Democratic Sentinel, Volume 7, Number 29, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 August 1883 — FOREIGN. [ARTICLE]

FOREIGN.

Prof. William Dindorf, German critic and philologist, is dead. He was nearly 80 years old. The authorities of Pesth, Hungary, have placed a cordon of troops around the square where houses were plundered by a mob. Moritz Scharf, the lad who swore that he saw a Christian girl murdered for her blood, has confessed that his testimony was false Spanish insurrections have already cost certain speculators on the Paris Bourse about <1,600,0001 Owing to a report that English doctors were poisoning the natives, an Alexandria mob attempted violence, and shouted, “Death to the Christians.” The riot was soon quelled. A cable dispatch from Constantinople announces the discovery of Noah’s ark. “It appears,” says the dispatch, “that some Turkish Commissioners appointed to investigate the question of avalanches on Mount Ararat suddenly came upon a gigantic structure of very dark wood protruding from a glacier. They made inquiries of the inhabitanta They had seen it for six years, but had been afraid to approach it because a spirit of fierce aspect had been seen looking out of the upper window. The Turkish Commissioners, however, are bold men, not deterred by such trifles, and they determined to reach it Situated as it was, among the fastnesses of one of the glens of Mount Ararat, it was a work of enormous difficulty, ahd it was only after incredible hardships that they succeeded. The ark, one will be glad to hear, was in a good state of preservation, although the angles —observe, not the bow or stern—had been a good deal broken in its descent They recognized it at once. There was an Englishman among them who had presumably read his Bible, and he saw it was made of the ancient gopher wood of Scripture, which, as everybody knows, grows only on the plains of the Euphrates. Effecting an entrance into the structure, which was painted brown, they found that the admiralty requirements for the conveyance of horses had been carried out, and the interior was divided into partitions fifteen feet high. Into three of these only could they get, the others being full of ice, and how far the ark extended into the glacier they could hot tell If, however, on being uncovered it turns out to be 300 cubits long it will go hard with disbelievers in the Book of Genesis.” A cable dispatch from St. Petersburg says: “The populace of Ekaterinoslav are determined to drive the Jews out 4>f the place. Not punished sufficiently for the riots last week, during which some seventy men were killed and over 100 wounded, a fresh mob gathered last night and started for the Je wish quarters. They were met by a company of Cossaks and ordered back. Refusing to obey, and making threatening demonstrations, a charge was made, A fierce, onslaught ensued. When the mob was finally beaten, over 100 corpses lay on the ground.” At a meeting of the people in favor of the deportation of the Irish poor in London, “resolutions were provided” for the sending of 200,000 persons to flan ad a and other-British colonies The annexation of Bpsnia and Herzegovina by Austria is being negotiated* by the German, Turkish, and Austrian Governments.

English physicians who have had ex-1 perienoe in India say the cholera in Egypt } is different in character from the Asiatic type. Senor Zorilla, ten years ago*a great Ministerial leader in Spain, is now the head and front of an insurrection which is hurrying his country into civil war. The New South Wales Government has consented to the landing of the Irish informers, and undertakes to protect them. < Cetewayo, the Zulu King, reported killed in battle, is a very live man.