Morning journal and courier., 1880-05-04

reading for the Pennsylvanians
 There seems to be serious purpose to wind up the present session of Congress and ad- 1 journ in a month from this time, though how l it is going to be done does not yet appear. i Of the appropriation bills the pension bill is the only one yet passed and approved. The 1 immediate deficiency, army and Notifications 1 bills are in the hands of the President, but are not yet approved, and the military academy bill is in conference committee, where it will probably remain until the result of the Whitaker investigation Is known. The consular and diplomatic and Indian bills are, with the amendments made by the Senate, pending in the House. The, postofice ap' propriation bill was reported from the committee to the House Saturday. The sun dry civil, regular deficiency, and executive, legislative and judicial bills are not yet re- ported and will not be reported for some time yet. It will Do seen that Congress has large thirty days job on its hands.
 M. Michael Dragomanoff, formerly protes- sor at tho University of Kief and now 8 member of the Russian revolutionary organ. ization, has addressed lotter to Gsneral Meikoff, stating the conditions on which the Russian revolutionists will 'Fconclude sn ar mistice' with the Government, which has been extensively circulated at St. Peters, burg. These conditions are: l. The dis missal of all the Governors appointed with arbitrary powers since the attempt Of April 2, 1879. 2 Abolition of all the measures ordered by them, and also of the excep- tional decrees of 1873. g. Abolition of the special tribunals established for the hearing of political trials. f. An amnesty and resto- ration of rights to those persons who have been deprived of them in consequence of the arbitrary measures above referred to. 5. Abolition of the third section, with all it's agents; guarantee against imprisonment with out trial. 6. Grant of freedom of the press, the right of meeting, and the right of form ing societies. 7. Convention of 8 national assembly. The ex-professor adds that if these conditions are not accepted the contest will be pursued by the Revolutionary party with all the means at it's command
 The New York Times gives an instance of successful real estate speculation in that city which is highly entioing. About the middle of May 1879, Mr. Frederick W. Gunther bought Of the Widow Sanford, for $25O, GOO, seventeen lots of land on the north side of Seventy ninth street, being the whole front from Fifth to Madison avenue, and form ing the southerly half of the block bounded by Seventy ninth and Eightieth streets, Fifth and Madison avenues. The deed was not recorded till January 14, 1880. On the same day Mir. Gunther ex- eouted to the New York Life Insurance Com pany seventeen mortgages, aggregating $22o,- 900, on this property. Apparently, Ir. Gunther invested ozly $3o, 900, cash, in the purchase. Six lots on the northeast corner of Fifth avenue and Seventy ninth street, four of them being on the avenue and two on the street, have been recently sold by Mir. Gunther for $225, 900 to " K Stevenson, president of the Real Estate Trust Company. The trans
 fer has not yet been mads- Or April 10, 1880, MT. Gunther, for consideration of $10O, 900, transferred to Matthias B. Smith fvo lots on the northwest corner of Madison avenue and Seventy ninth street. The six iu- side lots on the north side of asvsnty-niuth th street were sold by MT. Gunther to Mir. Camp bell, president of the Pacific Bank, for $120- 900. The operation may be summed up IS follows MT. Gunther takeE title, January IA, 1880, to seventeen lots bought for $25O, 900, and resells them in less than ninety days at $445, ,000-an advance of $195,o00.