Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, March 6, 1881, Page 9

1HE CHICAGO TRIBUNE: SUNDAY, HMARCH 6, 1851—EIGHTEEN PAGLS Y REAL ESTATE AND LOANS. . GEO.M. BOGUE, L ISTATE AGINCY, ROOM 8 REAPER BLOCK, ‘No. g7 Clark-st., Chicago. ht and sold on commission. DO e 10 Lhe care und manasement property Specit e, of, - nd Rents collected. S.H.Kerfoot & Co., AL ESTATE BROKERS, g1 Dearborn-st. sincp 1552 we have been engmzed in the Regular REAL ESTATE AGENCY f Chicago, and have atall times for sale L CORRESPUNDENCE SOLICITED. . J. GOODRICH, 51 3M4JOR BLOCK, 145 LA SALLE-ST. Real Estate. First-ciass Business, Residence, Nanufscturing, and Acza Droperty reoresented. {b!{fi&fihmq{l canital seeking investment sollcited o] o pertin Keal listate Va aations. F.A.BRAGG & CO. Real Estate x AND Loans. g1 Washington-st. Holmes & Brother, REALISTATE 4D LOANS, GENERAL BROKERS, No. 86 Washington-st. 18A HOLMES, EDGAR HO.MES. [ NEY T0 LOAN On Chicago Real Estate in sums of $1,000 to $100,000, at Jowest rates. HENRY WALLER, JR., g7 Dearborn-st. A. LOEB & BRO. Noney Toaned on Real Estate 129 & 131 La Salle-st. (HICAGO R * MONTHLY SALES AT AUCTION. CHANDLER &CO.rustees. W.E. NIXOX, Manager. 116 & 118 Dearborn=st. -~~~ CHANDLER & CO., Mortgage Bankers. LOANS ON REAL ESTATE. NO. 72 DEARBORN-ST. HUTCHINSON BROS, REAL ESTA’I\‘I)B DEALERS AN LOAN BROKERS, 110 Dearborn-st., Room 15, Chicago. BAIRD & BRADLEY, i Real Bate, & Renting Agency, No. go La Salle-st.: ALESTATE CALLBOARD E. S. DREYER & CO, BANKERS, LOANS AND REAL ESTATE, 88 Washington-st., Chicago. Kensington Lots, ADJOINING THE PULLMAN CAR-WORKS, For mle on easy terms by C. B. SAWYER, Comer WathinFion and Dearborporis. Take the Elevator. Chicago. FRANCIS B. PEABOD¥ & CO. LOANS 0PON REAL BSTATE, Interest rate, G per cent. 2 AGENTS FOR SALE OF REAL ESTAYE. 174 Dearborn-st. J. P. WHITE & CO,, REAL ESTATE AXD LOAN AGENTS, A Specialty of Business Property. Room 4 Reaper Block, g7 Clark-st. = i GRIFFIN & DWIGHT, WEST SIDE Real Estate and Loan Brokers, Cor. Washington and Halsted-sts. ~ ONLY. For The Chicago Tribune. Calya shclll from. oddy and swirl a pitiless seas But hid In fts posum a precious pearl Lay fair and treel Only the gong of 4 passing bird Butg poSPed Seifly b 8 poet that Heeting music heard— 1t sang for uye! Ouly & waif on Life's shingle bare, Buth Cast up by sing =wurldnnd the "‘mf‘c may both be there, cep within, Caicago, Feb. 7, 1858 WILSON. —_— ———— i The Poor Czar. ew influence hus appeared, says the Lon- %on IForid, in Russinn politics, 'A Tds who oc- ‘-“P;.H the position of governess to the Princess Thriel’s children bas taken the lead in affairs. poe FOStor mow reads thus: The goveraess Qersthe Princess, the Princess orders tho Magy e Gzar orders Loris Mettkofl, and Loris O orders the people. Speculaton I8 rife e ¥ho may be the gentlemnan to intluence ¥overness. The puwer of the Princess, sub- nte, Gibe influcnce named, is now abso- bl g 10¢ poor Emperor is 1o longer atlowea WhellTOrit amusement of visiting the ballet. lmq.‘,' undera Jess strict rule, the Czar wasa Jerslient spectator of the Sunday evening bal ey the Stute Theatre, and appeared 1o enjoy 3 mm)’ Lis promcoade beking the scenes and Meprith the danseuses during the entr'actes. Ingpialcess as neither brains nor tact, and, kecp € of the desire of the Emperor's tamily to o gh atters smooth, there are continunl risks [yrRetiie] 3 b rial circle. The Iute Empress fuvaria- fiiflg’“‘s‘-’“ her Husband 4 Emperor if a single tagpg 28l Were present not belonging to the ————— ‘wle greatest nourishing tonic, appetizer, tezugtioner, and curative on earth. 5 Yers, op Bit- explosion between her and the ladies of its; and thi | et REAT, ESTATE. Business in Land Checked by the Weather. But Inquiry Is Active, and Some Notable Sales Are Made. Large Transactions in Acres on the Calumet River. Business Rents—Real Estate in Early Chicago. Horse-Cars to Brighton—The County Abstract Office. Business inreal estate was seriously inter- fered with last week by the weather. Three feet of snow are not an additional attraction to the buyers of fand. Notwithstanding this, i iry continued good, and the volume of sales was well maintained. ONE OF THE FEW SENSATIONS of the week was the reported purchase of the “Murray Tract” of 266 acres on the Caluinet tiver, by Mr. Geo. AL Pullman. This is the north 56 acres of the west }¢ of northeast X4, and the west 3¢ in Sec. 35, 87, 14. The price paid was $205 an acre. 'This purchase gives JMr. Pullman a quarter of a mile frontage on the river, running north to the lake, During the week the sale of THE GARDNER MNOUSE was made public. It has been bought of Capt. A. E. Goodrich by Messrs. Cobb and, Lradley, of the Forest City House of Cleve- land. They pay $220,000 forit. The hotel is to be renamed the Leland, and will be kept by Mr. Warren Leland, of the celebrated hotel-family of that name. The new man- agement take possession cf the house March 15. - Mr. John DeKoven has sold the north- west corner of Thirtieth street and Prairie avenue, 104 feet front, at §225 per foot cash. A YEAR AGO this property was not valued higher than §15) a foot. Nr. llugh T. Dickey has sold sixty feet on West Lake street, ninety feet east of Canal street, north front, ninety-six feet deep. for $400 per foot cash, The First National Bank are still debating what to do with the IAVERLY TOEATRE PROPERTY. One plan is to revamp the present building, improving it only enough to maise it suitable for their own use. Aunother is to pull down the old Post-Oflice building, and put up in its piace a nine or ten- story structure, with four elevators, the maximum of daylight, and all the modern conveniences. Such a building would cost $§502,000, and would rent to the root at good rates. It is said that the unknown purchaser of the lot west of the Haverly Theatre will place a high office building on the ground. It is reported that the Tracy heirs and the Rock Island Railroad have patched up their disagreement about the donations to be made for the purpose of widening Pacific avenue and Sherman street. This removes one of the difficulties in the way of the vacation of La Salle street for the new Board of Trade buildinz. Mr. H. A. Hurlbut has bought for $50,000 the east half of the building occupied for- merly by the National Tube Works Com- pany, and now by Durand Bros., wholesale grocers. Edward Goodrich & Co. have sold 20x100 feet, with_stone-front house, on Ada street, 00 and taxes of north of Washington, for 1830. and cottage and lot £5x125, 14 Lafiin street, for S3,500. J. C. Magill.