Democratic Sentinel, Volume 8, Number 49, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 January 1885 — FOREIGN. [ARTICLE]

FOREIGN.

The crofter teiiants of the Duke of Argyle.refuse to pay rent, and an armed company of marines has been sent to his assistance. A Christmas toy sold in Paris represented Bismarck and Ferry embracing. General Wolseley reports the delay in the concentration of troops will retard the movements in the deseyKuntfi the second week in February. 'The liabilities of the Bohemian Land < ' '

Credit Company, which recently suspended at Prague, are 23,000,000 florins, and its assets are in excess of that amount. Austria has reached an agreement with the African International Association. An Italian expedition has left Genoa for tbe Congo country. Eighty native chiefs have proclaimed Spanish sovereignty over fifteen thousand square kilometers of land on the Gulf of Guinea. Owing to the inauguration of an active colonial policy Germany is about to double its force of marine infantry.