Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, March 20, 1881, Page 9

i N THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE: SUNDAY, MARCH 20, 1881—-ERIGHTEEN PAGES. b TE 4b ESTA’ jp0-M. BOGUE, AND LOANS. iL ISTATE AGENCY, | : poost § REAPEI BLOCK, * se. 97 Clark-st.. Chicago. peagt botfon aiven to the x commission. ¢ and <014 Oe care and management Seale, ected. ioe se eat ens Carefully looked after. { REAL ESTATE. Transactions in Acre Property the Feature. in. the Neighborhood of South Chicago. a Work on the Rapid.Transit Lines to Evanston, : nt Rs CA : . 5H. Kerfoot &z Co., Railroad from Pullman to South WL ESTATE BRONERS, jane. aa gt Dearborn-st. wee pare been engaded in the Rernlar L ESTATE AGENCY sere ‘Colesgo. uaa \F Lewis Lee, 76 FIFTH-AV. AALISTATR G LOM jist of inside Business, Dwelling, and Manufacturing Property, gost soxanrot 2oeodet, SOLICITED. } and have stall times for sale | wap, Chicago. of Trade and the Chamber of Commerce. ACRE PROPERTY. It is-remarkable that in the face of such ather as we have had the principal activity in real estate should be in acres, Such is the fact. All the notable sales re- ported last week were of acre property, and the acres—in nearly every case—are in the vicinity of South Chicago. A. J. Averell, assisted by Garnett & omasson, sold forty acres in S. W. 2¢ of Sec. 36, 38, 14 for $600 an acre to Henry W. King. é ELA. Warfield has purchased eleven acres in N. E.4¢ See. 18,37, 15 for $9,002. This property has a frontage of 1,200 fect on the Calumet River, and flies east of the Joseph Ui. Brown Iron & Steel Company’s works. Mr. Thomas E. Patterson has bought 240 jam,Doc®, ane i acres in See. 32, 37, 15, just si ‘f hich we invite the attention of close ; #¢cre ec, 32, 37, 15, just south af Wolf 2 Lake, for $60 an acre, and 5acres on Seventy- ne ae sd years’ experience in Chicago. third street, near Earl avenue, for $1,200 an t 3 acre. Nocharge for Lace te is ‘| Some aere property in South Chicago was Cmnect with Bell Telephone. sold last week by Judge Jameson. It con- Conespondence invited. ssisted of three five-acre blocks, known as Gomspondence invited Holmes & Brother, HEAL ESTATE AND LOANS, 4 HOLMES, EDGAR HO. MES. FA.BRAGG & CO. Real Estate AND Loans. ‘gt Washington-st. H, J. GOODRICH, $1 MsJOER BLOCH, . 14g LA SALLE-ST. 4 Real Estate. Fust-class Business, Residence, Manufacturing, and dere Properts represented. Tea.teution Gf cankuil cee sine investment solicited Expert in Res} Estate Va aguions. Z 104 Ja Chizago Real Estate in sums of $1,000 $100,000, at lowest rates. HENRY WALLER, JR., 97 Dearborn-st. A. LOEB & BRO. Hine Loaned oo RealEstate . 12g & 131 La Salle-st. -GRIFFIN & DWIGHT, WEST SIDE Real Estate and Loan Brokers, Cor. Washington and Halsted-sts. FRANCIS B. PEABODY & CO. HOANS UPON REAL ESTATE, Interest rate, & per cent. AGENTS FOR SALE OF REAL ESTATE. 174 Dearborn-st. Kensington Lots, 3 ADJOLNING THE PULLMAN CAR-WORKS, Forsale on easy terms by C.B. SAWYER, ” kvom 24 Portland Block, Ai Comer Washington and Dearborn-st3., Take the Elevator. eae eee ebicago. ‘E. 8. DREYER & CO., BANKERS, LOANS AND REAL ESTATE, 88 Washington-st.,, Chicago. ‘HUTCHINSON BROS., REAL ESTATE DEALERS _ LOAN BROKERS, “N10 Dearborn-st., Room 15, Chicago. J.P. WHITE & CO., HEAL ESTATE AND LOAN AGENTS, *~._ A Specialty of Bu-iness Property. Roont 4 Reaper Block, 97 Clark-st. BAIRD & BRADLEY, Lt Hel Estat, & Renting Agen, | | No. 90 La Salle-st. Money to Loan ON IMPROVED REAL ESTATE, AT : SIX PER CENT. Apply to ‘wW™, V. JACOBS, 100 Dearborn-st. (Basement). “ “{ MONTHLY SALES AT AUCTION. NULER & CO_Trusiees. W.K. NIXON, Manager. ~ 116 & 118 Dearborn-st. a CHANDLER & CO., Mortgage Bankers. ‘+o. “LOANS ON REAL ESTATE. NO. 72. -DEARBORN-ST. Ba _. (2° ¢ Seiltag Corn for Fuel. he deg Sous City Uniew) Sournnt. qdhedemand for turning-corn increases, and wpe alone bud three icams out yesterday Bae Pising the city demand. The selling price * banenesaced to 3 cents per bushel fur A No.T Mere f COTH On acvount of the himited supply, 4splenty.of green wood in the bands of ites, butuo dre wood. except an occasional Dring thE market. Hurd or soft eval, for Quon OUsUMption, is, of course, out of the oe "at use stimulants, but nature's real brain uerre food—Hop Bitters. Biocks 3. 4, and 9 in Wisner’s Subdiy: the N. E. 1/ of the N. E. 1f of Si and was sold to John John: 32,595, half cash, balance in ty Jand is situated on the southeast inct Lake, between Puliman and South cago, and will probably be crossed by the ‘hranch of the Western Iudiana Road” from elton to South Chicago. Mr. T. D. Snyder, through Garnett & Thomasson, has sold forty-four acres at Oak Park, at the corner or Holland avenue and Madison street, far $400 an acre, cash. ‘The owner once refused $1,000 an acre for this property. Land on the other side of the street has been sold for $2,500 an acre. INSIDE PROPERTY. ‘The triangular vacant lot averaging thirty- five feet each side.northwest corner of Mil- waukee avenue and Canal streets, where it intersects with West Lake street, has been sold for $3,500, This corner is to be imme- diately improved with a three-story brick building. Since Jones & Saugblins’ iron warehouse has been located opposit this section has been canvassed as the possible centre for the heavy iron trade of this city. Its accessibility to tho Pittsburg & Fort Wayne Railroad, over which the great bulk of heavy iron goods arrives, and the North- western, the Milwaukee & St. Paul, Chicago & Aiton, and Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railroad freight-houses, gives considerable color to the rumors afloat regarding the new use to be-made of Canal and West Lake streets, The saving of cartage would be enormous, and for business purposes the ‘location would be not too far removed from the business centre of thecity. It is said Mr. Ryerson has bought a large lot on Clinton street for iron purposes, and that offers of $350 a front foot have beeu recently made for lets on Canal street, near West Lake street, and refused, No, 574 West Lake street, fronting southon “Union Park, with a two-story and basement marble-front house, with brick barn, lot 24x 150 toa ‘sixteen-foot alley, has been sold for $6,700. ¥, A. Bragg &.Co. report the following sales: Nos. 208, 210, and 212 Wabash avenue, two-story stone-front block, with lot 680x165 feet, for 378,000; Nos. 11 and 13 Clark street, four story stone-front block, with lot 40x40 feet, for $35,000; 72x16S1f feet, south front, on Thirty-tirst street, between Michigan and Indiana avenues, for $16,000; 40x145!