Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1872-10-25
LATEST ITELEGRAMS.
NEW YORK.

New YoRK, October PA challeng,
Is published in the London Sporting
Times, issued by J. Rookie, owner of thu
English trotter Steel Grey, to trot BIZ
horse sgains. any other horse or mare
in the world, best two out three heats
forone hundred or two hundred pounds
a side, the race to come off at the Roya
Oak Park trotting track, Manchester
grille Dion has accepted JohH
Deary's challenge issued last week tC
play a match game Of billiards for the
championship cue now held by Dion
and the championship. The game will
be four-ball carom, fifteen hundred
points, and for a stake of $1,000. 1t will
probably be played on the 18th of No
vember.
1t is reported that Thomas Q. Fields,
who failed few days ago to answer an
Indictment in the Court Of Oyer aHd
Terminer, sailed for Havana the
week before the day appointed for his
trial, and will probably leave Havana
for some port in the West Indies. The
extradition treaties between Spain, Eng
land and this country don't cover the
charges against Fields.
The Worlds Washington special says
the attention Of the State Department is
now being called to the transporting of
uardoned murderers and highwaymen to
this country. Its urged that the Secrs-
tary should interfere to promptly arrest
this practice.
The horse disease has at last succeeded
in affecting, more or less, every horse
belonging TO the horse-car railroad, stage
lines, express companies. and other
freight and passenger lines In the city.
At rough estimate there appears to be
about sixteen thousand horses sick in
this city, with az equal numberin Brook
lyn, Of which three psr cent. are IN
dangerous condition. Valusble tgotting
stock have also been visited. Dan Asoes
horses are nearly all affected. The eel
ebrAtsd double team, Darkness and
Plimpton, sss being treated, and the
valuable colt Ethan Allen, valued at
$4,000, is also in the doctors hands. |
Wheeler & Wilson's stables are also |
dangerously affected. Bonners aud
vanderbilfs horses have tkls far es-
capped.
A cable dispatch from Berlin says
that the cabinet decree of his Majesty,
the Emperor William, in the San Juan
boundary case, was officially communi-
Gated 10 the abassadors Of Her Majesty
Queen Victoria and the United States
Of America serving At the court in Ger
many, yesterday. The royal German
decision says that the American claim
Of territorial boundary is most in ac-
eordance with the true Interpretation Of
the treaty Of 1876. and that the bounds-
~ line should run through the canal or
channel De Hare.
A cable dispatch from London says
that the bank Of England did not pro-
pose to borrow the sum Of four million
pounds sterling from the Bank Of France
as was reported. On the contrary,
Theirs eudeavored 70 induce the Bank
of England TO borrow that sum from the
French Institution. but the proposition
was sdeelined. The directors Of the
Bank Of England answered the eomnu-
nication Of the French President by
stating that if Theirs wished to deposit
four million pounds sterling in the Bank
Of England and draw against 1t alter
wards, they would accept the deposit
Theirs object was to use the fact Of q
money deposit in London, politically, n