Democratic Sentinel, Volume 8, Number 1, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 February 1884 — FOREIGN. [ARTICLE]

FOREIGN.

The Khedive has appointed General Gordon Governor of the Soudan, and has intrusted him with full powers. Vienna seems full of assassins. The murders have taken on a Socialistic look recently. Many arrests have been made. Emperor William’s physicians have advised him to abstain from *irriage-riding for the present, Trade prospects in England are, gloomy. Labor will be greatly curtailed. The steamer Simla, engaged in the Australian trade, was sunk in the Wng-m-n

channel. In a collision, and twenty persons lost their lives. Woolf and his co-demagogues at London have been set at liberty. The whole affair was agross farce, Baron Rothschild has loaned $4,750,000 tb the Egyptian Government on the strength of the recent action of the Glad stoneites in sending “Chinese” Gordon to Khartoum. Gen. Wolseley, at a banquet in London, asserted that the British army was in a more effective oondition now than before the Crimean war.