Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1878-12-30
FROM CHICAGO.


with its concomitant joys and sorrows
is numbered with the things that have
fallen behind the rapid march Of1S7S.
5utitisdoubtfuli if the majority ofthis
regions people had more than ordinary
pleasure on the occasion. On the con-
trary, it was only the small minority
that may have had joys and pleasures
to dream of in the future. There is
a great deal of restitution in this city
at present, and the amount of suffer
ing cannot be other than terrible, and
especially so because of the Artic
weather we are now experiencing.
Just think of it'll The thermometer at
1872 below zero for the past week. Then
imagine any human being having to
live without fire and only scanty food.
You say such a thing is impossible.
Nevertheless such a thing has been the
case here in many instances. The
Daily News reporters unearthed one
of the saddest cases on record. Mr..
Mccormack, a resident of the North
division, and his family of six little
children and their mother were found
in a tenement house in the most fright
full situation. One child was dead on
a pallet; another was dying in its
mother arms the others were sick
in rags on the floor; the broken stove
had not felt fire for several days, and
no food had entered the house
for many hours. And this with the
thermometer at several degrees below
zero. Thus the newspaper men found
those Of Gods creatures dead, dying
and starving, right in the midst Of
church-going people. Chicago has a
relief" establishment, with a salar-
led corps of clerks, but this availed
poor Mccormack little only in the way
of abuse for asking aid. MyGodl is mot
this horrible? Thanks to the excite
ment created by the Daily News, these
and like sufferings have been relieved,
and steps taken to relieve the numer-
Gus needy Of Chicago this winter.
;, Such pictures as this, no doubt, de-
tracts from the usual joys of Christ
mas wherever the human heart has to
shudder at the sickening sights. In
this city it is a lamentable truism that
mans inhumanity to man makes
countless thousands mourn. When
[ come in contact with such misery a:
has been the lot of poor. honest, hard
working Mccormack, | begin to be
sceptieal as to the way this earthly
machine is run. | cannot, at times
: help thinking that Providence takesnC
| hand in mans affairs, but leaves hin
; to hoe his row as best he can. l an
: borne out in this belief By the fac
! that some of the most worthy of mel
! and women are subjected to the great
est trials and sufferings, while tn
most infamous of rascals q" live likI
e sons of Irish lords" Notwithstand
f. ing all these shadows, your correspond
1 emit managed to pass off the day pleas
antly. He did justice to choice Wand
on several tables, and moistened an
hard portions with sparkling win,
d and wound up the evening with
Il Jolly set Of quill-drivers. As an offs,
n to this he played perhaps on the sir
II perry sidewalk this morning, and no
Il has his arm in a sling. Nothing ser
N GUS. However, he came very neG
1t knocking his anatomical form into p
d The Clark murder case did not SUI
/, pend for Christmas; but those cor
cerned had a splendid dinner. I'll
Is monotOny Of Colonel Munn's addrei
!. for the defense was interrupted B
le Assistant Prosecuting Attorney Web,
a calling him a liar twice, because Go
Mum said Mrs. Clark was as pure
N woman before the law as Mr.. Weber
sc mother. At one time every spectatt
It thought a scrimmage was unayoidabl
ic This is a specimen Of NortheI
i ehivalry." This protracted case wi
- not be ended, think, before Saturda
Is afternoon.
le Murderer S. D. Richards, of Bufa.
e. county, Nebraska, IS IN the city, {
route TO the scenes of his hellis
" deeds. He has, whether in joke {
e earnest | know not, %conferssed to MI
ty murders, one being the killing of
G. woman and her three children. I
10 was arrested in Mount Pleasant, Obi
~ his former home. He is not a b;
le looking demon. He says he expec
Id lynching
D. Poor Mrs. A. J.. Hosmer, who
ii " scarlet cogncnen is Miss Bel
Lapierre," tried hard to climb to Il
celestial regions yesterday by TAXI
laudanum. A stomach pump put
stop to her lofty designs. A no
found on her table disclosed her seer
O. as to whoishe was.
ne A mysAry hangs over the Rher
al abOuts of Thomas Sinclair, Esq,
e. this city. He was to have been ma
u ried Christmas eve. He was mate
O9 a schooner. The last seen of him
went to draw several hundred dolla
le due him by the owner Of the Yess
st The captain of the vessel tells CO
ficting stories about the matter.
ist doubt the mystery will be Investigate
al 1t cannot be a case Of desertion, |
n cause he had a house nicely furnish
n and everything else made ready
on the reception Of the bride.
en- AS | cease writing the thermome.
re- marks Que degree above freezing
81 my sanctum, and this while a splenI
ID, Gre is in full blast. This will give !
We an idea how cold it is outside.
'a- NAYR