Democratic Sentinel, Volume 7, Number 19, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 June 1883 — FOREIGN. [ARTICLE]

FOREIGN.

Alexander in. was crowned Emperor and Autocrat of all the Russias, at Moscow, with imposing religious ceremonies, on Sunday, the 87th of May. A full representation of foreign Governments witnessed the coronation. The Emperor wore the white uniform of a Colonel of the Imperial Guard, and the Empress was attired in the Russian national costume of black velvet embroidered with diamonds and girded with a belt of precious stones. The ceremony, which was according to the ritual of the Greek Church, was conducted by the metropolitans of Moscow, Novogorod and Kieffe, assisted by a large company of minor ecclesiastics. The cost of the coronation is estimated at $10,000,000. Abd-el Kader, the aged Algerine chief, whose career has been a most remarkable one, is dead. A plot to kill the King of Roumania at the opening of Parliament was discovered, and some of the conspirators were arrested. Favorable weather has materially improved the harvest prospects in Great Britain Osoar Wilde, says a Loudon teleg*am, seems to be played out as on esthetic •pMtto. Ha worked the art dodge in

Wurth, aidnow abandoned it He surprised his friends at a reception given to Mr. Whistler, the artkt, by appearing as an ordinary individual, dressed in a commonplace suit and shorn of his beautiful locks. He is regarded as crazy. A duel with swords was fought near Paris, between Delpit, a writer, and Alphonse Daudet, the well-known novelist The former was slightly wounded. Ratifications of the treaty between the United States and Corea have been exchanged at the Corean capital. The third of the Phoenix Park assassins to pay the penalty of the law was Michael Fagln, who was executed at Dublin May 2B Unlike Brady and Curley, who preceded him on the gallows, Fagin protested his innocence of the crime imputed to him. Thomas J. Carr, rector of Maynooth College, has been made Bishop of Galway, the Pope having assurances that he was not connected with the popular agitation. The Pope’s Peter’s pence are decreasing so rapidly that he has addressed a note to the Bishops urging them to exhort the faithful to more hearty support of the Holy See.

At an Irish National League meeting in Dublin, Mr. Sexton, M. P., said the recent action of the Pope indicated a perilous and Intolerable intervention in the future political course of the Irish people A dreadful accident is reported at Oleggio, near Milan, Italy. A boat laden with workmen capsized in the river and twonty-two were drowned. During the riots at Rostoff, Russia, on the night of the 22d of May, 180 Jew houses were destroyed, while fifteen of the rioters were killed by the military. Fierce fighting has been in progress between the Ameer’s foroes and the Shtncurrais in Afghanistan. Raft loads of dead have been brought down the Cabul river.