The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1880-05-12

foreign policy OF Austria were plseu upon
misconccption Of facts, ana the letter
Of Pos,masier.Ge Faucet recalling
his statement regarding the Governments
information relative to the Indian budget
deficit. are severely criticised by the Morn
ing Post, Daily Telegraph, Standard, aud
Times as Illuminating and damaging confess
sions.
France.
THE LABOR TROUBLES AND STRIKES.
LONDON. MAY 1.-THE Paris correspond
ent OF the Times says The danger OF
Communism is now greater because OF the
strikes in the manufacturing towns OF
France, which, IL they extend, would pre-
pare starving army ready to abet the
worst enterprises at Rouloix and Tour
Going. On Sunday 10000 men were on a
strike. Disturbances were apprehended.
Money Is being mysteriously sent from Bel
GUM and from the frontier TO keep up the
strike.
A kind OF crusade OF disorder seems TO
be organized, which is 10 break out stimuli
taneously at a hundred different points, and
thus paraly re the action Of the army.
CLAIMS FOR DAMAGES OF FRENCH SUBJECTS.
PARIS, Nav lin the Chamber OF Depu-
ties yesterday the drought OF the Conyen-
ton OF January Is, 1880. between France
and the United STATES for settling claims for
damages suffered by French subjects during
the civil war, was introduced, declared ur-
gent, and voted upor.
A Catholic Bishop Denounces the
land League.
/ LONDON, May 1.-THE Roman Catholic
Bishop OF the Diocese Of Ossory, Ireland, in
a pastoral letter, condemns the Land League,
and in general terms denounces the men
who have been prominent in its OrganiZl-
ton.
In his letter the Bishop says: " A few
days since an American newspaper was
put into my hands which has no better name
for Irish bishops than Episcopal traitors,
sons OF Judas, and the men who beiray the
DOOR, while its pages team with eulogies Of
Fenlanism, Communism. dc. These it
commends as glorious results Of modern
civilization. This paper is one Of the re-
cognized organs Of the so-called Land
League. Its great hero and correspondents
are men who have been most prominent in
| organizing the Land League in Ireland,
and who more than once have not blushed
to PROFOUND these Irreligious theories to
Irish audiences. For such men the Land
League Is a mere mask for Fenianism.
Should the attempt be made TO disseminate
their doctrines in this diocese | trust the
clergy and people will unite In casting them
from the Church and wagiDg an unceasing
war against them.
RumOred Disaster TO tile New French
Cable.
| LONDON, May 1.-THE Daily telegraph
in its financial article this morning says
"AnglO-AmCr'can cable shares rallied yes
terday on further rum0rs OF the new French
cable having been cut in two by IN iceberg.
The stOck-market idea is that As the French
company will be unable to raise funds for
the cost OF the recovery and repair OF the
cable. ii will he sold to the Anglo American
company on the latter's own terms"
The Famine I'm Persia.
| SIX HUNDRED DEATHS FROM STARVATION IN
ONE DISTRICT.
TEHERAN, Nav 1.-THE famine In the
province OF AZerbalian is increasing. There
have been 600 deaths from starvation since
January in the district OF Uramiiah. Twelve
hundred Christians have left the country.
| The crop prospects are bad. Wheat cost
eco per ton in the famine-stricken districts.
CnpIeasantness Between bismarck
and the Reicbstag.
LONDON. May ia Berlin dispatch TO
the Morning Post says: "Thc position OF
affairs between Prince Bismarck and the
| Reichstag is considered serious. His speech
| in the Reichstag on Saturday produced an
unmistakabIe tension, which has not thus
far abated."
Foreign Notes.
LONDON, May IA Geneva dispatch
SAYS that by explosion Of the dynamite
magazine belonging to the st. Gothard Rail
way contractors at Vaibo last Saturday three
persons were killed and twenty injured.
Sir John Goes, the organist and composer
OF sacred music, is dead.
The House Of Commons to-day adjourned
until the Goth instant