Democratic Sentinel, Volume 11, Number 28, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 August 1887 — THE FOREIGN BUDGET. [ARTICLE]

THE FOREIGN BUDGET.

The Crown Prince Frederick William of Germany underwent another operation on his throat, at Loudon, with good results. Ho will try the air of Scotland. The steamer Gaelic, from China and Japan, which arrived from San Francisco on Wednesday, brought an interesting batch of news

from ths Orient: Chinese papers contain the following items: - S. S. Popoff, Chinese Secretary to the Russian Legation in fekiDg, has just published a pamphlet on the Chinese population, in which he states it to be 382.u00.000, as against 413,000,0 JO in the year 1842. His statistics are derived from Chinese official sources Plague is raging at Nanking. People are dying in every quarter. There are many instances of very sudden deaths. People are apparently well in the morning and are dead in the afternoon. The Hu Pas says that over one thousand telegraph poles belonging to the UuDtmau Mingtsz district and Kweichow Lane line have been pulled down by the people, who say the telegraph is a diabolical European artifice. Troops to the number of 2,000 nave been ordered to the spot. Last week, according to the Shcn Pao, no less than eighty-eight persons were summarily executed near Shanghai lor belonging to secret societies. The fihrn Pao gives a most harrowing account of floods at Chu Chou Fu, up Wenchow River. Over a thousand human beings have been swept away and destruction of the growing crops was immense. A dispatch from St Thomas received in Ixmdon says: “Letters received at Stanley Pool from Henry M. Stanley anuounce that the expedition arrived at Aruwhimi Falls on June 18; that all the members of tho expedition were well, and that preparations were being made for the overland march. ” M. Agnieb, editor of the Paris Evenement, and M. Rainach, of the Republique Francaise, have fought a duel with swords. The latter was wounded Whitely’s dry-goods house in London was burned An accident occurred at the fire by which five persons were instantly killed and several fatally injured The financial loss by the fire is #1,250,000. There was a battle near Belfast, Ireland, between Nationalists and Orangemen. It was finally stopped by the police. A youth was killed and several persons Were wounded