¢ feet, west front, on State street, forty feet south of Harmon court, with 55x40 feet, north front, on Harmon court, adjoining, corner of Victoria place, for $14,550; 29x182 feet, east front, on Vernon avenue, 315 feet south of Thirty-fifth street, for $2,175; 55x130 feet, northwest corner of Halsted and ‘Thirty- fourth streets, for §2.100; same property again for 32,750; No. 2033 Indiana avenue, frame cottag with Jot 32 75-L00x178 feet, for $4.000; No. 2080 Calumet avenue, two-story and basement brick house with frame cottage. in rear, with lot 26x173 feet, for $6,100; 295x173. feet, west front, on Calumet avenue, 166 feet north of Twenty-ninth street, for $1,750; and atract_of about 12 acres on the Calumet River, in See. 18, 37, 15, for $9,000. hi John C. Long sold for William B. Phillips to Joseph Hopson 40x135, east front, on In- diana avenue, 103 feet south of Twelfth street, with a brick barn, for $6,150, issell recently’ bought for R. E. Jenkins the triangular lot southeast corner Biue Island avenne and Fifteenth street, for $1,500, and before the abstract was ready sold it for him for $2,500 cash to William Sherer, who will at once put upsubstantial improve- ments on the property. - Edward Goodridze & Co. report the fol- yw sales: ‘Threestory and basement buildig with lot, 201 Johnson street, bric $5,000; frame house and lot, 1087 West Lake steel, sl Magill & Co. have made tho following v. 1076 West Van Buren street, a two- h lot, for $2,000, all cash 5 dams street, west of Jefferson Park, for $175 per fot, all cash; it will be improved with: an elegant res- idence; twenty-six feet on Ashland avenne, east tront, near the Jackson street boulevard, for $175, ail will be improved with a three-story residence, of Puiladel- phia pressed brick ;seventy-two feet on Jack- son street boulevard, corner of Wood street, on which one large and two twenty-foot resi- dences will be built. B. A. Ulrich has sold 200 feet on the north- east corner of Fiftieth street and Madison avenne to Charles Morgan for $37.50 pergfoot (with S, C. Pitner & Son); Blocks 1 and 15, woad’s Subdivision of N. E. 3¢ of Sec. , 14, to James Bowen for per acre; 2,3, and partof 7 Linn ankin- son’s Subuivision in_ the NOE 3 of Sec. %, 38. 14, to George H. Leonard tor $250 per acre : 33 South ‘State street was bought by Mr, Lehinan for =! cash. E. S. Dreyer & Co. sold a residence lot op- posit Lincoin Park for $3,000, ‘A sale was made on the mdge at Washing- ton Heights of sixty acres for 515,000, . In che sales of the week were 50x174 45 fect on Michigan avenue, south of Thirty- second strect. $15,000; 6124x106 on Van Bu- ren, east of Wabash avenue, 325,000; 26x11 on Michisan avenue, south of Harmon court, $15,000; undivided half of 9x80 on Dearborn Street, north of Randolph, $42,500; $0x190, jasproved, on Michigan avenue, north of Twenty-eighth, $15,000; 33x100, _-im- proved, on Michigan avenue, _ north of Twenty-ninth. $25,000; S0xI71 Wabash avenue, south of Adams stree! 000; 1203-10x200 on Jefferson street, ne west corner of: Walnut, 35,700; 200x150 on Madison avenue, northeast corner of Fiftieth Street, $7,000; 75x120 on West Monroe street, southeast corner of Leavitt, $10,500; 2234x124, improved, on West Washlagton, $8,400; 101-5 acres on Robey street, between Fifty-fourth and Fifth-fftli, $5,600: 48x90 on North Hal- sted street, south of Webster avenue, $5,000; 715135 on Blackhawk, southeast corner 0: Novle, 85.400; untivided 1-5 of 191 feeito Tiverou Grove street,south west corner of Six- teenth. $12,000; 44 3-10x125 on Orchard since, ‘on South Halsted, south of Madi: 22x62, impraved, on O; northeast corner of Washington, $7,312; 20)4 x1I8, on Twent¥-sixth, west of Prairle ave- b, 21: 100 feet on Llinols, east of North State, & 325x150 on North Clark, south of Chestnut, also tnangle of 111x125) ‘x00 on Lincoln avenue, southeast comer of Wis- consin, $14,500; "2837x202, improved, on ‘Thirty-first, west of Calumet avenue, $6,000; story brick house, wi -five feet on W 260 & ‘Flavin, for $1,950, -| Woodlawn av, 8 ¢ cor of Fifty-tifth 87x40 on Clark, north of Lake, $35,700; 50x 125 on Rees street, northeast corner of North Branch water, $6,000; 21x115}4, improved, on Gitty-pird, east of Jefferson avenue, The fifth public sale of the Chicago Real Estate Call Board was very well attended. venty-seven pieces were offered, but only two were sold. J. H. Bissell bought a store at No, 75 Blue Island avenue, with lot 20x70, at the upset price, $2,565. The other sale was of a two-story fraine ottage on Thirty- eighth street, with lot 24x91.5, to M. D. ‘The next sale will take place April 6. SATURDAY’S TRANSFERS. The following warrantee deeds were filed for record yesterday: CITY PROPEBTY. Butterfield st, 150 ft s of Twenty-ninth, w £, 25x100 f(t, dated Murch 7 (Daniel Sco- vil toJoha MoMahon)..... Perret Canal st, 167 ft 8 of Monroe, of, 2x7054 ft, dated Murch @ (Waiter E. Mack to Frank Kinnare),......2.. ss+ssss esse cess Michigan av, 163 ft n of South Water st, . ¢ f, 24x131 £t, dated March 9 (William A. Hulbert et al. to George: W. Smith)..... Desphiines st, U0 fen of Van Buren. e f, 2734x100 ft, turproved, dated Mareh 16 {Brown & Sbaw to Rachel Cobn).......- West Huron st, 192 ft ¢ of Noble, nf, 2ix 1)0 ft, improved, dated March 18 (James Petersun to George Olsen) cone Bunker st, 1316-10 tte of Despluines, s f, ‘22 4£-10x106 ft, dated March 19 (George It. McClellan to Joseph Havrauck)...... Bunker st, adjoining the above,s f, 24~ x136 ft, dated March 19 (Same to Martin BIAVAty)......eeeree cee eeee, a Shoito st, 1$1 fe nof West Taylor, 4100 ft, dated Jan. 11 (George Sco ILS. Gladwin). Buttertiold st, 342 eV ef, 6x100 ‘ft, dated March 18 (L. Boone to John J. McCletlan)........ West Randolph st, 100 fcc of Curtis.st, 25x10 ft.dated Murch 2 (Aynes £. irons to J. and H. Beidler).........,. nese South Hulsted st, 24% ft n of Twenty- first, ef, 2!5x100 ft, improved, dated March 19 (Jonn E. Gillen to Julius Wunnicke).... oe sieges esses 5,000 West Superior st, 215 £10 ft w of Lincoln, nf, 234x123 ft, dated March 14 (Hiram Barber, Jr., to Hans Andersen). 1,800 NORTH OF CITY LIMITS WITHIN A SEVEN MILES OF THE COURT-HOUSE. Clybourn av, 275 ft a w of Paulina st. sw 2, 25x150 ft, dated Maren lt (C. W. Ful- Jerton w John Baumann)... aes os! Clybour ov ft wof Paulina st, s Ww § bas ft, dated Murch 19 (Same to W. at)... SOUTH OF CITY LIMITS WITHIN A Ital SEVEN MILES Of THE COURT-HOUSE. Wentworth ay, 50 ft n of Furty-third st, fP25xb2 Ct, dated March §(C. 1. und We H. Patmer to James Leddy = Ww £, 300x175 ft, duted Murch 19 (Muster in Chaucery to John Koening?... ane Lot on street first e of Centre ay Mo fs of Fifty-cightb st, wf, 25xl4y ft, dated March 1? (W. H. ber to E. S. Eldredge) . California av, 8 w cor of Appenrade st, 0 f, 2388 ft to alley, dated March 11 (M. Hindskopf et al. to John Johnston, Jr.j.