Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1879-12-08
BY CABLE.
King John at the Head of a
Big Abyssinian Army.
Queen Victoria DeCOrates Heroes
Of the Zulu War.
DISSOLUTION OF THE BULGAR-
IAN ASSEMBLY.
The Middle in Spanish Politics.
Historic Wesleyan Chapel Injured
by Fire.
The Peril and Escape of British
Vessel.
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LEssEPs SAILS FOR AsPINwALL
General Ignaiieff Appointed Embassaaor
10 Rome.


CAIRO, December 8.-Informatior
from Moscowah represents that Kine
John is marching forward with the
main body of the Abbyssinian arm,
and forty guns. 1t is said he is de.
termined to occupy the districts Of
Senaar and Galabat in Blue Nile ter
ritory. He declares that European
Intervention will not prevent him from
enforcing his just claims, including
indemnity for past Egyptian wars.
LONDON, December 8.-The main
chapel Of Wesleyan Chapel was much
injured by fire yesterday. and the
historic building, Wesley's Morning
Chapel, was gutted. Wesley's pulpit
was saved. The beautiful frescoed
ceiling is irreparably injured, and
doubts are entertained whether the
roof can be restored.
The British India Steam Navigation
CompaDy's ship Eldorado, with 95
passengers and Lascar crew of abo1
go, put into Plymouth Saturday to c.
pair damages, after a hairbreadth es.
cape from total loss in the Bay OF
Biscay, where the vessel lay for thirty
hours during the storm of Wednesdg
and Thursday in a state Of totaI
disablement. Nearly all the crew
during whole time Of danger, were inca
pacitated for duty by fear, and but fol
exertions Of the passengers, there i:
little question she would have gone
down. Waves broke one of the ven
tilating shafts Of the vessel and
flooded the engine room, and all fires
were extinguished. The Lasoar crew
abandoned their posts, and male pas.
scngers, at the Captains call, bailed
and pumped water from Wednesday
night to Thursday night, when tho
storm abated and fires were relighted
Queen Victoria to-day, at Windsor
Castle, received the officers and men
who distinguished themselves in the
Zulu war and conferred the Victoria
cross and other decorations on one
corporal and three privates. The
Rockies DRIFT garrison and Generals
Newdigate, Creslock, Pearson and
other South African commanders, at
tended the ceremony.
SOFIA, December 8.-The dissolu-
tion of Bulgarian assembly, by Prince
Alexandria, has produced the utmost
astoniGhment among opposition mem
bers who, being ia majority, expected
to come into power.
MADRID, December S.-Conserva-
tive leaders, tits said, threatened to
abandon and defeat the Ministers if
the sehema af rapid abolition of
slavery and reform in Cgbq wqs per-
sisted in. Under these threats
Premier MaFtIpetz Canyas permitted
alterations 10 be made in draft and in
bill, which has changed the whole
tenor Of the measure to such an cx
tent as to convince Liberals Premier
Canyas has completely surrendered
to the Conservatives. The resignation
of the ministry woall seem to indicate
they had not surrendered, but thai
they despair of carrying out the scheme
of Canyas
ST. HAzAIRE, December S.-Les-
seps, promoter Of the Panama ship
canal scheme, has sailed for Aspin-
wall. He was accompanied by his
wife, three children and fifteen other
persons.
VIENNA, DecemberS. News of the
Of General Ignatieif,
Russian ambassador to Rome, has
created quite scare in government
circles here. Semiofiicial newspapers
qualify it as a provOcation to Austria.