The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1881-05-18
The Revised Edition of the Bible Issued.

LONDON, May l7.-Gladstone is indisposed
and confined to his bed, but his illness is not Sc
rlous.
gal.
The court of appeals, in an action against
Manwood & Son, steamship owners of West
Hartlepool, has reversed a decision of the low
or courts, deciding that contracts between
shippers and shipowners for the shipment of
cattle on deck is Illegal that the shipper has
no remedy under such contract against the
shipowner or owners of the rest of the cargo
for cattle jettisoned f5r the safety of the whole
Reply of the Nihilists to the Gear.
The Standards dispatch from Berlin says
the NihiliStS have answered the manifesto of
the Gar by proclamation, saying that they
accept the war which has been forced upon
them, and are confident of victory. The great
err the oppression the firmer will the people be-
come.
Another Mine Discovered in st. Peters
burg.
st. Petersburg correspondent says yester-
day an ensign found mine of 81 pounds of gun
powder under stone bridge at the steamer
landing in street leading to the Tsarkoeselof
railway station.
Treatment of Emigrants on Shipboard.
In connection with the investigation based
on the letter recently published in the Pail
Mall Gazette detailing the ''Horror of an Emf
grant Ship" Capt c. P. Wilson, representing
the board of trade, accompanied by Miss Char
lotte 0 Brien, author of the letter, has been at
Queenstown the past week inquiring into the
treatment of emigrants. The steamers of the
Cunard, Inman, American and National line
have been carefully examined and an official
report will be forwarded by the board of trade.
There is ground for believing that the report
will completely refute tie charges made.
The Revised Bible.
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Bible were issued to-day after a special copy,
elaborately bound and with appropriate ia
scription, had been sent to the Queen The
morning newspapers have comments upon the
work which vary in tone to a very considerable
and unexpecte1 extent. The Times dainns it
with faint praise and says it sees little force or
improvement in many alterations which have
been made
The Failure of Coercion.
Accounts from Ireland agree that the recent
numerous arrests there have not checked agi-
tation A return of the arrests made under
the provisions OF the coercion act up to the 9TH
inst. show total of a. The warrant for the
arrest of Dillon states that he is reasonably sus-
pected OF melting forcible resistance to the ex
ecution of process of law for giving possession
of lands and to riot and assault.
Incendiary Speech by Michael Brennan.
LONDON, May 17.-Michael Brennan, in a
speech at Ballyroan Sunday, declared that
pensate the landlords would be laughed off the
platform. He characterized the land bill as
miserable measure, aud advocated general
strike against all rent. He said the anti. slav-
cry movement in America commenced by Of
fers of compensation to the slave owners but
slavery was washed away in blood. People
should make it impossible for landlords to col
lect rents.
The Greek Frontier.
CoNsTANTINoPLE, May 17.-At meeting of
the frontier commission yesterday, Turkey
withdrew the points of the proposed conven-
ton which me ambassador considered mad
missible. Both parties were animated by
conciliatory spirit and were DESTROYS of con-
GLIDING an arrangement speedily.
ATHENS, May lit is believed that if no
practical decision is reached at to-day's meet
ing of the ambassadors at Constantinople,
Greece will send note promptly announcing
that if the question is not settled within GER
tain time her troops will enter Thessaly
Contradictory Reports from Albania
News from Albania is very contradictory
Although Dervish Pasha, the Turkish COM
mander, has repeatedly declared that the in-
sur surrectlon was suppressed, he has sent to sa'
lonica for reinforcements to dslodge the AL
banians from Jakora and Ipek, where it is
said that large forces are concentrated. As the
Albanians cannot continue the struggle with
out foreign support, the next few weeks will
furnish valuable indications concerning Aus
trials policy there.
The Plague at Nedjef
CoNsTANTINoPLE, May 17.-Dispatches from
the sanitary administration in MeSopotamia
state that the mortality from the plague in
Nedjef was Sc per day for the week ending
May 2. Four thousand of the inhabitants are
dispersed in camps completely isolated. These
camps are now quite free from the plague, as
are also the localities of Elzayed and Djara,
whence the disease was originally propagated.
The remaining inhabitants of Nedjef will
leave shortly, when the officials will be able
to completely destroy all latent germs of the
epidemic.
Attempt to Arrest Midhat Pasha.
The palace of Midhat Pasha was suddenly
surrounded to-day by three battalions of troops
under command of an aide-de-camp of the
Sultan. Midhat however escaped by side
door and took refuge at the French consulate
whence he issued an appeal to foreign consuls
for protection. The consuls have applied to
the ambassadors for instructions.
Russian Naval Officers Stealing Dyna-
mite.
ST. PETERSBURG, May 1.-Two nayal.lieu-
tenants have been arrested at Cronstadt for ar
propriatng quantity of dynamite from the
Imperial mining department.
Foreign Notes.
A Paris dispatch says Geographic orders have
been issued to occupy Tunis, in consequences of
the Bey's telegram to the Porte.