Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, April 18, 1880, Page 10

APRIL 18, 1880—-TWENTY PAGES. THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE: SUNDAY, : SR TpSETTITIn iSSRPSEnaeneee ee = riod, and there {a-every indication | wheat—s, leclined 94; ss ferred to the Committeo on Stree FINANCE AND TRADE inrrge ec ameacertes | tutte wil contiouegoot far suc tie to como. | iy Auras iy femme, cating : REAL ESTATE.. A Temporary Lull in the Ac- tivity of Real Estate. Owners Holding Off Rather Than Sell at the Old Prices. Transactions in the Neighborhood of New Manufacturing Sites. The Renting Season About Over—Some Specimen Business Leases. Constitutionality of the Boulevard Act— City Improvements. Real estate has been dull the past week. The boom, if not dead, is sleeping. Acre property is very quiet, and almost the only movement is in the neighborhood of the supposed site of some new manufacturing establishment like the Pullman Palace-Car Works. Inside productive property can be sold, but not at advanced prices. An unex- pected feature of the market is the SLOWNESS OF SALE of houses. The scarcity of residences and the check put on the supply through the rise in prices of building material would have led naturally to a good demand. But the contrary appears to be the case. One agent reports that he has eight first-class houses on a fashionableavenue north of Twenty-second street which he has been vainly endeavoring to sell, One of them 1s offered, lot and all, for less than it would cost to build the house. ‘The real-estate market appears to have come ‘toa temporary lull. .The reason is not far to seck, Buyers have been trying to operate on ae OLD SCALE OF PRICES, and have failed. Sellers have insisted on sigher prices, and, not getting them, have signified their entire willingness to hold their property. Even at the advanced rents obtained this spring for houses, owners get no fair revenue from the investment. The - present lull is characteristic of real estate, which moves in waves, and it is unquestion- ably the precursor of a still more active market AND BETTER PRICES than have been made since the panic. This is true of outside acres, as well, € inside and improved property. One of the significant sales of the week was that of forty acres in the E. 3g of the E. 2g of N. E. ¥y of Sec. 21, 37, 13, a mile wesi: of Kensington, by Willian Hansbrough to L, C. Pituer for $250 an acre. The purcheser at once resold to T. E. Patterson for $350 an acre, Messrs. Loeb & Bro. have been offered acash advance of $27,000 for the 160 acres they purchased of the Fidelity Bank in the N. E.X of Sec. 18, just south of the Iron- ‘Works. The price they paid was $200 an acre. Garnett & ‘Thomasson sold ten acres in Sec. 38, 13 for $7,500. ‘he Courts have confirmed the sale for $22,100 to Mr. Rees, of Rees, Pierce & Co., of the tract of Jandon the northwest bank of Lake Calumet, at what is known as East Roseland Station of the Illinois Central Rail- mad # |. D. Weber has sold for Pfund and Egner to H. C. Walker a lot 40x142 feet, west front, on State street, south of Yan Buren, for $375 ‘r foot cash; also for H. C, Walker to J. irsh @ lot 50x175 feeton Michigan avenue, east front, south of Thirty-fourth street, for $254 per foot, all cash. ~ Jacob Weil & Co.; have sold No. 1109 Wa- bash avenue, 360x160 feet, with fine two-story and basement house, for Mrs. Gentry to Mrs. Nelly Updike for $8,750 cash. The reported sale of Nos. 15S and 160 Clark street for $72,500 is not confirmed. Mr. H.C. Morey, who has sole charge of the property, states that it has not been sold, and is not the market. IN THE OTHER SALES of the week were 33x1S0, improved, on Granger street, east of Sedgewick, $2,500; 21x 843¢ on Van Buren, east of Canal, $8,000; 75x 150 on Milwaukee avenue, southeast corner of Evergreen street, $4,850; 27 feet to Au- gusta street, Improved, on Milwaukee ave- west of Augusta street, $4,750; 48x18L3¢ on State street, south of Twenty-niuth, $5,- 000: 30x1@, improved, on Indiana avenue, south of Twenty-sixth street, $17,900; 25x125 on Sangamon street, south of Adams, $3,000; 49x91 on Union street, southeast corner of O’Brien, $5,000; 22x130, improved, on Cot- lage Grove avenue, near Thirty-eighth street, $6,500; 200x125 on West Madison, northeast corner of Homan avenue, $4,500; 25 acres, corner of Clybournand Wrightwood avenues, $25,000; 50x1613/ on Michigan ave- nue, south of Forty-third street, $3,750; 25x 110 on Judd street, west of Clinton, $3,150; 27x150 cu North Clark street, north of Chi- cago avenue, 310,000; 253¢x80 on Dearborn avenue, between Chicago avenue and Supe- Tior street, $3,420; 60x95 on West Van Bu- ren, northeast corner of Morgan, $6,500; 25x 25, inuraved, on South Halsted, south of 1 8,000; 24x12, improved, on West Chicago avenue, east of Clase, $3,000; 498x119 on Indiana avenue, north of Thirty- first street, $4,320; 98x250 on Woodlawn ave- nue, north” of Forty-seventh street, $7,000; _40x170 on Wabash avenue, near Van Buren, $22,500; 25x100, improved, on South Halsted, south of Nine- teenth street, $3,500; 863Zx793¢x50 on Thirty-fifth street, southwest corner of Lake avenue, $5,000; 60x125 on Central Park avenue, southwest corner of Twenty-third street, $4,000; 169 Rush street, $8,000; 74x125 on Latlin street, south of Adams street, $6,200; 30x110 on De Koven, southwest cor- ner of Beach street, $5,000; 25x171 on Wa- bash avenue, north of Fourteenth street, $13,000; 25x151_on South Dearborn street, south of Twentieth street; $4,000; 42x87 on Morgan street, northwest corner of Four- teenth, $5,000; and 207}¢x170 on Michigan southeast “corner of Fifty-ninth #222; 066x235 on Ellis avenue, near y-vighth street, 39,000; 40 feet to alley, on State street, north of tongress, ‘$14,536; 24x15, improved, on West Adams, east of Winchester, $8,100; 20x94 improved, on Groveland Park’avenue, north of Thirty-first, Btreet, 35,000; 100x195 on Forty-seventh street, east of Greenwood avenue, $7,500; 198x19% on Wabash avenue, north of Sixty- third street, $15,000. Representatives of the Pullman Palace-Car Company have been visiting different LOCATIONS FOR THEI SuoPs during the past week. They-went in a special car to Hindsdale, where they examined a 300- acre tract of land east of and adjoining West- ern Springs, and a 500-acre tract east of and adjoining Hinsdale. BUILDING. The majority of the buildings covered by the ninety permits issued last week were barns and sheds. In the permits were those to H. S. Graham to erect a two-story dwell- ing, No. 71 Avon place, to cost $1,800; to J. Sherrit's to erect a two-story oflice and dwell- inz, Lumber street, near Twenty-second, to cost $1,200; to lienry Stephens to erect a vne-slory cottage, Lincoln street, near Park avenue, to cost $1,600; to F. Swobatta to erect a two-story dwelling, Nineteenth street, near Throop, to cost $1,200; to Benjamin AI- len to. ta two-story dwelling, Indiana ave- Que, near Twenty-fifth street, to cost $9,000; to i toerect a two-story dwelling, No, 3162 Wentworth avenue, to cost ‘$2,700: to Johu Gehrke to erect two two-story dwell- ings, curner of Wells and Goethe streets, to vost $8,000; to the Burr Mission Church to erect_a two-story church, 36x78 feet, corner of Wentworth avenue and Twenty-third sireet, to cost $6,000; and to Thomas Mackin, live two-story dwellings, corner of jana and Cass streets, to cast $20,000. 