Democratic Sentinel, Volume 7, Number 38, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 October 1883 — FOREIGN. [ARTICLE]

FOREIGN.

At Bach Nin, the French Col. Badens, with a force of 550 men, defeated a body of Chinese regulars. Earl Spencer has been denounced by the now league in Ireland as a partisan and tyrannical ruler, the complaint being backed by specific allegations of unrighteous acts. Moody and Sankey have begun a series of revival meetings in the Royal theater at Limerick. Haytian rebels pillaged and burned stores and houses in Port-au-Prince, killing all who resisted. Two Generals were among the slain. The looters were finally driven out. The assurances and explanations of President Grevy being deemed sufficient, Spain has notified its foreign Embassadors that the Alfonso incident is at an end. Plunger Walton is in trouble over the Ccsarewitch horsc-raco in which he lost so much money. His mare Girofle was not poisoned, according to the certificate of a veterinary surgeon. The Jockey club will investigate Mr. Walton. A Roman Duke writes to the Catholic Congress at Naples that $60,000 men In Italy are ready to strike for the restoration of tho temporal power of the Pope. It is telegraphed from Rome that the prelates of the Vatican, fearing that the Italian Government may gobble the Papal library, are hiding the most valuable of their The Treasurer of the Irish National League at Dublin has returned to the donors at San Francisco, a draft sent over for the benefit of the families of the Phoenix Park murderers, on the ground that the League would be placed in the attitude of encouraging assassinations should it distribute the money. Tourguenieff, the novelist, was interred at St. Petersburg, thousands following the remains to the grave.

bibliological treasures. Many valuable manuscripts have already disappeared. It is reported that Mr. Gladstone has determined to retire from public life after he has carried measures extending: the county franchise and redistrictlng England for Parliamentary purposes. The suspension of negotiations between France and China is complete. The Government at Pekin has Instructed Tseng to bold aloof until the French Ministry is more consolidated. The position of the French Government toward the powers is much more harmonious.