Democratic Sentinel, Volume 1, Number 21, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 July 1877 — GENERAL HOREIFN NEWS. [ARTICLE]

GENERAL HOREIFN NEWS.

The people of the burned city of St. John are clearing away the rubbish and beginning to rebuild. The French elections will tako place on the 11th of October. M. Thiers has been asked to stand for seventeen districts hitherto represented by Bonapartists or Monarchists. Bradlaugh, the well-known English Radical, and Mrs. Annie Besant have been severally sentenced to six months’ imprisonment and a fine of SI,OOO for publishing a book “degrading to public morals.” A potato field at Mulhcim, Germany, on which a single Colorado beetle made his appearance, was recently covered with petroleum and tan-bark and set on tire, the Government indemnifying the proprietor. The British grain markets arc reported firm, with an advancing tendency. It is announced that Richard Wagner, the celebrated musical composer, will at an early day visit this country, and make a grand music al'tour throughout the United States.