9 * ‘Among the building permits isstiel yester- day was one to A. Mass, to erecta two-story building, No. 22 Third avenue, to cost $2,500, and one to Douglass & Stewart, to ereet an elevator, corner of Sixteenth street and Deurborn, to cost $50,000. Pians are being made for two new engine- houses,—one at the corner of Ogden and Win- chester avenues, and the other at the corner of Ashland ayenue and Jane street. : LOAN ‘The loans of the last ty ts follows: Van Buren, 9 woeks compare This week. ||Previous week. No.| Amount.||No.| Amount. ortgnges “e5/s 345.499|| 65/8 18008 Soeeeoas aal® '200,830}] 101)” 186,773 : 381} 8 44.2601] 16018 go0.es7 BUSINESS LEASES. Band & McNally have leased fora term of, twenty with the privilege of purchas- ing within ten years, the property known as the Douglas lot, on the south side of Monroe street, between Clark and La Salle, being 90 feet front by 190 feet deep. The annual rental is fixed at $5,000, and the price to be paid for the land if purchased within ten ie is $100,000 cash. They will at once be- ERECT TWO BUILDINGS at for the use of the house, to cost 75,000. 18 lan, as proposed and designed by Mr. Bur- ing, the architect, comprises two buildings, front and rear, with a court of a depth o fifty feet, giving ample light. The buildings will healt: stories in hight, and the press- room will be the largest and best-lighted of any.in the country used for s like purpose, and will be located under the court, on the ground floor, an innovation of no small im- portance. ‘The front building will contain the bus]ness offices of the firm on the ground floor, and there will besome stores offices to be rented out. The upper floors will con- tain the book-rooms, artists’, engravers’, and designers’ departments, lithograph rooms, ete. The ace boiling will be especially constructed for a factory. ‘An appeal has been made to the United States Ulreuit Court in this city for an in- junction to prevent the LEASE OF THE SCHOOL PROPERTY on the southwest corner of Madison and Hal- sted streets to Crilly & Blair. It is made by P, W. Chandler, of Boston, who held a lease of the corner expinng May 1, 1880, and claims that Crilly & Blair were in connivanee with certain members of the Board of Education, who informed them of the amount of the bids of the various lot-owners and advised. them to bid aigher. \lso that the Seeretary of the Board had promised complainants 2 renewal of the lease, and that the Board has uo legal authority to dispossess him, and that Hear senole transaction was fraudulent and voi : : J. C. Sampson & Co., of 171 La Salle street, have recently negotiated _among others the following leases: For Join Borden to George P. Gore & Co., auctioneers, the -five- story and basement stone-front building Nos, 212 and 214 East Madison strect, for a term of two years, at a rental of $21,000; the fit Nos. 80 and five-story and basement buildin; 82 Wabash avenue to Keiser & Reitz, for a term of five years, at arental of $6,000 and $6,500 per annum; the bulldings Nos. 133 and 135 Wabash avenue, formerly occupied by Field, Leiter & Co., for Price, Strauss & ‘ahn to A. Bamburger, furniture dealer, at a rental of $3,600 per annum; the store Nos. 239 and 241 East Lake street, for Evenden & Wilson to the Taunton Tack Company, for five years, at a rental of $5,000; for Dr. k. S. Haven to E. Olbrick, the store and basement. No, 69 Randolph street_at $1,800 a year 7 for Judge L, C. P. Freerto Salisbury, Kline&Co., the store and basement No. 109 East Madison street for a term of two years_at $10,000; the store and basement Nos. 117 and 119 East Lake street to the Murseilles Paper Com- pany at $2,500 a year; the five-story and base- ment buildings Nos. 239 and 241 East Lake street to Evenden & Wilson for aterm of five years ata rental of §5,000 per annum; the store No. 36 Randolph street to L. Dore- well for three years at $4,500 per term; the five-story and basement. bulla ‘0. 149 Wa- bash avenue to N.C, Thayer & Co. for five rears at $27,000 per term; the four-story and asement building No. 38 East Randolph street for Mrs. Sandford Lewis to Louis Reich & Co. for three years at $7,500 per tern; store and basement No. 210 Wabash avenue at $1,200 per year for E. I. Brand to Pratt & Co.; for Henry H. Shufeldt to Joel H., Dix the ‘building ‘os. 58 and 60 South Water street at $2,500 per atinum; for I. M. Shepherd, to Kearney & Schwatehild, second floor Nos. 133 and 135 State street for $9,000 for term of three years; for A. N. Parsons, of New York, store and. basement No. 25 Washington street, to H. Gay for one year at $1,800, loft of same building to B. Mantz for $1,000 per an- num; building No. 117 Franklin street, to A. H. Ziegfield, wholesale cloak and suits, at $2,500 a seats to Henry Schultz, the four- story and basement building on the south- west corner vf Randolph street and Wabash avenue, for a term of five years, at $27,000; store and basement No. 36 Adams street to Chapin & Gore at $100 per month; the store and basement No. 149 Wabash avenue Mason & Hamlin Organ Company for five years at $18,000; sture of building No. 31 Washington street to the New Haven Clock Company for five years }; the tive-story and basement bui ae os, 21. and 213 Wabash avenue to H. Newberger, furniture dealers, at $3,000 per annum; the five-story and basement building on the southwest corner of Madison and Franklin streets, formerly occupied by Stettauer Bros., to Leovold Bros. 4 Co.,-for five years, at a rental of $100,000 per term; store ant basement No. 206 State street, for Mattocks & Mason, to Hesslim & Co., at $1,800 per feats building Nos. 46, 48, 50, and 53 Frank- lin street, to Price, Strauss & Kohn, at rannum, an $8,500 Ed Morris nas rented the store No. 153 South Clark street, near Madison street, to Abraham Lipman for $2,000 a year. re Lipman will open one of the finest jewelry stores in Chicago in connection with his lo usiness. SOUTH CHICAGO. The North Side Rolling Mills are making Rood progress with their new mills at South Chicago. They have 850 men at work, the foundations are well along, and contracts are Jet for nearly $1,000,000 worth of materials and machinery. A part of the works will be in operation by the ist of January, and by the ist of July, 1831, the entire works will be ih operation. They expect by that time to make at least 3,000 tons of steel ratls a week at South Chicago, and at such prices that id others. none of our Western peo; mw to go to Europe for their steel 1: CONSTITUTIONALITY OF THE BOULEVARD AcT. Residents and real-estate owners in the West Division received a severe shock last week in the publication of an opinion of Gen. George W. Smith, attorney for the West Park Board, challenging the validity of the act by which certain streets are dedicated to bark purposes as boulevards and placed un- der the exclusive control of the