Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1880-12-23
BY CABLE.
George Eliot, the Novelist, Dead.
The Latest From Far or Cape
Town.
Lord RlpOn to Resign as ViCsrOy
Of india.

Lord RipOn to Resign as NiCerOy
Of india.
LONDON, December 23.-Jones
thinks he will have to avail himself Of
all offers of help he has received from
all parts Of the kingdom after Christ
mas. The secretaries Of the Boycott
relief fund have received threatening
letters.
A dispatch from Teheran reports
that Sheik Abdallah, the Kurdish
leader, is now in Turkey, and Persia
demands his surrender.
Mrs. Cross George Eliot the dis
tinguished novelist, died at 10 o'clock
last night. Her death was quiet and
almost painless.
Mrs, Gross was seized with a sudden
chill, which attacked her in the larynx
Sunday last. She had, shortly before
the attack, received several friends,
who had left her apparently in good
health and spirits. The attack, how
ever, did not give serious cause ior
alarm until six o'clock last evening.
DR.. Andrew Clark then discovered
the pericardium was seriously affected
and pronounced the case almost hope
less. On the 9th Of May last the
deceased was married as Miss Marion
Evans to John Walter Cross, Of Wey-
bridge, Surrey, a merchant in the
city.
DUBLIN, December %. The parish
priest says he intends to proceed
against Bence Jones, who was recently
"Boycotted" for libel, in consequence
of Mr.. Jones statement to the effect
that the priest had indGced laborers
to quit his employment. The intro
duction Of the land league into the
north of Ireland has had the effect Of
setting existing tenant right borderers
who had been for sometime on the
quiesceBt again in motion, in some
districts, aud two noa current move
ments are now in progress, one Of
which Is distinct from the league,
although agreeiIs:; to some extent with
its principles. Printed r'acards for
the league meetings through the
country have received directions to
attend the trial Of the trayersers, and
to produce orders for the publication
oftie placards.
PARIS, December 23.-About four
hun lred persons, including Gambetta,
we're present last night at theVignaux-
Slosson billiard match.
Sr. PETERSBURG, December 23.-
MichaelOf, the nihilist nobleman, ar
rested some time ago, was an active
participator in the attempt against the
life Of the emperor of Russia at Win
ter Palace on the 18th of last Februa-
ry, when ten soldiers were killed and
forty-four wounded-some fatally-by
the explosion ola dynamite mine un-
der the imperial dining hall.
BERLIN, December 23.-The story
is pronounced unfounded that Herr
Wetlendorf, the Russian official who
undertook the reform of Turkish
finances, had given up his mission as
h., peless task and would quit Con-
,tantiuo,N ,Nle shortly.
ATHENS, December 2s.-COmOun-
douros, preside,,, t of the council and
minister of foreign affairs, says, with
out absolutely refusing arbitration be
fore knowing the terms and IN ,'nute' OF
concession that may possibly be ae-
manded of Greece, he should unhesi
tatingly reject arbitration as a re-
opening of the question of frontiers.
He said Greece had prepared for war
to obtain territory assigned her, aud
would run any risk involved therein.
CAPE Town, December 23.-The
additional forces raised to suppress
the Basutras, are now stationed at va
rious points on the frontier. A great
part OF the timber land has been clear
cd of the rebels.
LONDON, December 23.-The Times
hints that the Marquis of Ripon will
resign the vice-royalty of india, ow-
ing to his inability to stand the eli
mate, and recommends the immedia te
appointment of his successor. The
Times suggests Lord Duferin, at
present ambassador at St. Petersburg,
as the most fitted for the position.
LONDON, December 23.-An entire
garrison is in Ireland, but does not
include a single distinctively Irish
regiment.
CANkngAN DERATFg-