Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, December 19, 1880, Page 11

[TLESTER & C0, STOCKS. :s and Bonds Bought and a Sm on N. X. Stock Exchange, 95 & 27 CHAMBER OF COMMERCE, J.T. LESTER, CHAS. SCHWARTZ, E. K. WILLARD, Member New York Stock Exchange. SAMUEL W. ALLERTON, Special. en York House--SCRANTON & WILLARD, 5g Broadway, and 13 New-st. RAIN and PROVISIONS bought and - orcarried on margins. mocks also Dourbt and soldin Boston, Philade! pie 006 Baltimore. STOCKS sOteeT AND SOLD OB CARRIED ON MARGIN. DAY & FIELD, BANKERS AND BROKERS, of the New York Stock Exchange, 130 La Salle-st. SLBEBT M.DAY, CYRUS W. FIELD, JE RLM Pat Pie. LD, A. J. MALOY, COMMISSION MERCHANT. Grain and Protisiors Boozht and Sold on Margins, fel attention given to Local Brokerage Orders, {21 La Salle-st., Chicago. Member Chicago Board of Trade. “ Chicago * Call? Board. references given as to responsibility. FRUDGIS trade since isa" CILBERT & BRECA Commission Merchants, 163 Washiagton-st., con ,cpent. = CHICAGO. GRAIN AND PROVISIONS Bought and sold on Chicago market. COTTON futures on the New.York Cotton Exchange, CORTON futures on the New-York Cotton Exchange, FORGERY. &Goddaughter of the Ex-Empress Eogenie Arrested for Fraudulently Signing Letters of Acceptance to a jarge Amount. Pants, Dec. 13.—Baron de Friedland and is wife have been arrested. The latter,who fs a daughter of the Duke de Persigny, gnnddanghter of the Princess de la Moscowe, and goddaughter of the exEmpress Eugénie, is charged with forging her grandmother’s signature to acceptances amounting to the sum of 08000 fraucs, The Figaro says that the Baroness de Friedland had suffered a great deal from the prodigality of her mother and the avarice of her grandmother, the Princess dela Moscowa, and that she committed the erime under the pressure of absolute want. The Princess do la Moscowa has always fees regasded. as eccentric here, to say the During the Second Empire the Duke de Persigny and the Duke de Morny vied in splendor with one another. . Alternately they were called by the name of “Vice Emperor” by the witty Parisians. if the latter was more noted for his taste and ex- travagance, the former certainly carried the dalm as regards solid luxury. Napoleon TIL loved most De Morny, but esteemed most Persigny. Which of the two swal- lowed up a greater amount of the Imperial money is still an open question. The Em- press, however, had a marked preference for the Duke de Persigny. When a daughter ‘was born to him, she stood as her godmother, and the affair was no mere formality. Pres- ents flocked daily to the Duke’s house. And it was Eugénie’s expressed desire that her goddaughter should be brought uw as a member of the Imperial family. There was no child, no young lady more welcome to the Tuileries than Eugenie de Persigny. The girl naturally acquired the most extravagant tastes, par- ticularly because her mother, the Duchess of Persigny, a granddaughter of Marshal Ney, Prince of La Moscowa, afforded her the most striking example of extravagance. But the Empire fell, the Duke died, and mother aod daughter were left in comparative poverty. There was no longer a Panta- Jone (an Emperor) willing to pay for the ‘unqualified extravagance of the two ladies. As for the grandmother of the girl, the Prin- tessde la Moscowa, she was a too well- known miser and too much of a lunatic to be stany material assistance to her needy rela- tives. Meanwhile Eugénie de Persigny had ‘tained her 20th year. ‘fhe Baron de Fried- another scion of the French nobility had been formed by the Bonaparte, asked for her hand. He was not rich, bat he was handsome and clever. He was & distinguished officer in the French ariny; he had behaved like a hero‘in the campai; against the Prussians; he was quite a fa- Yorit with the ladies of the highest aristoc- ‘acy; he had winning manners, and conse- Quently his offer was accepted by the girl, although strenuously opposed by her grand- mother. On the wedding day she swore that would do nothing for her although the latter were com- to the hospital. The old witch more than kept her word. She has pos- firely Tefused to pay some acceptances that bore her signature. though she knew that ber usa would prevorehly bring disgrace granddaughter’s nam¢ or suc! implied that - FE led, as an explanation, that. such forgeries are considered very lightly by the French erae¥. They are not regarded ag times; for the person who generally fur- Wishes ‘the money on those acceptances is fperalis ausurer fully acquainted with the ood of the signatures, and more readily fakes them than if true ones, because they increase their chances of being punctually When they comedue. The Baron of i land and his wife have been arrested mene on the complaint of a usurer, and by Probably not even payment can now ‘save en from the penalty. ————_____ A COSTLY APPEAL. Dispatch to The Chicago Tribune, ,ADntax, Mich., Dec. 18—In 1876 George Bangs, of Tecumseh, came here to attend a Bepeblican torchlight procession. The seclal train which carried his company back lilledto stop at the regular depot and he Haxped losing a leg in consequence. One le received $4,000 damages, but the Easier Company’ appesied. a new trial Be Great Cote i amorning, te urn ®ve verdict for $6,000 Sanieges, ‘i js TIRED LITTLE HEART. Pret nitie heart! how worn and weary art thou! Bow sunt beneath the burden of thy days! That g2Y lips are taken amid shadows hourly fall more darxly o'er thy ways! Teed ttle heart! There is no breast to shelter, Norony ne touch to mise the burden light, But dqeeouking toward a brirhter future, darkness ever deepening into night. "red litle heart! Thereis no lack ot sunshine— Bag ah} aie, Ces tay still discern its rays; ‘Ate cece’ Elden glinting and the glory ~ ever Wound eround some other's days. ‘Tired iulttle heart! Whenever shalt thou rest When sball tb; y Care and sorrow be no more? ‘pea el We lay thee down amid the duisies, eeping, aay, “The encritice is o'er"? peered difference without the final retalia- that organ by its infliction of dys| a, ete, When suflering with tiie wospoe Wi Instant md cure the most desperata casea we fhe can persistently treat his stomach ten ot THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE: SUNDAY DECEMBER 19,,,.188 BUSINESS. Stocks Excited and Higher, with New Favorits in the Lead. Vanderbilt Stocks Not So Active Northwest Declines. Foreign Exchange Weaker—Large Lo- cal Business in Securities. The Prodoee Markets Active and Unsettled—Bread- staffs Tery Weak—Wheat Heavy, An Early Advance in Provisions, but They Fell Back in Sympathy with Grain. _ FINANCIAL. Most of the large rises were mado by other Stocks than those which were most prominent in the preceding days. Rock Island, New York Central, Burlington & Quincy, Michigan Central, Lake Shore, and Erie did little more than hold thefr own, while Northwestern and St. Paul de- clined slightly. New favorits carried off the largest prizes. Canada Southern made the best gain, advancing 4%, to 785. Alton renched the Unexpected figure of 15913, closing at 155}. 