The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1888-10-25
FOREIGN NEWS.

Landgrave Friedrich Wilhelm of Hess.
fell overheard and was drowned between
Batavia and Singapore.
Advices from Afghanistan report that in a
fight at Tashkusgan 500 Of the ameers men
and 1900 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 feare! 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 for.
tune of So, 00O, 900, and bequeathed $500 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 ,und 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.
clally embarrassed.
The Italian Socialist Cipriani has left his
country and gone to Paris, having found
Italy, and especially his Romagna poor
field for Socialstic agitation. He admits
that the liberal internal policy of Prime
| Minister Crispi has taken the life out of
socialism in the Romagna, and that the en-
t6usiasm for King Humbert throughout the
kingdom has convinced him thata 5 calistic
revolution in Italy is a chimsra. Monarchy
Dr. a republic, hat 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 fine piece of sculpture, standing
on GRAM e pedestal about ten feet high.
The gener Il is represented in pensive atti-
/ Jude, with his chin restii & in the palm of his
right hand. The statue occupies a promi-
nent place in the square, standing in the GEN.
| ire between the two columns. There was no
ceremony at the unwilling, as there is a reg
ua;ion against speeches IN that square.
| The town council of Marbach the birth
place of Schiller, has resolved that the pub
NC 'qulre near the poets house be named
Gotta square, in honor of the recently de-
ceased Baron Carl Won Gotta, the head of the
great Stuttgart publishing house. which long
enjoyed the monopoly of publishing the
works of Schiller, us well 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 Parnell
libel action has been presented to the Scotch
court. Mr.. Parnell, or Aug. 10, a day prior
10 the opening of the Edinburgh action, oh
tained writ in the court of queens bench
tor the same libel The case, therefore,
aust 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 of
the Freisinnge Zeitung and seized a number
of copies of memorial pamphlet which had
Teen issued on Emperor Freierick's birth.
lay, containing extracts from the emperor's
diaries.
The circulation of the newspapers Esta-
teite, Pays Intransigeant, Patrie, Tele-
graphe and Voltaire has been prohibited in
Alsace- LoI raine and the circulation of other
French apers has been restricted.
The dervishes are advancing from Don.
COLA in force. 1t is thought that they will
raid the villages between Wady Halfa and
Assouan Cen. Dormer is about to start for
The front The fortified posts have been re-
,, enforced and the number Of boats on the
liver has been increased.
The National Zeitung says that Drs. Berg
mann and Gerhardt h we declined to adopt
he suggestion to have the publ prosecutor
ndict DR.. Mackenzie and the German pub
isher of his book for libel. They declare
.hat Dr. Mackenze's statements will recoii
1pon himself, and they are, therefore,
anxious that his book be given the fullest
publicity.
Prof. Virchow, in an interview with rep
resentative of the Vossische Zeitung, protes-
ted against Dr. Mackenzie'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 particle for examination.