Park Boards, on account of its incongruity with the gen- eral tenor of laws applicable to municipal affairs. Gen. Smith’s opinion 1S NOT SUPPORTED by Mr. Joseph Bonfield, the attorney for the SouthPark Board. “This gentleman states that he has examined the act sufficiently to be decidedly of the opinion that the General Assembly had power to transfer the control of Michigan avenue from the City of Chicago to the park authorities in the manner pro- vided by the act, and that MICHIGAN AVENUE | is now within the jurisdiction and part of the park territory. “The Constitution has not limited the power of the Legislature in_ this bartigular, and, there being uo constitutional restriction, the Legislature had power to change the trusteeship over Michigan aye- nue from the city to the park authorities. ‘The question of power seems clear. The Hon. Charles Hitcheock has given the his- tory of the Boulevard act, and . the care taken to put it into constitutional shape. He says “Mr, J. M. Walker, Mr. Wirt Dex- ter, and myself joiued in the: preparation, of the Boulevard act of 1879, and subsequently submitted the draft to Messrs. F. UH. Kales and R. S. Thompson, the attorneys for the South Park Board. ‘Together we canvassed the subject in all its bearings, and goincided without reserve that it would stand. I never for a moment doubted the validity of the act, and do not now.” Lawyers generally dis- agree With Mr. Smith, but some of them take the same position that he does. One of these, Mr. J. Thompson, believes that the question will finally come before the courts, and receive its greatest strain when contested by a person who has dedicated land for Aighifan avenue asa thoroughfare, and who still lives on the street, and has withheld his consent to the transfer. That, In his opinion, is the strongest case that can be made, and when the question comes up in that shape he has his doubts if the act passes @ ordeal Bids have been advertised for by City-En- gineer Cregier for the construction of a NINE-FOOT TUNNEL ig under the river at Harrison street, thirty-five feet below the bottom of the river. itis to contain the thirty-six-inch water main run- ning from the North-Side Water-Works,-and now stopping at Harrison street. Itis to be extended as fast as convenient, westward and along Blue Island avenue to the West-Side | Water-Works, to assist In the distribution of water in the West Division. = = ae ‘The Council haye passed an order instract- ing the Department of Public Works to pre- Pare au ordinance for the opening of ' HANDOLPH STREET : from its present eastern terminus to the Jake.shore. . A petition for the opening of . LUMBER STREET east to the river fas been referred to the proper Committee. ‘ , Lhe Common Council have received a peti- tion from the Chicago, Milwaukee & St.Paul Railway, asking to'be allowed to erect A GRAIN ELEVATOR, capable of hob!ing 1,000,000 bushels, on their property on ‘ulton street, between Canal street-and the river. ‘he petition was re- - $6,000 . or leys, West Division. ~~ : ‘he West Division Committee on_ Streets and Alleys has recommended the Common Council to .repeal the ordinance for the im- provement of Noble street; to. pass the or- dinance for the’ improvement of Randolph street from Desplaines to Halsted; to place on file the remonstrance against the improve- ment of Throop street; to pass the ordinance for paving Jefferson street; to pass _the or- dinance forthe macadamizing of Honore street; to grant the remonstrance against the improvement of West Madison street from Halsted to Ashland avenue, and to place on file theremonstrance against the im- provement of Hastings street. = NORTH SIDE BOULEVARD. The majority and’ minority reports of the Committee on Streets and Alleys, North Division, the former recommending the turn- ing over of Rush street, Chieago avenue, and Pine street, and the latter, Dearborn avenue, Indiana street, and Pine street, to the Lincoln Park Commissioners for the purpose of a boulevard, has{been made the special order for the meeting of the Common Council to- morrow night. 3 ‘Taxpayers, resident and non-resident, who wish an agent to attend to theif tax bi hess, can putit into the hands of Mr. D. 1 Hubbard, whose advertisement appears in another column. Mr. Hubbard will furnish 11,000 2,500 tax-abstracts, settle tax liens, and will attend to the payment of taxes, assessments, and other similar details. THE BRICK MEN. - Ata meeting held by the brick manufact- urers of Chicago yesterday afternoon, twenty- three being present, the following resolutions were adopted: E Wneneas, The laborers to be employed in the North Side brick-yards refuse to xo to work ut the wages as published; therefore, be it Resolved, That we, the North Side brick manu- facturers, will mnke no effort to start our yards ‘until the men go to work for the wages us ‘pub- ished. Resolved. That we sro ready and willing to hire any men, whether Union or non-Union men, who seek work ond ure willing to work for such wages. ‘Tho wages. offered are as follow: molders, $2.50 per 8,000; table-loaders, $2. ae per 8,000; truckers, $1.87}¢ per 6000; pit-til!- ers. $2.1234 per 8,000; tampering Dit $3 per 8,000; sand-men, 55 cents per 8,000; hacking, M cents per 8,000; wheelers, $23.25 per 5,000; shed-men, $1.50 to $2 per 8,000; setters, $2.50 ver 24,000; setters, $2.25 per 16,000. ‘The men in the mmacliine yards, which are onthe South Side, are all at work at the prices fixed some weeks ago. In the hand- yards, which are on the North Side, the men want from $1 to $3 a day more, Figuring in the wages given above, brick cust $5.08 a thousand, not counting interest_on capital, wear and tear, bad debts, etc. Should con- cessions be now made, of which, however, there is no probability, the men would doubt- Jess demand another advance in the event of brick being sold for more than a thousand. SATURDAY’S TRANSFERS. The following instruments were filed for record Saturday, April 17. CITY PROPERTY. Le Moyne st, 2214 ftwof North Hoyne, 8f, 26x62 ft, improved, dated April 7 (3and C. Junghubn toWilliam Pauln$ — 1,200 Michigan av, 130 {tn of Fourteenth s} wf, 22x130 ft, improved, dated April (Edward Wells to Isaac Lowenberg)... North Wells st, 69 ft s of Eugenie, ¢ f, 2xLl6 ft, improved, dated April 18 @ohn P. Moos to Cord H. Niemann)... Lowe av, 175 ft n of Thirty-ninth st, w 1, 150x125 ft, with 25x125 ft adjoining on Walluce'st, dated April 13 (John Lowry toJumes H. Woods). Thirty-seventh st, ne corner of Buiter- 1,050 field, 8 f, 24 6-10x 112 ft, improved, dat- ed April 18 (Frank Simon: to William Rahn), The prei jutterfieid st, Wolf to H. S MAX ittle to preiises dated April Schnreltz) oe No. 1030's 16 @eter Western ny, 72 ft 8 of Adam: 8 ft, dated April 5 Joba L. it. and F. F. Ralston) Front st, 150 ft w of Sai 3 ty 264x110 ft, dated April 16 (Clicago Land Company to M. Wodchogeki)... Alaska st, 3778-10 ft w of Lurrabee, 1, 25x69 ft, dated April 18 (Robert Bulman to Gonrad Metz) Emerald ay, 22 fts of Thirty-fourth st, ef, 265x124, ft, Improved, dated March, 31 (George Piper to M. Birmingham), Barber st, 251 ft eof Union, nf, 25x73 ft, dated Feb 23 (RW. and 5. 