Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1877-10-03
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, The Wilkesbarre miners are resuming
work at an advance OF ten per cent.
Yesterdays report of deaths from vel
low fever at Fernandina. Fla, Tor twenty.
four hours, was six, and several new
cases.
Thomas Williams, who guided q raid.
ing party against illicit distillers in Law.
renee county, Tenn, is reported muir
dered in hat couHty.
General Sherman telegrAphs from
Portland, Oregon, bis arrival there from
Pugets sound. he viii start overland
for San Francisco to-day.
There was a large crowd at the execu-
tive mansion yesterday, including several
congressman, who called to pay their re-
spects. General Crook had an interview.
Waterman, the defaulter at Law.
renee, Mass. owns considerable property,
and will make good the ~defalcation, and
the case will be kept out of the courts.
The little low water steamer Comfort
exploded her boiler at Pipe creek, six.
teen miles below St. Losis, about two
o'clock yesterday evening, Several lives
lost.
The cabinet session yesterday was
short. There was a general converse.
ton over Mexican affairs. but no infor.
nation other than newspaper ACCOUNTS
has been received from the Rio GraRde.
General ]. s. Negley, indicted with
WitoWski and others, charged with con-
spiracy to dsfraud the government, ap-
peared in our at Washington, yester-
day, with ex-senator Carpenter as coun-
sci and gave bail to appear for trial.
Itis stated at the treasury department
that the reason Why all the four per cent.
bonds do not appear upon the debt state
ment, though equally sold and issued, is
because the fve-twenties, which are to
be paid for with the proceeds Of the four
per cents, are not due, though called.
The Democrats Of Minnesota nOmin-
ated the following ticket yesterday at St.
Paul: For governor, William Banning;
lieuteuant-goyernor L. L. Ames; attor-
ney'general, John R. Jones; secretary Of
state, P. I. Lindholm; treasurer, John
I. Meagher; railroad commissioner, 81.
W. Hill.
Wall street is excited because w. @.
Gilman, a dealer in insurance scrip, has
borrowed large sums Of money upon
scrips fraudulently raised. At one bank
alone he borrowed seventy five thousand
dollars, and additional discoveries are
making. Gilman was in town yesterday
morning, but caHnot NOW be found.
The trial Of the July railroad rioters
commenced at Reading, Penn, yester.
day. Samuel Humphreys. indicted for
burning the Lebanon Valley road bridge,
turned States evidence, confessiug that
he held the lamp while a man named
Smith saturated the kindling woods
thrown from the upper part Of the bridge
BY accOmplices, with coal oil, and set fire
to it.
The commission to examine the vari.
Gus public buildings in Washington, as
to their liability to be destroyed by Ere,
will report in regard TO the government
printing Office that it cannot be made
hre-proof, but will recommend precsu.
measures to protect it. A com.
mission has been appointed BY Secretary
Sehurz to examine generally into the
Of the patent office building,
and report what measures should be
to secure the walls from further
There is no truth in the reports teIe.
graphed from the Rio Graude yesterday
that Skaters and Bullis's commands
had met with disaster in Mexico. Both
have returned to the Ameri.
can side OF the river without loss. The
expedition was unsuccessful, owing to
the fact that the Indians had been warned
Of Bullis's pursuit and escaped. Twelve
horses and two mules, which had been
stolen from the American side Of the
river, we're recsplured. A small body of
Mexican cavalry kept upon the trail and
in sight Of the command during their
march from San Diego river 10 the Rio
Grande, but made no offensive demon
stration.
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The Norristown Herald calls on all
the pashss to come home aod vote, so
that the polls will not be 60 entirely de.
serted this fall.
The estate Of Peter B. Brigham, the
Boston restaurant keeper, who died a
few months ago, as shown by an inven.
tory, amounts to 81, 292, 900.
The principal resemblance between a
man who stops bis team on the crosswalk
Of q crowded street and half a barrel