The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1883-10-12
Foreign.
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ANDREW DOYLE, convicted at Halifax
N. S., of assaulting n little girl, as part of
his punishment received twenty strokes with
whip, well Ia d on.
GREAT excitement prevailed in Madrid
over King Alfonso's insulting reception in
Paris Bands of people paraded the streets
of the Spanish capital, insulted Frenchmen
and openly threatened the French embassy
King Alfonso's GOODNESS and dignifed bearing
while in Paris Las considerably increased his
prestige at home.
The nihilists have issued circu ars demand
ing of the Russian government a cessation of
the cruel treatment of prisoners.
ADvICES from Port au Prince, Hayti,
state that revolt against the government
was promptly suppressed, but not before the
insurrectionists hal set fire to q portion of
the town and destroyed a great deal of prop
erty.
THE gulotiue Las just performed its
bloody work at Versailles, France, the
victim being one Houv, who had been
sentenced to death for numbering an
old woman and her servant a dispatch
describes the fatal moment as follows:
"There was a moment Of brea.hless hesita-
ton. Then suddenly NJ. Dcibler the execu-
tioner pressed simultane, usly the button
the lunctte and the butt IN of the AK drop
The prisoners head rolled into the wooden
, bucket, half filed with sawdust, and the
body fell into the basket. The operation
lasted exactly two minutes and thirty
seconds
AS a cage was being hoistel in coal pit at
Leigh, Englanl, the role broke, precipitating
the cage to the bottom of the shaft and kill
ing six miners.
KING ALFONSO and the queen OF Spain
were cheere by great crowds in Ma lrii
The apology OF Ple,i lent Grevy. Of France,
was MT deemed sufficient satisfaction by
Spaniaris for the action OF the French pop
ulace toward the Spanish king.
HUNDREDS of persons have been dying
daily of yellow fever in Mazatan, Mexico.
The inhabitants are fleeing in every direc-
ton.
ADvICEs from Madagascar state that Ma
kobo, the commander of tie Hovas, has of
fered rewards for the slaughter of the cap
tain of any French man-of-war which shall
wreck or burn any vessel. According to the
anne advices the french garrsons at Tama-
tave and Maiunca are virtually blockadad.
A WHALING vessel which has JUS arrived
at Dundee, Scotlan |, from the arctic region.
reports that the natives at Saunders Island
stated they saw five men "a Eiah. in Smiths
Sound, north Of Ia inns Bay early in the
year, wh1 beolgel to a large expe Ii
ton further to the north, whi h was
believed to be that of Lieut. nant Greedy.
The captain of the whaler beieves that the
party was sent out by Lieu-e nant Greedy to
meet the steamer Pro.eus which was then
on TIE way to Smiths Sound.
SUSIE 6, SIBETH, London merchants, have
ia led for about 81, 25D,O0)
GEORGE WARDEN, secretary of promnenu
London corporation, has abscondei with
S550,OOU of the concerns funds.
THE entire ministry % Norway have been
impeache1 by the supreme tribunal.
a LETTER req eyed from Ma2a Ian, Mexico,
gives terrible particulars of the ravages of
yellow fever Out of an opera troupe of
thirty eight persons only five were left at the
end of five weeks.
TIE Spanish amblssa lor in France de-
manded the punishment Of the off N lers in
the recent insult to King Alfonso.
UPON President Grevy's request General
Thibaudin, French minister of war, sent in
his resignation. General Thibludin had
refused to attend the reception given in Paris
to King Alfonso, of Spain.
AT Sarogossa, Spain, a crowd assembled
before the French consulate and began to
stone the building, when they We're charged
ly the police and dispersed The cause of the
ATTACK was King Alfonso's treatment while in