The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1877-08-03
CnncAGo. July y. 1877.

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of values and the scarcity of money was
furnished this week, by the sale of the
Honore Building, an immense structure
which is occupied in part by the post
Office 1t was built by Mr.. Honore, the
father of Potter Palmer, and was mort
gagged to the Connecticut Mutual Life
Insurance Company for half million.
When the loan was made the land and
building were valued at about a million
dollars, aud yet when the mortgage was
foreclosed and the property sold, it had
to be bid in by the Insurance Company.
The corporation has mortgage for ST.
100000 on Potter Palmer's property,
including the hotel. There is no dan.
ger of foreclosure here, however, for
he is the possessor of large amounts of
productive property-the hotel, which
which he manages himself paying him
we'll. The Connecticut Mutual proba-
bly, holds now $4,000,000 worth of Chi
cago property, which it has had to bid
in at foreclosure sales; and if this state
of affairs continues long, no inconsidera-
BILE amount of the city real estate will
pass into the hands of alien corporation
We have been edited during the week
by tho Rev. Joseph Cook, who has
been holding forth at the Lake Bluff
Sunday school Convention. His lec-
lures, which were on Conscience, New
England, Skepticism, etc, were not new
ones, but he was novelty at the West,
and hence he had large audiences, who
were nightly edited by the scientific
phrases and his hard words. In order
to get little additional advertising, he
made a foray on one of the morning pa.
pers, and placed it by the side of the
emissaries of the evil one as an agent in
the corruption of society. But the pa
per has not answered as yet, and the
attack has failed of its subject.
Even if man is in an insane asylum,
and is regarded as incurabIe by the
physicians, it seems little cruel to re-
port him as dead, have an administrator
appointed, and his effects seized on. But
that is what happened here the other
day. An inmate of the County insane
Asylum, named Stable, was quite ill
One morning the attendant stated to
the physician in charge that Mr., ShaIe
was dead. Shale was also a patient.
F." Stable, you mean," quoih the doctor,
and he made out certificate for Sta.
bic, and notified his wife that he had
departed Being an energetic business
woman, she spent no time in tears, but
gos an administrator appointed, so that
she could enter on his property In
almost week the doctor learned of his
and notified the wife. But she
had tasted the sweets of heirship, and
kept this letter to herself, allowing the
to 60 on and turn over
to her whatever Stable had been pos.
sessed of. Had Mr. s., remained out of
his senses it would have been all right
but now he claims to be like unto other
men, wants to get out, wants that ad-
ministrator mustered out, wants his
property back again, and wants to get
rid of wife who was SO unfeeling as
not to come out and drop a tear over
him when she supposed him cold in his
wooden box, which is by courtesy called
a coffin. The court has not revoked the
power of administration, and whatever
Stable may be de tacto, he is dead dc
ire
VIII you have an illustration Of the
rapid growth Of Chicago E.? This city
now forwards yearly millions of bushels
of wheat and corn to the seaboard.
There died yesterday, and he was but
sixty years old, the man who made the
first shipment of grain, to the East. This
was long before the days of elevators or
shipping in bulk, and he sent on seven
hundred bushels in bags at Buffalo, on
wheat he made seventy cents bushel.
This was back in the thirties So young
a city is it that there is not one man
who has been half century. He is an
and upquestioned Oldest in.
habitant, with no one to dispute his
stories, or to question the accuracy of
his memory.
CINCINNATI, July u, 1877.
There are indications that the great
strike will reach this city to night-that
the order has gone out for it, each en-.
gineer, on some of the roads at least, to
make his regular Saturday night run,
put up his engine and quit, taking with
him his fremen and crew, as far as
possible. The roads centerinc here are
the Pan Handle, the Atlantic and Great
Western, the Cincinnati, Hamilton and
Dayton, the Ohio Mississippi. the In.
Cincinnati and LAFAYETTE.
the Louisville Short line, the Marietta,
or Baltimore and Ohio, and the Short
line (that connects with the New York
Central), the Kentucky Central, and
other smaller and local roads of various
gauges. The Cincinnati Southern will
not be affected by the strike. 1t will
60 into operation on Monday next A
ten per cent reduction has lately been