Democratic Sentinel, Volume 10, Number 40, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 November 1886 — PEOPLE OF AFFAIRS. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

PEOPLE OF AFFAIRS.

Rulers of the Russian Empire. The Emperor of Kussia is the central figure in the negotiations anil intrigues now in progress in Europe, and in which such immense possibilities of war and bloodshed are involved. Alexander 111. is a Romanoff, this being the name of the family whose representatives have been the reigning power in Russia since the early part or the seventeenth century, aud have indeed been the most conspicuous rulers of Russia since the Tartar invasion. The first of the Romanoff dynasty was Michael Fedorovitch, who was the grandfather of Peter the

Great, one of the most prominent figures in the world’s history. The family also uumbered among its members Alexander 1., who was the first to break the power of Napoleon, and followed the latter to Paris. Upon the monument on the battle-field of Borodino is the following inscription: “Napoleon entered Moscow 1812, Alexander entered Paris 1814.” Alexander 111., the present Emperor and Autocrat of all the jEtussias, succeeded to the throne after th 9 murder of his father by Nihilist conspirators, March 13, 1881. Alexander 111. was born March 10, 1845, and since his elevation to the throne, has seldom appeared in public, but has lived in the closest retirement at Gatchina. He was crowned at Moscow, May 27, 1883, amid great pomp and splendor, and the coronation exercises were chronicled even to the slightest details by the newspapers at tho time. He is noted for his sympathy with the old Russian party who are prejudiced against all foreigners. His younger brother, the Grand Duke Alexis, visited the United States in 1871, and was received with the greatest eclat.

The Czarina of Russia, Marie Feodorovna (formerly Mary Sophia Frederica Dammar), is the daughter of Christian IX. and Queen Louise of Denmark. She was married to Alexander 111. in the year 1866. Her father, Christian IX., in seeking this alliance for his daughter Marie Feodorovna. knew that he was securing her the position of reigning over the largest empire in the whole world, European Russia alone comprising a vast area, without taking in Asiatic Russia, which itself comprises several immense domains and provinces, including Siberia. Three children have been the result of this marriage between Alexander and the Empress, all of them being sons. The Grand Duke Nicholas Alexandrovitch, who was born on May 18, 1868, is heir apparent to the crown and throne. He is in very delicate health, and fears are entertained as to his ever living to become the successor to the throne. The Minister to Colombia. The appointment of Dabney H. Maury to be United States Envoy and Minister Plenipotentiary to the United States of Colombia was announced by the President to the Senate daring the latter part of the last session. The Senate failed to act upon his confirmation, the matter going over till the next meeting of the body. The country

to which Mr. Maury is accredited is a republic in the northwestern part of South America, and consists of nine States. It is through the territory of this republic that the great Panama Canal is to ran. Mr. Maury’s official residence will be at Bogota, the capital, a fine city of a hundred thousand inhabitants.