The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1883-03-30
Foreign Affairs.


Scotland. Fifteen men, beside number of
women and children, we're drowned
RowLEs, one of the prisoners awaiting
trial in connection with the Phoenix park
murders, died in an epileptic fit in Kilmain-
ham Jail, Dublin.
AN attempt to murder Lady Florence
Dixie, youngest daughter of the MARQUIS of
Queensbury, is reported from London.
| While walking in a secluded spot near the
woods at Windsor she was attacked by two
men dressed in womens clothes. Her par
ments were cut in several places by dagger
thrusts, and one thrust was stopped by n
steel corset rib. The last thing she remem-
bers was one of the men pushing quantity
of mud into her mouth. She tainted.
and on recovering found that both palms
were cut across, and her gloves severed.
| The saving of her life is attributed to her
st. Bernard dog, which, it is supposed, pro-
tected her while she lay in a swoon. Lady
Dixie is described as ga wonderful horse
woman, good sailor, an enthusiastic trav-
eler and a trenchant writer" She has writ
ten several books of travel, and has taken an
active part in Irish affairs. Some time ago
she attacked the Irish land league, claiming
that no account of the expenditure of large
part of its funds was given in its report
The leaders of the land league replied that
she was crazy after notoriety.
LoNDoN's police force is to be increased by
800 men.
Mr.. PABNEL1, Irish land league leader, is
coming to America.
Four persons were killed and many in
jured by a railroad collision in Scotland.
BAND of Arabs attacked four Turkish
battalions near Yeman, but were repulsed.
The Turks lost four officers and a number
of men.
THREE children, aged respectively six
years, four years and eight months, were
burned to death in ST. Magliore, Canada.
during the absence of their parents.
The king of Wurtemblrg has contribute
900 marks for the sufferers by the Ohio
floods
A STUDENT who attempted to commit sui
eide while in bath in st. Petersburg has
confessed that the Nihilists commanded him |
to shoot the car at recent banquet and fete
given by the Finland regiment. The stu
dent was present at the banquet disguised as
waiter. His courage failed him at the last
moment, and, knowing his fate from the
Nihilists he resolved to commit suicide.
HERR Won WANGgNHEIM, councillor of s. lte
and m mister of worship and of schools for
the little duchy of SAKE Coburg- Gotha, las
been shot dead by disappointed applicant
for Office. The imitator of Guiteau then
committed suicide.
NEXT June and July vessels will be sent to .
the Arctic regions to recall the men at the
n u
Lady Franklin bay, two of the international
chain of posts established for purposes of o.
servation in pursuance of plan adopted n
congresses held several years ago in Viennd
and st. Petersburg. 1t was hoped to main
tain these observations until 1884, but thd
terms of the last appropriation for this work
are such that it has been decided TO REGAL
both parties during the coming summer,
possible.
AN eruption of Mount Blanc, accompanied
by an earthquake, is reported. Several houses
have fallen
LEpRosY is making such inroads in the
Sandwich Islands that steps have been taken
! to collect all the lepers and isolate them from
the rest of the inhabitants
A THAw and heavy rains have caused dis
oNlIOuS uOOuS III NONd pCOtld. 4huuy blIuBcTX
have been swept away, and in numerous
instances people were obliged to abandon
their houses.
SIR GEORGE JEssEL, of England. master o.
the rolls, is dead. He was the first Jew who
occupied a seat on the English Judicial
bench and was the first of that faith that be
came member of the British privy council
, WHILE descending the stairs of Windsor
palace to take her carria ye for ride, Queen
Victoria slipped and fell. Believing she had
not been injured the queen took the ride, but
on her return found her knee had becomd
much swollen and infamed Physicians
were summoned and attended to her injur
les. Owing to the queens advanced age and
her delicate state of health considerable
anxiety was felt, and large crowds sur
rounded the bulletin boards of the various
Y London newspapers to learn the latest news
regarding her health.
LISBON, Portugal, is to have an inter
national agricultural exhibition in May.
The car of Russia has received letters
= threatening him with death if he does no
pardon the imprisoned Nihilists.
The recent demonstration of a readind
club of students at Vienna in memory OF
Wagner has led to twenty duels among the
students, the combatants being Germans
on the one side and Austrians on the other
One of the participants was severely
wounded.
INHABITANTS of Roumelia have riser
against the importation of foreign woole
thread, and several depots containing sue
5 thread have been pillaged and burned.
body of cavalry was ordered out to suppress
the outbreak.
THTRTEEN members of the so-caled Armagh
D Assassination society were found guilty
Belfast, Ireland, of conspiracy to murder.
t IT is estimated that 135 persons on boar,
: of twenty-three English fishing smack
were lost during the recent heavy gale Of
the British coast
THE people living in the villages nea
all oil tbo