§ 1,800 SUMMARY OF TRANSFERS FOR THE WERK. The following is the total number and amount of city and suburban transfers within a radius of seven miles of the Court- House filed for record during the week end- ing on Saturday, March 19: ‘Lucation. No. |Cnsideratn City property....... 138/35 North of city limits 15 South of city limits. Ba West of city Hmits, 3 Total... Is|3 763, Total previous weair De 875,158 BUILDING OPERATIONS. Building is backward on account of the weather and the scarcity of brick. Notmuch new activity can be expected till the new brick comes in. There will be an unusually large supply of brick this year, as the Pull- man brick works will turn out millions, and several yards of large capacity are being fit- ted up on the North Side, Auong new flat buildings to be erected are athree-story block on La Salle street, north of Division, to cost $15,000; three-story flat on Lua Salle, north of Chicago avenue, to cost $11,000; and a third on State street, near Pearson, for two families, to cost $6,000, for allof which plans have been drawn by Archi- tect Hansen. as = The top stories of baildings well lighted and weil fitted with elevators are becoming popular. In the new Grannis building, ou Dearborn street, two first-class insurance companies have taken offices on the fifth floor. Mr. Charles Francis Adams, of Bos- ton, writes a Chicago friend that he gets more for his sixth floor than for his first, and that he is sorry he did not build nine stories instead of six. © _. The old Rock Island elevator is being torn down, tc be replaced by a new oue, planned by Mr. Baumann, the architect. The new elevator will be 85x355, will have a capacity of 1,500,000, and will cost $300,000. It will be done Dec. 1, oes B.S Rothschild, wholesale clothier, building a store for himself, 50x1s0, five stories hizh, on the site of the old American Express Building. In plan it will resemble the Borden Block, at the corner of Dearborn and Randolph streets. _ It will cost $70,000. In the building permits of the week were those uf K. Hierholzer, two-story dwelling, 22x62 feet, No. 27v0 Shields street, $3,500;. Jonn Clifford, threestory dwelling, 20x39, 93 Granger street, $8,000; J. Lefens, th story dwelling, 22x73, No, 2702 South Park avenue, $7,000; Joseph Snachy, two-story dwelling, 21x56, No. 3139 Huron street, $3,000: William Case, two-story dwelling, No. 15 Ann street, $3,500; K, Platt, two-story dwell- ing, No. 274 Leavitt street, $3,500; Rosa MeGuire, two-story dwelling, 22x 42 feet, No. -3512 Emerald avenue, $1,800; Andrew Williams, two-story dwelling, a, No. 12 Goethe street, S$: 3 A. Shaefer, two-story dwelling, 24x00, No. 1089 Twelfth street, $4,500; J, C. Ilaskins, two-story dwell- ing, 21 Lincoin place, § three-story dwelling. 3 street, 34,000; J. H. Treadel, one-story dw ine, No. 3723 La Salle street, $1,500: Henry Klein, one-story dwelling, No. 615 West Chi- eago avenue, $1,600; Michael Brucker, two- story dwelling, No. 613 West Chicago avenue, §2,000; John Rutherford. two-story barn, No. sk Vi Monroe street, $2,000. | Chicago is growing rapidly on its outskirts, particularly on the west and north. In the neighborhood, of Deering and the new and old brick-yards just north of the city- limits at Clybourn avenue, nearly twenty new houses are going up, and more will be erected later in the spring. RAPID TRANSIT. Important progress has been made in the scheme of rapid transit northward under the direction of Mr. E. ©. Cole. Mr. Cole and his friends in New York have been in communi- cation by cable with English capitalists ta whom the bonds were offered, and these have now committed themselves virtually to the enterprise. At home the plans and the ground have been examined by Mr. E. 5. Chesbrough, the well-known civil engineer. Mr. Chesbrough pronounces the scheme feasible, and has accepted the post of Chief Engineer of the ruad. His estimates have is reduced the cost from’ $3,500,000 to $2,500,000. One great saying is in the tunnel under the river, which Gen. Sooy Smith and: Mr. Chesbrough agree ean be built for $200,000, very much less than was at first calculated. ‘The persons who are trying to obtain the right of way for the Chicago & Evanston Ruad are still at work. Some of the property- owners at Lake View have refused to grant the right of way until the Company that ask for it have pledzed themselves to _afford.cei tain_accommodations as to fare and trains. Mr. W. C. Goudy, who represents the holders of the charter, is endeavoring to obtain the right of way unconditionally. Rumor has connected the Chicago, St. Paul, Minneapolis & Omaha — Road with the owners of the Chicago & Evanston charter. If a corporation of the character and resources of this railroad should apply to the property-owners in Lake View it would no doubtreadily obtain what it wishes, But it is idle to expect men with large landed iitte togive away land, for they know not what, to a corporation they do not know The Chicago & Evanston ¢harter is still alive, and a first payment of $20,00) has been made for it by those who now hold it. ‘The route will be as previously described. Run- ning outof the city over Hawthorneand South- port avenues, it will -defiect to the north- east, pass along the eastern side of Grace- land, and so due north to Evanston. The preatest obstacle is Calvary Cemetery, bui passage through this has been arranged for. Soncessions as to fares and funeral trains have been made that will give the Catholic Bishop a full return for the right of guing through. BOARD OF TRADE REMOVAL. Nothing has been done about the propdsud removal of the Board of Trade. The persons interested have not yet been able'to agrec upon the reciprocal sacrifices to which they could submit for the widening of Sherman street and Pacific avenue. ‘he rail- road company, the property-owners, and the Board of Trade unite in asking the Tracy estate to widen Sherman street, which is on the west side of the prop- erty, from sixty to seventy-three feet, by cutting off of the property to be sold a strip thirteen feet wide; to widen Pacific avenue on the east from forty to sixty-two feet by cutting off twenty-two feet on the east side of the property, and to sellto the Board of ‘Trade the land lying between these strects to a depth of 220 feet south from Jackson, in- stead of 200 feet, according to the first propo- sition, ‘The Tracy estate have not yet been persuaded to consent to this. Meanwhile the conviction grows that the Board of Trade will stay where they are, and by the alterations which can easily be made, find all the room they need in the present building and the one adjoining it on the south. A fact of possibly vast importance known to few is that the Chamber of Commerce own & much more yaluable Board of Trade, charter