Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1874-01-23
LATEST TELEGRAMS.
NEW YORK.

| London OF the Z3d, says Mme' TaFepa
Rosa is dead.
1t is stated that within the past three
months a large number of important
firms of this city have fallen under the
suspicious OF the internal revenue de-
partment and in seven or eight cases
the authorities have seized their books,
intending to prove that firms have vio-
lated the rules Of the custom house. All
the examinations in these cases are
being conducted secretly in the mean
time, and the names of the firms are
withheld
Carleton, the defaulting ex-secretary
of the Union Trust Company, is said to
be in Belgium. A detective is now on
his way to Europe to arrest and bring
him back under the extradition law.
The fog still hangs over the city this
morning, though not so thick as yester-
day.
The commencement of the Polish rev.
oluticn of 1862 was commemorated by a
large meeting of Polish residents at the
Casino, Houston street, yesterday.
Two boys, one white and one colored,
were run over by locomotive at Sing
Sing Wednesday night. The colored
boy was killed and the white boy fatally
injured.
The mail steamship South America
arrived from Rio Janeiro yesterday,
bringing latest advices. The Hooper
Telegraph Company has completed its
cable from Bahra to Rio, and now there
is complete communication from Para
to Pernambuco. At Bahra and Rio the
completion of the line was celebrated by
grand banquet at each OF these ports,
en- January LIST. Uruguay advices say
the cholera has broken out at Monte
video on two emigrant steamers lately
arrived from the Mediterranean. Four
hundred passengers had been attacked,
the majority of the cases terminating
fatally. Official reports Of the defeat OF
Lopez Jordan have been received. This
virtually ends the revolution.
A special from Wilkesbsrre says the
difficulty between the operators and
miners has been brought to a definite
settlement. The miners haze decided
to accept the reduction as the National
Union is not sufficiently organized and
has not enough funds to support the
strike. This ends the strike. The work
OF organizing the National Union will,
however, be proceeded with, spd when
sufficient money is obtained a general
suspension viii take place. The FIRE at
the Empire mine continues. Eight hun
dred men are working dag GId night to
subdue the flames, but it will be long
time before they are entirely extin-
gnished.
The officials of the Pacific Mail Steam
ship Company here have received intel
ligence of the loss Of the steamship Be
lief, of that line, on voyage from Yo-
kohama to Shanghai. All the passen-
gers, crew, officers, mails and treasure
we're saved. She struck reef not laid
down on the charts.
DR.. Gabor Nephyg, Of so East Fifty
Third street, was again before the courts
yesterday, charged with swindling his
victims, this time being N. W. Leyman,
of Gil Lexington avenue, whom be
swindled out Of $1,000. Examination
adjourned till Thursday next. 1t viii |
be remembered that Nepheyg is the same
person who, it is alleged. swindled the |
City of Mexico out of $780, 900 on con-
tract to supply it with gas, which he
never fulfilled. He has also numer Gus |
victims in Boston, Philadelphia and
New York.
The price Of gold fell yesterday Oh a
report from Washington that harangues
had been delivered invariably violent
and calculated to incite further distur-
Dances