Democratic Sentinel, Volume 7, Number 50, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 January 1884 — FOREIGN. [ARTICLE]

FOREIGN.

Mass-meetings of Orangemen and Nationalists were held New Year’s day at Dromore, Ireland, iu full view of each other. 20,000 of the former turned out and about 2,000 of the latter. Several attempts at a collision were made, but the troops prevented bloodshed. Two men were wounded by bayonets. Bett, the public hangman in Austria', who was found dead in bed, is believed to have been murdered. That China desires peace is stated on the best authority by The London Timex. If France will abstain from further hostile action on the Red river, a pacific agreement can easily be concluded. By the terms of the Burlingame treaty the United States Is bound to offer Its good offices whenever China makes the request. After a battle, lasting ten hours, on the heights of Slollon, Puga’s forces were defeated by the Peruvian nationalists, under command of Col. Iglesias. An extraordinary scene is reported from Vienna. A Jesuit preached the wickedness of the workingmen, and twenty of his congregation began bombarding the pulpit with stones, creating apanic, in which three people were killed. Lord Rector Lowell has resigned his Lordship, finding some difficulty in holding such a title and at the same time serving as an Embassador of the United States. The officials of St. Andrew’s university arejsaid to greatly regret the resignation. Currieu, an Alsatian, who threatened to shoot Prime Minister Ferry at Paris, has been sentenced to imprisonment for three months. The announcement comes from Paris that the present French ministry is considering the project of selling the railways owned by the republic. The price named is $84,000,000, and the bidders are the Rothschilds. In the Dublin Weekly News A. M. Sullivan pays a tribute to Susan Gallagher, the woman who was with O’Donnell when he killed Carey, because of her love for truth in not swearing that Carey had a pistol, which would have been a great point in O’Donnell’s favor. Mr. Sullivan dubs her'the “Irish, Jeannie Deans.” United Ireland publishes an alleged confession of O’Donnell to a private personage, in which it is stated that"the killing of Carey was deliberate, and that there was no struggle. Notwithstanding the prohibition of American pork in several countries of Eg. rope, the exports of hog product during the past year Increased 30 per cent. The Nihilist movement is now directed from Paris and Geneva, and tho leaders appear to be disturbed since the recent mur dera at St. Petersburg. In the latter city more than thirty .persons have been arrested on suspicion. The British Cabinet has sent word to Egypt that the present protectorate will be kept up at all hazards. El Mahdi will be given the Soudan, but Lower Egypt will be

parged of his influence. This policy the Khedive does not consider belligerent enough, and hints at a repetition of his ultimatum, in which he demanded immediate military aid for a campaign in the Soudan, oh pain of turning over the whole region (o the Sultan. The murder of Col. Sudeikin has led to a conference between Prince Orloff, the Russian Ambassador to Paris, and Prince Bismarck, and a general conference is being arranged to be held at Gatschina. Several suspects have been arrested by the Russian police. The two Nihilists who were wounded, in the attack on the Colonel have died.