Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1871-10-06
General News Summary,
THE OLD WORLD.

THE OLD WORLD.
The wheat cropin France will, II is said,
fall short Of the average by 85,0C0,0O0
hectolitres, but the yield of barley and
minor crops is abundant. The London
correspondent of the New York World
estimates the defeiency in the wheat
crop of England at $4,000 900 bushels, and
there were fears that the potato crop
would also be partial failure.
The Congress of the Internationals, in
session at London, adjourned on the 23d,
after making arrangements for movements
in Germany, Italy and Spain.
The Paris journals of the 25th have re-
ports of the discovery of conspiracy in
Paris for the restoration of Napoleon. 1t
is stated that Nspoleon's Prefect of Police,
Pietri, was at the head of the conspiracy
there, and that he was acting under direct
instructions of the Emperor. A dispatch
from Versailles TO London on the 25th
says President Thiers was disturbed by
fears as to the safety of his life; that his
bedchamber was guarded at night by
patrols.
The annual session of the Congress of
the Universal Peace League opened at
Lausanne, Switzerland, on the 25th.
The Gar of Russia has ordered that in
au horized privcte schools aud in estab-
lishme nts of T bic instruction In Poland,
the German language should take the pre-
cedence of the French.
A special dispatch from Havana, re-
ceived In New York on the 25th, an
nounces that the instruction had been
subiued, and that proclaim ,tion to that
effect would shortly be issued by the Cap
tain General.
A cable dispatch of the 26th announces
that the evacuation by the Germans of the
four departments contiguous to Paris was
completed.
Rochelort has petitioned the govern
ment for Communication of his sentence.
He was quite i'll on the Goth from ner-
vous complaint
NJ. Disraeli made speech at banquet
at Hughenden, England, on the evening of
the Goth, and different reports of his ad-
dress are given. The New York Worlds
correspondent says he declared that the
Queen was physically and morally inca
pacitated from reigning any longer; and
the regular press dispatch says he pro-
posed toast to the Queen, and accom-
panied it with speech in fervant eulogy
of Her Majesty. Her duties, he said, were
excessive, and no Englishman had such
complete control of the political traditions
of the country as its sovereign.
A London dispatch of the 9th says the
health of the Queen was not improved.
A terrible explosion of flre-damp oc-
Cured on the 29th in one of the mines of
Canton Girls mes, Switzerland. Thirty per-
sons were killed.
A London telegram of the 2Sth men.
tions the wreck of the brig Manly, on
Drogheda bar, in plain sight of the life
boat men, VINO refused to go TO her assist
ance during the prevalence of the gale
six men were carried off their heels by
the surf and drowned. A lady put off
from shore in small b,at, and, at the
risk of her own life, saved that of one of
the men left on board the vessel.
The assassin Of the Chief.Justice Of the
High Court of Judlcsture of Calcutta has
been convicted snd sentenced to death.
A colliery explosion occurred at Downs
bury, England on the 2S.h. Several per-
SONS were killed and others wounded.
A Berne, Switzerland, dispatch of the
Goth ult. says: "The Court of ATbitra-
tion of the Alabama Claims will not meet
at Geneva for at least two months, for the
reason that the fifth arbitrator has not
been named by the Emperor of Brazil"
The loan of the city of Paris has been
taken. The subscriptions were more than
thirteen times the required amount.
A Versailles telegram of the Goth ult.
says the rumor that evidences of Bona
partist conspiracy had been discovered
proves to be unfounded.