The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1879-09-17
FOREIGN NEWS.
The Industrial Distress in England.


LONDON, Sept. 16.-As proof of the depres-
Congress of Trades Unions which opened in
Edinburgh yesterday, stated that four OF the
principal Unions have spent $4,000 in
relieving the wants of members during the
past year.
The Ashton Strike.
An effort is being made to bring about a
conference between the strikers and employers
at Ashton. A meeting will probably be ar
ranged, but there is no apparent inclination TO
bring the strike to an early termination.
Mills Stopped.
The works of Jones Bros, plate and mai
manufacturers of Middleboro, whose failure
has been announced but who kept their mills
in operation, finally stopped yesterday. Six
hundred are thrown out of employment.
The Coal Trade.
Alexander Macdonald Member of arlia-
ment and President of the Miners National
Association addressing meeting of miners
delegates at Glasgow to-day, advised them to-
restrict the output of coal to 1000 weight per
man daily, and, thus checkmate the iron
masters fir having blown out their furnaces.
The meeting approved the course proposed.
The Controversy.
LONDON, Sept. 16.-The Times says that the
extraordinary controversy now alarming Eu-
rope on a supposed misunderstanding be-
tween Gortschakoff and Bismarck shows what
dangerous stuff is all around us. A ring of in
terested spectators in confusion seems to
have half succeeded in pursuading one, if not
both. statesmen that the greatness OF one
mighty Empire is incompatible with the great
ness of another.
For the Russian and German nations, at
present. the difficulty appears to be to manu-
facture reasons for flying at each others
threats. Their interests are in no respect OPP
posed: neither owns territory coveted by the
other, and yet the press on both sides is taking
it for granted that sooner or later the sword
will have to be drawn. We believe much OF
this furnishing of swords will be found to be
merely exercises of fencing schools, but it is
time that the masters should come forward
and reasSure mstrustful Europe.
Yakoob Khan Accused Of Duplcity.
A military correspondent of the Times says
it is difficult, in the face of the overwhelming
evidence, to believe that Yakoob Khan played
an honorable part i'll the recent shameful
deeds at Cabnl.
1t is significant that Major Cavagnari's
principal native assistant is believed to have
died short time before the outbreak under
suspicious circumstances; being an Afghan
and well acquainted with the workings OF the
Oriental Court, his presence in the British
Residency was dangerous to those plotting the
outbreak.
Details of the Afghanistan Massacre.
S1MLA, Sept. 16.-One of the troopers of
CaVagnarl'S escort arrived dt Lullul Nudtdl
Yesterday He says the roof of the British
embassy at Cabul was commanded by other
houses and was untenable by besieged who
made a trench outside. About p. m. on the
day of the massacre Cavagnari received a
wound from riccochetting bullet in the fore
head. Jenkyns, Cavagnari's assistant, wrote
to the Amer for help and the Ameer's reply
was Goods will 1 am making arrangements y
A previous request for aid from Cavagnari had
not met with the same reply. Jenkyns wrote
again when Cavagnari was killed, but the
bearer was cut to pieces by the mutineers. A
trooper was then started but was disarmed and
imprisoned He succeeded in escaping at day
break on the 4th of September and visited the
residency where he saw the corpse OF Lieut..
Hamilton lying across mountain gun. He
says Jenkyns was with person called Yahyah
Khan and he is presumably alive. DR.. Kelley
connected with the mission was lying dead in
side of the residency. Cavagnari was in the
room which was burned and which had fallen
in. His body was not found. Three native
officers were burned to death near the
residency.
Foreign Notes.
A London dispatch says that Bernhard
Gotta, the geological writer, is dead, aged "A.
The italian budget for 1880 shows deficit
of 5000, 900 lire.
Theo. Valerie, the French painter and EN-
graver, is dead