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November 28. 1885 The Record and Guide. 1315 Business and Matrimony. The records kept by the city clerks of Gloucester and Salem exhibit, in a novel way, the business improvement that has been going on in these flour¬ ishing Massachusetts cities during the past few month'?. Quite likely the records in other cities and towns, if examined, would point iu the same general direction. The Gloucester books show that the number of inlen- tions of marriage filed there during the first ten months of the present year considerably exceeds the number recorded iu the entire year of 1884. In Salem the number filed duriug the ten months just completed exceeds by a large percentage the number filed during the correspouding ten months of the previous year. This is a sure indication that business is better. When times are dull and Romeo is out of a situation, he and Juliet invariably postpone the wedding day. They wait for better times before embarking upou the sea of mati*iniony ; but when business improves and Romeo secures employment or an increase of salary, he aud Juliet march down to see tbe city clerk, and a marriage license is forthwith taken out. This sign is as certain as it is that a ruddy sky at sunset to-day portends a fair day for to-morrow. Business improvement aud a boom iu the matrimonial market go together.—Boston Globe. Ecuador's IVow Tarift'. The tariff discrimination by Ecuador agaiust the United States may not be a result of the visit of the South American Commission, but it is unfor¬ tunate for the influence of that honorable body that this discrimination took place so soon after the Comraissioners had been airing their eloquence at the South Americau capitals. A snub frora Chili and adverse legislation by Ecuador are poor fruits of the South American junket,—St. Louis Globe Dcni. That 6.000,000 Purchase. The recent action of the syndicate of New York banks, by which they bought S6,o have beeu worth the amount of praise which has beeu bestowed upon it by the shouters for the administration. The coin was never taken out of the vaults of the sub-treasui"y iu New York, where it was deposited to the credit of the banks, to be drawn out as needed. They fouud tbey would have uo use for it, and, as subsidiary silver coins are redeemable either in gold or legal tenders, they have taken the amount in greenbacks, and the silver change stUl remains in the hands of the government.—The Weekly Blade. --------«--------- A few years ago the president of the British Association for the Advance¬ ment of Science read a paper before the associatiou which argued that the time was near at hand for the consumption of coal only in a volatile form, both for illumination and fuel. It was Prof. Sienien's theory that coal would be best burnt at the mine, and converted into gas for distribution through pipes and mains among places of C'lisumption. One part of his theory is being already practically exemplified at divers points iu the coal- oil Sta':es, though tho gas used is the product of the slow subterranean com¬ bustion of au oil which is a congener or product of coal. Au effort is also being raade to raise capital in New York and Philadelphia for the purpose of laying pipe lines to conduct this natural gas to those cities, and the promoter claims that, notwithstanding the large outlay necessary, the gas would be cheaper thau coal or artificial gas, both for fuel aud light. It may be a little previous at present to attempt an enterprise like this, but the tendencies appear to point to general future methods of usuig artificial as well as natural gas in this matter.