The Sentinel. [volume] (Trenton, N.J.) 1880-1882, 1881-05-28
Foreign News

AT large meeting in Ballyroan, Ireland,
Michael Brennan advocated a general strike
against the payment of rent until the land
question is settled on just principles.
A PARIS paper publishes dispatch stating
that an attempt has been made to kill the
car of Russia by poisoning him. One of the
palace scullions, who has been arrested since,
the dispatch says, had sprinkled arsenic over
bowl of salad, of which Alexander is known to
be very fond. As the dish did not figure on
the bill of fare the attempt was detected. The
French paper says that on the day previous
the emperor received an invitation to his own
funeral
More than fifty persons day are reported
to be dying of the plague in Nedjef, Mesopo-
tamia. Four thousand persons are dispersed
in camps completely isolated.
AT Woloszca, on the Russian frontier, the
Jews there have been attacked by the populace
and all their houses destroyed. Three hun
bred and thirty families have been rendered
homeless and have fed into Galicia.
THE peasants are sacking the Jewish quar-
tiers in the towns along the Russo Austrian
frontier The rich Jews are escaping into Aus
tria, but their poor brethren are at the mercy
of the mob. The Nihilists are encouraging the
peasants, with the view ofbringing on conflict
with the civil and military authorities. The
st. Petersburg police are unearthing fresh Nj
hilist plots, and the report that the city is
honeycombed with mines is confirmed in a
measure by recent discoveries.
AT the international monetary conference in
Paris Mr.. Evarts and Signor Doda Qtaly) re-
capitulated their arguments in favor of BIZ
metallism. and with their speeches the general
discussion was closed. As several delegates de-
sired to confer with their governments the
conference was adjourned for two weeks.
COUNT Won ARNIM, the Prussian diplomatist,
died at Nice, Switzerland, aged ffty-seven
years. He had been German ambassador at
Paris, and was subsequently found guilty by
the high court of state on charges of betraying
his country, offending the emperor and insulting
Prince Bismarck and the foreign Office, and was
sentenced to five years penal servitude.
A MOTION condemning the Irish land bill has
been rejected in the British house of commons
by vote to 176.
FATHER SHEEHY, priest at Kilmallock,
county Limerick, Ireland, was arrested under
the coercion act for melting agricultural labor
ers to leave their employment. The matter
was brought up in the house of commons, and
several home-rule members, including Mr.
Parnell, denounced the arrest.
GARIBALDI is out with letter saying that if
France tries to take possession of Tunis Italy
will be insulted and threatened. He adds that
in any case an Italian fleet with $4,000 men
aboard ought to be ready to defend the Italian
islands, which are threatened.
The Beers have defeated the Kaffirs in South
A RIGA.
IL few days after its publication over
1900, 900 copies of the revised New Testamen.
were sold in England. Public feeling has been
strongly expressed against some of the alter
atoms, notably against those in the Lords
Prayer
TIE sultan of Turkey deposed the bev of
Tunis, WHO'S charged with treason in favor of
the French. The French say they will uphold
the bey thus defying the shadowy claim of
Turkey to exercise supreme authority in Tuni-
sian matters.
Two more shocks of earthquake have been
felt in the island OF Soio, and number OF
houses have been shaken down.
CHARLES L. the new king Of Rouma Ma
was crowned at Bucharest with imposing cere-
monies