&.Co. have made the following sales: No. 57 Thirty-seventh street, a two- story and cellar, brick, with lot 20x130 feet, for 34,000; No. 99 Park avenue, an eight- room_house and 3i-foot lot for &4, N Ewing_ street, house, with lot, 0003 No. 218 South Morgzan street, two-story, basemeut, and mansard, brick house and 25- foor lot, for $7.500; No. 704 West Jackson street, a two-story house, with lot 25x125 feet, 24,000% No. 170 Ashland avenue, two-story and basementstone-front, with lot, for $6,000; No. 338 Okio street, two-story and basement stone-front, with Jot 20x100 feet, for $7,500; No. 3806 Dashiel street, two-story brick house and lot for 31,600; No. 82 State street, a handsome four-story and basement stone- front building, long land lease, Tor $19,000; a lot on Ouk street, near La Salle, 40 feet front, for 84,0005 two lots on Thirty-eighth street, near llalsted, for §300; No. 5020 State street, two-story brick, with lot 25x120, $6.900; 69 8 feet on northeast corner of Fifty-ninth street and Wentworth avenue, at Englewood, for $1.160; and a tract of between faive and six acres, bounded by Sixty-second and Wright streets, and Stewart and Englewood avenues, for $16,000. Mr. J. Johnston sold ninelots of Tumboldt Park property at the e of S675 per tifty feet front; aiso two 250 feet lots north of Humboldt Park for $500 apiece. “The pur- chasers of the latter were M. and Mme. Garetti, the * pigeon charmers,” recently a great attraction ata Chicago theatre. Next year they will leave the stage, and settling down on their new purchase, will build a great house, also a pizeon-house of dimen- sions and architectural pretensions unknown in the West. Some $6,000 will be expended on the buildings. ] Mr. John Johnston, Jr., has received a cer- titied copy of the will of the late lamented laide Neilson. Her real estate here is devised_to the llon, llenry Carr Glynn, Rear Admiral in her Majesty’s navy. Itis two lots, 129 feet front, at the corner of Drexel avenue and Fifty-first street, south and east front, and is in many respects one of the finest sites for_an elegant residence in Ilvde Park. Miss Neilson purchased itsome years ago for $19,¢ A. Loeb & Bro. report sales of house and 1ot 24 Superior_to Phil Hoyne, $9,000: 50 feet, east tront, Wabash avenue. near Thitry- third street, $150 per foot; six lots California, near Milwaukee avenue, SLSGJ. Lots on Harrison street, near Robey, are being sold at 100 per cent advance on the prices of two years ago. The dividends already paid by the State Savings Bank through Receiver Otis, have amounted 10 20 per_cent, notSs per cent, as was stated in_last Sunday’s TRIBUN, typographical error. Judge Otis Tie hopes to be able to pay at least 15 per cent more, and perhaps 20 per cent, making 350r40 per cent in all. IN THE SALES OF LAST WEEK were 35%x100 feet on North Clark street, southeast corner of Chicago avenue, im- proved, $31,600; 257 feet, with irregular depth, on Pearson stree¢t, southwest corner of Pine, $40,050; 40x17L on Wabash avenue, south of Hinrmon court, S13,000; 24 feet to alley on Michigan avenue, north of South Water street, $6,000; 20100 on Indianastreet, enst of Dearborn avenue, $6,000; 26x1773 on Calumet_avenue, north of Twenty-cighth et, $6,1003 sireet, southwest corner of Winchester a eune, S11,962; 230x100 on Webster avenue, southeast corner_of North Branch of the Chicago River, §5,000; 124 acres on North ™Hx125 on Wast Madiso Halsted street, nearly opposit - the Marine Ll_:,,sllltfll, $15,000; 20x%0 2-10, with building, 170 A Ashland avenue, north of Adams, $6,000: 234 Superior street, $9,000% irty tirst street, east of State, $S,0005 5XNAUX595 feeton Jasper street, mortheast corner of Thirty-fourth street, $10,000; 143x96 5-10 on Vest Van Buren, northwest corner of Aber- deen, S10,745; 100: north of Forty-ninth street, $10, 5125 feet on Fifth avenue, soutt of Quiney street, $35,0005 20x150, iinproved, on ‘Thirty-seventh, west of Lake avenue, $5,000: T2x110 on Judd street, east of Chinton, 212 on Drexel boulevard, 3 35 210X 5,000, s"An offer of $11.000 was made during the week for the northwest corner of Ann and Madison streets, twenty-two feet front on Madison street. The_rr_openy is improved with cheap frame building, The offer was refused. Near this, and ou inside lots, north front on Madison strect, $375 per foot was refused. Sales in Chicago last month were larger than for any month in the past three years. Warranty deeds were recorded for 721 pieces of property within the seven-wile radius, in which the considerations aggregated §5,182,- 191 Of this property, 573 pieces, selling for $4,728,910, were within the city limits: eizht; nine, for $243,503, south of thie city limits; twenty-four, for 517,252, west of the city limn- i ve, for 592,49, north of the the month of Jauuary there ity limits, were 508 sales of property, which brought $2,630.774, and in the corresponding Febru- ary, 1580, 532 sales, for $2,427, 144 : A summary of the real-estate purchases made in_the Jast year or two by Judge Van H. Higgins 15 printed in the Alliance, which gives the Judge a high place among the \nen WHO IAVE BUILT CHICACO, Tis purchases havebeen * the Fidelity Block, atacost of $230,000, which is_now, we sup- -pose, worth 0003 the City National Bank Block, at a cost of 3123.000, now worth in the Vicinity of $200,0005 2,500 feet at the corncr of Fifty-ninth street boulevard and Michigan avenue, purchased for §30,000, and _now worth $100,000; 25 acres at the corner of For- ty-fifth and_State_streets, which cost hin §49,000, and is worth at least $109,000; 5 acres at the corner of Forty-seventh street and Lawrence avenue, at a cost of §20,000, worth now_ $25,000; 40 ncres west of the Stock- Yards, costing §50,000, and worth $50,000: 80 feet on Wabash avenue, south of Adams, for $79,060; 300 feet on Randolph and Adastreets, for §30,000 (one-third of which we notice has been sold for §20,09) ; 83 feet on Orehard strect, $25,000; 630 teet in Culver’s Addition for S15,030; and 5 acres on Grand poule- vard, just north of Wilbur F. Storey’s res dence, for $40,000, n piece of property which sold 1n 1872 for 59,000, He has purchased. also, 1,000 feetat the coruer of Fort; strect’ and Hyde Park avenue, running through to the lake: about 13 ncres, knowi as_the Orchard property, purchased for 67,000, and worth at least $159,000; and, finally, from time to time, has taken all of ne incumbrances of Roselill Cemetery, and will malke it what it should be, having spent *846,000 last year improving it, and is about to Spemd $£50,080 more this season. 1t is bound to be the Greenwoud of Chicago. His in- vestment in this is over §200,000.” The Real Estate_and Building Journal gives some interesting OLD-TIME ITEMS about Chicago real estate. \When Chicago became a city, on March 4, 1837, the entire as- sessment within the Hmits was §236,452. The rate being one-fourth value, it would seem that the entire city territory was worth about ong million doll Among the canal sales from 1830 to 1534, imperfect record of which is preserved, we find these items: = T'wo lots, 8UX180 feet in size, fronting north on Lake street and south on Itandolph, sold in’30 for S48 total; three years atterwards they brought $100 apiece; eizht months s nb- sequently, during an infant boom, they went at s600.” They would sell now for over $100,000 apiece, Lots In the same vicinily Soldin 1835 at from $6,000 to S12,000 each, In 184 the northeast corner of Randolph and Wells streets brought 300, Alr. G, E. Ilolmes being the purchaser. Two months later, Mr. C. L. Peck sold 80x110 feet where the Staats-Zeitung Building now stands for S350, and in January of that year Tuthill King bought a Jot in the same block for §600, now worth $100.000. Trom 1542 10 1845 the first really heavy and fmportant transactions began to be made, ud mad de towirds aent position in Western wealth, ent—one-fourth seale—inereasing from $108,757 in 42 to $2,27.171 in *45, and in 335 the books showed an estimate of $4,033,- b The Government sold of land in Cook County