The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1884-03-21
Foreign.

SURVIVORS of the Sinkat butchery report
that FL Mahdi's rebels tore the body of Tew
fix Bey. the Egyptian commander, into
pieces and devoured his liver in accordance
with their superstition.
TIE treaty of peace between Chill and
Peru has been ratified by the Gillian as
sembly.
WALLACE Ross, the Canadian oarsman,
defeated George Bubear, leading English
rover in a four mile race on the Thames.
Bubear received a start of ten seconds, and
was easily defeated.
IT is stated that at a meeting Of Irish I" In
vinciblesn in Paris lots were drawn to see
who should kill the informer McDermott.
SOLOMON SHAPIRO, well known in con-
nection with the recent attempt to sell IN
England a forged manuscript of the Penta
touch has Committed suicide at Rotterdam,
Holland.
OsMAN D1GMA, the defeated commander of
the False Prophets forces, wrote TO Sheik
Morghani declaring that he was determined
to drink the blood of the Turks and their al
lies This savage reply aggravated the feel
ing OF the British soldiers who, since the bat
tie of Teb. hal desired to spare so brave a
foe The reply was signed by twenty
Sheiks, representing 10000 inhabitants.
A NATIVE tribe in North Burmah revolted,
sacked and burned many villages and COM
pelei American and English missionaries to
flee foc their lives.
ADvIcEs from Canton report that the Chi
ne,e Irer arations tor war with France are
| increasing, and all signs indicate prolonged
contest.
| A BERLIN newspaper attributes the excite
| ment over the Iasker incident to the CORE
spondent of the London Times which, it saws,
wants to stir up strife between Germany and
America.
PORT SPAIN, Trinidad has been almost
entirely sweep away by fire. The loss is
estimated at more than S4OO,OJO
ANOTHER explosion Of dynamite has oc-
| CURED in Lon1On-this time at suburban
hotel. One man was blown to pieces.
BISMARCK, the German chancellor aD-
peared in the rechstag at Berlin and made
u speech in justification of the course he had
pursued in refusing to transmit the Lasker
| resolution to the reichstar. He said that he
had recognized the good intentions of the
American Congress, but he was unable to
harness himself to the car of the opposition.
The relations between Germany and the
| United States had always been pleasant, he
said, and the German government had al
ways tried to cultivate them He declared
that he would have presented th7
Lasker resolutions had he not
been prevented by their form. The resolu
tions contained n clause directed against the
uolicy which, in the emperor's name he had
been pursuing and which Herr Las1er had
opposed for years Once Bismarck was
interrupted by cries of 'Shame!" from the
opposition members or the reichstag, AMI
quite a scene ensu,d. The appearance OF
Prince Bismarck in the reichs'as is generally
attributed to his d,sire to maintain friend
ship with America.
ADvICEs from the Congo river, in Africa
report that Henry VI. Stanley has discovered
another ahuent of the Congo. The Arabs
in recent slave raid. captured 500 children
The natives recently attacked the European
/ tnt.ipS an ha | nlllnlprpI
avans, am killed several Europeans.
Mr.. BRADLAUGH, while delivering n lee
ture Mt Bridgewater, England, against per
petual pensions was attacked and driver
from the platform 10y showers of rotten eggs
fruit and fireworks. The mob atterwarC
attacked and wrecked the chairmans house
French troops have captured the town OF
Bacninh in Tonquin.
\ BERLIN dispatch says that trichinoss
engenderel by eating German-bred pork
and due in no wise to the Ameril an product
is ravaging various parts of Germany.