe particular, corner chosen—Randolph and State streets—combines every necessary feature toaccommodate the cntire city, as to that corner every strect railway from the” West aud Sonth Sides runs, and tue Nortb-Side cars are only two btocks away. Then, too. at the rear of this par- tieular lot there is a Nicolson paved streetway forty feet wide cspecially ADAPTED FOR CARRIAGES. During the past five years Mr. Carpeater has visited every importadt amusement-place be- tween Boston and San Francisco. As the re- sulg of his labors during the past three vears six comvletc_sets of plans have been worked out by Mr. Adler (who was the architcet of the Kingsbury Hal} and New Chicazo Theatre). The building will have three sides exposed. The State street tront is treated like a commercial building, as it is'in foct, the hall being on the southeast corner of the lot, with its rear on Randolph street, where there i3 a mare pre- teftious architectural treatment. Mr. Adler, the architect of the building, has been very fortunate in combining the two ideas in his treatinent of the exterior. The building is six storics on State street, baving on this street front six stories arid basement, besides a grand and imposing entrance to the ball. There are some seventy oifices, music-rooms, and studios in this part of the building, distributed on the second, third, fourth, fifth, and sixth floors, which are made convenient to tenants and the public by means of two large elevators with which the building wilt be_furpished. In addi- tion to tbis, there are fine stores on the Ran- dolpn street iront. From this commercial por- tion of the building a large income on tbe in- vestment is to be derived, the ball and sur- roundings making the building not only at- tractive but necessary to a large class of tepants now scattered in a variety of places through- out the centre of the citv. Mr. Carpenter has received enough applications already to nwearly rent the entire building, ‘The large kallis on the first floor, and the main entrance is from State street throuzh a marble corridor, seventeen feet wide, running back to the hall, which is on the rear of the lot. The hall has = superficial area which, if seated in the usual way, 7 WOULD ACCOMMODATE OVER 2,500 peoole, but, besides large lobby facilities, the space allowed ezch sitting will' be unusually liberal. At the porth: end (ou Randolph street) is a fine feature of the hall,— a foyer, some twenty feet wideby'sixty orecventy long, throuzn which the auditorum is entered, and which pro- vides aspacious promenade, with ladles’ and gentlemew’s dressing and retiring rooms at cither cnd. One of the novel teatures of this foyer is the entrance into it at the east side of the stawrway leading to a carriage- arcade. This carriage-arcade js made st the cast side of the hall, where carriages can drive into it from Washington street, and, after un- loading their passengers under the coroer of the building, drive out on Randolph strect, the oc- cupants getting in and out without passing out- doors at all. This foyer also scrves an impor- tant office in other particulars, the principal of which is to enable Mr. Carpenter to intrqduce an entirely new departure in the interfol ar- ranzements of theatrical and music hall audi- torinms, a feature which, in_the judgment of those experts to whom it bas been shown, is destined o remodel the old ideas in relation to the coustruction of galleries. Asis well known, as at present coustructed, theatres, und iu fact all amphithestrical audi- toriums, have their gallery overhang their dress- cirele, so that the curved line separating the parquette from the dress-circle is the line waich corresponds to the sweep of the front of the gal- lery above. Therefore, those who sit In the second row of the dress-circle are already shut out from sceing those sitting in the gallery, and those sittiny behind the second row are under the impending shadow and influence of the zal- lery, so they caa neither see aor hear with pleas- ure und satisfaction. As a copsequence, atleast one-half of the best seats on the main floor are made uncomfortable, if not valueless. Now, by making_the curve of the gallery more like the shape of a horseshoe, and extending