The Portland daily press., 1885-09-21

Bank will have six directors, who shall have
power to add to their number. The capital
is 91,O00OOO in 95 shares, of which 92 is to be
paid at once. The bank undertakes to pay
Is shillings on the pound to the creditors Of
the old bank before 1887, and is to take over
the whole Of the old assets, returning any
surplus to the old creditors.
Concerning osman Digna's Death.
LONDON, Sept. 19.-Advices just received
here relative to the death of Osman Digna,
say he was killed after crushing defeat of
his force of 5000 of HadendowaS by the Kas-
sala garrison and friendly tribes. The latter,
after the defeat of Osman, sent ample sup
plies to Kassala.
zap Occupied by Spain.
MADRID, Sept. 19.-It is reported that it
was announced at the Cabinet council held
Yap, and that the Spanish man-of-war
Valiant was to replace the Velasco, which
had been selected for the service of carrying
stores to that station.
MADRID, Sept. 2O.-The Spanish man-of-
war Arragon has returned She established
a garrison on the chief OF the Pelew Islands
No traces OF Germans were discovered on the
islands.
The Cholera.
MADRID, Sept. 19.-Throughout Spain
yesterday there were 99Snew cases of cholera
reported and 337 deaths from that disease.
MADHID, Sept. 19.-During the past "a
hours 224 new cases of cholera and 169 deaths
from the disease were reported in Palermo, a
large increase over the preceding "a hours
The London Daily News Paris correspond
ent telegraphs that Palermo was Illuminated
last night in honor of the appearance of the
vision of a saint carrying with it the assur-
ance that the cholera epidemic would soon
become extinct.
MADRID Sept 2O.-There were S11 new
cases and 313 deaths from cholera in Spain
during the last "a hours.
Reinforcements Asked For.
PARIS, Sept 20.-Admiral Mott, French
commander at Madagascar, has asked for re-
Inducements and troopships. A command
er is about to leave Brest for Tamatare with
force of 700 men. The French squadron at
Madagascar will also be increased, raising
Admiral Miott'S command to 5,700 men and
II men, of-war.
American Jews in Jerusalem.
CoNsTANTINopLE, Sept 2O.-United
States Minister Cox and Consul General
Heap have succeeded in obtaining a revoca-
tion of the order expelling American Jews
from Jerusalem
Missionary johnson in London.
LONDON, Sept. 19.-The American Meth
odist missionary johnson has arrived in
London on his return from ST. Paul de
Leoands. He states that the members of the
American Methodist mission there are all
well and happy, and says that the reports
circulated that the mission had suffered by
deaths from starvation and disease are false,
and were based solely on the fact that
Charles Miller of Baltimore had died from
illness. Miller, Mr.. johnson says, might
have recovered but for his persistency in re-
fuSlng to take proper medicine, which he did
for the reason he gave that he trusted in
the Lord to help him through"
MIR. CIadstone's Manifesto.
LONDON, Sept. 19.-Mr Gladstone'S mani
feSto, the most Delphic utterance he ever
made, has proven the most successful PAM
phleteering of his life. The document was
secretly issued to his political colleagues as
early as last Monday. Its first perceptible
effect was the palpable rapprochement be-
tween Mr.. Chamberlain, Lord Harrington
and Sir William Vernon Harcourt, the three
most powerful leaders, next to the ex-
Premier himself, in the Liberal party. All
three are ambitious men, and they had been
pulling apart. Each was taking large fol-
lowing along The Radicals were going with
Chamberlain, the Wings with Harrington,
and Harcourt was endeavOring to hold the
moderates together The Liberal party was
being rent to pieces. The manifesto put a
stop to the ripping and the diverging trium-
vlrate at ouce set to work to replace the
stitches. and with each effort came closer to-
gether. Today, week only having elapsed,
the Liberal party in Great Britain at least is
solid unit. Nj. Chamberlain may be said
to be the most rebellious leader in the whole
Liberal party. Before Mr.. Gladstone's utter
ance, MIR. Chamberlain's Radical campaign
included zGlasgow, where no doubt was en-
tertained that he would repeat his pro-
nounced independence. But the orator spoke