Democratic Sentinel, Volume 9, Number 24, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 July 1885 — FOREIGN. [ARTICLE]

FOREIGN.

The Madagascar rice crop has failed, and famine is imminent in the interior. The French Institute has awarded its biennial prize to Dr. Brown-Sequard for his discoveries in physiology. The French Socialists have issued their platform of “principles” for the coming electoral campaign. They demand sweeping changes in the social, political, and industrial systems of France. The cholera continues to rage with great violence in Spain, and since the outbreak of the epidemic there have been ten thousand deaths. In the rifle contest at Bingen-on-the-Rhine, Rodler, of the New York team, was made rifle king. Earl Spencer, lately Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, has been offered a Dukedom by the Queen. In the Spanish ’ Senate, Senor Novaliches has entered a protest against the visit of King Alfonso to the cholera districts, claiming that it .was against any constitutional right enjoyed by the sovereign. Lord Randolph Churchill has been re-elected member of Parliament from" Woodstock. lord Churchill made no personal effort, leaving the direction of his canvass -to hit wife, formerly Miss Jerome, of New York.