Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, January 30, 1881, Page 6

"REAL ESTATE. ‘Strong Demand for - Property, with a Scarcity of Sellers. Large Amonnt of Figuring on In- side Beal Estate aud " Acres Sales of the Week—Building- Permits and Loans. Rents Strong—Canal Pumping- Works —Landlord and : Tenant. ‘Real estate was niot prolific of ales durng the ‘past weck, but ageuts report & strong inquiry, and fully the average business dolng for Janu- ary. Negotiations take for the most part but TWO CHANNELS nowadays. Buyers want central business prop- erty, improved or unimproved, and acres south ‘between the clty limits and the Calumet River. The numerous new manufacturing concerns golng into the neighborbood of Pullman and South Chicago bave given & great stimulus to the prospects of real estate there. The North Division, too, is awakening, and NEW. ENTERPRISES OF IMPORTANCE- are finding sites on the North Branch. - Great curlosity exists as to the purchaserof the southegst coruer of ADAMS AND FRANKLIN STREETS, 126x189, recently sold by Mr. C. M. Henderson for 31750 & foot. One man's guess {8 as good as another’s, but the most popular surmise polats t the Brooks estite of Boston as tbe buyers. Another guess i in favor of A. T. Stewart & Co. If either of these have bought the land it will be improved by an elegant build- promptly, our Common Council ought to take the necessiry steps to bring it about. RENTS ARE STRONG. The number of new concerns seeking accom- 'modation {n the City continues to be s striking fenture of the business of rentlur agencies. Mead & Coe have rented to Hotchkiss & Palmer 137 and 139 State street, first floor and basement, for £6,000. The rent last year was $4,600. This firm report & better demand for real estate than they have had before inJanuary for eight yea: BUILDING PERMITS 2 are becoming more numerous. Among the oned 1esued last week were those toMrs. Goldsteln for & two-story and basement brick dwelling, 2 by 52fest, at No. 691 Milwaukee avenue, to cost $4.500; to Emanuel Silverman, for a two-story and basement brick dwelling, 25 by 55 feet, North LaSalle and Schiller streets, to cost $6,800; to Henry Strong, to build a tive-story stone and brick structure, 60 by 93 feet, corner of Monroe street end Fifth avenue, to cost $35,000; to W. «Labarsh, to erect a two-story and basementbrick dwelling, Taylor street, ner Centre avenue, to cost $3,000; to W. L. & C.L Pick, to crecta four-story and basement brick store, 8) by 135 feet, at No. 108 Lake street, to cost $35.000; 10 C. Werner, to erect a three-story and bagement brick dwelling, 24 by 60 feet, Cottage Grove avenue and Twenty-fifth street, to cost $7,000; to Kroeschell & Bro. to erect a boller-shop, 40x 100 feet, corner of Michigan Kingsbury streets, to cost $1,600: to Sarah Mulherron, to “ bulld & one-story cottage, 20xi2 feet, corner of Douglas avenue and Lincoln street, to eost $700, LOANS. ‘The aggregate of the loans filed for record this weel 1s ngain swelled beyond tho nominal pro- ‘portions by a railroad mortgage, that of the Grand Trunk Juncdon Railroad for $350,000 on all its property, due in 191 at5 per cent {nterest. There were fifty-two mortgages made coverlog loans for §1,81: ), and 111 trust-deeds covering £259,072, or a total of 163 transactions, loans amounting to $2,072851. The owners of less than 1 per cent of the 30,000 feet of MICHIGAX AVENUE FRONTAGE assessed for the boulevard fmprovement wmake objecdon to the assessment. The houlevard will make rapid progress this year from Park place south. North of Park place there are special dificulties about the assessment which will necessitate some delay. The money. to be spent will make a thorough change. Stone side- walks, sldewalk grass-plats, trees, lampposts, curbs, and the roadway are sll to be made uni- form and first class. When thfs beautiful av- ing. The Brooks estate have =n ambition to outdo in Chicago the beautiful Boreel Building in New York. & The Connecticut Mutuat Life-Insurance Com- pauy; through Isham & Prentice, have sold their ‘property on the soutbwest corner of . MOMEOE AND L4 SALLE streets for $82,000. The piece sold was the east balf of Lot 3 and the north forty-five feetof Lot 4 in Block 96. Scbool Section. This property has . afrontage of ninety-five feet on Monroe. The * fifzy feeton the corner runs back forty-five feet on La Balle, #0d the adjolning forts-five feet on Monroe bas a depth of 190. The purchaseris a well-known Chicago capitalist. Twelve hundred dollars an acre has been bid for land on State street west of Pullman. .A quiet 1nquiry 1s on foot for the stock of the CALUMET & CHICAGO CANAL & DOCE COM- 3 PANY. Ten dollars a share has been freely bid for it, and as freely refused. The property of this Company consists of 6,000 acres of land at South Chicago. The Company cwe on stocks, bonds, gud secrued interest about $500 an scre. Tho value of the land ranges as high as $2,000an acre, and very little of it would go for less than $500an acrn. At $500.an acre on the average 1he stock would be worth par, and at an average ! of §1,000an acre ft wculd bring $300 s share. Hence the unwillingness of the holders of the stock togell to the bondholders at 10 centson the doller. " George B.Clarke & Co.,No. 9Mutual Life Build- ~ ing, have soid the stone front house No. 3000, Lake Park avenue, with lot 23x92 to 16 foot alley, $8,500; stone front nouse go. 3%2 Lake Park avenue; lot 26x92 to 16 foot alley, $6,250; #tone front house No. 3001 Groveland Park av- enue, lot 23x92, $8,500; 83 feet, east front, Grove- land Park avenue, by 84 feet deep, at §75 per foot; 26 feet, east front, ou southwost corner of Thirtieth street and Groveland Park avenue, by 94 feet deep, at $80 per’ foot; 100 fect, east front, on portnwest corner of Thirtieth street and Groveland Park avenue, at $07.50 per foot: 50 fcer, weat front, on northesst corner of Thir- tigth street and Groveland Park avenue, at $80 per foot.-- 3 Garpett & Thomasson have 8old the two-story brick bollding and lot 388 State street for $13.000. Thisisata valuation of $425 a foot for the land. -E. 8. Dreyer & Co.sold Lots 48 ard 49, School Section Addition, Sec. 18, for $500 per acre cash. ‘These two lots conaist of ten acres each located about three-quarters of a mile due west of Pull- man. It was purchased by the firm eight months ago far $300 per acre, and shows therefore 100 ‘per cent profit in that time. The same firm also eold 150x161 feet on Michigan avenue, near Forty-ninth street, for $80 per foot, ‘W. D. Kerfoot & Co. have sold the corner house of the nine owned by Mr. Jesse Spaldmg on.the southeast corner of Superior and Sinclair streets for $7,500. s B. F. Head sold for Thomas and Catharine Mo- " Kenna to Winfleld§. Baker twenty-thres lots 1n Maher & McKepna's Subdisision for $18,760, all cash. G IN THE SALES OF THE WEEK ' were85feet to alley, improved, on West Lake, ‘west of Wood, $18,000; 49100, fmproved, on Cass street, south’ of Erie, $19,000; 20x148 on South ‘Water, east of Clark, £29,500;50x90 on Fifth avenue, near Monroe, $30,000; 12:3ix1120on Mar- ket, nortbeast corner of Jackson, $41,500; 205 feet to river on Grove stroet, uear Seventeenth, $61,500; 75x100 on Thirty-fifth, southeast corner - of Culumet avenue, $5,000; 58x106.0n Maple, east of Dearborn avenue, $7,500; 50x174 on Wabash avenue, south of Thirty-fourth, $5,760: 253 x100 on State, northwest corner of Fourteenth, $7,500; 80x1805'on West Madison, west of Desplaines, $4.25; 204x110 on State, north of Twelfth, $6,600; 22x1%5, improved, on Calumet avenue, near ~third, $7.500; 21x100, improved, on Ontario, west of Dearborn avenue, $8,600; 20x80 on Lake, east of Fifth avenue, $1L000; 23x92, Iimproved, on Lcke avenue, southweet cormer of Thirtieth, $8,500; 267 on Broad, north of Archer avenue, to Pitpey, with 2(x100 on northcast corner of Archer avenue and Pitney, $13,000; same, $20,~ 000; =24(x1% on West Madison, west of Robey, $5,000; 24x105 on West Monroe, east of Wood, X 50x83 on West Indians, east of Robey, $5.000. 