The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1886-08-05
FOREIGN.

The English steams ip companies have re-
fused to accept as passengers, on any terms,
the Greek gypsies who arrived in l. verpool,
Eng, recently with the intention of emigrat-
ing to America. The Greek consul is trying
to arrange for the shipment of the gypses to
New York via Antwerp.
Sou lanese rebels are reported to have de
stroyed the city of Khartoum.
The Spanish government will buy the re-
naming 10000 slaves in Cuba thu ],
browning its work of the abolition of slavery
Able Liszt is dangerously ill at Bay
reuth.
The reports of death by starvation in New
foundland are contradictel by the
st. Johns correspondent of Il Halifax news
paper.
China has conceded to the English the right
to occupy Burmah.
Lord Salisbury is having great trouble to
form a cabinet. But three names are thus far
officially announced
The Russian police have discovered wide
spread revolutionary socialist conspiracy
having branches at Paris and st. Petersburg
Many Polish students ara impli-
Gated. The leaders in the plot have been ar
rested.
At meeting Of the Panama Canal Com
pany in Paris, NJ. de Lesseps declared that
the enterprise would be completed in
1899 at the estimated cost and that
the business would earn or 7per cent. per
| annum.
The Anglo-American Cable Company has
passed its semi annual dividend.
1t is Officially announced that Michael
| Hicks Beach is to be the new chief secretary
| for Ireland.
Blackburn has been awarded the first prize
| i'll the London chess tournament and Burn
| the second.
Chinese pirates killed three officers
of Dutch steamship and took the
others captive, demanding $4,000 ran
| som.
A recital of suffering in Labrador is given
in special dispatch, which appear to carr y
its truth on its face. Cannibalism has been
added to the oher horrors of the situation,
and white bears wild with hunger consume
the dead bodies of the dead and prey upon
the living
The 500th anniversary of Heidelberg Uni
versity was recently celebrated
| Ina duel at Liege between artillery Lien.
| tenant Savage and DR.. Prele, an army
surgeon, four shots We're exchanged, and
| with his fourth fire the lieu tenant killed the
doctor instantly by shooting him through
| the heart.
| The Amsterdam Socialist leader Fortuyp
has been arrested on charge of having writ
ten and circulated seditious pamphlets incit-
ing the people to disorder,
! Lieutenant Israel, thu African traveller,
has been arrested at Hamburg for fraud
An international exhibition will be held in
| Paris in 1889
The new Spanish torpedo cruiser Destruc
tor was recently launched at Glasgow. 1t /.
claimed for her that she is able to overtak,
and destroy the fastest torpedo boat hereto
| fore aioat.
A dispatch states that the German mer
chants in Batoum have been almost ruined b,
the abolition of the freedom of that port
One merchant was obliged to pay a duty O.
200, 600 marks on 1000 marks worth O
| tea.
NJ. de Fuisseaux, the chief of the Belgian
Socialists, who is an exile at Lille. applied tt
the Northern Railway Company to provid,
special trains to convey 10000 workmen to ,
Socialist demonstration al Brussels. TIL,
company refused to furnish the trains,