Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, December 19, 1880, Page 9

POMEROY & CROSS, gole Agents for the following Called on Dr. celebrated Pianos: THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE: SUNDAY, DECEMBER 19, ,.1880—TWENTY PAGES. 9 REWARDED, Twenty YearsDeaf; Could & Not Hear Common Conversation ; 0. Dodge Phelps, at 243 State; NTN { Nt ( NOK +} On the 30th Day of Novem- GUBLTON BROS, ERNEST CABLER, ECKER & SUMS, AUT (4 VOM, NOR ARLY ORGANS. AMasnificent Stock, Selected expressly for the ber Was Treated by the Doctor; Called Again Dec. 14; Now My Hearing Is Almost Restored. So Says Mrs. W. B. Ramson, of St. Joseph, Mich, FIVE WEEKS (NHS BACK With Sciatica and Lumbago, Under the Treatment of a Prominent Physician Without Relief—With the Aid of Two Men Reached Dr. Q. Dodge Phelps’ Parlors, 243 State-st.—With Ten Min- utes’ Treatment Could Walk Down-Stairs Without the Help of Any One, And in Three Days Went Home to Peru—The Gentleman’s Name Is Warren Sweety —Mr. Wm. P. Lockwood, of 153 Henry- st., Was Present and Will Certify to the Truth of the Above Statement. HOLIDAY TRADE, |NO MEDICINE GIVEN And extremely Low Prices will be made during the coming week, at 152 State-st., CHICAGO. A PIANO’ JUS} THE THING FOR A CHRISTMAS PRESENT! The Emerson! A Piano that is simply, modestly, and snmingly creat in all the larger vir- es of musical instruments is The Emerson! A Piano that with a large select pat- ronage of over thirty years, has never been what it pretended not to be, and ever pretended to be what it was not. The Emerson! Also a fall assortment of the Hallet Davis & Co., W. W. Kimball & Co., an ether well-known makes, for sale in Chi- cago by W. W. KIMBALL, Corner State and Adams-sts. HOUSEKEEPING GOuDS. “Economy.” House Furnishers can practice it hwand get full value for their money : Hue cur Prices in proot of above: PARLOR SUITS, $35 for 7 pieces. CHAMBER SETS, $20 up, CARPETS, Body Brussels, $1.50, CARPETS, Tapestry Brussels, 85¢, CARPETS, Best Ingrains, 5c, Wesell for Cash only, and our Expenses are wery light, we therefore divide profits with Customers. Teonomy Furniture & Carpet Co, 262 & 264 Wabash-ay. Bargains! Bargains! BARGAINS! Qentimed to 5 ts for sale. One Eastlake Chamber Bal, cust #00, for $0: one Terry Parlor Suit, very 3 3 one extra size Wardrobe, coat i. und « large as~ ane ‘Goods, which must be WPaintingn and Pane) Pictures, suitable for 'y Gifts, Call und see these couds before pur- BIDELITY TORAGE CO., tor Bh: Secretary Booken: Siiment of ane Hourchald Bp iSund VE. Van Buren-at. TO MERWIY CHURCH'S J ULES, ., Wabash and Van Buren, Se Doliar Biacking-C1 “Dollar” Fire Seta, Biwell Caroet-Swechors:s Library and “pantry? ies, Lapboards, Commodes, ~ Bi- s. Sitz ery cuhidrens footie ou ‘Tepe Rogers’ Carvers, Sara fogs Ervers*" and are “ Wattie-Iroi Canencghe Fish Kettles, Pou Molds, lee-Creum Freezers, Cake Clos rx, J FlourCans, Con-Vases, re on) wes. Kecister-Fenders, Cus- the game, revs and rushes, Curtain: frames, wt Te. ur-Mats, etc, etc. ‘Kitchen LITHOGRAPHING. LITHOGRAPHINGC. Meck Certineates, Bonds, Diplomas, Letter Mists, Bil-Heuds, Checks, Drafts, ‘otes, Labels, Maps, etc., fare Bished at Short Notice. Spectay attention {s called to autograph letter ed tals, whereby you can bare ae pon tae ees ater few hours’ Bouts: gt y sulicitors, architects, printes mete and’ all who desire duplicate copies of ‘Dense by mame up = Digesters.* Or seatings, can baye them = oar ane = e™ Gruceety pat at a small ex- others who wish to cemmunicate th Pematullicence in their own handwriting to tany Sper F826" Bours orstany time to send man: Be gro Tippee ea this s ready ani peste wo will prertel give you prices. . W. BHEB WOO! Morater areadecour, iu Ciark-sis tap Boe, Except in Those Cases Where on Exam- ination It May Be Found Necessary to Prescribe Certain Blood Remedies, Which, Combined with My Peculiar Mag- netic Operation, Accelerate a Perteci and Radical Cure. DR. 0, DODGE PHELPS, Of New York, Practical Physician for Chronic Diseases, Late of Philadelphia, New Orleans, St. Louis, Cincinnati, Hartford, Springfield, Boston, and Bal- timore, Md., Has Taken Parlors in the Singer Building, 243 State-st., Corner Jackson, for About Six Days, Where Those Who Are Able and Willing to Pay May Come from 10 a. m. to 6 p.m. Each Day—No Surgical Operations Per- formed—Chronic Diseases Cured— Acute Pains Instantly Relieved—The Lame Walk—The Blind See—The Deaf Hear—Twenty Years’ Experience in Treating Old Chronic Cases. ‘Tho Doctor's practice 1s mostly diseases of a chranio nature, and cases given up as incurable. Althoogh a graduate of a medical university, his method of trent- ment ts peculiar to himself, thouxh there have been meninallages who have had the same Magnetic Power over the diseases of the body and mind. Somo coll inthe “GIFT OF HEALING.” yot few have pos- sessed {t to such an oxtentover nearly all diseance und pemens. It is life and vitalit; df ealiby body tw a weak one