Democratic Sentinel, Volume 7, Number 40, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 November 1883 — FOREIGN. [ARTICLE]
FOREIGN.
A Vienna journal states the Czar has instructed Counts Toistoi and Katjoff to prepare a constitution, being intent upon granting the Russian people more freedom. A black-] ist circular, containing the names of the jurors in the Phoenix park murder trials, has been mailed to thousands of Dublin’s citizens. German exports to America are decreasing in volume and value. Richter, a Deputy in the German reichstag, has been sentenced to six months’ imprisonment for insulting the imperial family four years ago. Cholera is still a menacing danger tc all the Western nations. The disease ie again epidemic in Egypt, and worst where it gained the weakest foothold last summer. People are quitting Smyrna in numbers, dreading a recurrence of the earthquake. The Turkish Government has sent lumber to construct 5,000 sheds to shelter the homeless. The indemnity offered by France tc Missionary Shaw was £I,OOO, accompanied by *an expression of regret. Three Irish informers were shipped from Melbourne to Calcutta as grooms on a steamer taking horses for the army. Should King Humbert place in the Pantheon at Rome a monument to Victor Emanuel, it is said that the Pope will declare it a pagan temple. The death is announced of Cardinal Henri Marie Gaston de Bonnechose, Archbishop of Rouen. He was created a Cardinal in 1863. Mary Anderson appeared at London in "The Lady of Lyons,” before a crowded, enthusiastic house. She was recalled several times, and renewed the success she achieved in “Ingomar.” The Prince of Wales witnessed the performance. A panic prevails at Alexandria owing to the reappearance of the cholera. Europeans going to Egypt return without disembarking. lie disease also exists at Cairo. Large quantities of trade dollars have been imported into Germany, to be sold to emigrants at par. The Marquis of Lansdowne’s friends continue to very apprehensive for his personal safety in his new position of Governor General of Canada, as the Fenians have made explicit threats against his life. * The German Admiralty have ordered another 100 fish torpedoes to be delivered be- 1 fore next spring.
At Vania, in Asia Minor, 169 per* eons were seriously and sixty-one slightly injured by an earthquake shook. The wall surrounding the city of Symrna was damaged. The London Liberal organs call on Earl Spencer, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, to prosecute Lord Bossmore for having published a letter threatening that if the Government did not suppress Land League meetings in Ulster • the Orangemen would begin shooting the Nationalists. The Times and the Tory organs, however, encourage Lord Bosamore’s extreme utterances.