—E^vchange. The Real Esfate Daily Index can be obtained early every morniug on all the elevated railroad stands, and on the priucipal news-stands through¬ out the city. Order it from your newsdealer. The price is two cents per copy. ---------# Real Estate Department. The season begins to wane, so far as acti\'ity is concerned. Like the bears (we mean the variety fouud in the woods, not those in Wall street), real estate dealei-s go to sleep or hybernate duriug the winter months, to make their appearance again before the spriug opens—lean and ferocious. In other words, we are entering upou a dull season; but, withal, the feeling in trading circles is confident. Good prices are demanded, and better prices are expected for all kinds of realty. It is believed that the brokers' meet¬ ings every day will lead to greater activity thau iu previous winters. There is no sound reason why transactions should not be as numerous iu winter as iu spring or fall. There was a very fair attendance at the Liberty street Exchange last week, but the bidding was languid and prices were onl}" fair. Tho brokers' meetings at eleven o'clock continue well attended and many sales are effected, because of this gathering of brokers who have orders to buy as well as property to sell. The property ou Union avenue and Oliver street was knocked down but not sold, the former for $4,800 aud the latter for $12,1.50. The foUowing [gives a Ust of the most noteworthy sales of the coming week : Richard V. Harnett wiU sell on Monday, November 30, two threestory highstoop, browustone dwellings, Nos. 400 and 408 East Fifty-soveuth street. Ou Tuesday, December 1st, Mr. Harnett will sell the four-story high stoop, basement and sub-cellar browu stone house and lot No, 41 West Thirty-first street, and also the five-story and cellar browu stone apartment house and store No. 1555 Third avenue. Ou Thursday, December 3d, Mr. Harnett will sell the Watson House property at Babylon, L. I. Ou Tuesday, December 1, Johu F. B. Smyth will sell six valuable build¬ ing lots on Kingsbridge road and Naegle avenue, and two ou Bloomingdale road near Ninety-seventh street. This is an executor's sale. Mr. Smyth will seU, on the Sth prox., a three-story dwelling on Thirtieth street, uear Third ave'iue. This, also, is an executor's sale. On Thursday next, Johu F. B. Smyth will sell the Seventh Ward invest¬ ment property, Nos. 33 Mouroe and 37 Hamilton streets; the elegant four- story residence, No. 23 West Fifty-first street, near Fifth avenue, and a three-story dwelling on Eighty-third street, near Third avenue. These saies will, no doubt, be well attended. CONVETANCES. 1S&4. 13£&. Kov. 21 to 27 , inc. Nor. 20 to 25. inc. y^sibar.............................. -'40 2CiO Xrs.O'jJitiiivol-^'i ..............$3,162,950 $-2.o35,7ri9 Nui22b9r nominal . ..................... -^1 -IS Number 33d and ■24th Wat'ls................. b'i IS Amount involved .........j ............ ?()1.,8;5 $43,965 MORTOAOES. Number..................................... 211 Airi'Mirit involved............................... $2,068,456 Number at 5 per cent.......................... 74 Amount involved............................ $889,9i;0 Number at less thau 5 per cent............... 14 Amouut iuvolved ............................. $183,000 Number to Backs, Trust and Ins. Cos......... .'j5 Amount involved............. ............... $722,500 PROJECTED BniLDn?OB. 1884, Nov. 22 to 28. Numberof buildings.......................... .5* Estimatedcost............................... $1,008,200 197 $l,S14.7:i;i ()2 $896,000 21 $319,500 37 $026,500 1885, Nov. 21 to 27 38 $481,800 Gossip of the Week, V. K. Stcxensou ct Co. report the following sales of Riverside avenue lots; for Isidor Cohnfeld, the plot on the east side, 107 feet north of Oue Hundred and Sixteenth street, 117x112x119x135, to Fleming Smith; the lot, 25x110, on the southeast coruer of One Hundred and Fourteenth street, for -■? 15,000, to Theoilore W. Myers; three lots adjoining, for $30,000, to Baldwin & Blackmar; two lots ou the northeast corner of One Hundred and Fifteenth street to Alfred H. Smith, for $25,000. Two lots on the northeast corner of One Hundred and Eighth street, to S. G. Bayne, of Bradford, Pa., for ^32,000, and one lot, 50 feet north of Oae Huudred and Twenty-second street, to Abraham Dowdney, for $9,500. Wm. S, Anderson has sold for N. G. Geraty the four-story brown stone private house No. 1331 Park avenue, 18.2x50x8J, to Michael Gib¬ lin, for $2'<,000. and for the latter the two five-story brick tenements with stores ou the southwest corner of Fu'st avenue and Thirty-sixth street. 