3 A 'comparison of the records in the Recorder's office with the lists of transfers published in the Tnewspapers since Jan. 1shows that 15 per cent of the transfers rocorded HAVE NOT BEEX PUBLISHED. . At the request of persons interested, Recorder Brockway has been omitting numbers of sales from the published lists. Salesto the nmount of $347,450 were omitted during the Arst four weoks of this month. Hereafter there will be no more such suppressions, and those who wish to keep their business a secret will noed to withhold thelr deeds from record. A sale of 142,000 acres of land i Barry County, Missourd, has been made by the St. Louis & San Francisco Raad through the Chicago firm of Sidway, Bogue & Co.,toa SCOTTISH LAND COMPANT. This land will be resold to Scoteh and English Tarmers who Intend to mske their home in America. Mr. Sidway reports that there is an increasing disposition in Great Britain to invest 1n the stock of American iond companies. This 27ows largely out of the fact that there are & Rreat many personsdesiring to purchase land for future accupaucy who cannot conventently come over at present to select it, but ure willing 1o invest upon the judgment of others in whose integrity and ability they have confidence through personal knowledge. 1tis a convenient Way of azgregnting capital for buying at the lowest prices. Certainly agreat many persons ‘will come here through becoming interested in a company that otherwise never would withous some such assistance. The signs aro that there will be an unusual influx of persons of means during 1551, and especially among the farming classes, and others who dasire to engage in cat- tle-growing on the plains, many - of the latter - belng young men irom the cities. THE ANNEXATION OF BRIGHTON 1o Chicago is one ot the coming fssues. This suburb palitically belongs to Cicero, but has no other connection with it. Its geographical, bus- iness, and all other relations are with Chicago. ‘Wkien Ciceru territery was annexed to Chicago 1n.1665, to secure room for the West Side Parke Brighton was left ot to accommodate Mr. John McCaffery, who wanted to keep his political bome in Cicero. But the growth of Brichton and. Chfcago toward each other has been so rapid that the annexation ought not to be longer delayed. I the people of Brighton do not act enue is completed, the South Side will bave finer parks, and easier access 10 them than any other community In the country: - The West Park Board have adopted without amendment the proposed ordinanece for the im- provement of - WEST WASHINGTON STREET, from Halsted to Central Park. It wasordered that the property-owners along the line of pro- posed improvement e notified to attend the next regular meeting of the Board, Feb. T, for consultation as to cost; and ft was further dr- ranged that the Bonrd members should hold an intormal meeting among.themselves alone Mon- day to talk the matter over. . Commigsfoner Waller states that he will zo be- fore the Councll Finance Committee to oppose & large partof ' THE STREET IMPROVEMENTS | ordered by the Council. He says thai the ordi- nances have beep passed in omnibus form. No one knows how much- the improvements are Roing to cost, while the city’s share, on a portion only, will be over $420,000 for the intersections and crossings. He says that this amount should be reduced more than a balf. Many of .these Streets can go over until anotner year, To have them ali done this year will be an impositon upon the peeple and taxpayers, because prices will be raised. and contractors will of necessity gerlect a portion of the work fn order to get through. The city cannot possibly spare $120,- 000 this year for street improvements. The Committee on Streets and Alleys, South, bave decided to postpone for one year the fm- proving ‘of Twenty-sixth street west of State, and Wentworth ' avenue from Twenty-second street to Archer avenue, A delegation of prop- erty-owners have protested against the {m- provements. ' ‘Viaducts and bridges cost the city $40,000 last year. ‘The Stock-Yards people are represented by Mr. John B. Sherman to be ready, to coatribute $150,000 for the erection of . CANAL PUMPING-WORKS to be placed at the city limits, at Thirty-ninth street and the South Fork, as partiesare ready to contribute the land for the purpose. Mr. Sher- ‘man would like to see 2 drainage bill passed, so that the Towns of Hyde Purk, Clcero, Lake View, and other suburbs benefited by the im- provement might assist in paying for the work by taxation. He regards this method as the only practical and feasible one by which Chicago can gerrid altogether of the Stock-Yards stinks, much of wnich comes from that pestiferous hole knowa as the South Fork. The plan is that the Stock-Yards shall contribute. $160,000, the Clty of Chlcago $150,000, and the State $150,000. Tho rights and duties of property-owners IN GROVELAND PARK have been a subject of litigation in the Circuit Court. The park was laid out by SenatorStephen A. Douglas i 185, and dedicated by .him a3 a private park to the use of the owners of lots fronting vn the same, and to be used and en- Joyed by such owners {n common 88 2 _private park, and for no other purpose; to be orna- mented, regulated, and protected in such man- ner as a majority of such owners should from time to time prescribe, each owner to share in the expense {n proportion to the number of feet be may own. Forsome past the purk has been Xkept in repairs by a majority of the owners of the fronting property, who have formed an as- sociation for the purpose of so dolag. The as- sociation levied an assessment agafnst the Indi- vidunl lot owners for the improvement of from 50 cents o §1 per foot. Somo of the assessments 80 levied remalin unpaid for,the years 1875-'6-"7- *8-'9. Some of the present owners of the prop- erty declare they will not pay the assessment, and a suit was accordingly brought fa court to ascertain it they could be compelled to pay the assessment, or {f the property could be held liable for the same. It was the decision of Judee Tuley that the