The New York Herald Newspaper, December 9, 1878, Page 2

_ BUROPRAN LINE YOR atlantic lino sailf every THURSDAY fram Philadelphia. NNSYLVANTA sails THURSDAY, Dee. WA M. RED STAR a FOR ANTWERP. | carrying the Belgian and United 5 toe walls, saree semi- | ‘monthly from Philadalphi ged Now York. SWITZERLAND sails FRID. if d other i ans ia C NARD LINE. <OTICE. With o view to diminish the chances of collisions the sfeamers of this line tako a specific course for all seasons of tbe year. ‘On the outward passage from Queenstown to Now York or Boston crossing the meridian of SU at 43 lativade, or nothing to the uorth of 43, 3 On the homeward passage crossing the meridian of 50/at 42 latitude, or nothing to the vorth of ORK, LIVERPOOL, A...Wed., Dec. 4/ A Ved. Dec: 11| PAKL do not ex aud returi lal low rato f Sterage tickets to and from rates. Freight und pi De: We Wi NUION LINE | tor leaving pier No. ¢ iverpool, iver, foot of King st., y Tuewiay. M, | Moniana.Dee.24.0t - M. | Wisconsin. D: and 87, aceordii aud plano'on each st steerage. $21 WILLIAMS & G arto cation, m and Liverpo ry cewher 10, at 5:30 A. M. precisely, has su dation for cabin, in mediate and ste lowest rates. Apply to WILLIAMS & GUIC \ LINE ROYAL MATL STEAMSIILPS S. POLYNESTAN, Novem " from E La, nor nber 4; e. § LAT WESTERN > ‘EW YORK TO B ing goods ind pas: nucester, and all p it Riveras follow ). Prepaid ste ight or pass: y W. D. MORGAN Q NOTICE.—Tho steu recommended by ay, December } December White Star $60, 3 aney li rooms are place t, affordi: tle, shi For inspection or plans and other information foot of Morton st, Company's CANA, Dee. 11, 6:30 A. M. . 18, DA i Wed IN LD (neluding’ win ip ‘0 secoud enbin, $65; third cabin, s. Ciecks drawn o suit LO! QTATE LIN cifast, London R., font Canal st 122 Thursda; Thi nmimodacton. CO., Agents, 72 Broadway. 45 BROADWAY ANL DOT OF CA! ~ ROYAL MAN LINE. A FOR QUEE IVERPOOL. ’ BRI ecomber 14, 8:30 A. M. Dees enrrency. mocking cud bath rooms amid- neither cattle, sheep nor pigs. ont, 31 und 38 Broadway, N.Y Philadelphia offi 105 South 4th st. LLOYD re e between New York, Southampton and Bremen. ec. 21 | ODER... te sof passage from New York for Southampton, Lon- Havre and Bremen :— ld; Second Cabin, $69, gold; Steer- arn tickets at reduced rates. Pre d Stecrage Ce tos, $40, currency. For freight or passae apply to ELEICUS & CO.,2 Bowling Greon. cRMAN WAIL—HAMBURG “WWERICAN JMPERIAL Packet CUMBRIA... WIELAND. ert adon, Cherbourg, Ham- G1 Brondway, New York. ist route to Puris. TEI Fe December 11 . December 21 . carrying th fd States mail re great favorites with the public, low, comfort aul living perfect, For passage, 7: or pe Sorris, uth William st. 50 Broadway. Glorris’ Buropean and American Express.) $ MATL STEA P.M. | an. 4,2 2, Cabin, $60 to"@S0. "Excursion Tickets at reduced rates, Second Cabin, 340° Steerage, NEW YORK TO LONDON From pier 46 North River, foot of Char! CALIFORNIA Dec oon | AUS’ Cabin $55 arsion T ROTHERS, Ager COASTWISE S' EA MSUIPS. pacwic sar, STRAMSHIY COMPANY. ~~ Pier foot of , North River. ay, December 11, and Mex For San Francisco vis Isthmus of Panama, Steamsbip COLON anamu for Central and South America and ’ and at San Pranciseo for Japan and China, From San Francisco for Japan aud China, Steamship CITY OF PEKING. Saturday, January 4, noon, From+San Francisco to Now Yoalaad and y 2Y, Monday, December 23, freight or general informat pier foot of ¢ st. \y at company’s ticket o TED STATES AND BRAZIL MAIL STEAMSHIP LINE, for St. Thomas, Para, Ja connecting at St, Thomas with Gern Rie and Spanish Ma rill sail for the above px far the above ports, ceived at all times at Roberts’ dock, Brooklyn. Insurance lower than by any other line. Shippers desir. < insurance can effect came under our open policy. Por freight engagements or passage (having tommodatiqns), ap) c. pply to H. MALLORY d& CO., Agents, office pier 20 E.R DOPULAR INSIDE ROUTR. BAY i * J AE > FLORIDA. Avoid dancor and. se b; hrough tickets d Steamboat Company. RSDAY and SATL RAILROADS | also. with N steamers tor LEWES, DEL. of lading to all North’ River, * Steam Jom pan: pCANIMA, Decombor 19. x be THOMAS, LA RTO CABELLO and CU RACOA, 88. HADI BADOR, 88. FL, For freight and paws A. E. OUTERBE! fi N 1AGO —Steamebip NORMAN, Do AND OIENF 4 Yor NASBAU only, steamship SECH From 89, AUGUSTINE, steamship SEC Therenfter THRE TIMES M IDA and NASSAU. MUE TPERAS LINE FOR GAUYEATON. Tocottx Key Wost.—Phe «teamer CITY OF SAN ANTONIO, © Hon, will sail from pier 20 Kast Rivor, day, December 14, at 3 P.M Through bills of lading given on the International and Gre Ano For freight, paseage Fy ert information apply to ae : ALLOLY & CO.PAgonts, pier 20) Kart Rivoe, Northern, jenton, 1 leave pler 3 North ata VANA DIRECT AND VERA calling wt Progreso, Campenchy and Frontera KA CK GTTY or Ve HUA OITY OF WASHINGTON (Havana OLLY OF MERIDA Steamers leave Now Urieans only). Thareday, ‘Sutarday, De 18 and Jan. 3 for steamer for Havana. York and a ¥, ALEXANDRE & SONS, QAVANNAH AND FLOKIDA be GATE CITY, OLLyY OF MA uturday, tt P.M, Capt. Dag 30N, Cape, connget! ny aad Galt, alte orgie wad ' uy and wit! new aud elegan rene ap, OWENS ener Goonn 8, A . A. and G, (S Browdw BR of Ga, 409 Brondwaye i CRT JE Broadway. AND QUEENSTOWN, La TRIAS 3 MAIL STEAMERS th River, foot of 1 Tuesday, De- POOL, DUBLIN, 1, December 19 y, December 28 DAT oi mpany’s Line for Plymouth, Cherbourg and iret Cabin, $100, gotd; AND ECONOMICAL ROUTE TO tho Rhine, Switzerland, &e., &¢., 8AM. P.M wrSouth and Cémtral America iduy, December 20, noon, ja and Rio de steamers for Porto eainship CITY OF RIO DE ogaut ae- AD | sickness incident to ocean travel o Florida via the Georgia Staterooms se BERNE ond yjnnveting railroads, ThE. | it hg ADY, President. GUAYRA, 1, Decom? ne. ST. LUCIA and BAR AT “p to Honston and all pointe veston, Hans bare ond Sam ‘. 8 LINE, apr. M Saturday, December 14 comber ue Deg, Vera Oran, via Matamoros, Tampico, Taxpan, connecting with Deo. 11 Dee. 14 { | a ws t— FOR HAYTL COLOMBI OF PANA) | Sage rates apply to | ply to CLARK & SEAMAN, 86 West st ier 40. LeORWICH LINE for BOST P | WILLIAM P. ROOME CORST WISE, STRAMSHIPS. wae i D SOUrn AME! S$ AND SOUTH AMERICA, the following poris—vis.. ape Gonuives, St. Mare, Port au and Jucmiel, in Hayti; Santa Marth; m4 and Aspinwall, in Colombia, au abling Kingston (Jam.), € Vrine , F sailings from pier No, S1 North River, GREYTOW THMUS MA AND SOUTH PACLPL : VIA ASPINWALL, ATLSA.......... December 14} ANDE: FOR KINGSTON (IAM) . December 23 av Ti, ETNA. December 19 | CLARIBEL, January 2 Superior first class passonger accommodations. soats ‘ORWOOD & CL A ae JPLORIDA RAILROAD AND STEAMSHIP LINE. ING EVERY SA P WES a GHY AND PASSAGE. Radat 4 Se ee aera TUNDAY, December? ‘ P.M. toall i, Apalachicola and nee Obe-hall por int a aad Branewi cent. Bills of lading signed on pier. e Ls bills of lading and pas- For farther information, through bilte of lading an No. 177 West st., up stai rs. HALAS iiue.