News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1886-12-02
Foreign Notes.
1t is asserted positively at Shanghai,
China, that the English government has
resolved to hold Port Hamilton.

1t is asserted positively at Shanghai,
China, that the English government has
resolved to hold Port Hamilton.
The Paris Temps denies that the
French government has received unsat-
isfactory advices from Madagascar.
While a radical meeting was being
held at Paris on Sunday the platform
was stormed by party of anarchists.
A fierce conflict ensued in which num-
bers were injured. The police finally
succeeded in clearing the hall. Twelve
persons were arrested.
A dispatch from Rome says: The
bishops of Richmond and st. Paul have
submitted to the pope a scheme to found
a Catholic university in America. 1t is
proposed this university shall have at
| first only a theological faculty, and the
other faculties shall be added later on.
| Father Dowlings has been appointed
bishop of Peterborough, Ontario.
Twenty-Five sacks, containing mails
| from England to Germany. Russia, Aus
| tria and the East, while in transit on a
| train in Belgium on Saturday were cut
open and plundered of all the registered
| letters, The other letters were not
| touched. The robbery was discovered
upon the arrival of the train at Verviers.
Letters from America containing money
and diamonds to the amount of SAC, 900,
were stolen. 1t is supposed the robbers
are a gang of thieves who were impli-
Gated in the recent thefts of the English
mail.
An exciting scene occurred on Sunday
in a menagerie at Vervein, Prussia.
Nine. Sanlet, lion tanner, entered the
cage of the lion Brutus in the absence
of the keeper, accompanied by a man
named Grenier. No sooner had they
entered than the lion sprang savagely
upon Grenier. Nine. Sanlet ran to his
her, and in the struggle that followed
her face was terribly lacerated. An
attendant seized the lion, affording the
woman's husband an opportunity to
save her. A life and death struggle en-
sued between the lion and the attendant
until another man attacked the beast
with a pitchfork and drove him off.
The three persons attacked are all badly
injured. -s.
England keeps on annexing. The
island of Sacotra in the Indian ocean,
l 900 square miles, with 5000 population
OF Arabs and negroes, is the latest
tile; its productions are tobacco, dates,
aloes, sheep and goats 1t is well. Bet
ter a civilized power than barbarism.
Great Britain is great in a territorial
sense, great in wealth as we'll, from it's
immense possessions in far-distant
countries. And while it thus opens for
itself commercial advantages and mar
kets for it's manufactures, it cannot be
denied that the effect of its widespread
denomination has been and is to largely
promote and extend the blessings of
civilization. We of the United States
need not be jealous or regretful of
British acquisition of far-distant coun-
tries wherein barbarism held sway. We
have land enough, room enough we
cannot take care of more. Maintaining
and advancing civilization over our own
broad area, we have the elements of
illimitable wealth and progress, and
quite enough to do. Great Britain is in
and of itself pent up and restricted to
small space. Reaching out for more to
the uttermost parts of the globe, it re-
spends to a necessity we do not feel {;
and this necessity, which is one of sell
fishness, we may say, does at the same
time work out beneficent results in the
propagation of civilization, in affording
light where darkness had prevailed, and
in elevating great masses of men to
higher and better destinies.