Morning journal and courier., 1884-09-09

and gives him 8 palace to live in. The united States pays it's minister to England $l7,50O England pays her minister to Washington $3O, 900 year, and gives him great mansion, fully equipped and furnished, and S6,OOO year for entertainments. En- gland pays her minister to Persia $25, ,OOO year, and gives him palace. We pay our chief justice SIG, 500 year and our associ- ate judges $10,000. Chief Justice Coleridge gets S4O,O The other eight judges of his court get $25,000 year each. Even the En- glish consul at New York receives salary of over $20, 900 year. General Sheridan gets something like $15,000 year. General Wolseley gets about $40,O0O
 The merchants of San Francisco no longer deny that the Northern Pacific railroad has been veritable flank movement as regards the business of the Golden Gate The vari- ous trade and business boards are going over the whole field, and the result will undoubt- edly be that there will be a grand coming down and readjustment of the relations of San Francisco and the East. The San Fran cisco chamber of commerce is discovering many makeshifts that have been resorted to in order to cover up the recent loss of trade Foreign labels are often put on domestic goods and sold under false marks Wine houses are also said to find it necessary to import from Germany empty wine bottles packed in German straw and with German corks and labels. These are filled with Cali fornia wine and put on the market The discovery of, numerous makeshifts in all branches of business only makes the business organizations all the more determined to in- crease the commerce of the city on broader and surer foundation. There will undoubt- edly soon be reduction in rents and port charges. Large tracts of land will be broken up, and the contract freight system re- formed.
 There is great disposition to sell real estate in England, but there is great scarci- ty of buyers. The Estate Exchange in cludes the leading auctioneers and real estate dealers of London and the south of England. The tranactions of this body of men in- creased from.1874, and reached their height in 1877, when the sales were a little over 911 FOG, 900. From that period they de- clined steadily, until for 1883 they amounted to 95, 750, 900, with probability of hardly exceeding that amount when 1884 is com plete. The London Economist says: We fear that it is not possible to derive much consolation from the arguments that the de- pression has been intensified by the reluct- ance of sellers to place their properties in the market at so inopportune time. In the 1 early days of the depression, much property ! was no doubt kept back in the hope of bet ter times; but that is consideration which ] has of late practically been without weight. I The fact is, that more land awaits purchasers | at this moment than has been the case for 4 many years Much of this no doubt results I from unsold properties remaining in the I market. The rapid sales of ten years ago k are practically unknoYn now at the auction | mart. Estates, both large and small, are ! offered for sale again and again, without | finding purchaser, sometimes even without ! inducing serious bid. We could point to \ at least score of estates of fair size and residential and agricultural ad- vantages which have been annually put up in the auction room for the last tliree, or even four, years, and are still unsold. There r has not been so much land for sale for nearly 0 quarter of 8 century.