—Steamships River: CORTES: ALHANBRA Tnesday, December 17 .¥riday, Docember 27 For passazo (having excellent accommodations) or at apply to Al EAMAN, 86 West st NEW YORK a8b cous MAILS LINE FOR L HAVANA DIRECT, from pier 17 Eust River, ai 3 P.M, Wednesday, Decomber 11 SARATOGA (uew),. NIAGARA... Saturday, Docaimber 21 ckets issued also for VERACRUZ and’ WEST INDIA ISLANDS in connection with French and English steam- ship « 'p nes for HAVA Bs B, WARD & CO., 113 Wall st. NEW ORLEANS. DIRECT —THE CROMWEL: LINE AN steamship NEW ORLEANS will leave Saturday, De- ber (4, 187, at 3 P.M. from pier # North iver. In- tiected at ono-half per cont on our open policy. Through hills of iading given to Mobite and prine pointsou the Mississippi itiver, or freight or passage ap- OR NEW MORGA LOUISIs D A Steamship GE will sail from pier 36 North I 4 MORGAN CIty ts, Houston, to all’ points on the Central, Texas Pacific, Transcon: |, Gulveston, Harrisburg and San Antonio railrouds; Indianola, Brazos Santiago und Brownsville. Insurance at lowest ra tes, ght and other information w BOGERY & MOKGA! For fri Agents. er 6 North River. ORK AND HAVANA DIRECT MATL LIN tirst class steamships will sail at 3 P.M. f ° m rth River, foot of Cedar st., for Havanadirect, as 18 Vednesday, De tree atid) , Laving unsurpassed accommod ‘TIAGO DE CUBA. Steamer ———.- os, For freight and paswa: tiuns. apply to si ¥ WILLIAM P, CLYDE & No. 6 Bowling Green. McKELLAK, LULING & Agents in favana, RIDA DIRBCT.—STEAMERS LEAVE PLE East River every iriday, at 3P. M., for Jacksonville, touching at Brunswick and Port Royal. Steamer W N TEXAS, Gaptain Hines, will sil on Jriday, P.M. Through fre d paasenee 4s ia the South and Soushwest, ©. H, Ay fice pier 20 East Rivor, or at 3 - R., daily, except Sunday TO PHILADELPHIA AND REN'S Express, 63 West tkid, corner sw checked through TRENTON, Broadway. —CITIZENS’ LINE TROY BOATS LEAVE PIER 49 A. North liwer, Leroy at. daily, excopt Saturday, at6 P.M, OSTON—VIA FALL RIVER LINE; MAGNIFICENT sicamors BRISTOL ‘and PROVIDENCE: leave pier, 28 h River daily, 8 excepted, at 4:30 P.M; full vight’s re ts for sale at all principal ticket offices Lenve Brooklyn, via “Amuex” boat st 4 P. AND ALL PO LIABLE STON] 1 BTTS aud RHODE ISLAN st. ROVIL from pier ‘ROPOLITAN ELEVATED RAILWAY. OPEN FROM 5:30 A. M. TO 12 P.M. ECTOR ST,.—Noarest point for Wall street ferry and uth ferry, earesi point for Jersey City ad oint for Post office, City Hall Hoboken s with cars for CORTLANDT $' Comwmunipaw ferr PARK PLACE.— and Barclay strect ferry to jearest CHAMBERS ST.—Nearest point to Pavonia and Erie Railway ferr : FRA! iT. GRAND ST.—Nearest point for Desbrosses straot ferry to Jersoy City aud connects with cars for Desbrosses and East Grand street ferrios. BLEECKER 8T.—Connects with cars for east and wost. STH ST.—Nearest point for Christopher strect ferry to Hoboken, counecting with cars for Christopher and East ‘Tenth street ferries. q 14 TIL ST.—Nearest point to Union Square, Wallack’s and Lycenm theatres; Academy of Music, Irving and Tammany balls, connecting with cars for East Twenty-third aud Thirty-fourth strect ferries. 28D 3 Neurest point to Booth’s, St. James and Park theatres; Grand Opers House, Gilmore's Garden 4d Ma ‘Twenty-third’ street farry to Jersey City. {point to Standerd, Broadway and Fitta Avenue Theatres; Aquarium and San Fraecisco Minstrels, conmecting gith cars for Weehawken ferry. *: 42D STMBonneets with New York Transfer Company's cabs for Grand Central Depot. SOTH ST. Nearest point for Central Park. J h ears of Belt Line Railroad. FOR UPTOWN TRAINS take east sido stations, FOR DOWNTOWN | TRAINS tako wost side stations, FARE, 10 ©) Mi except between the hours ‘of 5:30 to 7:30 A.M. andSto 7 is 5 conte, P. M., when the fare 3 WM. RK. GARRISON, President M. Van Baroekstx, Superintendent, NS POINT T TEW LINE TO BOSTON, VIA ALLY! AN from NORWICH LINE PIER 40, NORTH RIVER. ORK and ¢ aors CITY OF NE ITY OF BOS ) P.M. daily, Sundays included. FARE, ONE DOL every day in'the week. Vositively tickets good only day of sale and on trains connecting with boat at Allyn's nt. Good supper for 50 counts. Tickets for sale at LA on ‘, WORCESTER, PORT. all points North and East, via New London rwich steamers CITY OP LAWRENCE and FAL- MOUTH, from pier #) North River, at 420 P. M. daily, Sun- day excepted. Tickets and staterootns may be obtafned at he office of the company, No, 417 Broudway, corner of Preight taken for all points at lowost rates, For ton apply at pier 40 North River. FOR SALE. OF FiltsT CLASS LIQUG’ Restaurants, Manut Canal st. Frei farther informat {is 1 Crveeries, STORES” ALSO ing Interests, LLOYD'S, 4 Warre GROCERY BUSINESS WILL o tock and fixtures. Apply to ‘ater si PAYING “CASH be wold for the vil GOOD POULTRY, PRUIT AND VEGETABLE STAND Acer iiio. Inquire at 1 Grand Central Market, 47th st, 7th ay. FINE G AAthe best i crockery store. s ohikt WELL LOCATED AND FURNISHED OYSTER AND AA Dining Satoon, established 1 JOHN SYMS, 23 West 2d “CORNER LIQUOR STORE; willl to work: low rent; good . SERY STORE FOR SALE LN ONE OF ‘ations up town. Inquire 367 9th ay. in HAL¥ INTEREST 1 unusual cianee for mi Jocation; fully licensed: can be obtained che for to-day. Call for information and parti Broadway, room 28. CloRFECTIONS: ¥ STORE ON 6TH AV. POR SALE AT Jabargain. Address M. box 19 ieraid oltiee FOR, SALE; cA, CORNER, LIQUOR STORE, LIC paid, with leave; rent cheap. 165 Dela of Oli {OR SALE—A WELL.TO-DO COFYEE AND OYSTER Saloou. Inquire ut New York Pio Baking Company's office, No, 82 Sullivan st. » if applied jars at 281 ton st Apply 24! Washington SPLENDID GROCERY; ALSO BAK. Sb oe Store, Seloon, Boardin Apply STELNGUT'S ‘Agency, 02 FS SALE—A ery, Buteher's Yonge and Resta, owe eee Sap EES pOR SAT ARTO MEDIUM PRINTING PRESS, Fa io Ponce of Peper all #., 140 Herald office, Visit MARKET TO LP STORE tas TWO I plate glass show windows. 30% West USth et., near eor- ner sth # wvoutbhy. ORE VOR Saul must be sold this P—ON 10TH Call HEW. ‘HE week, THE WORLD 18 Vonoy et. SINEST IN 4 in stoci JAFES Sie FROTH i A VINELY SfPUATED FLORIST ba « in the upper part of the RSON, 2.80 Jd wv. Wii, BUY and nursery Address J. V, IY LGW BITC AND BOLLE Brookly —A COMPLETE SET OF N ins; capacity IN MACHIN ery for the manufacture of Hair about 0 poands daily, Address STEPHEN, Herald office. Hint QOAP MACIOINERY.—WANTED | PLODDT: wWDehina Addr with full descriptios, MILLLAL, Marble at Iplia. RD MILA FABLY rodueal prices; Bails, Clot 1 GREPFTTL & 60. 40 ALD TABLES FROM Chat, Oves, RTISTIC BIL v Halle Cloth te: bast goods at lowest price: a. W. COL Lik, 7#8 Broadway, corner 10th st, WICK & BALKE CO, 724 now open; new and second Am THE J. M. BRE ¢ rE ye. on iand Willinrd Titles, In all dovigns, at lowest price, _ WARCHES, JEWELRY, &C. Li i SP WONRY LYBRRATLY AD: mi Watchor, Jowolry, Seal Saequos, ers’ Tickets bought at 77 Bleeeker ot, D—MONEY FOR erwere bonght: nd. AM A. GLOVER, -averlygw itty T 918 BROADWAY, LOANS NRGOTIATED; BAR. gains in Diamond Crosses, Burrings, Watehes and ins, Sealskin Saeques, India Shawls, Me; Chickering Piano, 8175 J, PNOK LY NOH, Bakeanes IN DIAMONDS, WATCHES, JEWELRY and Silverware, GKORGK GC. ALLEN, 1,190 Broad joseph A. Jackson way, near JOT st BROADWAY.