4 gain of 234. Illinois Central rose in two transac tions from 12334 to 127, and closed at 126% with & net gain of 34. Cleveland, Columbus, Cin- cinnat! & Indianapolis went up 1%, to 9. St. Joe was conspicuous in the upward movement, and the common rose 1}, to 49%, and the preferred touched par and closed at that figure,a gain of 1%. Kansas & Texas sold as bigh a8 47%, closing at 40%, a net advance of 1};. Jersey Central, in which there is said to be a new pool, made 1%, to 81%. Louls- ville & Nashville wert up easily 5%, to 88, Other notable gains were C.,C. & I. C. 144, to 21%; Iron Mountain 1%, to 55%. The other advances were fractional. Wabash added %, to 85X, to-its rise of the day before. The Vanderbilt stocks as a rule, classing Northwestern as one of them, shared but little in the excitement of the day. Northwestern common lost 54, to 120%; Union Pacific declined 4, to 107%, after selling at 108%. Other losses were St. Paul 3, to 11435; Ontario & Western X, to8l4; Lake Erie & Western 4, to 38%; North- erp Pacific preferred %, to 643; San Francisco %, to 454; the preferred %, to 63; Chattanooga 1, to 7. Free selling of stocks was reported, particu- arly toward the close. A comparison of the highest prices with those at the close will show that there must have been considerable realiz- ing. Advices were received from more than one source in New York counseling against the purchase of stocks. “lt was uot,” the general purport of these dispatches ran,“a good day for buying stocks." Realizations are alwaysa feature of arising market, Taking into con- sideration the large rise the market has had, and the indiposition of many operators to carry stocks over Sunday, the reaction at Saturday's close does not seem excessive. Such straws as the rapidly rising prices of rail- road bonds, and the almost instantaneous ab- sorption of the 4per cent bonds offered by the City of Chicago, point unmistakably to an un- precedented demand after Jan.1 tor good in- vestments. ‘Western Union was not 80 active asthe day before, the shorts having most of them covered. ‘The opening price, £2};, was tho highest of the day; the lowest was 79%. and the close, 803 showed a net loss of 13%. Buyers appear in large numbers at every drop below 80. Ameri- can Union made 2%, to 73. Everybody bas been taken by surprise by the movement in Alton, nono more so than the in- siders. A possible cause suggested for the rise is that the purchases are being made by Gould, who wishes it on account of its terminal facill- ties at St. Loufs. He has repeatedly attempted to buy the control from the large stockhoidera, but they have refused to sell. ‘The advance in Illinois Centralis nothing more than has been expected. There is but little speculative interest in this stock, whichis re- garded as slow but sure, but itis one of the fa- voritsamong the non-watered sure dividend- paying stocks. Points were given away that a movement in Erie was to be looked for this week. Delaware & Hudson, which advanced !+, to 9, shows for the first time in ten years a surplus instead of a deficioncy in the operation of its Jeased roads. The following shows the fluctuations of the active stocks; Clos~ ing. 1553 eS = 15, w 43! BA Bt Ik 12 881 # i Pia ES = ER an I i | I a Ea 1007; ie ‘56h ES an American Union Tel. C a ord Chicago. 4uPaul &Omahsj| 50 wD 2 4) SE Sn 38h 3) KGS KP x4 ae Ps] ES cig so |b ie] og} ay Do prevered 6a! a Gkeeapenie Sous enta| 23 Bs E Denver & Rio Grunde.... Ee A] Government bonds were moderately active. In Chicago, District of Columbia 3.653 were 103 Did and 10£ asked; the 4s were 112% bid and 113% asked; the 4%s were 111% bid and 111% asked; the 5s, 101 and 101%; and the 68, 104 and 1H. Chicago bankers reported New York exchange at par, with country orders for currency light. One instance, exceptional, was reported of a re- turn shipment of gold from the country. Dis- counts were moderately active at 6 per cent on call and 6@7 per cent on time. The clearings of the Chicago banka for the week are reported as follows by Manager D. RB. Hale: cellaneous securities on the Chicago Stock Board for the week ending Saturday amounted to $453,898, BY TELEGRAPH. WEW YORK. New York, Dec. 18.—Governments quist and firm. Railroad bonds strong and active. State securities generally inactive. The stock market opencd strong and buoyant, ‘and under heavy purchases the general list ad- vanced sharply, Chicago & Aiton leading the upr ward movement with an advance of 6% per cent. Tiltnois Central rose 3% per cent, but sub- sequently reacted 2 per cent, Chicago & Alton reacting 1% per cent, and the general market tolpercent. During the afternogn the market was characterized by a decided{$ strong tone, and the upward movement ia prices was re- sumed. Speculation continued strong to the close of business, the final sales being generally at the best Higures of the oy one gavence ou ‘day’s transactions rauged from + to 4% pe: cat 1 aatae, 9 *E Alton, Tfnols Central, Hun. cl & Alton, Ilinois Central, Hun- Biba & se Joseph, and St. Paul & Omaha lead- the improvement. Transactions, 498,000 Bk ada Southern... 14.000|New Jersey Central. 1.000 Gene pptoe. SOR dere Cent. ; dbl Ooloe Miseisuippic.. 160 Central Arizoi 0 issip Chicago falton..... L000) Pacitic Mail. Lackawanna . Sau] Reaaine... Delaware a Hadagn Supls Poul Reproratie Grande ri |st. Ll. & San Fran ‘'exas Pacitic. TWENTY PAGES i Lake Bhore 000; Tinos Central Rorthwestora oaioyite & Rashville & Chat, oe Monoy market easy at 6@3. closingat 8 per cent. Prime mercantile paper, bu@r metering exchange, 60 days weuk at 478; de- nd, isl. , The Evening Post, in its tinancial article. says: “The specie imports during the week ending last evening nre reported at $6,151,400, exclusive of $970,000 brought on the Celtic. Taking $6- 151.400 us the figures, the total receipts of for- eign specie since the beginning of August foot ‘Up $68,534.900, against $72,743,650 ‘during the corresponding time last year. Tho United States Assay Office paid out during the week 5,097,900, making the. total payments since the beginning of August $52,000,000. ‘The Treasury to-day got no Os of 188) af 102%, but gives notice that the original limit of $3,000,- 000 which would be bought at this price has been romoved, and that 102% will, until further notice, be paid for the entire outstanding re- woninder. - ‘The following is the weekly bank statement: Loans, decrease, $554,600; specie, increase, $1,744,600; Jegal-tenders, increase, $738,500; de> posite, Increase, £1224.700; circulation, decrense, 10,800; reserve, increase, $2,171,025. ‘The banks now hold $2,088,725 in excess of their legal re- quirements. ‘The steaniship Celtic, trom Liverpool, brought $970,000 {a British gold coin and bars. GOVERNMENTS. 