Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1877-12-05
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The national baseball league meets
to-day at Cleveland.
The New Orleans races have been
postponed on account of rain.
A Constautinople dispatch says that
the rumored bombardmsnt Of Erzeroum
has commenced,
Jean Baptiste Philippe Bsrth, a well
known physician and medical writer Of
Paris, is dead, aged sixty-two.
A resolution was offered in the house
yesterday, that when the house ~adjourns
on the 18th, it be until the 10th of JAN
uary.
Our Mr.. Dibbrell, of Tennessee, has
introduced a bill to tax incomes three
per cent. on all amounts of income over
$4,000.
AT Bucharest it is thought the Rou-
manians are about to make another at.
tempt to capture the second Grivitza re-
doubt.
About fifty members of the legislature
had arrived at Nashville last night, and
there was talk of q caucus at the Max
well, but it was not held.
The Workingmen't ticket was defeated
very thoroughly yesterday at Louisville,
only several nominees receiving ma
%jorities over the citizens candidates.
A quorum of the Turkish chamber of
deputies having arrived in Constantine.
pie, an imperial order has been issued
c~onvoking parliament for December 18th.
D. A. Baldwin, formerly president of
the West Wisconsin railroad, has hanged
himself. An unsatisfactory settlement
with the company ia said to be the cause
The Canada government has taken
measures to prevent the American fisher.
men from drawing fish from the Cana
dian to the opposite side of Detroit river
by the Smuggling process,
Governor Young, Of Ohio, has declined
to commute the sentence Of William Der.
gin, Of Mount Vernon, found guilty of
murder in the first degree. Bergin will
therefore, be hanged next Friday.
August Predigram, musical director
and conductor of the Oates Opera
Troupe. died suddenly in Wheeling yes.
terday Of apoplexy. His remains will
be temporarily inferred there to-day.
Orders have been issued for the de-
parture Of a number of troops-cavalry,
artillery and infantry to the Rio
Grande in the interest Of peace aud for
the security of the people from raiding
parties.
President Gowan, of the Reading rail
road. in Pennsylvania, informs the
miners that during the next year for
every twenty cents advance in tolls and
freight the minimum Of wages will be ad.
vsnced ten per cent.
The schooner Two Sisters, from Meri-
mentau for Galveston, loaded with cot
ton, lumber and oranges, wal wrecked
off the port of Galveston yesterday.
Three lives were lost, A portion Of the
cargo was washed ashore and saved.
In the suit Of the people against Con-
molly, of New York ring notoriety, his
counsel said that they would not burden
the people With a trial, and consented to
the Judgment for the sum claimed-over
eight million dollars. The jury accom-.
modated With a verdict for that amount.
Daniel Kelly, a furniture dealer in
New York, has disappeared, and the
sheriff is in possession of his store. His
liabilities are estimated at $l25, 900.
Among his heaviest creditors are Catha
rins G. Farrell, $lO,OOOi H. B. ClaAin
& Co., $4,000, aud j. & j. Dobson,
$4,000.
A resolution was offered in the house
yesterday reciting the alleged charges
that the nineteenth joint rule, which pro-
hibiis the sale Of intoxicating liquors in
the capitol building, was being violated,
and instructing the officer of the house
to enforce the joint rule. The resolu-
ton was adopted,
John Tolin was run over by a train al
Bridgeport, Alabama, at half past three
o'clock yesterday morning, and bis head
severed from the body. He was drunk
at the time. He was with the Great
Eastern circus, and lived at No. 1910
Broadway, St. Louis, where his remains
have been forwarded.
General Ord is in Washington and
says the attitude of the Mexicsns is q
great deal more threatening at present
than it has been at any previous time
He understands that Diaz is being forced
to make concessions to popular seuti.
mentin Mexico by assuming q bellicose
attitude toward the United States.
Troops are being concentrated upon the
Mexican side, and threats are commonly
reported
The North German Gazette says
Lord Derby, in a recent speech, indi