—DIAMONDS, WATCHHS AND “0 2OnEe | DOT seweirs boughs and sniey loans. weposiated on pore t erty of every description. sii nahin Y Meer hs PB, MATTOS Condition and Prospects in the Great Granary. |CORN AND HOG. Ilinois, Wisconsin, Nebraska, Kansas, Minnesota, Iowa. HEAVY CROPS---LOW PRICES. The Great Movement of Breadstntls, Hogs and Cattle. KANSAS AND NEBRASKA PROSPER. Wisconsin Frugal and Hopeful—Minneso- ta's Temporary Drawback. IOWA IMPROVING STEADILY. Curcaao, Dee, 5, 1878. In this city are gathered, in a ganglion, as it were, the business nerves of the West. Hence a eavefully condueted inquiry into the general business condi- tion of this great section, how its farmers stand, the movement of its crops this year as compared with the last two or three, the disposition to invest in Jand as business, whether confidence is returning or money plentiful, what is the prospect for next year, should give valuable results. In Chicago, as a rule, local pride tends to exaggeration of all things per- taining to the city’s business; but it is possible to find some who are not disposed to statements that cannot be verified by cold figures. Among such I have made my inquiries, carefully noting the replies, which, on account of the wide territory and vast products embraced, I have grouped in the best order Ieould, rather than spread out seriafim individual answers to given questions. With this preface I shall at once proceed to the subject in hand. Tho trade of Chicago this fall has been considered satisfactory. There has been a good average, when we take into consideration the fact that in a large proportion of the territory tributary thereto the cropé were, to a large degree, a failure, and so, while the people have been restricted as to the amount and quality of the produce they have to sell, their income has been cut proportionately low by reason of small prices. Thus of a certain portion of the conniry tributary to Chicago, taking the entire West into con- sideration, we find, of course, a superabundant yiekl of cereals and a consequently depressed range of quotations. The crops of Dlinois this yoar will show up about the same as last yeur; Kansas has doubled, Nebraska has added a large percentages and Northern Minnesota ‘has atoned for the wonderful shrinkage in the southern half of that State. As the enormons yields of these regions began pouring into the public granaries prices began to go down, until now we find the farmer refusing to part with his corn, and holding, as a general thing, to the live stock in the shape of swine, which have sunk almost to the prices of thirty years ago. Thus it is that from many por- tions of the West we-hear the farmer complaining of “hurd times,’ and discover the fact that, on the whole, he is not spending money as frecly as a year ago, simply because-he has not the money to spend, Business men in Chicago will tell you that the aggregate of receipts. will be greater this season than they were last; that more business has been done on the whole by the whole- sale houses than in 1877. The sctual statements are not yet made up, but it is hardly poseible that the aggregate of values will equal that of 1876, which was $652,000,000, while in 1877 it fell below these figures fully $31,000,000, Last year there was a de- cline in the aggregate of breadstufts teceived in this city, as compared with 1876, that of wheat reaching 3,128,566 bushels, and hogs numbering 163,406 leas than in 1876, the prices of which latter represented a financial falling off of $25,000,000, owing to the shrink- age in value. This year prices for breadstuffs and hogs have ruled much lower than during 1877, and while there can be no doubt that the volume of business has increased over that of last season, it does not represent @ corresponding increase of money receipts. It would necessitate from one-third to one-fourth more busivess to rezlize the same amount of income, MONEY NOT PLENTY. * It is folly to say that the people to-day—in the West, at allevents—have more mone#than they had one, two or three years ago. Staggering under the bur- dens of heavy debts, many of them, except in some specially favored locations, it has taken all they could rake and scrape to discbarge their accruing indebted- ness and leave them enough to provide tor the wants of their dependencies. Those out of debt have not realized 26 heretofore, for prices’ for products have ruled low. There are regions, to bo sure, where comparative fiush times have prevailed, and where there is a pretty good feeling; but when we take into consideration the entire country we find that on the whole it is nip-and-tuck for the farmer to get along, and so are not surprised when present demands get the better of the solid judgment of many in some particular local ities and make them welcome any course in logisla- tion that will give them more moncy. MOVEMENTS @F CROPS. Last year the movements of agricultural products from the West and Northwest through Chicago, which city must be recognized ‘as the natural ontlet for this section of the Union, was greatly less than in 1976, the deficit being mainly in wheat. The receipts in Chieago from January 1, 1877, to Angnst 1 of the same year, were less than 2,000,000 bushels, the smallest amount of receipts for the first seven months of any year since 1855, withasingic exception, From 1, 1876, to Augnet 1877, ¢ entire receipts in this city were 10,139,955 hushels, less than half the amount for the corresponding time of the year before, and this in face of the fact that the wheat yield of the country was Inst year over 325,000,000 bushels—much larger than that of 1876, ‘This lack of transportation was owing to the fact that old stocks were nearly depleted when the new crop began moving, anda large proportion of the yield was absorbed by mills which had, so to spoak, abso- lutely run dry. The reeeipts of corn here fn 1877 were also loss than in 1876, by about 1,090,000 bnehels. As I have shown elsewhere, the erop product of 1878 has been greatly in excess of that of 1877, showing a much greater acrenge than in the Iatter year. There is not the slightest doubt that the difference be- tween 1878 and 1879 will be proportionately greater and in favor of the latter year; for we must take into consideration the fact that great breadths of ‘new land have been opened up and seeded down in several of the most productive States of tho West. Consequently we are led to believe’ that while in 1878 the wheat yield of the country turned 400,000,000 bushels, it will next year be in excess of this, and that while we to-day have comparatively low prices, they will still rule lower. Over produc tion is # draft on