Rensselaer Republican, Volume 18, Number 8, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 October 1885 — FOREIGAN. [ARTICLE]

FOREIGAN.

Judge Denny, ex-United States Consul General at Shanghai, has accepted the post of foreign adviser to the Corean Government. The Chinese Government has decided to maintain a standing army of 600,000 men, to be increased in time of war to 1,200,000 men. Tso Tsung Tong, the Chinese General famous for his anti-foreign policy, died last month ...The foreign representatives at Tangier are about to bring to the notice of their respective governments the barbarous treatment of criminals by the authorities of Morocco. Recently, for a petty offense, a woman approaching maternity was tied up by the Armsand flogged until blood flowed freely.... The Police Chief of Hyde, England, has identified pictures of W. H. Lennox Maxwell, imprisoned at St Louis for the murder of Preller. as Hugh Motham Brooks, an attorney who practiced in Hyde some years ag0.... .Prince Alexander of Bulgaria is reported as having guaranteed that the existing order of things shall not be disturbed in his domain. His troops have been ordered not to provoke a conflict.... An attempt to shoot the Minister of War of Montenegro was made at Cattaro by an Albanian, who confessed himself the agent of a band of conspirators. He was quickly executed. Mme. Cordieb, one of the most celebrated beauties of the court of Napoleon lIL, fell a victim to morphine at Paris. Her body after death, though she had endured the most excruciating torture for eight days, shortly assumed the charms and classic outline which had so famed her in youth.... The Marquis of Lome, the Queen’s son-in-law, ana Liberal candidate for Parliament, attempted to make an election speech at Brentford, near London. The crowd that assembled at the place refused to listen to him, and rotten-egged and otherwise tseated him so badly that he left in haste and immediately returned to London..,. Sister Cipriani, who arrived at Cairo re-

cently from 'Khartoum, says that Oliver Pajn fell from his camel while ill, and that the Arabs, who were hurrying forward at the time, buried him before he was dead. ... .A skirmish has occurred between the Bulgarians hud the pickets of the Servians. A loan of $5,000,000 was obtained in Paris by the Servian Government, which pledged its tobacco monopoly as security... .The sensation in Erench political circles is a manifesto by Prince Bonaparte (Pion Pion) to his followers, advocating that the Republic be upheld, as the Monarchists are not at present strong enough to bring about a revolution... .The opposition to the Government of Denmark are raising a fund to defend the assassin of Premier Estrupp.