The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1880-08-12
EUROPE.
Encouragement Of Emigration.

| Encouragement Of Emigration.
LONDON, Aug. ia meeting convened by
| Mr.. Thorold Rogers, member of Parliament,
| was held yesterday to consider the formation
| of a company for the purchase and sale of land
! in the United States, with view to furtheripg
| the emigration of small farmers and assisting
! such emigration by loans on security of the
| land sold Fand occupied. A committee was
| formed to promote the undertaking.
The Greek Boundary Question
A Berlin despatch says: The reply of the
| Powers to the Porte's note refusing to adopt
| the Greek frontier, decided upon by the Ber-
| lin conference, is being drawn up here by the
French and German secretaries at the confer
| ence.
| Suspicious Movement of Austrian Troops
A dispatch from Kustendie to the Times,
dated yesterday, says: Six pontoons and two
| propellers, heavily laden with Austrian troops,
munitions and artillery, passed up the Danube
| last night Other vessels similarly laden, but
| bearing no flag, have also been pa ssing up. 1t
| is evident that an important movement is in
| progress.
The Temporizing Porte.
| The Vienna correspondent of the Times
| hears from Scutari that the Porte intends to
| unite the two pashalics of Albania under one
| governor general, and that this, no doubt will
| fully answer the desires of one part of the Al
bantam population.
The Relations Of Roumelia and Bulgaria.
n ulopdtCu lIOm DuCudTGSI 10 Inc Times
says that NJ. Zankoff, Bulgarian premier, re-
Gently declared officially that there would be
no rising in that principality in favor of a I'M
ION with Roumelia unless the movement began
in Roumelia and its spreading i'll Bulgaria
should become too strong for his control. but
he pledged himself that Bulgaria should not
take the initiative.
Bulgaria Improving Her Armament.
A Bucharest dispatch says that Bulgaria has
decided to change the armament of her troops,
and for that purpose 49, 900 Berdan rifles have
been ordered from Russia to replace the worth
less Kranka muskets. Some Berdan rifles
have been already received at Bulgarian ports
and have caused reports that Russia was send
ing arms to Bulgaria. Many students from
Bulgaria are attending Russian military
schools, and about fifty have returned home to
spend their vacation. Their spassage through
REM, Bucharest and Rustchuk in uniform
caused goodly proportion of reports about
Russian officers arriving in Bulgaria.
The German and Austrian Emperors at
Ischi.
IRCHI, Aug. 11.--At the meeting of the en-
perors, which was very cordial Emperor Fran
els Joseph wore the Russian uniform and the
Emperor William the Austrian uniform At
the banquet at the Imperial villa last night
the Empress of Austria joined the two emper-
ors. The guests included the Prince of Milan,
and the Prince of Reuss, German ambassador
to Austria. In the evening the emperors Wis
tied the theatre.
Seven Persons Killed by Railroad Acct
dent
LONDON, Aug. 11.-An accident occurred
to-day on the Midland Railway, between Leeds
and Lancaster. A passenger train left the
track, and seven persons were killed and 20 in
jured.
A Lockout in Scotland.
LONDON, Aug: 1.-THE iron masters of the
west OF Scotland met to-day and agreed that
the state of trade did not warrant an advance
In the wages OF the workmen and as the strike
OF golfers and miners is general throughout
Lanarkshire it was resolved that all furnaces
OF firms represented be blown out forthwith.
Dangerous Condition of Affairs in Ireland
LONDON, Aug. 11.-Great alarm and agita-
ton is said to prevail in the vicinity of New
Ross on account of the mystery and evidence
OF organization surrounding the Boyd outrage
The disguise of the perpetrators were so per-
fect that identification is unlikely. Marked
attention has been drawn to the fact that the
weapons abandoned by the murderers are En-
field rifles bearing government brand
CORK, Aug. 1.-THE Constitution says the
present state OF the western part of Limerick
is very disturbed. Illegal drilling is extensive
ly carried on and Feniansm is again begin
nlng to feel its way A large number of well
known Fenian emissaries are working up the
movement and exciting the peasantry to rebel
lion.
LONDON, Aug. 1.-THE Truth SAYS private
letters from the west of Ireland depict the
condition in that part of the country in gloomy
colors They speak of large quantities of arms
Struggled into cabins of small tenants, of Sc
cret drilling, of an apperation of mysterious
strangers from America and of the latest
miracle at Knock where the Virgin and St
Patrick appeared to the peasantry and told
hem to pay no rents.
Foreign Notes.
Several Cuban captives have been sent to
the Spanish penal settlements Oh the coast of
Africa.
The government Of New South Wales has
abandoned the wood, coal and stock taxes.
A piratical plot of Chinese passengers to
seize th e steamer Bowen on the passage from
Singapore to Hong Kong was frustrated
Gold discoveries are reported in various
parts of New Zealand
A dispatch from Halifax says the steamer
Camelia of North Shields arrived there on
Tuesday, having in tow the disabled Anchor
Line steamer Acadia, from New York for
Glasgow, she having lost her propeller and six
feet of shaft $40 miles Southwest of
Halifax. The Acadia will have to dis
charge part of her cargo to get the broken
shaft out.
An Afghan in the Russian service was muir
dered on his way from Afghanistan with i'm
portant papers for the Russian Governor Gen
eral. The papers were stolen.
Three or four thousand workmen in the
Tyne ship yards have struck for an advance of
ten per cent.
The story of the loss of the steamer Jeddah
with nine hundred pilgrims ON board, is a
hoax.