usequal circulation of the vital or nervous fiaid. By powerful is this influence that persons who have forwany years eaffered from diseases which have been pronounced incurable, and to whom medicine hss been administered with no good effect, have been restored to health in an incredible short space of {me It will not restore a Jost member of the body or perforty other impousipilities, but it will always ‘re- eve pain from whatever cause. The praciice is based upon the most strict principles of science; there ia nothing miraculous or supernatural about it; it is ip harmony with all natural laws. ‘By this treatment it takes but a few minutes for in- veterate cases of &)most any curable chronic disease; And 30 sure is the effect that but few disenses require sg. second treatment, except Deafness, Broken Bones, Dislocation, Bad Curvature of the Spine, and Suppur- ating Tumors. ‘The diseases which yield most readily to the cura- tive agency of this method, as iced by me, are: Dyppersien Constipation. Asthms, Angina Pectoris, Chloroats, Loss of Volce, Kboumatism, Rheumatic Gout, Liver Disease, all Kinde of Sexu:t Weakness, Dinbotes, Headache, Nervous Irritation of the Brain, Catarrh, Diseases of the MMeart, Ei ‘Diseases, Convulsions, Hysteria, Neuralgia, Thrush, Congestion of the Spleen, Congestion of the Stomach, ‘of the Kidnoys, Ulceration and Displace- ment of the Womb. Morbid Appetite, Wakefuinoss, General Debility, Weak Spine, Nervous Depression, Difficult Breathing with pain in the Lungs, Weak and Sore Byes of every description, Noise in ‘the lead, Discharges from the Ears, Cancers, Tumors, Tape Worm, Piles, Stuttering, etc. etc. "The Doctor bas, in connection with his peculiar treatment, discovered a shecitic for that terrible dis- ease, EPILEPTIC FITS, and particulurly invites those afflicted with tho spasms. TAPE WORM. Dr.0, Dodge Phelps gunrantees to remove Tape Worm infrom forty minutes to two hours, WITIE THE HEAD, and unloss the besd is removed the worm Will grow again. PILES. ‘This painful disease will be treated by the Doctor without the knife, caustic, or ligature, and without pain or ioss of time in business. A cure guaranteed, ‘Letrers of inquiry are frequent. I cannot teli asto the probability of success until Tee the patient, Setters of inquiry must contain stamp. _ CONSULTATION FREE. FINANCIAL, TO LOAN. Sums of $4,000 and upwards en im- proved City Real Estate at the very low- est market rates. LYMAN & JACKSON, 33 Portland Block. ELECTRIO GAIR BRUSH. A BEAUTIFUL PRESENT. Dr. ScOTTS ELECTRIC HAIR BRUSH. aS ‘NOT WIRE, Mailed free on receipt of $3.00, or sent C, 0. D., with privilege of opening and examining. THE PALL MALL ELECTRIC ASSCCIATION. B42 BROADWAY, NEW YORE. For Sale at Drag and Fancy Stores. WHOLESALE ACENTS, CHICACO: VAN SCHAACK, STEVENSON & CC. ELSA TT NLT EE OEE x,, Marvelous Success! RECOMMENDED BY OUR BEST PHYSICIANS. Cures Headache and Neuralgia — in 2 to Sminutes. StopsDan- ” druff, Falling Hair, and ~ Baidness, As only a lim- * ited number will arrive é from England this sea- % son, those wishing to —& \, secure one for a Holi- % day Present should A buy as early as pose 2, sible. nA PURE BRISTLES, FURS. FURS! caso Being so Shor, Christmas So Near, IAM DETERMINED TO SELL MY STOCK OF FURS, SACQUES, DOLMANS, UFFS, BOAS, Caps & GLOVES, Manufacturing my own goods, I can give you the best of attention in the Fur line at the Lowest Prices. / Nathan Ehrlich, 82 STATE-ST., UP STAIRS. FURS ! FURS! FURS! CHATTEL MORTGAGE SALE aT 206 DEARBORN:ST. ‘The understancd will sell a Jorge variety of Sentskin seequon, Dolan,’ Mutts, Boas, Caps Gloves, ete, r , Dec. 21, at Wa. mi. z preeennee A. W. ECKER or! Agent for the OD: ORIENTAL ART COTO LEDC, NewSt les Oriental Art Goods! ELEGANT HOLIDAY GIFTS JUST RECEIVED FROM Japanese MANUFACTORIES. Achoice collection of Floor, Mantel, and Hanging VASES Of every grade, from the common Arita and Kioto wares to the finer porcelains of Imari, Kutane, and Tokio. Punch, salad, fruit, and finger Bowls. Fancy Dishes, Round, square, oval, oblong, diamond, hex- agonal, leaf, shell, boat, fish, and fan shapes. Placques, covered jars, cups and saucers. Cloisonnes and Gold Lacquers, Glass, silk, and paper Lanterns, Chinese, Japanese, Turkish, and Persian Embroideries, Paintings, Smoking Jackets, Scrolls, Fans, Parasols, Dolls, Pictures, Silk Balls, Wigs, Christmas-Tree Hangings, Small Figures, etc., at Warner’s Japanese Curio, 175 Wabash-ay. ORGUINETTE. Money to Loan on, Coloaga real ertato in any exiount above END rates. atthe lowest maifigNRY WALLER, JR. ‘% Dearborn-st. REALESTATELOANS BAIRD & BRADLEY, ‘90 La Salle-st. MONEY TO LOAN ON CITY REAL ESTATE At low rates of tnterest. C. H, FEKRY, Room 27, § La Salle-st. MONEY TOLOAN AT LOWEST RATES improved city reslestate in sums to suit pina BOND. lu? Washington-st. BUSINESS « ‘DS. CARD-BOARD AND PAPER. ti rds—Bevel-edee, gilt, all kinds, Sitting SRECHeaey ‘pevel-edce. New Year's Cards—Choice assoriment. Paper—Gold and silver, plain and embossed. Paper—Fancy, old and uileer enebks ana ‘figures. ‘And Printers’ Stock general se T. S. GILLETT, 116 Fifth-av.. BUSINESS CARDS. WOOD MANTELS WH. H. ROULKE & (0.,4 witsisit-a. ORGUINETTE EMPORIUM aT 388-290 STATE-ST. J. HOWARD FOOTE, GEN'L AGT. CHRISTMAS TREES. 