than that under which the Board is itself now run. For instance, the Chamber of Commerce charter permits it to-own an unlimited amount of real estate. The Board of ‘Trade cannot own any real estate. It is easy to see how valuable the Chamber of Commerce, if left with a fine Board-of-Trade hall on its hands, might find acharter which permits it to run 9 Board of ‘Trade of its own. SUBURBAN. The improvementsat Pullinan make steady progress. . The Pullman Land Improvement Company will: spend $500,000 for drainarze and houses. The Pullman Palace-Car Com- pany expect to plant in all $2,000,000, of which $1,100,000 have heen already disbursed. Anew part of the scheme, ngt heretofore inate public, is a railroad from Pullman run- ning northeastaround Lake Calumet to South Chicago. ‘This will connect the. Pullman Works with the railroads that cross the Catu- metat South Chicago, and make its rail fa- cilities about perfect, At South Chicago, work on the new stecl works of the North Chicago Rolling Mill is being pushed as rapidly as the weather will permit. The foundations of the con- verting mill are finished, and the iron roof of the rail mill is being piace in position. The blast mill proper will be ready by the end of summer. ‘fhe Steel Company has con- scructed a slip from the lake for the landing of ore, which gives it 2,100 feet of dockege; and numerous .other improvements have ‘the Company now does its own and for the purpose has three ngines constantly at work, rd, of Baird & Bradley, in conver- sation with a reporter, corrects the misstate- ment that rents in Evanston are as high as in the city. Rents in Evanston proper—old yanston—haye come up henrer to old-time prices, but they don’t compare with the old ones. When you come to North Evanston and South Evanstan, why, rents are not much more than nominal yet, and ig every- thing can be reuted now, and this is the first year since the panic that this has been true. been made. THE WEST PARKS. The annual report just submitted of the West Park Commissioners states that the total area of Humboldt and Douglas Parks is 380.41 acres; cost, $506,985.04; improved, 210acres. The total aren of Central, Park is 18487 acres; cost, $156,100.67; improved, 56 acres. Circumstances are said to havearisen which made it seem advisable to carry'on the development and improvement in about the proportion it has been carried on without re- gard to location. During the past six years more work has been done in Humboldt and Douglas Parks than in Central Park, hence the latter has failen behind the others in im- provements of évery. kind, and land-owners in that vicinity havecomplained of it, The pres- ent income of $100,000 is entirely Inadequate. A petition has been presented and a bill in- troduced in the Legislature providing for an addivonal tax of 24 anilla. which, itis esti- mated, will add $00,000 to the income of the Buard. The driveway to connect Douglas and Central Parks will ptobably be opened to the public on the Istof July next. It is thirty-eight feet wide, and reaches from the Humane fountain in Central Park to the main driveway in Douglas Park. The dis- tance is 12,957.71 feet. ‘The movement made by proper:y-owners on the line of [Lumboldt, boulevard to secure the building of a drive- way similar to that counecting Central and Itumboldt Parks, which shall extend north and east and eventually connect with some similar driveway west. of Lincoln Park, is cordially mentioned in the report. It is deemed of the utmost importance that the entire right of way to make a complete con- nection between the West Side parks and Lincoln and the South Parks be located and acquired at the earliest possible moment. NEW YORK NOTEs. Amongsome new buildings about to go up. in New York are.the great Home for Intem- perate Men, the Manhattan Eye and Ear In- firmary, a Bar Association building, the new Columbia College Law Buildings, which are to cost $750,000; 2 big flat house by Edward Clark, at Seventy-third street, to cost $1,500,- 000; a noble mansion for Marquand, the St. Louis railroad man, to cost, with the ground, 020; a residence for David Dows, to cost 000; ahonse for Mr. Eastman, to cost a Mission for the Immaculate Vir- gin, to cost $250,000; a ten-story grocery store for Mr. Sehopp; a nine-story grocery store for Leggett & Co., to cast $200,000 with- out the ground; a ten-story office bullding to be built by Eugene Kelly, the banker; an eight-story oflice-buitding for Vanderbilt, a big oflice-buiiding for Jay Gould, a nine-story fire-pruof building in Wall street for John Javob Astor, ete. Suburban real estate near New York is at last beginning to feel the effect of general prosperity. ‘There is at present 2 good in- quiry for the lands of the Jersey Land~ lunprovement Company, espeeiaily at Jersey ity, Newark, Bergen, Bayonne, and Centre ville. ‘The stock of this Company, waich un- der certain special agreements can be used in payment for its lands, sold at 35. in New York rapid transit has filled the buildmg department with plans for many brick dwellings and for whole blocks of apartment houses on both sides of the city up town, and builders that they are en- tering upon a busier season than New York has ever seen. CINCINNATI. The Cincinnati Commercial says that the real-estate business of Cincinnati seems to be bounded by focal influences.more than general. In Chicago the market is influenced by that of New York, and in St. Louis the market is intluenced to a considerable extent by that of Chicago. the one boing to some extent a suburb, or an adjunct, or a province of the other, Here in Cincinnati, where probably nearly as much real capital is cen- tered as that in both of the other Western cities named, we have a market of our own, and the market is not influenced to the same rent by New York markets as are those of zo and St. Louis. Nevertheless there has been a considerable advance in real es- tate, because of the natural growth of the city, and because of the impetus given to business by the Cincinnati Southern and the completion of half a dozen other -railways of more or less importance during the v: year, Probably the most interesting feature vf the real-estate business in Cincinnati proper has been in the tendency to build flats, or other quarters in which space could be utilized to-the greatest possible advan- tage for private dwellings or residences. WASHINGTON’S TOMB, For The Chica-o Tribune, ‘Tho cypresses, waving in grand, ancient glory, Grow silently over the tomb of the brave, And bear in their sombre Impressions the story OF national fove iu the houie of the grave. The evergreen boughs of the cedar hang over The tomb where the Father of Liberty Iles. And hide in their splendor of emerald