Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1871-09-15
CHICAGO CORRESPONDENCE.
The Weather-Corner i'm Wheat-The Re-
ceipts of Grain-The New Tunnel-Chicago
ENTHUSIASTICALLY B. Fisk & Col. w.
: GrisMnid & Ca.-Amusemenfs.

The Weather-Corner i'm Wheat-The Re-
ceipts OF Grain-The New Tunnel-ChicagO
River-Business-D. B. Fisk 81 co... w.
Griswold 81 Co.-Amusements.
CHICAGO, Sept. 2, 1s7I.-We have had CO.
pious rains this week, succeeded by cool
weather. We hear of frosts west and south
of us, but have had none here yet, though
the nights have been quite cold. The event
of the week has been the
CORNER IN WHEAT,
effected by com ination of wheat gamblers,
by which No. 2 was run up to 1892 on
Wednesday, but the price broke down on
Thursday to $1.I0, owing to large deliveries
nearly 100000 bushels being shipped from
Milwaukee ere-the mixing of Winter and
No. l with No. 2, and the cleaning of No.
to make it No. 2, and the expiration of the
month, which closed the corner. 1t is said
the ring made $4,000 by the operation.
But they have injured the grain market and
the credit of the city, and ruined many in
dividuals. They are conspirators against
the interests of both city and country, ard
the enemies of all legitimate trade.
THE RECEIPTS OF GRAIN
were over three fourths of million bushels,
Aug. 81, and charters for shipment $4,000
bushels. There is an increased der and for
money from the interior to move the new
crop.
THE NEW TUNNEL. ~~--------
on La Sale street, under the Chicago river
to the North Side, which was formally
opened the 4th of July, was greater success
than the Washington Street Tunnel, in that
it was perfectly free from lea age, the con-
tractors being able to avoid the errors of the
first experiment The foot approaches are
not yet completed. The greatest sanitary
improvement ever made here, if we except
the introduction of pure water by the Lake
Tunnel, is the change of the flow of the
CHICAGO RIVER
into the Illinois river by the deepening OF
the Illinois and Michigan canal, so that
there is a constant flow of the waters of the
lake through the river up stream, through
the canal aud down the Illinois river to the
Mississippi. The change from pure and
fetid to fresh and pure water, is most CRATE
full, and is worth the large outlay it has
cost.
BUSINESS.
The season for the fall trade opens auspi-
ciously, and the frst-class wholesale houses
which have given Chicago the character OF
a metropolitan city, by the amplest display
of the most desirable goods, begin to be
thronged with customers.
D.B.FI co.
have made large preparations for the fall
trade Mr. Fisk, the senior partner, has
been in Europe during the summer, buying
of the leading manufacturers there, silks
velvets, ribbons, laces, flowers, etc. Their
thorough acquaintance with the wants of the
Western trade enables them to offer the
most attractive assortment of Millinery
Straw and Fancy Goods and Ladies' Fur
nishing in the country. The oldest, largest
and most complete Millinery House in the
West, leading all competitors in the amount
of their sales by long stride, they purpose
by upright dealing, and by always keeping
the largest and choicest stock, maintain the
pre-eminence they have so honorably won
| J.w. GRIswOLD Co.. CLOAK HOUSE,
| having bought their Beavers early, and i'm
ported their own velvets, Velveteens, Laces
and Gimp, are prepared to offer extra in
ducements to country merchants.
ADJUSTMENTS.
McVicker's new theater was opened with
great eclot last Tuesday evening, by strong
company, in the play of " Extremes" Al
the Museum, " Cast upon the World is the
attraction " The Hunchback" at Hooley's
and the Minstrels have the usual bill at the
Dearborn. B.