Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1882-07-06

d flags, banners, music, flowers, gay
: regalias, richly costumed and pretty
: women, and dashing men. The
5 weather is delightful for marching,
and countless societies are parading.
The scene is very animating.
l Over l8l $50 names are now in the
Chicago directory At an average of
, four persons for each name, this
would give a population of 647,800.
1t may be safely stated that the
population is over 100000. This is
pretty good for the phoenix city,"
A razor helped boilermaker of
Chicago, yesterday, to make an angel
of himself. Joseph Butterick was his
name.
For life. in the penitentiary. This
is to be the fate of Thomas Cahill, of
| Chicago, for, in the heat of passion,
killing an officer of the law named
| O'Brien.
The Chicago races are in full blast,
but the late bad weather interfered
with the pleasure materially.
Editor Whitelaw Reid, New York
Tribune, Mrs. Reid and baby, passed
through Chicago, yesterday, for the far
West.
Ladies, peel your oranges and lem
ons carefully before eating. In most
cases the rinds are covered with
minute insects, only discoverable by
aid of the microscope, which are I'M
healthy.
A music and arr" hall, of magnif.
ceRt proportions, will be Chicago's
next grand feature. Its cost will be
about 81 $50 900. Mr., N. K. Fairbank
is the head center of the laudable
movement.
A. B. Stern, who brutally murdered
his young wife, only gets twelve years
in the penitentiary. 1t was a cold
blooded butchery. Poor Cahill, for
numbering in the heat of passion, gets
life. 1t generally depends upon the
person accused; and, also the jury.
The Chicago School Of Pistol Prac-
tice for its police is doing we'll. Friday
officer Heffernan got in his work on a
deperate vagabond named Tom Carey.
The recent sudden death in Wash
ington of Congressman Hawk, of
Illinois, creates considerable sadness
in Chicago, where he had many
friends.
The Chicago Photo is a journal of
enterprise. Two hours after the
execution of Guiteau it made its
appearance on the streets with the
whole affair creditably illustrated
Information. The Chicago Times
tells correspondent that the Amazon
is the greatest volume of water flowing
through any country of the world;
but it is but 5000 miles long. The
Mississippi from Lake Itaska to its
junction with the Missouri is 26l6
miles long; from that point to the
CULTS 1856 miles, total of 1902 miles;
the Missouri runs 1908 miles to join
the Mississippi, and having had given
to it the length to the sea is 4l94 miles
long. To the sacred river, the Nile,
must be given the credit of running
through the greatest stretch of country.
The American Encyclopedia of 1875,
from which the previously quoted
figures are taken, says: 1T is naviga-
Bile as far as the district of Fazogle,
about 1900 miles from the Medite-
ranean. Its approximate length
throughout all its winding from the
limit Of steam navigation above Con
dokoro is 5000 miles. The additional
length to Lake Albert N'Yanza can
scarcely be less than 200 miles, and
consequently the river traverses
distance of about 400 miles, or SOC
more than the Missouri and lower
Mississippi.
Chicago is to have an organization
know as the the Metropolitan Trust
Company" modelled after like
institutions in New York Phila.
delphia, etc. Such a banking
establishment is much needed
in such a moneyed center as this. This
is apparent when the fact is made
known that at least one legal firm has
a deposit of over one million dollars
in trust for heirs; aud another firm
borrowed, few days ago, four mil
lions Of dollars at four per cent. The
best men of the city will be incorpora.
tors.
In 1850 there we're in the United
States l ,449,073 farms; now there are
4,0O8,9W. Illinois has 255,74l. or a
greater number than any Of her sister
States. The increase of the number"
in the Southern States is very great.
This is good sign of prosperity.
Bishop Ireland, Of St. Paul, is hav-
ing hard tussle in the Chicago courts
with the heirs Of the late Michael R
Keegan, who, before dying, deposited
$2, 900, etc., with the Bishop, in trust
for his three-ye old daughter. In the
event of her death the money was to
be used by the Bishop to found an
industrial home The girl conveniently
became an angel. Hence the suit.
Chicago inventors are working up a
scheme against the Coroner. It is to
devise means to destroy the killing
qualities of the grip car.
The Illinois Central has leased the
Chicago, st. Louis & New Orleans
railroad, from East Cairo to New Or.
leans, with a branch near Durant to
Kosciusko, Miss.
The Irish American Club, Of Chica.
90, is a prominent institution. Its
new club rooms" reception was a de.
lightful affair. It's President is Hon.
W. j. Hynes, once Congressman. at
large from Arkansas; and Mr.. Mark.
ham, of the Illinois Central railroad,
Corresponding Secretary. Inquiries
will be attended to with pleasure by
Mr.. NJ.
Detective Michael La Bounty, of
Chicago, has resigned, and is going to
enter softer business in Dakota
Territory-the hardware. Success
to him" is the wish Of his many
friends here.
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