Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1877-08-15
Business Failures-The Unsat-
iSfactOry state of the
Manchester Trade.
AWFUL EFFECTS OF THE FAMINE IN
SOUTHERN INDIA
Russians BOmbarding Rusiehuk -
The Turks BOmbardiBg
GiurgevO.

LONDONi august 10 mucn
discomfort in Roumania at the passage
Of the Danube by the Roumanian troops.
The Roumanians derive no benefit from
supplying provisions, ETC., for the Rus
sian army, they receiving pay in bonds
payable at three months date.
The visit Of Minister Risties to Vienna
has been postponed, and the Servian
ministry remains in Office.
The Standard and Daily Telegraph
remark that the failure of Eccles, Shor-
rock Brothers & Co, manufacturers, re-
ported yesterday, has increased the I'M
easy feeling entertained in some quar-
ters, respecting the unsatisfactory state
of the Manchester trade. The Standard
says hat considerable advances have
been obtained upon cotton, large stocks
OF which are held as security, at unre.
munerstive prices, and il the realization
had TO be effected other firms might be
seriously compromised.
The Times Bellary correspondent,
describing the awful effects of the fam
inc in Southern India, says: The great
baik Of the people are now emaciated;
their ribs are sticking out in painful
prominence and their skins covered with
a dirty looking disquamation of cuticle
described in the Irish famine Of 1861
by DR.. Donovan as a peculiar famine
eruption. If we look at the thousands
of people collected on the relief works
these famine marks are of almost uni.
versal prevalence, The superintendent
of relief operations in Adoni reports
that . journey over one Of his roads re.
sembled the path Of a great battle in the
numbers OF the dead and dying. IL the
people had been smitten by a local out
break of cholera in ordinary times they
would have fed from the works and
never returned, but so severe is the
pressure for food that none could afford
to leave the works and lose their pay,
even for a day
Il is reported that the King Of Hol-
land intends to abdicate.
A special to the Daily News reports
that at Lopkoi on Monday the Russians
we're defeated and lost Eve cannon, in
stead of the Turks, as previously re-
ported.
William Longman, a well known Lon
don publisher, is dead.
BUCHAREST, August l5.--The Russian
batteries bombarded Rustcbuk last
night, causing a conGagration, which
lasted until midnight. The Turks have
been bombarding G%iurgevo since FIVE
o'clock this morning. The Russian bat.
teries are not replying.
ST.. PETERSBURG, August Is. - The
ministry of war officially declares the re.
ported mobilization Of the whole Rus.
sian army untrue.
SHUMLA, September l5.-The Russians
yesterday completed the second bridge
over the Danube at Pyrgos, and troops
are now passing over.
It is stated that a Turkish r~econnoiter.
/, ing party found Kustendii e~vacnated nv
the Russians. The Turks reconnoitered
in several directions from Kustendj
without meOting the enemy.
CoNsrASTINoPLE, August Is. The
Turkish army in the province of Bagdad.
numbering 5000 men, have been sum
moned to Constantinople, and will come
; by the Valley Of the Euphrates. 1t vii
be replaced in the Bsgdad district by tbs
militia.