Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1888-10-26
FOREIGN NEWS.

Landgrave Friedrich Wilhelm Of Hesss
fell overheard and was drowned between
Batavia and Singapore.
Advices from Afghanistan report that IN a
fight at Tashkusgan 500 of the ameer's men
ana l6OO rebels were among the killed and
wounded.
A quantity Of petroleum in the forehold of
the steamer Vile de Calais, at Calais from
Philadelphia, exploded. The vessel after
ward sunk 1t is feared that some lives have
been lost, The explosion caused the utmost
alarm throughout Calais Hundreds of
windows were shattered by the conclusion.
Two persons were killed and many injured
The late Prince Schwarzenberg left a for.
tune of $50, 100000, and bequeathed S40O to
the poor Of Vienna.
-Four Galway moonlighters were sentenced
at Wicklow, Cahill got one year imprison.
ment at hard labor, and Noon Reilly and
Brannally nine months each.
Count de Premio- Real, Spanish consul-gen-
eral at Quebec, was found dead in his bed
with bullet wound over his right temple,
and revolver, with one chamber empty,
by his side. The count had become inan.
cially embarrassed.
The Italian Socialist Cipriani has left his
country and gone to Paris, having found
Italy, and especially his RomagDa, poor
field for Socialistic agitation. He admits
that the liberal internal policy OF Prime
Minister Crispi has taken the life out of
Socialism in the Romagne, and that the en-
thusiasm for King Humbert throughout the
kingdom has convinced him that Socialistio
revolution in Italy is chimera Monarchy
or a republic that is Indifferent to Cipriani
the real question is thai of Socialism.
The statue of Chinese Gordon, which was
unveiled in Trafalgar square, London last
week, is a fine piece of sculpture, standing
on granite pedestal about ten feet high.
The general is represented in a pensive atti-
tude, with his chin restiIg G in the palm of his
right hand. The statue occupies promi-
nent place In the square, standing in the CEN
ire between the two columns There was no
ceremony at tue unveilng as there is reg
ulatlon against speeches in that square.
The town council of Marbach, the birth
place of Schiller, has resolved that the pub
lie square near the poets house be named
Gotta square, In honor of the recently de-
&C. J r'' Carl Won Gotta, the head of the
gieaL 6,u,tg"It publishing house, which long
enjoyed the monopoly of publishing the
works of Schiller, as we'll as those of Goethe.
Carl Won Gotta had won the gratitude of the
citizens of Marbach by his numerous bene-
factions.
The London Times defence in the rarneIl
libel action has been presented to The Scotch
court. Mr. Parnell, on Aug. 10, day prior
TO the opening of the Edinburgh action, OBJ
talned writ i'll the court of queens bench
tor the same libel The case, therefore,
must first be tried in the English court
Prof. Bergman does not object TO fight
ing duel with DR.. Mackenzie.
The police of Berlin searched the Offices nf
the Freisnnige Xetung and seized number
of copies Of memorial pamphlet which had
Teen issued on Emperor Ere lercts birth
day, containing extracts from the emperors
diaries.
The circulation Of the newspapers Fsta-
fette, Pays, Intransgeant Patrio, Tele-
graphe and Voltaire has been prohibited in
AlSace- Lorraine and the circulation of other
French Iapers has been restricted.
goaa IN iffcTshNsR foTcsh. R is thought that they will
raid tho Villages tpetween Wady Halfa and
Assouan. Gen. Dormer is about to start for
the front. The fortified posts have been re-
enforced and the number of boats on the
river has been increased.
The National zeitung says that Drs. Berg
mann and Gerhardt h We declined to adopt
the suggestion to have the publ prosecutor
indct DR.. Mackenzie and the German pub
lishor of his book for libel They declare
thai Dr. Mackenzie'S statements will recoil
upon himself, and they are, ther efore,
anxious that his book be given tue fullest
publicity.
Prof Virchow, in an interview with rep
resentative Of the Vossische Teitung, protes-
ted against DR.. MackenZe's attempt to throw
the responsibility upon him. He said he had
not been summoned to see Emperor Fred
erick. The autopsy, he added, showed that
the disease was more deeply seated than the
tumor from which DR.. Mackenzie removed
the DDrtcle for examination.