Democratic Sentinel, Volume 9, Number 25, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 July 1885 — FOREIGN. [ARTICLE]

FOREIGN.

Prench dispatches from Annam say that a great number of the rebels have laid down their airms under a promise of amnesty. The French Chamber of Deputies have revived an old law to encourage an increase in population. The law provides an appropriation of SBOO,OOO to be expended in maintaining and educating every seventh cnild born in French families where the parents are in needy circumstances. Tlie Austrian Minister of War proposes a two yoars’ extension of the period of conscription to increase the number of recruits Tor the army. Rumor has it that a convention on the Afghan question has been practically concluded between England and Russia, and that its terms will soon be made public. A serious riot is reported as occurring In Lerida, Spain, the people objecting to a tax imposed by the Government. The mob became riotous, troop.s were called out, and the disturbance was quelled only after three of the rioters and on 2 soldier had beeu killed. A rumor is cabled from London that a convention on the Afghan frontier question has beeu practically concluded between England and Russia, and that its terms will soon be made public. A dispatch received at Cairo states, on the autfiority of a letter received by a merchant at Handek, that El Mahdi is dead and his followers aro lighting among themselves. The story is partly confirmed from other sources.