Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1879-10-21
OUR CHICAGO LETTER.


CHICAGO, October 17.-Delightful
weather yet fingers in this vicinity,
cheering the heart of the coal buyer
and making the face of nature look
charming. The trees still retain their
emerald foliage, and the gardens glad
den the eye with their wealth Of
flowers. The numerous parks and
promenades wear their delightful
summer toilets, and no matter where
one goes his heart is gladdened by
summer smiles. How long this will
last is question not easily solved in
this region of changeable climate.
However, it cannot last long; that is,
it parallel be drawn with last year,
for at this time it was very cold, with
snow on the ground.
The fine weather affords the consti-
tutional political hummer a good op-
portunity to stand on prominent street
corners while he airs his seedy clothes
and his borrowed opinions regarding
the result" in Ohio and its probable
bearing upon the next Presidential
election, sill" As local nuisance
this class can only be excelled by the
the well dressed creatures who occupy
prominent places and ogle modest
ladies as they pass by. Chicago is
cursed by these creatures.
Politically speaking, the turn of
affairs in Ohio is a severe blow to the
Democratic wing, taking the defeat in
a national sense. OF course Senator
Thurman will be retired. This will
be great calamity, not only to the
Democratic party, but to the whole
country. The councils of the nation
can i'll afford to lose such an able
statesman. 1t is impossible to account
for the great Republican victory in
Ohio, unless that great frauds were
perpetrated by the winning party, or
that Democrats were criminally false
to duty. Whatever be the cause the
result is the same, and the lesson
should be a lasting one to true Demo
Gratis.
Like most metropolitan courts,
Chicago is cursed with a horde of
professional "bailers, men who haunt
the police courts for the purpose Of
defeating the ends of justice while
adding to their own Golfers by squeez-
ing the last penny out of thieves, and
other malcontents, by going their
bond. This nuisance Chief of Police
O'Donnell is endeavoring to abate.
lie has just issued an order prohibit
ing these miscreants from entering the
police stations to further their neIa-
rious designs.
The gcntlemanly garrotist was out
last night during the rain storm. Miss
Dora Bishop was victim to the tune
of Sl5O in value. The thugging took
place on one of the principal streets
No arrests as yet.
Samuel Hutchings is now, it is
hoped, an angel. Cyanide of POTASH
um was the agent that caused him ia
climb the golden stairs.
DR.. Ed P. Weston, one of the di-
rectoEs of the college for women
Highland Park, one of Chicago's S
many beautiful suburbs, is dead. He
was a native of Maine. His demise
is much deplored.
The Chicago Society of Electricians
we're in session last night. The main
feature of the occasion was a lecture
by DR.. c. P. A. Garnsey on Hydro.
gen and the Oxy- Hydrogen Blow
Pipe The doctor referred briefly to
hydrogen historically, and to the fact
that it was not until the latter part Of
the year 1877 that the discovery was
made that hydrogen, before supposed
to be the only elementary gas, was
capable of being reduced to LIQUID
and even a solid form. The doctor
gave practical illustrations of the
results of the combination of hydro
gen with other substances. The FIRST
experiment was the production Of
phosphereted hydrogen and the beau
tiful rings of smoke attending the
combustion of the gas in air. lie
illustrated the formation of hydrogen,
or rather its liberation from water. by
burning sodium in water. The pro-
duction Of hydrogen by the action Of
sulphuric acid on zinc was shown, and
an illustration given of the singing
tube or philosophical candle by the
burning of a jet of hydrogen in a
glass tube, bell-jar, bottle, etc. The
doctor accepted the theory of Fara.
day in explanation of the pbenome-
non, that a series of rapidly recurring
explosions produced the tones. Soap.