Rensselaer Republican, Volume 14, Number 21, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 February 1882 — Foreign. [ARTICLE]

Foreign.

The Czar’s coronation at Moscow will be almost private. There are said to be plenty of informers again in Ireland. In Astrakhan 600 fishermen have been drowned by a severe gale. A slight shock of earthquake was felt at Ottawa, Canada, Sunday. Ten of the Austrian police were massacred by the Herzgovinian rebels. A dispatch from Havana, Cuba, states the tobacco crop is small and poor. Prince Bismark has been thanked by his Imperial master for his defense of the rescript.

The Nihilists of the Terrorist faction are to be tried on the 21st of February, with closed doors. More troops, including a battalion of the Coldstream Guards, have been ordered to Ireland. The Russian authorities are assisting Melville; of the Jeannette crew, in his search for the missing men. The open winter is causing much injury to the logging interests of Michigan, Wisconsin and Minnesota. Heavy failures have occurred on the Geneva (Switzerland) bourse in connection with the French financial crisis. The Hindoo pilgrims returning to their own cities from Allahabad, are carrying the cholera epidemic with them. To cover the expenses of her war with Peru, Chili has annexed the district of Tarapaca, said to be worth $1,000,000,000. Vera Sassulitch, the female Nihilist, is one of a committee forming in Switzerland, to relieve the victims of Russian tyranny. Cholera has made its appearance among the pilgrims in Allahabad, oDe of the Hindoo sacred cities of Northern India. A London dispatch states that $5,000,000 are needed to enable the Russian -Jews to emigrate to the United States and Canada. An old man, sged 80 years, steward on the estate of Mrs. Morony, at Milltown, County Clare, Ireland, was shot dead Thursday night. A Madrid dispatch states that the Spanish pilgrims bound for Rome are largely composed of the adherents of the pretender Don Carlos. The Bank of France nas placed 100,000,000 franc 3 to help the merchants and manufacturers of Lyons, through the financial crisis. A Moscow dispatch states that of 650 political exiles implicated in Nihilism 328 have been liberated, and the sentences of the others modified. Austrian gens d’armes (police) have been deserting on account of the atrocities committed by .the Herzegovinian rebels on their Austrian prisoners.

An informer has revealed to the authorities the existence of a widespread and dangerous conspiracy in Clare, Limerick, and Cork counties, Ireland. The Lord Mayor of London has been conferring recently with eminent British Israelites with a view of furthering the immigration of Bussian "Jews America. The rebellion of the Herzegovinians is assuming threatening proportions. The press of Vienna is under official supervision for fear bad news may create a panic. | iThe route of the Emperor to the cathedral at Moscow, for his coronation, will be lined with troops, and he will also be separated from the crowd by barriers and trenches. English merchants are agitating for cheaper telegraphic facilities. The government controls the telegraphic system in Great Britain in conection with the Post-office Department. Mr. John Dillon, writing tojthe Bt. Hon. W. E. Forster, declines the offer of leaving Kilmainham jail for tho Continent, and asks that the Secretary address him no more communications.