Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1871-10-29
CHICAGO.
bonded Relief,

CHICAGO, Oct. 2S.-In the Board of SUI
pervisors yesterday a resolution was offered
and referred to the Finance Committee re-
queSting the Governor of the State to recon-
mend to the Legislature to grant authority
to Cook county to issue one million dollars
of bonds, to draw not over 7 per cent. in
terest and running for twenty years, to APP
ply towards meeting bonds and orders now
outstanding and approaching maturity and
interest ON the same, to rebuild the public
buildings and TO meet deficieacies on re-
ceipts for the next two years.
The bankrupt Insurance Companies
Action on the application to the State Au-
ditOr to dissolve the Republic Insurance
Company and appoint a receiver has been
postponed by the Circuit Court, it being
stated that the company had taken action
looking to the collection of the unpaid stock
notes.
The State Auditor has filed bills in the
Circuit Court looking to a dissolution of
the Knickerbocker, Equitable, Garden City
and Commercial Insurance Companies,
these companies being bankrupt. The ag-
gregate assets of the KnickerbOcker, includ-
ing the capital stock not paid upis $4,000,
losses S750,000. The Equitable's assets,
not including capital stock, but including
capital stock not paid in $3.50, 900, losses
S3,0O0,000. The Garden City's assets, not
including capital stock, is less than 1000,
losses S2,000,000. The Commercial has
risks to the amount of S15,000,000, with
assets, exclusive of capital stock paid and
unpaid, of 100000.
WOrkmen Wanted.
The Tf.I,fan tI,io y,,o,.riDrr a1ifnr;oliy-
nOunces that five or six hundred additional
brick and stone masOns can find employ
ment in Chicago through the winter at
from four to five dollars per day; that
two thousand carpenters can find employ
ment all through the winter at high wages;
that in March there will be employment for
twice as many more Of both these trades,
and in addition that workers i'll wood and
iron, plumbers and gas filters, workers in
iron, tin, brass, and copper a whole army
will be wanted. Thousands of laborers
now starving in New York and other
cities can find work at good wages with
comfortable homes for their families and
themselves on farms within one hundred
miles Of Chicago.
Fast Day.
In accordance with the proclamation OF
Mayor Mason, tomorrow will be observed
as day of fasting, humiliation and prayer.
Rates of Future Insurance.
The Chicago underwriters held meeting
last evening and unanimously agreed upon
the following schedule of rates for insurance:
On elevators ) per cent; on buildings per
cent; on contents in brick packing houses
% per cent; on contents ON frame packing
houses not stated; lumber-yards % pei
cent; brick dwellings "a per cent; contents
81 per cent; frame dwellings / per cent;
contents same; frame commercial risks
when built according to specifications, 3!
per cent; and on contents 8 per cent.
A Christian woman.
Corporation counsel, FINLEY, relates the
following incident connected with the great
fire:
knew a sewing girl, dress-maker, who
had, by years of hard toll, saved little
money. While the fire was burning, she
photographed her brother, in Indiana, to buy
and send her car load of provisions. Hel
brother did so. This girl took sick families
into her rented house, and in the first tel
DAYS after the fire fed, by one meal or more
six hundred people. She is a pure, modest
retiring Christian girl, and my wife discov-
cred it, not from her, but indirectly. She
has been my wife's dress-maker for about
five years.
Pushing out More Railroad Lines.
Tie Chicago and st. Louis Railroad vii
open their new route to Kansas CITY via
Jacksonville, H., and Louisiana, Mo-, oil
Monday next. This gives Chicago a new
route to Kansas and the West.