3: Bradloy to Bridget Smail).. Stewart av, 103 ft 8 of ef, 2x. 2 fb dated April 17 (F, and L. Rledio to Chicago & Western Indiana Buil- road Company)... Union st, 131 ft 8 of Canalpai 24x100 ft, improved, dated April 13 (Carl W. Osenberm to John Gruene- -Kossuth at, “196 fte of Murray, sf, 2tx 100 ft, duted April 18 (J. W. Dunn to E. A. ‘and J. Linton)... Ee a Aberdeen st, 107 ftn of Polk, e f, 20x 109 ft, dated Sept. 23, 1876 (Thomas Walsh to M. Cushing). 250 ft e of So nf, 25x724-5 ft, improv 17 (E. N. Blake to Adam Onturiost, n w cor Cass, s f, 6x100 dated March 29 (Herbert C. Ayer to George M. Moulton)..... Keith st, 342 ft s of West. Chica; f, 24x10) ft, improved, duted April 1 " @homas Snell to A. J. Dahlstrom)... Loomis st, near Blue Island ay. w f, Six 380 ft, duted April 3 (J. A. Stewart to John Frank)......... os West Eighteenth st, 90 ft of itobey, nf, S4x1m ft, dated April 17 (F. Schubert Flournoy st, 2016-18 ft w of Robey. s f, 20 6-13x100 ft. dated April 17 (H.C. Sheldon to J. D. Smith). West Jackson st, 159 tt o 8 f, 28xt4 ft, dated Murch 18 (E. and J. W. Loomis to the City of Ci cago). aweseeiaaatane Union‘ st, s w cor uf Twenty-secon ef, 4174 ft, to Dupont Slip, dat - April? (Baird & Bradiey to tho Charles Rictz & Brothers Lumber Company... Biue Island av, 250 {ts w of Harrison st, 8ef,25x1¥ ftimproved, duted April a fauaust Welchiin to Johannes Ude)....... Sense stresses eeseeieepessees Private st, 199 ft'6 of Throop, and be- tween Adams and Jackson ‘sts, 140x ft, dated April 10 (R.A. and E. G. Curtis to Edwin Maynurd).... Private st, 10x79 ft of the ‘abo dated April 17 (Edwin Maynard to William Thompson)....... 1,200 SOUTH OF CITY LIMITS, WITHIN A RADIUS OF SEVEN MILES OF THE COURT-HOUSE. Gunn st, 172 ft w of Stewart av, n f, 25x ft, improved, dated Nov. 11, 1879 (B. E. Gullup to G. L. Paddoeiy s Hyde Park av, 27 ft n of Fift Bt, wf, 62 tt to railroad, dat 16(G. Schelecht to H. A: Washington av, 300 ft s of Fifty-elghth st, @ f, 50x100 ft, dated April 17 (Hl. 1. Sheldon to James _D, Smith) se Tompkins pluce, 450 ft n of fifth st, Wf, 0x15? ft, dated April 15 (H. L, ‘Turner 10 G. B."Turner).... ... Forty-sixth st, 241 ft e of Wallace ‘st, 3 1, 50x15 ft, dated Aprit 12 (WwW. LL. Stevens to Charles Klebehow). f State st, 0 e cor of Forticth, wf, 11x 300 ft, improved, dated April ‘15 (C. and M. Hausser to John fT. W. Busch- -munn). . 12,000 SUMMARY FOR THE WEEK. ‘The following is the total._amount of city and suburban transfers within « radius of seven miles of the Court-House, filed for record during the week ending Saturday, april IT: City—Sales, 147; consideration, $759,- 5. North of city limits—Sales, 2; consid- eration, $25,450, South of city limits—Sales, 31; consideration, $185,693, “‘Lotal sales, 180. Total consideration, $970,036, Real estate IN SAN FRANCISCO, according to the Bulletin, is still quiet. The conditions for a long time have not been favorable for activity.’ A moderate business has been In progress from month to qwonth, but mostly in @ private and quiet way. Credit pales hayes been raro ae 2 long time, because attended with suflicient encouragement to make them a success. IN: NEW YORK, - : the Sun says that when the season for mov- ing.is over very few houses and places of business will be left unoccupied,—fewerthan -haye remained for half a dozen’ years back after the Ist of May. As a whole, real prop- erty is now paying a handsome interest on its value, and the demand for it froin investors1s. steady at good prices, ‘The advance in the cost of bullae, inaterials which has taken place within afew months hus to some ex: tent checked the tide of improvement, which promised to be exceptionally great this year: ut it is believed that prices have reached their highest point, and thas maintained Jone: atit. " The Boston Cummerctat Bulletin expresses a fear that the Y i ar =; _? BUILDING INTEREST OF BOSTON and vicinity, which bid fair to be very lively a short. time ago, maybe considerably checked on account of high prices of labor-and materials. Plasterers and masons, who were receiving but $1,75 2 yearago, now have to be paid $2.50; carpenters have to.-be paid a rate equally as high. Lumber has ad- yanced, and is still going ‘up, with but lim- ited-stocks on hand. Hencea house whic! it cost $4,000 to build Jast“:year would co: $7,000 this year. -: But theré is a grand oifset to these facts: real estaté is higher, and there isa brisk demand for houses. the Kimball itis worthy , dated Apri ‘takle). « tt, 1,806 5,000 55,000 5,100 200 1,050 April Hoffmann)... 2,500 4A 1,000 800 they cannot be In point of general populari piano distances all others. Aud of its fame, a ’ Coliimbia's.633 were } manipulation. anipt Te the Stocks Still Feverish, with Lower Tenden Western Associated Press. New York, April 17.—Governments quiet and fairly steady. ‘uilroad bonds irregular. State sceurities dull and nomiaal. ‘The stuck murket opened strong, and prices advanced % tol per cent. Subsequently ‘there was a decline of 34 to 22 por cent, the latter Iron till i tain. When it became known that the Money Still Manipulated, and the | Per i oment was favorable a irmor feeliag Bears on Top. set in, and prices recovered \ to 13 per cent. Usual First of May Demand for Gov- ernments—Local Finances. s The Produce Markets Less Active—Wheat Irregular, | © The break in Louisville & Nashville from 149 to is _demoralixed the whole market for n time, and led to a decline in the general list of 4 to 2% BSS cent. Toward the close the market again ecnme strong, and recovered 5 to 1 per cent. Tho break in Louisville & Nashvilie was due to a rey Orleans other roads which was likely to in; rt thnt the Chiongo, St. Louis & New load had mado a qombination with ure the busi- ess of the Louisville & Nashville Company. i 510,000_shares: Owing to Seaboard News. coranactions ) shares: 6.0, & 1. G.. Lackawanna, The Other Markets Steadier, but Generally | Belaware & Hudson Range Lower. FINANCIAL. Stocks were not active, and were not strong at any time during the day. Atone moment the inurket was apparently on the point of turning up, when the rafa on Louisvilic & Nashville 2e- | ai gun. That stock was carried down from 1{'to 15, and the whole list was demoralized with it. The manipulation of money wus continued. A good deal of unensiness is spread by the dura- tion of this artiticial’stringeucy, and by the euse | d with which tho bears keep control of the mar- ket, An active broker ju New York advises his correspondent in Chicago, that “when moncy Louisville & Nashvilie, This opened at 140, Northwestern Red! Louns, Str t00; logal-tendord, crease, $144,900; bankers now requirements. Hirst preferred. ing. Money loaned down from 6 to per cent por anum, and closed ut 3; prime mercantile pa- ry 3 Sterling exchange, sixty days, weak at 487. The following i3 the weekly bunk statement: decreuse, $4,22100; specie, decrease, increase, | $1,930,100; osits, decreas 3,000; ciroulation, de- reuse, 8 300. "Th 7 reserve, increase, $Uf! hold $536,830 in excosa of their legal GOVERNMENT DONDS, enses up stocks will go lower, and that they will | us. 1 g0 lower before it’ does exse up.” On the other | Newm.: band, tho Public thinks the downward move hus , been made by Mr; Gould in. order to buy stocks. | Loulstana 7 consols. 