Rensselaer Republican, Volume 17, Number 43, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 July 1885 — FOREIGN. [ARTICLE]

FOREIGN.

The cholera is steadily spreading in Spain, and the mortality i«-increasing to a frightful extent. All efforts to arrest the ravages of the plague, which consist'chiefly i of invocations to the Virgin and saints, prove utterly useless and unavailing. The truth about the French expedition to Tonqnin, siuce peac» is declared with China, is coming to light. - A cablegram says; “All accounts received from Tonqnin show that ihe ravages of disease among the French troops there are simply appalling. Three thousand invalid soldiers have been sent home. Three hundred soldiers down With disease await transportation. The deaths among the troops are from fifteen to twenty daily.”.. ..The differences between Russia and Turkey, growing cm of the demand Of the former upon the Porte for the removal of ihe Governor of Salomon, hare been amicably settled... .Sir Nathaniel Rothschild, Sir Evelyn Baring, and Mr. John Merley will be raised to the British peerage. The arrangements for the celebration of the fiftieth anniversary of Qneen Victoria’s reign, which will occur next year, hare already been begun. It is reported that she has expressed a desire to complete her reign on the occasion, but those who know her are slow to believe that she wil! relinquish her power so 'dag as she is able to exercise it.... Rev. Dr. Spurgeon has creased a deep sensation by a publication, over his own name, in which he attacks the immorality of the English ' He takes aa his text the death of Justice Williams in e btothei, end the disclosures ">«■»•» recently in the Jeffries case, and aavs: * Sodom in iu most putrid days could

scarcely exceed London for rice."... .W, P. Tisdel, Special Commissioner of the United States to the Congo, makes a report describing the country as rich in resources, but advising no Americans to go there for business purposes unless abundantly supplied with capital.... A fare well,.reception was tendered Earl Spencer at Dublin Castle, which was largely attended. Extra precautions were taken ngainst dynamite intnision.... The French Chamber of Deputies has adopted a bill allowing the free manufacture of weapons of war... .An explosion in a coal mine near Saarbruck, Germany, resulted in the loss of eighteen lives. » , •