The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1882-12-19
FOREIGN.
Famine in the County CT DON
egal.
THE HEALTH OF POSTMASTER GEN
ERAL FAwCETT IMPROVING.
Two OF the Phoenix Park Murderers
Thought to be in Custody.

LONDON. Dec. 18.-Gurton Hall in Norwich seat
OF the Earl of Suffeld, has been burned.
Postmaster General Fawcett Better.
In consequence of Postmaster General Fawcetts
satisfactory progress bulletins reporting his con-
dition are issued less frequently.
A Crank Committed for Trial.
writing letters threatening the Prince of Wales and
Gladstone. has been committed for trial.
Death of the Dean of Carlisle.
Very Reverend Francis Close, dean of Carlisle
A Famine in County Donegal.
DUBLIN, Dec. 18.-It is stated that a famine pre-
yals S;ai In Carrck, county Donegal The people are
sons, IL IS said, are in danger of starying.s
Arraignment of Flynn.
Michael Flynn was arraigned today, charged with
participation in the murder Of the Huddys He
pleaded not guilty.
lPlundering Russians.
ST. PETERSBURG, Dec. 19-'The Novoe Vremya
says Russia has made representations to China con-
cernlng he plundering of Russian subjects the
to institute inquiry.
Westgates Confession.
Westgate was taken to the Castle today and pri-
vately examined touching his confessed connection
with the Phoenix Park murder.
The Emperor William Better
BERLIN, Dec. 19.-An official bulletin this morn
ing says the Emperor who is confined to his room
by cold slept toerably well last night and is
sderably better.
Another Sensation in the Spanish Cortes.
MADRID. Dec. 18.-In the Chamber of Deputies
on Saturday Marquis de Sardoval, recently Sehor
Morets lieutenant. said he spoke in the name Of all
den ocratic monarchical deputies except their late
chief. Senior Moret Every eye was turned upon
Senor Moret, who was thus publicly superseded in
the leadership of the faction he instituted year
ago. Senior Moret said he differed from Marquis
de Sardoval in regard to the two constitutions but
would on Mondsv fully defend his reasons for
joining NJ arshal Serrano.
LONDON, Dec. 18.-A despatch from Madrid saws
that despi his defeat in the Sena the result of
Marshal Serrano's campaign in favor of constitu-
lional reforms is already seen in the tone of the
speeches of the ministers and influential deputies
Mr.. Parnell on Emigration.
Mr.. Parnell, in his speech at the banquet given
in his honor at Cork yesterday, said he would al
ways oppose any attempt of the government to land
Immigrants in helpless and penniless condition on
the shores of the Eastern States of America. If
he raid, England desired to promote the emigration
of Irishmen, let them be placed lai d in Amer
lea provided with houses and means to raise crop
the first year of their residence He advocated re-
lief for congestel districts by purchasing for the
people vast tracts of grazing land Ireland which
were peopled before famine. There was no reason,
he said, why they should Eot be peopled again.
The Phoenix Park Murders.
The Dublin correspondent of the Times tele-
graphs that the police there believe that they have
col ected evidence to sustain charge of conspiracy
tocommit the Phoenix Park murders against the,
prisoners now custody suspicion of being con-
cerned in the crime.
The Failures in the English Tin Trade.0
The liabilities of six of the nine tin plate firms
which have failed during the past fortnight aggre,
gate 100000. The trade is completely paraiyzed
for the moment.
Defeat of the Government in New South
Wales.
SYDNEY, Dec. 18.-The general election for the
legislative assembly has resulted in the return of
large majority against the government
Thirty Women Injured by an Explosion.
PARIS, Dec. 18-An explosion occurred today in
cartridge factory at Mont Vallerin. Thirty women
employed in tina factory were seriously injured.
Foreign Notes.
Mr.. j. L. Redmond, member Of Parliament for
New Ross, will 60 to Australia as delegate from
the irish National League
Steamer Ethiopia, from New York, which ground
ed on Sunday in Lough Feyle, foated on the next
tide without damage.
News from Madagascar of the 9th inst. says that
the natives are becoming hostile toward Europeans
aud that an Englishman has been murdered.
A heavy gale is blowing in eastern Scotland. A
vessel has been wrecked the coast of Kinrardne-
shire, The crew were lost.
A missive denouncing the 5000 strikers of the
boot and shoe factories was read in the Catholic
churches of Montreal on Sunday, closing with di-
rections TO the strikers to return to work.
The attack by mountaineers in southwestern
China upon Chinese troops who were marching
against the French, in which the rear guard was
slaughtered, is connected with general rising in
Yum Nan.