Democratic Sentinel, Volume 8, Number 44, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 November 1884 — FOREIGN. [ARTICLE]

FOREIGN.

The Marqais of Salisbury has expressed himself as fairly well satisfied with the Gladstone reapportionment bill, which contains several modifications of the one lately published from a copy surreptitiouslyobtained from - the Queen’s printer.'.These. modiflcatkuuH»re mostly concessiflhTto tSB boned until sprang on account of tbebapidi. nillinf (Wife weflir* * ** 1 » ' |... Iqpfg «_ *• The resettlement of and China ha gfl|*L British arnpingvigt wady-Haifa, Spidly d<c boyOhd Qongola is irqposfjbfc lor a month. iyjfCjmtuJng lfl Kahdi s folljwju* jJPHmy WrtPPreilfflll ift). • •<*** A cablegram from Foo Chow chronicles the sudden death of Bishop J. W. Wiley, of Gindinnati. while on an official Visit to the Methodist missions in China. A special commission appointed to investigate the cause of the great increaseof drunkenness in Switzerland have reported.

They attribute tbe trouble entirely to tbe great cheapness of French brandleaa and wines, and to remedy the evil recommend tbe enactment of an unprecedented prohibitory law. Tbey ask that tbe duty on brandy and wlnea be made so high as to absolutely bar them from the country, and that the tax on domestic manufactures be raised V as to make it practically Impossible for any but the very rich to procure liquor In any form. It is stated by an English journal that after the passage of the franchise bill Gladstone will accept a peerage.