between 1835 and 1843, 2,2 and realized $1.25 per acre, or S it. During this period 450,000 donated for schovls and the i 2,700,000 acres given for the $2,903,016 re- ceived. Tn 1857 the city assessment of real estate was 525,892,505, or about 38,250 per acre for the eighteen square miles then included within the city limiis, Which were bounded by Fullerton avenue, Sedgwiclk street, North avenue, Westernavenue, and Twenty-second street. Twenty years ago any lot on Washington street could have been bought at $200 per front foot. Nothing bat plin old brick and frame liouses occupled it. Lotsonthis street, allowing a fair price for improvements, and deducting this from the total, have since sold at $2,500 per tront foot, and it has upon it a larger proportion_than any other street of the finest blocks in the city. SATURDAY'S TRANSFERS. The following instruments were filed for record Saturday, Mareh 5: = CITY PROPERTY. ‘West Fourteenth st, ) 3-10 ft eof Throop, 124 1t, Improved, duted March { Parthier toJ. . Busehy......3 1,600 1ft s of Thirty-titth st, w £, dated Maren 3°(C. B. Sawyer to Sexton & Cary). L. 6,000 Springtield st, 75 It s of West Indiana, w £, 25x 125 ft, dated _Feb. 10 (A, P. and W, J. Frierson to J. Kincude).. e Lumber st, between Canul 2od Seward, n 1, 148% ft to rit with 2580 {1t to alley in opposit block, dated March 4 (Georre Rirk to Coristopher Tegtmeyer) ....... Thirty-seventh st, 197 £t w of Stewart av, n 1, 59x125 fr, dated Mareh 5 (F. H. Kautrszinsky to Lowis Grafing).. Fowler st, 2073 ft o of North floyne, s 302 x162'ft, duted Feb. 15 (Frank Kreml to Fred Grimsell). ... o aes Towler st, 18 ft ¢ of North Hoyne, s f, 393 x162 ft, dated Feb. 15 (samc 1o Hen- Ty Dresseluau South Park av C 8t W I, SUx164% ft, dated March 5 (Mus- ter in Chancery to Juli; idwell).... South Park av, 300 {ts of 'Tbirty-second '8ty w £, WxIHY; £t dated March & (sumo to Gearge H. Sidwell).... Park st, 85 tt § e of Lincoln, 8 w f, 24x120 1t, improyed, duted Feb. 23 (E. Muynard to Olof Wallin)..... 3 Park st, adjoining tho above, s w £, 24x120 {t, improved, duated Feb. 28 (same to C. 0. Kindley)... . . 2050 North La Salle st, 193 ft 8 of Goetbe, e f, 22x161 ft, datee March (Edward Koen to Nicolaus Koeh). o see West ‘[nirtcenth place, 163 (t e of Lin- colnst,n f, 4x12%5 ft,dated I 26 (Phil~ Tip Pinger to W, Pllam)... 5 Clybourn av, 215 ft s ¢ of Halsied st,n o 1, 25x95 {t, improved, dated March 1 (F. ana W. Kerfl to Michacl Bauerle)...... Sonth Dearborn st 138 3-10 £t n of Thirty- third. e f, 25x110 ft, duted Feb. 19 (Charles J. Rawson to Jenrie Haucbett) MeGregor st 163 It e of Sauger, n f, 25% 125 ft, improved, deted March & (H. C. Zuttermeister to Martin Dunn). . ... The premises No. 631 West Monroo st, dated March 3 (S. R. and S. P. 3cCon- nell o John Gunzeabauser). 5 Vincennes place between ‘Thirty-seventh and Thirty-elghth sts, ¢ f. S0XT34 ft, dated March 3 (F. D. Keynolds to Frank M. Dewey).. ‘Vincennes place, adjointog the above. e fy 20x73% ft,dated Mareh 5 (same to Ienry 1,17 1,1% 4,500 1475 AlSOD).ve wovsveens 1475 NORTH OF CITY LIMITS WITTIN A RADIUS OF urn av, 550 £t nw of Fullerton,n ef, 75x130 11, dated March 3 (C. W. Fulierton to Michael Popp). .5 1 Green Bay Ttond HO Tt of SEVEN MILES OF THE COURT-HOUSE. cly! v , e 1, 25x130 {t, dated Feb. 17 (C. J. Hambleton to G. Halstrom, sonsesa 600 Lot on street 255 fi. w of cine av, and on n e cor of Wrightwood av, w f, 298x 182 ft, dated Feb. 14 (Caroline O. Jones to F. H. Doland). 8,147 Lot on street 264 £t w c 8 e cor of Diversey st, w_f, 29x132 ft, dated Feb. 15 (Joseph E. Sheflield to “ 3,600 Racine ay, 1481t s of Diversey st e f, 5 13 ft, dated Feb. 14 (Same to Same). 4,053 Frank st, 314 {t n of Diversey, w L. % 115 ft, duted Jan, 12 (1. R. Young to A. Crawford). . cessvevenmrnscenraneannenes 130 SOUTH OF - CITY LIMITS WITIIN A RADIUS OF SEVEN MILES OF THE COURT-IOUSE. Central Park av, 8w cor of Thirty-fifth st, e [, 48x125 t, dated June], 1880 (John McCaffery toJohn Liggett). . veeee. S 1,200 Latlin st. 48 ft n of Forty-eighth st, w f, 24x124{ 11, dated Dec. 4, 1850 (C. Coun” selman to R. W. Luckow)...... . WEST OF CITY LIMITS WITHIN A RADIUS OF SEVEN MILES OF THE COURT-HOUSE. Rendsburg st, 50 £t n of Byron, W f, 50x 13434 ft, dated March 5 (John Johnson, Jr. to H. A. Kelchenbach)...... $ SUMMARY FOR THE WEEK. The follo wing is the total amount of city and suburban transfers within a radius of seven miles of the Court-House filed for rec- ord during the week ending Saturday, March 5: City—Sales, 1325 consideration, $455,865. North ufcity limits—Sales, 11; consideration, §32,950. South of city limi Sales, 165 con- siérntion, ST, Westateity Timits—Sale: ; consideration, 35,362 Total sales,165; consideration, $553,920, Ea L0 ot IN THE BUILDING-PERMITS of the week were those to Frank Serbant, two-story brick dwelling, 20x56 feet, Eight’ eenth street, near Throop, $3,000: Frank Mottis, two-story brick dwelling, 20582 feet, Loomis street, near_ Nineteenth, $4,600; R & J. R Winterbotham, three- story brick store, 30x100 feet, Nos. 3% and 397 Fifth avenue, 05 E. J. Lehmann, two-story and basement brick and stone dwelling, 23x70, on Michigan av- enue, to cost S7,50; William Waller, two- story_and basement brick stores and dwell- ings, 120555, corner of Indiana street and Ashiand avenug, to cost $15,000; Rosa Stein, brick dwelling, 23x33, corner of Halsted and 3 Maxwell streets, to cost $2,600: John Wine: brick dwelling, '3, 33, '(;.' 25 Chicago mt-'- enue, to cost 35.000; John Schywerin, two- story dwelling, Superior street, £4,700; John Pusha, two-story diwelling, Nineteenth street, $3,000; V. Myazock, two-story dwelling, Eighteenth street, 53,5005 Henry Barth, two- story dweliing, Newberry avenue, $2,000; 11. F. Waite, three-story dwelling and_ store, Clark street, near Twenty-second, $12,000; W. Loor two-story briek store and dweliing. - Ber] 'é-xxi‘fi feet, No. 335 Thirteenth street, to’ cost BUSTNESS RENTS. The following leases have becn negotiated by J. C. Sampsen & Co.: .The store and Dbusement at present occupied - by Brow. billiard hall, 157 and-159 Dearborn street, for B, R C'nn.mf)fer:‘-l w dhe Dennison Tag Cou- pany, size of store , lease two years Drom Sty 1, 1551, at $15,000 for the teru: the four-story aud basement stonc-front build- ing Nos. 135 and 185 Wabash avenue, for Alichael Burke to John W. Graves, sizc 40x 155, for two Years, it sx&pon for term; the five-story and basement stono buililing No. 25 Kast” Washington street, for George W. Parsons, of New york City, to.G. ¥. Foster, Sons & Co., of this city, for one year, at $3,000, size 25x100; store and lofts in the five-story and basement building Nos. 179 and 181 Itandolph street, for Dwigit Bros. to the Cleveland Rubber Cowpany; the store and basement 185 \Vabash avenue to Caviroe & Co., wine-merehants, $3,000 a year; the store No. 163 State street, corner Monroe, 23x80, for EugeneS. Pike to Morgan- thau Bros. & Co., to beoccupied by them March 16 for fancy dry-goods trade, three years’ lease, at an average of $7,000 a year; store and basement No. 291 Wabash avenue, for Kugeman & Co. to The Wilson Yeast Company, at a rental of $ ) four-story and hagement buil Nos. 54 and 56 Franklin street, for enry C. Rew to Cres- well, Wanner & Co., the Mechanies’ Type Foundry, for a term of