47,10x75, to N. G. Geraty for $4S,00'). Mr. Andersou has purchased for the estats of C. V. Auderson frora Ella P. and Delia S. Popf, of Peoria, Ills., the lot ou the northeast corner of Bayard and Mulberry streets, 25x100, sub¬ ject to a lease, for §9,500. P. C. Eckhardt has sold the four-story double [tenement No. 45S West Fifty-second street, to Wm. Smiley for :?14,500 ; the five-story improved tenement No. 640 Niuth aveuue, to Joseph Swan for $34,000 ; and a similar tenemeut. No. 353 West Forty-fifth street, for Mrs. M. Thompson, for -i^sOjOoo. S. M. Blakely has sold for Prof. N. E. Cornwall the four-story flat No. 212 West Forty second street, 17.6x80x98.9, for $19,500. The same broker has rented the three-story l:>rown stone dwelling No. 1570 Broadway, south¬ east coruer of Forty-seventh street, with some furniture, at $3,3(K) per annum, Scott & Myei's have sold the dwelling No. 17 East Sixty-second street for H. L, Horton to Audrew Little, for $18,000. W. W. Montague has sold for S. N. Hatch the three-story high stoop brick dwelling No. 4.^)3 West Twenty-fourth street, 20.6x50x98.9, for $10,500, to Mrs, Fletcher; and for E. & E. Fisher the four-story brick store No. 267 Seventh aveuue, 20x50x75, for $18,000, to a Mr. PhiUips. The sixteen lots sold by the Rhinelander estate to Frederick Schuck are located on the east side of Second avenue, between Eighty-eighth and Eighty-ninth streets, and not between Eighty-seventh and Eighty-eighth streets, as reported last w^eek. The last mentioned plot is not for sale. Abraham Morris has sold the three-story frame teneraent No. 149 Madison street, 25x100, for $12,000, to John Kehoe for improvement. A. F. Shaw has sold for Edward Roberts the three-story brown stone store and dweUing on the southwest corner of Third avenue aud One Hun¬ dred and Fourth street, 25x00x80, for $15,000. to A. B. Van Dusen, and for the latter to the forraer the dwelliug No. 2041 Sixth avenue, for $60,000, the sale of which was reported last week. James Hay h^s sold the dweUing No. 2031 Sixth avenue, to Anthony Miller, for $2S,000. Broker, A. F. Shaw. Wm. Noble has sold eight lots on the west side of Tenth avenue between Sixty-third and Sixty-fourth streets, to the Manhattan Construction Co., for $72,000, for improvement. Wm. Lalor has purchased from R. Ward the plot on the southeast corner of Madiaou aveuue and Ninetieth street, 113x100,8. Andrew Powell has sold the plot of four lots on the northwest corner of Ninth aveuue and One Hundred and Second street, for $21,000. We hear that Chas. T. Barney is the buyer. Folsom Brothel's have sold for Hugh ReiUy the five-story browu stone fiat No. 413 West Sixty-second street, 25x88x100, to Robert Henry Beddoe, for $32,500, and have resold the property for the latter for $33,500. D. L. Newborg has sold the stone front dwelling, No. 120 East Sixty-fifth street, on terms which have not transpiped. H. Schmidt has sold the four-story stoue front dwelUng, No. 60 East Sixty-fifth street, for $42,500, to J. Saul. Brooklyn, C. H. Muroh has sold eight four-story brown stone dwellings, 20x55x100, ou the north side of Carroll street, 70 west of Sixth avenue, to A. G. Ver¬ rinder, for $02,000, W. J. C. Miller has sold the two-story and mansard roof frame dwelling No. 3*33 Herkimer street, for $3,500. BuUcley & Horton have sold the two-story frame dwelling No. 116 Wav¬ erly aveuue, 16.8x38x90, to John A. Auderson, for $3,650, and the two-story brick dwelling, 16.8x10x100, No. Ill Waverly avenue, to S. E. Stewart, for $3,950. On Thursday, December 3, Jacob Cole will sell two hundred and sixty-six valuable lots at the Coraraercial Exchange, Brooklyn, These are situated on Halsey, Macon, McDonough, Decatur aud Bainbridge streets, and Patcheu aud Ralph avenues. They are part of the New Bedford farm, form¬ erly belonging to Leffcrt Lefferts, and are splendidly located in an improv¬ ing neighborhood on the Unes of the Halsey street and Ralph avenue rail¬ roads, and within three blocks of the elevated road. It is seldom that such a large parcel of fine lots are placed on the market. They are very valu- ftbje tov buiWmg purposes, witi it is expected tfeat»large numl)W pf people