Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1882-07-11
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Correspondence Public Ledger.

} iron works in Chicago aud vicinity
was SO amicable that work will soor
be- resumed at an advance of wages.
More car works are soon to be es
tablished in the southern limits Of
Chicago, in the vicinity of Irondale, on
Calumet river. Over S5,0O0,0 900 will
be invested. OF course, real estate is
booming in that region.
The Northern Assurance Company
of London, England, is going to estab-
lish an Office in Chicago.
Miles City, Montana, has a glorious
business future, in the opinion of a
friend of your correspondent, just
| from that region. He also speaks
| glowingly of Montana, or parts of it,
as a stock raising country.
Chicago is losing ground as health
resort. Why? Because the death
rate has increased from 10 to 22A per
1000.
Frauds. Reader, if you get a
glowing circular" explaining how
large profits are daily made by en-
trusting your money to w. I. Soule
4 Co.. brokers, Chicago, do not take
stock.
General Hancock is to be the next
Democratic standard bearer for Presi-
dent. So says Hon. Jere Black, Of
Philadelphia, who was lately in Chi
cagO. He also thinks Mr.. James G.
Blaine will carry the Republican ban
ner 1t is more than likely Jeems
will not be so burthened. The party
in power politicians are too shrewd to
make such a mistake.
Col. S. B. Jones, general passenger
agent Louisville, New Albany & Chi
cagO railroad, with headquarters at
ID Randolph street, Chicago, had the
unpleasant duty to perform, the other
day, of putting a Mansard roof upon
an obstreperous bailiff, etc.
About l79 new railroad lines have
been opened in the United States
during the past six months, and 1890
miles Of track laid, making a total
mileage in the country of l07 900. In
the Southern States there are thirty
six of the new lines, and 665 miles Of
the new track. Tennessee has six of
the new lines and 81 miles of new
track. So says my statistical friend.
The labor unions of Chicago are a
unit in favor of the agitation to tax
immigrants to this country 500 each.
This protective" measure, they con-
slider, will counterbalance the "pro-
tective" measures in favor Of capital
lists and monopolists, who receive
exorbitant prices for their protect.
ed" manufactures, while they
grind down the wages Of
their employees to the lowest
figure. If free trade was the motto Of
this country this tax on immigration
would not be necessary. But, if
monopolists must be protected, other
labor should be protected.
The late unpleasantness between
Congressman Whitthorne, of Tennes-
see, and Mr.. Robson, late Secretary
of the United States navy, is variously
commented on in Chicago, but gener-
ally, to the latter's detriment. It is
contended that Mr.. Whittborne should
not have gotten angry with a person
who became so suddenly rich after his
accession to the position Of Secretary
Of the Navy.
Chicago has Boat and Motor Com.
pany, which intends to manufacture a
hand propeller and steerage apparatus
very simple in construction and easy
to manage. A small machine, located
in the center of the craft, operates a
four bucket screw at the stern. This
patent guarantees great speed, with
less eXertion to manage the boat.
A new telephone, of great merit,
will soon be put in operation by a
Chicago company OF capitalists. 1t is
the invention Of Mr.. Roland Shaw.
1t has been tested on 10000 miles
coil Of wire, with satisfactory results.
Governor Blackburn. of Kentucky,
is no favorite with the Chicago Daily
News. Whenever that journal has an
opportunity it revives the tale that
the Governor, during our late war,
advised the distribution among Union
soldiers, and throughout the North. Of
injected goods procured in yellow
fever regions. In this, as in many
other respects relative to the South
or Southerners, the News, and other
Northern journals, display ignorant
and malicious prejudice. If any truth
Is attached to the charge against Dr.
Blackburn, why did the government
tail to prosecute him, on his return TO
this country from Canada? Your cor
respondent distinctly remembers the
time that the doctor requested per.
mission OF Secretary Seward to 90
south to assist in resisting the
advance of yellow fever, and upon
the Secretary's refusal to grant
the request, how be took the
chances Of arrest and imprison-
ment, and left his SECURE retreat in
Toronto, Canada, and went TO the
relief OF his suffering fellow-countrv.
men. II the doctor was guilty. as
charged, does the News imagine for
! one moment, he would have risked
the ianatical wrath that hung Mrs
SurrattF Certainly not. But. being
guilty of no crime other than beins
4 q loyal Confederate, his love for the
l. human family prompted him TO tax,
o step that might have proven i.tsl
a to his happiness. Since his return
to the land Of his birth the doCto,
has always been where the law oorI,
8 find him. Being no law i~sc, evarS
i ne has always walked where ielon,
would fear to tread. and wbere II;
slanderers would be repulsed Tn;
slur of the News would NOT NO,
J, attract my notice if it were mot ~
q the fact that with a fanatic
d element in this section modest !;
: lence" is taken az ON .aLt -