Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1877-10-23
TELEGgAPHIC BREVITIES.

lELEuhACnIO DhbNIIIEc
General Heymaun is advancing on Err.
zsroum
Kars ia surrounded, and negotiations
for its surrender have been opened,
The Russian account gives the Rou.
mauians lost Friday at FIVE officers and
1873 men.
Russian headquarters are now at We
zinkoi, and General Lasarof is march
ing against Ismail Pasha.
Suleiman Pasha is about to send Col.
Valentine Baker and other English off,
GERS back to Constantinople,
Osman Pasha has ordered all Circat.
SLAMS, Bulgariaus, non.combattants and
Mohammedans to quit Plevna.
A special dated at Shumla, Monday,
says the Russians attacked the Turkish
position at Zolinik today. Result IN.
known.
The State fair opened yesterday at
Little Rock under favorable auspices,
the weather being delightful, clear and
pleasant.
A correspondent telegraphs from Sofa
on date Of Sunday, as follows: Six thou
sand provision carts are now on the road
to Plsvna.
A late telegram from Rosgrade says
that a detachment of the army has ar
rived 1t that place, but its position is at
Soemekand.
A Constantinople dispatch says the
Russians from Medjidie are making dar
ing reconnaissance as far as Bazijik
and Silisiria.
A dispatch from Constantinople states
that Achmet Eyoub's appointment to
the command of the Erzeroum has been
countermanded.
Asrif Pasha, new Turkish ambassador
to Paris. is instructed to state immedi.
ately on bis arrival the terms on which
Turkey would make peace if the powers
wish to mediate.
In consequences Of Mukhtar Pasha'S
defeat al troops in Constantinople are
being ssnt hastily to Trebizond. Achmet
Eyoub Pasba will 60 Immediately to
take command at Erzeronm.
Suleiman Pasha telegraphs that the
Russians have incorporated 5000 Bul.
gArians into their army, and that ne ex
poets to be attacked. He has entrenched
himself go as to cover Rustchak.
John S. Morton, late president of the
Market Street Passenger Railway Com
pany, was to day held in $4,000 bail to
appear on the charge Of perjury in re-
turning falsely in the annual reports Of
his company.
A Russian official dispatch from Gorny
Stnden reports that in one of their as
sanlts Friday the Roumanians entered
and occupied the seconi Gravitza re.
doubt before Plevna, but during the even.
ing the redoubt was rscaptured by the
Turks.
The LeSoleil states that Minister For
tou, receiving twenty projects IN Satur-
day, assured them that no changes would
he made in the existing administrative
staff. TIE prefects subsequently re-
ceived the same assurance from Presi.
dent MacMahon and Duke DeBroglie.
A correspondent in Plevna telegraphs
that the Turks are actually constructing
q new interior line Of formidable de-
lenses. The cases Of sickness are com.
paraliyely rare. Provisions have never
failed, but it is impossible to provide tod.
der for tbs thousands Of oxen and
horses.
A special from Torbak, dated Satur.
day, says the Turks have evacuated
Kadikoi Tor fear the Russians would
blockade their commune .tions with
Rustchuk. They have retired to Roa.
grade. The Russian cavalry from the
Dobrudscha have advanced as far as
Kayarana.
Adyices from Capetown, dated October
2, BY way Of Madeira, state that war has
begun IN Tr4ensaei between the Galekat
AID the British and their nat.v, allies.
Fighting occurred September "a and 20
at South Mapassa and lbeka. The Ga
lekas, TO the number Of 5000, attacked
/ The British, but were re2ulsed September
~ LII los., OQn m. L.. gaotav,