the individual resources of the future. P WHEAT. The yield “of wheat in the leading Western and Northwestern States in 1877 was a follows:— Busheis, 7,810,000 eres 33,000,000 ny ++ 22,000,000 20,408,000 Tt is estimated thet [itmois, lowa, Minnesota, Nebraska and Kausas produced at least Value, $52,404,700 = BUSINESS WEST! | 45,000,000 more bushels this year (1878) than they did in 1877, and the price ranges from twenty-five to thirty cents less for this cereal in December, 1577. cons, ‘The yield of corn in two of the principal Western States where the cultivation of that cereal is made a specialty was in 1877:— i Bushels. Acres, Value. Diinois . + 260,000,000 8,265,517 $75,400,900 lowa a + 156,000,000 4,800,000 39,000,000 This yearthe production of corn in these Stetes will be fully ten per cent in excess of these figures, and the price at present is from one-quarter to one- third less than it was at this season in 1877, As has been remarked above, the movement of crops through Chicago is undoubtedly greater this year than it was last, or the two preceding yours, and the following figures, if nothing else were at hand, would prove the truth of the statement. Take the month of November, for example. In 1875 there were re- ceived in this city 7,516 car loads of wheat of all grades; in 1876 there were received 5,002 car loads; in 1877 there were recetved 5,428 ear loads; this year during that month there were 9,310car loads received, or nearly double the amount of the month in either 1876 or 1877, and nearly one-third more than in 1875, When we come to look out across the great Weit and Northwest we find the people who make up the farm- ‘ng communitics complaining, many of them, that times are hard and that they cannot ‘make both ends meet.” “It is not to be wondered gt that, ignoring diversified crops, the salvation, financially, of any farming community, they haye given their time to special cropping—wheat or corn, as the case may be— and haye individually aided to swell tho over produe- tion, and all because these cereals may some day have proved highly remunerative, Then there are other fac- tors inthe comperative failure of some farming sec- tions which it will be worth while to consider. THE CURSE OF LARGE FARMS, ‘There have of late years been a good many failures in the magnificent farming enterprises undertaken in the West, and which should teach a lesson to the gen- eral cultivator of the soil. The tendency was, and, in some sections, is to-day, despite the warnings which have been given, to add acre to acre, mile to mile, until at last the possessions of this or that individual should reach to and beyond the horizon in all direc- tions, Greatstretches of country must be held in the ambition to be considered the farmer king, the cattle king, the sheep king or the monarch of this or that’ particular branch of- industry to which the attention might he given. It has been an outgrowth of the peculiar, progressive and ambitions spirit of the average American, who has undertaken the heroulean taak of opening and cultivating this great West, and it is not to be wondered that many of the wealthier foreigners who have come in to possess the land haye become imbued with the same ideas and undertaken the tame task. Ido not refer especi- aily to those farmers who have taken up section after section until their possdssions have risen to the tens of thousands of acres and been uble to pay cash for the same, but more particularly to humble class who, without the ready means to develop a mammoth enterprise, have assumed control of farms which in the more conservative East would be “igs ve suflicient for a royal demesne. ‘To do this they have been obliged to assame respon- sibilities in the shape of mortgages andconscienceless percentages of interest, which have swallowed in their capacious maws the last vestiges of prosperous recompenge for untiring labor and sieepiess industry. Look wherever we may in the West we may see tho wrecks of this class of investment. In Illinois, Iowa, Nebraska, Minnesota, in fact, in nearly if not quite all the States of the West there are warning examples of this ambitious spirit of enterprise, which new comers and old settlers should heed. One trouble has been that the people in their yrced have un- dertaken to cultivate too much land, individually. Smalter farms, better worked and more diversified, woukd a better incomes, and that is the grand crop which every husbandman tills the soil for. IN THE CLUTCH OF SH¥LOCK. The mad rush of farmers for land and their thonght- lessness in exchanging cutthroat mortgages for the Jabor of yeurs has hud the ctlect to throw a yreat pro- portion of the land holders—-I cannot say land own- ers—into debt, and so deep therein that they will never be abie to extricate themselves, but must go under in the inevitable ‘course of events and lose whatever they may have acquired. I hear these compluints coming up, all about us. It docs not matter particularly that one year brings forth a good crop, that this year or last year or the ycar before gave the Western farmer a surplus of revenue above the cost of production; it is invariably consumed in the inexorable demands of the Eastern creditor, who. comes up regularly with his cry of “Give, give, giv: and pockets the profits with the coolness and satis- faction of a Shylock carving his slice of human meat. ‘This is to a great degree the situation of the West to- day. The majority of farmers are in debt, and being in debt are somewhat despondent whenever prices rule low and interest woney runs high. Can they be. blamed? They are to be blamed for the darling desire of their hearta—to hold more land than they can pay for. They do not take into consideration the tact that, because a Minnesota land king,.with ample means to buy whatever he holds and run no risk of indebtedness, produces millions of bushels of wheat and operates with an army of men and a phalanx of machines, and makes money, they are throwing themselves into a vortex that will destroy them when they undertake the same thing. It is pretty gener- onceded that few of the large number of farmers i Northwest who are in de! ven in the most thrifty dairy districts, which, it must be admitted, are more prosperous and lands better paying tha any others, low as dairy products are and have been ot late—are scarcely able to live and pay interest, laborers and taxes. Nearly every farmer is “land poor,” whether he be one of 5,000 or 1,000 acres ‘and often of less extent of possessions. They have been crippled at every step, not having had means enongh to make the required initial paymonts,.and provide themselves with implemeuts, seed, stock, &c. A farmer having yielded to that common delusion, a mania for a large farm, and vol- untarily signed his financis’ death warrant in the form of an annihilating mortgage, it iv often impos- sible, without the means with which to condnot the heavily mortgaged farm, ever to