Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1881-07-12
CHICAGO LETTER.
Correspondence Public LEDGER
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Correspondence Public LEDGER
CHICAGO, July 8, 1881.
Torrid weather reigns in this region;
and has been welding the fiery scepter
for several days. As | write the mer-
curry is battling hard to reach 100 in
the shade. Several sunstrokes have
already occurred, and General De Bill
ity has quartered his forces in nearly
every household. In consequence the
mortality has increased beyond the
usual summer average in this city.
Notwithstanding this temperature, |
conversed with a gentleman yesterday
who has been in Chicago several
months, who declared that it was only
the other day that he laid aside his
overcoat, because of the cool climate.
He lately came from Hot Springs,
Arkansaw. His name is DENLY. Cap
tain j. w. DENNY, formerly Of Pine
Bluff, Arkansaw, and pretty we'll
known throughout that State, and will
he remembered by host of LEDGER
readers in that region, During the
late "unpleasantnesS" the Captain ad.
hered to the Union side, and in conse-
quence had to stand, as it we're,
between two fires. Like everybody
else South, the war broke him up, and
although at its close he received
I Federal appointment he did did moi use
bis Office for his own venal ends, and
being at the head of newspaper at
the time he could not. OF would not.
keep stale secrets" This allied the
Radicals against him, and he had to
step down ald out, moneyless and
iriendless. But his indomitable ener
gy, and education in several branches
OF mechanism as well as literature.
stood by him in his troubles, and at
tracted the attention of vast jewelry
association 10 Chicago which has en-
gagged his services to edit a journal
published in its interest. His future
now looks cheering. | mention this
item first because it will meet the ewes
Of hundreds of his friends: and sec.
ond, because like to see peo
pie overcome difficulties. no
matter how much | NAV have
dissented from their views during the
dark days of the rebellion; and. third
| ly, because Captain DENNY and his
family we're kind tome, and, as | took
a glass Of water from them as we
marched past their residence, hoped
would never regret the step | was
taking against the old flag" And.
again, II was in Captain Dembys
Home Hgls, an agricultural, horti
cultural and scientific journal, that my
first venture in literature was made
and from him | received praise that
is so much priced by those ambitious
to be one on the envied roll OF the lit.
craft. When | met him the other
day on State street all these pleasant
memories of the past charged over
the sad picture OF the war. and I
grasped his hand with as much
warmth as | did with regret when we
parted in 1861, he taking a neutral
stand and going to battle for what
| thought was right. While on this
theme let me say that among nv
yarmest friends in Chicago are a mum.
Der OF gentlemen who were among
those who gained enviable distinction
while battling for the old Gag, and |
have yet to discover that they enter
tain Tor a Southern soldier any other
than the profoundest respect. If
politicians could have the same pure
motives at heart as the late soldiers
what a happy country would be ours.
President Garfeld's favorable con-
dition, 1t is needless to say, is the
nearest and dearest thing that fills the