Year: 1871

(: MOORE IL GOE.


HOUSE AND SIGN PAINTERS.


Removed to Ill Desplaines ST.,


Capital, $00O,OO0,30.


An editor OF a daily paper has re-
ceived several poetical effusiOns sugges-
ted by the late disaster; but he declines
them all, on the ground that it is
wasteiul to print anything which
requires every line with a capital, when
capital is as scarce as it is in Chicago.


A bride who entered the holy mar
ried state on Tuesday evening
determined to do so in calico dress, in
Difference both to the proprieties and
the necessities of the occasion. But she
desired that her toilette de cham6re should
be, if possible, on a more gorgeous
scale. Being destitute of robe de nat
of suitable elegance, she sent out TO sew
eral neighbors of her temporary hostess
to borrow such a garment, stipulating
that it must be fine one. So peculiar,
however, is the feminine nature,
that her modest request excited
no enthusiasm in her behalf among the
ladies to whom it came. This is not a
joke.


A signboard stuck in the ruins of
building on Madison street, reads Cow
ing to circumstances over which we had
no control, we have removed" etc.


From the Chicago Tribune of Oct. H.


THE GRAIN SUPPLY.


The excitement in Eastern grain cir
cles has been sufficient to advance the
price of wheat in New York some 5
cents per bushel. 1t was feared the
greater part Of our stock was destroyed,
and that business in this city was too
much paralyzed by the shock to admit
Of our produce merchants taking any
further part in the forwarding of grain
this autumn. Hence, a very light supply
on the seaboard was feared, and some of
the Eastern papers actually dug up the
old cry of " bread or blood" as one of
the possibilities among the experiences
of the coming winter.


The utter groundlessness Of these
fears is evident when we look at the
facts in the case. The grain destroyed
foots up total of but little more than
100000 bushels, of all kinds, of which
a considerable proportion will doubtless
be rescued from the ruins, though in a
damaged condition, while the forward
movement has been delayed barely
one week by the fire. Several vessels
were chartered on Saturday to take
wheat and corn to Buffalo, and the
shippers were quite active yesterday,
the amount of freight room engaged
being fully up to the average of any
previous season. In day or two the
banks will be in perfect running order,
and then the only limit to our
will be found in the
of vessels to carry out
the grain. The very fact that so
much property has been destroyed by
the fire, that all the money available is
wanted to help rebu Id the city, is guar
antee that few persons will care to car
ry large stocks of grain here all will
want to realize on it, which can only be
done by moving it on. In the general
need for money we have also circum-
stantial promise that no speculative ma
mia will run up prices to a point where
it will not pay to ship grain. We may
expect our grain markets to be more
healthy, because more natural, this
autumn and winter, than for several
years past.


There is no need, therefore, to antici
pate even a temporary famine, or even
serious scarcity, in the East, as a conse-
quence of the great fire in Chicago. The
Northwest is full of grain, and the flow
toward consuming p ints has only suf
fered very short, and but partial in.
terruption. The "visible supply" of
grain, which the New Y York statisticians
watch with such intense anxiety, has
not been diminished to an extent suffi-
cient to cause the least alarm, and it is |
highly probable that while lake ship
ments will continue active till the close |
of navigation, the amount of grain for
warded East by rail the coming winter
will be largely in excess Of any previous
year.


CENTRAL DEPOT.


A meeting of Michigan avenue prop
erty holders will be held this eveningat |
the residence of Thomas Hoyne, ESQ.,,
to consider the expediency of withdrew
ing opposition to the sale of a small por
ton of the lake front property to the
railway companies for the erection Of
passenger depot, to take the
place OF all those that have been de.
stroyed, and to furnish a convenient en-
trance to the city for all present and fu-
ture railways that choose to avail them
selves OF it.


In the present condition of the city
we could we'll afford to make donation
of three or six blocks of ground in that
quarter for the sake of having so noble
! starting point for our general rebuild
ng. But inasmuch as the railways are
not paupers, while we have very nearly
become such, it is proper that they
hould pay fair price for what they
lse. We hope the meeting this even
ng will take some effective steps 10
the injunction now pending,
nd allow the railways to have the room
hey need. 1t costs nothing to anybody
low. The nearest residence to the pro
'osed new depot is half a mile distant,
nd it is certain that there will never be