cover The citizen-soldier whose name never dies. ‘The forest-onks, rising in old. yoqeleplendor, {nelose in their shadows our Washington’stomb, Like proud-crested monarchs, all anxiously ten- r ‘Lo grace with their presence the deep, hallow'd gloom. Crucago, Murch 17, 1881. PLC. T, BREEN. “ MYSTERIES.” The Miracle-Plays of the Middle Ages. — How They Were Performed — The Characters and the Actors. Language of the Works—Mise en Scene and Costumes. There are few occupations more interesting to the lover of the draina than that of tracing its rise and progress, from its earliest devel- opments to the full-blown rose ot poesy that flourished in the Elizabethan age in England, and in the reign of Louis XVlin France, A recént volume from the French press enables the student to pursue the study, so far as re- gards the early Mystery-and-Miracle-Plays, with a fullness hitherto practically impos- sible to the ordinary reader. In France as elsewhere, thedrama ha ligivus origin.. The Church of the primitive Christians was thesworn foetoall theatrical representations, and rightly so in view of the horrors of the arena In ancient Rome, and the universal immorality of such spectacles. But with the progress of time the Church be- came not only the temple of the people’s worship, but almost thelr only source of in- tellectual enjoyment. ‘The natural tendency of hunianity toward dramatic representation found yent in the ceremonials of religion. In the year 1000 of the Christian era this taste received full development and. satisfaction in the establishment of the so-called LITURGIC DRAMA, This drama at first consisted simply in the recitation by the priests before the altar of various Seripture-scences and episodes, solely in Latin in the beginning, but soon versifica- tion and the vulgar tongue took the Place of the stately Latin prose of the Bible. Though these dramas were given in the churches or the monas- teres, profane and mythological! ideas and Dersonages were speedily introduced into them, and mark the period of the decadence of the liturgic drama, and fts final develop- mentinto the form of the mystery. The most famous of these earlier dramas are those representing the Adoration of the Shepherds and the parable of the Wise and Foolish Virgi This last Is the first of the ancient dramas that was written partly in Freneh instead of wholly in Latin, and it possesses a very considerable degree of lit- erary merit. The custom .of giving these dramas from Seripture in the churches has continued in some partsof Europe down to ourown days; sacred pastorals being still performed in the churches during the Christ- mas holidays in the south ot France, and par- ticularly at Marseilles. ‘The gradual emancipation of the drania from the hands of the clergy brought about the development and firm establishment of THE MYSTERY. At first the pieces were performed, though not in the church, at least in front of it, and thongh written in the vulgar tongue an without strict regard to the facts of Scripture, the personages and incidents continued to be wholly Biblical. The earliest: known of these pieces is called “The Representation of Adam”; it was written in the twelfth cent~ ury, and the stage4lirections indicate a de- eldedly complicated mise-en-seéne, There was to be a paradise placed on a lofty eleva- tion so that the personages within should be distinctly visible to the audience, at least above the shoulders. Paradise was to be draped with silk hangings, and adorned wit flowers and various fruit-bearing trees. Adam was to wear a red tunic, and Eve a white robe anda veil of white silk. Undoubtedly Eve was personated by a man, woinen not making their appearance on the public stage till a much later epoch. It is directed {arther that all the personazes Shall be instructed “to speak with dignity and to make gestures appropriate to the things they had to say”; they were to take heed, moreover, neither to cut off noradd a syllable to the lines, but each person was to pronounce in a distinct manner and say everything he had to say in the order in which it was written. “THE-GERM OF “HAMLET’S” ADVICE TO THE * PLAYERS might be traced in these directions. This “ Representation of Adam ” is the sole mys- tery remaining of the twelfth century. The thirteenth, has bequeathed us two, “The Game of St. Nicholas,” “by Jean Bodel, and “The Miracle of ‘Theophile,” by Rute- beuf. The name of miracle in the middle ages | was _ to any his- tory or dramatic representation_of a super- natural deed performed by the Virgin or the saints. ‘The principal miracle-plays are those produced in the fourteenth centnry in honor of the Virgin, In fact, almost the whole of the dramas of that century which have been preserved belong to the same catezory, namely, that of “The Miracles of Our Lady.” These plays were represented by societies, haif religious and haif literary in their nature, whe had inherited from the priests and monks the right of giving theatrical per- formances. ‘hese societies were known by the name of puys. ‘The word puyin ancient French signifies mountain or elevation, and doubtless was derived from the high plat- form on which these dramas were per- formed. THE PERSONAGES OF THESE MIRACLE-PLATS afforded an odd assemblage of _ chat~ acters. God the Father, our Savior? the Holy Virgin, Satan, and_ saints, angels, and demons _ were mixed up with Kings and Queens, Princesses and shep- herds, Popes and Cardinals. The Virgin is nerally the Deo ex machina of the piece, interfering to save the innocent and also too often the guilty, if the criminal at the mo- ment_of punishment has invoked her aid. The Church is extremely ill-treated, Popes and Bishops being held up to derision; nor do Kings and nobles fare much better. The Devil usually plays the part of asortof su- pernatural Jago, circulating among the tv min characters ot the piece, exciting their evil passions, and whispering wicked coun- sels in their ears. The Emperors and Kings who are brought upon the stage are never real historical personages even when desig- nated by actual historical names, but are imaginary, monarchs, brutal, cruel, and ca- pricious for the most part, though oc- easionally shown as capable of gener- ous impuises. Sometimes these mira- cles of Our Lady brought upon the stage some one of the ‘old historical le- gends of France, such as those of King Pepin and Queen Bertha, Robert le Diable, and the conversion of King Clovis by his Queen Clo- tilda, ‘She first two have been chosen as the. foundation of operatic librettos by the nod~ ern composers of France, “ La Reine Berthe,” by M. Joncléres, proving unfortunately a total failure, while Meyerbeer’s “ Robert le Diable” continues, after the lapse of well nigh