Rensselaer Republican, Volume 18, Number 44, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 July 1886 — FOREIGN [ARTICLE]

FOREIGN

Thirty tritsaxd people went the other night to witness the performances in the immense bull circus at NijppSt in the de, partment of Gard, says a Paris dispatch. The entertainment had been extensively advertised to be given under electric lights. The lights went out soon after the performance began, and. owing to the defective apparatus, could not be relighted. The people became enraged and began rioting. They tore down the fittings of the circus and made a bonfire in the arena of them. Troops had to be called to restore order, which they only succeeded in doing after a desperate conflict with the people, many of whom were wounded and arrested. Liverpool has elected three Conservatives to the new Parliament, neither seat being contested. The students at Oxford hissed the name of Gladstone at the commencement exercises, and cheered that of Lord Salisbuiy. The Bishop of Ripon urges clergymen to take partin the political conflict, Gen. Savssier has resigned the Military Governorship of Paris because of a reprimand by the Minister of War sot def fending his staff in a newspaper card. FOVR deaths from cholera have taken place at Flume, Hungary, and two at DunaFoldvar. . . .The peasants of Servia refuse to pay the taxes levied since the war in Bulgaria, and treat the collectors with violence. ~ .It is said that all French Colonels absent on special service have been ordered to rejoin their regiments forthwith. It is also reported that General de Salles, the military attache of the French Embassy at Vienna, and who was appointed to thin post for the express purpose of studving

Austrian cavalry tactics, has been recalled to resfime Command of the troops in the Vosges on the German frontier ~ A London dispatch of the sth inst. bays: “Gladstone has been elected to Parliament from the Midlothian and Leith districts. His name was sprung at the last moment’in Leith in order to defeat W. Jacks, a Libend, but opposed to horn-rule. ai>»l whom the Tories h(ul d<.t< !!)i.ined not to oppose. Parnell is escorted everywhere in his campaign by a body-guard of friends—aH stalwart young Irishmen- He receives letters daily threatening assassination. So far 44 home-rulers and 116 anti-home-rulers have been returned to Parliament.”