holders of the property could be holden for the sssessment. DOCKAGE. To the Editor of The Chicago Tribune. CHICAGO, Jan. 28—You stated last Sunday that there {3 no more dock property for sale or torenton the Soutn Brunch or on the North Branch this side of Chicago avenue. There is some very fine dock property between Chicago avenue and Fullerton avenue, belonging to the Chicago, Milwaukee & St.Paul Bajlroad Com- pany-and Chieago & Northwestern Rallroad and other parties, and I understand that’ these rail- ronds are about to improve this section on as Rrand a scale as the South Brauch for lumber- yards and manufacturing purposes; and, as these docks will be even nearer to the business centre than those on the South Branch south of Twen- ty-second street, IL would appear as if there was 2 way now to supply the great scarcity of dook Ppruperty at least for & few years until all this North Brauch property is occupied. Tne in, E.T.Joxzs, OF BAN FRAXNCISCO, complains that the moment there Is 80 much as a whigper of inquiry, that very Instant do would- be sellers advance their figures. However, that is their business. But do not let us haveany more grumbling and foolish statewents that property cannot be given away, whea values that would readily bave been accepted twelve months ngo are now peremptorily refused. There i nothing to justify a1 immediate en- hancement in values, and the sooner people who desire tosell realize this fact, the better it will be for them. Otherwise, they may fiud, in & few months, that they bave stood in the way of thelr own taterests. Buyers expect to get bar- «ains, and take nothing else. ' Persons who are anxious. to dispose of their. possessions must meec the market, Businessduring the week has been tolerably good. The demand continues steady, thongh sales are not large. % * Wil there be 2 real-estate boom?” {3 thy question raised by the Grapnic. It notes a great dcal of activity in the real-cstate market. The transactions have not yet become very large, but both IN NEW YORK * . City and In Rrooklyn there are many inquiries after property, improved and unimproved. The stock market bas been sparched for in- ‘vestment stocks. The gilt-edge stocks are held &t too high 4 figure atthistime to warrant much speculation o them. The lower priced stocks are being sought after. Guvernment bonds are sought by those who desire safoty above eversy- thing else la investment. But men with money Qesire fo make money. Real-estate values in New York and vicinity shrank greatly after the panic. The transfers that were mode were mostly forced transfers. At the present time there aro indications of : $h6 coming of aplera:af bigher prices in real eatats-and very lnrge‘-u‘gix'hg‘-f actions in the real estate market. 1% LY Heal property hus one grent advantage,which appenls to the ardinary invester. [tcannor'take wings und fiy away. Its valuo-moy deprectatd; but it cannot be completely wipedout. . _ BROOELEYN ' "'~ isto have o big offide bullding, to'be put up by, M. A-’A. Low. It willgoves a grotind ared of nearly 100 by 150 feet, will rise elght stories above the sidewalk.and will coataln 219 ofiices and rooms, -The site, at Court“end “Hijustn streets, Brooklyn, faces to tho east 3jffHonth, The first story witl be of brown stone; AROVethls | the walls will be of Philadelphia brick, with | aressings o2 terra cocta and brown stone.'A. tiléd | oot two storfes in hight will surmount the walis, broken at various polnts by gables and dormera. On the corner of the two strects a clock tower over 200 feet high will be & prominent landmark for that part of Brookiyn. The whole I8 to be completed on or betore May 1, 1882, On the up- per fioor there will be & law library. The inte- rlor of the building will bo arranged around a large court, which will be inélosed with a gluzed roof, and have balconies on the level of each floor, giving communication to the various parts of the building. SATURDAY’S TRANSFERS. . The following-instruments were tiled for rec- ord Saturday, Jan. 29: OITY PROPRRIY: The premises No. 677 West Indlana st, dated Jan. 27 (Mary Ehrsam to Curist o Miller). ... ...8 7400 Hurlbut st, 185 ¢t n of Sigel, e f, 23%x130 £t, improved, dated_Jun. 26 (Joba Al - lunder to Hreck M. Sundwyist).......... Archerav. 53 ft n e of Purple st sf, 248-10 ft to alley, dated Jau. 18 (Lucius | ‘Tuckerman to Churl s Stegmilier).... .. Chicago uv, 88 ft w of La Saife st, n f, 20x % ft, improved, drted Jan. (John Hart to Pauling Schissle)................ Belden av, 13U ft e of Hurlbut st,8 f, Wx 165 1t, dated Jan. 2 (Catbarine Price to Herbert A. Btreeter) . ..oo.eeeereerees ‘Ilinols st, 125 ft e of Dearborn av. 8 f, 35 X100 It, duted Jan. 28 (Erustus Guryto-. Cul‘hn#e Price). . cereenrans Hlinois ¥ 180 £t e of Dearborn av, 8 f, 20 X100 ft, quted Jan. 15 (Street and Chat- Fall, s £, 25x tield to same grintee) . West Madison st, 125 ft w of 126 ft, dated Jun, 20 (McCarthy and Leg- gett to Libbie M. Foye).. eeens Clybourn av, 521 ft s e-of Shetlield, n e f, 24x100 ft, ddted Jan. 24 (Musterin Chan- % cery to cstate of Christinn Senell)..... The premises No. 40 Ozchard st, dated Jun, 2 (Alexander r. Stevenson to Frank E. Nellis)....... - i Stute st, 25 ft 8 of Thnirty-eighth;elt, 25x1 fr,dated Jon.29 (Mutthews Hermes to Elizubeth Youog)...... siees ‘Wentwortayv, 434 rt o _of Thirty-third 8L, e f, und 3 of 25x126 £t, datud Jun. 23 (Peter Anderson to Rrick Olson)........ NORTH OF CITY LIMITS WITHIN A RADIUS OF BEVEN MILES OF THE COURT-HOUSE. Liocoln av, bet Montanast and Fullerton av.ne 1501t to alley.dated Jan.29(Berger. Juacobson to Blizabeth Dupius $ 3,000 Clybourn av, 448% ftn w ot Hoy froot, 257t to alley. duted Jan. 28 (A J. Weckler to Fritz Muntel) 25 SOUTH OF CITY LIMITS WITAIN A RADIUS OF SEVEN MILES OF TAE COURT-HOUSE. Indlana av, bet Fifty-eighth and Fifty- ninth sts, e f, 195x168) ft (with 49x160 ft .in sams block). duted Jan. .10 (Anna A, 3,500 4,000 5800 6,000 4,000 2,500 2,000 1120 Taylor to Sebastian Wustum)... .. 6,200 reyer st, 316 £t 8 of Forty-geventh, w f, 26X121 1, duted Nov.9, 1830 (R. Berger 1o F. Melofaky)... .. . ) _Wabash av, 103 £t n of Flt%y-s&emh st, w £, 100x101 ft, datcd-Jan. 6 (Edward W, Jones to AL M. Scovil). v 4,000 WEST OF CITY LIMITS WITHIN A RADIUS OF BEVEN MILES OF THS COURT-HOUSE. . Cortland st, 8 e cor of Seymourav,n f, 24 1243 ft, dated Jan. 25(J. 8. Abbott to Heory Hoepey......... -$ Mozart: st, 0 e cor of Wabansia, w x100ft. dated Jan. 10 Jobn' Johnston, =Jr,toLand C. E. Marcour). .. & ik SUMMARY FOR THE WEEI The following isthe total amount of eity and suburban trausfers within a radius of seven miles of the Court-House filed for record during the week ending Saturday, Jan.29: City sales, 96: conslderation, $585,191. North of clty Hmits —Sules, 5; consideration, $7,80). South of city Hmits—Sales, 19; ‘consideration, $41,145. West of city limits—Sales, 8; consideration, S4,17L Total sales, 128; total consideration, $838,307. THE GRAIN RECEIVERS.. A Resolution Adopted "Adverse to the Present System of State Inspection. The