Democratic Sentinel, Volume 7, Number 6, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 March 1883 — FOREIGN. [ARTICLE]
FOREIGN.
The Czar of Russia has issued a ukaso appointing a commission to examine into the laws relating to Jews and to nrepare a report which will be submitted to the Legislative Department Harrington, a Land League organizer, now confined in an Irish jail for using intimidating language, was elected to a seat in the House of Commons for West Meath. In the English Parliament, on the 26th ult, Parnell arraigned the Irish executives, charging arrests without cause, jurypacking, and prejudiced and unfair Judges He said Mr. Chamberlain was the only Englishman who appreciated the Irish question, which elicited ironical cheers, and intimated an amendment to the Land act was necessary for the pacification of the country. Parnell was confident of victory, because of the support of a million Irish in America, Baron Nordenskjold, the Swedish explorer, has notified the Dutch Minister at Stockholm that he intends to claim the reward of 25,000 guilders offered in 1596 for the discovery of the northeast passage. The Princes Victor and Louis, sons of Prince Napoleon, will enter the service of Italy, the former as an attache on the King’s staff. The medical officer of County Done gal, Ireland, reports the children much emaciated, largely resulting from the use of seaweed as their chief meal. At Rome, the other day, paper bombs charged with powder were thrown into the court-yard of the residence of the Austrian Minister, before the Austrian embassy, and in front of the royal palace of the Quirfnal At Loughrea, Ireland, large crowds assembled before the priest’s house, clamoring for food. The Board of Guardians at Limerick, Ireland, has voted £SO toward furnishing an outfit for 300 women who have been engaged for a cotton factory in New Hampshire.
