Democratic Sentinel, Volume 10, Number 31, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 September 1886 — FOREIGN. [ARTICLE]

FOREIGN.

The provisional government established by the i evolutionists of Bulgaria has been overthrown. Three of its members are in prison at Sofia, and the old ministry again holds power. The commander of the yacht on which Prince Alexander is said to be a prisoner has been ordered to return. All communication between Turkey and Bulgaria has been stopped. The British House of Commons, by a vote of 241 to 146, rejected a motion by Edward C. Russell to adjourn the House. All the Gladstonean and Parnellite members arose in support of the motion. The people of Madagascar are trying to raise the money to pay off the French indemnity claim and thus terminate French occupation of Tamatave. In the British Commons Mr. Parnell’s amendment to the Queen’s speech was rejected—3o4 to 181. Hartington, Chamberlain, and the Unionists voted with the Ministry. Prince Alexander, on reaching Breslau, telegraphed to his father at Darmstadt that he was treated like a dog by the Russian officials at Reni De Giers and Bismarck held a prolonged conference at Franzensbad. The recall of the French Ambassador at the Vatican is regarded in Paris as the first step toward the disestablishment and disendowment of the church in France, and as a result of the Pope’s refusal to recede from the position he has taken in relation to China. Two of the men who forced the abdication of Prince Alexander of Bulgaria have been sentenced to the gallows by a courtmartial, and a third was ordered to undergo life imprisonment The difficulty of collecting rents in Ireland on account of the prevailing depression is still great in many parts. A house in Woodford, County Galway, which had been besieged by 500 of the Queen’s constables, was captured and its twenty defenders made prisoners! They defended themselves with boiling water and with bees, which they turned loose among the officers. The Registrar General’s annual report on Ireland shows the total area under crops to be 5,034,846 acres, being an increase of 76,719 acres since 1885. The detailed comparison of acreage since 1885 is as follows: Grass, decrease, 90,828 acres; bog marsh and mountain, increase, 16,083; same under actual tillage, increase, 17,349; cereals, increase, 4,236; green crops, increase, 1,867; flax, in crease, 19,718; meadow, increase, 59,370; horses and mules, increase, 1,920 head; cattle, decrease, 44,000 head; sheep, decrease, 110,330 head; pigs, decrease, 5,009 head. The growth of the demand for home rule in Scotland and Wales, accompanied by the closer connection which has taken place between the Parnellites and the Scottish and Welsh parties, is likely to lead up to an organized union of these political sections for purposes of mutual assistance. Greece has again been visited by an earthquake, which has been most disastrous in Morea. The loss of life is 300. The Afghan Commission has conceded seven thousand of the nine thousand miles of the disputed territory to Russia and the remainder to the Ameer of Afghanistan,