The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1883-03-16
Foreign News.

A MEMORIAL tablet in honor of Professor
Morse, has been unveiled in front of the
house formerly occupied by the great Ameri-
can inventor in Rome.
PREMIER GLADSTONE was received with
cheers on entering the British house of COM
mons for the first time since his return from
Cannes, France.
ihe coast of Great Britain has been sited
by severe gale. Two vessels and three
men have been lost at Dundee, three vessels
at Scarborough, one vessel at the Isle of Man
and two lives at Whitstable.
WRoTHAM PARK, the country seat of the
Earl of Stafford, in England, has been
burned.
In the case of Phipps the Philadelphia
almshouse defaulter, who fled to Canada,
the judges of the court of appeals in Toronto
decided that sufficient evidence had been
brought out against him to warrant his ex-
tradition for trial for forgery.
]. r. GREEN, the English historian, is dead.
The British steamer Gloucester City, from
Bristol, England, bound for New York, has
foundered All her crew were saved.
ABOUT thirty people are suffering from
famine fever in the Swineford poorhouse in
county Mayo, Ireland, and there are zoo
names on the list Of persons needing relief.
The distress has not been so great since 1S47.
People who refuse to enter the workhouse
are dying from want of food outside.
HEAVY rains in Bombay, India, have de-
stroyed 240 houses and rendered hundreds
of persons homeless.
The prisoners sentenced to death by the
Alexandria (EgypD court-martial for having
massacred Christians at Tanta last summer,
are being executed on public market days at
the spot where their crimes were committed.
Seven of the maefactors were hanged in one
week. These executions are carried on in
the presence of British and Egyptian troops,
who are absolutely necessary to prevent the
criminals being set free by the mob.
A NEW boiler in the Canade Pres works at
La Fortue, Quebec, exploded, killing two
workmen, and seriously injuring large
number of others. The building in which
the explosion occurred was levelled to the
ground.
EIGHT dagger knives have been found in
the Ringsend basin, Dublin. Kavanagh, the
informer, testified that the knives were
thrown there after the Phoenix park assass-
ination.
SIxTY-FIvE persons, mostly emigrants, have
been drowned by the laundering in gale of
the steamer Navarro, bound from Copen-
hagen to Leith, Scotland. The disaster &C.
Cured in the North Sea, about two hundred
miles west of the southern extremity of
Norway. Sixteen persons, ten of them emf
grant passengers, were saved by a steamer
and fishing smack. The survivors state
that the vessel was disabled by heavy sea,
that the captain had been hurt by an acct
cent, seemed stupefed, and drank to keep
up his spirits. A majority of the passengers
were on their way to America.
DURING a heavy gale along the English
coast the fishing fleets suffered severely.
Eighty Hull vessels arrived in damaged
condition, twelve of them having lost me E
bers of their crews. Three vessels found
cred, one with all hands.
ALARGE socialistic gathering in Paris came
into collision with the police and military
and a riot followed. Louise Michel, the
female socialist leader, addressed the crowd
from billposter's ladder. Six persons were
arrested for resisting the police, who drove
the crowd into other streets. The people
reassembled, broke into some bakers shops
and overturned carriages. They were charged
by the police and cavalry and number Of
persons were wounded.