Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1880-05-05
Rare Honor to an American at Cork
A Daring Socialist In the Ger
man Reichstag.
The India Budget Short Half a
Million Pounds.
Chester Trades Cup Won by Fashion.

LONDON, May 5.-A Berlin cores
pondent says the discomfort in Ger
many may be judged by the tide Of
emigration. Its estimated that dur
ing the past thirty years two and a
half millions Of people have emigrated.
In want of a law not allowing Brad
laugh to make affirmation instead of
taking the oath required of members,
a house bill will be Immediately intro
duced to legalize such affirmation.
Shewitch, the reported author of
the winter palace explosion, is brother,
not nephew, Of the governor of Ka-
lauga.
Outram & Co., cotton manufactur-
erS of Preston, suspended. Liabili-
ties for differences on contracts for
cotton to arrive, from 100000 to
e25, 1000.
LONDON, May 5.-The difference
between the financial results in India
and those promised in the budget
statement published in February, is
from 100000 to 100000 pounds. The
financial minister of the viceroy gross
ly underestimated expenses of the
Afghan war. The Indian government
sends dispatch to the secretary Of
state for India, saying the cost Of the
Afghanistan war will exceed the esti.
mates by 100000 pounds, The dis
patch declares the military depart.
ment solely blameable, They believed
the estimates sufficient, and advised
their adoption by the financial de.
partment.
DUBLIN, May 5.--The Catholic
bishopsand clergy in conference unan
imously resolved to accept as salts
factory Parnell's reasons for leaving
Meath, and a majority decided tt
adopt A. M. Sullivan as his successor
provided he felt at liberty to co
operate cordially with Parnell in par
lament. A public Open-air meetiu,
was held in the evening, and the an
nouncemento Of Sullivan S name elicitet
cheers and cries of "Nor' Their,
were several fights among the partisan
rival candidates-Drake and Sullivan
The police were obliged to interfer,
to protect brakes party, and Parnel
said if he consulted his own inclina
ton he would represent Meath, but i
he did so, Cork would be undoubted
ly lost.
Lord Mayor Gray in presenting tn,
freedom of the city Of Dublin to Capt
Potter, said it was an honor Of whicl
the corporation was jealous and tina
only three names proceeded that o
Captain Potter upon the burgess roll
| A certificate Of freedom was enclosed
in a casket of bog-wood, elaborated,
carved and adored with Irish em
blems.
BERLIN, May 5.-The parliament
ary commission for the preliminar!
treatment of the new stamp tax, re
jected the receipt stamp; one membe
voting for it.
Proceedings have begun agains
Bremen which threaten to depriv,
that town of its rights as a free port
A correspondent says. Lubbock wi
also shortly receive its death warran
This new policy of Prussia must b
regarded with utmost interest by th
English and American merchants.
BERLIN, May 5,-In the debate Q
the anti-socialist bill in the reichsta
f yesterday, Herr Hassellmann made
, declaration of his political cree,
which caused considerable comm,
, ton. He said in Russia anarchist
{ had risen against despotism; in Fran,
commune had done so, and he hope
German workingmen would folio
their example. He said he identih(
himself with the revolutionary feelil
Of the people, and regretted that on
: before in the reichstag it was denit
9 on the part of the socialists that tn
y had any connection with Russian a
l. archists. He denied he accepted Co
9 nection, but spoke, of course, only f
himself, not knowing how far his &C
a leagues agreed with him. He W
convinced that the belief was gainil
/ ground among the people that I
i days of parliamentary palavering we
/, at an end. Hassellmann was call
II to order.
LONDON, May 5.-The west Of En-