2056 Itsuys: “The mjpid advance which occurred Missourt 6s oem 1 Virginia ce now... whonever the downward pressure was reluxed, | ‘tonnes: reer 3S | Virginia te, defers und the unconceuled activity in buying just | Tennessee ts, now. 5 when the money market was most disturbed Saud eines ew. 2 show the character of the movemont plainly. | 7; bonds: 13¢| Ontario & Mi 556 Muny sujguctousnien think the way is now clear | U: B: lund grants. 1 we BoC. HN g for @ very vigorous ‘and long-continued rise in | U.tsnkiue 3 SN ie protdens the prices of stocks,’* ne sebash Bed a4 Bw There were few. important changes except in 190" | Haintbal & Sido. 355 sold down to 115,and closed at 129%. Chatta- noog sympathised with it to the extent of a de- cline from 7% to-'70¥4, recovering to 72. There were more losses.thau gains, but they were not serious. Morris & Essex declined 4%, to107; Mich- igan Central X, to9; Lake Shore 34, to 106%; Erie preferred 14, 652¢3 Northwest, \, to 04; St. Paul %, to 77%; Wabgsh 4%, to U0}; the preferred 34, to 6014; Ohio & Mississippi X, to 33; Kansus | © &Texns %, to 38%; Pucitic Mail X, to 88%; | Ny Lackawanna 4, to 69; Jersey Contral %, to Reading \, to WX; GC. & LC. %, to 1; Fy 48%; Western Union, %, to 101%; Atlantic & | ii Tick, & ete Pacific 4, to 4245; “Pokus Central 1, to 75; North- | Morris & Essex, ern Pucifio preferred, to 62%; San Francisco | Relayare® Giudson 4, to 354%; Manhettan }%, to 284; Minneapolis 44, to 58%; Sioux City: 1g, to 44%; Mobile & Ohio X, to 104, * . ? Lake Erie & Westefn was strong at an ad- vuneo of 14, at 33%, and Chicago, St. Louis & New Orleaus advanced 1}, to 83. Ilinols Cen- trul made ¥, to 105%; St. Paul preferred 34, to 4103; Ohio preferreil 45 to 734%; St. Joe proferred Xi, to 68; Hudson 34, to 854; Canada Southern %, to 502; Northern Pacific \, to 28; San Fran- cisco preferred $4, to 51; and Chesapeake & Ohio X, tozlig. ok Erie second és apenéd at 91%, and closed at 90x. “3 5 - Railroad bonds ‘Ii; New York, on Thursday Michizun Central. Erie. Set St¥ault Minnewp otis t 5 St Paul & sloux Ci Union Pusifle 2¢,‘to €8; Iron Mountain 1%, to | Bt buul & slau tendene; Among "mining stocks Antimony was the feat~ ure ut 31, its highest point, and the feeling general still higherina very short time. This belief is confirmed by the fact that there was a sale this Kansi Union Pacine.. ‘entral Pucitic. Canada Sout Nash. & Chattanooga. honis., NUA. & Chl, referred. ft. Paul. it: Paul. preferred. BOsron.- + Bpectal Dispatch to The Chicago Tribune, ._Bostox, April 17.—The stock’ market to-day showed considerable strength and activity. and there was un excellent feeling among all classes of stocks. Ruuvrouds firm, with a slight upward noticcable in those investments. seems to be that it is going Were strong in tlie early dealings, but subse- | morning to well-known lending dealers’ of a, quently became heavy, and declined sharply. | right to call 1.000 shares at 45 I sixty days. A large business wes transacted In Erie consoll- | Huron advanced % and Franklin \, while sev- dated seconds, whith*rose to 91%, and declined to WK. Kansas & Texas firsts feli off from eral others showed similar slight changes, Bonds steady, with fair sales. Lund stocks showed an improvement over yesterday's clos; 10% to 9%; do seconds from 0% | ing tirures. Fifteen thousand New Bexico & to 59%; Cunada~ Southern firsts from | Pucitic7s sold nt 108%, and other sales were %% to 90; Exfej‘funded 5s from 85 to| made as follows: “Eastern 4%s of , 108, 8114. Columbus, Chickgo & Indiana Central sup- | $33, New, Yorke & New England ‘7 Plementury rose frdm 81% to &%, and do in- 5, 110%; 6s, Little Rock & Fort Smith Ruilroad, 50% 11014; comes from 38% to}s%, but tho latter afterward | Flint & Pere Marquette, YN; Burlington & Mis- reacted to 37. Rome, Watertown & Ogdensburg fon Onin in ug Weare ae Chiegee, Ducting: é n a 3, Cineinni I, firsts advanced to 66%, and declined to 61%. Iron | 9%! ‘Bustern ‘844; Northern, 98; Atchison & Mountain second proferred incomes rose to 76, | Topeku first 73, Lit. and declined to %,;Indiaus, Bloomington & Western firsts sold gt4@75. ‘There was an actitédemand for Government bonds from patriotsiwho wish to escape taxution or assessments to-bd‘tiude May 1: ‘The District or pid and 9 asked,” the United States 4s, 106% and 1073;, the 4%s, 108% and 108%; the 5s, 103%-and 1034); and the 63, 1053; and 10545. * sip ‘The local supply of'foreign exchange has in- creased on account ‘Jf more lboral ehipments. ‘The posted rates foristerling wore 485 and 488. { © Freach bankers’ bills were 518% and 515, and German bankers’ bis 05 and 95%. Actual rates for sterling were 4914; and 487%. Commercial : FOREIGN. 5 Lonpon, April 17.—Consois, 98 13-16; account, 98 15-16. American securities—New 5s, 104%; 433, 111%; 4s, 10014; Illinois Central, 1034; Pennsylvania Central, 65% ;- y 444; seconds, 93; Reading, 3434; silver, 82d per ounce. Paris, April 11.—Rentes, 83f 47. COMMERCIAL. ‘The following were the receipts and shipments f the leading articles of produce in this city during the twenty-four hoursending at 7 o'clock Saturday morning, and the corresponding time last year: sterling wus 482:@48i14; French commercial, 82134 tor Paris and 523% for Antwerp, Marseilles, and Havre. Commeg¢ial marks were 9tund 94%. The New York Journal of Commerce culls at- tention to the fact that the balance of trade in merchandise alone f6¢ the first throe months of 1678 was $100,%4,0%% ‘In our favor; for the tirst three months of 1879 was $79,047,000 in our fuyor, and for the first thrge months of 1880 is about $12,000,000 aguinst us! ‘This change, reckoned for only three moxths, is the most eloquent warning against the-gxtravagance of tho times, andthe seeming regklesuess with which our foreign trade is now-eonducted. i The currency movement is light, but the re- ceipts are lurger than the shipments. New York exchange was‘sold between bunks at 60@ ee per $1,000 premiim. Discounts ure selling casier. Rutes were 6@3 per cent. The clearings of the Chicago banks are re- ported as folluws by Manager D. RB. Hale, of the Chicago Clearing-House: ; Date. RECEIPTS. g eS Serta Nps Sungaeuee eeu: ze 5 ei ae Be eaebe nee Fes & Monday bi PSs TSU 610,133 ors eres esses, ‘Total neaseeeas: Corresponding week insty 4 TRASK & FRANCIS, Bankers.and Brokers, Withdrawn from store during Friday for city consumption: 810 bu wheat, 2,097 bu oats, 1,083 u rye, 2,759 bu barley. ‘The following grain was inspected into store in this city Saturday morning: 8 cars No. 2 win- ter wheat, 39 cars No. 2 spring, 13 cars No. 3 do, cars.rejected (65 wheat); 140 cars No.2 corn, 44carshigh mixed, 8 cars new mixed, 10 cars re- Jected (82 corn); 6 cars No. 1 oats, 49 car.gHo. 2 white, 21 cars No. 2 mixed, 3 cars reject£d (2 7] BROADWAY, N. Y. onts); 2 cars No. 2rye; 5 cars No.8 burley, lear Membgps of the New York Stock xchange and Mew York Mining Stock Exchunye. Allclasses of