Rensselaer Republican, Volume 14, Number 23, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 February 1882 — Foreign. [ARTICLE]

Foreign.

Ceylon will suffer the loss of nearly half its coffee crop from blight. The massacre of a Jewish family of thiee persons is the latest Russian atrocity. The Russian governmant denies its culpability in the matter of the Jewish persecutions. In London the Lord Mayor’s fund for the relief of the Russian Jews, amounts to $215 060. Gladstone promises to deal with the laud system of England during the present session of Parliament. A dispatch from Jerusalem reports the desecration by Chaldeans of some of the holy places of Christendom. At Genoa, Italy, deceased persons may be burned instead of buried. The crematory furnaces are in full blast. The Hindoo pilgrims returning to their own cities from Allahabad, are carrying the cholera epidemic with them. The Canadian Government will be asked to extend the telegraph system ail along the 1,560 miles of the lake system. . Present indiacations for a good croD of spring wheat in England, are, according to the Mark Lane Express, favorable. The Spanish Government will prohibit the propose ! pilgrimage if it assumes any other than a purely religious character. Russia has backed down squarely on her interference in the Balkan insurrection against Austria on account of Bismarck’s threat. * During the past year the Right He n. W. E. Forest. Secretary of State for Ireland, received four hundred ening letters from Irish patriots. The Canadian Parliament is being petitioned for and against a repeal of the old ecclesiastical law forbidding marriage with a deceased wife's sister. Stillman, the American who is the London Times correspondent, and tobo was leported to have been murdered iu Turkey, telegraphs his paper that he is all right. Itlssaid that Senor Zamacona, late the representative of Mexico at Washington, is a candidate for the Presidency of that sister republic, to succeed President Gonzales. « 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. Gladstone states that the reduction in rentals made by the Land Commissioners has been an average of 23 per cent. He says the Laud League has been confronted, and there is every indication that it has been defeated. Chinese advices', considerably overdue, received via. San Francisco, report that on Jifly 10 an earthquake, followed by a heavy rainstorm; destroyed

many human lives, live stock, and property in ilm Kiuyrbjw district. A miserable ruffian, named George ■Robinwii, shot and mortally wounded his MBs Mary JBaggaa, in Chicago, because she rejected his attentions, He then shot and killed himself to save the hangman a job. Lucifer ranches found iu bales of oakum, v h di came from Dublin, have been discovered at the Davenport dockyard, one of tbe principal depots of the British navy. It is beiieved to indicate Irish incendiarism. > In cpsuing the Dominion Parliament at Ottawa, Ont., the Marquis of Lome spoke o' the prosperity pi Canada, and the auspicious prospects for the future. He alluded in feeling terrhs to the death of President Garfield. Bradlaugh, the free-thinker, appeared in the House of Commons as the member from Nottingham and desired to be sworn, Sir Stafford Northcote (Conservative! moved that he be refused, which was carried by a vote of 286 to 227. A medical student has created a sensation in Toronto, Canada, by taking pieces of a woman’s skin to a currier to be tanned, and representing the material as pig skin. The deception was discovered after the fanning process was completed, and it is said tbaf the tanped skin is tough and apparently durable.