Grain-Receivers’ Association met in the rooms of the Directors of the Board of'Trade yesteraay afternoon. -They had somg of thoir number stationed conveniently around to assure privacy, and a _reporter could scarcely get in- side the building, so great was the vigilance ex- ercieed; but it was learned that H. W. Rogers, Jr., presided; that the attendance was quite large, and the important question discussed was tho c:fl.nz away with State inspection of graln in 3 clty. The ball was opened by 'the jntroduction of a resolution propusing to transfer the Inspection of grain to the control of the Board of Trude, which evoked congiderable discussion, resulting in the adoption of the foilowing: - Resoloed, Thut the President und Directors of the Board of Trade appoiut & committee to pre- sent a bill, or indorse oe already presented to the Legislature of this State, now in session, for the transfer of the fuspeetion of grain from a pointeesof the State Governmentto the Biards of Trade, such committee 1o be Instructed to prepare & printed.argument in support of this neasure, With aughority to proceed to Spring- feid {n this interest. x The only gzentleman who expressed himself in oppositon 1o rhe resolution was Mr. H. H. Rice, who claimed that they ought to let well enough alone; thut the Chicago Inspection was good, and stood weil all the world oyer,—was w?del)’ and favorably koown,—~was more fatvorably koown now than ever before. Disinterested parties weresbetter judges of the grade of grain. than the recelvers were. THe had an appeal committee now whose decision was absolute and final; and it consisted of the best judges of grain ‘on the tloor. 1f the Rallroad and .Warehouse Commissioners would only attend to_their du- ties and force the railronds to IIvé op to the statutes, nohody coufd then cowmplain-of tne grain {nspection at Chicago, A further resolution was also adopted au- thorizing the appointwent of a cummittee of five to formulate and present to any Legislutive committee that 1ay be sent here to Investigate llhef!uspec{d&u ?f !;rslg the fllcl!n:"nd arguments “In favor of the inspection bel en out of the hands of the Stute. e So fur a3 could be learned, in ¢onversstion with the attendunts upon the meeting, thoy object to the system rather than the persons Wwho have: boen dolng the inspectng. 'I'he; think that Mr. Reynolds has done as well a8 af~ most any one eise would have done under the circumstances, but what they want I8 embraced in tho resolution adoptqd, the general idea bes ing to divorce the inspection of grain from politics. 3 —— MEN_AND SPIDERS, Lflung & stone into a grassy fleld: How many tiny creatures there may yleld (@ tho!x;.ghg]melr peuty lives through that rude oc} - To me 1 pobble, 'tis to them = rock, Gigantic, cruel, and fravght with sudden death. Perhnps it crushed an ant, perhaps fis broath Alone tore down a white and glittering palace, And the smull spider damps unegium 8 unlice ‘Who wrought the wreck—blasted his petty art! ‘Who knows what day a ssunterer, light of eart, An idle wanderer through the flelds of space, Lurg:f(l}:nbed, big-bruined, to whom u‘l’u’ puny Seems small as Insects; one whose footstep jars On some vust contlnent fslanded by stars.— Who knows when he, just leanlng o'er the bags, Auy fling o stoue and crush our earth to bits, And all that men bave builded with their wits? Ab, what a loss] you sax; our bodies go, But not our temples, statues, und the glow Of gloriou canyases; and not the piges Our poetshuve fllumed through myriad ages. What boots the insect’s loss? _Another day Will gee tne self-same ant-bill, and the play Of light on dainty web the snm{. . 2 ou The spider’s work 18 not original,~— = But what of ours? -Ahl friend, I think that all We do 15 Just the same thing over and aver, Take life: you have the woman and ber lover— "Tis old ns Eden. nothing new in that! - Take Bullding, and you reach ere fong the flat Nlle desert sands, by way of Prance, Rome, Greece. And there i3 Poetry—our bards increase In numbers, but. betore John Keats, the robe Of song was worn by Shakspeare, Dante, Jub. No, nol The forms may change, but even they Come round again. Could we but scan jt We'd flnd in the heavens some little, busy planet Whence all we are was borrowed; and it to-day ‘The imazined giant Hung his ponderous stone, - 4nd we and alf our miglty schemes were dong, His were u scant remorse andshort-lived trouble As mine for those small ereaturesin the stubble, —— A Duel with Bows and Arrows,! Helgravia., Onone occaslon bows have been bent i most bloodthirsty intent. Ou Feb, 10.,0), & very ludicrous duel took place at. Edjaburg, of which, unfortunately, only this mesgré account is preserved: “Two geutlemen met on the, Meadows, supplied with bows and arrows, to de- clde a poiut of honor. They were nccampanied. by seconds, and hud a - surgeon in attendunce i case their Inchan artillery should by any meuns |, prove effective. After a harmless exchange of. three shots the purties retired, the point ,qf honor doubtless being satisfactorily arrang 1f similar weapons were always employed in dueling,” adds the newspaper!' reporter, * this amusement would speedity. become’ unfash able, seeing that the secunds would run quitéds great, if not a greater, risk than the principals” v, TAX FRAUD Al Reinke Returns: Home from St. Louis. g He Has Very: Little to Say on the Subject of His Arrest. The Omitted Tax Forfeltures Amount to . B Littlg,Over $70,000. . b S e Oonflict of Testimony as to the Adminis- tration wnder-Which They Ocourred, AT EEINKE. ms ReYURR To cmrcago. Al Reinks, themtieged principul In the much~ talked-of tax fargeries, arrivea from St. Loufs last evening ‘on’ tha.Chifago & Alton Railrond at’ 7:45 o'clock {n chirié ‘ot Detective Horace Elli- Ott, wno took him "t_the Central Pulice Station, Where he was clogeted ai7hile with Lieut. Cur- rier—who « kndivs Hlinwell—in the private {ntervigwving-rosit'of ' Buperntendent of Police uce_..rfle‘ He EAd Bée' wore but a few minutes, when Cunty Clérk Xlokke 'arrived and had a short tafk with bim, whict' the Mujor 8uld did not relate to the tax forgurica. Then he wassubjected to the"reportorint ingulsition in bebulf of the generai public by a TRIBUNE rep- resentative. To'the question whether be would | muke any statoment sbout'the altcrutions on the books or the manner in which the changes were made, ' he auswered * politely By saying that he hoped the - reporter would excuse him: Tae TRIBUNE bad 'treated hlin fafrly uonder the circuwsstances. but he would vot say anything about the matter until hesaw the proper parcies, meanug, presuma- bly the County.Clerk, State's Atforuey, and other otficlals. A Detective Elllott recelved instructions to take _his . prisoner to the Arwory, and, accompunied by Detective Wiley snd _the reporter, they walked down Ea Sulle street und Pucitic ayanue until that pulice sta- don was reached. On cutering tue party wus met by Capt. Buckley. whbo ‘bud been a former employé In the County Cierk’'s oilice, and was fumiliur with Refuke, ~Detective