The Portland daily press., 1880-08-09
EUROPE.

Ireland Indignant at the Rejection of the
Compensation Bill.
New YORK, Aug. IA cable special says
although no great demonstration was made in
Ireland yet the rejection of the compensation
| bill by the House of Lords creates great indie-
| nation and has done more to strengthen the
| land agitation than even the recent evictions
| The famine has been checked in Mayo, but
evictions are increasing in the west of Ireland
Reinforcements for Afghanistan.
:. PORTSMOUTH, Eng, Aug. THE troop ship
lamar sailed today for Bombay with 1000
| men who are destined to reinforce the army in
| Afghanistan
The Porte and the Powers.
CoNsTANTINoPLE, Aug. THE Porte has
not replied to the last note of the powers about
| Montenegro 1t is believed it will decide in
favor of ceding Dulcigno as soon as the agent
sent to Albania has induced the Albanian
| chiefs to consent.
The Importation Of American Cattle.
LONDON, Aug. THE Times says:-The
| official correspondence relating to diseases of
animals in the United States, published yester-
| day, which was OF great use in the debate in
the House OF Commons last night, throws a
| flood of light on the mode of fattening stock
| in the West, and several of the documents
| will give shock of surprise to those who only
know about the English Stalled CATTLE Ac-
counts of stock yards and feeding processes at
ST. Louis are anything but inviting Unhealthy
fed on beer Stops. Swill-fed cattle from the
| West are not an attractive feature of Amer
lean industry.
Particulars Of the Murder of the Ameri-
can Missionary.
LONDON, Aug IA dispatch from Con-
stantlnople to the Times gives the following
| full details of the murder of Dr. Parsons, the
American missionary, and his servant, Mar
lsmid. several days since:
Dr. Parsons, accompanied by his American
| servant, was making professional tour in
| the mountains east of Ismid, and encamped
| on the night of the 18th inst. by the roadside
| in the vicinity of some Zuruks of semi-no-
madlc tribe. Two Mursk sheperds, who have
since been arrested, confessed with cynical
| composure that they shot the two travellers as
they slept and robbed them of their money.
amounting to less than a pound AS Dr. Par
sons did not reach his destination at the ex-
| pected time, and as his horses were found
| wandering about the hills, his friends insti-
tuted search and their bodies were discovered
under some bushes near the scene of the muir
| der. The authorities ON hearing that a dis
patch on the subject had been sent to the Brit
Ish Embassy showed more than usual ZEAL and
| Dy threatening wholesale arrests they induced
the Auruks to surrender the criminals, who
| are now imprisoned. AS they are neither Cir
cassians nor Bosnians and have probably no
influential protectors in the palace, they may
possibly be executed; but the fact of their be-
! ing Mahommedans may put obstacles in the
| way OF ordinary judicial procedure.
Crop Prospects in Ireland.
DUBLIN, Aug. S-The harvest prospects in
ireland are again causing great anxiety. Rains
during the last fortnight have been excessive,
Potatoes are generally sound, but blight is yisi-
BILE in many fields, Grain crops promise an
abundant yield.
Foreign Notes.
The LegitimiSt papers of Paris publish the
following note: The number of notes and let
tiers sent to Frohsdorf on st. Henri's dav was
SO considerable that Count de Chambord, the
Legltlmlst claimant, finds himself obliged to
answer them by a collective expression of
gratitude. He wishes his royal gratitude to be
known once for all to Frenchmen who trust in
him, his pledges, his resolutions and unshaka-
Die faith in reparative future.
large and enthusiastic public meeting was
held at Cape Town Saturday night to give ex-
| preston to the regret felt at the recall of Sir
Bartle Frere and of the conviction that his
| policy is the correct one. A copy of the reso-
lutions adopted has been forwarded to Earl
Kimberly, Secretary of State for the colonial
department. wy
A Paris despatch denies that Gen MacMahon
attempted suicide.
The Vatican has decided to augment and re-
organize the colleges of the Propaganda for
Asia and Africa, being DESTROYS of LARGELY de-
yelop1ng the Catholic church in those parts.
Branch colleges of Propaganda are to he estab-
lished in suitable localities, and new bicariate
| apostoll''s will be created in Morocco and in
| the future in the interior of Africa