The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1888-01-19
FOREIGN.

fOhElGN.
The remains of the celebrated temple OF
Kabeiroi have been discovered by German
excavators near Thebes
The number of deaths from smallpox in
Havana during December was 374. The
government vii appoint a committee
composed of over 100 persons to
effect all that science suggests
toward Graduating the disease Several
subscriptions have been started for the
relief of the sufferers,
The National Zeitung says it is expected
that the powers will soon take steps for the
removal of Prince Ferdinand from the Bull
gtSian throne.
A bookseller named Scott, doing business
mt Montreal has ubsconded to the United
States, taking with him sum of money es
timated at 5000
Warm winds have caused a sudden thaw
throughout Austria, and serious floods are
threatened. Some of the suburbs Of Vienna
are already partially submerged.
The Journal de s.. Petersburg says that
the political blacknailers and cllumniators
are proflting by the fact thst tho authors Of
the forged letters sent to the car have not
been fould, and pretend to attribute their
authorship to high Russian diplomats whom
sonages they try TO criminate are too highly
placed to lower themselves by repelling
suspicious which cannot affect them.
The inmates of a group of hoiises belonging
to the CZcrstochoff monastery, near the
western frontier of Galcia, have leen
ordered to vacato the buildings, which are
wanted for Russian troops.
The Paris Journal dies Cebates officially
denies that M. Carnot instructed NJ. Hei bette,
the French ambassador at Berlin, to inform
Emperor William that as long os he re
manned president there would be no war
Florence Marie Rose, sister of the elder
Dumas, is dead.
The latest advices from Massowah say
that IS, 600 Abyssinians are concentrated near
Guerra.
The Russian bulge. for 1888 places the Or
binary receipts at S5l 161 ,S2S roubles, the ex-
penditures ut S5l 243, 2a53 roubies and the sur
plus at 500, coo roubles
Frau Voggenhuber. a celebrated singer,
who was connected with the German Opera
House at Berlin for 20 years, is dead.
Many officers and students have been ar
rested ct ST. Petersburg on the charge OF
being implicated in the plot against the
car.
Thirty thousand persons in Montenegro
have been deprived of food by floods The
car has sent shipload of corn from Odessa
to relieve the distress, but the vessel has not
yet arrived at her destination.
A panic occurred in church in the south
of the Tyrol through a woman fainting.
Eight persons were crushed to death and
many were injured.
IT is reported that general blockade OF
Bulgaria is contemplated by the powers in
the event of Prince Ferdinand's refusal to
resign the Bulgarian throne.
Ringgold Cooper, an American forger, has
been arrested in Paris on an extraditiou
warrant for a forgery upon the London and
Westminster Bank, by which he realized
RsfOO
Count Won Taafe, president of the Austrian
council of ministers, has received an auto
graph letter from Emperor Francis Joseph,
summoning the Reichsrath to assemble on
the 18th inst
Among the men arrested in connection
with the latest plot against the car is an
employe on the Baltic railway, who kept the
Nihilists informed of every Journey OF the
car to and from Gatschina Letters were
found on the prisoner showing that the plot
was ripe for execution on the eve of the mans
arrest.
telegram from San Reno reports the
discovery of a plot against the life Of the
German crown prince. 1t is said that one of
the plotters, a Socialist, has turned informer
The police have forbidden access to the
promenades in the vicinity of the villa Uric,
where the crown prince resides"