Democratic Sentinel, Volume 10, Number 40, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 November 1886 — FOREIGN. [ARTICLE]

FOREIGN.

The Marquis of Clanricarde denies that he refused to abate his tenants’ rants. At a Conference of British Tories it was decided to follow Beaconsfieid’s Eastern policy. Floods are causing much damage in the proviuce of Vancluse, Frauca. Tho city of Avignon is partially suhtaerged. A state of siege has been proclaimed at Sofia. The Federal Government of Switzerland proposes to purchase all tlio raailways in that country. The rebellion in Mving-Yan is increasing. Maurice, a sou of Sarah Bernhardt, fought a duel with M. Langlois for exhibiting a painting ridiculing the actress, and gave him a slight wound. United Ireland tells tenants that the time for patient endurance has passed aud that it is time for them to stand up and fight, hitting from the shoulder. Heavy reductions in rents have been made by a large number of landlords in West Clare, Ireland. Almost every newspaper in Berlin is threatened with a strike of compositors in January. It is now said that the reason the Czar killed his aid, Count Reutern, was because he suspected the Count of criminal intimacy with a member of tlio imperial-family. The districts of MarefflnSa and Ferrara, Italy, are suffering disastrously frpm floods. Great distress prevails among the peasants. The guaranty fund for the Glasgow (Scotland) Exliib.tion of 1887 has reached £67,(MX). Tho space to be devoted to it comprises an area of thirty-nine acrea The situation in Bulgaria leads to t* new cr. pof warlike rumors. Turkey is poworloss to prevent the occupation of the unfortunate principality-by the Russians. It is reported that the proposition to increase the duty ou impor.s of breadstuff's by Franco is not by any means certain to become law. The Chamber of Dcpu'ios will not be able *0 reach its consideration before tho close of the year, and the opposition to the measure is so strong that they may not deem it expedient to pass a measure which would mean much dearer broad to every residont of that country.