The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1888-02-03
GENERAL FOREIGN NEWS.
Mr.. Cox, M. p, Gaining Practical
knowledge OF Prison Life.
Professor vIrchow Can Find No EvI-
dence OF Cancer.
How Irish Catholics Regard the Ut
terances Of the Pope.

dOHSO " SdnCeTs
How Irish Catholics Regard the Ut
terances OF the Pope.
DUBLIN, Feb. 2.-Mr. Cox, NJ. p, In prIs-
ON at Limerick, put on the jail dress with
out protest, and went to work In the prison
yard chopping wood and doing other labors
of ordinary criminals. He was visited to-
day and found In a cheerful mood.
The tenantry on the estate Of the Countess
of Kingston have expressed themselves sat
isfied with the terms offered by the landlord.
who agrees to allow 20 per cent reduction
in rents. to pay all costs, and TO reinstate the
tenants who have been evicted.
Ripon and Morley.
At meeting Of the corporation in the
Central Hall, municipal building today, the
freedom af the city was conferred upon the
Marquis of Ripon and John Moreley. Ex-
Lord Mayor Sullivan occupied the chair and
many members Of Parliament, mayors and
members Of the various city corporations
were present
This evening, Leinster Hall was filed to
its utmost. Ex-LOFd Mayor Sullivan pre-
sided, and Messrs. Davitt, Redmond, Healey
Plymsoll and large number Of Parnellite
commoners were on the platform. The au-
dience rose en- masse and greeted Lord Ripon
and Mr.. Morley. Mr.. Sullivan opened the
meeting with short address, and read a let
ter from Archbishop Walsh, now In Rome.
apOl0gizing for the absence. II. Dwyer Gray,
NJ p, proposed resolution, welcoming the
visitors on behalf Of Ireland, and expressing
thanks to the Liberal party for Its efforts In
furthering the Irish cause. The resolution
was carried amid great enthusiasm.
Lord Ripon addressed the meeting. He
was loudly cheered, and said he had belong
Ireland, but had come to see that there was
no nope In such measures. The time was
near when lreland's hopes would be crowned
with success. He appealed TO them not to
allow violence to goad them to commit crime.
He. wished to assure English and Scotch
PrOtestants that there was not the slightest
reason to fear that Catholic majority would
interfere with the just interests Of Irish Pro-
testants.
Mr.. Morley met warm welcome The
home rule question was rapidly approaching
a crisis, he said. The governments policy
was a pitiful and cruel farce, and utterly
failed to discourage the commission OF out
The Pope and Ireland.
LONDON, Feb. 2.-Irish Catholics do not
DtlctC lldb bAlC OPO ndo 04NAoC0 bACAA
through pilgrims of their race. No one has
the right. they say, to hold to any such inters
probation Of his words and to spread such
deceptive news throughout the world. What
the church's head really did say was that he
hoped for peaceful settlement OF the Irish
trouble. So many true patriot might have
hoped for peaceful solution Of the slavery
question in America, but did that necessitate
their throwing up everything TO the South,
and making no fight at all? such Is the rea-
soning Of the home rulers, and 1t is borne out
to some extent by the later news thar the
Pope has declared in private audience to
the bishops that the interests OF ireland
would be protected. A private audience and
public one are two different things.
Playing for Big Stakes.
Five fashionably dressed men were ar
rdigned in the police court in London to-
day charged with attempting to obtain f3O,-
600 from the Bank of England upon forged
or stolen bonds Of the Hamilton and North
western railroad, of Canada. There was one
other man in the gang whom the police fall
ed to secure. They also failed to capture
the bonds. One of the prisoners had passed
as Lord Fairfax and had lived In style at
the Grand Hotel in Paris.
a Scottish Earthquake.
A sharp shock Of earthquake was felt in
Scotland to-day. The shocks was also felt in
different parts of England. Reports from Bir-
mingham. Coventry and suburb Of Bir-
mingham show that distul Dances occurred
in these places. In Scotland the shock was
especially marked.
Complete Surrender.
BERLIN, Feb. 2.-The tone Of the govern
ment organs ON the anti-Socialist bill indi-
Gates complete surrender by the govern
ment, and a willingness to accept two
years prolongation of the operative period
of the present law and to abandon the Of
fensive amendments.
Prince Bismarck is expected to speak ON
the military bill ON Friday.
The KTeuz Zeitung says that the War Of
fee has advised the government OF the ne
cessity of a serious inquiry as to whether or
peratively demands an extension Of the
strategic railways.
The Crown Prince.
According to dispatches from San Reno,
an Eoffcial bulletin regarding the Crown
Prince Frederick William, says that a par
tial thickening has supervened in the anteri-
or part Of the right side Of the larynx, but
in consequence of the detachment of dead
particles the swelling on the left side has di-
minlshed. The Princes general condition Is
normal. He went on long excursion today
TO Ospedaletto. He was accompanied bythe
Crown Princess, the Duke Of Hesse, the
Princess Of Saxe-Meiningen and DR.. Mack
enzie.
Prof. ViTchOw has examined fragment
taken from the very centre OF the trouble in
the Crown Princes throat. and declares that
il shows no evidence OF cancer.
a Step Backward.
ST.. PETERSBURG, Feb. 2.-Count Tolstoi,
minister of the interior, has submitted TO the
Council Of the Empire. a proposal to abolish
entirely the Zemstyos. The extinction Of
these provincial assemblies will remove the
most important memorial Of the rule Of the
late Gar, Alexander 1.
Foreign Notes.
Mrs Mary Hewitt, the poet and novelist,
Is dead in Rome.
Advices from China state that the City Of
Haiyen, north Of Hing Po, submerged 1000
years ago, was recently exposed to view.
number Of vases, plates end other utensils Of
the Sough dynasty were recovered. A num-
ber of disastrous fires occurred in Hong
Kong. Christmas week. The loss was very
heavy.
The London Geological Society has con-
ferred the Murchison medal upon DIR. New
berry Of Columbia College, New York.
NJ. Flourens, French minister Of foreign
affairs. is ILL., He was unable to attend the
The eOmmissiariat Of Bessarabia has been
ordered to supply provisions and fodder for
an army of 100000 men,
Prince Ferdinand, accompanied by M.
Stamblulof and military suite, has started
on tour Of Bulgaria.
The Court of Cessation In Paris, has SEN
fenced NJ. Vigneau, who was removed from
the Office Of Juge d'lnstruetion for illegal
procedure in the Legion Of Honor decoration
cases In the extraordinary means he took to
get information against M. Wilson, to sim
pile censure, the lightest penalty that 1t could
intlict.
hold drawing rooms In Buckingham Palace,
London, on Feb. "a and March o.
The French government Is now convinced
that Archibald McNeill, the London sport
ing reporter, was not murdered In Coulogne.
Hence Vermershe has been released and the
police inquiry ended.
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