Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1877-09-27

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Trustworthy information is received that
fourteen thousand wounded are still in
Plevna, whom the Turks are unable to
move.
An Italian gunboat has arrived at
Volo to inquire into the misdeeds of the
Bashi Bszouks. The Italian vice consul
az Volo will 60 to Larissa to inquire into
the oHtrages committed against the Ital-
ian subjects there,
Morton, Stokes and Hahn, president,
secretary and treasurer Of the Market
Street railroad in Philadelphia, were
arrested yesterday afternoon on a charge
of conspiracy to cheat and deiraud the
company.
Joseph Cook has been appointed su.
pervising inspector Of steamboats, for the
Eighth district of Detroit. VIM. Wood.
cock has been appointed collector of
internal revenue Of the Nashville, Ten
%nessee, district.
Secretary Schurz has appointed a COM
mittee to make an investigation into the
cause of the late FIRE. The commissioner
Of patents thinks that about eighty-seven
thousand models were burned, exclusive
Of about seventeen thousand models'on
which no patents had been granted.
A dispatch dated Constantinople at IL
o'clock Wednesday night says hat pri-
vate kilograms state that the Russian
center attacked Plevna on Tuesday and
was repulsed with a loss Of sever thou.
sand men and four guns. This report
is probably ~uniounded, as no official con-
irmation has been received.
At the cabinet meeting yesterday it was
decided that the secretary Of war and
the secretary of the treasury should
select a commission Of three competent
architects and engineers to examine all
public buildings in Washington and re-
port as to whether they are fire. proc or
not, and make such suggestions as they
deem proper to render these buildings
safe against CONGREGATIONS.
The Northern Pacific railroads report
for the past year up to September, 1877,
shows a net balance Of 1892, 1919, or an
increase Of nearly Is per cent. over last
year. The report urges that congress be
~petitioned to pass'a bill extending the
time for construction and completion oil
the road to the Pacific, aud sets forth the
advantages which will accrue to the
country by its construction.
Sidney Myers, president Of the Me-.
chants and Mechanics Savings Bank o.
Chicago, which suspended last week, wal
indicted by the grand jury yesterday
for the embezzlement Of $500, 900, and
was subsequently lodged n jail in de
fault Of $4,000 bail. The grand jury
also indicted the officers of the defunci
Protection Life Insurance. Company Oh
the charge Of defrauding its policy
holders.
The radical socialist republicans o
Paris have issued a manifesto attackin,
the government and the supporters o
Gambetta. The manifesto demands am
nesty for the communists, the abolition
of the budget Of public worship, the ex
pr ZION of the Jesuits, the substitution o
an armed nation for a. standing army
and a single progressive tax for all exist
ing taxes, and the abolition of the pres
dency and the senate.
Two million francs have arrived a
Belgrade from Russia. This is said t
b. the fnsl instsllment OF the loan. Tn
mobilization Of troops continues. Th
new Russian consul is expected, wit
instructions from Russian headquarters
Russia insists on Servia speedily finish
ing the work Of mobilization, and con
plains that the Servian hesitation ha
enabled the Turks to relieve Plevns
Servis is about to demand the with
drawal of Turkish troops from the Sci
Wan frontier.
General Grant, in replying to variou
addresses which be received yesterday q
London, referred To the American i.rin
He reminded his hearers that the Unite
States had to raise money to pay of th
great debt incurred by war. The dutie
from imports was regarded solely as
means Of attaining that end. II th
United States we're to abolish the revenu
from imports the foreign bondholdel
would very Don cry out when their il
: terest was not forthcoming. He addeC
I'VE get along well enough with the pa,
ment Of our debt, and will compete vii
you in your manufactures 10 the marke.
+. in The world. The more Of your me
? chants aud mechanics that 90 TO Anne
lea the better. Nothing pleases us mo
than immigration Of industry and int
. ligeuce. OF this community we ha,
b room for all that will come, and we vi
v try to treat you as you have treated n
! to-day Loudly cheered.
, Doddington was veiy letbargic. Fa
ing asleep n day, after dinner, wi
Sir Richard Temple, Lord Gotham al
i several others, one Of the party 1
preached him for drowsiness He 4