Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1880-03-18
CHICAGO LETTER.
Special Correspondence PUBLIC LzDoERl

CHICAGO, March 15.--The New
York Sun is credited with having first
named Senator David Davis, of ILL
RCis, for next president. With due
modesty in the premises, your CORES
pendent begs leave to claim the honor.
When the list of capable persons for
that exalted position was glanced over,
your correspondent pointed out to the
LEDGER the name of Senator Davis,
a man that would do honor to the
people at large, if placed at the head
of national affairs. 1t is likely that
the recent boom" of the senator is
more attractive than the suggestion of
the LEDGER's representative in the
"Garden city" and may be heard from
one end to the other of this broad
land. Still, such does not altar facts.
However, your correspondent will re-
linquish all claim to the Davis cham
pionship if the Sun and its millions of
readers will assist in placing that most
exemplary citizen in the presidential
chair.
While on the presidential theme, it
may be in place to say that recent
prominent republican arrivals from
Iowa say that state is no third-term
tie.
Freight robberies have been fire.
quent C late. The roads centeringin
Chic 100 have lost heavily by these
pilferings. So far as ~approachable the
amount has reached $4,000. Until
yesterday a mystery has enveloped the
perpetrators OF the thefts then it was
solved by the detectives unearthing
an extensive gang of outlaws the
guilty rsscals are DOW behind the bars.
One Jimmie Moore was the leader of
the d~esperadoes; detectives Heating
and Ripley worked up the job.
Barbarities 10 Insane Asylums."
was the subject OF a lecture By Mrs.
Il. r. Littlefeld, Of Indiana, here
yesterday. She gave the managers of
such institutions particular fits"
picturing them as a hardened, unfeel-
ing class, who think the inmates
unworthy Of pity or care.
She was particularly bitter upon
the laws of Indiana, because they
gave q husband the power to have his
wife immured in a crazy cage, thereby
getting rid of her without FesOrting to
q divorce. 1t is more than likely
there is more truth than fiction in
what the lady says.
Bigamist Davis, now in prison here.
from all appearances, has been a first.
class fraud outside Of his dealings
with innocent females. His last wife
is a strong Davis woman. Poor girl.
General Hawley's resignation as
assistant secretary Of the United
States treasury is considered BY all
who know him as merely consistent
with his grand character in all respects.
1t is more than likely he will receive
the republican nomination for cover.
nor Of Illinois. The people should
honor such sterling men. What a
Tebuke to his superior in Office, John
Sherman, who is presumably a can
didate for president. General Hawley
could not think Of becoming a candi.
date for popular suffrage while
occupying a position that would give
him an opportunity to influence voters,
Mr.. Sherman is not as punctilious a,
the general. The treasury department
loses a pre-eminent able officer.
The Blaine howl is getting louder
Jeems' friends here are working YER,
hard. The Grant boom" is down t.
spasmodic whispers. However, it ma,
be the calm before the storm.
Bank messengers are to be hereafte.
protected by policemen with self
cooking revolvers in their hands. Thi
will prevent thugs from waylayin
those carrying money between tn
banks aud the clearinghouse. Som
days the amounts in transitu reacI
$2,000,000.
Donations still pour in to Treasure
Clarke for tho Irish land league fund
Mr.. G. is president of the Chicag
Hibernian bank, a reliable institution
Counterfeit one hundred dolla
notes on the Pittsburg Nationa
Bank of Commerce are in ~circulatio
here. 1t is believed they were exc
cuted in Chicago.
A relig GUS fanatic has appeared i
the person Of Mrs. Bertha Snauson, Q
Chicago. She carried her ideas so ia
Saturday as TO severely cut her RICH
wrist aud her throat. She though
her hand had been offending her. Sh.
may get well.