Rensselaer Republican, Volume 18, Number 11, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 November 1885 — FOREIGN. [ARTICLE]

FOREIGN.

The nineteenth annual session of the National Grange, Patrons of Husbandry, was opened at Boston in the sixth degree. All the officers were present except D. Wyatt Aikep, of South Carolina, who wa confined at home by illness. The Committee on Credentials reported that- twentynine States were clear upon the Treasurer’s books and entitled to representation. Worthy Master Woodman’s annual address and the yearly report of the Executive Committee showed the order to be in a prosperous and healthy financial condition. Over 150 dormant Granges were revived during the year. “Not unfrequently,” says the report, “the Executive Committee is appealed to l by individuals for protection from ‘mutual aid associations,’ or other similar Corporations, with which they have no connection. The committee suggests that the National Grange publish a deliverance upon this subject, renouncing its responsibility for any association of whatever character, unless such as may be found recognized by the constitution and by-laws.”

. iN’the Eliza Armstrong abduction case at London the charges against Mr. Bramwell Booth, leader of the Salvation Army, were withdrawn. The other defendants were found guilty of indecent assault and sentenced as follows: Mr. Stead, three months’ imprisonment, Rebecca Jarrett six months, and Sampson Jacques one month —all without hard labor —and Mme. Louise Mourey six months with hard 1ab0r.... Henry Mosier, an American artist residing in Paris, hasreceivedfromH. H. Warner, of Rochester, N. Y., an order to paint two Indian scenes and an American farm within five years, the compensation being $75,000. Mr. Mosier will soon visit the far West to make the necessary studies.... Members of the Royal Rifles at Limerick broke out of the barracks and attacked with bayonettf many people residing in the vicinity, in revenge for assaults by civilians. The Mayor and police suppaessed the riot... .William B. Carpenter, F. R. S., who ranked high as a physiologist, died in London from burns caused by the upsetting of a lamp. William N. Carpenter, a leading citizen of Detroit, was killed by being thrown from his carriage... .Relief committees at Glasgow find it difficult to supply the unemployed ship-builders with food. In the hold of a vessel about to sail for New York were discovered no less than fortyseven stowawiSyo .... .Charles S. Parnell, in acknowledging the receipt of £I,OOO from Treasurer O’Reilly, at Detroit, writes that the money will shortly be of enormous service in the Parliamentary campaign. Advices from Constantinople say that M. Nelidoff, the Russian Ambassador, has been ordered by his Government to press the demand of Russia before the conference for the immediate disarmament of Servia, Greece, and Bulgaria, and the deposition of Prince Alexander,’lfie ruler of Bulgaria.

King Theebaw, of Burmah, has issued a proclamation declaring that lie will not accept the proposals of the Indian Government, at the same time calling on the Burmese to defend their country. The resignation of Prince Henry, of Battenberg ap a Lieutenant of the Prussian Guards has been accepted... .The French courts have at last pronounfled a divorce between Mme. Nicolini and her husband, the well-known tenor, who is married to Patti under the law of other countries.... Harwood’s cotton mills, at Bolton, England, were destroyed by fire. The loss involved was about $200,000.,