three years, at 59,000 ser term: for Mark Kimball to Lantry & Fiunegan, the store No. 227 State street, for book business, at SLS00 a year; store and basement 185 East Monroe street; for C. 11 Jones to a printing coneern, for §1,500a year; the present leasé, which was made u year amo, is §540 a year; the buildinz 35 South Whater street, for Henry 1. Shuteldt to Bo- gardus & Wells; the store and basement No. 167 Madison street, 20X120, shall & Co., stationers, for $2,800 per v the upper 1loors of the building souiheast corner Fitth avenue and Madison street, for Mr. Barker, of Racine, Wis.. to Harzfeld & Goodman, clouk manufacturers, for a term of three $5,000. a year; for Henry Corwith, tory stone-froit building 235 and avenue, to 000 a year; the ding 1 N 7 the Singer Sewing- 25,000 Machine Company for five years, at $ Yor the term; for the McCord estate, five- story building 105 Lake street, to Lliel & Co.. for leaf tobaeco. at 2 rental of $3,000 a AIc}muy{i\:po.. in their new an year; for Land, years 10 {i 156, Monroe street, five-story building 154 an store and basement $3x6), to George L. San- born & Son for a lease of five years,at 815,000 for the term; for Rand, MeXNall, Co. to ner & Sirauss, of New York, for gents’ neckware, ete., second floor of 152 and 154 Monroe street, at $1,350 per year; for Rand, MeNully & Co. to a Utiea boot and shoe house, four upver floors in new building 152 and 154 Monroe street for atermof five years, at $17,500 for the term; for James 0. Rutter, the five-story building on southwest corner of Wabash avenue and Madison street, 40: 160, to 1lirsh, Mayer & Co. $15,500: for 1las- kell & Baker to C. M. Linington, the four- story buildings 146 and 143 Wabash avenue for 2 years, at $10,000 for the term; for Has- kell & Baker to Warner Bros., the five-story and basement buildings 143 and 145 Wabash avenue, at $3,000 per year; for L. Z. Leiter to Clement & Sayer, the five-story building 178 Monroe street, lease of thires tj\;ears. at $15,000 for the term. They report that they are ne- otiating with o number of large New York, Boston, and Philadelphia houses who are coming to this city next season. NEW YORK. A dispateh from New York states that all the real-estate sales announced in the city artriet a large number of buyers, and spirit- ed bidding and good prices are the results. Real-estate sales during the present winter and the fall just passed have been larger tian during any one year in the listory of New York. One of the largest trans: was the purchase of eigit in number, Lenox Library, for whiel) §425,000 Ly John ctions the Jonas Clark lots, on Fifth avenue, near the paid D. Rockefelder, of the Standard Oil v. Many laig®purchases have also tde on Sixth altd Seventh avenues and adjacent streets ubove Cents Park, amongz others by John H. Sherwood, Arnold, Constable & Co., the Astors, Piilip Var Valkenburg, - Oswald _Ot- tendorfer, _and Wiliam L Mr. D. O. Mills, the Culifornia ca) will, aiter May 1, erect one oi the largest and handsomest business buildings in New York City, at the soutlieast corner of Broad street Exchange place. It will have a frontage of 165 feet on Broad strect, 109 feet au Ex- change place, and will ‘extend through from the_latter thoroughfare to Wall strect, on which it will have a frontage of twenty-nine feet. - Itis believed in New York that the num- ber of IIOUSES TO BE ERECTED this year wiil be the largest in any season durig last eight years, Wages for all classes of workmen ‘will be advanced from 1510 17 per cent per day above tho wages paid last year, and that nost of the contracts now made are nxule upon this basi Some interesting facts, showing the mag- nitude of the LAND INTEREST IN GREAT DRITAILN, are ser_forth in a recent publieation in Lon- don. The money value of the reaity of the United Kungdow is estimated at £3,000,600,000, or S15,0u0,000,000, This property is owned by a million and a quarter of persons. The number of inhabited houses, not couniing manutactories and ouler business premises, is 6,000,000, besides *th ands of tene- ments of an estimated y y value of £20 (5100) and under.” Thirty-cight miles of new streets, on which houses are rapidly” built, are yearly added to London alon Although sales of houses and lands are sub- ject to many hindrances, they h been re- corded in that city to the amount of £100,- 0u,600 (S509,000,000) in the last len years. JIORSE-CARS TO BRIGHTON. ¥ To the Editor of The Chicugo Lribune. Brigurox ilouse, March 4.—Will Tne Trisu~E please remind the Directors of the Chicago City Railway Company that a large povulation in the vieinity of the Brighton House greatly need the accommodation the horse-cars would afford ? Asit 'is, we are obliged to walk to the bridge and then take the cars to reach the city. For the last two or three years L huve not a doubt it would have paid them handsomely to extend their lines to this place; but they deem it so esseu- tial to keep up their heavy dividends that they are too short-sighted to properly esti- mate their own interest. course they care for mno other. If the line siwuld reach this puint early in the season it would stinulate = building all around us, and, while there are people enough here now to_subport their line, the inerease in population would very soon pay them handsomely, ‘Their track now virtu- ally terminates nowhere, for very few peo- ple live between the bridge and the Brighton 1louse, but here it woulll at once secure a large increase of business. 1t the C. C. Rail- way Company did not own the franchise, we could raise the money among my neighbors in a single day to build the line; but, as it is, we are oblized to wait for this slow coacli. How long, Lask, must our people wait for this muet-needed improvement 2 J. M. D, THE COUNTY ADSTRACI-BOOKS. * o the Editor of The Chicago Tribune, Cmicago, March 5—The communication from David Williams inregard to the tract indices of the abstract department of the ecorder’s office which appeared in your with the facts in the case. Ile lays great stress upon the fact that these books were purchased by Cook County’s money, and rushes to the conclusion thatthis should give to the people at large the right to free and unrestricted access to them. The County Hospital is the property of Cook County and is under the absolute control and manageinent of the Cook County Buard. On the theory above expressed any citizen could walk into the building and claim board i free. Jr. Witliams goes on Lo s: County Commissioners and Recorde: T tenced off aportion of the Recorder’s oflicz and started a private abstract oflice,” secking to convey the impression that the Commi: ers and Recorder were engaged in_a pr speculation, from which they receivea pecu- niary constderation. ile laments that the salaries of the clerks engaged in the prepara- tion of abstracts are paid from the. County Treasury. ‘I'hereal fact is that the clerks empioyed in this work are paid from the re- ceipts accruing from preparation of abstracts proper. This statement is in keeping, for truthfulness, with the one wherein he seis forth that the Commissioners and Hecorder are engaged in a private speculation in the abstract matter. The County Board es- tablished the abstract department of this county in tie month of September, 1875, over a_year previous to my first