it back over the lobby or foyer, the entire dress-circle is exposed, and is without posts or obstructions to intervene between the sitterand the stage. This will enable the entire % AUDIENCE TO SEE ITSELF. Avother important arrangemzent connected with the gallery 1aast be noticed. iitherto in ar- ranging for the andience to get jnto or ous of the eallery, it has been necessary for those sit- ting in the front rows to ciimb up to the highest point at the resr of the gallery,—some fifteen feet or more,—and then go down again through the aisle nearly to the level from whence they started. By an ingenious arrangement of the stairway of this hall those having seats in_the front rows of the gallery are landed on the low- est level, and pass at once to their seats, thus saving an upward climb. and down- ward scramble Of some twelve or fifteen feet. Another admirable arrangement is shown in the numerous and well- arranged exits, there being four from each gal- lery (one at each corner) and seven from the main floor,of the avditorfum. And yet with all their exits and cntrances the arrangements are such that drafts and currents of air flowing into the auditorium will be unkoowa.”. Besides the large hall, there is a small hall adapted for chamber concerts and smaller en- tertainments. ‘This is a perfect miniatare of & Jarze hall, having parquette, dress circle, and gallery, cushioned folding-chairs, .and all the conveniencies for comfortably accommodating about 600 people. This is on the State street front. and whilé, as compared with the large hall, it seems nign,—being on the third floor,— as compared with McCormick Hall it is considerably lower. ~ As Chicago mever bad a bhall adapted for chamber con- ce! it has lost some of the most enjoy- able entertainments that are being offered the public each season. Sach orgapizations as Theodore’ Thomas Quartette, the_ Mendelssobn Quintette, and the Whitoey, the Barnabee, the Adelaide Phillips, and other vocal companies pot being able to appear here unless combined with other talent, because of no suitadle place in which they can appear. THE REHEARSAL HALL is also another important feature of the bofld- ing, as for the first time it providesa suitable hote for our local masical societics. It has as- soviated Wwith it large and hundsome parlors, ladies’ nnd gentlemen’s dressing-rooms, and private offices for the separate organizations which may occupy it. It will accommodate about 500 singers, and will contribute to create an increased interest in local musical calture. These arc some of the features of the plans which promise to give Chicago the most perfect and comfortably furnished and arranced music ball anditorium in America. ‘The combining of Mr. Adler’s architectural skill with Mr. Car- penter's large experience as a manager has re- sulted in their making out plaus which, when realized in the building fiself, will be an object of pride and satisfaction to every Chicazoan. ‘he stockholders? names include those of our most solid and enterprising citizens, such gen- tlemen as George M. Pullman, N. K. Fairbank, L. Z. Leiter, Edson Eeith, R. T. Crane, Sidney A. Kent, Marsnall Field, Martin Rverson, J. Russell Jones, William M. Hoyt, W. E. Hale, Ho M. Siuger, N. Ludington, Jopatbaa Clark, J. M. Walker, George Sturzes, W. W. Kimball, Georze B. Carpenter. EngeneCary, Waiter L. Peck, Asa Dow, J. Van inwagen, William E. AcHenry, C. D. Hamill, Witiam L. Tomlins, Bradley Dean, E. Earnshaw, James B. Rayner, A. Koise- ley, William G. Hibbard, William T. Baker, W. J."Quan, John Crerar, Ferd W. Peck, Mrs. E. ‘A. Storrs, David Swiog, Johu 3. Clark, C. B. Holmes, William R. Page, Frank M. Blair, and A.J. Averell. With such a list of stockholders the character and success of the enterorise’is fuaranteed. As is well known, the enterprise was projected by Mr. Carpenter, with a double object in view, —to provide a music-hall which the city so much needed, aud also a church home for Prof. Swing’s flock. While the stock subscription was presented purely as an _investment, and on grounds of a public nevessity for such 2 build- ing, still many ol th.se who have subserib- ed are mempers of the Central Church. 