90,000 Christmas Trees AT WHOLESALE AND RETAIL. Depot at Goodrich's Dock, East of Rush-st. Bridge. For $1C, 0. D. we will deliver nt_your house an ex- tra fine Norway Spruce of symupeirical form and of bright urcen color, Exim ne trees for Halls, Churches, and Private sidences a specialty. sed T3435, FRIEMAN, Agent. 147 La Sailo-st., basement. CANDIES. Fine Broken and Broken Mixed, per fh. Berry's Speciul Christmas Mixed, por tb. Best French Mixed. per ib, BERRY, 241 WEST WiADISON-ST. ] PIAN Musical Holiday Gifts! Our stock of Musical Goods embraces Pianos, Organs, Stools, Covers, Canterburies, Music Stands, Violins, Gai- ters, Accordions, Flites, Clarioncts, Musical Boxes, Harmonicas, Music Books, in plain and rich bindings, Musical Novelties, Musical Instruments for children, and all other articles in the music line. During the Holidays our Wholesale Departments wilt ve devoted to retail trade. t3" Take Passenger Elevator to Wholesale Departments. LYON & HEALY. State and sea ea Steinway 4 Triumphant ot every World’s Fair; indorsed by the most eminent musical authorities of both hemispheres, and the acknowledged Standard Pi- anos of the World. Svecial attention is directed toa new Cabinet Grand Up- right, larger than any here- tofore manufactured, with the richest and most artisti- cally designed cabinet work which ever encased a Piano. LYON & HEALY, State and Monroe-sts. DIAMO: YDS, de. The Largest and Most Select Stock in the City at GOLDSMID'S, 99 East Madison-st. djPate very fine Ear-Rings, 99 carats, 0,00; east 1 Patr much finer, 104 carat. $1,300; worth $1,000, 4) Palr Assorted to 6g camnts, from $10 to F110, SUAS Extra Size Bund Bracelets, ls stones, very heap. Tiargo Stoner Vell Pin, extra fine quality, only $1.20; worth $1.00, T1-Stoie Crons, only $900: worth $1,100 a Pieces of uds, Ear-Hings, iin: Bracelets, Searf-Fins, Lockets, Ete... and Ch 80 to #0), “Also. Sapiph erald, Pearl, and Cats-Hye Ornamenta, WATCHE 3 Vell-Pins, Solttares Ruby, Km- ICA. AP. S s Now 16-Carat Minute Repeaters, from $185 to per cent less thun cost. ‘Two 1s-Carat, very Slit Fig. Bek, quarter-seconds, ch Six vem—Winders, quarter-seconds, und SS Silver ey-Winders, at LESS THAN IMPORTERS’ S, Gold Watches from #10 upwards, + s' Stem-Windling Watches from £5 to $100, Boss’ hes, $5.50. r Watel Nickel Watches from Ki 20) Watches, Gent» and Ladies, Gold and Silver, Atuerican and Swiss. vere chenp. Fine Gold Sets, Vell Pins, Kings, Necklaces, Vest and Guard Chains, Bracelets, at a LARGE DIs- COUNT from Terular Prices.* ‘Opern Glasses, at Great Bargains, nt GOLDSMID'S, Hendquarters for tine Bankrupt Goods, 9 Eust Madison-st. Call early for Bargains. re, DENTISTRY. =m Dr. Day, 133 East Madison-st. Best [cerrvton:} $5 Gold, $10. Filling, 1-4 Old Rates, VITALIZED AIR (Or pas) piven free for painless oxtracting, 133 East Mad!son-st. * Inventor of Lower Suction Plate, which never loosens while talking or eating; 5 years’ actual test withont a failure. PROPOSALS. Board of Commissioners OF COOK COUNTY. Bids will be received by the Clerk of the Board of Commisstoners,Itoom 4 Criminal Court Building, until 12 m. Dee. 2), for KU cords of ice (more or less) to HiIl the ice-houses of tho Couk County Hospital, corner Wood and Harrison-sts. _E. ¥.C. KLOKKE, Clork. REAL ESTATE. CHEAP FARMS. och, Serinrion tiers: seve” containing Resources und Advantages of Guthrie Co., la. 50,0) acres RK. lands, AU non-resident lands forsale. Address E. EG MOUN, Heal Estate and: Abstract, Guthrie Co. 1a, ‘REAL ESTATE. Sontinuancte of an Active In- quiry for City Property. Residence Lots in Less Demand—Cen- / tral Property Not Easy'to Buy. Acres Still Quiet and Neglected— Sales of the Week. Unusually. Early Demand for Stores and Houses to Rent. Projected Reform in Horse-ar Motive Power—Real Estate in New York. Real estate has not afforded during the past week the sensational sales of jarge buildings that have been almost daily items for the past month, but the market has been active, and any one stepping into agents’ offices finds them busy. 4 STEADY INQUIKY is reported for xood property, and the lack of sales of central property is due not toa failure of demand butof supply. There are few owners now to sell productive central real estate. Half a million dollars was offered and refusea for the Reaper Block, at the northeast corner of Clark and Washington. ‘The question of the site of the BOARD OF TRADE will soon come up again to agitate the public mind. The Committee to whom the considera- ton of the subject was referred are nearly ready to report. ‘Thoy will beheard rrom within three weeks. While no one outside the Com- mittee has been fully acquainted with the con- tents of their