The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1882-04-11
FOREIGN.
A PROCESS Server Roughly Handled

A Process Server Roughly handled.
LONDON, April 1O.-Lord Macdonald having
sent summonses to twenty of his tenants on his
estate at the Isle Of Skye, for non-payment OF
rent, the process server was seized by q mob
and warned not to return, and the summonses
were burnt. The emo rent" agitation is spread
ing rapidly on the Isl md.
Release of Mr.. Parnell.
DUBLIN, April 10-Mr. Parnell was released
from Prison this morning and is now on his
way to England. His release is on parole for
week in order to enable him to visit sister in
Paris whose child has just died.
LONDON, April 10.-Parnell, desiring faith
fully to observe his parole alighted as Wells
den Junction, just outside London, in order to
avoid demonstration. He was met by Justice
Mccarthy.
Cork bands are playing, houses illuminated
and crowds parading the streets this eveningin
honor of the release of Parnell, In the country
districts the hills are ablaze with bonfires.
Injury to Crops in Europe.
VIENNA, April 10.-Bitterly cold weather
and hard frosts now prevailing will, it is fear
ed, greatly iniure the crops. Fruit trees, vines
and young wheats in Roumania are almost en-
tirely destroyed.
The Relations Between Russia and Ger
many.
LONDON, April 1O.-The Standards Berlin
correspondent says the appointment OF M. de
Giers as Minister of Foreign Affairs OF Russia
is viewed as an eminently pacific symptom,
and will do more to restore confidence reg ard
ing the intentions and policy of Russia than
ali the friendly assurances which have hlther-
TO been received from st. Petersburg.
The Moscow GazetteEsays it is intended to re-
duce the army at the end of this year by ~ ,oOO
men.
BEL1N, April 10-Prince Bismarck in reply
to congratulations on his birthday extended by
M sabinoff, the Russian Ambassador, writes as
follows:
ut makes me happy to be able to inaugurate
a new wear of life by an expression of senti-
ments, personal and political, which facilitate
the work in which we both are engaged.
Discovery of the Jeanette Remains.
ST.. PETERSBURG, April 9.--The Gazette de
Liberie announces that some whalers have seen
q boat at Herald Island with several dead bod
les and loose objects, with the name OF jean
netre" upon them.
The Dean Stanley Memorial Window.
Dean Bradley has issued statement con-
corning the memorial window to the late Dean
Stanley subscribed to by Americans. he says
the list of subscribers thoroughly bears out the
statement of Rev. Phillips Brooks as to its
widely representative character, and 1t would
be ipyidious to make q selection, but it is inter-
estiup to remark that the name of Henry W.
Longfellow following that of Oliver Wendell
Holmes is followed by those of Ralph Waldo
Emerson and John g. Whittier.
Foreign Notes.
Forester, the actor, who played lago to Ed
win Booths Othello, at the Princess Theatre,
is dead.
Two pleasure boats were capsized by squall
on Lake Geneva and five students drowned.
A Paris dispatch states that an English no.
bleman, husband of an American lady, has
eloped with the wife of Spanish nobleman
from that city.
A series of three matches for 200 guineas
each have been arranged between the centre
board yacht Clean and an unknown boat 10
take place between the Goth and 18th of May
The course is to be about % miles In length.