Democratic Sentinel, Volume 8, Number 19, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 June 1884 — FOREIGN. [ARTICLE]

FOREIGN.

The Aldermen of Limerick, Ireland, have decided by a large majority not to pay an extra police tax. The members are personally responsible, and they are prepared, they say, to go to jail rather than vote for tho tax. The race for the English Derby was declared a “dead heat” between St. Galien and Harvester. The stakes were divided. This is the first time in the history of the Derby that the contest has resulted in a dead heat. Queen Adelaide, the favorite, came In third. The midgets, “Gen. Mite” and Millie Edwards, were married at a public hall at Manchester, England, recently. The band of the Third Dragoons played tho wedding march. The Catholic Bishop of the Soudan has arrived at Cairo from tho south. He reports that seven Italian priests and four Sisters of Mercy were massacred at El Obeld. He also reports that three priests were exposed naked to tho sun for four days, and died from the effects of their exposure. The French Government lias decided to celebrate the centenary comiriencement of the revolution of 1789. The Count de Hausonville, a French politician, and a member of the Paris Acad' erny of the “immortals,” is dead. Ho was born in the French capital May 27, 1803, Sir Bfiftle Frere, well known in connection with British South African politics, died in London after a protracted Illness. Ho took a conspicuous part In connect'on with the Boer and Zulu difficulties of England In the Cape region. The annual review of the troops in and around Berlin was held last week by the Emperor, who appeared on horseback. Mr. Thomas Sexton, the most eloquent of the Parnellite members of Parliament, is about to proceed to Australia on an Irish patriotic miesion. He will be accompanied by the younger of the Redmond brothers. Dynamite explosions at London caused widespread alarm and Indignation. The police, says a cablegram, are completely baffled, and, for the first time ih the history of groat crimes In tho metropolis, have not even a theory to offer. In fact, they find themselvo3 to be a laughing stock. The public aro becoming hourly more restive and agitated over the apparent incompe tence of the police, and the wildest schomes of reprisals against Irish agitators aro mooted. The appointment of local vigilance committees on tho American Western plan is seriously discussed in .some hitherto very conservative quarters. Nubar Pasha, the Egyptian Premier, in a statement to European powers, asserts that Egypt is not able to support the present rates of taxation. The land-tax, he says, exceeds the value of the crop?. Long-continued drouths have had

a damaging effect on the crops in England. The farmers anxiously hope for rain. Xing Tawhiam, of the New Zealand Maoris, is on a visit to England to urge his recognition as King, so that he may be able the more successfully to prevent the New Zealand whites from grabbing the lands of the natives. It is mentioned in the dispatches as a remarkable fact that Tawhiam was sober on his arrival in England. At Lille, France, the car of a balloon containing twelve persons fell forty metres. Three were killed, and the remainder severely injured.