report, it is understood that a strong recommendation will be made for re- moval to the vacant blocks south of the Grand Pacitle Hotel, west of Clark street. That tho Board need better accommodations than they now bave {fs unquestionable; that they can se- cure them by an ENLARGEMENT OF THEIR PRESENT QUARTERS % equally certain. If the Board of Trade and the Chamber of Commerce can agree upon are- modeling of the present Board of Trado ball, no plan for removal could possibly obtain a majori- ty of the votes of the Board of Trade. Without such @ remodeling the Board af Trade will sure- ly tind another home. The street ia full of all kinds of rumors. One ran to the effect that the ‘bullding now occupied by the FIRST NATIONAL BANK had been leased to a large jewelry firm, and upon their vacating it the first floor would bo cut down to the level of the street. Inquiry at the bank revealed the sole basis of the rumor to be that some one. had re- marked that the bullding, 80 altered, would be a fine place for a jewelry store. Own- ers of acre property have been wuch agitated in tho report that the Wagner Palace-Car Com- pany was purchasing land for.works to be es- tablished near Chicago ala Pullman. Inguiry of the Company's representatives here called out an emphatic denial of the story. Rumor bas located the purchases in the vicinity of Grand Crossing, and also in Sec. 3, 34, 13, west of State aud south of Eighty-seventh street, The in- quiry for svores, referred tolast week, continues, and among tho inquirors isalargo number of new-comers. The carly STIR AMONG TENANTS to settle their leases forthe coming year pre- sages in unusually active demand for accom- modations. Houses, too, are certain to bein unusual request. Architects are already begin- ning to be busy with plans for building ic the spring, and loun agents are recetving applica- tions for funds for new enterprises. Adolph Locb & Brother bave sold this week in their subdivision on Haleted street, near the Stock-Yurds, fifteen lots at $6,000; three lots on Halsted street, near Forty-fitth street, at $1,500 each; 100 feet on Fitty-first strect, fronting South Park, for $11,000; stone-front house on Prairie uvonue, near Thirty-fifth street, for $7,000; house and fot on May strect for $2,100; house and lot on Clybourn place, near Rolling- ‘Pails, at $3,000; and one acre near Cornell at $2,500, ‘The sale of the leasehold interestson tho southeast corner of MADIGON AXD STATE, the fee of which belongs to Mr. L. Z. Leiter, has been negotiated, but the matter is not fully adjusted. What has been bought is thelease of the north sixty feet of the State atreet frontage running back to the alley on Madison street, aud the building on it. The lease of the south forty feet of the lot belongs to sub-lessecs. The price to be paid will be $65,000. . George M. Bogue sold in November, 1879, to Mr. George W. Flanders, a New York merchant, for $15,000, a tract at the northwest corner of Forty-seventh street and Woodlawn avenue, 200 feet on Forty-seventh and 307 fecton Woodlawn, and resold, under purchaser's orders, 107 fect on Woodlawn avenue, in April, 1880, to Francis J. Phillips, for $7,490; and the corner200 feet by 200, in November, 188, to Franklin D. Gray, for $17,000, This shows a total received of $24,490, or $0,490 advance on the $15,000 paid a year ago. ‘The sale of the Toboy Building, 40x14, on the northeast corner of State and Jackson strects, for $125,000, reported some timeagoin THE TRriD- UNE, went on recora last week. The purchaser was Mr. L, Z. Leiter. Tho deed for the Mattoson House, on the northeast corner of Jackson street and Wabash avenue, was put on record by the Connecticut Mutual Life-Insurance Compuny. The consid- eration is $150,000, and the size of tho lot 96 by VW. ‘All the points involved in the agreement to sell the southeast corner of MONROE AND DEARBORN have been settled, but the examination of the abstract has not been completed, and the papers have not been passed, : Mr. N. K. Fairbank’s purchase of the Swedenborgian Cnurch property, at the corner of Elghteenth strect and PRAIRIE AVENUE, for $165 afoot, has been followed by the pur- chaso of 55 fect on Prairie avenue, south of Highteenth, by Mr. Anson Stager, for $545 a foo! of 62 feet, in the samo violuity, by Mr. J. Ww. Doane, for $400 a foot; of 55 feet by Mr. 0. R. Keith for $30 a foot; of 50 feet, west front, on the samo avenue, north of Twenty-second, for $400 a foot; and of 50feet more for $400 a foot. The property bougtt by Mr. Doane wus sold by Mr. 0. 