Democratic Sentinel, Volume 8, Number 50, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 January 1885 — FOREIGN. [ARTICLE]

FOREIGN.

The marriage of Princess Beatrice to Prince Henry of Battenberg has been fixed for the coming spring. The Chinese army has secured the services of fifty-five German drill sergeants, who are credited with having already made a manifest improvement in the discipline of the troops. Shocks of earthquake were again experienced at Alhama last night, says a Madrid dispatch of Jan. 3. The town is in ruins. A panic prevails among the inhabitants of Antequera, twenty-eight miles northwest of Malaga, where shocks have already been felt. Earthquake shocks were again felt at Granada, Malaga, Nerja, and Algarrobo at night. The panic among the people is unabated. A number of towns and villages have been completely destroyed, and the inhabitants have deserted them. Many persons sleep in railway carriages. A royal decree has been issued ordering that a national subscription for the relief of the sufferers bO taken up. Political circles in London are agitated by a rumor that Germany has opened negotiations with the Government of the Netherlands for the purchase of the Dutch possessions in New Guinea. Henry Turner & Co., calico-printers, of Manchester, and Walter Townend & Co., worsted of Bradford, have failed, the former lor £75,000 and the latter for £70,000. An official dispatch from Tonquin states that the French commander recently defeated 6,000 Chinese troops. . Earl Granville declines to give his consent to the proposal to hold a formal conference on the Egyptian question at Paris. Neither France nor Germany shows any disposition to maintain friendly commercial relations with the United States. France is trying to increase the Ur iff on American cereals, and Germany is now endeavoring to

strike a blow at our petroleum export in the Interest of the Russian oil-wells. The Government railways running from Germany to Russia have given special advantages for the transportation of Russian petroleum, and now it is proposed by Germany to lay a tax upon barrels which contain the American product. A Madrid dispatch says that “anther earthquake shock it reported from the oast of Valencia. So far, 673 corpses have been recovered from the ruins in tlie province of Granada, and 269 in Albania. Subscriptions are being raised for the sufferers."