The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1886-10-14
FOREIGN.

FOREIGN.
Warm weather is prevailing in Europe.
The mercury is 50 degrees in the shade in
London
Report says that General Kaulbars has re-
ceived 100000 francs to further agitation in
Bulgaria.
TIE sentences of the condemned Madrid
rebels have been committed to imprisonment
for life in the military prison in Africa.
Mr.. Parnell and his mother and sister ar
to pass the winter in the south of France, not
returning to England before the reopening
of Parliament.
A volcanic eruption has occurred on the
island of Niapu one of the Tonga group OF
the Friendly islands. Ev'ry village on the
island was destroyed. The inhabitants es-
capped. The island is covered twenty feet
deep with volcanic dust, and at one place
new mountain POO feet high, has been
formed.
| Consul General Phelan, at Halifax, N. S.,
has received advic from Ottawa to the eff
feet that the Gloucester schooner, w. ID.
Daisley, recently seized for alleged customs
violation, would lie released upon a deposit
of 800 being made The vessels owners
have been communicated with.
1t is rumored here that Lord Randolph
Churchill and the British ambassador, Sir
Edward Malet, will shortly pay an official
visit to Prince Bismarck.
Archdeacon Kavanagb, parish priest of
Kildare, county Kildare, Ire, and formerly
PRECEDENT of st. Patrick's college at Carlow,
was instantly killed while celebrating mass
at his own altar, by portions of it falling on
! him.
A story comes from st. John, N. B., to
the effect that an officer on the vessel Eliza
| S. Mil igan murdered a sailor by kicking him
| to daatb Jyhi lila tho uassal W. biph
seas
1t is said that Russia can land $4,000 SOL
| diers in Varna in two weeks. Turkey is
| ready for war and the 200 600 Turks on the
Roumelan frontier are ready to move near
Varna.
Hanlan has accepted Ross challenge 10
row race on the TIL mes for $500 side
The Gloucester fishing schooner Marion
Grimes has been seized by The Canadian
| cruiser Terror and the usual fine Of $500 has
been imposed.
Sagasta is forming new ministry at
Madrid.
An important scheme for the government
of Ireland is being prepared by the British
| cabinet. 1t is believed to have originated
with Mr. Chamberlain.
Gen. Kaulbers is having poor success in his
effort to corrupt the Bulgarian army
| "A plOu Oh anaTclllSlS winch was 10 bne END
of the wholesale blowing up of Vienna and
the assassination of Emperor Francis Joseph
is said to have been discovered and frus-
trated.
Lord Randolph Churchill is in Dresden.
The case against James Gllhooly, member
of parliament for the west division of county
Cork, charged with melting riot in Cork
during the visit of the Prince and Princess of
Wales to Cork, has been dismissed.
Justice Day, presiding over the sittings of
the commission investigating the circum-
stances attending the recent riots in Belfast,
has refused the request made by a deputation
of Protestant ratepayers that the commission
recall witnesses and permit counsel to exam.
inc them.
The deaths are announced of Assessor
Lung, born in 1915, one of the last survivors
of he Frankfort parliament of 1913, and the
FRINGE of Salm, born in 1914 a member of the
upper house of Prussia.
The British government is preparing bill
10 establish four national councils for Ire
laLd.
Many Irish landlords have taken Lord
Randolph Churchil's warning and are re
ducing the rents. One of the latest to do Sc
is Lord Lucan, who, thirty years ago, desc
lated nearly whole county by evictions