0 ‘Tennessee, of 434|U- P. Sinking sund,. “21 Mennessee, new.. Lehigh &Wilkexbarre.133 Vircinia, old. St. P&S. ©, tirsts.....100 Vinuinis, new.. CC. 3. firats: Virginia, cons 6 ‘Virginia, deferred..-2116 Do preferred. Wab., StL. & Pact Do preferred, Hannibal & St, Jor Do preferred. ron Mountaii s[St. L. & San Fh Bo preferred. Central Paoltic Northern Paciti BOSTON. Dispatch to The Chicago Bpectal Tribune Boston, Dec. 18.—The present week bus been one of unusual quietness, so for at least as features are concerued. Rumors have been re- markably few, and. outside of a tight money market, the revival of one or two long talked of shares, and an occasional brecze of a few pojats, the list has been almost entirely devoid of in- terest. To-day’s dealings have not in the least cbanged this state of atfairs, and the market as a whole leaves off at or near where {it com- menced, with a good tone cburacterizing it, and romising well fur next week. Hartford & trie bonds sold strong at 464%, and 4614 on the second call. Eastern 4%s wero steady at 99 bid. Little Rock 73 were firm at 1094, sales'and bid. Atchison, after its reaction yesterday afternoon, turned again, and sold upto 1445), with Hi bid. Chicaro. Bur- lington & Quincy was steady and firm at 17345@ 1783, with 173X bid. Cnicago & West Michigan worked up another %, to “4, whilo Sandusky, which fell off in the late dealings yesterday, re- covered a smal! fraction.. Eastern was strong at S34@335. Flint well maintained itself at 25% for common and 14; for the preferred, sales and bid. New York and New England, in sympathy. touched 813, and Rutland again reached 30. The other changes were small and unimportant. ‘To the Western Associated Prem, Boston, Dec. 18.—Stocks closed: Atchison & 7. Cht., Burl, & Quincy... Do tana Cin” Sand. & Ulevo,... Do second 7 Eastern. Do lund 1 Flint & Bi rquet. 35 Boston, 35},| Little Rock & Ft. Scott @ Eastern ¢ N.Y. & New Eeglund, 44 Kansas Cit Ogdensburg & LC. ptd 8 Ec. 1154 /Do cammot 25 NU" |Old Colony... : .¥. & N. England 78.1133} Ratiand pro: Aichison & Topeks. Do common. FOREIGN. popes Dec. 18.—Consols, 98 11-16; account, act fngrican securities—New 5s, 10434; 4558, 11543 Ratlway shares—Llinois Central, 127%: Penn- sylvania Central, 65; New York Central, 151; Erle, 4934: seconds, 102%: Reading, 273. Panis, Dec. 18.—Rentes 85f. 2c. Havre, Dec. 18.—The steamship Westphaiia, for New Yerk, takes out 1,100,000 francs. Brruix, Dec. 18.—The statement of the Im- perial Bank of Germany shows an increase in specie of 2,440,000 marks. MINING STOCKS. SAN FRANCISCO. 8an Franoisco, Dec. 18.—Stocks closed: 34:Mammot! 3, |Mextcan. Con. Viniinis. 3 fa A Goton Consol rown Point. Tu ¥xchequer.. Gi Yellow Ja Gould & Cat Si Tatler... Grand Prize. 34 [eooushisi. 5 Hale & Norcross...3. BOSTON. Spectat Dispatch to The Chicago Tribune, Boston, Dec. 18.—The mining stocks were dull, showing only a few fraction! advances. Silver Islet was the’single exception, dropping off %. Boston Land gained an eighth, and Water-powar did the same. The business at the Mining Ex- change forthe week aggregated 48,850 shares. San Pedro was quuted this morning at 4, and Cus! at 3% did. The stock of a new Mexican mine—the Eulalia—is to be listed noxt week. ‘Time money is easier, not, however, from local causes, but because the country banks have been founa with more funds than expected, Discount on thrce months’ paper rules at 544 and 6percent. Cullivans creas firm as ever. At the Clearing-House this morning the rate was tirmer, at 7 per cent, than yesterday, and there Was not money enough to go round. New York funds were therefore sold down from par to {5 cent per $1,000 discount. ‘The gross exchanges Were $15,945,051, and the balunces $1,859,739. To 'the Western Associated Press. Boston, Dec. 18.—Mining stocks closed: COMMERCIAL, ‘The following were the receipts and shipments of tho leading articles of produce in this city during the twenty-four hours ending at 7 o'clock Saturday morning and for the corresponding time last year: : Shingles, £0) Salt. bria. 1,450 * The following grain was inspected into store in this city Saturday morning: 12 cars red wheat, U cars No. 3 winter, 2 cars rejected, 165cars No. 2 spring, 45 cars No. 3 do, 12cars rejected, 3 cars no grade (250 wheat, of which 26 are win- ter); 85 cars No. 2 corn, 51 cars high mixed, 138 gars rejected (272 corn); 1 car No. 1 oats, 29 cars No, 2 white. % cars No. 2 mixed, 20 cars re- jected (70 oats); 5 cars No.2 rye, 2cars rejected: 2 cars No. 3 barley, 3 cars No. 4 do, 4 cars No. Sdo (60 barley). Total, 659 cara, or 315,000 bu. Inspected out: 13,257 bu wheat, 31,989 bu corn, 1,721 bu oats, 1,102 bu barley. ‘The following were the receipts of breadstuffs in this city during the past week: Dg 180. 159. Flour, brit 305,007 Wheat, bu. 5306 Corn, bu. BLU Sais, bu. 167,59 Bye. bu. 1135 Be Barley, bu. 20639 si Dressed hogs. a8 TSH ‘The corresponding ehtpments were: De, 1, Dec.1l, Dee, 2. Bev. ISO, #3. Flour, bris. muse Fak “x Bes = US Poe EATEN BL es ular Saturday. Wheat was weak, being u1 tled by European advices of a downward tend- . ency on the other side of the Atlantic, owing: to prospects of a bigger supply than had hither- to been counted on. Russia ts looming up wit considerable quantities of wheat for export, axid"j! we have not to date shipped 60 much as a sedr, ago, while thore Is apparently more of a surplus’ now than then. This was depressing to local holders, and corn and oats declined in sympathy. Provisions were stronger early in sympathy wits hogs, but they fell back when it was found tht’ wheat was heavy, and pork became rawer weak, while lord was. relatively steady. Mesg pork closed 5c lower, at $13.12 seller Jan- uary and $1327%@13.30 for February. Lard closed 5c higher, at $3.574@8.00 seller January and $8.7028.72% for February. Short ribs closed at $0.75@8.77%§ seller February. Spring wheat closed 1:c lower, at $1.00} seller January and $1.01% for February. Hed winter wheat closed at 98%c. Corn closed sic lower, at 384@38%c for January and 434@438e for May. Onts clused gc lower, at 30%e for December and 35¢ for May. Rye closed at 8ic crsh and 8c for Febru- ary. Barley was dulland nominal, at $1.12 cash and $1.12@1.1 for January. Hogs were active and stronger, at $4.45@4.70 for light and at $4.45 @3.10 for poor to extra heavy. Nothing new was developed