fifty years, to delight the hearts of all lovers of inusic throughout the world. THE LANGUAGE OF THESE WORKS was almost invariably of a naif: simplicity bordering on silliness, though here and there the reader comes across passages of genuine elevation if notof actual poetry. The mys- teries were written in verse, and sometimes eertuin passages were sung or chanted to an instrumental accompaniment. The versifi- n was at times very pleasing, and there exist. modern French poets, among whom may be cited Victor Iago, who have no hesitation to borrow from the mysteries the metrical form of some of their minor poems. ‘AS We have before seen, the first actors in the mysteries were priests and monks, but, as the assemblages called called puys rave way to other confraternities and ussocia- tions, the Inw and the bourgeniste. furnished a large proportion of the actors. We find, in 1435, In & reptescutation of a mystery called “Saint Catherine,” at Metz, Jean Didier, a the part of the zentle ‘saint, hicu, & lawyer, impersonated an Emperor. It is recorded that both “did well their duty.” ‘The young son ofa barber played “Saint Barbara ww Metz so admir- ably that there was a contest among thie tich and powerful citizens of the town as to who should have the honor of charging himself or herself with the education and support of thischarming youth. A wealthy widow wished to adopt him; but he preferred to place himself under the protection ofa canon who sent him to Paris to study, and he be~ da canon himself. This ike Kynaston in England in the reign SIL, had a widespread reputation for the excellence of his acting in female arts, He was very handsome, his beauty ing of an essentially delicate and feminine notary, pls while Jean type, and he played with so much pathos that: it is recorde how many persons among the audience “ wept with compassion. ‘There are on record only three represen- *Les Mysrenes. By L, Petit de Julleville, Paris: ‘ Hachette & Co, : tations of mysteries before the sear 1550, WHEREIN WOMEN WERE SUFFERED TO AP ‘The first Ki test ie first Known of these was a representa- | tion at Metz ofa mystery entitled “St. Cath- erine on, Mount Sinai,?? gotten up by a pri- vate Individual, one Dame Catherine Bau- doiche. who paid allthe expenses of the representation, probably giyen in honor of the lady’s patron saint. The part of Saint Catherine was taken | by a girl of eighteen, who spoke in such lively and piteous fashion that many persons were provoked to weeping. A gen- tleman of noble birth among the spectators fell in love with the young actress and short- ly afterward married her, though she was of humble origin. Francoise Buotier, who played the part of tha Holy Virgin in a repre-. sentation of the Passion at Greenoble, was much remarked for the charm of her diction, ‘as well as for her grace and beauty. But in general women were not allowed to speak upon the stage. Their rdles were, contined to simple pantomime or to posing in tab- leaux vivants Some of the fast were by no means of moral or modest character. On tne entry of Louis XI. into Paris in 1461 there was presented be- fore him a group of sirensas little clad as is the Venus de’ Medici, and the pageant, so far from scandalizing the spectators, was mnuch admired, The actors in the mysteries, and more es- pecially those of common origin, were. pas- sionately devoted to their parts, particularly if their roles gave them av opportunity of appearing in rich attire, and of personating saints, Popes. or Kings. ‘The Chureh did not hesitate to direct its thunders against this puerile vanity, and it afforded a fruitful theme for the moralists and satirists of the day. Sometimes this passion was carried so far that the rdles of royaland noble person- ages were 2 SOLD TO THE HIGHEST BIDDER. There exists, for instance, a, document drawn up by theconfraternity of St. Jacques, of the village of Vals, near Le Puy, dated July 25, 1506, and giving the prices pate by yarious personages of the town for the priv- ilege of representing the King and Queen of France and the nobles of their court. The part of the King cost seven pounds of wax, and was bought by Antoine Clerget, a seryant to the Bishop. ‘That of the Queen was purehased for to pounds and a half of wax, by Claude Benoit, amercer, who destined it’ to his daughter Marguerite. ‘he other characters were paid for in proportion to their inportanee. _ Yetall was not splendor and amusement in the lives of the mystery-players. ‘The pro- fession of an actor, even in those days, was a laborious one. The great parts, those that were the most ardently sought after, im~- posed a degree of toil and_ fatigue on thos who accepted them whereof few men would be capable to-day. For instance, Clirist, in certain uf the passion-plays, had over 4,000 lines to recite, and the crucifixion on the stage, as was remarked, lasted as long as in the’ reality. The actor, suspended to the cross in a state of alinosttotal nudity, recited, in that situagion, some 300 or 400 lines. In 1487 the curé, Nicolle, while impersonating the Savior in a passion-play, came near dymg on the eross in good earn- est, from sheer fatigue and exhaustion. in the same play the representative of Judas hung himself insuch realistic fash- jon that he became insensible, and was near- Jy dead when taken down, so that his fellow- actors were forced to “carry him into a neighboring spot, there to rub him with vine- gar and other restoratives.”” Sometimes the parts, when of great length, were played by three or four actors exch, and this was es- pecially the case when the personage to be represented was shown at different stages of his or her career. Thus, three actors were often charged with the rdle of the Holy Vir- gin, one impersonating her as a child, au- other as a young girl, and the thirdas a woman of mature age. THE MISE-EN-SCENE OF THE MYSTERIES, though primitive enough in its original de- sign, was often extremely splendid and com- plicatea, There was no change of scene, yet the action of the piece might include twenty different localities. The stage was _usual- jy of vast size, one-of 100 feet in breadth and as many in -depth - being of ordinary dimensions, A barrier called le ereneaw separated the stage from the audito- rium. At what would be styled ina modern theatre the first entrance was placed a repre- sentation of nell, which.was an opening Jead- ing beneath the stage, the. entrance to which was simulated, sometimes by a curtain on which was painted 2 hideous gnoning head, but more often: byan enormous. dragon’s - head, the wide expauded. jaws forming the entrance to the infernal regions, and from which flaines and smoke not infrequently is- sued, Back of this were ranged a tow of closed structures with doorways which could be opened or closed at will, while in the extreme background rose an eminence representing Paradise, and destined to be occupied by the Divinity, the angels, and other celestial actors in the drama, whereof they remained passive spectators when not. actually mingling in the action. In fact, all the actors in the piece re- mained upon the stage during the whole progress of the drama, standing motionless atone side when they had nothing tu say or do. For there were no side-scenes, no * be- hind the scenes’? where they could take refuge. As to the closed -structures afore- said, they took the place of scenery and were .