The Conservative. (M'connelsville, Ohio) 1866-1871, 1870-10-21
Chicago CORRESPONDENCE.

s CHICAGO CORRESPONDENCE. %
| The W veatber-Trade and Collection
how Price of Grain-ReeeiPts and
ShfDments-M -Money-RaIIrondE Earn
fngs.The divorce ScaDdal-Wo O.
mems Hospital Medical ColseSe-
Characteristics OF n Ctty's GroWth-
Thayer & Tobey Furniture Go. :
j. w. GrIswOId & CO.-Amusements
eHtc6ao, oct. II, 1S7o.-warm weather
continues and rs yet no signs of frost. Thin
will compensate, in part, iOr the short hay
crop, aud tend to keep down the price Ol
fuel.
TRADE AsD COLLECTIONS. 50 4
II also tonds to delay the purchase OF
country merchants, and make collections
difficult. For the farmers- who arc tho NAM
spring OF trade and cOmmerce-lmproye this
good weather to do their fall's work, and
have no time to market the crops, and con-
seduently little money or Ieisure 10 purchase
supplies. But the country Is not oYerstOcked
with goods-in fact is comparatively unsIp-
piicd-Snd when cold weather comes and the
grain crop is marketed, there must be large
trade To meet the actual wants of the pso-
pie. But perhaps the chief cause Of the pres
ent dullness OF trade Is the
Low PaIoE OF aRAIH i g.
which indisposes farmers to sell. There is
an Improvement in the grain market, which
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REcEIPrs AND SHIPMENT.
The receipts of wheat for the week ending
October 8th were 697 ,160 bushels. and the
shipments 480, 329 bushels with IS 327 barrels
of -four. The receipts of grain here yesterday
were 927 car loads-372 900 bushels, of which
157 ,120 bushels were wheat. No. wheat sold
yesterday at s1.e7{9L073. -s-.-r s.-r.-s
MONEY
is a little easier, merchants nos making large
demands on the banks. But the purchasing
season will soon commence, aud require the
ure of large sums. .-.
RAILROAD EARS1Nes-
The earnings of the Chicago and North
western Railway for the month OF September
last were 81; 275171. against 81, ,246 213 in Au-
gust, 1870, and 81, ,3C5. .672 in September, 1853
The Rock Island and Pacific Road returns
s597 900 for September, against S556, 100 for
August, and S736. .664 for September ef last
year. | - ?
THE DIVORCE SCANDAL . ei.-
is about to be abated, the courts having sn,
nounced that they viii take efTeclusl meas
ures to punish those who advertise that they
will procure divorces without publicity at a
small charge, and by adopting stringent
rules to prevent fraudulent divorces. Timely.
TIE woMAS's HOSPITAL MEDICAL COLLAGE
was Dedicated last 1uesday evening, in the
First NJ. Z. Church. DR.. Reid, editor OF the
Northwestern Christian Advocate, Robert
Collier, and Prof. Byford, President OF the
new college, taking bsrt in the exercises. It
has distinguished Board of Trustees, en-
bracing various religious denominations,
inclnding four Doctors OF Divinity and
one Doctor of Laws, -suppiemented by Mics
Mary II. Thompson, NJ D.; Mrs. NJ B. Dyas,
and Mrs r G -HoEg. Miss Thompson is one
of the faculty Professor of Hygiene and
Cynical Obstetrics, and Diseases OF Woman.
The faculty contains. eighteen professors, and
is on tho whole very strong one.
There Is now the fullest opportunity here
for the instruction of women IN medical sci
fence, and if they do not improve IL, il will be
their own fault. tT soy 81 rrrz
CHARACTERIsTIcs OF CITY's GROWTH.
The growth Of aeity is marked by ite pro-
vision for the comforts and luxurles of life.
Its first settlers are usually content with the
mere necesssFies Of hfe.- But as wealth and
refinement Increases, better fare and more
elegant and costly furniture are required.
is marvellous. If Rip Van Winkfe among
the first sett ers- could wake from bis twenty
Years sleep and visit one of our first class
furaiture houses, he would be as astOnished
as his prototype among the knickeTbocsers
was when he walked to find new generation
risen up during his long sleep. representing
this class of houses, and typifying the growth
THAYER ToBEY FURNITURE COMPANY.
consolidation of the two oldest firms
here-Chas. TObey and +. Porter, Thayer Il
Co., who had the best class of city trade
filing five floors, at ~, 70 and 81 State street
"a space 25O feet by l60, or an acre and a
quarter-with ss rich, elegant aad stylish
furniture as can be found,, East or West.
Here are chamber sets worth 81, 600, and all
kinds of furniture to suit the tastes and
purses Of customers. In their immense fac
tory they employ the best skilled workmen,
aud by selling Only tie best goods at low
prices, they have .ho groatest trade m the
city. Purchasers of first class furniture
should visit this house when they come to
OhicsgO. E4a
THE WHOLESALE CLOAK HOUSE OF j., W. oRIs-
woLD & CO, is so LAKE ST,
Display the largest and best stock of cloaks,
cloakings dress trimmings, silks, laces and
buttons ever shown in Chicago, and Ia at
tracing q very large trade, 1t IS the chief
source OF supply for the Northwest.
glr q AMUsEMESTs. = , a- e.
Are still drawing large houses at MeYickers,
Aikens Museum and the Dearborn, and the
Esglish Opera, of the Richings-Bernard
troupe under the management Of g. ID. Hess,
at the Opera Hoase has been a magnificent
success. Is.
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