election to the oftice of ‘Recorder. ‘The Board, shortly after purchasing the abstract-books in ques- tion, estaplished certain rates to be ovserved by the Kecorder in the preparation of ab- stracts furnished from his oftice. ‘These rates are at least 33 per cent less thar are charged for similar work, elsewhere. For the pust two years, under a resolution of the County Roard. a nnwbar of extra men have. under issue of Sunday is notoriounsly at variance- the supervision of n practical man, been engaged in the transcription and classitica- tion of these tract-books. It is safe to assume that two years will elapse before. this revision can bé completed. _Aside from this, some 200 instruments_are received for record in this oflice daily. Each instrument invariably requires more thau a single entry, aecording to the property conveyed thereby. These documents all pass through the hands of the clerks regularly engaged in posting and revising these books. It would be ini- possible to transact the legitimate and ordi- nary business of the oflice were the public 1o have unrestricted access to them, ‘While the work above referred to is being done to open up these books to the public would be simply to invite their desiruction, impeach their re- liability, and defeat the object for which they_ were: originally ~purchased and are being continued. ~ Constant and promiscuous handling alone would svon wear them out. "They would be taken possession of by land-title wreekers, whoare always engaged in the to them delightful occupation of fishing out some flaw or pre- tended clond in land tities, thereby provok- ing litization and extorting money from the wretehed victims of their avarice and greed. "The recent decision of Judge Anthony in the case where a writ of mandamus had been prayed for to compel the Recorder to open these tract indices to the public, and wherein the writ was denied and the petition dis- missed “at petitioner’s _cost, ought to bea suflicient answer to Wiiliaws and the very few who sympathize with himin his vistonary and impracticable notions. Jas. W. Brockway, Recorder. ART IN EXCUSES. Some Examples of This Accomplishe ment. To make excuses on the spur of the moment, ‘excuses both truthful and polite, and so framed asnot to wound the susceptibilities or inany way give offense to those to whom they are ad- dressed, is to persons who enter lurgely into so- clety often a matter of extreme dificulty; and through not knowing how gracefully to extri- cate themselves from a position in 2 way forced upon them, tkey are led into making many en- gugements both inconvenient and unwelcore; into keeping promises which they would much rathier not have made; into giving and accepting invitations whick they would rather not bave given or accepted: parting with things which they would fur ruther have kept; lending that which they are certain wiil never be returaed; meeting people they would rather not meet: and so on through every phase of social life. ‘Who has oot heard some good-natured friend say, ** I should not have gone, but I did not quite know how to zet out out of it,” or *Iwas let In for n yery dull evening at the A.'s through not knowing w excuse 0 make,” and-a host of similar observations, all beurmg upon the one point that they bave = dous t which they would rather not done, occupied tine in n manner 1y opposit to tho one most agrecable to themselves, and this iS not through u spirit of unselfisness and selt-sacrifice of personal inclination for the pleasure of others, but simply through sheer in- ubillty to make ar the right moment an excuse both rensonable and polite. The art of makiog excuses Is one which people much in soclety find it absolutely necessary to caltivate if they wish 10 retain uny command over thoir own time, thoir own movements, and, we_might add, their own property. ‘Tuct, or suvoir , IS the key to this art, while frankness might certainly be termed the lock in which to plice the key ihen makmg polite excuses. It is surprising bow far Trunkuess will carry one in_muking an_excuse, cither by word or by “lettel s both to 1he good seuse 1ad to the one to whom it is addressed; it softens the re- fusal, of whatever charucter it muy bes it gives the assurance that no slight is intended, and thut no arriére pensée exist. However, it not unfrequently happens that this _charming qual- of wood monners, and very clumsy are in the usc of them, if they do not alto- gether forget what valuable auxiliaries they ure. ; Society may be compared to a monster kaie- idoscope with regard to the over-changing and innuniernble situations It presents to each of its members, and although 0o two situations or set of circumstances may be exactly alike, still there I a genernl reseblance throughout: the color is the sam the form dilfers. It is there- fore nlmost invidious to select examples in iltustration of this art or nccomplishment, if we may be allowed the expres:on. Tho question of invitations offers a large fleld for muking polite excuses. Ot course, in the case of n_written invitutin there i3 the one yped excuse, u previous engage- ment"’; but between friends, and by those with whom frankness is practiced, this explanation is carried a step farther. and tho nature of the previous engagement is mentioned, and the name of him or ierwith whom it is mude. There is- a4 certain tiatters in this contidence very agreeable to the reciplents; und even if um quainted with the name mentioncd, it conv sn assurance ot the siucerity ot the excuse, and it is true politeness so to write where fricudship exist3. i A previous engagement is s1so an all-para- mount excuse to oifer in auswer to a verbal in- vitution; but It is when there is no such reason to prive that the awkwardness of making u good e arises, whetber the iuvitation be 1o form 2 purty at the theatre, or to dine. or to lunch, or to join & purty at some outdoor gatherng, or whatever tho invitation be. A downright re- fusal, 4D UNCOMPrOMISiug negalive. carrics on the fice of it i brusquencss that savors of un- graciousness and discourtesy; wheress a polite in a way breaking the for “You are very kind: but I am almost id 1 shall not be ablo to manage it,” ete.; or. sk you very mucn; but L am afraid vou must not end upon me; in fact, [am almost certain 1 sball not be able to come,™ ete.; or, I esure whut [ am going to do on If you will allow me. L wilt let you know,” ete.; or, *1t i3 very.good of you to think of me: but [ am afruid [eannot bave the plensure of joining your party. 1 won't usk you 10 leave it open, us T know I shall not be avail mysell ot your kind offer.” thauk you very much, but I very I'he ditlienlly of puking pul X sometimes inereased when a verbal invitation is given ton busband and wife, and they have not been sbleto consult as towhether they are unanimous in refusing it; or when the fnvita- tion is not. given within the bearing of both at the same moment. ‘The one wily of extricution is for tho busband to refpr to the engagements of his wife, or fo wife torefer to those of her husband. thus: *Thaok you very much, but Imust talk it over with my husband: Idon’t quite kniow what his ensagements nre for that day,” ete.: or the husband would perhaps give his wife the cue that he wished to refuse, by suy- fy dear, So-und-s0 is Lind enough 10 usk cte.. »but I am afraid we shall not be able to manage it.” 