The Windham County reformer. (Battleboro, Vt.) 1876-1897, 1884-04-11

OLD WORLD

GIEAr FIRE AT M~ANDALAY, BURMAH.
One-half of Mandalay, the capital Of Burmah,
a city of 10000 people, has been burned.
The negotiation between England and Spain
in regard to the proposed new commercial urea
ty are ended, Spain refusing to submit the
provisional treaty to the Portes before the ad-
iournment in July, although England has Off
cred to submit q modus vivendi to Parliment.
Cholera has appeared in Cochin China.Pr e.
cautions against its spreading are being taken.
The bombshells discovered under the floor
ing of a house in the suburbs of Madrid Friday
had been there two years.
There was q riot near Canton March Z, in
which 5000 Chinese declared against the pre-
sent DYNASTY and demanded the reestablish-
ment of the Ming, or pure Chinese dynasty.
A pamphlet is being circulated in Russia ur-
ging white, Russians to cooperate for the over
throw of despotism. The white Russian revolu-
tonary paper Homon has reappeared.
A serious famine prevails in the province of
Kazan, Russia, caused by the failure of the
crops.
The Independence Beige of Russia declares
that Mr. Henry M, Stanley is definitely aband-
onlng the Congo nilsson.
1t is reported that there has been an agrarean
rising at Oofa in Russia, Many conflicts are
said to have taken place, Ia which several gend-
armes were killed or wounded
The French attempt to cut off the Chinese re-
treat from Bac-Ninh completely failed.
A Russian nobleman, Prince Andronikoff, has
been arrested on account OF suspected Nihilistic
procliyities.
The Irish bishops will convene at Rome in
September, for similar purposes to those of the
convention Of American bishops, in 1888.
Signor Biancheri, the government candidate,
has been elected president of the Italian Cham
Der of Deputies, by q vote of 239 to 136 for Sig
nor Carroll, the opposition candidate.
The Varsity race came off, Monday, over
the usual course, from Putney to Mortlake,
England, but seems to have excited little inter-
est. The death Of Prince Leopold and the bad
weather contributed to the dulness. The light
blues crept up on enearer to the darlSs, the score
now standing % victories for Oxford and Is for
Cambridge. 1t was a "soft thing" for CAM
bridge.
Patenoster Row, London, had a 81, 900, 900
fire, Thursday night OF last week.
Mr. Gladstone made a powerful speech in the
Commons, Monday, in support of the franchise
bill. He said il was a good thing for the state
should possess the franchise. He defended the
extension of the franchise in Ireland, as an act
of right and justice.
The recent sudden removal OF the convict
Irish Invincibles from the Irish to English pris-
ons is attributed to the discovery of a conspira-
cy 10 blow up Mount JOY prison at Dublin, Ir.
It Is stated that the Inyincibles in the prison
were engaged in clandestine correspondence with
conspirators outside. Letters were found in
James Mullett's cell which disclosed the plot.
The prison wasders were to be bribed with mon
ey from O'Donoyan Rossa's fund to convey an
Internal machine into the prison. One letter con-
tanned an order for the murder of Patrick Delany.
- Al. H. a-. -r1-1r A,an D~o by fIrAu
lug him over the balcony as he should leave the
prison after mass. Delaney is still at Mountjoy
for safety, Many of the warders have been dis
missed. This runner is ~strenuously denied on
what is claimed to be "high authority"
The head quarters of the anarchists in Switz-
crland have been removed from Geneva to
Basle. Austria has demanded of the Swiss
government the surrender of Falk, charged
with completely in murders at Stuttgart and
Vienna. -G