liquidate or lift the ernusning load, especially with unprecedentedly low prices tor agricultural products and the numerous casualties that attend nearly every branch of late. CHEAP HOGS AND CORR. In sussing the material resources of the West and the condition of the people we must not forget to take into consideration the bees Uransac- tions in Jive stock and the unsn facilities for pork packing which this region enjoys. Instead of falling off in any essential degree, these haye niatorially advanced in importance, ‘and are the sources of a great degree ot prosperity in this region. It iv not at all necessary to set forth here how many hogs were slaughtered at this point in 1875, 1876 or 1477, for the number was astonishingly great, par- ticularly in the last mentioned year. But when wo turn to the figures, which tell the true story, we find that from: November 1, 1877, to November 1, 1878, the number slaughtered and packed was 4,503,000, or more than titty per certt increase upon the business of the preceding year, which, by the way, was at that time considered unprecedented. ‘The’ actual con- dition of the live-stock trale—cattle—«t this point cannot for the present year be given in figures, but those who are best posted state tuat the shipments have exceeded those of 1877 by at least twenty-five percent. The growth of tle European trade—particalarly that of Great Lritsin— consequent upon the experiments in the shipping of live stock from American ports has materially in- creased the business ot the great West in thie particu. lar branch of industry. It has proved beneficial to a large degree; has presented an increased market for stock, aud eaused a more geveral fecling of security in that the price of this claes of stock have been more equably maintained, while those of hoys and other animals have depreciated alarmingly. In fact, so great hes been the shrink- age in the price of swine that stock-farmers and others who have turned their attention to the raising of these animals, have found ita very serious question indeed as to what they should do with their produet. ‘The complaint comes from every quarter of the West, I have had the best of opportunity for judging as to the prevalence of this feeling, aud must say that the outiook is not very encouraging to the breeder of marketable porcines. Where last year hogs brought from $4 to $5 50 per hundred we now find them selling fron $2 to $2 and it is not to be wondered at that the Western farmer sends up @ cry of despair as he finds himself burlened with an overwhelming supply of corn at a price far below that of the previons year and hogs not half as valuable as a year ayo. It is the occasion of a very depressing feeling on the part of the individni who produces this important factor in the world's cominerce. STOCK GLUT—MONEY FAMINE, So we arrive at this conclusion, that, whiff our pork packers have the past season handled a greater volume of poreme products than during the same time a year ago, the amount of money has not been as great as was exchanged ip 1877; for, while the in- crease in packing at this point has increased fifty per cent, the proportionate shrinkage in value has been gfbatly in oxcess of this. Therefore, we And that the fariners, who are the ones to be directly benetited throught the advantageons circumstances of constant and large demand and liberal price, have failed this season to reap that financial benefit, and we find them complaining of hard times in many pi of Minois end fowa and wondering what good can come out of the financial Nazereth of depressed markets for their stock, CENTRAL ILLINOIS, Let us glance for a moment at the corn and cattle’ counties of Minois, which may more specifically be designated as the central portion, and note the condi- tion of that section, In an agricultural point this may be considered the most important section of the State. While the north is given largely to dairy in- torests und the gouth and soathwest to small fruits and wheat, we may safely take the corn and cattle producing region as the one on which td base an esti- mate of the general condition of the State—that is, av average may be struck there which will beyond all question. aply to the sections which border it north and south, My intelligent correspondent at Champaign, “B, ¥.J.," a gentieman who, from years of close obser. vation of t ricultural situation in the West is especially qualified to pass judgment on the subject, writes mo, under date November 20, at considerable length on the situation throughout central or .corn producing Iinois. He says most emphatically that tho condition of that pr the country is improved, except—and this Las a most important bearing om that more * z Se maper } hand—except for that . b a email one, that. just now a the ‘storm and stress consequent upon the foreclosing of mortgages aud trnst deeds. ‘These farmers and stock raisers have plastered them- selves all over with these instruments, and with little income to meet their obligations have been compelled to succumb to the fate inevitable. The farm eee ERTING CORN ITO 09. me © farmers. have § made amore money this year than for the eee ears, und for the reason. that crops, as a whole, iter and secured better. But here is a point to be taken into account—and it i this question that we have referred to elsewhere in this communication—bogs last year, early in the season, brought good pric this year they have been low from the opening. Where last year the farmer could feed his corn and realize a handsome profit on his hogs, this year he has little or nothing to show tor his labor or his cereal after resolving it into pork. Thus it will be seen that thera has beon one great drawback, and that while, from the fact of having better crops than usual, more money has been mude, it is likely to be oftset in the ond by the failure to realize as formerly ou_ this one impor- tant product of the farm. The movement of crops in the region under’ consideration has been more active this year than dur- ing 1877 or 1876 for wheat and oats ang perhaps potatoes. Thus far but comparatively little corn has been sold and hogs have been held back for the double purpose of eating the corn and for higher prices, CHEAP LAND—FORCED SALES. ‘There is a prospect of an increased crop next year, as shown in the vastly increased acresge of winter wheat aud the great quantity of land already ploughed for next rscrops. As to the disposition of people to invest capital in farming, my correspondent says there is little improvement manifested. The low price of produce and the crowding of the markets with tums sold under the foreclosures ot mortgages and trust deeds by usurers and loan agents have brought prices ot farm lands and real estate generally down to the very bottom, and there is little more price or demand for real estate, either in town orcountry, than | for stalo eggs in July.” “Phe average price for fairly good 160-acre farias, with