News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1890-04-10
Foreign.
Henry NJ. Stanley will sail from Cairo for

Foreign.
Henry NJ. Stanley will sail from Cairo for
England on April Z.
Lord Salisbury has started for the Riviera.
General Won Caprivi, the new German
Chancellor. is a bachelor.
The late Duke de Montpensier had mag
nifcent palace ut Bologna in Italy. where he
usually resided three months every year. lie
also owned several otLer fine properties in
Italy, most of which have come into the hands
of the Count and Countess of Pari-, whose
riches are now very great.
Dom Pedro, the eX-Emperor of Brazil.
will pass the early part of the summer at
AiX-lesBans. and in August will 20 to Aus
tria at the invitation of the Emperor Francis
Joseph.
Henry NJ. Stanley writes to his American
publishers, Charles Scribner's Sons: II am
so far advanced with the writing of my book
In Darkest Africa, and the Quest, Rescue
and Retreat of Emin, the Governor of Equa-
toria,' that more than half the manuscript
has been already mailed for England. BY
the LIST of April next l hope to have finished
with the whole of it. When that is done, rot
Vanderbilts wealth would induce me to
write upon the subject at any length again"
jules Simon was full of honeyed and con-
cliatory words while at Berlin, but he has
hin cd to friends in Paris that the labor con-
ference amounted to absolutely nothing.
There h. been no more talk about the ces-
sion of Alsacea and Lorraine. The Emperor
has made his coup. 1t was simply to say that
''the French government was represented at
my conference"
Robert Louis Stevenson has taken great
fancy to Samoa. He has bought an estate of
40 acres on the hill near Apia. where he in
tends to make his home. He was at sydney
when last heard from, and his present inten-
ton is to visit England during the summer
He will he back IN Samoa In November. when
he will give himself up to house building and
the completion of his South Sea novel.
Mr.. Parnell has fled his denials in the
O'Shea case. Mrs. O'Shea has asked for
Captain Shea Is opposed to further delay, be-
eVing that tn object Is of political nature.
IL will be impossible, however, to hold the
trial before next autumn.
At the 10Th anniversary of the birthday of
Prince Bismarck recently, the railway sta
ton ut Friedrickcruhe was almost blocked
by the enormous number of presents r.iving
for tie Prince.
One OF the engines of the steamer City of
Paris broke down when PIG miles west of
Fastnet The steamer drifted 60 hours before
help arrived, but later she was tOwed into
Queenstown safely.
William Sherman, the colored janitor at
the Salem Post Office, has been arrested on
the charge of opening letters and extracting
money from them.
Forty thousand men are on strike in Cat
alonia, Spain.
Salcm's new police system is proving very
satisfactory.
More than million tons of ice have been
harvested in Vermont the past season.
There was n severe snow storm and gale
along the lower Hudson yesterday.
Massachusetts carpenters say that they will
insist on the eight and nine-hour day or
strike.
Phil Armour. while n butchers assistant.
was in love with handsome blonde. who
lifted him for wagon driver. The million
arc recently inquired concerning her and
found that she is mGtron with large fam
lily and her husband Is still wagon driver.