Rensselaer Republican, Volume 15, Number 44, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 July 1883 — FOREIGN. [ARTICLE]

FOREIGN.

A dispatch from Cairo, Egypt, says: The situation between here and Port Said in one direction and Alexandria in the other is deplorable, and can scarcely be exaggerated. The extent of the cholera plague, owing to GJveiyiment precautions, is not actually known, but the statements of those who have escaped from the infected districts, and those whose very presence is shunned by almost every one, reveal a terrible state of affairs. There are scarcely well natives enough to bury the dead in some of the comparatively Isolated villages along the Mediterranean and in the low Nile Delta districts between Lake Menzalen and Lake, BoorJos. 1 ”....5ir William Gull, an eminent English physician, does not believe the cholera will spread to Eurone....While the coast-trading steamer Daphne was being launched at Kenfrew, Scotland, she capsized when she struck the water, and of a arge number of persons on board 150 were drowned The ill-fated craft had all her mach nery on board, and her hull retards navigation in the Clyde The cable announces the death of John Winston Spencer Churchill, Duke of Marlborough, at the age of 61. In Parliament he distinguished himself for his efforts in behalf of the Established Church. In 1876 he was nominated to the Viceroyalty of" Ireland. He was a Prmce of the Holy Roman Empire, and enjoyed a pension of £5.0'10 per annum... .A man named Griffey was snot at Ennis, Ireland, for taking a place from which the former tenants had been evicted.

The raftsmen, upon whose confessions so much depended to convict the Jews of Tiza-Eszlar, Hungary, now declare that their statements were obtained by torture. Their receital of the cruelties practiced upon them by the authorities reads like a chapter from Fox’s "Book of Martyrs.”..’.. A detachment of British troops in India accompanied a political agent to bring a refractory village into subjection. A band of f,OO natives made an attack, and were repulsed with a loss of fifty.... Irish Catholic Bishops condemn State-aided immigration, maintaining large tracts of uncultivated land, if tilled, would support the surplus population....ln the Bri ish House of Commons a motion by a Literal member in favor of female suffrage was rejected by a vote of 130 to 114... .The London Fima reports that James Carey, the informer, has quitted Ireland in disguise. The deaths from cholera at Damietta, Egypt, for the weekending July 9, averaged about 130 per day... .Several cases occurred among the gendarmes forming cordons around the infected districts, and particularly in the case of the cordon surrounding Samanoud. Fresh cordons drawn around the old and infected district have thus become necessary. The alarm in London over the cholera caused a discussion in the Cabinet whether or not to recall the British troops from Egypt, but Lord Wolseley decided in the negative.... The populace at Brindisi,.ltaly, fearing the introduction of the pestilence, refused to allow the steamer Surat to land Indian mail even when fumigated.

Four men named Bogerson, Tanzy, Kelly and Boughton were found guilty at Sligo on the charge of having attempted in March of last year to blow up the residence of a laddlord near Loughrea, in the County, of Ga<way. The convictions were obtained on the evidence of two Informers who swore that the con pi ators were to get #SOO. if the house wds destroyed and the inmates killed. The dynamitards were, the informers spid, the agqnts £of a secret society.... Detectives in If eland have) exhumed a box containing dynamite cartridges, part of the quantity stolen two yeats ago ip Cork, and' the officials breathe easier...;;Jameß Carey, the informer, has been taken by a detective from Dublin to London, to be shipped away without reward or a written pardon. His family wese sent in advance.