Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1877-09-04
T%ELEGRAPHIC BREyITIEs.

Servia refuses to give assistance to tn
Bosnia insurgents.
The commandant Of Rustchuk mode
sOrtie with seven battalions, defeating
| the Russians.
The Turks acknowledge the loss o
1000 men in Schipka Pass; 1000 wound
ed reached Adrianople yesterday.
st. Louis: Freight rates on -four anC
grain to Western points we're raised yes
terday &c per hundred, and grain was
made fourth class.
All the Paris journals of this morning
announce that x .President Theirs died
quite suddenly at six o'clock yesterday
evening, at st. German.
1t is believed that a Russian division,
with two Roumanian divisions and the
Serviau Timok corps, will operate
against Widdin and Sofia.
Professor Watson, of the Michigan
University, at Ann Arbor, announces
the discovery of another planet of the
eleventh stellar magnitude.
The porte has ordered that the FORTH,
cations of Adrianople be completed be-
fore winter, and decided that they shall
consist of twsnty-four detached forts.
The funeral of e. L. Davenport.will
take place on Wednesday morning at
Dr.. &. H. Chapin's Church. DR.. Chapin
will return from Massachusetts, to Off
ciate.
Judge obstruction, at Cherbourg, has
dismissed the cases against persons ac.
cused of shouting Vive la republique"
on the occasion of President MacMa-
hons visit to that town.
Correspondents with the Russian army
say that in the early struggles in Schipka
Pass not one wounded Russian who fell
in the place temporarily occupied by the
Turkish troops was found alive.
Further reports from shumla do not
confirm the report that Baker Pasha is
missing. On the contrary, the London
Telegraph's Hsssaular special Jays he
has been decorated with the order of
0smanli.
1t is stated that the Grand Duke
Michael, commander.in.eh chief of the
Russian army in Asia Minor, has as.
sumed command of General Melikof' $
corps in person, that officer having been
removed for exceeding his orders.
Suleiman Pasha telegraphs from
Schipka Pass that cannonading began
again Saturday and continued Sunday.
A prisoner states that the effective
strength Of most Of the Russian bat,
talions have been reduced by one half.
The Bulgarians also suffered cruelty.
Intelligence received from Schipka
Pass states that Suleiman Pasha has
gained a more advantageous position for
his batteries on the nights surrounding
Fort Nicholas. Russian reinforcements
arrived during the night. The road to
GAbrova is commanded by Tarkish bat.
%teries.
The following official abatement has
been issued Of the Russian loss on the
3lst Of August: At Kadikoi, I killed and
30 wounded; at Pelisat, 30 officers and
1920 soldiers killed and wounded. The
Turkish loss is IN Near the
village Of Palisat alone, 300 dead bodies
were counted on the 3lst ult.
The Russian government has sent to
its ambassadors abroad q dispatch cay.
ing: Besides several cases Of Turkish
barbarities already published, the troops
on occupying the batteries in Schipka
Pass found there a heap Of heads belong.
ing to Russian soldiers, whose mutilated
bodies we're discovered in the neighbor.
A decree ordering an election for the
new chamber Of deputies will be issued
on the Goth, The report has been con.
irmed that October l4th has beau Gxed
upon as the date of the election. LIE
Minou, a Legitimist organ, declares that
President Mac&ahon has contracted
certain binding engagements which will
render it impossible Tor him to accept a
p%rolongatiOn of his powers after 1880.
The general freight agents Of Western
trunk lines at Chicago yesterday made
an advance or freights by reclassiiying
the articles which have been shipped at
SOC per husdred, such as green meats,
etc, putting them in the fourth class, of
which the rate is 35c from Chicago to
New York. This advance begins to-day,
but is contingent upon q corresponding
advance from St. Louis. The rate to
Baltimore is 4Oc; to Philadelphia, 33c,
and New York 32c.
A Case of yellow Fever ia New