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Business prospects for Chicago are better than ever before, and this year nearly-all branches of commerce are enjoying prosperity. The future outlook is very bright indeed. This is proved by the significant fact that our merchants not only have debts but are even blessed With substantial bank

The meeting which the saloonkeepers held yesterday for the purpose of adopting a constitution and electing officers was well attended. The committee, which had been appointed to draft a constitution, submitted one. After each paragraph had been read and accepted, the entire constitution was u

Editorial about the abolition of the income tax. Editor applauds U. S. Senate for having voted 26.25 for the abolition. Reasons: Rich people able to evade it (Officials and employees have to pay it). Only 275,000 people paid the tax in 1870. Obviously, very many people with incomes over $1000

Editorial Blast of triumph greeting the election of Blaine, a high tariff man, to the speakership of the House. "It is a catastrophe for the new revenue Reform Party, and it must have been for the Chicago Tribune, "bitter as gale and wormwood." "But- in the sense in which now the Tr

Mr. Gustave Drassler, who had a shop on North Clark Street, and his whole family died in the flames; likewise his older brother, who used to carry dispatches at night to the Illinois Staats-Zeitung, and his niece, Miss Richter, who was a member of the Germania Female Choir. Mr. Henry Lamparte

Mr. Franz Arnold has left for Europe as a representative of the German National Bank and of H. Greenebaum and Company, in order to make available the millions needed for the reconstruction of Chicago. At the same time Mr. Blum has gone to New York in order to have the mortgages (with coupons

All the butchers who have suffered through the great fire are asked to visit the undersigned committee on Monday, Tuesday, or Wednesday, between 2 and 4 o'clock, at the corner of Union and Randolph streets. At the same time we ask all Chicago butchers, whose business places have not burned do

No thinking laborer or business man can listen to one of the long speeches of Senator Schurz, without noting how carefully the speaker avoids all reference to protection of home industries and the practical issues of taxes and custom fees. While the Chicago Tribune has preached for years that

Again the Illinois General Assembly has proved that, when money matters are concerned, the difference between country and city, farmer and urbanite, is more pronounced than the difference between political parties. About eight years ago, Illinois had a so-called Board of Equalization which wa

This old Order was founded in the East where it is well known, and a few years ago the Society organized a branch in Chicago, where the benevolence accorded to its poor and sick members, as well as the help to their widows and orphans, and the decent burials of the dead, give convincing proof

Everything seems to be pointing to the return of better times. During the last 24 hours no bank has failed. A number of meetings of mining companies have taken place during the last week, to consult on the eight-hour working day, and without any necessity for the police to interfere. A large

The eight-hour movement of Chicago's furniture workers gave one tangible result, and we hope it will endure. A co-operative furniture factory has been planned. If workers become their own bosses, that would be the surest and most sensible way to raise the economic standard of labor.

The committee appointed by Congress to ascertain the causes of the depression is at present in Chicago. Witnesses are being summoned, so that an insight into our economic condition may be obtained. The leading members of the committee are fully agreed on the methods to be employed as soon as

Our remarks in yesterday's editorial, "Where the Shoe Pinches," called forth several replies from small retail merchants, who fully affirmed the truth of our statements, and submitted considerable evidence to prove that the large concern is a veritable leviathan, which endeavors to crush the

The advocates of temperance, who by no means disguise their fanaticism, are not your worst adversaries. You are confronted with another class which stealthily saps your vitality, and these enemies are the brewers, all highly prominent gentlemen. For years this class has bamboozled i

The Cigar Manufacturers Association of Chicago met at Clare's Hall, North Clark Street, yesterday afternoon. About twenty-five members were present. John Lussem was chairman and Jacob Selig acted as secretary. According to the treasurer's report, there was $172 cash on hand.

The committee appointed by the cigar makers last Wednesday met yesterday with the manufacturers' committee at the strike headquarters, 85 Dearborn Street, to effect a settlement of the strike, if possible. The chairman of the Cigar Makers' Union, Mr. Hirsch, called the meeting to or

A joint committee meeting of the cigar manufacturers and cigar makers was held yesterday at the hall on 85 Dearborn Street, to settle the strike, if possible. Mr. Wagenfuehr opened the meeting. Messrs. Lussem, Deutsch, Meyer, Goldwater, Hirth, Betting, Steele, Buechler, and a large

The regular semimonthly meeting of the Wirthsverein [Tavernkeepers' Association] was held yesterday afternoon at Baum's Hall, Cottage Grove Avenue and 22nd Street. The minutes of the previous session were read and accepted. A lengthy debate ensued on the question of whether the Wirt

The Wirthsverein [Tavernkeepers' Association] held its regular meeting at Baume's pavilion yesterday. The meeting was well attended. In the absence of P. Mass, president of the association. Hermann Langenhahn, vice-president, acted as chairman. The minutes of the previous meeting were read an