The Portland daily press., 1881-10-18
FOREIGN.
Disastrous Effects of Gale in
Germany.
THE ARABS AGAIN DEFEATED IN
TUN1s.

IoNpoN. Oct. 17.-Eighty-fve vessels, prin-
cipaIIy British. were lost on the coast of the
United Kingdom during the recent gale
against oplv twenty wrecks in the early part OF
the week in all parts of the world. One hun
bred and thirty-eisht persons were reported
lost or missing Accounts received subsequent
to the compilation of these statistics state thai
down to last evening SO fishermen belonging to
Rurnmonth and Edgemouth are known to
have been drowned and that 40 others belong-
ing to both places are missing.
Great Damage by storm in Germany.
LONDON. Oct. 17-Great damage and loss of
life throughout North Germany resulted from
the late gale. The river Elbe rose twelve feet
above lis normal level and is covered with
wrackape. Several vessels are stranded at
Altoona. The loss of petroleum is enormous.
Five German vessels were wrecked at Bremen
and some members OF their crews drowned.
The Pope's Reception OF the Pilgrims
ROME, Oct. 1.-THE Pope Yesterday, seated
ON his throne in st. Peters Cathedral, received
1000 Italian pilgrims His Holiness was en-
Enthusiastically greeted. Replying TO an address,
he renewed his declaration that he could
never accept accomplished facts without fall
ing in his duty
LONDON. Oct. IA dispatch from Rome to
the Times saws 1t is impossible to describe the
Enthusiastic cheers after the Pope gay9 his
benediction gu the occasion OF receiving the
Italian pilgrims at St. Peters Sunday. The
pope looked thin, worn aud anxious a gang
OF roushs pelted the pilgrims leaving the
Church of st Vale, shouting, Down with
the Vatican"
Disastrous Typhoon in China.
Hone KONG, Sept. a. Disasters to life and
property wrought in the interior by the ty-
phoons are very great. A village named Shet-
osha in The Kow district was completely swept
away by floods and the inhabitants drowned.
A steam launch was dispatched to the locality
| I'LL v,1 Iti.zl
typhoon passed over Foo Chow, doing great
damage 70 shipping Another typhoon oc-
CURED on the 18th and 14th doing considerable
damage in the interior and along the coast.
Hundreds of houses were blown down, bridges
carried away and many lives lost.
The War in Tnnis.
PARIS, Oct 17-The insurgents lost SEQ
killed after six hours engagement on Friday
last between General Sabatier's column and
the Arabs, in the neighborhood of Zaghouan
TUNIs, Oct. 1.-THE Arabs, yesterday, at
| tackled the village of Momak, close to the city
of Tunis, pillaging the neigbborhood. Gen.
| Sabatier has defeated the insurgents in q sec
ond battle. A French column has left Tebas-
sa, Algeria, for South Tunis
Foreign Notes.
| A dispatch from Durham says: The Beers
have seized the wagons of those Beers who re-
| manned loyal TO England during the war; A
| dispatch from Pietermaritzburg says: The
| Beer convention with England has not been
ratified. Pablo feeling in the Transyaal Is
| unsettled.
The gale of last Friday extended to Paris,
| Havre, Dieppe and Calais, and to Germany.
The Paris correspondent of the London
! Times says: NJ de Lesseps and the New Gale
| DOMAIN government favor the experiment OF
employing "ticket-of-leaye" men on the Pan
| amascanal.
| The trial of the four Nihilists, members OF
| the Black Division, who were indicted for Sc
| cretly printing a revolutionary paper, has
and Prikhodka, were exied TO Tohjusk. and
| Perepletckkof was sentenced to four months
| imprisonment.