1t will'be_remembered that some three vears 2o Mr. Carpenter raised a guarantee fund of £30,000° to goarantee the continuance of the Central Church during its experimeotal gra but under the wise business management which laid the foundations of the organization mot only was no portion of the Guarantee Fuad re- quired, but THE CENTRAL CHURCH ‘has found itseif able tocontributemost liberally to all wortby objects, and has grown to be an established and recogpized institution in our midst. A part of the plan of the Ceatral Hall project is to fix the charch permsneptly in a place _better suited to its purpose than MecVicker's Theatre, which has no organ, and _is otherwise uusuited for enurch services. Prof. Swing has guaranteed to the stockbolders of the Company an organ for the hall, which he and his fricnds will donate to the enterprise as a gift from the chureh, and in ap- preciation of the public interest shown in its welfare. Io this way every adjuoct to make a perfect and complete music-hall will have been provided. N ‘The plaus are completed, the erection of the building will be begun in & few weeks, and the hall will be completed in time for the concert season next fall, when for the first time since the great fire fn *71 Chicazo will be able 1o boast of a public hall thatis wortby the importaace of the city as a musical and art centre 1§ THE SLES OF THE WEEK were 205130 feet on Ellis avenue, southof Brook street, $3,091: 33x138fect on North Clarkstrest, improved, near Division street, $10,000; an un- divided quarter of 75x136 feet at the syuthwest corner of WestyWashington and Jeiferson streets, $5,000: 25x125 feet on South Park ave- nue, north of Thirty-fifth street, $2,500; 25x120 feet on Wentworth é;b‘venuc, south of Thirty-tirst street, $2,5003 feet on Stantoa syenue, mear Thirtv-eighth street, &2,5005 30x150 feet on - Madison avenue, south of Fifty-cizhth street, $2,1505 25x125 feet on Halsted street, north of Centre strect, $2,- 0003 50x120 fect on West Polk street, west of Halsted street, $4,500; 21$x100 feet on Haisted street, north of Twelith street, $4.000; 83x80 feet, improved, on Hoyne avenue, southgast corner of Fulton street, $15,000; 33x132 fect on Dirision_street, near North Wells street, im- roved, 36,750; 25100 feet, improved, on South nlsted street, near Nineteentn street, $3,500; 90x163 feet on Monroe sirecr 90 feet east of Market street, $45,000; 25185 feet an West Monroe street, east of Ashland avenue, 36,000 15x100 fect on Forest avenue, north of I} second street, $3,050; 300 Park avenue. 33,5 100x1S7 feet on Prairie aveoue, north of Tien- ty-sixth street, $20.000; 1145 Indiana avenue, £12,000; 100x152 feet at Ravenswood Park, at the southwest corner of Fuster avenue, $2,796; 3x60 feet on Washington sirect, east of Fifth avenue, $3,000; 25x100 feet on Van Buren street, near Wood, $4,500; 50x152 feet on Wabash avenue, south ot Twenty-sixth strees, $5,000; 25x100 feet on West Twentieth street, near Brown, 83.000. Savdacker & Co. bave sold 33x130 feet on Di- vision street, ncar_Wells, improyed, for $6.750. T. B. Boyd sold for Franche, Swayne & John- ston, of Brooklyn, N. Y., the southwest corner of Canal and Monroe streets, Jot 80380, to D. G. Swartze, of Lancaster, Pa., for $12,000 casl Farm of 80 acres. near Winnemac, Ind., $1,500. Leased lot on Adams street, between Clark and Dearborn streets, for Mrs, Wair, for twenty years to I. Mayer. | The following instruments were tiled for rec- ord Saturday, March 13 CITT TROPERTT. South Halsted st, 364} & of Twelfth at, ef, 23x100 ft, improved, dated Feb.25 (Jacob Voehl to Nicholas Kirsh). . ... West Thirteenth st, s w cor of Laflin st, nf, 243124 ft, dated Feb. 2¢ (Ellen ‘Kearns to Peter L. MOORCY) <o eee -ve McGrath st, 132 fte of Leavitt st, n f, 96 x135!3 ft. dated Feb. 17 (J. A, andS. Jackson to T.. D. Cleveland) seee Angust sty 267 fi ¢ of Kedzicav, nf, 50 x131 ft, dated Feb, 2§ (J. L. and S. L. Warren to Charles H. Warren).. - Rhodes avenue, 5% ft 5 of Thirty-third &, w 1, 30x150 ft. improved, dated Feb. 28 (J. L. and S. L. Warren to Charles T. Warren)... 8. Hirach'st, 331t e of Cal 5,000 1,500 1,%00 1,500 25124 1t, dated Feb. 27 (German Sav- fin to Thomas G1enmon)........ ...... Lincoln st. s w cor Tairteenth st, 10acres (excent streets), dated Feb. 23 (James Stinson to the Kentucky Land Com- pany). ..... .. oeees 75,000 Carroll avp 207 fae of Paulizast, n f, 4% x1241t, ‘dated March 1 (H. H. and S. Dale to William R. Evans). .. Clybourn av. n w of Shefield av, 8w f, X110 ft, dated Feb. 28 (E. V. and G.H. Laughron to Seth C. Hapgood). 3 Wesz Fifteenth st, 1531 ft c ot Union sz, 8 1, 5087 ft, improved, dated Nov. 16, 1673 (Heary Leam to M. and W. ay, 168 Tt n of West Polk st ¢ f, 24x1142¢ ft, dated March 1 (SheriZ of Cook County to Rober: Livingatén). West Adamast. .bexilsrsfin:lnlnce ard Oak- ley av, 8 f, 3715x156 11, improved, dat- T G and B e ohnston b2 B. E. Huntles) Thirty-fourth st, 141 ft e of Ulm f, 235x120 ft.” dated June 16, 1877 (P. W. Tracy to Mary Wrenn)....... i 625 NOETH OF CITY LIMITS, WITHIN A RADIUS OF SEVE: MILES OF THE COURT-HOUSE. % Lill av, e of and near Lincoln av, n f, 25x 0 (4. M. Sorda 1,800 10,00 125 ft, aated Feb. 10 Anna Werdel) 800 WEST OF CITT LIMITS, WITHIN A RADIUS OF SEVEX fih XILES OF THE COURT-HOUSE. offiman av, s w corner of Fall ¢ .386x183 fr, dated March ;l (E:E‘::d‘;: McLeod to James M. Allen) . ...§ 3,000 ng::;?n?‘{vi Jaran_ae (She avove, dated B McLefld‘} ¢ = Mills to Eliza- SUMMARY FOR THE WEEK. The following is the total amount ot city and suburban transfers within 8 radius of seven miles of the Court-House filed for record dur- ing the week cnding Saturday, March L: City eales, 78; consideration, $365,314; north of aty limits, sales, 4; consideration, $7,392; south of city imits, sales, 8; consideration, $8,541; west of city lumits, sales, 2; consideration, 2S.000. Total sales, 92; total consideration, $332,247. 5,000 FOREIGN NEWS, BOUTH AFRICA. ENGLAND’S TASK. Loxpox, March 1.—A Cape Town dispatch says that affairs in the Transvaal canse consid-* erable anxiety. Jtis reported that the Repub- lcans intend to reconvene the old Vol dissolved by Sir Theophilus Shepstone, and elect the President of the Repablic. It i3 reporteq also that a majority of the Transvaal Boers will decline to take part against the Zulus. A dispatch from Cetywayo to tGen. Kruger, former President of Transvasl, asking the Boers to remain neutral, has-been intercepted, The commander of the Dutch station had seized and sent back to the Zulus the cattle captared and sold to thesettlers, on the ground that the Zulus mizht be expected to invade Transvaal to recapture their eattle. The Brit- ish Magistrate had issued a warrant for the ar- rest of the commaunder, but the attempt to execate it would probably be forcibly resisted, The leaders of the Dutch party protest against these reports and against the suspicions of an alliance, present or prosoeetive, between the Boers and Zulus. Maay Boers are serving ef- ficlently with Col. Wood's column, and Trans vaal is itsell threatened botn by Secocoeni ang by the Kaffirs within its borders. GREAT BRITAIN. HEAVY PAILGRES. ¢ Lospos, March 1.—The following failures ars announced: Georze Campbell & Co., tobicco merchants, Habilities £117,000; London Numer- jeal and General Printing Works (Thomas King manager), liabilities £110,000; Georze Francis Dickinson, merchant, liabilities £60,000. TRADE TROUBLES. . LosDox, March 1.—The cotton masters of Lancashire recommend that the Blackbura st ggandard list "’ be generally adopted for the regalation of weavers’ wages. The change im- plies a reduction. Two thousand weavers ab Cingleton alrecdy refuse to submit. QUEEN VICTORIA. Pagris, March 1.—It is said here that Queen Victoria will leave Loodon at the end of March for the Continent, resting one night at the Brit- ish Embassy here,and then proceed to the Italian lakes, where she will bemet by the Duks and Duchess of Connaught on their wedding tour. Her Majesty thence goes to Germany. Rowz, March L—Prince Amadens, Duke of Aosta and ex-King of Spain, will meet Queen Victoria at the Italian frontier. The King will visit ber Majesty at Lake Maegioiri. ITALY. TNVEILED. Royrz, March 1.—The memorial tablet on the ‘honse where John Keats, the poet, died, was unvetled to-day in the presence of the principal English and American residents of the city. A PROSPECTIVE CARDINAL. RoxE, March 1.