Democratic Sentinel, Volume 8, Number 27, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 August 1884 — FOREIGN. [ARTICLE]

FOREIGN.

The French Academy of Medicine proposes an international congress to dlscust the prevention and cure of cholera. Dr Koch has asked that the congress meet It. Berlin. A Marseilles dispatch say 6; “Tho aspect here is becoming somber The steamer which arrives weekly from Algeria Is suppressed. The sane to Syria is stopped. The South American packets have ceased to call here. The custom), offices and quays are deserted. There are many funerals during the night, the burials being performed by the aid of lanterns. The Mayor has interdicted the annual fair, and forbids the processions of Aug. 15.” There was a desperate fight in the Highland forest owned by Winans, the American millionaire, between the employes of that person. One laborer was killed by & gUile. VjLdispatch from Paris says that at a deplorable state of affairs exists. There have been several deaths from cholera; the water supply is cut off, owing to defects in the hydraulic apparatus; the carpenters refuse to construct coffins for the victims of the epidemic; the principal inhabitants of the place are fleeing from it, and food is scarce. The sufferings of the people are great. In an interview at Paris between Prime Ministor Ferry and Li Fong Pao, the Chinese Ambassador, it was arranged that China should pay France an indemnity of 20,000,000 francs. The Czar of Russia has appointed a commission to revise the laws of Finland In the direction of the complete suppression of local Government. This action is taken in consequence of the Nihilists making Finland their base of operations against the Czar. The Siberian plague has appeared in China, and typhus fever caused ten deaths in the Vosges. James Stephens, ex-head-center of the Fenians, is to sail for America to advocate the Irish cause. In the same connection it is announced that tbe English authorities

will demand the extradition of the Fenians in Paris who were concerned in the Scotland Yards outrage. The cholera has appeared at fourteen places in France, and was carried to Spe/zia, Italy, by workmen from the arsenal at Toulon. The deaths in the latter city continue to decrease. The butchers at Marseilles find It difficult to procure supplies of meat. The Catholics of Marseilles petitioned the Mayor of that city to authorize a procession and public prayers for the abatement of the cholera. The Mayor refused, and was sustained in his refusal by a vote of 27 to 5.