Eufott turned his man over to the Captuin and departed, while Reinke, Buckley, and TOE TRIBONE man went into the "Captain’s private office und indulged io & little quiet conversidon, in the course of which Reinke—who I3 a very good talker, and a polite one—relited. the circum- stances attending his recent movements, He said HE WAS WELL AWALE OF THE DISCREPAN- » CIES in the County Clerk’s office before he desired to 80 to St. Louls to see his brother, and also to buy some horses for- ex-Detectiva Johu * Kyan, who keeps a0 livery-stable on Twenty-sec- ond street. @ had beem to see a borse-dealer when Dotective Lawlor met bim on Plue street, near the Planters’ House, and fold bim he wanted bim. . tie was surprised, for he bad’intended starting for Chicago the very next (Thursdiy) morniug, thinking before be iefu this city that if anything occunrred in re- lution to the ux matters he would be back in time to uttend to them. He readily ncoumpa- nfed Luwlor to the Four Courts, where he wus divested of al! his private pupers and pluced in a cell along with three of the worst tramps he had ever seen. He described the prison as a terror of terrurs,—a vile and filthy hbole, the odors of which were so foul that he wus mude Sick, and he found nothing but the soft side of a hurd plank to lte down upon,—too much for even his weary frame, and he could nut sleep.- After pussing 8 bard night Lawlor - sent in_ his breakfust trom a restaurant, but they would not.alluw him anytbing but a spoon and u fork to assist bimin eating It, and he wus forced to foregn most ot it. Toavoid such bard rrearment and 10 enable him to eseape 2 place that. he verily belleves another hour's continement in would bave driven him crazy, Keluke says he nad his friends apply for & writ of . habeas corpus, knowing that he would be detainea for several days. Iuy the event of his release be intended to return at once to Chicago. He was glad to see Detective Elliott whon.he arrived, and wus pleased to get out of guch a terrible prison pen us that In the Four Courts. IN REGARD T0 THE LETTER published ja THE TRIBUNE, written by a lady to him, Refoke said he hud scarcely had time to read .t when . it was taken from him. Beifg questioned 83 to that portion of .the letter which referred to the udvice of Asay, he said that he bud seen that geutiemun two or three times before he left the city, and bad received some advice from hlmubo;x: t:n?‘.‘m‘g utters. li;hdn T)flvlce of the. writer of the lctet,that | ho. had.. better.. gu., : Canada: was evidRntly made DEenuSe ot il T6- ports published here, und eame fromn the fears of his mother und friends, who did not know the real sliuation of affairs. * The reporter asked him if he had been on INTIMATE TERMS WITH EATON, and ke said be had not,~he knew him ags he had known other tax-ugents; and he never knew of any of the agents makiny any alterations in the bonks, or tamperiog with them inuny way. Nor did beknow of any agents perpetrating any swindles upon taxpayers. Before- leaving bim the reporter usked bim if he would soon inuke au explanation of the matter, and he said he would when _the - proper time arrived; that che newspapers had mude tho matter one of great magnitude, and bo gave the reporter to understand that some develop- ments would s00n be made that would pince the matter before the public in 1ts_propér Light, and prove satisfuctory toall concerned. That ended the interview, which proved moro fruitful than it promised at the beginniug, und Reinke wns left in.ichurze of Capt. Buckley. “His mother was expected lust night to see him. TAX FORFEITURES. THE AMOUNT INVOLVED $72,000. The article in yesterday’s TRIRUNE about the omission of forfeltuyres from the renl-estate warrants created as much consternation in the County Clérk's office as o bombardment by a battery of artiliery stationed on the opposit side. of the street. Men who hud served under Gen. Lien, Mr. Klokke's predecessor, rushed over from the South Side early In the morniug to find out where the informition came from. They were terribly put out, because of a supposed retlection upon them, and sought to throw the blame on some one else. . It was Impossjble, they said, for a * ring" to. make money in any such way, as the scheme was surc fo.be- dis- covered—could rot be worked with success. They lnid in wait for. reporters, especlally the representative of THE TRIBUNE, In order to tell bfm that' fie had Deen misinformed— was laboring under a misapprebension—and that there was. no .foundution for “the charge of fraud. The reporter met Mr. Willlam Ap- derson, chief clerikc under Gen. Lieb, and as struizht a little’ gentleman as there is in the city, and, as he was one of the experts who went through the books from 1871 to 1878, asked him’ IF HE f{AD DISCOVERED ANYTHING. **Yes," said he, “'we did.”" “What?? | c - ~ “‘Omlitted forfeitures, church property which had beon taxed, land assessed twice, and a lotof other errors.” ] =t * How much wag (nvplved?”’ *‘The exact figures are $1%94.02." * Were nll the mistakes o oné town?” A *No. Ihavealistof them.” And Mr. Ander- 800 handed the reporter & memorandum show- ing the fallowing Alstribution . West Chicago 30 South Chica T12508 1497 Hyde Far] 1567 ake. . 164 Luke View.. 1143 cero. soat Jefferson 810 Calumot . S = Worth, bt = e And then hesafd: «' 9/ ¢ A * Whenever prppgr’if;g forfelted It fs sup- Dposgd to be carried foryged oi’the next vear's amount, but up to 1873 it was the custom of heavy taxpayers'to appfal From the judgments of the County Court,l:ddjise no penaltywas, attached, and, whep,thit;Wus the case,a for- felture was not extended. vuAll n ighter had to dowua to give a bond7 ' did-uot have to de- posit the amount of the fax. At present, you know, & party.appeslmg must deposit the money and give Security:for thé additional cost. Prior to 1576 sere was much tax-fighting. In October, 167, A_tax’sule'was held by the County Treasurex nd nll the appeals were dismissed by the Surf¢me ‘Court. . {'had charge of tho bo BEn¢And went through them nud took off ;.xbg o3 appeuls and, put them fu separate ‘bugkes~end, in additon, took off every appealed -eax tiatbad not-been_ dismissed, and” of which there ~vas no record. All these taxes were carrfedforward on the warrant of 1873, and the work w6 about” two-thirds done when Klokka came i1to oflice. All of Lieb’s clerks were dis- charged, and the force changed n the middle of the wyrk: and i . {4 GREAT MAJORITY OF THE ERRORS 8,—more oversights. They were found In e books from 1871°to . ~The $i2944 ats the gross: the errors in —the omissions of ° forfeltures enpt property, thzes on , property Judgment hod been’ refused.