Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1879-12-30

3 IL. II. H.
" Jennings was a practicing at.
torney until recently. Now he mourns
for the deeds ofthe flesh behind the
bars ofthe county Jail. He was found
guilty of Incorporating money be-
longing to a lady client, and was SEN
fenced to several years in the peniten-
tiary. He is appealing for a new
trial.
The largest elevator in the world is
now the boast of Chicago. 1t viii
house 100000 0 bushels ofgrain, and is
the property of Armour, Dodge & Co,
Chicago has a police court cha rae
ter in a person known as Charley
magne 0'Malley, Charles ia a true
son ofthe Emerald Isle. He furnishes
lots of fun for the legal brethren, and
mas many a joke at their expense.
But the drop was on Charles the
other day, he being arraigned on a
charge of "disorderly, having, it was
alleged, been foundin a den of ill re-
pute. However, he plead himself
out of it, proving beyond a doubt
that he was 'mareilessly dragged
from his vartuous kouch by a spaul-
peen minyon or the law, wild out just
cause ur %provocatiOn, yer honor r
The heaviest blow on the Harmed"
counsellor was the fact ofhis having
to "inhale the a~bominable odhurs OF
the rethreat Of the skums on Gods
arth."
Stattauer Bros. & Co., who lately
failed here for $4,000, 900, were large
dry goods importers. 1t now turns
out that the cause of their failure
was due to the fact that they step
ped outside their legitimate business
to speculate in wheat, ETC., during jim
Keene's boom on Chicago's change.
This goes to prove that men may be
good merchants, but bad stock jobbers
Gen. Sickles' daughter, it will be
remembered, recently eloped with one
"Col." William Fitz Charles McCarty
Well, this same William Fitz has, o.
did have, a wife in Chicago, one il
Mississippi and one in New York
William is a gay and festive
sprig, of rakish address, considerably
cultivated, and very insinuating in hi
character. No doubt he has dupeC
more men and ruined more womer
, than any other scoundrel of his type
that ever cursed the earth. His ad
vent in Washington was in 1912
There he swildled many persons
among whom was the murdered Gen
Ryan of Cuban fame, who had thu
!, satisfaction Of exposing the fraud anC
making the "city of magnifcen.
distances too hot fer him
This very same McCarty swindleC
!, many persons in Chicago beside
{ poor Clara Agnes Hess whom he in
duced to marry him, and whom h
tearfully abused, and e~ndeavored t
make a party to his crimes in Europe
And now William Fitz Charles pro
claims to the world that no woman
outside Of Miss Sickles has any CLAIM
on him.
The Daily Evening News Of thi
city recently sent its New York cor
respondent, Mr.. Haynes, to Europe t.
hunt up D. D. Spencer, the presiden
of the lately defunct swindling con
Germ styled the States Savings Insti
tuition, whose failure two years agI
deprived poor people out of $1,000, OOl
of their hard earnings. Mr.. Hayne
accomplished his mission. Spence
exonerated himself of all blame, ant
considers he has been made a scarce
crow to cover up the tracks Of tn
9 directors. He said the bank, at start
9 ing was supposed to be worth 800,
600 capital, when it had only 500 OO
He admitted that false return
were made public to give tn
bank the appearance of solidity. In
vestments in real estate, when tina
kind OF property was very high, ant
its subsequent fall, was the real caus,
of the collapse Of the bank. Whel
the run was made on the bank, n,
funds were on hand to meet the de
mands of depositors. This explana
ton is poor consolation for the count
less victims of the institution tina
swallows up theft hard earnings, onl,
10 per cent Of which has been paiC
1 back in two dividends. Spencer want
to come back and tell all he knows
4 but he had better stay away, as tn.
! peoples wrath has not yet cooled.
! August 10, 1880, will be a grand oc
casion in Chicago. Then 4O.OOI
Knight Templars will parade he
= streets in their brilliant uniforms
% Prominent speakers of the order an,
many from other public walks vii
q deliver orations. A grand banque
!, will be given, and everything else don
. to make the affair one ofthe grandes
: ever witnessed.
" Tho aaotAant 81 D. ~