in dry-goods cir- |, ®s- cles, Business is quict, 28 is to be expected at this stago of the season, and prices display more steadiness than heretofore. There ig some ap- pearance of activity in the department of fancy goods suitable for the holiday trade, but the general market wears a look of extreme qui- etude. In staple and fancy groceries there was a good degree of activity, and prices were firm almost without exception. ‘There was a largo movement in coffees, and the lute advance was sustained. Tens and sugars ulso were selling freely at full figures. No changes were noted in the dried-fruit and fish market. Butter and ubeeso were unchanged. There was a good de- mand for coal and pig-iron at sustained prices. ‘The lumber market was fairly active at former prices, The receipts were light, and the ship- ments have fallen off during the week. The stock of dry stuff is suid to be badly broken. Wool was in request in n email wey, and steady. Hides, broom-corn, and hay were not changed materially. Seeds were quiet and steady. Tho receipts of potatoes were larger, and prices were steady under a fair local demand. Green fruits were in local request and steady. Apples were selling freely in a retail way. ‘a London correspondent of Field, Lindley & Co., of this city, writes as follows under date of Nov. 30: If American holders keep thelr wheat back until several other countries will bave had time to brings large fleet in sicht, speculation here will be ut un end, and when there is no buying. except for haud-to- mouth consumption, we know wi the trade, Ituxsta ‘Is chnrtering steamers to load forapring shipment: and ft 1s asserted, on the best authority, thut there is wheat in this country which be ready for export after the winter, 23 soon as the ronds Become passable. It bas simply been ro- tained In consequence of the lato harvest, and the roads being ut tho time already #0 bad that transpor- tation to the seaboard was impossibie, ‘The above necords with the information given two or three days ago, that there were 145 cur- goes of wheat afloat from Black Sea ports to ‘Western Europe, against 163 at the same date last year. Evidently, Russian crops wero not 60 short as has been claimed, or there were big re- serves on hand from the crop of 1879. Tho knowledge of this increase in the available sup- ply isapparently making British buyers Indé- pendent; and they are less powerfully affected by markot strength here than they were a year ago. PROVISIONS. HOG PRODUCTS—Were moderately active and ranged higher. Live hugs wore quoted stronger, and Liverpool reported an advance of 6d in lard and 3d on some outs of meats. Under this the early market was strong, with a good demand. Lator pork wus woak, in sympathy with wheat. “ThoJard market also eased off, but waa relatively firm,os our stocks aro not large, though they had grown rapidly since the milddje of November. There wasa fair shipping dv- mand for ments, und green hams wore tim. The packing since the close of October 1s reported at 1,557,000 hogs, against 1,300,000 for same time tn 1609, ‘and 1,405,200 to do {n 1378. Megs Pouk—Advanced 10Giee per bri, but fell back 2c, und closed zviese below the Intest prices of Friday atabout # #11124 for (new) xeller January; and €3: ‘seller February. Sales were reported of Iia) bris seller Junuary at $102 Bf <3) bris seller Februaryat $2613.45; and 11,00 bris seller March at §13.20¢{2.6), Total, £5,500 Dela, Larp—Advanced i5e per 100 Ibs, but fell back, und closed only Se above tho latest prices of Friday, at #5 spot or sclicr the month, Soi¥G3.0) seller Jan- uury, and STs. 734 selier February. —Sules were ported Of 79 tes spot ALSSoGIA; Jtes seller Jan~ ary at SSSigesh ites SHU tes sollér February avgeid G@asig: and 9200 tes seller Murch at $1W2s@35 'To- tal, 2450 tes, A MEATA—Advanced about Sc per 100 bs, but closed easier in sympathy with pork. Soles wore reported Of 40 buxes shoulders at bacsi¢e: Bs green at 125; 1 boxes fung and short cleats at ixG6S5 spot. and .57%¢ seller January; 10 boxes short clears £20; MALINY [bs short ribs wt S669 seller Juno $0 seller February, an ibs green hants (1G 1bs)" at U¢c; 2 Tbs) at Gre: 50 Ibs do (0 ths) attige. Price jending cuts of ment were us follows at 2 o'clock for full-cared, unless utherwlse specitied: ‘Short | Shut ribs, | der iL. & S.| Short ‘cleara.| clears. Loose, part salted. Do. boxed. December Jaauary, loose.. Februury, Joose Short ribs, seller February. closed at q Long clears quoted at Si.f)loose and $00 boxed; Cumberlznds, G4Gie boxed; long cut Name, Tywiucs mveet-pickled hams quoted at é28c for 1Se16 avor~ BEC; green hams, same averse, D4atrec. acon quoted at suwoice for shouldenc TY@Ti¥¢e for short ribs, 7426 aie for sbort clears, ¥}4G10c for hams, Sil caneted and packed. BREE—Was quietat £7.505.00 for mess, $8.50 22.00 for extra mess. und $15.50@18.0 for hams, with sole of 90 bris hams at $15.00. TALLOW—Qulet and steady at 6@6{o for city and 534@he for country. ‘GREASE~Bulo Was made of 50 pkgs packers’ at $491. BREADSTUFFs. FLOUR—Was very doll, in sympathy with wheat, buyers holding off for adecline in prices. Sales.were Mmited to 25 bris winters ut 8.00G5.125; 75 bris double spring extras, partly at $5.25; 35 bris no grado at $3.40; and 20 bris ryotlour on private terms. ‘Total, 575 bris. Export flours were quoted at $1.0G5.U for good to choice, and rye tour at $4.10G5.00. OTHER MILLSTUFYS—Were In moderate supply. witin fair demand for lols on through cars, while track stuff wns dull. Ssles were reported of 9 cars bran at £100G1LW; 3 cars middiings at $11.00; lear shorts at $11.00; nnd 1 car feed at $14.0. Coarse corn- meul wus nominal ot $1440 por ton on track. SPRING WHEAT—Was moderately active and quite weak, declining 13, and closing Ilse below the Iatest prices of Friday. Heerbolm quoted the British marketsas tirm and some of them a shade deurer, put private advices were of a contrary tenor, some noting aheavy fecling, with large offeriuzs, while our own Teceipis were larger, with very litte going ont. It yrus thought that British weaknéss wus lanzely duo to the prospect of recelving a great deal more wheat » Russia than had been counted on, thus giving a smaller demand for our increased surpius. With the ruspect of a further Enxilsh decline it was remom- Bered that prices here were already: muen above & shipping basis, and our bis stocks were pointed to as proof that Enrope would not take hold freely atrocont prices. ‘The result was that a great quantit; Of long wbent wax placed on the murket here, an the short sollers were encouraged to operate more freely than for a long thne pust. ‘Thero. was only a HMeht demand for cash lots. No.2 closing at #10 Seller February opened at $1.ttig@l.0si4. declined ‘to $1.0154, reacted to $1,019, and closed at $i.0I\g. Seller January sold at $1.02401.0214, closinsc at $1,009, March Waa quiet at 134620 above itd May at Getige above January. | December wns nearly nominal at £1.00 itis, closing atthe inside. Spot snles wera reported of 340) bu No. 2 atdi. ora 15,200 bu No. 3 at 81 Siée.'all cutside Central; 2.40) bu rejected at ese7c, Bil outside the Central and 1g0H bn by samaple at Buatbe. ‘Total, 6,00 bu. Also, 200 bu No.2 Minno- gota at $1001.00. ‘The latter was salable ats premium of about ke over ordinary No. 2 spring. WINTER WHEAT—Was dull and lower. No.2 red fc asked, thouch Wie was bid 18 Feported xales were 100 1%; 000 bu No. 3 winter at UI 89¢; 4) bu rejected at Sige; und 2000 bu by sample ut Sickie, Vota G00 bu. “Aiso M0 ba Nov? ised acwe on track. ‘CORN—Was loss active, and tame at a lower range. ‘The market declined 3¢c, and closed S¢c below the Int est prices of Friday. ‘Tho foreisn markats were quotod 3d per quarter higher: but New York was dull, and our receipts exceeded the shipments by some 8,- OW bu for the week, while the wenkness in whont was an udditional reason for adeciine in corn, ‘The trading yas mostly in the summer futures: und ‘the ofterings exceded the demand. ‘The buying seemed tw be mostly done by shorts. (hero wns only n moderate demand for shipment: cash {ots of No.3 closed at asic, Seller May opened at 4i4css34e, sald at H¥%e,und declined to a54¢ bld at the close. Seiler June runzed ALGYeti4e, February nS KeA ic, July at estgtssac, Sunuary ats1Go%e, and December at waeethge. all closing with the inside bid. Spot sales were reported of 38,0 bu No.2 and bigh-mixed at Ssqeise: GON) bU new hich-mixed ut séc: 17.0 bu new mized and re- te 20400 bu by samplont t6:6i¢e on track: ree on cara; and 2,00) bu 1, 122,00 ba. edie. ‘Tot ‘S—Were dull and weak. closing Me lower. The receipts were azuin liberalSand the stock in sture in- greased apparently during the week. ‘The market fol- Towed other grain down, and sellers were numerous, with a moderate demand from those who wanted to ako in their profits. Seller January: opened. at sisgc, and closed slow at Die. duy opened at se and ited eae etal te at acl closed at ic. Were Sic atthe start, and cloved at. ba ec jc, Cush closed Prey Samples YT lor ic early, and id Cash saley were reported of je: 12.800 bu by entuplo at sve nd 3120 by at MeIfe for mixed, and @ on bourd. ‘Total, 6.40 bu. Futures were quict st —Was dull und easy. 8c for February, and January sold at fo in settle Rent. Cush sold utuid, Cush saice were reported of Hed bu No.2at ses 100 bu by sample, at drake on 2 Put LL) bu. ‘The 'recelpts BY—Was very dull, and lows and the stock is Increasing. No. 3 declined Were 10 Gite. and a few cars of No.4 were taken at ox Sc, No. 2and futures were nominal. Jnnuary and February were quoted at éL14 sellurs, with no one appearing to want them at aly price, (Hough #119 was quoted s bid atone time. Cash No. 2 was uted at $L12 Samples were slow und oa ash aales wero feported of 2/40 bu No. 3 at yore et “ L&0 bu Ni ‘SoieStie: 2,20 bu by sample at Syeuie for No. 3, 3i@ise for No. 4 and TSeaSLis for Roe all 4 1,000 ba at WeGsLUl delivercd. ‘Total, LATER. Saturday afternoon there was considerable trading s oy that Wan” core for 7, With ‘the former sold at ‘was saslor ec Giga for May. Mass pork sold st $300 Por Feb for Fepraary and lard boa Lica for February and eS edie BY TELEGRAPH. FOREIGN. Special Dispatch to The Chicago Tribune. JAVENPOOL, Dec. 18—i1:0 a m.—Flour—No. 1, 2s; No. 2,98 6d. Grain—Wheat—Winter, No. 1, 10s; No.2 Ys $d; spring, No.1, % 104; No.2 8 8d; white, No, 95 Utd: No. 292d; ein, No. 1. 10s Gd; Corn—New, No. 1, 5a 734d; No. 2, Ss 7d. Pork, ta. Lard, 4 62. IVERPOOL, Dec. 18.—CoTToN—Moderate demand at GHG}; sales, 8000 balen; LOD; American, Som. sn Sopenlation and export, PROVI8IONS—American lard, ‘Baoo: “Long clear, 388 id. : Oe. Shoo) LONDON, Dec, 18—PrTRoLeuM—Refint SPIRITS TURPENTINE—33s 9d agli ASTWenr, Dec. 18—PETROLEDM—2f,, ‘The following were received by the Chicago of Trade: ij ay LIVERPOOL, Dec. 18—Wheat 1 ‘ fim; rod winter. 96 1d; Nov? spring ts se Ne a Se2d. Corn steady ats id@bat Ss t GAN hoat in fair demand; red winter advanved 3d ‘and Caltfornis 8d. Corn in moderate demand at tq ade Yance. Arrived—Wheat and corn ‘trm and a shade higher. “To arrive—Wheat—No. 4 spring advanced, Sod, and red winter (at London) 3d. Corn advanced . digeeivts of wheat at Livernooi during the past Weck 24.5 centals, of which “Suv were American, Pork dull at 65s. “Lurd, 460 6d. Bacon—.one-cle ig, Tallow duit at ae. “Chee .—LivERroot—Wheat frm. Corn 2es off const—Whent a shade dearer: fulr .¥oraye rod winter, ie; fair averago California, Gorn iirmer; talr average Awuerican mized, Zs. oes on passaze—Whent steaty. Corn send, shipping California wheat Just shipped, 48 Gd; duo, tie, Hair average quality of r shipment during the present and fo oTine month, 445. a0 for prompt Shipment, 468 6d, cailty of Ameridan imix prompt shipment by sail, Sia Ua eerie 2 No. 2 98 9a. Provisions— Cu Good neurly merican red wit NEW YORK. New Yorg, Dec. 18—Corron—Qolet at 1115-160 ari futures steady; Deoomber 1L82c; January, 12 larch, 1221¢; April, 12.40c; Muy, 12.Ate; June, 12.63e; July, 12.71¢, aise FLoun—Heavy; receipts, 19,0W bris; exports, 7,000 bris; super State and Western, §L40G3.N; common to good extra, 4.3025. good to choice, #5.05G walto wheat extra, &.1UG.0); extra Ohio, $1.0@6: Bb, Loula, $.00¢675; Minnesota patent process, 6.06 GRAIN—Whent benvy; 1% lower; receipts, 19,000 bu: exports, 114000 bu: No. 3 spring, $1 Ligue No. 10, 2 1854; No. 1 do, $1.2: walte, $1i%5 Corn ai ; . yagraded, Soreib}4e: No. 2 Sige; No. % December, der January, issicr Febrnaty, Shee recelpis, <0) "bu; Westorn mi Weatern, $laive. HAaY—Quiet und unsettled; $1.10. Hors—Dull; yoarltuga, choice, 4@20e: Eastern and ‘Wigutern, isceze; New York Stale, 1c. FRUCE! “oflee steady: No cargoes, 1U4@13He; job lows, WGliue Sugar steady, witha fair et Molusses quiet niet but steady. mund; falr to xood retinin, inited, Bide; crude, 64Gik{c; ia Sues May, Sige Oats heats fixed, etic: Ww hive dd. Kice M—Dali; TALLOW= Stands at C@5}6e. LA tad Stendy at. JtESIN—Quiet and unchanged. Tou E—Quiet: Oe asked. udy at 26Gc. Steady, with a fulr demand. ‘Liejolock sule, Buenos Ayres and Rio and unchan PETNOLEC: SKY LEATHER] Gyande light, middle, and heavy weight. 2ia25c. ‘ool—Demund fair and rusrket firm; domestic ee. ase; pulled, 2ketée; unwashed, assoc flee Wexus, 14 '8—Pork firm ana moderately active; old PROVINION! mess pork, Fs i2sGlig Meet quiet but stendy. | Cut meats quiet but Hrin; $7.25; short clear, $7.2 irni; prime stenm, &.