Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1880-12-04
FOREIGN NEWS.
Gold for America.

| LONDON. December 3. 1850, 600 in gold
were purchased in open market, yesterday.
for transmission TO America by Saturdays
| steamer.
| Damage 10 an American Brig.
American brig J. Il. Brown of Portland,
from Christiana for Greenock, before re-
ported stranded in Broad Bay. Scotland. has
been fioated. She is strained and otherwise
damaged.
Aid for Greece.
Roman papers announce that committee
of action, composed of exGaribaldian officers.
ing succor to Greece within legal limits.
should she commence war.
/ Evacuation of Candahar.
/ Orders have been sent to the vicerov of
India for evacuation of Candahar, to com
mence as soon as the weather permits.
Irish Agitation.
! The government, after consideration, has
| determined to make stand on two points,
viz. Abolition of very small tenancies and
fixture of tenure all around.
| The Vaorous starts for the south Of Ireland,
Monday, with small arms, ammunition buck.
shot and steam pinnaces armed with seven
Founders for the winter transit.
The excitement over the Irish question is
increasing. Lord Cranbrook, conservative.
speaking at Beach Hampstead, last night
| declared that as the government had failed to
| suspend habeas corpus, if further outrages
were committed the blood would be on their
heads.
Atfidavits Of Parnell, Biggar. ]. ID. Sui
| Ivan, Seaton and Dillon on which TO base
an application for postponement of the trial
OF the traversers, on the ground that the date
| already fixed will interfere with their consti-
tutional right to be present when Parliament
meets, were filed in the crown Offices, Dublin,
at O'Clock last evening. The iraversers
| will apply for postponement of the trial until
the 25th of January.
The government has ordered the prosecu-
tion of the proprietor of the Sligo Champion,
for publishing a notice calling on tenant to
relinQuish his farm
private in the third dragons at Balm
collig was yesterday shot and badly wounded.
Police sergeant O'Connor was brutally
beaten and kicked by mob at Clare Morris
to-day. Minor outrages are increasing
throughout Ireland and the reign of terror is
spreading.
Government will prosecute the proprietor
| of the Sligo Champion, for alleged treason
able utterances and defence of the atrocities
of the land league.
BeIl IeiephOne company.
Judgment was deferred in the suit to CON-
pei Bell Telephone Company t. take out
license. on the ground that the telephone is
an infringement of governments monopoly
of the telegraph.
Oxen and sheep Lost from n steamer.
Steamer Lake Nepigon, at Liverpool, lost
l44 oxen and 4s7 sheep on the passage.
Dissolution Of the Fleet.
BADsIc, December 3. Admiral Seymour
has notified the various commanders of dis
solution of the combined fleet.
American Wheat in Macedonia.
SoLoNIcA, Turkey, December 8. The har-
vest in Macedonia has SO entirely failed that
wheat is coming from America.
Health Of the Gar.
ST. PETERSBURG, December 3. The Gar
has arrived here from Livadia, and appears
in good health Melikof accompanies him.
The Jewish Question.
BERLIN, December 3. The Jewish ques-
ton continues to attract much public atten-
ton. The newspapers are debating it.
Pamphlets are pouring forth and tumults
taking place among students, with an &C.
casional fracas in the streets.