The Plymouth weekly Democrat. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1860-1869, 1867-07-04
Chicago Letter.

CHICAGO, July 2, 1867.
Editors Democrat
| do not suppose that an extended letter
will be Of any particular advantage or in
terest to you this week-6rst, because it i:
Fourth of July week, aud the chances are
good that you viii either not publish pa
per or that if you do, your columns will
be crowded with Fourth of July matter
second, because it's villainously hot here,
and | have nothing particular to write about.
he only bit of scandal cool enough for
the weather is the war between DR.. Rey-
nolds and his former errand boy, or clerk
or iactotum, or something of the sort, NAM
cd Winthrop. 1t seems that Winthrop
Cor whatever his real name is, for it has
been changed since his disregard of the
laws Of means and tuum concerning his
employers property was taken by DR..
Reynolds In some capacity, and was so far
trusted that when DR.. Il. went to Europe
for wife (to whom he was engaged six
years. he lett his Office in care Of the gay
Winthrop. While the Doctor, arrayed in
the full uniform Of q Surgeon in the vol
unteer army of the United States, was en-
gagged in settling his marital concerns over
the water, Winthrop devised cheerful
little scheme for getting possession of the
Doctors office and practice. He wrote to
the newly married man that he had better
never come back to Chicago that a girl
on whom he had produced an abortion had
died, and that the ''papers were blazing
about it, and the whole police force on the
q,t Uive to catch him. The Doctor search
ed files of the Chicago papers in New York
but failed to find the blaze" lie ''smelt
a MICE" and came straight home. On ar
irving Winthrop made another desperate
effort to scare him out Of town, but failed
and then charged him with being a pro-
fessional abortionist, and wound up his
splurge for position by getting drunk, and
with friends help, whipping the Doctor;
now the Doctor has brought suit against him
Tor assault and battery, aud larceny aud
defamation Of character, ard things, and
he in reply has made allegations that the
Doctor has been habitually practiciug alb
ortions and in evidence produces a lot OF
ugly, ili-shaped, bad-smelling and worse
colored specimens of excessively infantile
specimens of humanity, done in spirits,
which have hitherto ornamented lie Doc
tor s rooms, and which he claims are spec.
linens of the Doctors professional skill
The cases thus involved, are quite lively
but rather unpleasant for all concerned
the Winthrop, the Doctor, the females
whom the young man calls on as witnesses
and last, but not least of all, the poor wife
Fourth Of July, this year, has develop.
ed ~ public effort for its observance, be-
yond excursions into the country for great.
er or less distances, vain searches after
coolneess and amusement. We will have
no public orations, no fire works, no FRO
cessions-nothing worthy of the day
1t is even contrary to the law now foi
boy to touch off a fire-crackcr, for the
assembled municipal wisdom of our com
mon council has determined to put g
stop, if possible, TO the danger of fire
from this cause. So there will
doubtless be- general rush of poor deluded
wretches for crowded propellers and damned
railway cars to get out ofthe hot city into the
hotter country,-Out to places where shade is
scattering, where there are no cool br, eZes-
where the ice always gives out early III the
day,-where one vainly signs for mint juiepS
and cherry cobblers, and claret and ice and
beer, and things. In all these fortunes of heat
and thirst the wretched pleasure seekers will
dance and perspire and wish themselves
Il hnn i'm, IN tr,r.
suits of pleasure under difficulties. shall
stay quietly in my den and struggle
there with the fiend who keeps
constantly showing the mercury in my
thermometer up to the boiling point.
Notwithstanding the overpowering heat OF
the season, business seems to be in some slight
degree freshening up, stimulated by the glo-
rious prospects of the coming harvest, and
once more the faces of our merchants are
shortening down to be recognizable.
1t is worthy of notice that stagnanI as bus
mess has generally been, one line of trade
here has not suffered to any proportional ex-
tent that ofthe sale of sheet and book music
One firm, that of MeSsrs Root & Cady, No.
81, Washington ST., Grossly Opera House }
have not only kept up their ordinary i'm
mense trade, but have vastly increased it, and
their works have been brought into demand
not only through all this country from Ma
guntlcook and Pcnobscot to San Francisco
but have attained an unprecedented popular
lty even In England where they have had ia
contend with such rivalry and competition as
has hitherto shut out almost entirely, from
that country our American music publishers
Chicago may well feel pride in this achieve
ment OF her citizens. Their most popular book
has been Geo. +. Roots Musical Curricu-
lum. the most thorough work of instruction
on the piano-forte and in vocal music and
harmony which has ever been issued,-such,
at least is the character which it bears with
all professional men. Two others of their
best works are their Forest Choir" for day
schools, and Chapel Gems" for Sunday
schools. books now in demand in every State
Of the Union.
On Change to-day nothing remarkable wa,
anoat, and business generally was rather stag
nant. Flour WAS dull and eclining, ant
sales only reported in spring extras at 80 Z,
@l05E. Wheat, dull, but hrrn at 81 10 fol
! 20 I. 81 POL II knx No Q Corn mnn ettl AZ