The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1884-04-18

speech in the British house of commons IN sup
port of the franchise bill. He defended the
extension of the franchise in Ireland as an act
of right and justice.
CAMBRIDGE easily defeated Oxford in tho
annual cght-oared boat-race on the Thames.
Since the establishment of these college
races Oxford has won twenty-five times and
Cambridge eighteen times.
A REVOLT has broken out in Mexico. all
the merchants in the republic closing their
stores and protesting against the the enforce
ment of an obnoxious stamp act President
Gonzales insisted upon the collection of the
tax at all hazards
A RIOT against the employment of female
labor has occurred at Kidderminster, Eng
land.
PRINCE BISMARCK has withdrawn from the
Prussan ministry, but will still keep a watch
full eye over the affairs of imperial Germany.
A FIRE at Gruegan, a small place in Nora
VIC. destroyed fifty houses. One woman and
two children were burned to death.
GREAT damage has been done by floods in
Armenia
ONE-HALF of Mandalay, the capital of Bur-
nah, city of90, COO people, has been destroyed
by fire.
A POSITIVE proof of the connection existing
between the anarchists of Europe and their
alleged confederates in the United States is
said to have been obtained by the Swiss
authorities
CAPTAIN SCHooNHovEN, of the wrecked
steamer Daniel Stenmann. made at Halifax
his formal statement of the terrible disaster
He said that he had overrlIn his reckoning in
the fog. and. till fatally too late, mistooi
Sambro light for that ut another point. He
thought if guns had been fired by the watch
ashore he might have been warned in time to
escape the peril
FIVE French missionaries and thirty cate
chists have been massacred at Ihanhoa, a
town in Tonquin.
GENERAL GoRDON shellcd the rebel camp
near khartoum and killed forty of the
Nenemy. In several engagements between
General Gordon's troops and the Arabs the
latter were defeated The rebels about Khar-
toum are estimated by Gordon to number
2.0ng
A. NJ. GILLESPIE G. Co., London mcr-
chants, have failed for S1,250,00O
THE Dutch authorities have blockaded n
portion of the AChccn coast tSumatra), with
view to exercising pressure upon the rajah
of Tenom to force him to release tha crew of
the wrecked English steamer Niscr1, held
captive since last November
FIVE nations-the Italian Amer can
/ french, German and Englsh--ale demand
ing Indemnity from lIayti for dana 5es sis-
tain d in the recent rebellion.
An expedition under General Aguero has
invaded Cuba Advices from Havana say
| that General Aguero in landing met with no
resistance, and that many factions one INN
OH the march to the interior. swelling the party
t. several hmdIel followers. They had sew
orll encounters with troops, the result Of
which was that the troops were obliged to
retreat The government has photographed to
| Spain requesting that additional troops be
| sent.
CHARLES RrADE. the noted English novel
ist, died a few days ago in London at the age
OF seventy years.
GREAT excitement was created in Brmng-
ham, England. 10y the arrest of man named
/ DAILY with number of dynamite bombs and
other explosives in his pocket, His arrival
in England had been discovered by the police.
and the man at whose house he boarded was
also arrested a. an accomp.i"e.
LATEST advices from - anghai report a
serious political crisis at fc1in. The em1re =
has publicly degraded Erin kung and four
memb r. OF the trivy council. They were
strip, ed OF all their honor be ,au-e Of tho
diatorv manner in VIII ii they have dealt
with TonIuin affairs.