The Portland daily press., 1872-05-09
FOREIGN.


LONDON, May ga telegram from Bombay
brings intelligence of a disastrous food in the
southern part of British India. The town of
Veliore in the Presidency of Madras suffered
| terribly and many of the inhabitants were
drowned, The number of lives lost is given at
one thousand. Fifteen thousand inhabitants
OF the town lost everything they possessed, the
water having washed away their houses and
left them in perfectly destitute condition.
| The despatch of yesterday stating that there
had been flood in Melbourne whereby 400 per-
sons persisted is an error. 1t undoubtedly re-
ferred to the above mentioned disaster.
Free Tea land Coffee i'm the Dominion
OTTAWA, May SIN consequence of the
signing of the tea and coffee tariff repeal bill
by President Grant the Canadian government
proposed that from the first of July next the
duties on those articles imported into the Do
minion be repealed, and will on Friday move
for permission to do 50. .''
Town Burnt i'm Canada.
lNGERsoLL,H Canada, May 8-A fire last
night, destroyed nearly the entire business part
OF this town. Two men were burned to death.
among the sufferers are the Niagara District
Bank, the Chronicle Office, Exchange Hotel
and all the principals dry goods and grocery
stores. Loss estimated at half million.
German Matters. -l
BERLIN, May 8.-Emperor William will soon
go to Ems, to drink of its waters
Prince Bismarck retires to his estate and will
abstain from active participation in affairs for
several mouths, .4
The Provincial Correspontez, reports that the
Pope declines to receive Prince Hohenloke as
"A ambassador from Germany, and pIOnounces
the action of the Holy Father as striking evil
dence OF his want OF appreciation of Germany's
trlendliness and disposition to conciliate. a
= The Carlist Rising i'm Spain.
PARIS, May 8.-The legimst journal here in
sists that the battle of Oroquieta waslnot deci-
siye of the fate of the Carlist rising. -usB %
% rvrtfn H.
Duchess of Madrid, thot the prospects were
excellent and that he conld announce good
news, but refrained from prudential motives
Inc Carlist organs deny that that Roda or any
other leader has returned to France and assert
that the insurrectiOnary forces are the masters
OF all Biscay and important points in Guipuze-
Goa and hold possession of the railway between
Miranda and lrum, and that the bands under
CASTILLO and Allegro are active in the Catalonia
provinces, and others are lowering on the Dor
ders OF Ternet and Tarragnos. .b'
Defeat of Don Carlos Confirmed.
MADID, May 8-Evening Official dispatches
from the North, state that the insurgents have
disappeared from Guipuzecoa and only small
band remains in the province of Saragossa OF
the Carlist forces in Navarro, 1872 have surren-
dered to the government troops and the re-
mainder dispersed.
The Governor of Pampaluna telegraphs to
the Minister of War that Don Carlos has re-
crossed the frontier, accompanied only by
fer Another Story. ze
PARIS, May S.-Evening. The latest news
received here by the friends of Don Carlos, is
that he has from 900 to 5000 men. in Biscay
well armed, and well supplied with provisions
and munitions
% u - The Sugar Crop. az .
HAVANA, May 8.-Reports of the condition
OF the sugar crop received from various parts of
the island continue favorable 1t is now thought
that the yield will be much larger than at first
anticipated. srV
4ns Missing Schooner Found.
HALIFAX, N. s., May 8.-The master of the
schooner Oliver Bulge, reports May LIST, fifteen
miles from Cape Ann, he fell IN with and
boarded q schooner from Yarmouth. IN s al
most under water, with both masts lying across
decks. The dead bodies of two men were
found in the cabin. She is supposed to be the
schooner Bessie Gardner of Yarmouth, N. S.,
which has been some time missing.