%. BUTTEN~Dull und unchanged. CUEESK—Quiet but tirm: lu@I2c. METALS—Manufactured copper nominally un- ghanzeds. ingot Bis. Bote _digiron dull ant OB) otch, NLS 50; erican, SIS WER Keussia sheeting, 1uaise. # ALLS—Cut, £4. 75E1W; clinch, $4.4025.65. RotleemaedtenL beams LAND QUESTION IN ITALY. Wretched Condition of the Farmers— Thoy Are Devoured by Rents and Taxes—Beautiful, Sunny Italy An- other Ireland—The Farmers Must Own the Land. Loniton Spectator on “ Actual Italy.” by E. de Laveleye. ‘The volume on contemporary Italy which MM. de Laveleye, the eminent economist, has published as the result of a personal tour through the most part of the Peninsula, is full of painful but instructive information upon that great question of the Land and the People which seems to be perpetually des- tined to be at the root of all difficulties and discussions arising out of the social order. It is the picture of Ireland on a vast scale which is presented to our eyes by the ac- countof the social condition of many parts of Italy. The cares which hang heavily round the necks of the Liberal administra- tors of Irish affairs are not unknown _to the advisers of King Humbert. Even the Davitts and the Egans have parallels and congeners far surpassing them in crudeness of sugges- tion and violence of denunciation among the Socialist leaders, who from time to time seek to take advantage of the popular discontent in Central Italy and Sicily. Itis a hard task to govern men, and, if it were not, it would be an infinitly Jess noble undertaking, M. de Laveleye him- self does not hesitate to draw a comparison between Italy and Lreland, and there are few portions of his narrative of the scenes which met his eye, and which the leading statesmen of Italy deplored in common with him, that will not strike upon an English ear like so many chapters out of our own Irish experi- ences. “Every year,” he writes, ‘the num- ber of emigrants from ltaly the Beautiful es on increasing. Signors Minghetti and uzzatti even introduced a bill last year to protect them from the frauds of every kind of which they are the victims. And yet what fertile lands are lying unoccupied, on which millions of families could live! The Italian who emigrates inust be miserable, in- deed. And so he is, and the cause of itis the vicious distribution of landed property. Latifundia perdidere Italiam! The large farms were the ruin of Italy.. ‘The maxim is as true to-day as in the days of Pliny.” The petition of the peasants of Lombardy, in re- ply to a Ministerial circular which warned them against the aangers of emigration, is a terrible exposition of rural misery: What do you mean by the nation, Signor Min- ister? Is it the multitude of the miserable? ‘Then we, indeed, are the nation. Look ut our ale and’ emaciated faces, at our bodies ex- austed by excessive labur and insuificient food. ‘We sow and reap the wheat, but never eat white bread. We cultivate the grape, but never drink its wine. We raise the cattle. but never taste meat. Weare cludin rags. We dwell in dens of infection. We freeze in winter, aud in the summer we étarve. Our only nourishment on Italian soll isa handful of maize, made costly by the tax. The buroing fever devours us in the dry regions, and in the wet ones we are the prey of the fever or the mursb. Our end is a premature death in the hospital, or in our mis- erable cabins. And. in gpite of all this, Signor Minister, you recommend us not to expatriate ourselves! But can the land where even tho hardest inbor cannot earn food be called a na- tive country? The horrible pellagra, the leprosy of ill- feeding, extends its ravages among the rural population. In 1830, says de Laveleye, there were 20,000 victims of the disease in Lom- bardy; to-day there are 97.000- ‘Twelve and eleven per cent of the Lombard and Venctian population are smitten, and those who are not actually struck by the plague are debilitated by the bad uourishment. The sta- tistics of the conscription for the army give hor- rifying results. In 1878 the report of Gen. Torre ghows that the number of conscripts excused for constitutional infirmity was 20 per cent in Lombardy and 18 per cent in Venetia... . ‘Thus in the fairest country in the world a fifth of the population, in the tlower of their life, are incapable of misitary service, in consequence of, extreme poverty. | . . The Commission of Inquiry on the subject of the pellagra truly says, “The cause of this malady is extreme mis- ery, 80 that under the medical question we find the’social question.” In every centre of culture and thought, from Padua to Naples, M. de Laveleye found the thinkers and statesmen of Italy preoc- eupied by the social question. Ae es Something of the poverty of the people is due to the heavy taxation, but, as Prof. Luzzatti, co-editor of the Giornale degli Economisti, tod .M. de Laveleye, “ itis too late to talk of Virgiian eclogues. Wetare a modern people. We have a great debt, a strong army, and our salty to consolidate by great public works. We have accordingly a necessity for money and crushing taxes. The statistics of the Seizures of landed estates by the State in consequence of non-payment of land-tax are the most convincing proofs of the burthen which is laid upon the country. “The Treasury devours the snail properties that are too ‘deeply involved, From 1873 to 1878 35,000 small proprietors have lost their ‘estates by compulsory — ex- propriation.” 3. de Laveleye, whose Jove of Italian liberty allows him to speak with candor, does not conceal the evils which have crept into the public ad- ministration; but he rightly attributes the crushing character of the heavy taxes and the general inability of the contributors to meet the requirements of the State in so imany instances, to the fundamental evil of the existing lund system, and both by ex- amples of the results of the system of Lati- fundia, or huge estates farmed by imiddie- men and cultivated by laborers and tenants- at-will, and by examples of the contrary system of ownership or part ownership by the actual cultivators, he shows that the prosperity of Italy is merely a question of the establishment of a population of independent and provident cultivators, instead of a popu- -quered with a strong arm, and lation of dependent, and, therefore, improvi- dent, dlspinte 5 and miserable peasants who neither will nor can work, because they have no security or guarantee for the enjoyment of the fruits of thelr work. It is the Irish question which reveals itself under the blue skies of {talia fa Bella. the very neizhborhood of those regions, cursed by the evil genius of excessive land- holding, M. de Laveleye could discover specimens of what the contrary system can do for soil, and owner, and cuitivator alike. On the domain of Camporeale, in the centre ot Sicily, the property of Prince Camporeale, whose mother married Signor Minghetti, there exists fixity of rent, as well os fixity of tenure. More than 4,000 tenants are estab- lished on a system of livello, or hereditary lease. “The cultivator is thus a quasi-pro- prietor, and the comfort of the Camporeale tenantry form astriking contrast with the misery of the cultivators who are subject to the rack-renters.” The picture which M. de Laveleye gives of the Island of Capri is still more eloquent, Here the cultivator becomes actual proprietor of the soil he tills or re- claims, Aud what a happy result! Not an inch of ground islost. . . . The houses are well kept and scrupulousiy white- washed. . . . The people have tho look of comfort. . . . ‘Though the very girls work bard, labor seems a pleasure, and the race is beautiful, because tho native grace of the Italian blood 13 not spoiled by misery, . . 