8. Keith, who bas made on ita protit of £10,850 In two yeurs. Mr. C. W. De Pauw has bought for $10,600 the residence 1839 Indiana avenue. ‘The School Board have adopted a report favor- able to the purchase of a lot on Johnson sireet, near Fourteenth, for $10,200, for a school site. The Board authorizes also the purchaso of a school site on Warren avenue for $14,500. THE REAI- ESTATE CALL BOARD. ‘At the second sale of the Call Board, fully re~ ported in THe Trrpuxe of Thuraday, the fol-\ lowing quotations from actual sales for cash were made: é Calumet avenue, near Thirty-fourth street, west front, 1% feet deep, per front foot, $89. South Clurk street, north of Twelfth street, west front, 102 fect deep, per front foot, $112.50. North Clark street, near Beldon avenue, east front, 90 to 100 feet deep, per front fout, $19. North Clark street, uear Grant place, east front, 16 teet deep, per front foot, $49.50. Forty-first street, near Stewart avenue, north front, 125 fect deep, per front foot, $12. Irving place, north of Fulton stroet, west front, 185 feet deep, per front foot, $23.25. ‘Park Side, southwest corner of Seventieth street and Jefferson avenue, 161 fect deep, per front foot, $1.24. ‘Langley avenue, No, 3803, two-story and base- ment brick house and barn, lot 20x17, west ront, $4,400. ‘ reat L Luke street, Nos. 370, 3:2, 374, near Anu street, south fronts, each lot 25x16{%i, three-story and basement brick stores and dwellings, with gross rentals 11%; per cent, each $0,300. ‘The demand for houses was siack, but vacant property was in more request. It is anticipated that after the new year opens and the profits of the {sst year, which are fiready looked upon as very favorable, are determined, there willbe a much greater activity in all kinds of real estate. The third monthly sale is announced for Wednesday, Jan. 19. IN SALES OF THE WEZK were 25 7-12x143 feet on Rush street, southeast corner of Superior street, $6,000; 9034x125 on Calumet avenue, southeast corner of Shirty-first street, $16,290; 97}:x96 on Fourth avenue, north- west corner of Taylor street, also MxI05 on Fourth avenue, southeast corner of ‘Taylor, $30,- (000; 96x110% on Third avenue, northwest corner of Polk screet, $16,800; #22100 on Illinois Street, west of North Market, $4,898; 40x1654 on Wabash avenue, north of Twelfth street, $12,000; 40x103 on Clark, north of Van Buren, $20,000; 50x150 on Dearborn avenue, south of Elm, $9,249; 214x70 on North Clurk, south of North Water, $5,540; 254 feet to alley on Wilmot avenue. east of Armitage, with 120x100 opposit, $6,500; 251117 on Halsted, south of Randolph, $14,900; 149 and 151 Clybourn ave- nue, $3,500; 25x82 on Quincy, west of Franklin, $6,000; 25 feet on Milwaukee avenue. northwest “ corner of Cleaver, $5,300; 50x105 on West Jack~ son, west of Laflin, $5,000; 650x120, improved, on West Congress, west of Centro avenue, $16,- 000; 60x100 on West Harrison, northeast corner of Aberdeen, $7,474; 25x8%4,0n Quincy, east of Market, $6,500; 207 8-10x200 on Woodlawn ave~ nue, northwest corner of Forth-seventh, $17,000; 48x12 on West Madison street, west of Aber- deen, $14.400; 124x12t9-10 on South Park av- enue, south of Thirty-first struct, $10,540; 120 feet to alley on Michigan avenue, south of Thir- teenth street, $18,000: five acres, southeast cor- ner of Forty-fifth and Wood streets, $5,500; £8 187-1,000 acres on Robey strect, between tho Chicago Kiver and Forty-third strect, $53,500; 49x105 on Cass street, south of Erie,’$15,000; 2x 53, improved, on North LaSalle street, near North avenue, $6,200; 62x150, improved, on Rush streets south of Huron, $20,150; 102 feet to Calumet av- enve, on South Park avenue, southwest corner of Forty-eighth street, with 154 8-10x128 on south- west corner of Calumet srenueand Forty-eighth street, $31,000; 6% acres on Dougias Park av- enue, north of West Sixteenth street, $16,000; @8xU4S on Langley avenue, south of Ellis Park, $5,000; 25x100, improved, on West Van Buren street, $5,000; 50x200 on Hyde Park avenue, north of Brook street, $5,000. By direction of the Common Council a bill has been prepared and forwarded to Washington asking Cougress to convey to the City of Chicago that part of THE LAKE-FRONT which the General Government owns. By tho dedication the fee to the streetsin Fort Dear- born Addition and Dearborn Square was left in the United States. ‘he effectof the contem- plated action will be that it will leave the fee of the stréetsand tho square in the City of Chi- cago, and authorize. the city to sell two blocks lying east, After Congress has passed the bill prepared by the Common Council there will remain to be attended to the fixing of the purchase price, the adjusting of the ques- tion of riparian rizhts.