Democratic Sentinel, Volume 7, Number 48, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 December 1883 — FOREIGN. [ARTICLE]

FOREIGN.

The German Crown Prince visited the Pope, and held a lengthy interview. Sarah Bernhardt attacked Mme, Colombier in her house in Paris for being lampooned in her book, “Sarah Barnum.” The friends of the women indulged in a free fight in another part of the residence, and a number of duels arising from the affair are pending. Garnier defeated Daly in the billiard contest at Lyons—3,ooo to 2,970. Austria is having trouble with the disaffected provinces which she has recently gobbled, though little news is allowed to go forth from Vienna. A loss of $500,000 was incurred at Lisbon, Portugal, by the, burning of the Government dock-yard and warehouse. Dispatches coming from Hong Kong, through French sources, announce that Admiral Courbet has scored an important victory in Tonquin, having captured five of the fortified outposts of Sontay, with a loss of 200 men and fifteen officers killed and wounded. John Moylan, just returned from America, who had taken possession of a vacant farm at Clonbar, near Galway, Ireland, was shot dead by an unknown man in the presence of his wife. A Paris cablegram says: There is still much excitement in theatrical circles over the attack made upon Marie Colombier by Sarah Feeling runs high, and there are advocates for both parties. Bernhardt publishes a card to the following effect: To My Friends the Public: I chastised Marie Colombier because she insulted me, When she was in want I brought her to America and she shared my profits. She has deceived me. I gave her gold. She gave me calumny. She called me “Sarah Barnum." lam not a Jumbo. Then I gave her the lash. She weighs 300 pounds; I weigh seventy-five pounds. But she ran from me—this vile, ungrateful woman, this woman whom I have befriended—this Colombier who was nothing until she met Sarah. I have done with her. I did not chastise her for advertising purposes. Sabah Bebnhabdt. Kerrigan, the informer, whose evidence resulted in the hanging of six persons, was shot the other day at Cong, Ireland. Sir John Glover, leader of the British expedition to Ashantee, has again been appointed Governor of Newfoundland. The United States Consul at Odessa reports that crude petroleum is used to sprinkle the streets at Baku and as fuel on locomotives and steamers. The French have captured Sontay, and Admiral Courbet has been gazetted a grand officer of the Legion of Honor. Bismarck openly opposes secret voting for members of the lower house of the Prussian Diet, and favors universal suffrage with public balloting. The Crown Prince informed Pope Leo that the Emperor William and Bismarck much desired religious peace in Germany. The dynamiters on trial at Edinburgh were found guilty, five being sentenced for life, and five othersjo seven years' penal servitude. De Long’s remains, with those of his

dead comrades, have arrived at the city of Irkutsk, in Russia, and were received by the 'populace with high honors. Many wreaths were placed on the coffins, and poems reciting the sad fate of the explorers were distributed among the people. i Overdank, the Socialist, who was hanged at Trieste a year ago for an attempt to cut off the career of the Emperor of Austria by an explosive bomb, endeared himself to certain Italian Republicans. They indulged in demonstrations of respect* to his memory, for which several of the celebrants were jailed.