Democratic Sentinel, Volume 10, Number 9, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 April 1886 — FOREIGN. [ARTICLE]

FOREIGN.

Mr. Gladstone, it is said, has decided to drop his land-purchase scheme and devote himself to the passago of a measure dealing with home rule only. The French Government has ordered that at the annual autumn maneuvers of the French army foreign officers shall not in future be permitted to follow tlio movements of the cavalry. A Paris cablegram announces the death of tho Comtesse do Chambord. A revolt in the French prison at Chalons, following complaints by the convicts that their treatment was intolerable, was so desperate that the services of troops were required. Jeanne Gounod, daughter' of the composer, was married in Paris to Pierre St. Genies.

The census of Alsace-Lorraine shows a population of 1,563,145 —a decrease, notwithstanding the extensive German immigration during the past year. A London dispatch says that a duel was fought on the field of Waterloo tho other day, the contestants being Mine. Yalsayro, a native of France, and Miss Shelby, an American. The duel was the result of a dispute as to the relative merits of French and American female doctors. After a stormy altercat on between the disputants, Mina. \ alHavre threw her glove iu Miss Shelby’s face, and a duel was forthwith arranged. The weapons .were swords. Miss Shelby was slightly wounded on one arm. The four seconds were Americans. The latter expres -sod themselves as satisfied that tho duel had been conducted, fairly, and that France’s honor had been upheld. A mob of strikers marched to the palace of King Leopold in Brussels and sang the Marseillaise before it, but were guilty of no other acts of rudeness. A Brussels dispatch states that troops were sent to Jumet, Belgium, to suppress a riot inaugurated by striking miners. When the rioters saw the approaching troops they placed 200 women in the front ranks. The troops opened fire and many of the women were wounded. At Charleroi the rioters pillaged and burned many buildings, among them tho convent of Soleilmonte. Troops wore called out, and on their appearance the soldiers were attacked by tho mob. An order to firo was finally given, and several volleys were quickly poured into the ranks of tho strikers. Twenty of the rioters wero killed and hundreds of them wounded. There was a collision between rioters and troops at Itoux, two miles from Charleroi, in which ten of the strikers were shot dead and many wounded. At Bandour a troop of lancers, which tried to disperse a mob, was driven off by the desperate strikers, with a lieutenant and several men wounded. Crowds of roughs paraded the streets of Brussels, breaking windows and assaulting citizens. The Chateau Queltromont, at Prosles, and the glass-works at Marchunneo-au-Pont, two miles from Charleroi, were burned by rioters. The damage dono by tho mob at Charleroi alone is estimated at $2,500,000. At Jumet, tbreo miles from Charleroi, tho Sadin, Do Dorlead, Deviles, Jonet, and Londron glass works were looted and destroyed, involving a loss of $1,000,000, and throwing thousands of persons out of employment The rolling-mil's at Montecau were sacked by strikers. Gangs of strikors are everywhere in the mining countries forcing the men to stop work, and arc going about pillaging the factories. Gold importation into Franoe continues, chiefly from America. Queen Victoria has accepted the resignations of Joseph Chamberlain and G. O. Trevelyan, of Gladstone’s Cabinet, and tho office of Secretary for Scotland will be tendered to tho Earl of Dalhousie.