Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1879-10-02
BY CABLE.
the BATTLE OF GEOK TEPE.
THE AETI-REETERs' MOVING.
MOnsigneur JacObini's Interview
with Bismarck.
THE CHOLERA IN INDIA.

between the Russian expeditionary
forces and Tekke Turcomans: "Intel-
ligence has been received from Burma
that during a reconnaissance near
Geek Tepe on the 28th of August the
Russians encountered large masses of
Tekke Turcomans strongly intrenched,
who made desperate resistance.
The Russians for six hours cannon
AIDED position occupied by thirty
thousand Tekke Turcomans. In the
evening the Russians obtained posses
sion Of the outer intrenehments, and
at night the enemy fed, losing several
thousand. The Russians lost seven
officers and one hundred and seventy
eight soldiers killed and sixteen off
GERS and two hundred and thirty-four
soldiers wounded.
Considerable uneasiness is felt in
government circles over the disturbed
condition Of ireland. During Sunday
a number of large meetings were held
in districts where great .destitution
exists, and resolutions adopted de-
manding a reduction Of rents. The
Pail Mall Gazette comedies that the
Irish are ripe for revolt against the
landholders, and that this anti-rent
agitation will cause much trouble.
The Times Dublin correspondent
says
THE agitation for reduction of
rent, which has hitherto been confined
to some districts of the South and
West, has now penetrated to the
North, and the first demonstration in
support Of it was held at Toomonridge,
County Antrim. 1t was composed Of
persons representing the farming
classes from the adjoining districts Of
Antrim, Londonderry and Tyrone,
and was held in a large hall called the
Temple Of Liberty, which was crowded
to excess, the meeting numbering, it is
stated, over 1000 persons. Mr.. Brown,
a farmer, presided. The meeting was
addressed by several tenant-farmers,
and seven resolutions on the subject
Of rent and the land question were
adopted. They declared the necessity
for the reduction of rents to be man
datory in the present alarming and
critical state Of agriculture, and ap-
pealed to the landlords to consider
the propriety, the wisdom and human
ity ofsympathizing with their tenantry
in their distress, and of showing prac.
tically their appreciation of the cir
cumstances of the case by voluntarily
conceding an adequate reduction of
rent.
"They further declared that, as un-
der the Ulster custom the landlords
and tenants were partners in the land,
the law should make provision for de-
termining in case of dispute what is a
fair rent, without the necessity and
barbarity of ejecting the tenant be-
fore the court can interfere; also that
the restriction of free sale of the
land which was caused by the laws Of
primogeniture and entail should be
abolished but as a temporary expe-
dent, until general distribution of
the land should be made, they we're
in favor Of extending the Ulster ten
ant right custom to all parts of Ire
land and they declared that the
custom consisted of free sale of his
holding by the tenant, fair rent, and
continuous occupancy. They finally
expressed approval Of the policy en-
bodied in the bright clauses of the
land act, and resolved that parliament
should be asked to concede facilities
for giving more effect to these clauses
and promoting the formation of a
peasant proprietary These resolu-
tions contain a definition of the ten.
ant custom which it is sought to have
affirmed by the legislature, but which
is inconsistent with the terms of the
land act.
PARIS, September 29.-Gambetta
in conversation with Spanish ex- Min
lister Carvajal, said he would not un-
dertake the direction of affairs except
in circumstances of which there was
no prospect.
The committee of the Rouen cotton
factory overseers, in a letter to the
president of the tariff commission,
state that not one-quarter of their
production finds a market, and stock
is increasing alarmingly. Prices are
so low that wages have fallen twenty
five per cent. Unless there is some
change soon, the industry will come to
complete standstill.
The Rome Liberia denies that the
visit Of Prince Jerome Napoleon to
King Humbert has any political sig
ni6cance.
LONDON, September 29-The vice
roy of India telegraphs that the chol-
erais prevalent only on the route from