Weekly hawk-eye and telegraph. [volume] (Burlington, Iowa) 1855-1857, 1857-05-27
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Able and reverend DR.. Humphrey Of Pisssfeld,
wrisiag IRON Chicago to the New York Evange-
| list, thrs dilates on an incident in his life:
| '.How marvellous has been the rise OF proper
II in Cheagos Happening to be there in the
! summer OF 1899, when the Dearboarn reserra-
ton was brought into market, bought two
small lots. aud sold them about seyen or eight
years ago for two thousand Ave hundred dollars,
which was thought to be a fair price. Now the
New Richmond Hotel, one of the finest in Chi
cago, stands OIL the same ground, which am
assured would, if had kept it TO this time,
have brought eighty thousand dollars! So you
see how narrowly have escaped being a rich
man, and rearing my boys, had they been
young, TO rely upon their own industry, econo-
my and good behavior. / slept upon the prem.
ises last night, at fair hotel charge, and with
out being kept awake one moment thinking
OF what had lost. | had excellent accommo-
dations and what could l ask mores If the
children of the proprietor who bought the land
of me IF he has ANY, escape with the great for
tune, as safely as mine have done without it,
they will be an exception to the general expe.
| rience of wealthy families.
Crescent City Oracle man, gives the following
glance into q ''Sportman's Paradise" situated
down in his ''diggins" in Pottawatamie county:
Newer, in our life, did We see such an abun-
dance OF fine feathered game as now swaruls our
country. Our forests, groves and fields are alive
with quaiis and prairie chickens, whilst the little
creeks and sloughs are covered with ducks of
every known variety, whose aqueous antics are
enlivened with the shrill whistle of the suspi-
cious plover. Then the ponds, bayous, lakes,
and larger streams, are literally covered with
geese, bran;s, pelican, swan, crane, and other
large fowls. The sport is rare indeed for those
who enjoy gaming excursion, and are not
afraid of water. In the very streets of our town.
the boys sometimes bring down we'll fed ducks
with club, along the creek. From our open
window we can see vast numbers OF swan on the
little lake, away in the distance, reminding us
of the modest white lily, with whose sweet per-
TUNED petals the ripping waters hold fond dali
lance, and of the clustering daisies away down
in the old meadows, near the home of our boy
hood"
LARGE SPEcuLATIoNs IN SUGARs.-On the re-
ceipt of the Empire City's news, on the after
noon OF the 18th inst, from Havana, the theory
OF short crop of sugar became COZ firmed,
which information, with accounts Of uniayora-
BILE weather on the Island, caused a rampant
speculative feeling to grow up. Agents of
Spanish houses, it was said, received large orders
to purchase in this market on speculation, and
prices Immediately advanced from Id to S-S
cent per h., fully recovering the previous de
preston. Taking the two days of the 18th and
l4th inst, the sales amounted to about 1000 TO
5000 hhds and 5000 bbls., OF refined crushed
sugars, of an aggregate value Of over mil
lion of dollars. The hogsheads sold weighed
about 400 lbs, each, which, at current rates
averaged about 81 50 per hogshead.
Immense profits, it was stated, had been
realized by some houses engeged in the specu-
lation. Prices have, however, now reached
such height as to seriously interfere with
consumption; and when pinnacle is reached
by spectators, the probability Of reaction
aud collapses will become imminent.-[N. Y.
Herald, 18th. F." ,- -.. .-.