—about which there has already been a great difference of opinion,—and various minor matters. The Railroad Company, however, is underatood to be willing to make its proportion of the concessions in the deal, and to have already tacitly consented to surronder any rights it may have or acquire to the submerged lands between Monroe street and Park row, pro- vided the city does thesame thing with the three blocks north of Monroe strect. - ‘Mr. Potter Patmer has been successful in de- fending the suit brought against him by the Roman Catholic Bisbop to force him to pay $38,000 for the property at the southwest cor- ner of CHICAGO AVENUE AND CASS STREET, bargained for by him. The Judge held, as Mr. Palmer claimed, that tho tite of the property was not valid given by the Bishop, and therc- fore Mr. Palmer was not bound by any agree- ment to take the property. Numbers of busiuess houses have begun to look about for STORES TO RENT for the coming year, and among them isa good proportion of new firms fromothercities. Pierce & Ware report that they have leased to Mills & Gibbs, wholesalo dealers in sil and hosiery, of New York, for $3,000 per year, the lease of the second, third, and fourth floors of No. 108 Madi- sonstreet. Pierce & Ware havo leased also the old Patrol Building, on Franklin street, ncar Madison, for the firm of Black & Hofman, cloak manufacturers, of Toledo, O., and one of the old- est compaules of that city. The rental price is $2,000 per year. Harvey Brothers, clothing dealers, have leased the stores Nos. 51, 86, 88, and 90 State street from May 1 for $16,000 per annum. So sharp is the demand FOR DWELLING ACCOMMODATIONS that anew building containing ten tiats just erected on West Madison street. east of West- ern avenue, has been all rented at $16 to $25 for each fiat, although the apartments are not yet finished. It is worth noticing, also, that nine of the ten families that nave taken theso flats havo just moved into Chicago. VERY FEW BUILDING-PERMITS were. issued during the weck, Among them were those to Henry Griswall to erect -an ice- house, Nos. Siand 233 Michigan street, to cost $1,400; to Jobn Kalai to erect a three-story dwelling, No.-261 West Twelfth street, to cost $9,000; one to Anton Votara to erect a two-story dwelling, Throop strect, near Eighteenth, to cost $1,300; one to Paul Stanik to erect a one-story cottage, Nineteenth streéf, near Loomis, to cost $1,000; one toFrunk Slod to crect a two-story dwelling, Throop street, near Eighteenth, to cosé $3,500; and one to the Gray Iron Company to erect a three-story factory, corner of Erie and Kingsbury streets, to cost 325,000. ‘Tho increasing activity of the real-estate mar- ket naturally adds to the apparent VOLUME OF LOANS, aga part of the purchase money remains often on mortgage. Very little demand makes it- self felt for new enterprises, and there are miilions of dollars lying idle in this city which would be lent to responsible parties for promis- ing butidmg schemes at 5} to 6 per cent. ‘The lqans last week were somewhat heavier than usual. The sum of $50,000 wus taken by H.C. Rew, on his newly-acquired State street property, at 513 per cent; $15,000 atG per cent, by Otto Young. on a lot in Kinzio Addition; $16,000 at6 percent, by F.D. Gray, on boule- vard property; $15,000 at 7 per cent by Mary W. Keith on lots in Wait’s Subdivision; $28.250 at 6 per cent by O. R. Keith. Money is freely offered atGto% percent. Following isa compurigon of the transactions of the past two weeks: ‘This week. | Previous week. mount, pee Ame a Mort, sept 3 FLte ease deeds . 85] 161,008 ‘tals. 1S0}$ 243,502 98)" BOT a8T Owners of realestate in the South Division will be delighted to know that tho South Side Horse Railway Company are making plans and estimates for the introduction of the SAN FRANCISCO PLAN OF UNDERGROUND CABLE for motive power, Several of the largest stock~ holders of the South Side Company, among them Mr. B.P. Hutebinson and Mr. S. W. Allerton are enthusiastic advocates of the San Francisco method, which Mr, Allerton has studied on the ground. The ollicers of tho Cornpuny are Inves- tigating Its cost, nnd it 1s to be hoped will soon decide tointroduce it here. Ald. Clark, who hus also scen the. cable system at work in San Francisco, gays the cost of remodeling the South Sido systemon the San Francisco plan would be perhaps $2,000,000, but the improvement would pay even at that. The Company would have no horses to buy, and its increased traffic would result ina inrge increase of revenue. 1f it should be found inadvisable to adopt it all over the South Division at once, there is ne better opportunity than that now presented to put it in operation on State street, which is soon tobe torn up from Twelfth to ‘Thirty-ninth strecta and repaved. Then, again, the improve- ment would certainly do away with the crowded ears, because the Company could run cars just asoftenas it might wish to, and without apy “very greatly increased expense. When be was in San Francisco he made ita point to inquire of different’ people what they thought of the new plan, and to look into its practical opera- tion, and everybody spoke in its favor. In fact, there doesn’t seem to be a practical objection to ft. Nobody there has anything tosay against it. It is almost perfectly noiseless, doesn't frighten horses, isn’t dangerous in any way, and car doesn’t do as much damageas the ordinary horse-car even may be capable of doing, for the reason that it is much more easily controlled. For comfort, convenience, and speed it feaves tho present system far in the rear, and, if ever adopted in Chicago, will become as popular as it is in San