Securities Bought and Sold on Commis- sion and Curried on Margina, Daily Murket Letters sent to Customers. THE Pits NATIONAL BANK HAS FOR SALE CHICAGO & NORTHWEN Ist M'1"GH EB. B. BONDS CHL, MIL. & Si, PAUL “ % os Lincoln Park 7s, South Park 6s and 7s, Cook County and City is, West ‘Town 3s, District Columbia 355s, MINING STOCKS bi Bought and Sold on New ‘Tork and San Franelseo Ex- wis changes ti Buard tates. References: Cashier First Nat, Bunk, Chicago, ott Cushler Phenix Nat. bunk, New York, en Cashier Sumfulk Nut Bunk, Boston. nated STEPIENSON & MeKERVER, iyi ll-at., New Yo: Members New York Mining Board, i He dave bogs, No.. 2 CHARLES MENROTIN Cattle, No. sn nan | Bee * 100 Washington-st. On hand a good nssortment of WEST CLUCAGU &-PEIt CEN BONDS, Chicago, Milwaukee & St.Paul? per ceut first mort- guge Bouds, District of Columbia 3.65'Bonds, guaranteed by U.S. Stocks bought on New York, San Francisco, ie Chieaxo Stocks und Sining Bourds. eae be - 0 SY TELEGRAPH, extra, learfeed. Total, 345 cars, or 177,000 bu. Inspected out: 5,449 bu wheat, 206,099 bu corn, 24,014 bu oats, 2,201 bu rye, 7,031 bu barley, ‘The following table shows the movement of reudstuifs and live stock in this city during last week, with comparisons: April, 1850, April 10, 1 19, Fa APE 68,704 5,553 The leading produce murkets were nervous and irrogular yesterday, but with a small range f prices. Most of them, #3 usuul, took the cue from wheat, ind the features governing that market were the following: The British mar- ‘ets were further depressed, cargoes off const oing quoted Gd@1s lower, which was unexpect- ed, most operators having looked tor a steadier tone there, if nut udecided roaction, Hence NEW: YORK, our market opened lower, but rallied, only to be Spcctat Dispatch to.The Chicago Tribune, New York, April 17.-The market to-duy has | p; disappointed the holders of stocks. The list nT closed so strong last night tbat # buoyant open- ing was looked for,. but the market oponed burely steady, and then drooped and fell off. ‘There was at no time a, lively market, dealings being light, but with the steady pressure of long stock prices were frequently rallied, but when off, .The bank statement showed a gain In the reserve of only $610,000, which, thougn mnade on arising average, caused a feeling of disappoint- | 1, ment. In the ufterndon there was a steady de- cline, and the- whole list closed weak, with. a prospect of u Jower opening on Monday, It is very evident that we shall have a continued decline next weck, and a sharp attack by Gould at any moment may be looked for. ‘The working of money bus all along been misunderstood by those interest- ed in stocks on the long side. ‘they hare be- lieved that the stringency was due to’ manipula- steady, with lessdoing. Mess lower, at $9.724@9.76 seller ecru Lard closed 5¢ lower, at 38.10G5.724 seller 3 Short ribs’ closed at $5.971:@0.00 for June. Spring. — wheat .. closed for, May and $1.073{ for June. steady, at 35% for Oats closed 3@%e lower, at 20%c for May and rendered weak by the reported failure of a rominent exporter in New York. Luter the ews came that all his wheat had been bought, and that prices had advanced }4c. since then, which restored contidence here. Corn was helped some bythe further decline in lake freights, and the filing in of about 500,000 bu May shorts By one house, which induced u better demund ‘rom sol the support was withdrawn ‘they instantly fell breuk, Oe aio Lahr aati Thore was quite a raid on in an arly break, ig sick enough early. outs early, resulting while barley was’ quotably rmer. _ Provisions averaged vasier, but were pork closed 7c May and 39.85@9.87%, May--and 6. G69 for June. te lower, at, S111 Corn ‘closed Muy and. 3830 for July. tion, and calculated on a return of mo: : : tha Weat usual seenic aioe of vene i oe 20% c for June: Ryé closed at 7I3ze seller May. Parker @pthis they have been disappointod. | Barley was firmer at 700 for cash No.2, and 6635 ehare bas been no lock-up of poner. urrency | @3ic for do extra 3. Hogs were active and ‘firm. Hi Seureo, srcin toes: fact Lone oe Wests a at $4.00G4.55. Cattle were quiet at $2.00G5.90, ; hold it, and also to the working of the funding | _Jobbers of staple and fancy dry goods-had poorations of the Government, Shrewd bunkers | Dothing new to report." The ‘movement, though somewhat more quiet than a fortnight ago, fs of more generous proportions than in past. seasons | and large receipts are expected hero the coming - quoted n decline of 3d in lard und meats, which some- |. for spot No. z closed at Sit4e for, Fecelpia Gated since ry hi 3d, main firm. The.demand for boots and | -decitned is Wand neviocted: No. $ desea bats caps, and millinery continues liberal, |. He: Hosted. Pork Western F. “1 ing GOTH iar and prices were uniformly well supported. at bis: 8 ihe aie ai me Ce a Groceries met with a fair general demand, and | 7 Hee BM ee hoese timer most lines remained stendy and firm. ‘There 1s | goa on esasbe Whose dome seaT FIBER dal a, still an unsettled feeling in cageeny erst pate Seed, et air, Bveraxe et, winter, ee, a saned EES am ware austed ns before. | shipping Caltforme ateree puotaine. "dae a Sutter was dull and unsettled, with salés mostiy | @u6; fecd., Fale arerco guailty of Xo: $ Ghee Butter vas Gieneasc was quict. No changes’| followimg mouth, woe nai gene be present ang ot no uoted in the oll market. Pig-iron remains | [od.rinter for shipment during the presset Lo dull at weak and unsettled prices. Nos. 1and2 | Whont lane; corn small." °T Smt for oraed Lake Superior is ‘now qnoted at $48, and the = ~ is higher numbers at $50. eae NEW York. ‘The lumbor market was moderately active at anes Aires ret Ye Comox Fim th trrogular prices, the cargo arrivals were again | Siiy torre: auguy tates gessars ee ates eet amall, and the season {s opening dull. Many | 1.48: November, thes eee Ha 7 Octane local yard-men are preparing to move, and are not ready to buy. The mills are getting to work, The wool market was dull and unsettled. Prices arc tending down, ow- ing to the fact that new wools will be aynilable in a few wecks, and holders of old aro anxious to close out the stock. The broom-corn market was quiet'and steady. Hay was firm, be- ing in rathor smell supply; and hides were un- changed. The sales of potatoes wore light, and car-lots were almost unsalable, no one caring to’ tuke so many into store at this time while the retail trade is us small as It now is, Poultry was in fair request and firm, and eggs were steady. Lake froights were 0 lower, pt 4c for corn to Buffalo. The demand was small, and shippers were bidding 3c at the close. Lake and rail rates were quoted at 14%¢ corn and 16%c. wheat to New York, and at 10%c corn to Boston, A lurge fleet of grain vessels {s expected here. Parties in the trade say that receipts of corn muy bo expected to materially increase Sfter next Sunday, as xrain received after April25can be delivered on May contracts on the first stor- age. Itis reported from the country that com- paratively little whout is left in the hands of. tarmers bosides what they need for bread and seeding, but