Democratic Sentinel, Volume 11, Number 5, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 March 1887 — FOREIGN. [ARTICLE]

FOREIGN.

A cablegram from Berlin, giving returns from 25J districts, shows tho election of 45 Conservatives, 16 Imperialists, 37 Centeriste, 83 National-Liberals, 4 new German Liberals, 15 Alsatans, 6 Socialists, and 4 Poles. Bismarck seems to be certain of a working majority. A cablegram from Paris says: The success of the anti-Germans in Alsaca has caused a feeling of the deepest emotion here. The majorities were high. At Strasburg Kable received 8,281 votes against Pietrie's 6.70 J; at Colmar Grad received 9,606 against Kloecker s 2,172; at Mulhausen LaLance had 12,338 to Koecklin's 3, <66; at Metz Antoine received 13,787 against 6,202 for Remler. Le Paris says : “The separated provinces of Alsace Lorraine, faithful to their old love, we do not merely congratulate, we bow before them in token of respect for their civic courage. We believe their patriotism will tend to peace, because we cannot conceive of Bismarck advancing his armies with two hostile provinces in the rear ”

The less of life in the Genoese Riviera alone ty the recent earthquakes is estimated at fifteen hundred. Agents of the French and German Governments are visiting the fairs in the north of England and purchasing horses suitable for any use. Duval, the French anarchist sen-tenced-to death, will receive eight years’imprisonment instead. The jury in the case of Dillon, O’Brien, and Redmond, on trial in connection with the pl in of campaign, came into court at Dublin and reported that they were unable to agree. The Prime Minister of France sent to the sufferers by earthquake at Nice the first remittance of 10,030 francs. Henry M. Stanley is authority for the statement that Portugal is acting in a high-handed manner toward Zanzibar, and he intimates that England should interfere.

Mrs. Gladstone presided over a meeting lor the purpose of forming a Women’s Liberal Federation. She said she thought the women of Great Britain who were anxious to work for the Libsral cause and the ;>i ogress of just ca should be organized and united. Cardinal Jacobini, the Pope’s Secretary of Sta e, is dead. Great delight was manifested in Dublin over the disagreement of the jury in the “plan of campaign” trial. It has been definitely decided not to prosecute Archbishop Croke and the others concernel in the dissemination of his anti-tax manifesto. A belief is widespread throughout England that numerous dynamite conspiracies are again under way. It is now clear that Bismarck will be able to command a majority of the Reichstag, says a Berlin dispatch, independent of the Ultramontanes, and it is thought he will try for the time to govern by a combination of National Liberals, Conservatives anfl Reichspartei, who will probably aggregate 225, leaving Windthorst, Bamberger and Bebel in incongruous opposition of about 170.