The Plymouth weekly Democrat. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1860-1869, 1868-01-09
CHICAGO, Jan. 9th. ISC

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CHICAGO, Jan. 9th, 1897.
Ed. DENooRAT.-On Saturday last, the
famous Ticknor divorce case ended. The
| jury after very brief retirement from
their box, awarded the decree OF divorce to
Mrs. Ticknor. According to their view
of the matter, Mrs ricknor was much
abused wronged and innocent female.
She never arranged shutter signals with
Fishburne; never was locked up with him
for any improper purpose never had him
lying on her berth, kissing her, on board
a steamboat never did any naughty things
with him; Ia fact, did rot do anything
which the witnesses against her swore to
most positively. The most liberal con
structiOn OF their powers would hardly a.
low them to so into similar whitewash-
ing oil Fishburne, showing that he was not
4 professional gambler, and none but
christian gentleman Of high moral worth
and unspotted reputation 80 they hal
to pass him over-IcknOr, Of course. thew
deem monster Of cruelty, perjury, alul-
terry, ETC., sort Of criminal by wholcslla.
Disinterestcd and impartial people oassids
the jury think It's about an even thine
between them. Ticknor is not "a ens.ag-
me cuss in personal Appearance while
Mrs 4 is rather pretty, and in these day
of gallantry it does seem as if a good.
looking woman can get almost any verdict
she wants from "a intelligent iury-so
people are not generally surprised by the
result.
The committee appointed by the COM
mon council to Investigate the truth of
Alderman Comiskey's charges .gaiust the
police have issued a call for all parties
who have anything to Offer to come before
them and testify. Their investigation BIDS
fair to be sort Of .'Star Chamber" affair.
as they have resolved to hold their sessions
in private, and even gone so far as to IN
cerc moniously lay on the table 4 request
from the police superintendent TO be al
lowed to attend their meetings, It Is
rather difficult to imagine what effect thev
can produce. They have no power to
compel the attendance of witne sses. and
even il they could prove all the allegations
which Comiskey has made, they them
selves could do nothing toward punishing
the offenders or reforming the eyil-all
their work must be preparatory simply,
and the fight promises to be long one.
Chicago seems to have become the
headquarters of the roughs and pugs, and
prize fighting in this locality is fast ris-
ing to the rank of high art. The Dor
ney, Busy and Lowry fights following
each other in quick succession, gave sort
of sensational interest to such enter
prlses, and ever since there have been
'mills" and rumors of "milla" among the
pugs, without number, unadiusted differ
ences and slight unpleasantnesses in days
s5OiS W nave DSGu tiiS cAcunc5 IOE Il NUM-
Der Of murderous and brutal fights in al
leys and saloons, and yesterday afternoon
there was regular prize fight for humid
red dollars between "Pandeen the pug"
and the "Larrahee street chicken" an
freshman and a chicken was whipped bad
ly. One of two things should be done
with these breaking scoundrels They
should either be severely punished for
each infraction OF the law or made TO fight
until one or other is killed when they get
up their "trials of skill"
Ole Bull, the great violinist is to give
Tonight his first concert in this country,
after an absence of ten years. Already
there have been $500 worth of tickets
scld and in musical circles there is pos
tive furore over him lie starts here for
tour through the country and is now to
appear here but twice, returning again in
the latter part of the month.
During the last year over $4,000 dol
lars worth of four different kinds of mu-
steal instruments were sold by the firm of
Root & Cady, of this city, in one branch
only of their immense establishment.
These instruments were the Vose and
Stcck pianos. The Mason & Hamlin cab