improvements iu buildings, fences, orchards, pastures,*meadows aud the like, common to this country, does not exceed $20. per acre; the outside range being between $15 and $45. Most of these yfarms can be bought on casy if one-third or one-quarter down ind ten per cent in- terest, in a trust deed for security. are thought easy terms.” ‘The soil is not exhansted. Crops do not fi The country is not sick There is ample rity for pronerty und life ‘he truth is, the very richness of these acres has been, in many cases, the firmer’s ruin. Those who are compelled to sell now borrowed their money in flush times, promised to pay high rates of interest, and failed in both interest and principal. Their possessions must now go.” Take ‘one county in Dlinois as an example (Champaign):—*‘Vor the past three months, and in- deed tor a longer period, the seven or eight county papers have’ contained weekly, altogether, not “less than thirty distinct and separate notices of sales and foreclosures under mortgages and trust deeds, these numerons forced sales it is which force pri down to seldom more than enough to meet principal, interest and costs.” Farms which from 1s0¢ to 1872 could not have been bought for $50 per acre are now seeking buyers at less than half that figure. AN OVERTRADED COUNTRY, j As to the question whether the people aré better off in that. portion of Dlinois than they were two end three years ago, it would be no lard question to re- turn answer, if we take the foregoing statements into consideration, Those who are under the harrow of mortgages and high interest—and this isa very great class—are, beyond all question, suffering more than ever before. ‘Those who can see their way clear or who may be sailing free are perhape better off than for some years past, Thus we see that the depressed are more cast down than before, while the financially footloose are better off than before. There would seem to be a marked improvement in dry 4s and grocery lines of business. It is rather difticylt to state whether confidence is returning and the general business prospects for the next year en- conraging. ‘The country is benumbed, prostrated and disheartened under accumulating taxes and in- terest. Until the evidence is conclusive that there is a large decrease in the number of foreclosures and forced salca there can be no general und lasting return of confidence. The people in the region we are con- sidering are thought to have more moncy than they had last year; but they do not pay their debts as well as they used.“ Driven from the necessities of the case, and to save themselves from starvation, the people largely availed themselves of the subterfuges provided by the law, and the result is that the unen- cumbered and the: independent—the very tew—pay, and pay more promptly than ever; while the mauy— the great majority—don’t pey zt all. How nearly worthless unsecured debts are considered is quite well illustrated by the declarution of an old lawyer that the total amount likely to be realized trom the judginents of a circuit court during 4 session of some two months or more would not pay the expenses of the court. Now, in the foregoing paragraphs we have an actual representation of the condition of affuirs in one of the greatest States in the Union. While the statements are limited as to district we may be safe in alleging that either north or south of the latitude here marked off the condition of the farming clasa is but # reflex of that here given. We find the husbandman in other localities staggering under the same financial embarrassments, DAIRY PRODUCTS. We find in the North, say, that dairying is a great industry to which farmers have of late turned their attention, abandoning to # yreat deyres cereals and other farm products for cheese and butter. When we begin our inquiries as tothe condition of (he dairy interest wo are met with an array of figures to show that it is greatly depressed, and an avalanche of facts to prove that it is owing, in one payticular at least, to overproduction, while the anxiety of manufscturers to get rich has prompted them to place upon the market inferior goods, which has hud the effect to greatly injure the market. | Large tailures in the dairy business haye been reported from the West and Northwest this season, and these have had a demoralizing effect upon the trade. Worthless firms have'started in without capital, swindled farm- ers out of their milk for months and ‘given up the ghost.” At present there is a more healthy feeling in this business and the trade, but during the past seavon it has not been at ail inviting. ‘here is uo reason why the production of butter and cheese shall not prove afsource of great revenue to our people of the West, and from the increasing foreign demands it mast become a paying investment just so soon as honest goods are put upon the market, No grease be tolerated for butter, no skim milk cheese will et the requirements of the trade, WISCONSIN, ‘Turning now from Mlinois, let us glance a moment at Wisconsin, My ‘correspondent, “J. W.,’”’ ort Atkinson, writes that the condition of that portion of the country is beyond doubt improved. Tarmers have not, asa rule, made more money than for theJast me three years, but they have spent less needlessly, Have been more’ frugal in everything, hence have applied more to cancelling debts and are generally studying economy more closely and conducting their business with better general results than they have before since war prices were cut off. There is, however, very great room for improvement yet. QUICK RETURNS. ‘The movements of crops have been more nec- tive than in the late past, and for the followin seneitns-Fetuects. have gabamly lesened’ teak is safest to market products as soon as they are ready for market, and the necessity for turn- ing crops into cash a6 soon 28 possible to meet ex- penses and debts has tended, in conjunction with the jeopardy of the hog crop by disease and the tear ot loss by decay, to force tne marketing at low pric generally of the small surplus of potatoes and apples. ‘The loss of hogs by disease has not been gencrai, but it hay been heavy in some districts. Dairy products, of which the amount has been very large in 1478, have been forced pell-mell on the market, which has been glutted with poor goods, both at home and abrow tor several months, and much @eexe end butter li been sold fur below the cost of prodnction. Quite as great a breadth of winter wheat and rye is now sown a# has been at this season in some years, and judging from the arca that has been broken dur- ing the unusualiy open and propitious autumn and nearly up to the present time, the area Mm corh in 1879 will be a fall average. LWESTMENTS FEW—PEOPLE BETTER OFF. ‘There is not so great a disposition to invest in farming and general business as there was in former years. But it must be said that there is a itor dis position than ever before to invest capital in flow and other