Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1880-05-24
BY CABLE.

MelkOH recently submitted TO the
czar proposal for the establishment
Of two-house assembly. The car
deprecated the suggestion, and said he
left further reforms in the hands Of
the czarowitch after his death.
MADRID, May 24.-Two thousand
spinners participated in the wrecking
and subsequent burning of a mill at
Barcelona. Forty-three persons have
been arrested.
ROME, May 24.-Returns from one
hundred and one second ballots show
the following result: Constitutional
lists, thirty-one ministerialists, fifty
seveni dissidents, thirteen.
PARIS, May 2.-In an election at
Lyons for member of chamber of
deputies, Blanquie (communist) OBJ
tanned slight plurality. Another
election is to be held.
DUBLIN, May 24.-The Mansion
house committee report in hand TWEEN
ty-thfee thousand eight hundred and
eighty pounds. This sum will not
last three weeks. Earl Oowper gave
five thousand pounds to the commit
tee.
?. j. Smythe has withdrawn his
resignation of his seat in parliament.
He explains his resolve to resign was
taken hastily.
Cork, May A.-OA the arrival of
Mallow Sunday and of the train con-
tanning emigrants from Kerry on their
way to America, the train was stoned
by 800 men of south Cork militia, who
beat the emigrants numerically, and
ousted them from the carriages.
Some of the emigrants were seriously
injured. The militia had just been
disbanded after their annual train
ing.
PARIS, May 24.-The first sign of a
communist demonstration, Sunday,
was given by the assembling of small
knot of people around the Bastile col
umn, who were ordered by the police
to disperse. Shortly after two men
arrived with wreaths, but were imme-
diately arrested. The fact of their
arrest caused a crowd of five or six
hundred people to assemble and an
unsuccessful attempt was made to
rescue the prisoners. Blows were
freely exchanged and several would be
rescuers arrested. Three OF the per.
sons arrested proved to be reporters
and were Immediately released. Al
two o'clock this morning forty persons
assembled at the Bastile column but
were speedily dispersed by the police
At three O'Clock a procession of six
hundred people, many carrying red
boquets and wreaths, defled in front
of the wall where the communists
were shot in 1871, placing flowers
against the wall as they passed. All
4:30 there were three more arrests
but this was the last incident of the
days proceedings.
LONDON, May 4.-Lorillard's Ger
aldine has been scratched for the
EPSON summer meeting.
Articles have been signed in behalf
Of Trickett aud have been sent for ap.
lproval to Colonel Shaw, United States
consul, at Manchester, who has
been deputed to act for Hanlan
Trickett is expected in England by
the end of June. The articles Of
agreement provide that the race shall
be rowed over the usual Thames
championship course. The date is
not yet fixed. John Ireland, for many
years umpire of race regattas, has
been appointed referee for this race.
The Times says: I'VE cannot re-
gard the eclipse of the Philadelphia
and Reading railway company as per-
manent. Its property has fallen in
value, but men must have coal and
iron, and the recovery oftrade in these
commodities is inevitable. With the
revival of activity in this commerce,
the company must recover something
of its fortune, though sharehold-
ers may wisely refuse to be sanguine
in looking for speedy return to days
of dividends on their original shares. II
Mrs. Geo. Weldone, convicted three
months ago Of hbeling manager
Riveere, of Convent Garden promen.
adG concerts, and who was bound over
was sentenced to-day to four months
imprisonment for repeating the same
offence Sentence dates from convic.
tion, and is, therefore, only one
months Imprisonment.
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