Daily Kennebec journal., 1881-11-11
FOREIGN NEWS.
Glad stone Makes a Speech.


saws the emphatic statement of Gladstone in
his speech at Guild Hall. last night, may
serve as a warning to those tenants who.
being tempted, yield even temporarily. to the
no-rent policy We understand that the prac-
tical difficulty of engaging in conflict with
a large body of tenancy will be met If the
occasion requires, by taking one by one the
counties in which the resistance to rent may
be organized, and by using for the enforce
ment of the law the whole power of the
executive.
A Wholesale Massacre for Building
Purposes.
Advices from Cape Coast Castle dated Oct.
10th, state that information has been received
there that the King of Ashantee has killed
two hundred young girls for the purpose of
using their blood for mixing mortar, to be
used in the repairs one of the State build
ings. The report of the massacre received
from a refugee, who was to have been one of
the victims. 1t receives some confirmation.
also in the fact that such wholesale massa-
cres are known to be a custom with the
King.
The French Cabinet.
PARIS Nov. 10. After the cabinet council
today, Premier Ferry and his colleagues
who accepted them. The ministers will re-
main in charge of their departments pending
the appointment of succe ssors. Grevy has
decided to summon Gambetta. with whom he
will have an interview.
Later-After his conference with President
Grevy this afternoon, Gambetta forthwith
took steps to form a new cabinet
Land League.
The central committee of the land league
of Great Britain. has issued a violent mani
festo stating the land league is proclaimed.
but unbroken. and will save the nation, and
appealing for subscriptions.
A Diplomatic Arrangement.
dispatch from Constantinople saws Said
Pasha ard Gen Wallace, United States Min
lister, have amicably arranged the incident of
the arrest of NJ. Kavoss, at the America Con-
snl's at Saonica, for brgandage. Kavoss is
to be tried by the ordinary tribunal, and the
Consul will be represented at the trial
Foreign Notes.
The execution of Arthur LEROY has been
fixed for the Goth inst
The British ship Trenton. Quebec, for Lon
don, abandoned at sea the 10Th ult. Sixteen
of her crew landed at Bordeaux.
In consequence of an article published in
LePays Paris. Adrian MOntebello has chal-
lenged Paul DeCassagnac to fight duel.
The defalcatons brought to light in the
Havana Treasury Department, by the dis
covery of stolen tax documents, amount to
about ten million dollars.
dispatch from Vienna SAYS all the rivers
in Upper ALBANIA. are overfowed, and large
tracts of land are inundated. At Scutari,
the basin has been flooded and several lives
lost.
A Tunis' special says that two tribes in
the northern part of the regency, have for
mally submitted to the French and the
chiefs of another tribe are negotiating with
the French.
Paris advices from Algeria state General
DeLeBacquis' column has had an engage
ment with the insurgents in the South in
which the French lost killed and wounded
The loss Of the insurgents heavy.
A dispatch from Sydney, n. S. w, says
the Legislative Assembly expelled Hon. f.
A. Baker, late Minister Of Mines, in conse.
quence Of the reports in connection with the
disposal of compensation awarded to the
Melbourne Mining Co.