Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1881-04-28

whom, she said, would be glad to take
care Of her. And still her d~estroyers,
George Clifford Hayes and Malo1ey, 60
unpublished, after causing such fright
full misery. A stringent law should
exist to punish severely such satanic
scoundrels.
The late attempt of some prisoners
in the Chicago Jail came near being a
success. In the little difficulty the
jailer got q good dressing out, and a
negro who took his part was shot.
twice by one OF the revolving party.
1t is still a mystery how the pistols.
powder, etc, were struggled into the
prison.
Alexander Mckay, one of the
said-to-be leaders of the emente, says
he is not, as the newspapers would
have the world believe, the notorious
Canadian culprit of the same name
who escaped from q Toronto court
room just as sentence was about to
have been pronounced upon him by
jumping through q window to the
ground, a distance of fifty feet, and
over a high wall studded with sharp
spikes. No doubt the fall would have
killed the party referred to if his
clothing had not caught on the spikes,
thus breaking the fall. However, be
got away, and is still at large, if the
Mckay in Chicago's Jail is not one and
the same. The bird here is in for
safe blowing.
As a railroad manager Jay Gould,
is believed by Chicago experts to be
the best in the world.
Good horses in Chicago range from
500 to 5000 each.
The Chicago Memorial Building
Association, is the name of the or
ganization entrusted with the erection
Of q library building to commemorate
the great fire of 1871. Such a monu-
ment will be q credit to the city.
The Chicago base ball league is the
champion organization Of the pro-
fessionals of the United States.
The recent little difficulty between
Americans and Mexicans at III Paso,
brought into deserved prominence a
young Chicago disciple Of Esculapius,
DR.. Tuthill King Ross. He rescued
a Mexican from death after every one
bad relegated him to the angelic
band. Good advertisement for Ross.
Smallpox, d~iphtheria, ETC., still ter
rorizes Chicagoans. 1t is believed that
emigrants from Europe intoduced
the first mentioned foul pest into our
city. Northern Europeans are flock
ing here daily in great numbers, and
some look as though they we're capa-
BILE of disseminating all kinds of filth.
A $40, COCOON mortgage was recently
lost in Chicago by Mr.. Gilbert, a
Pittsburg railroad lawyer. Chicago
detectives, with the aid OF an Italian
rag picker, found the valuable paper in
a junk shop.
The two hundred and over Boston
excursionists had a good time in Chi.
cago on their way further west. Like
all people from country towns, it took
them some time to get over their tim
idness on beholding the great metrop-
oils of the west. However, the po-
likeness of our blue coated guardians
of the peace soon assured them that
they would be found" Immediately
if lost in any Of our magnificent NAM
moth buildings or gilded palaces o
vice.
Last year tie Chicago, Milwauk ee
and st. Paul railroad earned Over thir,
teen millions of dollars. The running
expenses were sever millions and
three quarters; leaving a net balance
Of over five and a quarter millions Of
dollars. This is a net Increase of the
business of 1879 of over eight hundred
thousand dollars.
Smallpox and delirium caused Chris.
Of Chicago, to shoot himself
into an angel.
A Mechanics and Laborers' CO.
operative grocery store is Uhicago's
novelty. 1t promises to be a
success.
TRANSMISSION of his brothers blood
did not save John Meehan, Of Chicago,
the other day. Drs. Macarthur, Bill.
lings, Meecher, Bradley and Kendall
performed the delicate operation. A
quart of blood passed from Thomas
arm into his Frustrated brothers. sys-
tenn. But death enforced his requisi-
tion.
He was bound to make a success of
It. The other day a man tied to his
body a heavy piece of railroad iron
and then jumped into Lake Michigan.
He hasn't put in an appearances in
since he went under the
No name.
Rudolph Schneenan is an educated
person from across the ocean. His
business since his advent in
Chicago has been stealing gentlemen's
coats, ETC., from hotels. He is now
studying over his case in our Jail.
Ed. de Aguera, of Chicago, recently
shot a footpad named Fred Wallace in
self defense. W. is now an angel.
The bulls" and bears" Of the
Chicago pork market had a lively tilt
Thursday. The bears drowned the
bOyines; but yesterday the latter
rolled the grizzlies under. NAYR.
Reeds Gilt Edge Tonic assists digestion
Coinage OF Gold and
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