mannfacturivg. In Wisconsin people are gradually drifting into the cash system of business, Generally speaking «people are tter off in this region than they were two ot three years ago. A large proportion ot them are reducing their indebtedneys slowly, while they are’ hiring Jess, are more cautions about running into debt, and farmers and their families are doing their own work to a greater degree than heretofore. There is an improvement in local trade—not in increase ot trade, but farmers ore selling their butter, ays, honey, apple butter und fruit to spectators for cash,s| instead of leaving their products with tho merchants on account, aud trom whom they now buy sparingly for cash. it is the opinion that farmers of the Northwest have more cash on hand than they had last, year at this time, and they are spending less, So that, taking everything into consideration, it must be agreed that the farmmy community in that section are better off than are their brothers in Nlinois, who are staggering under the incubus of overwhelming indebtedness, NEBRASKA'S GOOD FORTUNE. The secretary of the Nebraska State Board of Agri+ culture, D, H. Wheeler, writes me, under date No- venber 29, to the following gffect:—The condition of that section of the country is greatly improved. ‘The farmers have made more money the pust year than during any one year of the three previous years, T ovement of crops has been very large this sea- son, exceeding that of any previous year from that State. There is a vet of incrensed crops next year, Quite a breadth ot new greund will be cropped tor the first timo next year, is an in rO* mont apparent in the disposition of people to invest capital in farming and in business generally. A ve large amount of money las this season been invest yy reside resident in farming lands, tmprovemonts end stoek. T been as inany head of thoroughbred horses, cattle and sheep brought into the State during last year us the whole Stite possessed one year ago. The people are much better off than ever before, as a rule. The ‘local trade is tar in excess of any ious year. Confidence is returning and general businees pros- pects are regarded as encouraging. There is beyond doubt more money among the farmers yet collec- tions are thus far sow, ‘The corn crop of Nebraska is by far the best ever raixed in the State as regards quality and quantity. The price of corm ruling #0 low, many farmers have bought hogs and cattle to teed, and there will be @ merked increase in the fat pad antl hogs to be suipped next March, April and ys KANSAS PROSPEROUS. This Gtate is one of the most important in the peomeon, whether wecon- . for grains or cattle, and it should have no smell weight in muking up the verdict as to the condition of the far West, materially and finan- cially. In loeking over the record of Kansas we find that the development of the State | hse gone on vith astonishing + but “ years of settlement its era oF Ba fas not been #0 great as during the past twelve months, There seems to have besn a uéw impetus given to the tide of immi- gration, and a large proportion of that which was sweeping away to the vast Plains of the far North- west has been deflected to the Southwest and out upow the fertile fields of this productive State, The testi- mony of hundreds of correspondents who have settled in Kai id have begun the Siisge of its wren soil, a <d by me, is that they have reaped far greater advantages than they ‘oma in any other sec- tion of the West, oven with the great inducements elsewhere held out. ‘This is by no means written in the spirit of »] ial or perecnet interest in Kansas, for the writer no inslividual interest in anything beyond the general good of the entire country—if a local pride in Chicago may be exeepted—but he cannot ignore the fact of the wonderful and fairly start- ling advance whieh the “bloody border’ has male, The constant influx of population, all secking homes, has given @ renewed impetus to trade, and we find the chief commercial points in that section experiencing @ revival of trade which, after the somewhat protracted depression, is well cal- culated to astonish even the old settlers. Trafic in lands, government and private, has set afloat an in- croased yolume of curren Jocal trade has picked up, the crops have been good, and for wheat the ces particularly satistactory. Farmers, investing moderate sized farms und paying down nearly the total value of the same, tind themselves compara- tively able to cope with the bugbear of encumbrance, aud see their way to an early relief from the financial burden. ‘There can be no doubt, then. judging trom the influx of settlers at least, that there must be un increased average of tilled lands in Kansas next yoer. All who have gone in this year have broken new ground and put in crops of winter wheat, while they have also made ready, to a certain extent, for the production of corn, ‘This year the price of + corn, as elsewhere West, has been’ wonderfully do- pressed in Kansas, and the consequence is its princi« pal market has been in the mouths of swine. BTATISTICS OF INCREASE. ‘There was a Jarge increase of acreage of winter and spring wheat iu tais State this year over that of 1877, the area exceeding that of the last mentioned year by 679,381 acres, Along the counties adjacent to the Kan- + sas Pacific main line aloe the increase 204,023 acres, or more than forty-three per cent of the entire increase of the State. One simple statement must suffice to show how ma- terially the farming interests of this State haye ad- vanced within three years, and it will show that al- though the tiznes have been what men call “hard” the condition of the people must have advanced in ratio with the development of the resources. In 1875. Kansas grew 13,000,000 bushe!s wheat and 91,000,000 bushels corn; in 1876 this was increased to 15,000,000, bushels wheat and 83,000,000 busheis corn; in 1877 the State produced 15,000,000 bushels wheat and 103,000,000 bushels corn, and, along with these staples, there has been a proportionate advance in all the other articles of mixed husbandry. In 1877 her crops altogether were worth $46,000,000, This year tho State steps to the front, as one of the first in the Union in the production of wheat, In the succexsful rearing of live stock the ratio of increase of total vaiue is rapidly pushing Kansas toward the head, The percentage of increase is regue Jar and noteworthy in horses, cattle, sheep and swine, that of hogs beipg most remarkable, the increase in 1877 being over 117 per cent and for eight months of 1878 70 per cent. MINNESOTA'S DRAWBACK ‘THIS YEAR. ‘The natural supposition would be that the great and fertile State of Minnesota, which has the pest year received such « large influx of population, would be in advance of many of its neighbors so fur as the matter of financial prosperity is concerned. But the reverse appears to be the fact. Mr, R. C. Judson, secretary ot the State Board