The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1883-11-09
Foreign.

A BODY of $50 Egyptian soldiers were re-
Gently surprised and massacrel by the hill
tribes in a defle in Nuba.
A LETTER from Saigon, in AMMAN, to the
Paris France states that unhea1d of cruelties
were committed near Hue on the occasion of
its capture by the French sailors Admiral
Courbet directe in an official order that there
should be no quarter given to men, women or
children. Three hundred Annamites who had
taken refuge in the mouth of the bay of
Ihuar were killed, all of them being shot
One hundred and fifty more who were drift
ing in Junk without arms or oars were also
massacred.
MORE than 400 persons have been attacked
by trichnosis at Emseben, Germany, and
eighteen deaths have occurred.
THE river Salembria, in Thessaly, Greece.
has ovcrliowed its banks, causing widespread
devastation One hundred houses have been
destroyed and several lives have been lost
Larissa and the villages in its vicinity were
surrounded by water
PORTUGAL has adopted n law directing that
for the future every human corpse shat be
burned, either at once or in five years after
burial.
FOURTEEN THOUSAND Chinese troops have
been ordered to enter Tonqun. A number of
French vessels have been sent to the Chinese
waters.
GENERAL Don FERNANDEZ DE CoRDovA,
formerly captain-general OF Cuba, is dead in
his ninety-first year
AN international labor conference has been
in session at Paris.
MORRIS RANGER, a London cotton broker,
has failed for about S3,2.0,O00. His suspen-
sion was followed by that of several other
English cotton brokers.
GREAT excitement has been caused in Lon
don by two explosions, supposed to be the work
of Fenians, near different underground sta
n
trains which Were affected by the explo-
sions were considerably damaged, and about
forty persons were in ured more or less Sc
verely.
A QUANTITY of dynamite was maliciously
exploded in the office of the chief of Iolice at
l'rankfort-on-the-M Main and the building was
badly damaged.
NENNOR. the Canadian wea her prophet, is
again indulging in weather representations
MUsCAT, Arabia has been lie legged by the
brother of the present ruler The British
subjects let the town and went on board
Il British gunbo1t which shelled the camp
of tine Leslie gers
$. WALSH, of Hamilton, Ontario, has sued
a Mrs. Prize his former sweetheart, for
5000 damages for breach of promise.
TIE Spanish government has ordered the
adjustment of corporal punishment 60 slaves
in Cuba.
KAMIENIEC. a town in Russia, has been
severely shaken by an earthquake.
INTENSE excitement prevailed in London
over the attempt to bow up the tunnel of the
underground railway. A large force of
special policeman was put on guard at the
various railway stations and in the vicinity
of the houses of parliament and other public
buildings. Nitro-gycerine was the agent en-
ployed in both explosions.
THE Dublin Steam company's steamer
Holy head collidei with the German ship AL
hambra, and both vessels sank. Thirteen of
the Alhambras crew and two of the Holy
heads were drowned.
THE British barkentine Jane Hunter. from
Penambuco, Brazil, to st. Johns, has been
lost off the coast of Newfoundl and. Captain
Bowden, the first and second officers and all
the crew except two seamen persisted.
ORANGEMEN seized the city hall at London
derry, Ireland, in order to prevent the lord
mayor of Dublin from delivering a lecture
ON the franchise, and fired upon procession
of nationalist from Donegal, wounding two
persons, one with fatal result The military
and police dispersed the crowd