Democratic Sentinel, Volume 9, Number 28, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 August 1885 — FOREIGN. [ARTICLE]

FOREIGN.

Descriptions and plans of Russian forts and lortitications were found on the person of a German reserve officer arrested at Jacobstadt, on the Baltic, as a spy. The Earl of Carnarvon,Earl Spencer’s successor at Dublin Castle, will shortly make a tour Of Ireland, to ascertain the condition and wants of the people. The« Provost of Glasgow declared ata meeting held in that city that a system of vice prevailed there similar in its character to that recently exposed in London. A petition for the passage of the criminal amendment act for the protection of young girls was presented to the House of Commons by a delegation from the Salvation Army of London. The petition, which is a mile and a half long and contains 500,000 signatures, was previously conveyed through the streets in a carriage, followed by a long procession. Inflamed by jealousy, M. Gautier, a capitalist of Lille, France, shot and killed Madame Linant as she lay in bed, and then committed suicide. Dysentery and fever are causing frightful mortality among the French troops in Ton quin. It is proposed to hold a demonstration at Genoa, Italy, in 1892, in honor of Christopher Columbus, features of which wili be an exhibition of relics and American produce. Ex-Chief Secretary for Ireland Forster fears that the lapse of the coercion act will induce a renewal of boycotting and intimidation in Ireland. Count von Munster, German Ambassador at London, has declined the mission to France, and will retire from the diplomatic service. His successor at the British court, is Count von Hatzfeldt. Li-lTshni-Fun succeeds Marquis Tseng as the Chinese Minister to France. G. V. N. Lothrop, the new American representative at St. Petersburg, hue presented his credentials to the Czar.