The Portland daily press., 1883-10-24
FOREIGN.

Cholera Increasing at COnstantinopIe.
ALEXANDRIA, Oct. 23.-Cholera in an Arab
village near here is increasing and four more
deaths there from the disease are reported.
still Another Ministry for Portugal.
LISBON, Oct. 23.-The Pc. .tuguese ministry
has again been remodeled and now stands as
follows:
Premier and Minister of war-senhor De Foutes
Minister of the Interior-Senhor Barizova
Fretas
Minister of Justice-Senhor Lopovaz.
Minister of Marine Senior Penhairo Chagas
Bucage.
Minister of Public Works-Senhor Aguer.
Minister of Finance-Senhor Hintz Ribiero.
A Statesman Dead.
PARIS, Oct. %. Martin Bernard, author and
statesman, is dead, aged 70.
Condition of the Grand Trunk of Canada.
LONDON, Oct 23.-The Daily Telegraph, in
Its financial article, today says that when Sir
Henry ". Tyler, president of the Grand
Trunk railway of Canada, makes his speech,
which he is preparing for the next meeting OF
the stockholders, the latter will be agreeabIy
surprised at the good financial showing the
management of the road will be able to make,
aud the important changes made and about to
be cal ried into effect which will greatly bene.
fit the company.
DespicabIe Tactics.
1(ObLhNs OCJ- AC.-A new circular, COQIa1l-
ing a"'black list'' Of the jurors in the Phoenix
Park murder trials and in the case of the men
tried for the attempt to murder Juror Denis
Field, was mailed to thousands Of the inhahi-
tants of this city yesterday.
The Diffusion of NihiIism i'm RUSSIA.
ST. PETER BURG, Oct. 23-A list of names
discovered in the house of Mr.. Saratscheff,
formerly assistant public prosecutor at Kieff,
who was convicted in August last of Nihllism,
has led to numerous arrests in the Caucasus.
Eleven officers belonging to a greuadier regi-
ment have been brought to St. Petersburg and
imprisoned in fortress. A number of other
officers have effected compromise with the
authorities. The offenders are SO numerous
that it has been found necessary to dispatch
general commission of inquiry to the Caucasus
Naval officers are also implicated, and num-
Der have been arreste d at Odessa and Nico-
laieff.
Great Danger of IA War with China.
LONDON, Oct. 23-The Standards dispatch
from Hong Kong says Tonquin generally is in
state of anarchy. The radius of the French
rule does not extend beyond the French lines
of sentries.
PARIS, Oct. 23.-The situation in Tonquin is
most serious. II the French attack Bac Mini
war with China will be inevitable.
Different Picture.
PARIS, Oct. 23.-The yellow book has been
issued. 1t recounts the operations OF the
RIcnCu AOICco III lOHqulu. duu says buolT posi-
tion in that country has materially improved.
They can now move freely TO all parts of the
Red river delta, and hold all the strategic
points in that territory. fThe msndariDs who
still resist the French authority will be re-
moved by ENJOYS of the King of AMMAN, and
the people are regaining confidence. The An
Mantle troops have been disbanded, and the
Black Flags have retreated from their posi-
tions. The French army now only awaits re-
Inducements to complete the pacification Of
the country.
Foreign Notes.
Lady Dufferin, wife OF the English ambassa-
dor, Is organizing measures at Constantinople
for the relief of sufferers by the earthquake in
Anatolia.
Further particulars of the explosion in the
Wharnclitfe Carlton colliery, near Barnsley,
Sunday night, when men were looking for
bodies of the victims of the explosion of
Thursday last, show that no lives were lost by
the second calamity, as at first supposed.
At Temesevar, Hungary, Monday, Count
Stelan Batthany and DR.. Julius Rosenburg
fought duel with pistols. The Count was
shot through the temple and killed. The po-
lice have instituted an inquiry into the affair.
Advices from Tamatave, Madagascar, under
date OF October 11th, states that the French
man-of-war Vandeuil had left that port with
orders to lombard Mshanroo and other south
ern ports of the island.