The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1881-12-21
FOREIGN
Minister Hamlin's Reception.


MADRID, Dec. 20.-Mr. HamliD, the new
United States minister, presented his creden-
tias to King Alfonzo to-day. Mr. Hamlin
said he was charged with the pleasant duty OF
assuring his majesty of the abiding friendship
of the President and people of the United
States, the long continuance of which would be
o matter of just pride to both nations He also
said it would be his aim to strengthen those
relations. Americans hold in cherished re-
membrane the tender letters of coincidence
with Mrs. Garfield and the Christian sympathy
expressed by their maiesties and the royal
family, demonstrating the brotherhood of ma
lions and individuals. King Alfonzo ac-
knowledged the friendly sentiments which he
said were reciprocated.
AAmerican Suspected of Murder.
DUBLIN, Dec. Fitzpatrick Dunnea, a farmer
near Abbrilien, has been. found murdered His
brother Timothy who recently returned from
America and who wished to get possession of
the farm has absconded. 1t is supposed he re-
turned to America.
Prosperous France.
PARIS, Dee 20.-The years excess of receipts
over the expenditures will be 200 GOO 600 francs,
the supplementary credits amounting to no.
000,0 900 francs. There will thus be available
&c. 900 francs on the LIST of January.
An American Decorated.
The cross of the Legion of Honor has been
conferred upon Hiram S. Maxim, electrician
of the United States electric light company of
New York.
Terrible Colliery Disaster.
LONDON, Dec 20.-Thirty-four persons were
killed and So injured by the explosion yester-
day in a coal pit at Ballon.
Semi-Panic in American Stocks in Lon
don
The Standard in its financial article this
morning, referring to the decline in the value
of American securities yesterday says: 1.-THE
market has been completely disorganized for
mill In
| found"
The Daily News in its financial article says:
sIn the American market the state of matters
has been described as ON Of semi-panic. The
| bulls were overloaded with stock which they
] were unable to get rid of"
The Daily Telegraph in its financial article
| says: "The feeling of the market closely APP
| preached the character of a panic, Sales were
/ pressed with little discrimination in the choice
| of stock to make dealers put down quota
| tions."
Irish Affairs.
| The Lord Mayor of London has written to
| the provincial Mayors, asking their assistance
| in raising subscriptions for the defence of pro-
/ perty in Ireland fund.-
| A dispatch from Dublin says mail car ply
| ing between New Pallas and Doom was stopped
near Chsppamore by four armed men, who
| knocked the driver from his seat and searched
| the letters
| Heavy Gales
| A heavy gale prevailed in London and along
| the west coast yesterday. At Bristol two per-
sons were killed and IS injured by fall of a
| chimney.
PARIS, Dec. 20.
| A violent gale has been in France to-day,
numerous wrecks an the French coast are re-
ported.
Foreign Notes.
A dispatch from Vienna says: 81 learn that
| the late arrests at st. Petersburg took place in
| the hope that the person who lost q detailed
| plan of the Castle of Gatchina, which the
| police picked up in the Picture Gallery, might
be found. Red marks on the plan seemed to
| indicate where dynamite night De placed"
! M. Gambetta, French Minister Of Foreign
| Affairs, has ordered inquiry TO be instituted
| into the affair connected with the arrest OF NJ
| Pilet, Chancellor of the French Consulate at
1 Guatemala, by the police of that city.
| A dispatch from Vienna says the police ar
rested at Prague on Sunday night eighteen
/ Social Democrats.
An explosion of the gasometer in the rear of
| the Northern Railway station, Vienna, yester-
| day 5killeds four persons Several others
| were injured.