Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1881-02-22
CHICAGO LETTER,


dem0rallzlng business. Loud com
plants are heard on every hand frou
wholesale and retail merchants, who
fear the worst results from the I'M
usually severe and p%rotracted winter,
james Redpath, the noted journal
list, lectured in Mccormack hall on
Ireland and the land league. Not
wi~thstanding the very severe weather,
quite a complimentary audience
greeted him. Among the distin-
guished persons present were Hon.
Carter Harrison, our mayor; Judge
Moran, Judge Barnum, Melville Il.
Stone, editor ofthe Daily News, one Of
the ablesy journals in the country;
General Martin BEEN, an able lawyer;
several Roman Catholic and other
elergymen; Hon. W. j.. Hynes, G. B.
Farwell, the merchant prince, and
others. 1t is needless to say that the
talented speaker handled the British
government without gloves, holding
up the horrible picture of Ireland's
wrongs in all its hideous and mon
strous responsiveness, And let a note
be made Of it, that Mr.. Redpath is no
Lrishman, but an Englishman. The
speaker said he intended to return to
Ireland and assist the land leaguers in
their lau6able enterprise of keeping
up the present agitation, and this in
the face Of the threats of British off
cials to have him arrested. He reit-
Grated his previous statements that
Lord Leitrim was not murdered be
cause he was a brutal landlord, but
because he was a base libertine and
the betrayer of countless young, very
youOg, girls, whom his equally vii
famous hous keeper inveigled into his
mansion to their ruin and afterward
to be blnished from their homes and
native land. 1t was the brother Of
one Of his victims who justly struck
the vile reptile. The entire
lecture was interesting as well as very
instructive.
Smallpox is gradually spreading in
Chicago.
A curious case has just been decided
by a jury in Judge LOOMS court.
Last year Bridget Haskell and Nora
ScanloD, domestics of Judge Higgins
of Chicago quarreled. After
ward Miss Haskell shot Miss Scanlon
with q toy pistol. For this she was
sent to the ~penitentiary. From there
she was sent to the state insane asy
The officials of the latter insti
seat her back to the peniten-
as being perfectly sane. But the
.penitentiary people returned her to
asylum. From the asylum sac
escaped and returned to Chicago. One
lay she was recognized by Miss Scan
.on's brother, who assaulted her and
hen turned her oyer to the police.
By this time her p~enitentiary term had
expired, but she was placed Ga trial
IS to her sanity. Yesterday the poor
,irl was released from her prosecutors
ajury, and she is again free, after
undergoing an age Of torment.
Daniel N. Bash, recently nominated
,r appointed by the president to be
oaymaster in the United States army,
With rank of major, is in bad favor
With a number of board Of trade"
men of Chicago, who charge that his
integrity is not good, and to this effect
hey have addressed a letter to Mr..
1t is more than likely Mr..
Bash will take a back seat.
Several Cinnamon have recently ap-
,lied to Chicago courts to be allowed
o apply for citizenship. 1t is more
han likely they will have their nett
ions granted.
The Nautch girls and East Indian
.ugglers are in Chicago. So, also. is
Mitchell and the great TRACE
iian, Keene.
Chicago is prosecuting vigorously
those who violated the Sunday law"
by keeping open their beer and whisky
saloons.
The fieud John Texter, agedtwenty-
one, who lately committed a devilish
outrage upon a six-year-old girl Of
yesterday received the light
sentence OF four years 10 the peniten-
Judge Lynch should have pre-
sided over the court.
In favor Of Irish landlord killing is
DR.. Macintosh, a Scotchman, Of Chi
cago. This sentiment he expressed
the other evening while addressing
the Chicago Central land league.
Burglars, robbers, thieves and thugs
Of all grades make things lively in
Chicago. Ones life is not safe a
minute in outside streets, and proper
ty is likewise at the mercy Of the vii
lains. Every crime known in the cal
endar is daily committed.
Illinois raised last year, $50, 697, O36
bushels Of corn, or thirty-three bush
per acre, and valued at nearly
$4,000 900.
The fire brigade Of CHICAGO is con.
os1oWal L.. l. III