Democratic Sentinel, Volume 8, Number 31, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 August 1884 — FOREIGN. [ARTICLE]

FOREIGN.

A physician of Birmingham, England, reports the death of a patient from Asiatic cholera. The United States Consul at Barbadoes telegraphs that the ship Bracadaileis en route to New York from Calcutta with twenty-eight cholera cases on board. Mme. Patti has signed a contract with Mr. Mapleson to sing in America the coming winter and next summer in England. The trial of ex-Secretary Cornwall in connection with the Dublin scandal, resulted in a verdict of not guilty. The British War Office insists upon the Nile route for the autumn expedition for the relief of Gen. Gordon. The expedition for the relief of Khartoum will include five thousand British troops, under command of Gen. Buller. The last battalion can not leave Cairo before Nov. 1. The works of Herbert Spencer, Emile* Zola, and Prof. Huxley are forbidden in Russia. The visit of the envoys of King John of Abyssinia to London, which was expected to be a great event, has fallen flat. Their presence has been completely ignored by the notables. Capt. Renard, a Frenchman, is ?aid to have invented a cigar-shaped balloon which is as easily directed in the air as a steam launch in the water. The English, Russian, and German Governments are trying to find out the secret of Capt. Renard’s invention. The American Consul General at

Genoa report* that cholera has broken out at Spezia. and that forty-nine deaths have occurred. Marseilles shows fourteen fatal cases and Toulon five, caused by the return of refugees. Gladstone is enjoying his recess at his home at Hawarden. After three hours’ bombardment by Admiral Courbet’s squadron the Chinese arsenal at Foo Chow was destroyed. Seven Chinese gunboats were sunk and two escaped. Only one Chinese battery replied to the French guns. The French fleet sustained no damage.