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Show HUMORS OF PLOTS IS fflSPiffi Counter Revolution May Break Out in Portugal Next Sunday, Sun-day, Election Day. LISBON. May 21. As next Sunday, which la election day. approaches rumors ru-mors of conspiracies, royal plots and republican re-publican factional differences multiply. Nevertheless order continues. The government in a declaration today regarding the elections, when memberii of the new assembly will bo chosen, recites re-cites tho reforms accepted by tho provisional pro-visional government and the improvement improve-ment in tliH nubile llnanccs. New loans nave been made and offers of loans from Hrltish and French banker.1, have been declined. Portuguese consols have risen from G2 to 00. Tlie civil governors throughout Portugal Portu-gal have received orders from the central cen-tral government to Inaugurate an Inventory Inven-tory of all churches and chapels. According lo the newspapers tho patriarch pa-triarch of Lisbon has Informed Bernardo Meruhado minister of foreign affairs, that the report the prelates had doclded to close the churches in Portugal Is untrue. un-true. PARIS. May 24. The Madrid correspondent corre-spondent of tho Temps telegraphs that advices received from Hada.los Indicate that the Portuguese authorities are taking tak-ing precautionary measures lo guard the frontier. The exit of a largo number of Portuguese Portu-guese refugees to Spain Induces the belief be-lief that a counter revolution is imminent in Portugal. |