1 know no more striking leason of political econ- omy than is taught at Cupri. Whence come the perfection of cuitivation and the comfort of the Population? Certainly not from the fertility of the soil, which isanaridrock. . . . Before obtaining the crops, it was hirst necessary, 80 to speak, to create the soil. It is the magic of owa- ership which has produced this prodigy. M. de Laveleye’s volume treats of many subjects, according as they occurred in con- yersation with the noblest and wi the Italian Kingdom: but the most Pp part of his experiences is assuredly his in- valuable contribution to the Wiscussion of the agrarian difficulty, It is the Italian ques- tion in Ireland, or the Irish question in It: and it is the lesson of Camporeale and Capri which has to teach the common remedy. a _§ IRELAND AND ROME. Deep Feeling Among Irish Refugees in Pennsylvania Over the Reported Dis- approval by the Pope of the Measures: of the Irish League—Denial by the Archbishop of Cashel. Pittston, Pa., Dec. 16.—In this great coal country, sometimes alluded to as an Irish possession in America because of the creat numbers of the countrymen of Emmet, and O'Connell, and Meagher, and Parnell who have found refuge in its borders, the present state ‘of Ircland is Jooked upon with eaxer and intense interest. The Land League branches which were formed Jast summer in every centre of population have added steadi- ly to their numbers, and have reinitted to Ire- land large sums to be used in defending evicted tenants before the courts and in aid- ing such families as have been deprived of thelr homes, At the present time they are pouring in their contributions to the ‘ Par- nell Defense Fund,” “It would be difticult to convey an idea of the profound feeling excited among multi- tudes of these people by the recent cable- gram which declared that the Pope “openly disapproves of the agrarian movement, and. entertains a sincere desire to the En- glish_ Government were it possible,” with several other sentences amplifying and em- phasizing this statement, but closing with the word: “The Irish Bishops have in social conversation in Rome not been reticent in describing Mr. Parnell as a great benefactor to Ireland.” The major part of the Catholic Irish here declined to give any credence whatever to the positive statement of the «is- patch as to thevattitude of the head of their Church. To say that they were indignant at such a statement being sent forth tothe world is putting the matter in the mildest form pos- sible. The letter of the Archbishop of Cashel therefore to the Dublin Freeman’s Journal, to which the telegram from Rome was orig- inally sent, with the purpose of influencing Ireland, has been greeted with profound sat- isfaction. z As this letter—although the Irish papers containing ithave been for a week in this country—dves not appear to have been re- produced by the daily papers which gave currency to the dispatch, 1 give here the single brief paragraph of which it consists, aside from the quotation made from the telegram which referred to the Pope and the Bishop’s expressions regarding Mr. Parnell. ‘Lhe Archbishop writes: Your readers will, I nmsure, be pleased to learn on my authority that, with the exception of whut is set forth in the last sentence. ench and every sentence in the above paragraph is utterly, absolutely. and notoriously untrue. An- other portion of the telegram arcribes words to me when replying to the Holy Father which those who know me will burdiy believe that I used. Lam, ay dear sir, your faithful servant, +P. W. Croke, Archbishop of Cushel. Leading Irish Catholics here, expressing their views upon the matter, say, with em- vhasis, that it is nota possibility than any Pope for centuries past could really symp2- thize with the English Government as against the unhappy island which she con- has persist- ently despoiled and misruied. There is a marked concentration and union of Irish- Americans in these communities, however wide may have been their aifferences of opinion before, in the support ot Mr. Par- nell, since he has added to his demand for a sweeping measure of land-reform that for “the legislative independence of Ireland— the restoration of the Irish Parliament.” — malignant disease in our city.” The Healh authorities are of the opinion that diphtheria will speedily vanish if the solid iron covers of the man holes are replaced by perforated vers. rr Obstructions of the kidnoys and attendant ee wal Prove fatal if not removed by Hop THE “Little Detective” FoR CHRISTMAS! Something useful In every Family and Office, A Perfect Letter or Family Seales, Weighs from 1-4 oz. to 25 lbs. Manufactured and Sold Wholesale and Retail by ChicagoSeale Co., 149 & 1515S. Jetferson-st. FOR STORES. op und Balance Welaht.. opund Balunce Weight. a Price with Braxs Funuel Scoop & Balance W. pause with Hurn und ‘iin 3 D er ene Fe Pri id No Scale equal to this in quay nd capacity wae to #2 id jn less than two years to Families, fives, Stores, und Postipnsters, Dealer and Country id by nearly every Hurdwo Merchants in the United Siatex, i ut Vurietus of Scales Manufactured, U Price List free. FAIRBANKS’ STANDAKD SCALES ‘OF ALL KINDS. FAIRBANKS, MORSE & 00. Y 111 & 113 LakeSt., Chicago, Be careful tobuy only the Genuine. ENGRAVINGS, CHRONOS. Xe. Enoravings, Chromos, Paintings, Frames, Mirrors, Oraamental Moldings, Walnut & Imitation Moldings, &c, ALL NEW GOODS, Also some goods saved from the Fire, such! ag Mirror and Picture Glass, Pictures, &c. “All to be suid at pri it W hulesate and retall, SAMMONS, CLARK & C0, 197 South Clinton-st. TO RENT. FACTORY Nos. li and 1% S. Clinton-st, with or without machinery. PROPOSALS. Proposals for Subslutence Stores, Orrick oy PULCHASING AxD Devo GS.) Sund 4 East Washincton-st., cnc Dee. I ) 1330, Sealed proposals ved Bt thls ofice until 2 o . 