The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1890-02-27
FOREIGN NEWS.

but Is improving.
Cholera is spreading in Mesopotamia.
The Prince of Wales is q cons tant attend
ant upon parliament,
The recent storm has driven a large mum.
Der of Japanese fishing boats out to sea and
1000 lives are reported lost,
Lord Salisbury has stated that he will
accept the United States Senate's changes In
tie extradition treaty.
! Young Abraham Lincoln has had a sue
cessful operation performed, and ID giving
| excellent promise of recovery.
Agnes Huntington has been enjoined
| from singing without he consent OF the
Carl Rosa Opera Company.
The Duke of Orleans pardon has been
| postponed.
SANKEY'S experiences in Africa are said to
have made him appear prematurely OLD.
His hair is entirely white aud his face looks
wasted and careworn. He cannot come to
| London till warm weather
At st. John, N, b., woman aged GO
started for a l0-mile drive in the big storm.
Her frozen body was found after two days.
The Queen Regent of Spain now dresses
the infant King with her own hands, and
personally attends to the breakfasts of the
three children daily. Ever since the Kings
recovery the Queen has devoted every spare
hour to him, and their principal amusement
is playing dominoes.
1t has been discovered that 500 forged
| shares of the Orleans Railway Company
have been put in circulation in Paris,
The Argentine Republic has ordered 90.
600 rifles from the St. Cyr (Eng) factory
Conservative magnates are subscribing to
defray the expenses incurred by the Times
in the Parnell commission case, and the
Primrose League has been asked to con-
| tribute.
The queen has announced that she will
| patronize the Carl Rosa opera season at
Drury Lane, and has ordered that the royal
box be reserved This will be her first visit
to the opera since the death of Prince AL
| bert.
1t is the intention of the Russian govern
ment to commence the construction of sew
eral large iron-clads and cruisers during the
coming summer.
An international chess tournament will
be held at Manchester, Eng, in the autumn
At Mulhausen, in Saxony, there was a
fight at a socialist election meeting, which
went so far that the soldiers were called to
restore order. Thirty persons were
wounded.
The Cologne Gazette in an editorial warns
people against overrating the Emperor's
words 1t says there are limits to social re-
form beyond which all concerned plunge
into ruin.
The influenza has been very severe among
the British troops in Egypt
AT the last half-yearly meeting of the
London Dock Companies it was reported
that the recent strikes had not only brought
an increase of wages to the workmen, but
had resulted in making them less efficient
that eight men now had to be hired to do
the work that six did before. The increase
in the cost of LABOR for the last half over the
first half of 1889 was two hundred thousand
dollars.
A Paris correspondent says that Dom
Pedro's nervous disease increases and
Partially unhinges his mind. He lives
in daily expectation of being recalled to
rule Brazil, and does not realize the pre-
carious state of his own finances. He re-
fuses to reduce his imperial suite, and main
tains his expenses on grand scale.
1t is reported on good authority that the
pope has for the first time gone beyond the
| Vatican since his elevation to the pontifical
chair, when, following the example of Plus
TX, he constituted himself prisoner as
protest against the usurpation of the House
of Savoy The mortal illness of
his brother, Cardinal Pecci, whom he
so dearly loved, caused him to break his
self-imposed vow. The cardinal re-
sided in the Barbarini palace. News came
that he was at the point of death. The holy
father could no longer restrain his at1ec-
ton. He entered an ordinary cardinals
coach and drove to the palace, taking no
precaution to disguise himself other than
holding handkerchief to his face. His
presence was a surprise and consolation to
his brother Both were greatly affected.
The Pope remained an hour by the bed
side. Then giving his final benediction and
bidding farewell TO he dying cardinal he
returned to the vatican quietly and unob-
served as he had come.
The English government Is transporting
young trees by the Wholesale from Scotland
to the Isle of Man, where Greeba mountain
is being thickly planted with them as an
experiment with practical forestry on
large scale.
The chief clerk in Liverpool court has
been arrested upon the charge of sys-
tematically stealing the revenue stamps
from documents passing through his hands
going on for many years, and the profits to
the clerk have been enormous.
The German semi-official press, in SIM
Infamous art Giles, has reported the APP
preaching retirement of Prince Bismarck
from his Prussian offices, and that he will
retain only the office of chancellor of the
empire. No great attention has been paid
to this, because it is considered that so long
as the prince retains the Office of chancellor
the administrative situation is unchanged.
Lord Salisburv's health causes much un-
easiness to his friends. He is ordered to the
seaside, and has, in consequence, gone to
Bournemouth, and is forbidden to attend to
any but the most urgent business.
Kate Daveler, aged 16 years. employed at
the stocking works at Mannheim, Pa, had
her hair caught in the shafting and before
the machinery could be stopped she was
completely scalped and terribly mangled.
She will die