Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1880-04-24

When the civil ceremony was over,
Martura was conducted to her new
home, a veritable little palace. There
her husband wished to enjoy her
society. This she would not
grant until the church had
sealed the nuptial ties. This did
not satisfy Fronts. He endeavored
to force liberties. Martura resisted,
and while defending herself, a a
dagger into the heart of the impatient
groem. Finale-pOor Martura suffered
a legal death, etc. The drama is
quite sensational.
Rents and real estate in Chicago are
booming. In fact, property holders
are going crazy. !
Dan 0'Leary is to inaugurate a heel
and toe walking match in Mccormack
hall. May 10th. 1t will last six days,
twelve hours constituting a day. Peter
Grassland, and other celebrities, will
compete.
Smallpox still fingers in Chicago.
Advance in wages is demanded by
Chicago carpenters, brick makers aud
others.
An unnaturalki kind ola father is Mar
tin Biba, of Chicago. He is under the
bar of the law charged with system
atically attempting to starve to death
his girl baby three months old.
While absent from home, making
arrangements for a second marriage,
the neighbors heard the cries OF the
baby, and forced their way into the
house. There they were Mortified to
find the infant in a cradle, wallowing
in its own filth, and reduced to a
SIX sleton. 1t is believed tie monster
intended to starye the child to death.
No doubt he will go to the penitenti-
airy for several years.
The German Book and News Com
pany" Of Chicago has ceased to exist.
Liabilities $4,000,
Another temperance lecture. Mrs.
Murphy and Mrs. Catherine McShay,
of Chicago, quarrelled the other day.
McShay aimed a blow at Murphy, but
she missed her mark and struck the
baby in her arms. The blow caused
the infants death. Both we're under
the influence of whisky.
Thomas Paine, one of America
neglected heroes" was the subject o.
a discourse last Sund y BY Rev
Brooke Hereford in the church of the
Messiah. Toms patriotism aud lin.
tentions' of liberal thought were eulo.
gized.
THE Physiology of Authorizations
was a lecture delivered Sunday BY
Dr.. j. S. Jewell, an eminent writer OF
nervous and mental diseases, 1t wa
quite interesting and instructive, HI
illustrated how persons sometime
think that they see, hear, or fee
things which do not exist; and dis
eases of the blood, brain, or nerves
that may people a world with hobgob.
Inns" and showed "how, with the hell
of the Imagination, one can account
for strange phenomena" After lis
tening to DR.. JEWELS discourse one
can find no substantial grounds OF
which to build a belief in ghosts
spiritual seances, or any other kind o
unnatural phenomena. He account
for the mesmeric state by saying tina
the "excitest expectancy" Of the in
dividual to be brought under the mes
m%erists influence so disorders th'
brain and mind that the comatose stat,
soon follows, and the dreamy life
ensues.
"The Rival Cantineers," by Mrs
Alexander Kirkland, of Chicago, i
pronounced a grand success at Haver
ly's palatial theater.
Blaine viii carry Michigan. Thil
comes from Hon. L. w. Heath, o
Grand Rapids.
"Our Girls" by H. j. Byron, (hi
latest DRAMA is having a big run a
Hooley's.
Cooking, ETC., by steam will soon b
one Of Chicago's many attractive fea
lures. The city council has grantel
a company privilege to lay pipes, etc.
through the streets and alleys. Thi
will be a heavenly boon to tn
housewife and the bachelor, who, re
turning to his lonely room will find i
comfortably heated by steam.
The wheat market is in an unsettleI
condition in Chicago. Yesterday tn,
bears forced it down Sill to sl.07a
and the end is not yet.
'Infdel' Bob Ingersoll offers $40
to any Boston clergyman who vii
read to his congregation a chapter il
the bible that he, lngersoIl win select
Henry Greenbaum, lately a Chicag
banker, is nov being tried befor
Judge Blodgett, ofthe United State
district court, for ofenses against tn
banking laws of the United States
Henry may wear stripes for his "trif
ing" with Uncle Sans regulations.
The Tilden-K Kelly democratic con
ventions held to-day in Syracuse, Me-
York, create considerable common
this evening in hotel Hobbies. Repub
licans rejoice at the squabble, Will
democrats a~eprecate the trouble. ]
is generally conceded that Mr.. Tide
should not have allowed his name
go before the convention.
NAYR.
The Master of Rod Iaar