The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1883-08-17

known ward politician in Brooklyn, who has
been missing for some time.
PORTUGUESE authorities arrested 800 of
the Spanish insurgents who had crossed the
frontier.
MONTREAL will hereafter punish certain
gross offenses by the lash. The first case
under the new law was that of tramp, who
assaulted an eight-year-old girl. He re-
ceived twenty lashes upon his bare back, and
a further sentence of years Imprisonment
at hard labor.
AT the annual lord mayors banquet in
London the principal speech was made by
Premier Gladstone, in response to the toast,
"Her Majestys Ministers" He spoke of
the political condition of Egypt, and said
that as soon as the reforms begun we're ac-
complished the British fore would be with
drawn. In speaking of affairs in Ireland
he declared that there was great change TO
the better; that the authority of the law had
been effectually reasserted there, and that
the government hoped much in the future
from its new system of grand committees.
THIRTEEN persons were drowned by col
lision off Dover, England, between two
Norwegian banks, one of which went to the
bottom.
A BILL prohibiting pigeon shooting has
passed its third reading in the British house
of commons.
FRESH outbreaks have occurred in Spain.
A hastily summoned cabinet council re-
solved 10 suspend constitutional guarantees
throughout the country and declare state of
siege whereas nece ssary.
The emperors of Germany and Austria
met at Ischl, and visited the theatre to-
gether.
EBFuRT, Germany, has been the scene of
festivities on large scale in celebration of
Martin Luthers entrance into that town.
Our of the 270 inmates of the madhouse at
Cairo, Egypt, thirty-two died in four days of
cholera.
MoR1Tz ScHARF, tie boy who was the prin-
cipal witness for the prosecution in the re-
cent trial of a number of Jews at Nyirey-
gaia, Hungary, charged with numbering a
girl in order to procure her blood for ritual
purposes, and who swore that he saw the
murder committed, has confessed that his
testimony was false. Thirty-two of the per-
sons who took part in riotous demonstration
at Pesth against Joseph Scharf, father Of
Moritz Scharf. one of the defendants in the
Nyiregyhaza trial, we're arrested. The authori-
ties, in order to stop the disorders, were COM
peeled to place Gordon of troops around the
street where plundering of Jewish houses oc-
Cured.
FURTHER up s ngs against the govern
ment by troops have occurred in Spain. By
royal decree the civil and military officials
at Badagos have been dismissed.
In the trial of Feather tone, Deasy, Elan
nigan and Dalton, the dynamite conspiratos
at Liverpool. the jury brought in verdict of
guilty, and the prisoners were all sentenced
to lifelong penal servitude. O'Herlihy,
the fifth prisoner, was acquitted.
M. FEUILLART, Paris editor, has been
sentenced to three month imprisonment fo-
melting the men who participated in a re-
cent socialist demonstration.
REvoLuTIoNIsTs lave defeated the govern
msnt troops in Hayti. A revolution was mo
mentarily exI ected in Port au Prince. The
government is penniless and business is at a
complete standstill. A great battle has been
fought before Jeremie, in which the govern
ment troops were completely defeated, and
seven OF their generals we're taken and shot.
ST. PETERSBURG dispatch says the coro-
nation decree granting liberty of worship to
dssenters only affects million of so-called
registered dissenters. There are 100000
still unrelieved of their religious disabilities.
ID. w. & A. DEwHrnsT cotton spinners of
Manchester, England, have failed for $3.50,
coo.
tv,f of CHI 81,
ton 10 British colonies was held in London.
The Earl of Shaftesbury presided. A reso-
luton was offer, d and ado It'd providing
for the sending of 10000 per ons to Canada
and other British o.onies aud for procur ng
them farms in their new homes, the money
for the purchase of the land TO be advanced
b. the state, which is to take mortgages OIL
the farms as security for payment 1t is
proposed to send 10000 families to Can ada
next spring
In collision which occurred betwe en- The
troops and the popuace at Ekaterinoslav
Rus sa 100 people were killed.
THREE hundred wo,kmen attempted to
hold demons.ra ion before the Office of tn,
director of police at Vienna because of tht
seizure of vo.kmans newspaper, bu
were dispe 'sed by a large body of pole,
with drawn swords. They sub;equentl!
gathered again, but were charged and dis
rer cd by Dragons, who We pelted will
tines.
A RIOT broke out in the Labat quarter o
Alexandria in consequence of report tina
he English doctors were poisoning natives
The mob attempted to destroy the ambu
lances, cry ing death to the Christians y
Tie outbreak was easily quelled by British
troops and gendarmerie patrols.
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