| palaces, cottages, temples, according to the necessities ot the piece, their destination be- ing sometimes shown by written placards. Atthe Universal Exhibition of 1878, in the dramatic section, was exhibited a model of MR STAGE CONSTRUCTED AT VALENCI- ENNES IN IAT : for a representation of the Passion. This vast stage was not less than 150 feet square. Onit from left to right was established, lirst a pavilion with columns, above which rose Paradise, on which our Lord sat enthroned in glory, surrounded by the angels and by “the four Virtues. Next came a wall pierced ith a door between two Doric columns, the whole representing Nazareth. . Then rose a second pavilion with columns, containing an altar and the sacred ark, and figuring the temple. Beside this was asecond wall pierced ‘with a door like the first, and with a rvof and the turrets ofa tower showing above it; that was Jerusalem. In the centre a pavilion with four columns and staircases to the right and to the left, in the centre of which was placed a throne, rep- resented. the palace of the King, Another wall, pierced with two gates and showing the tov of 1 house above it, was called the Bish- ops’ House and the Golden Gate. A square basin in the middle of the stage represented. the Sea ot Tiberins. At the extreme right was purgatory and hell, the first represented by two towers with grated openings, and the second by the vast, wide-open, taming jaws of a monstrous dfagon. The action passed from. point to point, as change of scene became nécessary to the imagination, since not presented to the actual sense. Sometimes these permanent struct- ures, or mansions, as they were called, were even more numerous, TWENTY-TWO HAVING BEEN EMPLOYED IN ONE INSTANCE. And, when in 1474 “Mystery of the In- carnation and Nativity” svas performed at Ronen, the mansions were set up on the north side of the market-place, and extended from one side of it to the other, And even then itis recorded that there was not room enough afforded to set up the House of the Six Prophets, which remained crowded out of the action. ‘ ‘A good deal of splendor and costliness, and no mconsiderable degree of mechanical in- genuity, were lavished upon these vast stage-settings. The chief point of decora- tion was naturally paradise. A superb para- dise was the glory of the manager. A gilded throne was always provided for ‘the Deity, and we have’ seen that as early us the first peormance of “* The Rep- resentation of Adam,” silk hangings, flow- ers, and truit-bearing trees were deemed es- sential to adorn this favored spot. The angels were trained musicians, and sang si- ered chorals to the accompaniment of un- scen instruments, The entrance to hell was tamodern mechinist would calla practicable one; through it the damned were dragged by demons, and if emitted flames and smoke when required. ‘The use. of trap- doors and such Jike inechanical contrivances were not unknown. In.“ The Resurrec- tion,” written by Jean Michel, the staze-di- rections enjoin on the representative of desus to “come suddenly and subtilely above- ground on a trap covered with earth, which must be made to close so that the spectators shall perceive nothing of it.” And, during a performance of “The Life of St Martin,” the person who played Satan got caught py some accident to the machinery, and bis rar- ments were so burned, doubtless by the flames that were to have accompanied or fol- Jowed his entrance, that he had to beall fresh-clad before he could appear before the audience to finish his part. Sometimes an- gels and other celestial personages were rep- resented as flying through the afr. MECHANICAL ANIMALS were also used. In the stage directions of “ The Mystery of the Nativity,” itis enjoined that the ox. and the ass should kneel before the manger wherein lay .the infant Savior, but the author adds, “if a make-believe ox and ass are‘ notto be had, this’ part may be <— omitted.” in one of the latest of the m: ties (the Acts of the Apostle: Lepreseiied or Bourges in 1536), prodigies of scientific skill were displayed. Mechanical lions andcam- efs performed various complex feats upon the stage. A vessel filled with all sorts of animals was let down from the heaven, and wns drawn up again. The Apostles hovered inthe clouds, and various other wonders were presented, familiar enough to our’ modern ideas, but which in those days must have filled the minds of the spectators with awe and amazement. These complex ar Tangements were only possible in a fixed the-- atre. Yet the mysteries were often repre-- sented in the open air, ona piece of waste ground, or in amarket-place. The old Ro- tnan amphithextres, such as the one existing at Arles, afforded a fine field for such repre- sentations, and were frequently utilized for the purpost AS TO THE COSTUMES, there is but little to be said respecting them. ‘There was no attempt made at accuracy. The actors were charged with furnishing their own dresses, and they wore the cos- tumes of tho epoch, and as magnifi- cent ones as their purses could com- pass or the complacency of friends supply. Nor was xergeous - attire con- fined to the representati of the great Personages of the drama. Servants appeared as superbly cladas the Kings, and beggars were decked out like noble: uxury of the dresses was bi limits. Silk, velvet, eloths of gold und silver, rich embroideries, and costly weapons and armor, were worn by all who could afford to purchase them or were so fortunate as tuburrowthen. ‘The su-* bernumeraries were generaily dressed by the Chureh, the stores of ecclesiastical vestments, gorgeous with embroidery and gold thread, being thrown oven to the performers in the mysteries. The devils that figured in these ’ pieces were clad in skins of beasts, and were made to look as_ grotesque and horrible as possible: they formed an exception to the usual splendid inaccuracy of the costumes. ‘The actors generally paraded, dressed in their theatrical attire, through the streets of the town in which they were about to give a pet formance, after the manner of strolling