there was never so much corn and onte inthe country at this time of the yeur as now. The corn-cribs of Iowa are reported to be all full yet, and there arc a great many of them. Some rather sharp remark has been made in reference to the report of stocks of provisions in this city the middle of this month, We have, re- Ported: € ‘Maroh 35. April b.. week, Decroase..... Now, if we tak 000 Ibs from the reported shipments of 36,022,065 Ibs, and deduct one-sixth, we have 25,602,500 Ibs as the net decrease, minus 11,410,000 lbs made from 828,000 hogs at 35 lbs euch. These figures would give an uctuul deorease of only 42,578 tes, or but two-thirds of that obtained by comparing the reports of stocks, PROVISIONS. HOG PRODUCTS—Were less nctive, and much steadier, though averuging lower than the previous afternoon. Hogs were reported.tirm, but Liverpool whut checkod the export demand ‘here, and fatures were easierin sympathy. The packing of this city aince Feb. 29 1s reported us 497,000 hogs, aguinst 257,00 & year ago, and 36,00 for same time in 1808. Muss Ponc—Doclined L:i4gISe per bri, und closed Ti4c below the latest prices of Friday, at #.70G9.75 for round lots, spot, $¥.74¢G16 seller May, $0.5569.87}¢ seller June, and about #134 for July. Sales were re Ported of 11,0W bris seller May at §.07}¢:58.7734; 27,000 Drls seller June ut $7902.85; 14,750 bris seller July at eller the year at SiG , 58,08) bris. Lanb—Declined Se per 100 Ibs from the latest prices of Friday, und closed stendy at $.0GG.72'g for round ie poe Ob sles SENT $2 :Ha@ea) seller June, nod bs ueller July. Sales were repuited of pur Bt ELIS: ‘Siw toss ior May By ee TouTea: 6.0 tes: seller June ut $15 e606; und 1200"tcs welter July-ut WIGS, Toul, 120 ves, : AM&aTs—Were less uctive but firmer, with the busi- in local futures, whlch ‘closed a shade ness chiett better. Sules were reportod of Iv boxes shoulders at 4c; 1,250 boxes long und short cieurs at 82x46.23; 100 boxos Suxfordshire middies at i 16 Ihe ae ter 1D 13) UL Tc; Boat Ibs short ribs at 6.0) seller June, 2.02468 om seller uly an a pat Uipelter Anesth Wi boxes. lo (light) at 236 spot. ices on len about af follows st Lovelock for partly ments were cured lots: = Short | Shoul-|L. & S.) Short ribs. | ders, | clears.| clears. 92g) S73 | #800 | $A1d So SS | SS | Ge 6.22) BD 6.15 35 2 > Tey 16 6.0 6.85 seas Gaede oe ae Lease fonds, Suttosge bozed: lone eu q OO « ler, Jane, Slased Sriosas Cos ved ut Pewee ickled bums quoted at 3} ¢ for l@lb average; green bas, sume asverase, i4@ei}éc; do seller Muy, a quoted ut Grete for shoulders, oX420%(c for "Seon at short Tbs (2ic for short cleans, 9¢9}ge fur hams, all eanvased und packs 22 quote white at S@sigc, and ed. THES Was quletat $3,003.50 tor mess, 88.7529.00for extra mess, und #17.0091129 for hams, TaLLOW-—Quiet aud steady at 5346c for city and 55 8c for country. BREADSTUFFS. FLOUR—Was unchanged, except a light inquiry for ‘export, which slightly increased the volume of trans- fers, but without making an active market. Sales Were reported of 3W bris double spring extras at £5.50 GE.0; 110 bris extras ut $.W6G525; 420 brie exportiex- tras on private terms; 240 bris ryc tlour, partly at $130. ‘Total, 1070 bris. Export flours in sacks were quozed. at $5.0X25.15 for extras, and §.15G5.10 for cholce do. OTHER BREADSTU¥PS—Sules were coported of 10 cars bran at 816.00¢17.12}; 2cars middlings at $17.06 SPRING WHEAT—Was moderately active and somewhat irregular, averaging u little lower, but not going below the m{nimum prices of the precediug digs, but closing 33sec under the latest quetutions of Friday. ‘The Hritish murkets were reported dull und depressed nta further duciine of tails per quarter, and New York was eurly weukened by the fa:lure of & prominent exporter there, sume of whosa wheat ‘was sold the preceding day. ‘the weather in the West was also ting after the rai, and that tended to bring out sellers. ‘Thera were, however, orders on the naz ket to buy wheat at $1.11 for Moy, and sil oferod as ‘that Hyure was taken so readily thut the market was generully a litle above 1% though there were not qany buyers at an advance. ‘I'he inquiry for spot Wheat was fair, but Nu.2 scemed to be unly wanted }- for currying into May, closing at $Llu\{ tor receipts datedsinee tnrsday: Seller May opencd at$t-l0i¢et 1), sold up tu $L115f. fell off to 1.10% reacced to $L1i3 and closed at $1.14 Seller the inouh ranged nom Analy at LugcL lug, closing ut $1.03 er Juno ruaued enryes LUE, closing at af July sold at nd August was SLIGGWLUL, ‘the year at Bigawse, jaoted ur We. Spot wales were reposted of 720) bu No. 2ut $1.y@1.104: bu Sia, bat se; aid 190) bu 0, 12 3.00 bu’ red winver at SLL in store: 1,40 bi by sample at sLMeL2; aivbu mixed utsiox Woah ea ba, ISL RN- us Dervous, but sic: y yy averaging und closing about at the latest prices of Weiday Ady! from other points inclined to tower prices, and ou receipts were larger, with the belief thut great quan- Udes of corn are roady to come in the latter part of this month if room can be made for it in the e'evators. ‘There was only a moderate demand for shipment, through luke rreights decitning another Jy, but there ¥as free buying for fature, one opernzortuking about bu, supposed tu be to Hl shor, ‘Cha market ‘Thurada} forregulur. Seiler i 7, and Soe Se, suld st Ipie, at 3c, und closed at J the * month Baw) inside. at "Su ea at case: sold a8iin 5 ‘August tho latier closing “at the ced closed at d5lée, being at 8S pot sales were reported of the premium over No-2. Ss ou high m'xed ut Joie; su.uw bu do und No. 2 at SGD 1,000 bu new bigh mixed ut Hyde; yy bu now mlxed and rejecced at 34 0) bu by sample BL SuSIMo on trucks 4wW bu du at Sieesiive, tree on board cars; und 1,00 bu eure xt Sic. ‘Total, 0,0 bu. OATS—Werw loss ucttve, und about ie lower. ‘The recvipis were larga, consisting cbletly of white oats, been disposed of previously to: or- weekly postings indicated # further re- duouion tn the stuck. ‘The reported shipments also Were bora. ‘he market gave way carly, in synipu thy with other grain, and closed siendien in company with Now York, end the drop culled ‘ont some of the local shorts ‘whu wanted tu cover. vy offerings were inoderate. Muy opened at 260, d cliypd ta 2u}ge, und closed atsge. June onts 1 Selling ut 20(c off to Wife, and clos twee. July outs were dull at Sayers, and regular were nominat at about Dife. Sumpies were in setlve demand for shipment, Cush sales were ree ried of 140 bu fresh wo. 2 white at $3<e: 11,700 ba; y suiuple ut Bh-4353{¢ on track, and 15,4) bu’ mixed | 4 2a) bu white at Stiodoxe, all free , $3,800 bo. E—Was quict,’ and thera was little change to A fow orders for car lots were fled, 60.2 bringing <e frov on board. | May was quoted ut ic. Cus sales were reported of SW bu No, 3 at ie free on board, god 120) bu by sample at 72ig@ise on track. BARLEY—Was firmer, w 7: lots ‘The reevipts were winall> wey (agaLEY fon car prices In sold ae for extra 3.5W0 bu No. : seusire: bu by sany {S@ise on track; and WW bu at ide de- livered. ‘otal, 10,100 bu. BY TELEGRAPH. FOREIGN. - Special Dispatch to The Chicago Tribune, - LIVERPOOL, April-I7~1:3 2, m.