Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1877-06-05
Not a Single Russian Has Yet
Crossed the Danube, Not
withstanding Pub
lished Reports.
News from the Famine Dis
tricls in India More
Cheerful.
The King Of DahOmey Pays Fine Of
500 PuncheOns Of Oil and the
Blockade is Raised.

LONDONi may GA dlspatcn from
Calcutta to the Times says: 1.-The
latest news from the famine districts is
much more cheerful. A general rain.
fall has greatly improved prospects"
The Standard has a telegram via Ma.
deira stating that the king of Dshomey
paid a fine of FIVE hundred puncheons of
oil, and the blockade was raised on the
9Th of May. Two hundred ~puucheons
OF this oil were lost by the wreck of the
steamer Gambia.
a telegram from Athens reports that
NJ. N. Coumandouros, Zames, Triceupi
and Deligorgis held a long conference
and drew up a basis OF policy for the
cabinet Of which all four should be mem
bers. 1t is stated that tomorrow the
necessary agreement will be completed.
A dispatch from Erzeroum, dated yes.
terday, 4 pm, says the Russian scouts
have been seen from the heights of
Jeueky, The retreat of the Ottoman
corps from Ksrskilissa to Prokkalch and
Delibaba is threatened BY an advance
detachment Of the Russian center.
The news received at Russian head
quarters at Plejisti from Asia is very
neagre from the army operating ii. the
neighborhoOd Of Kars. 1t is announced
that heavy fighting has taken place at
0ttor, on the lower Bador river, but no
details are given, The fighting arose
from an attempt of the Abchasiaus to
pass over the river.
The Berlin correspondent Of the Times
telegraphs as follows: 1T is asserted on
good authority that Count Won Moltke
regards Russia's chance as steadily i'm.
proving in consequence Of the extra
ordinary negligence and lack of fore
sight Of the Turks"
A dispatch from Rustchuk says that
Notwithstanding the reports published in
English journals, not a single Russian
soldier has yet crossed the Danube.
Attention is now concentrated on Nj.
cspolis and Attenitza. But everything
0 comparatively quiet at those
Private dispatches from Lima state
Don Nicolas De Pierola, revolu-
and his suite. have surrendered
themselves to the Peruvian authorities,
the iron'clad turret ship Husscar,
which his partisans had seized.
The British and African steam navi-
cation company's steamer Gambia was
wrecked on the 18th of May, at Cape
Palmos. Crew and passengers saved.
A dispatch from St. Petersburg says
that Prince Gortschakof' note to Lord
Of which Count Schouvalof is
the bearer, states that Gear does not
any territorial increase in Europe.
but only desires autonomy for Bulgaria
and the independence of Roumauia and
Servia, BE also demands the cession of
Armenia from Bayizid to the coast, but
not including Erzeroum.
MANCHESTER, June ga Vienna dis
says the Turks exaggerate their
troubles. 1t is believed that the main
body of the Russian center is still near
kArs and that the recent panic at Erze.
roum was provoked by a flying corps Of
Cossacks and irregulars.
PARIS, June ga circular Of -Four.
ton, minister of the interior, to the pre-
fects instructs them to revise all licenses
for hawking and selling newspapers,
books and pamphlets, and only allow fit
agents Offering proper guarantees to so.
cial order to retain their licenses. The
projects are also instructed to prosecute
any persons who, in Gales and other pub.
lie places, spread false reports calculated
to disturb peace and tranquility.