The New York herald., 1869-03-27
Real Estate Notes.


Real Estate Notes.
Az New n 'chelie the following sales Of property
have recently n zen made:-Joseph M. Klssam, o lot
50xl5O. on Mstn street, to John Pyne, for $500;
Richard Deveau to Mrs. Julia Graves, q lot 25xl00.
on the White Plains road, near the New Haven Rail-
road depot. for s2,7oo; Joseph Chambers. to w. Ro
main house and hailA acre. on Garden street. for
SO. 700.
Edward Underhi has "a d lot. 1OoxlO5. corner OF
Twelfth avenue ana Third treet, Mount Vernon, to
George w. Duryea, for 81,
the latter 200 feet squaresituA ted on Lake venue
at Tuckahoe to G. N. Mead, for 5000: Also at ne
same place. Nathan Cook has s0I0 lot 9Oxz5O, Win
dwelling thereon, to Abram Lent, or sa,ooo
The following late transactk ms IN real estate
~ toneers nave so1 n mart "t n 1uare S. with
improvements, consisting OF frame d Yelling house.
on the corner OF Twenty y-second stree west aud II
Fitch h Fox, for George K. Gather, Of baltimore,
have sold parts Of lots 7a9d m subA VISION nosa OF
late Harrisburg (Pa) paper says:--'w. learn
that large number OF houses viii be erected thls
city during the coming season. The cellars nave
already been dug for new houses on New Sea )nd:
Herr, and Two and a Half streets. On every IN md
preparations for building are being made. N ie
population OF our city is increasing very rapdA
and houses are rented before the building OF them
Within few days the following sales Of real estate
were effected IN Guilford. Conn. :-EDer Cruttenden
has sold his farm TO Everett K. Dudley and pur-
chased the house OF the Misses Fowler in the viii
lage, and Is repairing II for his future residence.
Lucius Dudley has sold his farm to John Dudley.
De Witt Fowler has sold his farm to his brother;
MIR. +. leaves for the West Samuel E. Stone has
sold his house and lot to Schermerhorn Co.; Mr..
Stone and his family go to Maryland to reside. Sid
ney w. Leete has sold his house to Albert A. DOWNS
price not named. Mrs. Benjamin Candee has sold
her house to d. J. Spencer; price not named Sid
ney A. Dowd has sold his farm (the best, probably,
In town. TO man from Stamford.
Chicago papers have taken to mathematics to
compute its prospective population. The regular
increase OF population In that city has averaged
forty per cent per annum and starting out with this
as basis, 1t IS computed that by the year 1890 the
population Of Chicago will be about 40. 000, ,000
and half times the population in the whole coun-
try. This will do very well for quiet inland town.
At the same rate the population WIN reach tribe
over $500 900 In l900 beyond which period this
arithme]cian does not venture. Chicago usually
counts Its population once week, but the above
mathematical calculation has been satisfactory
that census has not been taken for several weeks
Should this calculation be realized, the city OF
Chicago Will have the honor OF electlng our Pres-
dents and members OF Congress and majority OF
the House Of Representatives..
South Carolina lands, it Is reported are now sell
ing at favorable prices. The Chestnut estate, OF six
thousand acres, In Kershaw district was recently
disposed OF at prices equal to what could have been
nts some ~ Of Which we're nmrchase nv the
men. At the sales OF March ], In Sumter aud other
DISTRICTS the local papers report tnat goou prices
letter in the Cleveland Leader from the oil region
OF Pennsylvania states that in the vicinity OF Titus
vile there IL revival OF IHe OprOuuClng DUSneSS
Real estate has advanced there said to be abso-
lutely pauperism In the entire district and those
who own good wells are becoming rich at rapid
rate, though not SO quickly as during the great ex.
element few years ago.
Mr.. Cunningham, Of Irvington, N. Y. is building
at that place $25o000 residence for himself, 1t Is
fashioned after noted European CASTLE The cellar
is hewn out Of solid rock, and the partitions In the
mansion are all OF stOne
Fitzhugh, Hughes Gale have sold their iron and
silica property Rockbridge county Va, about 5000
acres, one mile above the mouth Of North river, to
Vanderbilt, Anderson and other directors Of the
Westham Iron Works Company. for s2So0o. equiva-
lent to cash. It purchased by them three years
ago from Captain Edward Echols. for $4,000
The Board OF State Charities OF Massachusetts have
something to say Of the evils Of great cities in which
people are crowded densely, to the injury OF body,
mind and soul. The Board say, .They justify the
curse called down by the prophet, who cried, Woe
unto them that Join house TO house. that lay eld to
field till there IL no placer "
The experience OF all civilized countries shows
that the overcrowdng OF human habllations, any
where seriously increases the average mortality o
all classes in the community, besides affecting The
personal purity. domestic relations and the general
happiness, directly or indirectly, OF tue whole CON-
munity.