of Agricul- ture, writes me, under date of November 30, that the general condition financially has not improved. Farmers in many sections have run behind this year owing to the dry weather and the storms, which played havoc with the crops in the southern portion of the State. The movement of crops, he thinks, ig not so lurge as it was two and three’ years ago. There is a prospect of increased crops, aud those who are blessed with capital show & disposition to invest in farming. So far as the im- provement of farms is concerned people in Minne- sota ere better off than formerly, but otherwise there is not much to be said. Local trade shows little im- provement, but confidence in general business is re- turning. “There is not,” says the writer, “more money among the people at large than there was last year or in the preceding two years.” In considering the condition of the people of Minnesota we must bear in mind that the southern portion of the State contains by tar the greater proportion of the population, and consequently produces, or woyld produce, with- out drawbacks, the bulk of the wheat crop of the State. This year, jnst before the harvest, occurred hot weather and storms, which dried the berry and lodged the straw, so that thousands of acres were rendered valueless. On that saved the yield has been mparatively low. The wheat harvested in South- ern und Southwestern Minnesota this year grades, nearly all of it, Nos, 2 and 3, with some as No. a while that grown along the Northern Pacific Railro: and in the died River age gh cer No. 1 and com- mands the highest price of all raised on this conti- nent. ‘his has been raised by “wheat kings” on en- ormously large ranches, and the prosperity of that region docs not affect the actual condition of the landowners and hard working farmers of the State, ‘The enti of land in this State this year have ached 1,324,000 acres. These have been along the Northern Pacific Railroad and represent largely specu- lutors who have youe in to make money and do not stand tor honest, industrious husbandmen with the sole aim of improvement in view. So, while it would seem that much money hus been invested here, it really has not found its way into the hands of the people but hus been swept into the coffers of corpoe rations. Towa: My intelligent correspondent, “J. F.T.,” of Bur- lington, Iowa, under date December 2, says, “Yes, aost certainly, the condition of this part of th country is improved. Farmers have made more money this year, the season having been more favor- able, Lhe imovements of crops are larger and more active than in 1877; crops have on the whole been better also, ‘Che prospect for an increase of crops next year is very good, People are investing more frecly in farm lands, and are us a whole Pager | no worse off than last year. Local trade is very close and docs not make any improved showing. Yet e urning on-all hands, andthe general bi for the comiag yeur is rather encourag- rere is not so much money among the people at large us there was last year, all prices being so much lower and less currency being required to do is same business.” The same correspondent then ls -— . “Our farmers are now completely: divided off into landlords and renters or tenants. ‘Che former are all wealthy, keep out of debt, hold farms at $100 to $200 an acre, and usually rent for @ share of crops—oue- third when tenant finds tools and cattle, or two-thirds en landlord finds everything. ‘Tenants ought to do n better than the landlords, but as a class are bad imanagers and improvident, saving little. I would preter renting a farm valued at $150 un acre, on usual terms, than to buy it, But tenants do not see it this ‘way, and generally consider themselves oppressed, Our lands are better suited for grass and stock than for gr&iu, and require capital to work them to advan- tage. As a rule, armers of both sorts are doing very well. We have had three years of very wet ns, and this country is better suited to withstand drouth (even ex San than wet? Generally speaking, agri- culturists are doing better, than townspeople. Build- ing has ceased altogether, and there are no mauface turers to,employ laborers, The towns are slowly being depleted of surplus population, but time is re- quired to adjust everything satisfactorily. Taxes aro excessively high: and office-holders yet get war prico sularies. When taxation is $4 and $5 to the $100 and nothing to show for it but feeding 4 lot of useless beet caters it is excessive. Asa rule we are fairly prose perous and cannot complain. Most a or cart wheels and pound weights would make matters worse instead of CHAPLAIN BEECHER'S REGIMENT. A new company is being organized in the Eighth and Twenty-second wards of Brooklyn for the Thir- teenth regiment, National Guard, of which Rev. Henry Ward Beecher is chaplain. Colonel William Hem- street, a war veteran, is spoken of as the probable cominander, It is the intention of the Thirteenth regi- mout.to “close up’ ats ranks and to prepare tu march on Canada next May in time to participate in the cele. bration of the Queen's birthday, and to be reviewed by His Excellency the Marquis of Lorne, the new Gov- ernor General of the Dominion. Chaplain Beecher, who has already delivered @ lecture to aid in creating afund to pay the expenses of the Canadian expedi- tion, 1s taking an interest in the of recruit. ing to fill up the ranks and to make w military diaplay. on the coming occasion worthy the National Guerd of the Empire State, THROWING DICE FOR DRINKS. Michael Sullivan, a licensed vender, on Saturday night dropped into William Hosche's saloon, at No. 47 Kast Ninety-secind street, and offered to throw dice With the proprietor for drinks. The proposition was accepted, Sullivan Jost and when invited io “pay up’ seized # chair and raised it a8 if to brain josche; but when the latter psa him witha club, Sullivan fled, Reuching the sidewalk he hurled tl an empty beer tue window, breaking all the glass and Sotingeriog the safety of Mrs. Hor fr When Hosche came out Sullivan threw another keg ut his head, whereupon Hosche knocked Sullivan down with his efib, Officer then reached the and on. 4s the #tory took Sullivan to the Eighty: eighth stréct police station. ‘The prlvoner was com. tted for examination yesterda; Judge Kasmire inthe Harlem Polive Court. ptosis ADVISED TO SUE FOR DAMAGES. Charles Neil, of No. 1,428 Madison avenue, on Bab urday caused fhe arrest of Mrs, Dora Lange, keeper of a confectionery store in Harlem, The charge he pre ferred at the lady was for having certain prop erty in her store which Mr, Neil claimed had been uulawfully taken from hint. In the Harlem Police Court, however, Mra. Lange proved to the satistace tion of Judge Kaerire that she had purchayed the ar- ticles in dispute two years ago from William ‘Tide- mann. His Honor then discharged the lady, wlio had spont the night in tho station house, and advise t hor to suo Mr, Neil for civil courts