Democratic Sentinel, Volume 8, Number 13, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 April 1884 — FOREIGN. [ARTICLE]

FOREIGN.

Gen. Gordon recently sent a dispatch from Khartoum stating that he had provisions for five months, but was hemmed in by 2,500 Arabs. He suggests an appeal for 51,000,000 to the millionaires of America and Europe, with which to defeat El Mehdi. Egyptian refugees, to the number of 450, recently sailed from Shendy for Berber. The steamer ran aground, and the rebels ’massacred every one on board. The victims included many women and children. It is rumored in London that tho En*

glish Government will convoke a European conference to regulate the financial affairs of Egypt. United Ireland, the Pamellite organ, protests against English journals identifying the Parnellites with the dynamitards, and says there are 500 Land-Leaguers in America to every Invincible. It aocusos the English press men of always quoting O’Donovan Rossa’s paper, while never paying any heed to what Is said by such organs of Irish-Amerlcan opinion as John Devoy’s paper, the Irish Nation, and John Boyle O’Reilly’s paper, the Boston Pilot.