, 1880-01-25

! dwelling, No, 90 Fairfield avenue, to cost s@,'oo
The Mayor astonished himself the past
| week. He only issued four pardons-
The Town Collectors paid $4,000 to the
Treasurer yesterday in 1873 scrip.
The treasurer received yesterday 81. 1G9
from the Water Department, and 1854 from the
| Controller: -:
! : The property In the way Of opening Irving
avenue to Jackson street was sold ycstsraay 70 :;
| Col Owen Stewart for SIS. The cry talnAs ~, ~
got 4 good price, and at the same time the
| Colonel is sutished with his bargain.
| The meat condemnations yesterday con
sisted OF: Four quarters OF beef and TWO ions,
| at No West Jackson street market: f!ve nanis
at Nos. Is and i6; and one skunk calf at Nos. ls
and Il. on South Water street 300 pounds OF
! venison, were. conhscated. and at the STOCK
| Yards five hogs were put in the tank.
The proceedings looking to the widening
to Thirty ninth streets are being pushed when n;1
the cast side of the street IRON tweltn @ e mmtn-
second TO Thirty-ninth streets. About 500 pieces
Of property viii he atfccted BY the Improvement.
be nS M Tbe beqss saases to oncT
4 slSelsss; The tx9 1lGeks a5e@f f5om
and and Twenty fifth streerss, $1,000: between
T'hIrty-eiqhth and Thirty ninth streets, $3658.g.
The benefits Of occupancy to the GhGag29 ta; g Cty
to the City OF Chicago, S6,094oS, leaving SsSS,
21801 to be paid for by property owners. The
June at $40, ,10l.o6. =.
; The Committee on Streets and Alleys,
North Division, met yesterday afternoon and
had before them various matters, principally
rcmonstrances against. street improvements;
The remonstrances against the Improvement or
Pf7n street and {.lV6DllrU avenue were the Df10-
cipal mutters, and both were disposed Of after
flshion. In the case Of Pine street. 1t was ngreed
bollrn avenue. it was resolved that it should go
back to the Council. AID. McCaffrey promising to
move reconsideration OF the vote by which tho
improvement had been ordered. In the discus
sion OF the uttcr project the citizens present re-
Aected quite severely In their eloquence upon
Aid. Meyer, claiming that he had originally
given the pledge that he would cause the repeal
Of the ordinance, which he had never done.
They said that his excuse sfor his conduct was
having no confidence in him, they called upon
Aid. Mccartney to represent them in the future.
The Committee on Printing met yesterday
afternoon, and had under consideration the
election Of the corporation newspaper. f. i,a Iae
ders were out in full Force to look after their in
terests. Each Of them detailed the oxccllencies
upon tie circulation Of the sheets they repre-
scented and the sacrifices they had made IN
bidding, and it . was free-for-an
and 70 -as-ysl- please affair throughout.
The contest was between the afternoon and
German publications, and the rivalry was quito
spirited, resulting in the selection Of the Daily
Ne1us as the English ':orgnn, and the Pohs-
freund as the German. The bid Of the former
was IS cents per inch. nonparel type, or So
per inch, or s1.40 per 1000 cms The Telegraph
was the lowest bidder for the English, but IT
appearing that its circulation was meagre, and
that it had been necessary during the pnst year
to advertise in THE TRIBUNE to secure any
thing like competition in making awards, it was
thrown overheard. ., The rousStrsund was the
before the Council there will be fight,
no doubt, and considerable wire-pulling
is already going on. The authorities, however,
appear well pleased With the action Of the Com
mittee, except Mr.. Waller. II the matter was
left to him, nnd he speaks from experience
knowing the value Of the several competitors rs
advertising mediums,-he says he would adver-
tise in. some of the morning papers, and by
giving fewer insertions he would get the widest
possible publicity for all advertisements with
out any increase of expense He believes in
putting the public money where 1t will do the
most good, and does not see how the city is to
gain anything by contlning its ADVERTISING
patronage to the chenper publications.