Democratic Sentinel, Volume 9, Number 31, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 August 1885 — FOREIGN. [ARTICLE]

FOREIGN.

Dr. Bichard, the German explorer, who had been reported as killed in Zanzibar, is alive and well. A St. Petersburg journal says that Russia has decided to yield her claim to Zulflcar Pass, and denies that she has made any agreement with Corea. A yacht was run down ,by a steamer and sunk off Abou, Scotland, several persons being drowned, including the owner, Mr. Crossman, and wife. A fearful massacre is reported from Berber. The population are said to be starving, and have seized the city treasure. The next outbreak, it is thougtit, will occur at Algeria. A letter written by O’Donovan Bossa to dynamiters at Havre and Antwerp, urging a speedy resumption of operations in England, is published by*a London journal. Dutch Mormons have just held a conference at Zwolle, at which it appeared that tho Dutch are losing faith in tho Lat-ter-Bay Saints’ teachings, and that the converts who go to Salt Lake are decreasing in number. A monster anti-German demonstration was held in Madrid last Sunday. The speeches were severely denunciatory of Prince Bismarck’s seizure of the Caroline Islands. An imposing “morality” demonstration took place last Saturday t*i Hyde Park, London. Many vehicles, draped in black, and filled with women dressed in deep mourning, were in the procession. One of the carts carried a largo fac-simlle of the Queen’s letter approving the work of tho Salvation Army in rescuing young girls from vice. Resolutions wore adopted pledging assistance in enforcing the criminal act.