The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1890-03-06
FOREIGN NEWS

A French torpedo boat Is ashore at Costa
de Mita, Portugal.
Villages in Old Servia have been plum
dered by Albanian robbers, and many in
Labitants tortured to death.
Seven miners were killed by an explosion
in mine at Dartmund.
Balfour is preparing new home rule
bill
The secretary of state has received cable
message from Consul McMasters, at Cartha-
gena, saying that the Colombian authorities
have promised him an agreeable solution
of the case of the American schooner
Julian, recently seized for alleged violation
of the laws OF Colombia.
A new color, amethyst mingled with gold,
has been introduced into Venetian glass,
and is dividing popularity with tender sea
green.
1t is said that the marriage OF another
daughter of the Prince of Wales has been
arranged, and that it will be publicly an
nonnced in April.
! The German government has decided to
connect Berlin with the Baltic by means of
q ship canal The work will be commenced
| in a few months.
The English criminal authorities are seri-
ously discussing the ACCESSIBILITY of adopting
| the French system of identifying criminals
by anthropometrical measurements.
| 1t having come out that most Of the sur
| vivors of Balaklava are now paupers,
| great benefit performance is being arranged
| in London for the purpose of getting them
out of the warehouses;
| English stoats and weasels are being ex-
| ported to New Zealand from England in
large numbers to kill off the rabbits and the
rats which have been food for the stoats and
weasels IN England, are increasing enor-
mously in some districts. There is talk of a
movement to prevent the expectation OF any
more rat destroyers.
| Sir John Thompson's proposed act to fur
ther amend the criminal law of Canada
contains one clause which has attracted
much attention, namely; Every one who
marres or cohabits with any person related
to him or her, whether by consanguinity or
affinity, more nearly than the fourth degree,
computed according to the rules of the
civil law, shall be deemed to have COM
mitted incest, and is guilty OF INSIDE
meanor, and liable to II years imprison-
ment" The sister of a deceased wife is re-
lated to the husband in the second degree Of
affinity. Sir John Thompson's act renders
man and wife thus related liable to Ii years
| in the pententiary There has been hither-
to no law in Canada against the marriage of
fhese, except in so far as Canada may be
| governed by BRUSH law,
The cold has been so intense in Bucharest
that whole packs of starving wolves have
invaded the towns and villages, devouring
all before them. In Bessarabia a mail cart
was attacked and the pos'man with his
horses were eaten by the ravenous brutes.
| Hunting parties have been organized for
| the destruction of the wolves under the
leadership Of the heir presumptiye to the
throne.
The vote of the Socialists in the recent
! German election, compared with the last
| previous election in 1887, shows gain OF
567 405 votes.
The London News Paris correspondent
says that Dom Pedro is unwilling to dismiss
his imperial suite. He has therefore re-
| solved to endeavor to come to terms with
! the Brazilian government to renounce the
crown, and to return to Brazil and live as a
| private person.
The French government has accepted the
| invitation of Germany to take part i'll the
Berlin labor conference.
Ii is semi-otiicially announced that the re-
| suit of the recent elections for members of
| the Rechstag has clused Prince Bi marck
| to delay his resignation from office. The
1 London Standards Berlin correspondent be-
lieves that Prince Bismarcks decision to
retain office is the outcome of the long in
terview he had with the Emperor, in which
the Emperor probably yielded on the points
of difference between them, and consented
to the presentation of new anti-Socalist
bill. The correspondent presumes that in
future the government if not based upon
complete harmony b tween the Emperor
and the chancellor, will depend mainly
upon series of compromises.