Democratic Sentinel, Volume 8, Number 24, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 July 1884 — FOREIGN. [ARTICLE]

FOREIGN.

Earl Granville has received a dispatch from Gen. Gordon at Khartoum, giving assurances of his health and safety. Gen. Francis Todleben, the famous Russian engineer, is dead. France, it is reported, will demand an indemnity of 600,000,000 francs from China for the violation of the reoent FrancoChinese treaty at Langson. In the Spanish Senate, the other day, the Prime Minister stated that there was absolutely no Intention of selling Cuba. In an interview with leading members of the Cabinet at Madrid Minister Foster gave assurance that the United States had no desire to annex Cuba, now or hereafter, not wishing to assume further political responsibilities. But he urged that Spain should do something to aid Cuba In keeping her sugar market. A bill waß recently introduced in the Chamber of Deputies to authorize new treaties of commerce with foreign nations, Involving a reduction of the export duties on sugar. The Czar has given SIOO,OOO for the relief of the flood sufferers of Poland. Five cases of cholera at Toulon,

France, are said to have been cured by inhaling pure oxygen. Physicians at Toulon and Marseilles say that many deaths attributed to cholera are really due to other causes. They say there is no need for alarm, as the disease in a virulent form has not yet appeared. The French Government has decided to release theMontceau-les-Mlnes anarchists, but will not pardon Prince Krapotkine or Louise MicheL The Communists of Paris propose to march to the City Hall on July 14, with a red flag bearing the word “amnesty.”