'A variely of excuses, reasons given and rea- sons not given, are permissible in answer toall invitations save nn invitation to dioner. the rule being that an invitation to dinver must be ac- cepied, unless & bona tido engagement can be pleaded in excuse. Thbe guestion of ill-bealth would of course be an all-sutlicieut reason for not dining out; but, on the other hand, verbal fnvitations to dinner would bardly be :iven to those nut well envugh to accept them. while trifling ailments are never oifered as an excuse. Polite excuses to unwelcomo requesis demand even more readiness of tbought und speech, us refusuls to such. i not guardediy conveyed, are likely to give e, or create an unpleasant Teeling of anni c. ; There 18 a large class of trifling requests, but which require nn nrmy of polite excuses. We allude to the raids mude by many upon the new music, the new books, the new magazines, and tho new fotograts of pheir friends und ucquaint- ances, * Will you_lend we thisy” or *ay [ borrow that for & few daysz” or 3y 1 tuke this?—I won't keep it loug ”; or *“I must have oneof these, I think I'il tuke this one,” perlips sclectiug tho best of the cabinet fotografs just sent home. Borrowersof books and music are Usutly those who would scorn 1o return any- thiug so tridding. ane 0 express themselves o tonished at the meanaess and pettiness of those who venture to usk that s song ur book may be returned. Therefore, unless the loun is to gift, the request must be met by o firmuess equal to the contidence and assurance of the would-be borrower. Thus: ** Iwould rather you did not tuke 1t yet, it you do oot mind, as I'am reading it,—L will lend it you a little er™; or. o, you renlly Iust not run.zway with that justyet*; or, *lcan'tlet you have that song until 1 have learnt i, then I will make you & present of it ou like ”; or, *Oh! that Is my fuvorit fotogral; plense don’t talke it; when'l Bave some others in that posiclon you shall cer- tiinly have oue,” are some of the few defenscs which may be attempted ngainst letting bor- rowers have it ail thoir own way, snd cheerful- ness und bunter are perbaps the best vein -in which to couch polite excuses in answer to those polite and pressing requeats - e —————— BURGLARS AND THIEVES. Another gang of burglars, less expert than the Bauer gang, 1ppears to be paying particulur at- tention 10 tho West Madison street district. Early yesterduy mornlog it was found that burglarshad broken n pane of glass in the dbor of Charles Lindsay's tailor-shop at No. 235 West Madison street, and the proprietor, after look- 1ng over s property, reporied that clothing, both made and unmude, valued at several hun- dreds of doliars, was missing. ‘The door is set several feet vack iuto_ the store-front, and is protected by a heavy wire screen gate in front. The burglar climbed over this, and was tolerably secure from observation while at work. Severat nights _ ago u _ tailor-shop on Halsted street, just south of Madison, was entered by burglar, who kicked a panel out of tho front door and heiped himself to about $49 worth of goods. Something must buve scared him, or olse he bad_no facilities for carrying off any large quantity of plunder, for there Wis pleaty of good clothing und fine cloth in the storo. ‘An owner is wanted at Cencral Station for o siiver-gruy wolf-skin robe, wbich was found upona susoiclous character giving the name of John Robinson, who wis nrrested last evenl by Detectives Gallagher and Roehler, A ownee is nlso wanted for u small Russia-leather pock- etbook, containing SL¥7 in cash and two North Side street-car tickets. It was found upon one atibree known piekpockets nume Hugn Gil- k, ¢ Ryan, nnd_Henry Sui Aecotod by e EAme aliesy. Duitih o weke SPORTING. THE TURF. SALE OF TROTTERS. Last Thursday Johkn Splan and 3fr. R. B. Conk- 1in,—the former owner of Rarus,—visitea Cleve- land and made some iMpOrtant purchases of trotting stock. 2 3Mr Conklin purchased for himself. from Mr. C. F. Emery, the 5-year old br. s. King Wilkes by George Wilkes. He i3 a handsome and well- made horse 15.3 hands high, and, although never started in a race, has shown himself to be pos- sessed of considerable speed. The price paid was $7,000. % The second one purchased from the same party by Mr. Conklin was the ch. s. R. B. Hayes, by Belmont. Two years ago Mr. Conklin purchased Wedgewood, another son of Belmont, from Mr. Emery for $12.500. ana sold him a few weeks ngo for $19,000. The price paid for R. B. Hayes was §3,000." These stallions will be taken to Mr. Conkhin's furm on Long Isiand, where they will make n scason in the stud and will then be trained for the fall cnmpaizn. Mr. Splan bought for a_private gentleman in the East, of Mr. William Edwurds, the bay mare Fringe, sixteen bands high, sired by Princeps, tho sire of T'rinket, out-of a_marc by Alexun der's Abdatiah. The horse was a stable compan- ion of the celed: d Trinker, aud has a record of 2:40%; ld, und at a public trial as 4, since which time she placed In traintag at once to prepure her for the coming season. 'Tho price paid was $6,000. TIIACK TALK. The well-known pacer Sleepy George, record 215, was recently kilied in a raiiroad aceldent while being taken to Canada. Mambrino Kate, record 2:24, fhat was a winner in the Central Circuit in 167, is velng treined again. Last year she produced a filly by ason of Georgo Wiikes. Alecl: Patterson, an_old-timo Eastern trainer and u pupil of Horace Jones, hus lensed thotrack at Murengo, In., ana pessed through Chicago few days 2g0 on his way to his new hone. Mr. John Dupec, Jr., of this city, has sold to o gentlemun in New York the bay gelding Donuld, by Dictator, record 2:27, for £5.0K. He will be driven next season by James Dustiu. Dan Brown. who was connected for several seasons with *Blue Bull? Wilson’s stable of trotters, will have charge this season of the horses belonging to J. W. Ford and Michzel Burke, of this city. Mr. W. C. France's bay mare Josie, record 2 recently drooped & bay filly by George Wi , which Mr., Frunce has numed Lady Dun- ton, in honorof Mrs. Frank H. Dunton, wife of the editor of the Spirit of the Lurf. h of the trotting mare Lady Sears, by Rysd, Hambletoniay, dam Jenny, by Seely's American Stur; second aam Kitty Fsh= er, by Alexunder W., occurred on the “Wth of Febraury at_the stable of_her owner, Mr. John Filter, of New York. Her public record was Chiengo peoplo will remember the sensational dcbut list season of the Kenoshu trotter Barkis ot the maeting iu this city, and his fainting away on the track before the word was ziven for the first hieat. 