-the_total nmo_@? of bick taxes Ieft on the bovks. There whs i'Criminality, as it would beutterly impos- for a ring to manipulate things in that Way. . B ** What is to prevent 8 member of it trom can- celing forfelturer” 1t would do no good. The County Treasurer doesn’t receive tuxes ufter the property is for- feited. He murks'that word in blue pencil op~ ‘posit the owner's nume. When the property is tedeemed, the forfeiture. is canceled by the County Clerk, who sends the money to the Treas- urer, but {nserts the amount - in _His cash-book: and he his a forfeited redempdon certiticate on file. When a tax-abstract mun runs across a cunceled forfeiture. he looks up these cer- tificates to see if ft is “all right There are a dozen of these abstract men At work all the tinie, and such a schemo as is suggested in TAE TRIBUNE wouldn't work.’ 5 e D#: suppose the owner did not sell his prop- e A 3 “If he didi't sell, and never died, a forfeft- ;Are n‘;hmt be canceled fruudulently and not be ound out.” *+And you really think the omission of $72,944 1n txes was due to clerical ercors?” “Yes. The exttnslon ot forfeitures i3 the last thing done. All these forfeitures went to the Supreme Court in October, 1877, on uppeal, and they came back in alump, and it was ia that year that %) per cent of the omisslons were made. Klokke succeeded Lieb while the exten- slons were beiug made, and new men—some of them perfectly green—iok hold of the books.’ “THEN "GEN. LIEB'S . ADMINISTRATION 18 NOT RESPONSIBLE for the'bulk of the amissions?™” - *No. 'Instend of leaving off taxes' he put them on where parties bad appealed but didnot. tile a bond.” **Were tnere no omissions while he held the oftice of County Clerk?" B **Yes;:but not any more than under others. The umissions occurred under his predecessors and under Klokke."” ¢ The reporter thea went to Mr. Klokke and told him what Mr. Anderson had said about the percentuze of omlssions when he wok hold of the tux-books. B F * He, is mistaken," sald the County Clerk. *I came Into oflice Nec. 3. 1877, und st that time the . warrunis were finished except the *cross foot-* ings.'—all the extensions had been made,—and we did/that work only.” . % HOW_GAME YOU TO FISD OUT THAT TAXES 4. . HAD BEEN LEFT OFF " . . 14 During the fall of 1878, while engaged on tha extension of taxes, we found that there were a greut muny of these forfeitures—buck -tuxes, uppesled eases, ete., and concluded it would be worthwvhile to set a couple of experts at work, and 'that was done as soon as the extensions were!‘§uished. ~ They found what had been omitted from 1871 to 1877, and the tuxes were ex- tonded,on the warrunt for 128, su the county will luse gotbing.” A *+1s not another comparison of tho books bes ing nhde? = i but not for that purpose.” bat then?” *The clerks are figuring the back taxes on the Dbasis 6 10 per cent per unnum for each year of forfeiture fnstend of compounding them 83 here- tofure, tho Supreme Court having decided that that was Hlegal.” < The reporter alsosaw Mr. Speller, the expert who assisted Mr. Anderson, and asked him when the bulk of the omissions occurred. % “ Notfunder Klokke,” he replied. mmediately prior?”’ “All nloug from '7l to 'TT—about fairly dis- tributed.’ 1t §s understood that i GEX. LIED & tartured a meaning out of yesterday’s nrticle which no one else did. He thinks bis personal integrity wes attacked. Itwus not. 1f the tax: ring did” any work under_hls adiainistrat.cn, be was ns fznorant of it u3 Mr. Klokke was of the fraudulent lowering of nssessments. and, as in the case of the lutter, if he bad suspected any of his employés of dishonesty, he would bave taken as prompt steps to bave them brought. to justice. No reflecton was cast, and nono In- iended to be cast, on his persanul honesty or bis desire to cocduct hig oftice properly. The ques~ tion us to when the bulk of these omissions oc- curred fs, it will be seed, in dispute- MISCELL.ANEOTUS. ANOTHER CLEAR CASE OF ALTERATION in the real-estate warrnut ciime to light day be~ fore yesterday, involving the property of Mr. Folz, the vault clerk in the County-Bullding, and his brother. They own jolntly Lots 1, 2, and 4 In Davis’ Subdivision of Block 3 of Sec 33. The assessments (§1,500) and- the extensions on the warrant of 1830 had all been scratghed’ out and other figures fnserted, but subsequently the original ones put in. Whether this latter wag done aftertho discovery of the alterations in the personal-property warrants is unknown. That 3 the impression of those. who bave seen the changes. The amounts are all right now, however, aud the charitable view is that tne ernsures were due to a “clerieal crror. Reference to the same l0ts on the' warraat of 1579 disclosed that No. 1 had been originally as- sesded at ¥500, Nos. 2 and 3 at $80, These amounts had beea efossed out with . tead peacll, and $200 and $250 written over.them. The uu- thority for the change appoared In the margin of ‘the page, **By consent of Assessor.” When asked about it, Mr. Druke said be had never consented to the reduction. Mr. Foly, however, procuced the following: “CHICAGO, Aug. 23, 15T0.—E. F. C. Klukke, Cou ty Clerk—DEAR SIR: There Is un eCror in asses: went of Lots 1,2, and 8, Block 3, Davis’ Subdi- vision of N. E. 5 of E. % of S, W. 13, Sec. 23, 89, 4. Improvawcats ure assessed twice. Please correct the same, Change Lot 1 from to $200, Lots 2 and 3 from $30 to $250. This will make them equul to other fots, same_ block ana vicluity. Yours truly, . G, CozzENs, |, * Chief Deputy-Ass essor, South Town." *“ The term of the Assessor,” said Mr. Drake, **expired July 10, 1879, when the buoks were re- turned to the County Clerk. All the Deputies were discharged on that day, when Lot 1 was as- sessed At $00, und Lots 2 and 3 at $850, fncluding improvements. The letter of Mr. Cozzens fs dated Aug. 25—forty-six days after he censed to be a Deputy Assessor. * : : *Then the reduction was unauthorized? ™ *Entirely so. "I never Knew anything ubout untll to-day. Last summer Mr. Folz came_over during the meeting of the Town ‘Board to Eeo about the ussessment of his prop- erty, briuging ~with him lus recefpt- book which sbowed that be had pajd on a valuu- tion of $450 the yeur before. He asked why be hud been nssessed so high this year. I inves- tignted the matter, and found Ly comparison with my books that the valuation in my books for 1870 was $1.6W, instead of $450. 1asked Coz~ zens where Foiz got bis figures, and be said he supposed be got them in the Cotnty Clerk's of~ tice. Cozzens did not inform me that he had s~ sued a certificute. It turns out now that the lowering was done on this letter, which was en- tirely unauthorized, as it was writt afler he bad censed to be u Deputy Asessor.” * What are you gomg to do about it#* “Ihaven't made up my mind yet.” Mr. Folz, in cxplanation, produced Cozzens letter, and’snid that Mr. Fiteh, a clerk, had made ‘the chanwe in 1874 by order of Mr. Reinke. As to the seratching on the 183) warrant, ho knew nothing about it, having nothing to do with figuriug in the boaks himself. ‘The Chlef Clerk of Mr. Klokke sald THE REVENUE LAY WAS NOT ADAPTED TO COOK COUNTY. |The Assessors began .work May 1and were re- quired to finish July 1. They couldn’t make the ussessments in thut time. The nssessments were only partinlly made, aud the County Clerk recognized any officinl communication from the Assc's.lur:s office 0s to the lowering of assess- meats.t © . B 1t was an accident, too, that brought to the surface this peculiar way of dulnlf bustness, and the circumstances show the ‘need of reform, If nothing else.called for ft. . THE TRIBYNE inadvertently used the name of J.'W. Norris the other day Instead of B. F. Nor- ris. TheTormer has bad nothing to do with Mr. Enton, andrhis nsscssment was not fraudulently cut down. % . " FORGIVENESS. I ' For The Chicago Tribune. Tho wrong had done its work * "Gainst one true heart, fEbat through the day must bear /lu kY ne ll(ng’rlnz swart. -iThen Pride uprose to chide i Thewounded one, . + And whigpered: * Ne'er forglve .