Democratic Sentinel, Volume 8, Number 2, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 February 1884 — FOREIGN. [ARTICLE]

FOREIGN.

John Bright, in a speech at Birmingham, England, declared that Honry George should have tried his foolish land scheme In America, where it could be cheaply tested, before attempting to foist it upon countries with institutions ten tlmos as old. Agrarian irritation is so bitter in the Russian provinces of Pskow and Vitebsk that a collision between the peasants and the troops is imminent The inhabitants of the beleaguered city of Sinkat have oaten all the dogs In town, and nothing remains but the horses and one bag of barley. C. W. Thomas, Sons & Co., London stock brokers, have defaulted, and one member of the firm hus absconded. While their assets are large, their liabilities are about 54',150,0C0. The Egyptian government sent the wrong man with Gen. Gordon who was to be the new Sultan of Darfour, and the youth has been drunk ever slnco he left Cairo. The hired men who cheered when the Comte de Paris wont into tho Paris depot on his way to Spain have been sontenood to eight days In jail. The Chief of Police of Budah-I’esth, Hungary, has sent to the Police Department at New York full details of the robbery of a chest containing 240,000 florins from the postoffice in that place Jan. 5 last. Rewards are offered for the recovery of the money and arrest of the thieves, who, it is believed, fled to America. Capt. Austin, an American marksman, is giving exhibitions of his skill In Great Britain. At Leicester he twice shot a potato from the head of his daughter, but at the third attempt the ball plowed the scalp, and he was placed in arrest. The chambers of agriculture in several counties of England hare requested that

the importation of cattle be restricted, in order to prevent the spread of disease. Gallmeyer, the singer, who has just died at Vienna, left a will directing that her body be dissected in the death chamber and then consigned to a pauper’s common grave like that of a beggar. She wished that there should be no flowers, no service, and no coffin. William Meagle, a witness in the Phoenix park trials at Dublin, complains of constant persecution and assaults at the hands of sympathizers with the assassins of Cavendish and Burke.