'The horse wasorigiualiy brought out in 1875 by Bob Jobnson, of Tennessec. After the faliure at_Chicago inst summer, Mr. Buin, the owner of the horse, wisely coneluded to re- tire him. Johnson recently came up frowm the South and took the horse back with him. Next seasun he wiil be traived and driven by Jobuson, much to the diszust, o doub, of the sanzruitars headed youns Scandinatirn who had ciurge of nim [ast supnner. Mr. William R. Armstrong, of Almont, Mich., ever on the alert for the newest and best of this world's zoods, bas purchased for n Detroit gen- an, Wilbur F., bl w., sixteen hunds, foaled bt by Hinsdale Humbletonian, son of Waitc's Blucher, record 12, at Hartford, Conn., Aug. 26, 1389, aud Vulcan, bl. g.. ds, by 1 grandson of Hill's Bluck I ord of 2:15, at Boston, Oct. 18, 1677, The suld to be about the finest and fastest ever hovked to- gether, and were purchased from Mr. John Hull, of Young's Hotel, Boston. at an enormons price, though the tlzures buve not b public. Vulean and Velix trotted in 2:41 ang iz in o race at Albany, N. Y.. in 1576, but Wilbur F. and Vulcan cun trot together low in twenties. BASE-BALL. President Hulbert leaves for Bufalo - this evening to attend the League meeting. Ed Willinmson has becn called East by the ill- ness of, his mother. He expects to be abseat about two wecks. Trott, of last year's Bostons, hesa good posi- tion in the Third Treasury Ofice in Washingzton, and says hehas given up ball-playing entirely. It is said that Derby has reconsidered his de- tormination not to play ball this season, and will fulftll his enguzement with the Detrolt Club. The Detroit Club manarement IS said to be negotiating with a well-known _college pitcher, who will probably join them after he” graduates in Junc next. IthasLeen cstimated that it costs about $3%0 to playa cbampionship game of base-bull,— more money than it COStS to give & AArst-cliss minstrel show. Tho resident members of the Chlcago nine take duily excrcise in the Athemeum Gym- nasium, and will be in excelient poysical condi- tion when the season opens. Manager Bancroft, of the Detrolt Club, sends a commuunication toibe Clipper stating that an investigation into Say's record was the cause ol ihel Detroit Club’s refusal to enguge him for 831, Last season the Cleveland Club were white- washed oftener thun auy otber Club in the League, vet it was the ouly nine able to blank Ubicau hich it did twice,—euach time by a score of 2to 0. The Schedule Committee of the League con- sists of President Hulbert and Mr. Soden, of Boston. It is believed the schedule will be so arranged us to have tho Western Clubs go East first this season. The meeting of the League managers will take place to-morrow at the Lift House, Builalo. The first duy will be devoted to fixig up the sched- ule, und the next for unfinished business fromn the last meeting. The Boston Herald says there has'been & mo- ticenble bracing up auiong base-ball lovers i i ement of Georgs Wrigh: An immense crowd §s_predicted on when the team for 15SL will play s strong picked nine. The rivalry between Yale and Princeton on tho ball-field _the coming season promises to be intense. Hoth colleges ure bent ou orgunizing their strongest possible teams, and to this ent thoy have i large number of phiyets—all good ones—practicing In the eywnasiums. THE PORK TRADE. Chicago Packers Object to the Raids of Foreign Governmentis. Fowler Bros., puckers, of this city, received n dispateh from New York yesterduy stating that Mr. Crump, the British Consutat Philadelphia, had, ina recent commuaication to bis Govern- roent, stated that 700,060 hogs died of cholera in Tilinois last year. As the resultof such a report would be to seriously alfect the suicof Awcrican hog products fn_ Europe, and as the statement was without foundation,a .special meeting of the Directors of the Bourd of ‘rude wus calied, and the following resolutions passed: WiEREAS, 10is reported thut oflielal repre- gentatlves of foreign Governments in this coun- fry have intimated that disease inswine prevails in this country, and especitlly in tho State of Jliinois. to #u_alarming extént, which reports. have tended to greatly demoralize the trade in hog products; und WHER! All reliable reoorts, official or otherwise, tend to prove that diseases of swine prevail to a very much less extent ntthe present time and for tke past year thun In previous years, and has never bten of a churucter to Justify alarm or unensiness in respect to the ineats that urc packed for buman consumption, preut euce having always been bad to_exclude from such uses_uny animals that ure in any de- gree infected with disease; therelorey Resuival, By the Board of Directors of the Board of Trade of Cnicago, that, in their juds- meat, there wre 1o good grounds for uuy nppre- hension as to the healthiness of hog product pucked in this country, whether for home con- sumption or for export, and they cmphuatically deny that there Is or lLins been any recent in- crease in the diseases to which all swine are Siaro or less subject; und they as emphutically affirm that never in the history of the trude wus the product of our meat- packing establishments of so high or healthful u character asat the resent time. P oloed, That a committee be appointed by the President of the Board to take such action to refute the erroneous reports referred to as they muy deem proper and necessars. The Board ulso acted on the vexed question of the supposed existence of trichime in Amencan pock shipped to Europe. A committee wus ap= pointed to visit Sprngfield and Wnshington \with & view to sccuring Stute and National leg- islation o o subject. It is understood that St. Louis and Milwaukee will tikesimilar action. . The Dress of the Evening, A ladywho aims at being the best dressed woman in Philndelphia, uppearcd lately in a dress of white cinbroidered veivet, covered with crystal trimming and pear fringe. [t was so henvy that. she could barely wadule about, but s it was the dress of the evening she weat home happy. They yield: tbat is, alleruptive complaints do ta Glenn’s Sulphur Soap. some -CRIMINAL COURT. Lesser Friedberg Refused An. other Trial. The Bross Murderer Gets a Sen= tence for Life. The Work of the CGrand Jury—Petty Oriminals. z FRIEDRBERG IN BAD LUCK. After Judge Moran had disposed of some pet« ty cases in the Criminal Court, tho motion for a new trial in the case of Lesser Friedberg was taken up. Mr. Storrs was not present to represent the defenaant, his client, but he was represented by Mr. Cotfee, his partner, who wanted the decision of the motion postponed until further atidavits could be tiled. Judge Moren sald that he thought sufficlent delay had already Leen had. He believed that any number of aflidavits could be filed, but those already filed had no Learing on the case, end he was inclined to dispese of the motion without further delay. The motion was baged, he weut on to say, upon the Court’s refusal to give certain instructions presented on the part of the defendunt. During the pendency of the motion he had carefully examined the instructions, and found that all that had been excluded a3 incorporated in tbe instructiond given. The instructions were rend to show that there was 1o real founaution for the motion, and then the Court went on to suy that the defend~ ant bad had a fuir and 1mpartial trial; that be nad been represcuted by uble and eminent coun- gel; and that tho jury which had passed upon 150 onse wus ane of thy best cver Impaneled in the Criminal Court. e could not, therefore, interfcre with the verdict, and overruled the motion for a new trial. The State's Attorney then stepped forward and asked that the prisoner be sentenced at once. Mr. Cotfee wunted time in which to file a biil of exceptions with the Supreme Court, and suw- gested that it might take thirty days to make up the record. 