+ What bus been done.” . But Love breathed 10w the thought Of Heaven born, And thus the deed soon lost 1ts sharpest thorn. ‘At night a contrite soul For pardon sought, , And from tho day's datk Woes Forgiveness broight. [y And she who granted peace, Found sweetest rest; il Yor Passion’s torments cense At Heaven's behest.. ~ Louisa Loxa. 8 e ——— ‘Thomson Corrected by Pope. There {8 a curious history counected witha well-known' passage in the’ episode of Lavinia in the Autumn of Thomson's * Seasons.”. The lines a3 originally written by the ahthor were exceedingly commonplace: “Thoughtiess of beauty, she was Beauty's self, Recluse among the woods; If city o, ? WAL defin choir faith: And thus she went, com- L b 3 By struny necessity, with ns serene And pleased a look a3 Patience e’er put on To glean Palemon’s Hetds." - These were submitted to Pope, who did not like tem at all. ‘Blank verse was not much In Bis was, but he tried his hand atit and produced the following: 4 +Thonghtless of beaut?, sho was Beauty's self, Recluse among the close-embowering woods. As in the bollow breast of Apennine, Beoeath the shelter of encircling hills; A myrtle rises fur from human eyos, And breathes its balmy fragrance o'er the wild; 8o flourished, blooming, and unseen by all, The sweet Lavinia.” . - Mitford gives other Instances, and itis sald that all Pnge’s corrections were adopted by Thomson. Pussibly Gray bad this passagein his mfnd when he penned the tamous couplet: “Eull many a flower I8 bord to blushunsecn, And waste its sweetnesson the degert air.” | for testimonials. DR. 8. A DRUGGIST’S BLUNDER Two Children Killed by Substi- tuting Morphine for ‘Qui= ' .. niné. . ; 'festimony Befors the Grand Jury-;’Haldto E the Oriminal Court. Coroner Matson and & jury.of six men yester- day made an otficial {nvestigation into the case of Martha and Ella Blaok, the two little, girla whose ' deaths weye caused by swallowing muriate of morphine in powders ‘which were supposed to contaln, instead, muriate or qui- nine, -the’ prescripuon baving been wropgly filled by Mr. August Kussmup, druggistat the corner of Canalport avenue and Hulsted street. The inquest, which was held in the Cauulport avenue engine-house, near Unlon street, com- menced at 3 o'clock, but the jury did uot retire to find a verdlet untll after 7. The de- lay was caused from the fact that.both sldes of the case .were - represented by attorneys .who cross-examined witnesses, | made arguments on law polats to -the Coroner, and indulged In 80 much talk across the table that the jury compluined, while the Coroner threntened to exclude the legal features entire- iy. Mr. A. Van Buren wus the attorney for Kussman and Mr. William Vocke was his oppo- neat. The first witness was L AUQUST BLANE. He testified: Iam the father of the ‘two de- ceased children, Martbs and Eila Blank..The former vus 2% and the other 3 years oid. Ella dled Jan. 9, and her sister died on the duy fol- lowing. Ella was taken sick Friday, Jan 7, but Martlia was not taken sick until after she had been given some of the medicine as 2 pre- ventive. Rosa Engert was called to at- tond Ella Saturday night at 10:3v. She wrote a prescription and-took frto hussman’s drug-store; then I went therea quarter of an bour later to get the medicine, but it was not_ready. Kussmen said he would bave it ready In twenty winutes, but. the twenty min-. utes lengthened juto an hour. I noticed that while he wus puiting up the powders he Kept handling two'or three different botcles as though in doubt which to chovse from. There were three kinds of medicine,—powders, a liquid gargle for the throat, and fowe liquid mediclao o be tuken Internnlly. We ftirst gave Ella n teaspoonful of the lhquid med.cing, and about ten minutes later gave ler one of the powders, which were in wafers. The most = of this powder she. but swallowed enough of p ber to sleep in u very faw moments. She slept until 4:3) the next murning, und when she Woke up her eyes appeared dim, while her breathing swas vory hard.” We could not arouj> ber from the stupor for a long time. Fin she_com- menced crying, and then my wife gave her another powder. ‘This only resufted n muking the stupur more protound, and st ubout 8 o’ slock the child died. Dr. Braua had beea culied menutime, and ‘while he was there-Kussman sent his clerk to our house and demanded the powders, saylng that they bad not been pat up properly. Ididnot give him the powders, as my. child was dead. and I did not need uny new medicine. About noon Kussmin asked me at his store to br.n< bim the powders, acting very much excited. When Ltold him that Mcs. Dr. Engert bad told me - to give some of the powders to the second child he begged of . me for God's sake not to do it My wife bnd already given one of the puwders 1o Murtha, und woea I hud returned from Kuss- man’s the littls girl had comaenced to look hike Ella did before she died,~din eyes and a tired appenrunce, The powders were afterwards sealed up in the presence of Drs. Braun and Ster and taken away. Thore were nine in the hese being what were left out of the original twelve. Martha died about 3 o'clock an thy tollowing morning (Monduy). f DR. THEODORE BLUTHARDT, - who made & post-mortem exumination of the bodles of the children, testitied as 1o the condi- tion and nppexranve of the bruin, lungs, heust, ete.,and Said that his conclusion was thut death 1a euch cus2 had resulted from paralysis of the heart and lungs, due to congestion.of the brain produced vy & narcotic poison. MIt J. SIEBEL, of No, 52 La Salle street, the chemlist who anal- yzed the vontents of the stommchsof the deud children, testitied that that of Martba indicuted the presence of u twentioth Of @ gruin of mor- phia. The powders contained morphia in the fucin of murifute. I obtained from Capt. Bon- field some powder, which he took from what ap- peured to be'h quiniue bottle. The chemist also Tound this powder to contain morphia and muri- atic acid—pure murinte of mrphia. , < .+ . Drs. Sterl and Braun testitled to the condition of the children during their last moweuts, aud the efforts made to resuscitate thom. The indi- catlons were of nuarcotic poisoning. LIEUT. AUGUST BLATTNER, ' ‘who arrested Kussmag, testitled that the pris- oner hud uppsared very much excited at the time, The prisoner hud suld that the morphine was tuken from a quinine botile, but that he | could not explain how it got there.