The Windham County reformer. (Battleboro, Vt.) 1876-1897, 1896-02-14

REVIEW OF THE WEEK,
OLD WORLD.
Excavations in Ancient Corinth.

Excavations in Ancient CorihNh'
The exclusive right Of conducting excavation;
nj the site of ancient Cornth has been granted
to the American school mt Athens by the creek
authorities. Some idea of the value oil hiscoh,
cession will be gained when it Is remembered
that Corinth was surpassed only by Athens IN
antiouity, and was the superior of that city in
wealth and that, whereas Athens must go IN
touched by the spade so long rs the MODERN CITY
which il built upOn the old, survives, the site OF
ancient Corinth is covered by grain nelds. and Il
| scattered hamlet having Il popuatloh OF onls
! 600 souls. 1t is therefore, accessible; ana thc
school needs only some $4,000 to enable it 10
perform its interesting task ana lay pare l"r INC
first time to modern eyes Il hrecian city
Ferdinand Missed.
Prince Ferdinand of Bulgaria Is in the ridiculous
position of having sold his self.respect, thcresaru
of his subjects, the friendship of Austiia'
and alienatcd his wife in order to obtain some
sort of recognition from Russa-and gettlng
snubc dinstead. lie forced the conversion oil his
two ycarold son tothc Greek church mt hccNpec'
tation that this step would secure Russian recog
milton of his claim TO his throne. but the czar mas
apparently refused to be godfather to Prince
| Boris, nor will any of the Russian grand dukes
stand ~ sponsor and the most that Ferdinand
has now to hope for Is, that If he abdicates, nus
sia will assume n protcctrate over Buglaria ana
hold Boris on the throne under Russian regent
This program would dispose of Ferdinand, but
it would set Europe In turmoil, and compel
Austria to resist.
Another Uprising in madagascar.
A conspiracy was discovered the cath ult in
Anatnanarivo, the capital Of Madagascar, the
result of which was that force OF 1910 HOvas
made an attack upon the + ench soldiers
stationed there and were rcpulsed. The French
followed upon tn cir advantage and killed 5000
of the HOvas. Fourteen of the Hova chiefs
were taken prisoners, condemned to death and
Immediately shot. Several others were trans
ported.
More About the Armenian MassRcres.
Rev Lyman Bartlett, the missionary who haa
Just returned fiom Smyrna and now with his
Ga md IL Ifn a
confirms the most Of the stories OF the slaughter
Of Armcnians. He says that the reports which
were at first circulated that the killing of men,
women and children anu the destruction or
property has been done entirely by the kurds
is untrue. 1t is known now that the Turkish
troops, acting directly under the sultan, have
taken active partn the 0uirages. Minister Ter
rell has been so active and persistent recently
in MS demands that Americans shall be pro
tcctcd, that the Sultan haa been forced TO com.
ply with his demands and the result = ~ ', as
lar as is known no natives of this Couut, have
as yet lost their lives, though much of their
property has been destroyed. As consequence
of this evident fear of this government tho
Armenians often seek shelter in the houses of
the Americans. During one of the slaughtcrs
of the Armenians This happened and the sOldicry /
warned the missionaries to leave the house in /
which the natives had taken refuge saying that /
the building would he 7Glallre. But the mission /
aries sent back word that they w nd not leave /
the house and that if 1t was fired they; too, /
the soldiers did not dare set fire TO /
the house and the Armenians were saycu.
Mr. Bartlett says 1t Ia also undoubtedly true that
the massacres thus far have beenconducted with /
the idea of depriving the Armenians of their
best men, for the leading merchants and pro.
lnincnt persons have rarely escaped, Hundreds
have beer offered the alternative of Mo,
or death, and although
some preferred 10 live Mr Bartlett
says that It is impossible 10 say what
viii be the result of Clara Barton's mission to
Armenia, But little dependence can be placed
lpon the,sutan, who has consented that she shall
enter Armenia only as private individual and
lot as Il repre- sentative OF the Red Cross society.
Fighting in formosa against japanese au
hority has been renewed. The insurgents 10
he number of 1900 have attacked the towns OF
Hamsui, Iiram sunko, kozuku and Talpch
they are destroying the railroads and cutting
he telegraph wires.