Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1878-12-06
TELEaRAPHIC BREvITIEs.

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The Potter committee held no ses-
sion yesterday,
The bishop of Durham has resigned
on account of ill health.
Mr.. Il. D. White, one hundred and
eleven years old, died yesterday at San
Francisco.
The Cincinnati police arrested five
resurrectionists yesterday, two white
men, two white women and negro,
Mr.. Hewitt, of Alabama, will make
an effort to go into committee of the
whole, to consider the bill granting
pensions to soldiers of the Mexican
war.
Mr.. Ross returned to Philadelphia
yesterday morning, from ToWanda,
Penn, after a visit to the boy claimed
to be his. The boy mentioned is not
the missing Charlie,
A Walla Walla, Oregon dispatch
says that the two Umatilla Indians,
convicted of numbering settlers in the
late Indian war, are sentenced to be
hung January Sd. J ", 3 o8lo5D
Bullion in the Bank of England has
decreased one hundred and thirty
nine thousand pounds in the past week !;
proportion Of reserve liability, forty
and one-quarter per cent.
A Fall River dispatch says: The
grand jury indicted Charles P. Stick
ney and Horatio N. Howard, colored
insurance agents, and John Cofey,
lawyer, for embezzlement.
Moses Long and George Carter were
fatally injured, and a man named May
seriously hurt by the premature ex-
plosion of a blast in a quarry at Cum
berland river shoals, near Somerset,
KY, last evening
a dispatch from Paris says Carl
baldi writes to "a Sicilian correspond
ent as follows; The future of the
world is republican; say so openly to
| the young men, For the present il
behooyes us to support Carroll for the
ministry" ohg
The naval appropriation bill pro
vides for the appointment Of visitors
| to the naval academy as "A matter Of
law, instead of custom and usage, a,
| heretofore. Its total is about $l25,-
900 less than that of the appropriation
for the current fiscal year.
A San Antonio special says tho
| Austin stage was halted near Marion
| by two masked highwaymen, and w
@. Parsons and j L. Chandler, botl
| st. Louis commercial travellers, robbed
of about sixty dollars. The mail was
| rifed,' but nothing abstracted.
The journal de st, Petersburg and
the Galos ridicule the idea of General
Kaufman's recall from his command
in Turkistan. The Galos says Russia
has as much right to ask for Lore
Lytton recall from India as England
has for the recall of Gen. Kaufman.
A Springfield dispatch says Johr
. S. Snyder, deputy sheriff from Potts,
vile, Pa, arrived here to-day with {
requisition from Michael Merrick and
Michael Gaffagon, two well-known
citizens of Springfield, for the murder
of Mike Durkin, at Pottsville, on Jan
uary l9, 1866 n
Aspecial to the Galveston News
from Eagle Pass, says General Ire
t vino, the Mexican commander, visited
, Fort Duncan this afternoon. He wa
received at the river by company o
cavalry, and escorted to the post will
music and salvos of artillery. A bal
Z will be given tonight in honor of th,
3 general.
The constitutional convention a
San Francisco adopted a memorial t.
the President and congress against tn
: proposed Franco-American CONNER
e cial treaty, as being prejudicial TO tn,
3 agricultural interests of California
!, Copies of the memorial have been or
; dered sent to California representa-
tives at Washington.
The President has directed the sus
r pension of Supervising Architect Hill
during his trial in the United State
+, Circuit Court at Chicago, and tn
secretary of the treasury has desig
G mated John Frazier as superintendent
o of construction Of the new buildin
for the bureau Of engraving and print
ing, and to temporarily discharge tn
duties Of supervising architect. &
The President sent to the senate tn
y following nominations Robert NJ
# Douglass, marshal of the western dis
y trict of North Caroline; Joshua I
; Hall, marshal Of the eastern distric
Of North Carolina; Green @. Chan
1 der attorney of the northern distric
y of Mississippi; G. G. Moody, associat
6 justice of the supreme court of Dakot;
o and Q number Of minor nominations.
). The serapers and cutters of tn
Chicago Packing and Provision Con
Z papy, large concern which comprise
7 soYerd Of the most important firm
y doing business at the stock yard
q struck Yesterday morning to the nun
- lber OF about $50, for an increase
= wages from S255 tpS3 per day a
y the company refuses to aceede 10 the
.l demands, some 1000 Of their other en-
t. nloyes are idle. ''NiNiNll