Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1883-08-15
CHICAGO LETTER
How Hundreds Of Thousands
Spend Sunday.
A Fatal Prediction of a Young
Doctor.
Politics, Personal Gossip, Mug.
gets of News and spicy
Comment.
From our Regular Correspondent.
CHICAGO, August IL, 1853.

weather is simply delightful, and th
parks, drives and walks are crowde
with apparently happy people: Thi
morHing the day promised to be YER
sultry, but about IL o'clock cloud
began to gather and the wind to blow
fresh aud cool, aud has so continued
up 70 this hour, 3 o'clock, with ever,
indication that the rest of the day viii
be equally delightful. Fine weather
on Sunday is highly appreciated b.
Chicago's hundreds of thousands o
people who toll very bard all tn,
week, and who bail the Sabbath as {
day of rest and enjoyment.
In fourteen more days the great
| Northern Pacific railroad will be com
pletad, and travellers can take an al
rail route from Nova Scotia to the
Pacific ocean. Certainly this is won
derful age
An "O'Donnell defense fund" il
being raised in Chicago. Every effort
will be made to aid the unfortunate
man to escape the penalty he incurred
in publicly stamping out of existence
the infamous Carey.
A fatal prediction. Two weeks age
DR.. Frank l. Rea, a young Chicago
physician, predicted his own death
which occurred last Friday. He hal
been suffering for some time with q
pain in his upper lip, and thinking it
was caused BY a hair of his mustache.
went Into drug store and asked the
attendant to pull out the hair. This
being done, the doctor carefully ex-
amined it and remarked: That is
the last of me It's a malignant facial
carbuncle. [ will lock up my office
and 20 home to die" he wrote to
request that no post mortem should be
held on his remains. The deceased
was assistant demonstration Of anatomy
in the College of Physicians and Sur.
geOns, and a graduate of 1882.
Cook county, IlliRois, has over
As, 900 acres in corn, and the crop is
expected to reach over 100000
bushels.
Another elevated railroad scheme is
on foot in Chicago, but the motive"
power is still a mystery.
Lord Aylesford, OF England, is in
Chicago, on his wsy to Texas, in
search of an agricultural field" in
which to invest his money. The
Lords patronymic cognomen is Hene.
sge Finch. He is only thirty three
years old, over six feet tall, and hale
and hearty.
Most of the colored people of Chi
cago are hotel and restaurant walters.
A few of the man and brother are
pretty we'll Of in worldly goods, and
some are oficeholders.
General Beauregard was in Chicago
last week. If he had tarried q little
LONGER he would have been more
closely aud numerically besieged than
he was at Corinth, in 1862, by General
Halleck and his men. Thousands Of
Chicagoans were disappointed in not
having an opportunity to pay their
respects to the hero of two wars.
The telegraph strikers" are still
keeping up the forlorn hope struggle.
The Theodore Thomas concert sea-
son has closed iu Chicago. 1t was
grand success. The concluding event,
last night, was attended by over 5000
persons.
The pork packers Of Chicago are
beginning to fear Kansas City as a
rival.
Ex-Governor Dick 0glesby is high.
ly spoken of as the person suitable to
honor the gubernatorial chair of IL
linois. Dick" is a stanch veteran
Republican. However, the Demo-
Gratis will try hard to keep hip out.
Seventeen murderers now adorn the
precincts of Chicago's Jail. Some of
them ought to have been hung
years ago, and the rest would not now
look very bad in collins. However,
it is not likely that any Of these mis-
creants will be strangled by the law.
1.-THE Citizens League" of Chicago,
in many respects, is a devilish nui
sance. Its present assinine venture is
testing the validity Of the city's action
in having "extelded" saloon lioenses
at $lO3 Immediately before the taking
effect Of the legislative enactment
raising the whisky license to $500.
The city will Aght the league to the
full extent Of its intelligent ability, as
directed by Mayor Harrison, one OF
the ablest brains in this country.
Pierrie Menard was the first Lieu,
tenant Governor Of Illinois. 1t is
proposed to erect monument to his
distinguished memory.
The largest vessel Of the lakes is
now being loaded with wheat at 0si.
oaso. Shs "a 300 feet long, 1903 tons
burden, draws 10 feet Of water and at
this stage can carry 5000 tons Of
freight. She is owned by Mr.. Fries,
Of Milan, Ohio. She will leave here
for Buffalo with 100000 bushels Of
wheat.
Herbert A. Slade, the Maori
pugilist, while in Chicago recently.
attracted considerable attention. He
Is a fine specimen Of human nature.
he freely confessed that Mr.. Sullivan,
Of Boston, is bis superior as an
athlete.
DR.. George B. LOriRg, Vnited
States Commissioner Of Agriculture,
while recently in Chicago, expressed
the hope that the several States of the
Union would take energetic measures
10 keep the forests from dying out.
He contends that it is vital to the in-
terests Of the nation that the source
Of the lumber supply should be kept
il a healthy condition.
Chicago detectives gathered In Eve
noted burglars the other evening.
Whisky did it. He is now in the
Washingteniau Home, a retreat for
ipsbristes. He is young man, and
Until recently was we'll TO do CONS
mission mercheot In Chicago. Name