Eaton weekly Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1866-1875, 1871-04-13
CHICAGO CORRESPONDENCE.

Warm Weather-The Grain Market-Busi-
ness-WOman Suffrage-PrOgress of the
Northern Pacific ~ailrOad-Ja Cooke &
Mems Association. 2
CHICAGO, April 8, 1s71.-The past few days
have been unprecedented warm for this sea-
son. The grass in our parks is ~luxuriant,
and the buds of the trees are fast expanding
into leaves. The season ID atleast two weeks
earlier than usual, and the only drawback to
the prospect is the lack of rain.
THE GRAIN MARKET
is dull for most kinds except wheat, which
ranges for No. 2 from $I.273 to 81. 2S4, though
the prices generally are maintained.
BUSINESS
is quite active, and the leading houses in the
prominent branches of trade have been very
active the past week. The sales this spring
have largely exceeded those of last year, for
this season.
WOMAN SUFFRAGE.
The Executive Committee of the Woman's
State Suffrage Association had a stormy time
at their meeting one day this week, and be-
haved about as badly as men often do, on
similar occasions. 1 had supposed the divi-
sions among the friends of this cause had
been healed. But the tendency to divide
and scatter seems irrepressibie. Which
shows that there is a great deal of human
nature in women. Though their conduct
does not determine the merits of their cause,
yet it has much to do in promoting or pre-
venting its success. Because people judge of
- NAS NAoA dCICI u 1S duNOCdb-Ss
The people of the Northwest are deeply
interested in the
PROGRESS OF THE NORTHERN PACIFIC RAILROAD,
which is being pushed forward with remark
able energy. Trains are already running
over LIS miles of completed track, from Lake
Superior, and the grading is nearly finished
IA miles farther through Central Mime
sofa to the eastern border of Dakota.
Inc Mississippi aiver is bridged at
Brainard, and track-laying is pro-
c0e0lnQ ranldlv vvaafUard onA NV Ganfap,-
Der next trains will run TO the Red river,
and the grading nearly reach the Great
Bend of the Missouri, in Central Dakota. In
GLIDING its purchase of the st. Paul and Pa
chic road, the Northern Pacific Railroad has
4lS miles of road now in operation, and be-
tore the close of the present season the
Length of finished track will be at least 500
miles. And as work has also been COM
menced on the Pacific coast with a large
force, and will be pushed toward the center
from both ends, and is being constructed at
the lowest cost, compatible with first class
work, We may expect to see it completed
at an early day. The fiscal agents of the
road
AESSRS- JAY COOKE & CO.,
who provide the means for its construction,
have a national reputation second to no
house in this country. The stockholders
have furnished six million dollars to COM
plete the road through Minnesota and start
it on the Pacific coast. The first mortgage
seven-thirty gold bonds are now being sold,
to complete this national highway. The
company lave fifty million of acres of the
best public lands-23,O 900 acres for each mile
of road-so that with the revenues of the
road, these bonds will be the safest and most
profitable bonds in the market.
YOUNG MEMS ASSOCIATION.
We have had quite a lively episode here
recently, in an attempt by leading members
of the Young Mems Christian Association to
gobble up the Chicago Library Association,
but after a wordy war, and a free use of
&c means,' it was signally defeated. B.