'The State's Attorney had no objection to time i , butit wasn ruleof the Court rer should be sent to Jollet the ng his sentence. ‘riedbers, have you anything that the p: Thursday fol Tae Court—)I t 0 suy for yoursell? Mr. Fricdbery—Nothing more, your Honor, than that [ am mnocent. The Court—The jury has passcd upon that questlon, and_after giving the case the closest artention and most thorough cxaminadon [ gree with you. is—The scutence can now be fmposed, your Honor, zud motions for delay in executing it can be heard between now and Thursday The Court—The senteuce of the Court is, that Lesser Friedbergbe taken to the State Peniten- tiary.and there confined for a period of four years ac bard lubor. A8 so0a n3 the sentence had been pronounced Mrs. Fricdberg, who was expected 1o falng, b *did not. stepped up toJudze Moran and snid: ;;Tk]xlnlr.ls not justive,—Mr. Mills i3 to blame for a 4 sMr. Friedberz was at_once returned to jail, followed by his wife, and unless some motion is made for delay between now and Thuraday he will go to Jullet with the bateh that day. THE BROSS MURDER. The case of Jack Orr and Frank Gilbert, charged with tke murder of Richard Bross in August last on Clark street,. wns given to the jury yesterday ofter- noon at 2:20 o'clock. A verdict was reached about 6 o'clock, the jury finding Crr guilty and fixing his punishment at imprisonment for life. Gilbert was ncquitted, and discharged. A mo- tion for a new trinl was entered us to Orr, which will be argued in o few days. PETTY SENTENCES. Yesterday was sentence dsy in the Criminal Court, and quite & number of uufortunates i i were given their doom. The following is a list % of those sentenced, with their crimes and terms of imprisonment: George Throff, nssauit with intent to kill, three years Penitentiary; Charles Stephens, lare ceny, four months House of Correction; Ed= ward Armstead, larceny, four mnonths-House of Correction; Archy Carroll, larceny, three yenrs Iteforin School; Philip Eoright, larceny, $10 tine und ounc year Houss of Corrections Joseph Habn, Inrceny, six months Fouse of Cors ’ B rection; William Johoson, burglary. two years . Peaitentiary; William _HI derly bouse, fined £50 24d costs: Thomns Litte, larceny, twenty-nine daysCounty Juil; Georgp Tanduli, assault, sentence suspended: Edward TFoster, larceny, three mouths House of Correc~ tion and $10 fine: Willizm Cirauck, assault, fined $15 ond cost: months House of Cotrection and $10 fine; Fred Hlacker, robbery, one year Penitentiary; August Georzmeyer. burzlury, one year Penitentiary; Henry Pryor, larceny, six montbs House of Cor= rection; Martin Leo_pleaded guilty to larceny and was remanded; Joe Gormuu, burglary, ene year Penitentiary; Bd Hurris, assauit and larceny, four months and fifteen days House = of Correction: George Hum 0, larceny, thirty days County Juil; Biichael Lynch, = larcen: ten moiths House of Currection: Frunk Hogan, lurceny, four months House ot Correction; Edward ‘T'hompson, lar- ceny, six months Houre ot Correction; Charles McEiroy, burglary, two yeurs Penitentiary: and Michael Gavin, larceny. thirty days County Jail. THE GRAND JURY. The February Grand Jury adjourned yester- day, baving done business as follows: Cazes heard, 115; true bills, $3; no bills, 55: and passed, . Amoug the indictments refurued were the following: Emmanuel Isaaes, for recelving stolen jew= elry, knowing the same to bave been stolen, to~ pether with the two Bauers, Hermaa Schraeder, and Matthew Ash. August Kussman, tho Mil- vemue druggist, was Indicted for crim- tesuess in giving morphine instexd of quinine 10 the two children of Marie Blunk. Nicholus Ohr was indicted for pounding kis two children. Kercy Dau and _Scotty Lerock were indicted for robbing John Young at & balt at Mc- Cornnek ltall. Alexunder McKay, Patrick Cav- anaugh, Thomas Finueuve, Dasiel Cavaoaugh, Wiltium Hopkins, and othery, were fudicted Yor the burglury of the Union Steel Company’s sufe. Albert Foster was indicted for ravisking the little duughter of Jereminb King. Geurye Buarth, a traveling salesmun for Gustave and Matilda Korn, way indicted for telonlvusly appropriat- inyg sawmples of Ince. Jesse Custerline, u ‘Twellth street borse joc wus_indicted for & horse trunsuction with William Knater. August Fish- er, a Desplaines street mitler, was indicted for perjury, comunitted in trying to avoid payiog a it is charged. Coarles Micble, a saloun= Keeper, who shot u customer in the scrotum o 20, wus indicted therefor. Trank Kocrner and Robert Smith, who carted off nbout & wagon-loud of wutches from Ira Ower & Co., were indicted for the same. Ten fnuictments were turned in against Hattie Mar- shall. the young womnn who has plundered o ‘wide and sorrowing circle of boarding-houses and private tamilies where she worked from time to time. Micl aley, who indecently as- saulted Mrs, Gruce Walls, For the v of Abrubu: 3 b Tt Sholto dichael DBuuer, Itol N Barreit, and Thomas Wickbam were indicted. Cole #nd Gurst, the two youniz mén who went on 1 spree with o Mrs. Porfer, were indicted foe found in possession of ber wateb and chaio. ctnent of about nine counts was turned in ugainst Adulbert Reinke, charging him with stealing cheeks and money from County Clerk Klokke and others. Jumes A, Webb, ticket-scaiper, and Cuurles Stewart, specuiator, were indicted for thelr conncetion \ith the railway tickets stolen from the Michi~ gan Southern Kailway Comohuy. A large num- ber of indictments for rubbery were ulso re- turned, most uf the persons :—pbh;:d belng more or less under the intliteace of liquor. The Jury returned u voto of thanks to W. K. Sullivan, foremun, for his obliging und ex- Peditious manner, as well as to G. Al H- Buk Dad others connected with tho Jury, after which they reported into Court and were discharged. et ———— THE JUSTICE COURTS. John Gardacr, charged with forging the name of James McDermott to a note for S, was yes~ terday discharged by Justice Drayton, noone appearing to prosecute. Richard Rowe was the complaimiit. ‘The bond of $3.000 in the case of George S. Marsh bas been declared torfeited by Justice Sumimnertield, but, according to u decision ot the Supreme Court of the State, Marsh is not liable. Marsh was cited to answer on the 26th of lust Junuary, for allezed embezzlement, and did appear, Dt the caso was coutinued by Justico Wulluce until the 5th of [Fobruary, when Justice Summerticid was on the beach, In the former's ubsence. According to the decision of the Supreme Court a new bond musc be given when a defendant appears In accordunce with a coutinuance. Richard I Ruce is on the bond. W. J. sfoxiey, o butter dealerat No. 126 3ich- jgan strect. was yesterday arraigned beforo Justice Summerlieid for an ulleged "violation ot the luw in relation to selling butter. A wownn doing busiess on the West Side testified that she bouzht the butter of Moxley, who proved that it was warked * Butterine,” and sold_as such. Thecase was therefore dismissed. lo- spector Howe und 3ir. Cooke were prescat to prosecute the case, but failed to show cause. ————— A MMistake. A wedding party was dismissed tended hrldl.irgom ‘at Lafayette, Ind. *T unders stoud the young lady to say yes,” he explaioed, “but it seems that I was mistaken, and sie meant to 5y I ————— Brown’s Broochial Troches will instantly Tos 1iéve & cough, & cold, or hoarseness. 25 cents by _the io- lckey, keeping disoe= Peter Licb, larceny, four - \ \