—FLOUK—No, 1, As, Wheat—Winter, No. 1, st No. 2 10s 3d: = y 108 Gd: ‘ND. 2 9s 10; white, No. 1, 10s 6d; oa; club, No. 2, Ws Wd: No. % Iie 6d. "Cora 1d, N¥—Pork, O23 64. Lard, 373 od. LIVERPOOL, April 17-CoTroN—Easter but not quo~ tably“lower, ut 767 1-16d;" sales, 7,0 bates; specula- mertcan, #300, 6a, Lonvoy, SPInITS AXTWERY, April 17.—PRTROLEUM—Ig4¢¢, ‘The following werd rocelyed by the Chicago Board “LIVERPOOL, April 17—11:30 —1 Yas a ee die eal Pork, 62s 6d. Siu vd boost corn, 68 1d. LtVeuPuon, Ap: i ‘DP. T-2 7 Bis 6d. exivEnroon, “April wile dui Sha rather a winter, 103 Hd; No. 2° 3s Ne do, 108. Coru dull ats Td: Congons WMfai No. 8 | DBs 0 of Bessy Winder tzpuodia, Answers to the name of moa FLOUB—Dull and heavy, and cided change;. receipts, 7; GiAIS- Wheat none n ie prices without ge. Apa sae ‘ai GoraBasters recotp! mi Ro. $ Woeisbti(e: No. 4 Rot 0, iy Jo Tat: eelptn, 32,0 bu; erm, Ave. Oaca—Stengy eo est. x estern, OSGe: whita' HA ¥—In yood demand at 7 a votee du! Demand futr und tourkee firm: fair te aose rea Tpeid{e. Molasses quiet und unchanged. ba! BOVISIONS—Stondy, with a fair demand, Dull (ind nominal; United, 06; st GebGe. i‘ 3 Western, QII¢e. - In f\ir demund: hetalock sf Ayres, Io Grande Sole, Buenos % an eee fae middie, and heavy weighret wL—Dall and in buyers’ favor: 3 pulled, See; unwashed, eee TS fete, PROVISIONS—Pork quiet, but firm: @WS5. Beef quiet ‘und bnebanued Cht meats ane gusler; long cleur middlus, Wc; shore cree Cees fe, Lard stronver; prime steam, # agree males, . BUTTER—Dull and heavy: Western, ligt CHEESE- t bt A) WHIsx mina! at 3110, clumged; new sheatnines merge, mnged; Ing, Re: Dig-iron’ dull and unsettled; “Sesuae’*eNemK American, $2.03; Russia sheeting’ ge NAILS—Cut, $5.0UG5.70; cilnch, parity quiet ‘and o MILWAUKEE. Spectat Dispatch to ‘The Chicago MILWAUKEE, April 17—The our market bas anh been'badly demorulized for the last two or thames owing to the breat:in wheut. Since the last seis export, Milwuukeo standard extra has been redusot to $4860.70, with no demund even at that gure. Tae . price is per bri in sacks, May wheat closed at noon to-day, with weak feeling, but heavy atthe decline, ‘Th Brioa tor the Muy upton: on tee a ears ine cetng ¢ corresponding, Six preceding years, in this markets Pon e aay for Saturday, April 2, 1874 Saturday. April 21, 1s Susurday, April 28 Iau, Saturday, Apri diez. Setarday, April Vy Isi¥. Suburday, April 19, 1379, Suturday, April 17, 13) <a GRANT. AND HIS FRIENDS, To the Editor of Tue Chécags Tribune, Caicaco, April 17.—Notwithstanding the eloquent speeches of Storrs and Swett, wa are yet at a loss to know why it is that Grant wants the Presidency, and why he is wanted, Conceding all these special pleaders —that he is a great man, an able soldier, and afavored son of Ilinois,—does that entitls him. to all the honors in his day and gener. tion? If the Republican party was beyond question the strongest of the two parties, and victory waz certain, they might bestow further: honors and emoluments on Grant; but it is. not. Itis a time when hazardos experiments must be avojded, and the inter ests of the party, not of Grant and asetot hungry. officeholders. or expectants who, under the guise of the Republican party, ty ‘to foist’ on the country Grant; must be cor sidered... “ If there was a necessity for a Dictator, then there might be an excuse. If we required the army to be mobilized and_ organized ty prevent or put down ti ason, there rights arightcous cause. But there is no edrthly or assigned reason in the present state of tha Nation why: Blaine, Washburne, Edmunds, Logan, or any other good stanch and relix ble Republican should not fill the Exeeutire chair. The country reveres Grant, and hare honored him in the army and since,—butitis selfish and unreasonable that he showld stand in the way and block the progressof others, and perhaps defeat and disitegns e DANY ool Grant ida fae I ight years shown any or the characteristies of statesmanshi ‘athe built up, strengthened, and united all Re publicans, he would be astrong manins political sense. But the record is the other way. He found a strong Republican party, - united and earnest. He left a weak party, the minority, disorganized, torn asander, and infstrusted. On the banner of the from 1870 to 1876 is emblazoned in large letters: Frauds in Washington, frauds in the New York Custom-Hous, frauds in New Orleans, frauds in San Fra cisco, frands in Chicago and St. Louls, ad more undiscovered. Buss Shepardist ism, Murphyism, Harringtonis1 na} ism, Indian. Traderisin, Babcockism, Syi MeDonaldism, Jake Rehmism, whisky: safe-robberies, shoddyism supreme—money, not brains or worth, the sine qua non. A White House filled with contractors and po litical harpies and dead-beats, and a central Government, if not fostering, still enduring,s state of society and morals in every! ruinous to the body politic. If ever int history of our Government there was another Presidential term, point it out! . But jt is said experience has taught and what was a stain on the escutcheon ol this Republic will be removed by another term. Nonsense! Grant shielded, aad caressed the very men who were insuv imental in disgracing the party, the county, and the Executive. “He is their friend to-day, and the same. men are urging.Grant on the people. Take the names of the Grant orga ization here and in other cities, and yon will find the-names of men who have made fant tics disreputable. “Grant and third lu¢ans the same as Grant and second tem ia 1872. ‘There is no political necessity for fore ing Grant on the people. Crvis: ed SHE LOST HIM. It was Monday, And niuch had I to do—to wash , And starch the duds. Ah! if clothes woold Aguin renew themselves ‘Without my aid. He saw me there, And I with suds was sprinkled o’er. My face was red—haif hid in steam. I tried to smile—a faint attempt; Chagrined was L Bs nose opened ¢ FS Such a sight, as if 'twere strange. I waited! Will he (Willie?) speak? Fs ‘The breaking bubbles in the tub Pad Near blind my eyes. - At last he spéaks!— His moving lips pour forth swift orth as As tumbling waters course o'er grav/ly, ‘And shows a glist’ning, bi ring! ‘My heart! ab mel Ris tone’s not clear; - Each word Teutoule accent showed. He pleuded hard; in eurnest strove ‘Yo have me—heart, be quiet nowl— Accept the ring. A Count? “Ah, no! 2 And must T tell the story through ? My gold, and dot my heart, he sought. , - He wasn fraud!. My hopes were Ting (?) was stuif. News. LOST AND FOUND. __- Te eae OG “LOST—35 ‘A MILK: receive reward by retaraing 0 26 South Clark-st, = rf ", BETWEEN HARRY . OST—ON . STATE: und Van Buren, Suturdas afternoon, pucsty ‘Bae jt with asum of money init, Please retura to terticid-so, (new nucabery ‘and receive liberal rewar: IBERAL REWAKD.WILL BY GIVEN FOR. eau Tay coneNdog, Nes CHANIQUE Madivon-at’ sa [Lost PEACELET, REWARD For iTS peroes Kast Ecie-st. ZOOe ST—A RED MORKOCCO POCKET-BOOK iy Loma ee eS ‘$55 and $0, a railruad Uekth Benton Hurbor, and a card with the name Of rity Buss. Leave utuflicé of Briggs House. 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