Francisco, where they probably wouldn't be able to do without it now. ‘The Committee on Streets and Alleys, South, have agreed to recommend that un alley be opened between Douglas avenue and Thirty- seventh street and Vernon avenue and the boulevard. NEW YORK. ‘The Now York Real Evtate Record prists an account of an auction sale of Broudway lots be- longing to the estate of Jacob Warsen_ held by Cole & Chilton on Thursday, Nov. 22, 1819,. The sale was held at the Merchants’ Exchange, wu- der the authority of the court; 1. I. Terrell, Wiliam B. Lawrence, and S. L. Bradley being the Commissioners in partition; the firm of Gerard & Platt the attorneys. At this sale the southwest corner of Broadway and Fifty-fourts street was sold for $1,025, the two adjoining lots for $735 each, thé next for-$710, and one adjoin- ing for $620, and the two fouowing, respectively, for $600 and $800, the Fifty-third strect corner being disposed of for $1,180. The last corner was tho northwest corner of Broadway and Fifty-third street. Now, 28 to the Eighth avenue. front, the northeast corner of the avenue and West Fifty-third street was there and then 2 SOLD FoR 31,15, the adjoining four lots fronting on Eighth ave- nue for $815 each, until they reached within seventy-five feet of the corner of Fifty-four: street. Then they dropped off to $715 each: the sontheast corner ot Eighth avenue and Fifty- fourth street being sold at $1,000, In fact, the entire block, containing twenty-eight lots, was there and ther disposed of at an average of $500 , for each lot, calculating the values of the twelve adjoining additional lots on Fifty-third and Fifty-fourth streets. We need not point our readers to the signif cance of the above figures, compared as they easily can be to the values prevailing to-day. Broadway fronts on said block are worth at least $18,000, and thirty years have hurdly passed aince the above sale was effected. In this connection we are at liberty to publish the following statement, made to us recently by Gen. Egbert L. Viele. He said: “When, in 1856, I tirst began to lay out the Central Park, an cu- tire block at Sixty-fourth street, between Fifth and Mudison avenues, was offered to me at $609 per lot. [tried tn vain to get a capitalist who had plenty of money to sec it in the same light asi did, but he did not,and declined to pure chase ft. Since that time one single lot in this identical bluck has sold for $50,000, and the en- tire block averages to-day fully $90,000 for each lot." ‘Tho operations in real estate in SAN FRANCISCO forthe month of November, according to the ‘San Francisco Heal Estate Circular, were as fol- lows: Deeds... Mortgages... Releases...... ‘The number of deeds recorded last month was fully as large as i October, but the average consideration was much less. The aggregate for October was $1,163,000. The savings banks Toaned buc little money on city real eatate last month. The Philadelphia Enqutrer reports that for several months past there have been evidences of a general advance in the price of real estate IN PHILADELPHIA, aud @ consequent rise in rents, particularly for small or medium sized houses. This good feel- ing has evidently fnereused, and is now being showa by numerous inquiries from capitalists for suitabie properties for investments and the sale and transfer of yaluabto properties. Consequent upon this good teeling in the mar- ket there hus been a stitfening of prices, and the advance may be quoted 23 runging from 2 to 30 per cent within the past year. In all cases the demand appears to be greatest for good buai- ness properties. SATURDAY’S TRANSYERS. The iolloang instruments wero filed for reo ord Saturday, Dee. 15 CITY PROPERTY. Pralrie ay, 378 ft n of Eighteenth at, e f, 42x)ii ft, Improved, dated Dec. 17 (William G- Hibbard to Addie 0. Hib- ‘West Polic st, 216 tt ¢ of Leavitt, s. 15 ft, with other property, dated Dec. a GE and J. Martin to Micbael Me- arty)... apa Dats Louisa st, 274 ft s of Thirty-fifth, e f, Sx 125 ft, dated Dec. 2) Frank Wells to C. Svenson)....... sate ace Crosby st, 1&2 ft n of Elm, wf, 256x140 ft, dated Dee. 4 (Charles Butler to Joho O'Grady)........ 5. oe West Harrison st, 4 fte of Clinton, s f, 24igx60 ft, dated Nov. 27 (Catherine Euzenbacker to C. J. Cooper et al.),.... Selden st, bet Wood and Lincoln, 312x100 ft, dated Dec, 8 (Julian Taylor to Sarab A. Steinagle). tate se ne nes eee Selden st, same as above, dated Dec. 16 Gara A. ‘Steinagie to Henry C. Noyes ‘al... 3 Michigan av. Bol 5 £, 40x119!3 ft, dated Dec. 16 (Tho Anderson to Honry C. Rew). Bonfield st, 235 ft 8 of Hickory, e f, 113 ft, improved, dated Dec. 18 (Peter C. Peterson to Balthasar Bach) . e Kossuth st, %5 ft w of Butler, 8 f, 25x12. ft, duted Dec. 10 (Van H. Higgins to _Mary A. Dowling)... meee North av, n w cor of Davis st, § f, 25x130 ft, dated Dec. 8(M. E.and W. P. Kel- logg to Patrick Reid) *: Fourth av, U7 ft 3 of Twelfth st. wf, 20x 19 ft, dated Dec. 11 (Yax and Dotech to Chicago & Western Indians Railroad COMpaNY) 00. ..