Democratic Sentinel, Volume 4, Number 32, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 September 1880 — NEWS OF THE WEEK. [ARTICLE]

NEWS OF THE WEEK.

»OBEIGN NEWS. During the recent visit of the Czar to Livadia the track wan guarded night and day by about 50,000 troops. Greece has called all adult male citizens under 30 to her army, Several lives were lost at Serinagur, India, by a conflagration which destroyed 150 houses. The steamer San Salvador, in the Houth American cattle trade, was lost in the late hurricane off Florida. lit r crew, with the exception of'the Captain and first mate, was colored. It is reported in London that the agreement between Prince Bismarck and Baron von Haymerle is intended to lead to an alliance between Germany, Austria and Roiunauia, the Hatter to be raised to the rank of a kingdom, and ifii integrity and independence guaranteed by Germany and Austria, thus blocking Russis'n land route to the Balkan peninsula. A Constantinople dispatch says the •murderers of Dr. Parsons, the American missionary, have arrived there and w.ll be triod speedily. The Bultan lias promised Mr, Heap, United States Consul General, every satisfaction. . Dispatches from London of the 10tli place the loss of life by the Beaham colliery explosion in Durham at between 130 and 140. Very few bodies liad boon recovered up to that •date. It is thought the explosion originated in t lio lower seam, and that gas was driven over the furnace. The explorers for a time had to suspend the work of bringing up the survivors in consequence of the stables being on fire. A woman dropped dead on hearing of the death of her brother iu the pit. It is announced that Bulgaria will in Oelobor declare her indopondenco. Disturbances throughout Armenia are threatening to assume the proportions of an insurrection. The Prince of Wales has abandoned liiH contemplated trip to Australia. The reason assigned is that ho does not want to go so far from his royal ma. Turkey lias at last taken action looking to the transfer of Dulcigno to Montenegro. News lias been received from the French expedition which startod up the Niger in Africa, in April last, under Capt. Gallieni. <)<i the 11 tli of May, iu the Barbary country, the expedition was attacked by 3,000 natives. After several hours’ fighting, Capt. Gallieni retired with a loss of fourteen killed and eleven wounded. All their baggage was lost. The expedition has refitted and started again by another route. News comes, from Afghanistan that a serious insurrection has broken out in Herat., and the Governor of the city been murdered. A daughter lias been horn to the King and Queen of Spain. Gen. Count von dor Goltz, of the German army, and one of the Emperor’s aids-de-cttinp,| lias been killed in a duel with a brother oltlcer.