Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1877-09-29
T~ELEGeAPHIC BREyIrIEs.

The French prince imperial passed
through Brussels yesterday for the
Chateau dave. near Namnr.
Snow has been falling in Shipka Pass
since Monday. and is nov ten centime.
tres deep at the foot Of the Balkans,
Thomas Mars, chief engineer Of the
steamship G. W. Hewes, at New Orleans,
drank carbo6c acid yesterday BY mistake
for %claret, and died in an hour.
Special Agent Sprague has taken
charge Of the Office Of Pension Agent
Isabelle, at New Orleans, pending the
investigation Of Isabelle's bond.
A Victoria dispatch says that General
Sherman and staff arrived there Thurs
day, and we're cordially received by the
civil, military and naval authorities.
AT EIgin, Illinois, yesterday, +. L.,
McClure's four large ~ice-houses we're
burned, and a large amount of ice de-.
strOyed. Loss, $4,000; insurance, $500.
The President and secretary Of the
interior have decided to dismiss the
charges against Governor Axtsll, of New
Mexico, as vague aud unsupported by
truth. .ssr
a Montreal dispatch says: A FIRE oe-
Cured at a farmhouse in ST. Gregoire,
last night by which eight children lost
their lives i've burned to death and
three sutfocated.
The national bank notes issued dur
ing the present month were 81, 326. $40;
eighty per cent. thereof in g~reenbacks
will be destroyed, leaving the outstspd.
log legal tenders 1854, 9I4 937.
The Austrian and German ambassa.
doris, in the name Of the Russian govern.
ment, applied to the porte, in virtue Of
the Geneva convention, for a permit to
transport timber across the Danube for
huts for the RussisH wounded. The porte
has deferred a reply until it is made Ger.
tain that the huta are only to be used for
the wounded.
Justice Miller delivered bis decision
in the Mckee case yesterday morning.
It overrules the demurrer of the govern.
ment to the answer Of the defendant, aud
the suit therefore falls. The case can,
however, be appealed to the United
States Supreme Court; but District Ator-
ney Bliss has not yet decided whether he
will take such ac,ien.
Indian superintendent Ximball having
ordered Father Tomiziu, a Catholic mis-.
%siOnary, to leave White-Earth agency on
account Of a violation Of the agency
rules in putting orphan children in
school, the priest took refuge in a church,
rung the bell to summon the Indians
friendly to him, and with them is now
holding the church in armed resistance
to the authority of Kimball. A company
OF infantry was sent forward from Fort
Smelling to preserve peace.
The International cotton conference
at Liverpool was attended yesterday by
delegates from the Spinners' Association.
No action was taken on the resolution TO
abolish the n and a half per cent. de.
duetion from cotton invoices. The reso-
luton to insert the words cash before
delivery" in contracts, was denounced
by the spinners as insulting and ~uncalled
for, and the subject was passed over.
Without considering the subject of "ar.
rival, y the conference adjourned sine die.
A correspondent at Bucharest writes
that a day or two of rain has made the
roads almost impossible; the mud is
ankle deep the horses have eaten al
most all the forage, and that hay is very
scarce at any price. Communications
are daily difficult. The Russian
staff officers in front Of Plevna express
the utmost confidence that that place
will fall into their hands. There is an
abundance Of wheat and barley in Bul.
gAria, and a very large crop Of Indian
coru. II the Russians can surrount the
difficulty Of obtaining fuel they can win.
ter in Bulgaria very comfortably.