--eceneres North La Salle st, % it 3 of Grant, wf, AX x158 st, dated Dec. 1 (Emil R. Hease to Jobin C, Walz).......-2-- oie nrennnns coe 2 North Wells st, 299 ft n of Goethe st, wf, 24x162 ft, improved. dated Dec. 16{Fred- erick Weber to Cari Bruns........-.--.- Prairie av, 19 ft n of Thirtieth st, ef, 33 ‘x1i8 tt, improved, dated Dec. 18 (Mar vin Hughitt to Simon Yondorf).... - 13,500 NORTH OF CITY LIMITS, WITHIN A RADIUS OF SBVEN MILES OF THE COURT-HOUSE. Lill ay, between Lincoln ay and Halsted st, 8 f, 25x15 ft, duted Nov. 2 (Estate of, C. H. Kuntz to Hugh Williams).........8 SOUTH OF CITY LIMITS WITHIN A RADIUS OF SEVEN MILES OF THE COURT-HOUSE. Calumet at, w corner of Forty-tirst st, ef, 100x133 ft, dated Dec. 17 (Master if, Chancery to Ellis Kaufman)....... ... Calumet av, 100 ft s of Forty-tirst st, ef, GSxL3 ft, dated Dec, 17 (Snme to same). Butterfield st, near Forty-ninth, e f, 25x 101 ft, dated Dec. 1 (D.C. Nichols to H. ava E. Cockell) WEST OF CITY LIMITS, WITHIN A RADIUS OF BEVEN MILES OF THE COURT-HOUSE. Humboldt boulevard. 208 ft n of Dickens av, w f, 25xI5t ft, dated Dec. 17 (John. Jobaston, Jr., ta H. A. Reichenbach). 3 SCMMARY FOR THE WEEK. The following is the total amount of city and auburbun: transfers within a radius of seven tiles of the Court-House tiled for record during the week ending Saturday, Dec. 18. City sales, 12; consideration, § North of city mits, sales, 11; consideration, $11,61u. South of city limits, sales, 25; consideration, $2us781. West of city limita, sates, 1; consideration, $600. Total sales, 168. Total consideration, $145,959, a LAW REFORM. Relieving the Supreme Court Judges of Needles» Labor. A special meeting of the Chicago Bar As- sociation wag to have been held yesterday afternoon at Fairbank Hall for the purpose of diseussing a number of amendments to the statutes recommended by the Committee on Amendment of the Law, and already pub- lished in these columns. For some reason or other, however, there was a failure to se- cure a quorum, and the matter accordingly went over until the next recular meeting on the second Saturday in January. In addition to the amendments already proposed, Mr. James L. High has prepared for submission to the State Bar Association, rr to the General Assemby direct, the follow- ing ainendiment which, if adopted, will dis- pense with a vast amount of useless writing in the way of SUPREME COURT DECISIONS, the reform being modeley upon that which was ushered in by the Appellate Court act: He it enuctat, ec., That Sec. 16 of an act enti tied “An act to revise the law in relation to the Supreme Court,” which reads as follows: * In the decision of cases submitted to the Supreme Court, the opinions of the Justices sball be de- livered in writing, and filed with the other pu- pers. Such opinions shall also- be spread at Jarge upon the records of the court,” be and the same is hereby amended to read as follows: **{n case the judgment, order, or decree from which an upoeal or writ of error may bave been prosecuted shall be allirmed by the Supreme Court such Court sbail maxe an order affirming the same, but shall aot be required to kive any written opinion therein: and, in case such judg- ment, order, or decree sball be reversed, and the case remanded te the Court from which such ap- peal or writ of error shail have deen prosecu tbe Supreme Court shull state briefly in writing the reasons for such reversal, and file the same with the files in said cause, and the same al be spread at large upon the records of the Court. In all cases where opinions in writing shall be filed as aforesaid thoy shall be siznea by cach of the Justices approving the same, and each of the Justices dissenting therefrom shall indicate his dissent in writing thereon.’ —————— Sound and Se: 5 ‘The following ts an illustration of pronuncia- , tlon and spelling In the use of wrong words’ which have tho sumo pronunciation ay the right words, and which, properly read, would sound right; The story: Arite ‘suite little buoy, the sun of a grate kernel, with a rough about nis neek, flue up the rode’ swift as ch dear. After a thyme he stopped at a gnu bouse and wrong the belle, Hig tow hurt bymn and be kneaded wrest. He was two tired to reze his fare, pail face. A feiut mown of pane roves from bis tips, ‘The made who herd the Delle was about to pear. a pare, but she through it down and ran with all ber mite, for fear ber gucssed would. knott weight. Butt, when she saw the little woo, tlers stood in her eyes at the site. “Bwe poor deer! y yew lye hear? Or yew dyeing?"* “Know,” be said, “I am felat to the corps.” She boar him in her arms, as she alight, too = room where he mito bee quiet, gave him bred and meet, held cent under his koows, tcd his choler.rapped bins iy,zave hymn some suite druchm frem a viol, ti at last he came fourth e mas W, ™ 1,000 3,000 hail as a young horse. His I shown, his cheex was a8 send Ms & Hours anil bs eAcineG Toe 8 Bale