Democratic Sentinel, Volume 8, Number 38, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 October 1884 — FOREIGN. [ARTICLE]

FOREIGN.

In the cholera infected districts of Italy there were 239 fresh cases and 137 deaths on the 12th inst. The Spanish Official Gazette announces the cholera epidemic ended in Spain. A brigade of the French army in Africa, it is reported, is to be sent to Tonquin to re-enforce the army there. Spies report that the Mahdi is sending two large armies to attack Dongola—one coming across the desert and the other along the Nile. Native merchants state that Col. Stewart is alive and at Khartoum. As a result of consultations among the English Conservatives it has been decided to reject the distribution scheme, to maintain opposition to the franchise bill, and try to fo* ce a dissolution of Parliament. Gen. Wolseley complains to the Brit*

i ish War Office that his advance has been par- : alyzed by the failure of the commissariat and i transport service. Catania has been visited by another I earthquake, thirty persons being killed. A duel between Lavier, editor of the National Belye, Brussels, and Gautier, of the Nationale, of Paris, was fought in Belgium, the weapons being rapiers. Lavier received a serious wound in the breast. Eleven pupils of the School of Agriculture at Bordeaux have died from the effect* , of eating mushrooms gathered in a wood near by.

Women are more cheerful than men, and yet are getting the reputation among men of complaining. The wife stays in the house too much. The evil of “dressing to go to market” is in the way. Let it be considered bad taste to see a housewife “dressed up” while she is doing her marketing; then there will be more “time” to get the fresh air.— The Current.