—thought some of his discharged clerks had managed to pluy the trick on him. . SERGT. JOIN REMM L testified that Kussmann had expluined his action in asking Blank'to return the powders by say- .ing that he und Blank belonged to the same ‘Order (Foresters), and that he wished to 5ave his Jbrothec members the expense of ‘paying for the remaining powders, they being quite costly. - DR. T.D. WILLIAMS testified that at the rrquest of Superintendent MoGarigle ve had submitted the powder from one of the wafers, und Riso from the bottle, to chemicul and -microscopical tests. Hnd found buth 1o contuln muriate of morphia, but from the color and form of the. crystals ascertained that the powder in the wafer had not been taken from that' in the bottle. The murphia in the bottle was fresh and pure, while that in the wafer had evidently been in stock u yoar ortwo, and subjected to the acdon of light and air. The bottle whick contained the morpnia was u quinine bottle, and hxd. lutely contalned muriute of quiniae. us somo crvstals of murinte of quinine were found in the sera; 1ings from the bottom. L i ADOLPH WISE, ussman’s clerk, testified that he bad gone to Blanl’s to get the powders becuuse Drs.ggngerl bad told him always to send powders to her pi- tients In paper so0 that they could afterward beputup in wafers of suitubi@size by her or some one {n_the family of tha paticut. {;{lmess Wals not at the store when the powders were put up. and when he came to the store the next moraing he found that Mr. Kussmun bad made amistake by purting them in the wafers in- stead of sendiog the wafers along to be filled ac the house. < P MR. KUSSMAN, ‘This witness and his attorney were both read: to udmit that the deuth of tize children had beez caused by morphine. The witness stuted; how- ever. that he bad taken the morphine from the quinine bottle, and that it wasa mystery to Bim how it hud goiten in there. Severil boitles g:l)luluz had been stolen from his store about t time. Tho battle obtained by the police which con- taived the morphine was labeled muriate of quinine, and wns shown to the jury. The testi- wmony of Dr. Willlams, bowever, showed that, this morphine was fresh and thut the worpbine 1o the wafers wns not, and had evidently been takea from a different bottie entirely. ‘he jury were about an bour in reaching A VERDICT. - They found that the childrea had dled from the effects of a narcotic polson (murate of mor- phin): that this poison was given as muriate of uinine ov August Kussman), and that the said ‘e:g&sl Ku;!rgunl:flgeg:“ly(of criminul cnr(f— s, and shoul opt in custody 1o await the action of the Grand Jury: ¥ e Mr. Kussman was tuken to Jail. . TEAS. o A e Bargains this Week E E i : f é our Teus, at our tast- 4 g You can test any of 1ng table, betore buy- i A\ Fime Drinking GUNPOWDER TEA. $ pounds for Good Sweet JAPAN TEA. 4 pounds for 3l /A Chotee, Pure FORMOSA OOLONG TEA. 48¢ 3A CO,. 88 STATE-ST., {50220, 0. PROFESSIONAL, DR. PEIRD, Dovotes, s for yenrs past, exclusis the Homeopataic treatentor - T Bttention o CATARRH, THROAT ASND LUNG DISEASES. 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Dr. R VITAL RESTORATIVE has been_ scrutin'sed-and o= i dorsed by the Academy of Medicinn in Parisassnim- fallible apacific for tha Above ntatnsng phoeoho canrharides, or other polsan; fs puraly VEGET no reaction, and 6 permanent in s BLE, nradu feot: 1 rer &G . Paris. S Reo zosmond:_Pronrietor, Room & Well Rulldine. New Vork. “Send for cirentar, - Borof 1 piils. §5; hot of 47, 80, Sant b mail on ecefot af brice. Nene zenuine withont the simatureof S5 Sigesmond on the, midn of aon“box. £ CERTIFCATE. PARIS, July IS, 15319 Rae do ia Pair~—0ut ot38 patientatrovted Mwere cured within 3 dars, TSl fhmeekn T borween tyo'and tares moulai b ToeR Ve aad stx montis. 119, B "PERIGNRD, edicin de Ta opital Notlee Is hereby given that T. A. Smisb.of St Louit and R. L. De Lisser, of Now York. are no lopsr 3= thorized o act ns sgents for Ricord’s Vital Reston- tive. aa thelr appoinuments a3 such bave been ¥ v h EXTRACT FROM LETTER JUNRS 10 - DR. 5. B. SIGESNOND:—Ton write thatyou wil it fature advertise for yourseif. Do you mean inyout own name, or in mine os ugent? Do you propuis 1 continue the agency or not? In_casd you do isall of course, go on and expend fsome money in sdyer: tising atmy own expense. Wil pay every M dant for what Lorder. 1%, however, you do pot wantme®@ inform me of the faet. > It L DE LISSER, %3 Beckman-st, New Yok ) The counterfeiter of icurt's Vital Hestorative,l which Iam the sole owner and propristor 18 United S ates, tried to keep the agency and -pare kimself ‘with nsnurigns Imitaton, nd eenes , the nume from Ricord's Vital Restoratire 10 Kicord's Rtestorative to havo a similarity, Tbaves continuo the agency alyzed De Lissers Pills. which ?"1‘“5{;‘;311;‘ o mianas the public caa take the wholo and will nether gain nor Jose. ' He. tred o apsist « Hicord’s Vital Ky ive for nearly six montba It e T ESMUND. AL, Thoss are the Restortive adves sld 3 Sorrison, Plummer & Co., - New York, Doc. L. 134, BOLD BY ALL DRUGGITTR 7 The genulne 1s for sale by THOMAS ”"fljfim. Sonth Clark-at, 1. & J. A. BRAUN, &3 Ent o st. and GALE & BLOCUKL 81 South Clarksc 82 Paimer House, Chicno. . VAN SCHAACK, STEVENSON & CO., Chleara I, Wholesale Azents for the Drux Trsds —_—— PROPOUSALS. § . PROPOSALS. - Michigan-av. -Boulevard Sealed Proposalawill be recelved by the South Pk Commissiuners st teir office, Nus. 9§ and 36 ARG Chieago, unul 12 w'c'ock m. of Wedneudar, Fed N1, fur the furnlabing und delivery OLSBAENT oy, the performance of the lpor nccessrt 10 LR0T, Michiyag-av. Boulevard from Late “Thirzy-2fth-st, in accordance with the he 09", adupied for such lmprovement fur mhich | proximate estimate of quanities £1) Stona of stone composition biock pavement T Nll’!k’l 1, 13,510 cubl ds. nk gravel, cublc S Ing (for walks), I B Stone Haviing {fur crosswhiks), 11,1) squsre f6ee Curb-atong 27,530 lineal fees. 3 TTrreen, S, § ERR ections, I6T. : ; ‘atch-basin3 und conn 7. . $ ek oarta (for plantin L:&dfl“!b)‘vnwmm,n“v % .xcavution (drivewuy). d k3 B Excavation (ander walks and, pianting spacet "" First. e Py are tnvited In two wayy: for s ropuss! n 2 t nishing ana pIncig Lhe materinis. 1 the wOrs S second, for turu shing aad deiirenay 5o matedtls = evignated poia ST O terials proposed to be fariibed and o statement of the fcilities 4 Fequirell amoan: nd whoro the ssme ured must accompany each pi 24 braclug the fflmlfl"l:ln"( 'of roaterials other cach-basins - and lamp-powis must b8, By panied by Sttne iy Sflrem{fl . or L, vibier sure:y't aw By the individead members of a firm a3 well 051 The Commissloncra reserva the right (o fefects™ oF all bids, or By part or parts Of & prapotdl e The o In, e o< spring 18 the e Will permit. The specitientons, form of b P ormation "may be. obtained at tbe 0B 0f th thet it 5 oposmlashoala be addressed 1o the * Soth P2tk Commlssloriers™ and indurs ropogal MepAT: JORN i Wi Y- Boleyard dont of the South Park Commissioh — “"GENUINE GERMAN.. . " CANARIES:: KAEMPEFER,: 1A Clark-ghe