The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1883-03-14
FOREIGN.
The Last of the Russian Cham
cellor.
President Grevy Contemplating Resig-
nation.

ST. PETERSBURG, March 13.-The last act of
Prince Gortschakoff was to dictate telegram
to the Gar saluting him on the occasion of his
birthday.
The Coronation of the Gear.
1t is reported the chiefsovereigns and princes at
Berlin during the celebration of the silver we'd
ding OF the Crown Prince and Crown Princess,
have agreed to be represented at tthe coronation
of the Gar by ambassadors only.
Work for the Unemployed.
PARIS, March 13.-The gov-rnment is con-
sidering the question of spIoviding work for
persons out of employment here.
Sentences Of the French Anarchists Con-
firmed.
LYONS, March 13.-The court of appeal has
confirmed the sentences OF the anarchists Bor-
dat, Bernard, Gauther, Ricard and ten others.
The sentences of II anarchists were mitigated.
The Paris Socialists.
PARIS, March 13.-Detectives who are
watching the socialists believe Prince Jerome
Napoleon and M. R )uher are cognizant of gthe
doings of the rioters.
The Electrical Exhibition at Vienna.
VIENNA, March 13.--A law is published ex-
empting from payment of customs duties goods
sent from foreign countries to the electri cal cal
exhibition here.
President Grevy Contemplating Resig-
nation.
LONDON, March 13. The Times Paris dis
patch says 1t is rumored, and satellites of the
Elysee confirm the rumor in whispers, that
President Grevy thinks of resi- igning.
The Paris correspondent of the Daily News
says the report that President Grevy coptem-
plates resigning is malicious invention to en-
courage Orleanist intrigues
Governor General of Canada
The report that Mr.. Forster would succeed
the Marquis of Lorne as Governor General of
Canada, is discredited.
The Controversy Over Canon Bernard's
Money and Papers.
BRUSSELS, March 49, Bishop Tournay has
declared before the Court of Appeals that he
will cease all opposition to the surrender of the
mon eys and papers which Canon Bernard de-
posted in America, TO the delegate of the Bel
gian government
Suicide Of e. Noted Jew.
ST. PETERSBURG, March 13--M. Markoff,
President of the committee regulating the So
ciai condition of the Russian Jews, has COM
| mitted suicide.
Louise Michel Escapes.
| PARIS, March 13.-Louise Michel has escap-
| ed to Ardennes. She writes to Henri Roche
| fort that she will appear before the judges
| when her trial occurs.
| Lady Dixie and the Land League Fund.
LONDON, March 13.-Lady Florence Dixie
| denies Sheridan's statement that in writing to
| the times, charging Messrs Parnel and Biggar
| Land League fund, she acted merely as a tool
| of Mr..Piggott. She says she does not know
Mr.. Piggoit and never saw him in her life.
| Proceedings in Parliament.
| Gladstone stated in the Commons this after
| noon that Lord Spencer would not leave the
| Cabinet although he had resigned the Presi-
| dency of the Council.
In the Lords today Lord Derby, colonial sec
retary, replying to questions by Tory Lords
| concerning outrages on the Transvaal frontier,
said the Beers favored peaceful effort to OBJ.
tain indemnity for sufferers by raids The use
of force would only tend to create an African
| Ireland.
| John Walsh to Prove an Alibi.
! PARIS, March 13-Documents have arrived
here showing that John Walsh who was an
| rested in Havre at the instance of the British
| government, was not in Dublin at the time the
Phoenix Park murders were committed on May
| 9th last.
HAvRE, March 13-Patrick Casey is eudeay-
oring to secure the arrest of the English detec-
| tives who assisted in the apprehension cf Walsh
| on French territory.