—Itis said that the Pope has sent Dr. Newman au gonouncement that he will be created a Cardinal at the Consistory to be held March 3. # ABROGATED. The decres. subjecting vessels arriving from the United States and South American portsto quarantine has been abrozated. i DEAD- Roxe, March L—Cardinal Filippo Guide, Bishop of Palestrins, is dead, aged 64 years. PROMOTED. The Pope yesterday held a Consistory, and raised Cardinal Nini, the Pontifical Secretary of State, to be Cardinal Priest, and nomisated Cardinal Edsardo Borromeo Camerlingo, of the Sacred - College, ia place of Cardinal Ferreri, whose term expired.. His Holiness also recog- nized thirty-four Archbishops and Bishops, No Cardinals were created. EGYPT. THE CABINET CRISIS. VErsarLres, March 1.—Leroyer, Ministerof Justice, in the debate on the Amuesty bill, said he did not deny that some persons naworthy of pardons might return to Paris, but thisneed rot cause alarm. If any of them showedin- gratitude the Government would know howto - be rigorous. i France has asked time before agreeinzio joint action with Ecgland for the reinstatement of Nubar Pasha in the Egyptian Ministry. It ismota very eesy undertaking to obtain the Khedives’ consent, particularly if, as allezed, the Khedive proposes to offer the port- folio of the Minister of Justice to the representative of a third foreizn nation. France and England, when once they inter- vene, cannot submit to refusal, and France, be- fore coming to a decision to act with England in the matter, had to weizh carefully the resolu- tions which, in the event of refusal, would bs forced upon her. The British fronclad Raleigh has zrrived st Alexandria. FRANCE. IN THE DEPUTIES. VersatLrzs, March 1.—In the Chamber of Deputles to-day Lisbonne, of the Lef:, interro- rated Marcere as to his reasons for stopping the inquiry into the malpractices of the Potice De-. partment. Marcere, amid a perfect silence of the Left, defended the oolice, and protested in -a vehement and agitated voice asainst calnm- nies such as the charges of financial jobbing which had been uttered against himself. By mutual consent, the Chamber resolved to turn the matter at issue into an interpellation, which was fixed for Monday. . AFGHANISTAN. DEATH OF THE AMEER REPORTED. Loxpos, March 1.—The Viceroy of India has telegraphed that be has received the following letter from Yakoob Khan, son of Shere Al Ameer of Afghanistan, dated 26th of Febroary: “ News has been receired here of the deathof my father on the 21st of February. As my father was an old friend of the British Government, I send this information out of friendship.” CHINA. REBELLION CRUSHED: ST. PETERSBURG, March 1.—The rebellioa against the Chinese Government in Kashga? has been completely crushed, and the remnpants of the defeated force are returning to Russian territory. A MICHIGAN ANGELL. Spectal Dispasch to The Tribune. - GRAYD RaPIDS, Mich., March 1.—The Grand Rapids Times of to-morrow morning will con- tain the full details of an embezzlementof $12,000 from the Lowell Natiopal Baok 3% Lowell, in this couuty. The officers of the baok charze that H. M. Clark, late Casbiern is the = embezzler. He bad been Cashier for abont eight years, and I8 reported to bave 'Deen taking the runds for about five years. He turned overall his property valued at about §4,000 to the bank, so that it loses from this cource alone abou $5,000; but he took bad paper without consalt- ing with the officers or Directors of the bank from friends, so that the total loss, 1 be from $20.000 to $25,000, enoush to sbsorb the surplus of the i stitution, about $23,500. The ‘bank is entirely solvent, thongh it is a serious loss. Ciark bas been gone for three weeks traveling somewhers in the far West. He was a man of exemplaty babits, a prominent member of the churthy secrot socicties, aud social circles, and the news fell upon the community to-dsy Like & thunder-clap {rom a clear sky. Wheiber Dros cugion will follow or nut, is not stated by the otlicers of the bank. —_— FINANCIAL. STOCK SPECULATION. W. L. cnnxg"'s.ns’.g“ i F.S. wggl?‘wxgi-m NEW YORK Open Board of Trade, MONTREAL AND CHICAGO. 128 and 130 LaSalle-st XEW YORE STOCKS bought and sold oz ONE FER CET MARGIY, in Jots of ten sbares and Upwirth Graln and Previsions bouzbt aad sold. Coueracis closed 0u navl margtn (s exhansied.