Democratic Sentinel, Volume 4, Number 33, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 September 1880 — NEWS OF THE WEEK. [ARTICLE]
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
EOBEIGN NEWS. The English wheat crop is said to be Tunable at best, and very generally disappointlag. Chili has accepted the mediation of the United States in the dispute with Peru. Sergeant Marshman, of the British army, at the International Itifle Tournament at Wimbledon, who was bribed to report tbe score falsely, and exposed before the entire assemblage, lias nevertheless been acquitted by a courtmartial. Dispatches from Panama indicate an immediate settlement of the contest between the warring nations of South America, eomjs'lled by the interference of the United States su id leading European powers. Heavy rains, gales and floods have seriously damaged the unharvested crops in England. A Condon dispatch says the steamer Aurora, from Oporto for Southampton, foundered at sea. Fifty persons were drowned. A cable dispatch announces the death of Lord Chief Baron Kelly, of the English Court, of Exchequer, in the 84th year of his age. A London dispatch says that “ Turkey and her affairs are once* more the leading objects of European interest. Public attention ds centered on the naval demonstration at Dui■cigno, from which (ho slightest spark might flight up the flames of war throughout the Eastern world.” A dispatch from Ragusa says that 8,000 Albanians havo occupied the town and fortress of Dulciguo, expelling two battalions of Turkish troops who formed the garrison.