players all the world over. These*proces- . sions, which, when gotten up in gr and style, WERE CALLED “ MONSTRES,” were the delight of the populace, and well they might be, since they usually comprised some 400 or 300 persons, allin rich and daze dling array. ‘The most magnificent affair of the Kind on record the “monstre® that preceded the representation of “The Acts of the Apostles” at Bourges in 156. Five hun- dred persons, all clad in silk, in cloth of gold, in richly embroidered satins, in Srocades of gokt and silver, and other costly stuffs, to say nothing of dixmonds and other jewels, splendid armor, ete.. ete., all mounted on fine horses or drawn on ears, took part in this glittering parade. ‘fhe actors were all rich amateurs, who lavished untold sums on their dresses and accoutrements, ‘The costuine of Nero, for instance, is thus dexeribed by an old chronicler. who fears that his account af the gorgeous fetes at Bourges will bethought exaggerated: “ He was clad in a vest of blue velvet, purfled with gold aud slashed with crimsou satin; his mantle was of crim- son velvet, with 2 collar of the same, sown with great prodigality with large pearl: from the points of which hung eiusters o: other pearls, His hat, of the tyrant’s cut. was of Persian velvet, bordered with gol chains and adorned with s large number of rings. His gold crown had three branches, and was full of all sorts af orecious stones, OF SUCH GREAT EXCELLENCE that it is impossible to describe them all, and . his neck was not Jess adorned. His boots were of Persian velvet, slashed and laced with gold; chains and divers rings hung from his garters. One’ot his feet rested on a casket covered with cloth of silver and set with precious stones.” And it is recorded that the valets, beggars, and archers who fig- ured in the piece were not less magnificently clad than were the kings. In 1541 the mystery of “The Acts of the Apostles”—probably “the same pivce—was played in Paris for the almost unheard-of period of six or eight months. This was one of the last of the mysteries,as it was also oneof the most magnificent. For in 1548 the Church, alarmed at the mockeries and profane jests leveled by the authors of those dramas against the Catholic religion and its ministers, used: ‘its powerful influence with the French ear Hament to obtain a decree: suppressing dramatic performances wherein sacred per- sonages ot incidents were introduced. ‘The law was passed, and the mysteries were num- bered with: the things that are no more. Sprung from the Church, the iron hand of: the Church, alarmed by the rapid growth of Protestantism and the vehicle afforded by’ ‘such representations for the exposure of. the” excesses, the extortions, and the demoraliza-- tion of the priesthood, erushed ruthlesly out of existence its own creation. i 5 Lucy H,, Hoorer. —— THE COUNTY BOARD. Beport of the Granit Experts—~The Roof of the Jail to Be Looked After. The Board of County Commissioners held aregular meeting yesterday afternoon, all the embers being present but Messrs, Al- bright and Ender. President Purington oc- eupied the chair. : Acommunication from the Clerk of the Probate Court in rence to changes in the in the Judges’ roonts in the new Court-House was referred to the Committee on Public Buildings. "The Clerk read the report of the experts ap- pointed toexamine the granit work on the new Court-House, as follows: To the Honorable the Board of Commisstoners . of Cook Cuunty—GENTLEMEN: ‘Ta aceordance with the instructions received from your Com- mittee on Public Buildings, we Dave examined the drawings and specifications of tho granit work to the entrances und vestibules of the new Cook County Court-House. with a view * ascertain the changes made from tho original destsns of said work and the diifereace tu price. between the work now done in the building and the work contracted for, according to the orig~ inal plans and specifications submitted to us. the result of our examination of the pians and the w executed, we respectfully present the follawing statement of the vulue of tho work omitted from the original contract and the extra work exceuted which fs not provided for in the drawings und specitications submitted for guidance. oo Estimated value of work done inside of plans and specifications: To molded caps to the buttresses of Clark strect and north and south entrances...$19,58b To cups and bases of pilasters and ent ‘To frieze in entablature.. To dressed bases ro iwpos and tivo polished granit piece: s To molded and polished red B granit..... | 27H Tn addition to the ubove. the item of dics for buttresses we have no knowledge of, and would respectfully reter this item to your architect. ‘We tind in contractor's account sundry items amounting to $1,423, and presumably correct, os we ascertained from your :rchitect. but Bave uo duta to guide us. We also tind in said con- tractor’s statement a balance duo on originul contract ninounting to $3,795, which your archi- tect admits is correct. ‘We find the deductions to be made for the piers and spandrills, including steps, all of which Were omitted fromthe contract, to amount to of which is respectfully submitted. ‘Pern WOur, G. B. Dixon, J. H. ANDERSON. Commissioner Clark moved that the report be printed with the record and referred to aie Joint Conunittee on Public Buildings and Judiciary. - Commissioner Coburn endeavored to have rescinded the rule prohibiting the signing of reports of committees during the sessions of the Board, but his motion to that effect was Jost. i Commijssioner Clark wanted to have the rule prohibiting smoking rescinded. but the Board refused toconcur. as ‘The Building Couunittee reported in favor of the payment of $7,519 to P. J. Sexton-on aceount of workdoneand material furnisbed for the new Court-House, and the Board con- curred. : ‘Architect Egan was authorized to order such extra tiling for the Court-Ionse as he might require, ro r Commissioner O'Neill presented a rezotu- tion authorizing the Committee on City’ Rela- tions and the County Attorney to confer with the city authorities and make arrangements | to dispose of the county’s personal property on the secoud tloor of the City-Building and’ agree upon terms regarding the rent of the rooms now occupied by the Judges Court Clerks. The resolution was adopted. Commissioner Rheinwald offered a tesolu- tion ‘authorizing the Committee .gn Jail‘ and Jai) Accounts to repair the roof of the jail. but the Board finally instructed the Commit- tee to examine the condition of the roof and report at a future meeting. hn (he Board subsequently adjourned until a week from to-morrow, , ‘Mount Pleasant Ua.) Journal. a Mr. Geo. F. W. 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