Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1879-05-20
Attempt of a Broken Bank DIrec-
tor to Commit Suicide at
1nnlS Antwerp.
Another FIees to Spain With His
in'l Family. "
ChlIlan News Declared to be Oneslded
and Contradictory.
The Danube Out Of its Banks.-.TwentY
Miles Wide.
Great Destruction to Villages and Crops

PARIS, May 2O.-The Republique
franchise pronounces the statement
that Ministers Waddington and Lee
pere cannot remain in the same cabi-
net idle invention.
VIENNA, May 20. Negotiations for
the transfer Of Eastern Roumelia to
Governor Alerd Pasha have been sat
isfactOrily concluded. Russia has
promised that as soon as Alerd Pasha
arrives in Phillipopolis General Stalg-
pine will remove the Russian head
quarters elsewhere. n''t
LONDON, May 20.-Plaisted is at
Newcastle to arrange a match with
Nicholson or Wallace. Ross, unable
to obtain an opponent in England, has
started for America to participate in
the summer regattas. He also hopes
to make a match with Courtney or
Reilley. He promises to return to
England in autumn, when he may try
for the championship. Hanlan has
returned to Scotswood and will renew
his training to-day, He is still the
favorite, 100 to 50 being taken on him
on Monday. a+@'selvSA
R. G. Threfell, cotton manufac-
turer at Preston, has failed. Liabili-
ties, 936, 900. ..n ..
G. M. +. Smith, an iron monger at
Middlesbourgh, has failed. Liabilities,
100000. sfI ti h fM"l
Ialy, Salby & Co., merchants in the
Spanish trade at East Cheap, Il. c.,
has failed. a' 'i.n
W. Polake & Co., and Symons &
Co., both Of Rotterdam, has failed in
consequence of the failure of African
iscke Handelsvercniging. The liabil-
tiles of the latter will fall heavily on
the Meiningen Bank, Dormstadt Bank
and the Bank of Rotterdam.
One Of the directors of the
Africanische Handelsvereniging tried
to commit suicide at Antwerp. He
is now under surveillance in the hos
pital as it is expected that his tradi.
ton will be demanded.
Another director Of the same COM
pany fed to Spain with his family.
The latter, whose name is Pincoffs,
was Of great commercial and financial
Influence. He was member of the
first chamber and one of the leaders Of
the Liberal party.
Peruvian advices, official and other,
contradict the Valparaiso kilograms
about the progress Of the war, and
call attention to the fact that Chili's
control of municipal news is neces-
SdTlly One-slueu.
| A correspondent who has Just
traversed the Danube from Guirgovo
to Buda Pesth, telegraphs that the
Danube is very high a short distance
above Bazias, where the Austrian
shore becomes low and fat. The food
extends great distance inland.
Between this point and Belgrade
the river is from five to fifteen miles
wide; at Belgrade it is fully twenty
miles wide. Nearly all the Austrian
villages between Pesth and Bazias
have water in the streets. The river
side inhabitants informed me that the
wateg already is within two feet of the
highest point recorded and is still
rising.
The floods continuing so late in the
season must cause great damage to the
crops. All grain and other growing
produce in Roumania, Bulgaria, Aus
tria and Hungary, not in reach of the
high water, are looking finely, and
promise d bountiful harvest.
River kilograms.
PIFrsBURG, May 20, River 3 feet
1 inch and stationary. Weather cloar