The Portland daily press., 1885-03-24
HIght sentence for a prnnmiter.

Eight Sentence for Dynamifer.
Coax, March 23.-Judge Andrews to-day
sentenced Patrick Leary to twelve months i'm
prisonment. The condemned man was arrested
at Mill Street, County Cork, on the 22i OF
January last, in connection with the discovery
of box Of dynamite behind the Mill Street
police barracks. Iu sentencing the prisoner
Judge Andrews said he was satisfied that
Leary was only tool of the dynamite plotters,
and the court would therefore infiict but sligbt
punishment. The principals in the crime have
so far escaped arrest.
"Details of the Trouble or tbe West Coast
of Africa.
LONDON, March 23.-Advices relative TO the
recent incident at Victoria, on the West Coast
OF Africa, have just been received by mail.
The commander OF the German corvette Bis
marck, wishing to annex the territory in the
vicinity of Victoria, asked to be allowed TO
pass through British territory, The British
tue permission. The German commander
thereupon threatened to lombard the place,
but the British gunboat Watchful put in an
opportune appearance. The Bismarck then
moved few miles down the coast and the
German flag was hoisted on q strip of land be-
longing to England. The German commander
also went inland and brbed chief of Matanza
to cede to Germany territory which had al
ready been ceded to England. The English
flag was hauled down, the German flag hoisted
and the German commander returued to Vic
toria and sent written ultimatum to the court
of equity to have the English flag at Matanza
removed within two days.
Affairs in Egypt.
SUAKIM, March 23.-The total British losses
during Sundays battle was five officers and 81
privates killed and ITO men wounded. Official
accounts place the losses OF the Arabs at GOO,
all told. II this figure is correct, the losses of
the enemy exceed those of the British less than
in any battle of the past three years. Osman
Digna has %, 200 men at Tamai. Gen. Graham,
it is expected, will reach Tamsi aud give Os-
man Digna battle tomorrow. 1t will be a
pitched fight and probably greater and more
decisive than any hitherto waged IN the Sou
dan.
The enemy at the recent battle numbered
1900. Their fanatical courage won admira-
tion as they rushed repeatedly and without
faltering to what seemed certain death until
hundreds Of the dead aad wounded lay around
the square. They withdrew fighting, but it
was IN no sense a defeat, though il is believed
that thsy lost fully l 900 men. There is a mys-
terry how such large number of the enemy
advanced without discovery. The British
especially the marines, behaved admirably
Desperate sheiks, waving their banners and
with hordes of followers, charged the marines
before they had been reformed, but were un-
able to penetrate their lines. The sheiks
fought to their last gasp, but lost their banner,
which was captured by the marines.
The troops are engaged in dragging the
bodies OF the slain from the windWard to the
leeWard of Gen. McNeil'6 Zsreba. sicken-
ing scene is presented, as dense heaps of
corpses OF rebels and native camp followers
are mingled with the carcasses of 800 camels,
The ground is strewn with Remington rifles
and spears and shields.
Gen. Graham began this evening to move
bis whole force from Suakim toward Tamai.
The troops under Gen. Mcneil left the zersba
where the battle was fought yesterday and
advanced about mile toward Tamai, where
they constructed another Zsreba, the enemy
making no opposition. Ii was found impos-
slble to encamp near the battle field. owing to
fetid emanations from the bodies of the enc
nY's dead and carcasses of camels and horses.
at daybroak tomorrow Gen. Graham will
resume his advance.
KoRTI, March 23.--Gen. Wolseley has or.
dered the evacuation of Korti. Gases Of
typhoid fever, dysentery and sunstroke are in
creaslog among the troops, and the heat is
intense. The troops will proceed to the en-
trenched lines at Debbeh, Aani and Dongola.
LONDON, March 23-It is rumored that the
bulk of the British troops in active service in
Egypt will spend the summer in Cyprus.
En 1i.e Commons.
LONDON, March 23.-In the House of Com
mons this evening Lord Edmund FItZmaurice,
Under Foreign Secretary, replying to ques-
| tion put by Sir Henry Drummond Wolff, (Con-
servative) said the Anglo-Russian agreement
In regard to the Russo-Afghan frontier was not
recorded in the formal document. Wolff then
asked "Does question of peace or war de-
| pend upon the verbal assurance of Russa?'
! To this the Undar Foreign Secretary did not
| reply whereupon the Conservatives eheered
ironically.
Gable Notes.
| Two detectives sent to the United States to
| work up testimony against Cunningham and
| Burton, the alleged dynamiters, have returned
TO London with very important information
| against the prisoners.