The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1883-04-06
Foreign N ewS.

| MuoH doubt has been thrown upon the
| story of the attempt to murder Lady Flor
| ence Dixie in London. Several re: s )ns
who were in the vicinity of the place where
| the assault is alleged to have been made tes-
| titled atthey saw no one answering to the
description of the two men dressed in
women's clothes who were charged by Lady
Dixie with having committed the attack.
On the trial of six more members of the
Armagh Assassination society in Belfast,
Ireland, the crown counselor dwelt
strongly on the charge that a man named
Burns displayed an American flag from h's
lodgings.
TwENTY-sIx persons have been arrested in
Ballinrobe, Ireland, charged with completely
in the murder of one Feerick in June, $780,
TEwFIK BEY, formerly Turkish minister
of finance, has been appointed Turkish min.
lister at Washington.
1RE fourth centennial anniversary of the
birth of Raphael was celebrated at Rome
with much pomp. bronze bust of the great
artist was unveiled at his tomb.
JUDGE LAWSON has sentenced twelve of the
members of the so-called Armagh Assassina-
ton society, who were recently convicted at
Belfast, Ireland, of conspiracy to murder, to
terms of penal servitude, varying from five
to ten years.
JOHN Brown, tie well-known confidential
personal attendant of Queen Victoria, is
dead. He was born on the queens Scotch
estate, was favorite of her husband, and
was her closest attendant, going in her car
riage when she drove out and standing be-
hind her chair on state occasions. In Lon
don he was as we'll known as the queen her
self. He is said to have laid up fortune of
$50O0,C00
A TERRIFIC gale has visited the Scottish
coas5 and has done great damage to ship
ping. Three vessels went ashore near Abb
erdeen.
AN arrest in Liverpool of a man with in
fernal machines brought from Ireland is said
to have prevented the destruction of build
ings involving possiblygreat loss of life
LOUISE MICHEL, the feminine leader of the
French socialists, has been arrested in Paris
on the charge of entering bakers shops at
the head of armed men and plundering them
of their contents.
1HE arrest of three men in Cork is said to
have disclosed the existence of another
secret society having for its object the blow
ing up of buildings in the principal cities of
Great Britain and the assassination of in
dividuals whenever such course would adj
vance the interests of the organization.
DURING the recent gale off the British
coast six fishing smacks were wrecked and
forty sailors drowned.
By boiler explosion at st. Dizier, France,
twenty-six persons were killed and thirty
eight injured.
SERIOUS floods have occurred at Charkoff.
Russia, and vicinity. A number of persons
ave been drowned.
In attempting to capture band of Nihi-
lists in st. Petersburg the police met with a
stubborn resistance. During the fight three
Officers were wounded and one Nihilist, find
ing capture inevitable, committed suicide ON
the spot. The eight remaining conspirators
were arrested.
PRINCE BIsMARCK's sixty-eighth birthday
was brilliantly celebrated in Berlin. the en-
reTor visiting him in person and military
bands playing national airs before his resi-
dence.