The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1871-07-27
General News Summary.
THE OLD WORLD.

the loss of Cuba, and the consideration OF
a proposition made by General Sickles for
the sale Of Cuba to the United States, it
was resolved to keep the island at any
cost
The Bavarian troops which served In
the late war made triumphal entry into
Munich on the 18th, amid the most enthu.
siastic rejoicing. The city was splendidly
decorated, and at night there was grand
illumination.
The Austrian Government has formally
ratified the naturalization treaty with the
United States.
The announcement that the Archbishop
of Tours succeeds the late Monseigneui
Darboy as Archbishop Of Paris is con.
firmed.
An explosion at Rheims, on the 10Th,
caused great fire, and many buildings
in the business part of the city were
burned.
An accidental explosion of the powder
works at st. Maur, Vincennes, occurred
on the 14th. The CticiN Journal of the
18th states that six persons were killed
and thirty wounded.
The Chief of Police Of Dublin died on
the 10th from wounds received few days
before at the hands of a supposed Fenian.
The murderer was under arrest
1t is officially announced that the Asiatic
cholera has broken out in several places in
Poland.
The ship Nahamon, from Bombay to
Penang, has foundered in the Indian
Ocean. Thirty lives were lost.
A London dispatch of the 18th says the
result of the recent census throughout
Great Britain has jast been officially an
nounced. The entire population Of Eng
land, Ireland, Scotland, Wales, the Chan
mel Islands, and the Isle of Man, including
the army, navy, and merchant marine
abroad, is: Males, Is, $40 27l; females, 16,
267S37; total, 3l,S17,1OS. The preponder.
ance of females over males is 7ls,566.
The magazine of the steamer Eunomis
exploded, on the Sd, in the Grecian Archi.
pelago. Forty of her crew were killed
nearly all the rest more or less injured
while the vessel was almo-t entirely de.
stroyed.
The Pope, in a recent address to the Sa
cred College at Rome, says:
1--WE are, my very dear brothers, in the hands
of Divine Providence. We have nothing to expect
from human aid, for man has abandoned U.S. Why
you. Kings and governments, forgetting theiI
promises, leave US to our late They have ad
dressed us in fine phrases. They sent the
warmest congratulations on the cay of our jubilee
but they are far from taking step in support OF
their messages. We can hope for no help from
any quarter King Victor Emanuel will be here
In few days. and will be attended by the Minis
tiers of Catholic states We haze done all tha,
was in our power. but our efforts have failed. AL
is lost. You will tell me, perhaps, that we have
still hope in France but France can do nothing
She is going through frghtful crises, which may
be succeeded by Others yet more dreadful. lrepeal
it. all is lost. and only miracle can u.s. Turn
then, to the Almighty, and seek the interpositoI
from Him."
In England on the 18th, on the North
Midland Railway, the Sheffield express
train, gong south, ran into a freight train
near Chesterfield Station. Two passengers
were killed outright and about thirty in
jured, some of whom would die.
A letter fIom London says that Thur.
low Weed was not as well on July as
when he left New York He expressed
his intention of returning in few days, if
his health did not improve.
A letter recently received in New York
from Paris says $4,000 persons, including
6 5000 women AID children were killed in
suppressing the Commune. Ninety thou
sand prisoners had been captured and the
police were hunting for 10000 more.
News is received from London to the
effet that "the future Emperor ard En-
press Of Germany were snubbed by Queen
Victoria on the occs sion of their recent
visit to England. Her Mejes'y refused to
take them in at any of her palaces, and
they were obliged to lodge with common
Ambassador Extraordinary"
II was officially reported at Berlin on
the Goth that 400, 900 900, francs of indem-
nifty were received from France on July
Is, OF which 100000 were in silver; 80,
10000 had arrived since July Is.
In the British House of Commons, on
the Goth, Mr.. Gladstone announced that
the Queen had Cancelled the royal war
rant legalizing the purchase of commits
sions in the British army. This announce
ment was received with vehement cheer
ing, but the Tory members were unable to
dissemble their anger, and bitterly de-
nounced the arbitrary course of the Gov
ernment. a bill abolishing the system of
the purchase and sale Of army commissions
had previously passed the lower house of
Parliament, but it was rejected by the
House Of Lords.
The latest news from Persia was TO the
effect that the cholera was prevailing
there to an alarming extent, and the
rayages Of the disease were dreadful.
4 Madrid dispatch of the 2Oth says
Marshal Serrano had been intrusted BY
tae King with the formation of new
Ministry, and had already designated the
following Ministers: Minister of Justice
Gomez Minister of Foreign A fairs, Cou
dan !; Marine, Admiral Maicamps Finance
Camsdro. The Cortes had adjourned
tumultuously, amid the protests of the ri
nority.