Democratic Sentinel, Volume 9, Number 20, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 June 1885 — FOREIGN. [ARTICLE]

FOREIGN.

A cyclone at Aden, Arabia, caused damage estimated at ±150,000. Sir Julius Benedict, the famous musician and composer of operas, has just died In London. He was eighty-one years old. Mr. Gladstone announced in Parliament that England and Russia had come to an agreement. This settles the boundary business, and all that remains now Is for the commission to meet with the engineers and surveyors and set up the boundary posts. As to the responsibility for the “Penjdeh incident,” Mr. Gladstone intimated it would be let out to arbitration. It is persistently reported that Victor Hugo before he died begged that a priest might bo sent for, but that his relatives flatly declined.

Sir Peter Lumsden, recently in charge of the British section of the Afghan Boundary Commission, has arrived in London. General Wolseley is preparing a report on charges against General Sir Cerald Graham and General McNeil for neglect of duty and incompetoncy in the Soudan campaign. If tho report is unfavorable there will be an inquiry by a military commission. The Princess of Wales is reported to be endeavoring to secure a meeting between the Prince of Wales and the Czar of Russia with the view of establishing a permanent peace between England and Russia. The German press, apropos of the dispute over the right of the Duke of Cumberland to succeed to the government of the Grand Duchy of Brunswick, is advocating the passage of a law excluding all foreign princes from succeeding to tfie throne in any of the German States, o