The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1889-10-31
FOREIGN NEWS.


A cable dispatch has been received stating
that reliable news has been received con-
corning Emin Pasha and Henry M. Stanley,
Signor Casati and six Englishmen, They
are all expected to arrive at Mpwapwa the
latter part of November, Captain Wiss-
mann also SAYS that he defeated force OF
insurgents near Somwe and killed 10 of
them.
English capitalists propose to bridge the
St. Lawrence at Quebec and construct rail-
way ON the north shore of Quebec TO the
Straits of Belle Isle,
The Cunard steamer Cephalonia, from
Liverpool for Boston, had to put in to Holy
head on account Of the explosion oil polier,
by which the second engineer and four iire-
men were seriously injured, She put back
to Liverpool for repairs.
II is reported that the collapse of the rail
way scheme at Shanghai is due to French
insistment upon the enforcement OF an ar
ticle in an old treaty emitting France to sup
ply the personnel and material for any Chi
nese railway.
The news from Stanley does not indicate
that the great explorer will reach Europe
this autumn as he had contemplated, Prob:
ably he will come back during the course OF
the winter.
Ex-Empress Eugene will spend the win
ter at Naples,
In order to complete the plan for Peru's
economic restoration and the re-establish-
ment of the national credit, the government
has submitted and the senate has approved
a project to authorize the executive TO cede
100000 hectares of land for colonization
purposes. The colonization is to begin
within three years and six years additional
is allowed for the construction OF irrigation
works wherever necessary.
Auguste Archambault, residing at Coots
cooke, Ont, narrowly escaped being buried
alive few days ago. He had been serious
ly i'll for several weeks and began to sink
rapidly, until all signs of life ceased and the
doctors pronounced him dead, The friends
of the deceased man had gathered around
the grave, into which the coffin was being
lowered, when all were startled by hearing a
groau proceeding from the coffin. The lid
OF the coffin was quickly removed, when it
was found that Archambault was alive. The
physicians have strong hopes Of completely
restoring him to health.
Sir John Lester Kaye, who has eleven
farms of 10000 acres each about 200 miles
from Winnipeg, Man., is promoting novel
scheme of colonization in the Canadian
Northwest. He has arranged with the Do
miniOn government for the purchase of
$50, 900 acres of land at a moderate price adj
jacent to his farms. Upon this tract he
proposes to establish twenty settlements of
seventy farms each. thus providing for 400
families which, by allowing five persons to
each family, will add to the population 1000
people with comfortable homes. His inten-
ton is to locate the farms, have dwelling
and outhouses on each, wells dug, seed in
the ground, and everything ready for the
settlers when they arrive. The Dominion
government favor the scheme.
President Carnot of France expresses his
intention of visiting the United States at
some future day.
Mr.. Krooker, Mennonite farmer living
at Morris, Manitoba, heard cows in his gar
den one night last week, and went out and
drove them away. In the morning he missed
his pocketbook containing $3.50 in bills and
silver, and going over his tracks of the pre-
vious night, discovered it covered with saliva
and partly chewed up with the bills miss
ing and the silver scattered about the
ground. The calves had evidently secured
it, and, expecting to find the missing bills,
he killed two out of the five, without, how
ever, finding the treasure.
The Hon. Mr.. Mercier, premier of Quebec
has announced that the government will
pay over the 100000 from the JeSuits' es-
tates on Nov. 5-$4 100000 to the Roman
Catholic bishops of the ecclesiastical prov
incc ofQuebec for the purposes of Roman
Catholic superior education, and $50, 900 to
the Protestant committee OF the council OF
public instruction.
James Cundrck of Warwick, Ont, has
taken out a writ against Peter Graham, a
member of the Ontario legislature, claiming
$4,000 damages for alternating his wifes af-
fections from him.
1t is stated that Louis kossuth, the Hun
garlan patriot, will become a naturalized
Italian citizen and that he will be nomi-
mated for senator. =
Mrs. Langtry has engaged the st. James
theatre, London, for one year from January
rext.
King Louis, of Portugal, was buried on
Sunday with great solemnity and pomp. In
the cortege were representatives of England,
France, Germany and Turkey. The widow
placed on the coffin wreath inscribed, "a
souvenir of the soul and heart and of the
eternal love of thy inconsolable wife, in
death and life, Maria.'
NJ. Meissonier, the renowned French artist,
has received the grand cross of the Legion of
Honor.
Freytags book on the late German En-
peror Frederick, entitled "a Contribution
Toward the History of the Making of the
New German Empire" is published. 1t
gives one of the most interesting pictures of
Frederick that have yet appeared and shows
that he was possessed of the idea of forming
an empire long before the scheme was ac-
copied by Prince Bismarck The book con-
cludes as follows: perhaps it is the highest
virtue which can be praised in the departed
p'ince's life that until the end of his days he
preserved correct self-knowedge, moder-
ate Judgment and willing appreciation of
other peoples worth"
II is reported that Queen Victoria will
spend the coming winter in Florence with
her daughter, ex-Empress Frederick of
Germany.
1t is reported that the Czarewitch has
been betrothed to Princess Marie of Greece.
The VieNna Allgemeine Zeitung says that
Prince Ferdinand of Bulgaria is engaged to
Princess Louise of Alencon.