Democratic Sentinel, Volume 1, Number 35, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 October 1877 — GENERAL FOREIGN NEWS. [ARTICLE]
GENERAL FOREIGN NEWS.
The latest estimate of the mortality from the famine in India places the number of persons who have starved to death at three-quarters of a million. The French republicans are relieved of their apprehensions of a Bonapartist uprising. Napoleon the Little has left Belgium, and all is quiet on the frontier. The Midland railroad of England has been defrauded in a gigantic manner by some of its officers. Several of the delinquents have been arrested. Madame Titiens, the famous opera singer, is dead. The situation in the famine districts India continues to improve. The steamer Pandora is being refitted in England for another start for the Polar regions.
