Democratic Sentinel, Volume 9, Number 27, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 July 1885 — FOREIGN. [ARTICLE]

FOREIGN.

Prince Bismarck is credited with the suggestion that Zultiear Pass, now a bone of contention between England and Russia, be made neutral. A terrible storm is reported as having taken place at Torre Casotani, Italy, in which thirteen persons were killed and twenty-two injured by lightning. So many incediary fires, all carefully planned, have occurred of Into in Russian towns that it is considered tho Nihilists have adopted a new scheme for terrorizing tho Government. At London two hundred members of the House of Commons attended tho banquet to Earl Spencer, late Lord Lieutenant of Ireland. Speeches were made by tho Marquis of Hartington, who presided, Mr. John Bright, Earl Spencer, and others. Michael Davitt declines to become a candidate for Parliament on the ground that he cannot in return for tho punishment the Government inflicted on him by a sentence of fifteen years’ penal servitude, swear allegiance to the Queen. He dentes that he has written to Mr. Joseph Chamberlain offering to assist him In a Radical stumping tour of Ireland.