7 Dec. 2 160, ut whieh time und place they will be opened in the prestner of such bidders as may be prevent for furnishing by or before the 2th inet, the following xupphes to the Subsiutence Department | Cnited Siates Army, delivered in such places in this city a3 buy be required—viz.: 10) barrels pork, licht mess, extra salted; 7.000 pounds bacon, burt clear sides to be ofactaal winter cure and thorou; tw 0 pounds, and .o be cove: packed in cries to contain about 2 puunds net ach, strapped. 142,03 pounds beans, prime white hand-picked, me~ dium; 12,0 Upoundsin well-seusoned, sti ong oak bar- rols, with round, bard-wood hoops, of the usual flours barre! size, well-coupered, full head-lined; and 13000 pouncs in dueble sacks, Inside twilled cotton and outaide zanny, to contain 1W pounds net each, 5,00 pounds pens, spilt, In aoudle sacks, inside twiiled cutton snd’ outside gunny, containing 100 Sy0 dounds soap, hard and dry, not to contain more than 10 per eentum of resin ang to be free trom Other adulterations, in -ponnd boxes, strapped. 3.00 pounds luru, best quality leaf, kettle-rende: hermetically seated, in 5-pound net square ‘Uns to 8 case, cases to be Hrinch sti, strap) All boxes to be weil strap| pictely around the ends and th Actual ture nt the time of delivery ls required, and no charge for packages, which must be best shipplug order, will be allowed. Propuanis will be received, subject to the usual con- ditions, for the whole ur any portion of the above amounts, and must panied by samples, pro- poxals for suit ments excepte: ‘The Government reserves the right to reject any or ull proposuls, lan proposnis or further information will be fur- nished on arpiteation to this umtice. Envelopes contuining proposals should be marked "and a i “Proposnis for Subststence Store: 1h to the undersigned, |. W. BARI Major und C.3. TRUSSES. ATLANTA. Applicants for the Vacant Judgeship. Spectal to Cincinnati Commercial. ATLANTA, Ga., Dec. 16.—By the number of applicants for the vacant Judgeship of the Fifth United States Circuit Court, occasioned. by the promotion of Judge William B. Woods, Atlanta presumes, doubtless, that Ohic is not to monopolize all the offices. People in Georgia, outside of Atlanta, say that Atlanta has more candidates for office than the whole of Ohio. There are not less than four candidates for Judge of the Fifth United States Circuit Court from Georgia. Among them are Judye James S, Hook, of Augusta, an independent Demo- erat; Amos TT. Akerman, ex-United States Attorney-General; George S. Thomas, ex-Assistant United Sta istrict Attorney for Georgia; and H. McCay, e: Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of Georgia. Thomas is a Republican, so is McCay 2 stanen Republican, and Akerman is a stalwart Republican. . 3 This morning the Bar of Atlanta, which included all the Democrats, met and passed resolutions asking for the confirmation by the Senate of Judze Woods, and also adopted resolutions recommending McCay for the vacant Judgeship. This afternoon the Re- publican members of the Bur in Atlanta, and those here in attendance upon the State Supreme Court, adopted strong resolutions recommending Akerman for the position. There is no doubt but a majority of the Re- publicans favor Akerman. DIPHTHERIA IN BROOKLYN. Six Hundred Cases in a Month—Defect- ive Plumbing One Cause, New York Times, Dec. 17. Diphtheria still continues to claim a good many victims in Brooklyn, although the Board of Health of that city has adopted every mneans within reach to prevent the spread of the disease. During the month of November 591 cases were reported, 20 of which terminated fatally. Up to date, dur- ing the present month, 345 cases have been reported, 103 of which have had a fatal termi- nation, Defective plumbing, it is believed, has much to do with the continued preva- lence of the disease. A report made to the Board of Health by the Board of City Works yesterday morning assigns this, in the opinion of Sanitary Superintendent Ray- mond, to be the principal cause for the epi- demic. The fact is stated that out of 12,229 manhole covers tn the city 9,858 have solid covers. The sewers are, therefore, nut properly ventilated, and when the tide rises the poisonous gases, which should escape through the perforated manhole covers into the open air, are forced -into the connections of the private houses. ¥ _The tollowing letter from J.B. Elliott, of No. 483 Clinton avenue, will serve as a speci- men of many that are sent to the Board of Health daily: “I trust you will urge with all possible force the necessity of ving out- side vent to our sewer drainage.- Tamubout repairmg leaks in iny cellar drain-pipes, and itis frightful to notice the pressure and eseape of gas from the main in the street hissing through the smallest opening in the joints of the drain-pipe inside. It wasa great oversight in the start that no provision was made in our sew eran’ : ent for tbe cape of es from the mains. Our first duty now Eto remedy the evil. After, it will be time to discuss other means, if necessary, to prevent the spread of diphi or other . RUPTURE) ewan Reward. Wevill pay toa charitable institution $100 jn ease. pian Inguiaal Hernia that cin, be rozained by the hand that we cannot retain with the PARKER TENTIVE COMMON-SENSE TRUSS. patented July fbi “BARTLETT, BUTMAN © PARKER, & State-st., Chicago, ttl. DR. PARKER, the patenteo. has bad 30 yesry 6x- perience, the last ¥ years with Marino Uospitats AT my, Navy, und Peitsioners, the Governuent hating adopted var appliance aa the best In use. Cases that can be cured we Dever fail to cure, SHLHEESS-HEEL ELASTIC STOCKINGS, Patented Marca 26, 1876 STOCKHOLDERS? MEETING. a Stockholders’ Meeting, By order of the Board of Directors of the Chicega & Grand ‘Trunk Railway Company, a special meeting of the Company is hereby eal convene in Par- Jor Nat the Palmer ffouse, in the City of Chicago, tn the State oy Hilnois, 0 Wednesda: the 2d day of December next, ut 2v'ciock p.m. She purpose of the meeting ts to Zonsider and U lease ment Letween this Com ann Kaiiroud company in ummodations in tne City of Chi- sider the question of transter- ink Junctivg Katlway Company and property secured to tt by and the terms and conditions of CUAS, PERCY, puny anu v Tespect to devot engo, And also to, ring to the Grand the rights, privilex said lease azreom such transfer. 7 Secretary and Treasurer, chicago & Grand Trunk Rutlway Company. _ a PROFESSKC DR. PEIRO, Devotes, os for yenrs_pas the Honieopathic trearme! CATARRH, THROAT AND LUNG DISEASES. Offices, S Madison-st. (upp. McVicker's Theatre), Hours, 9 tot. ‘Chicuzo. 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