Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1871-06-16
Weekly News Summary.
THE OLD WORLD.

A Versailles dispatch Of the 3D. says pa.
pers had been discovered which show that
the operations of the Communists were
directed from London.
The Versailles Assembly has voted
| 1868, 900 francs for the purpose ofrebuild4
ing the house of Theirs. ., r
Minister Schenck, Earl de Grey, Lord
Tenterden, and Sir Stafford Northcote ar
rived at Liverpool on the Sd. The former
was presented with an address of welcome
by the Chamber of Commerce of that
city, to which he made an appropriate
response
| The new fortresses for the interior of
Paris have been located at Montmartre
and Chaumont, and engineers have already
commenced work upon them.
A Paris telegram of the 9th says the
postal service was completely resumed. 1t
was reported that twenty thousand Com
munist prisoners would be transported to
New Caledonia. The discovery of impor-
tant documents, rendering new indict-
ments necessary, had delayed trials by
court-martial at Versailles.
A Versailles dispatch of the 9th says the
following appointments had been announc-
ed by the Journal 06ic6el: Lambrecht
Minister of the Interior; LIE Franc, Min
lister of Agriculture; General Cissey, Min
lister of War; Leon Jay, Prefect of the
Seine; General Leila, Ambassador to st.
Petersburg. Tranquility prevailed through
| out France. The trial of Rochefort and
Assy had been postponed
Advices from Hong Kong to May 26th
report that the coolie ship from Macao for
Callao, was burned at sea, and 900 coolies
perished in the flames.
A Berlin dispatch of the 9th says the
commercial relations between Germany
and France have been restored to the same
footing as before the war.
An encyclical letter has been issued at
Rome calling on the Catholics throughout
the world to give thanks to God Oh the oc-
casiOn of the Pope's Jubilee.
According to the detailed accounts of
the capture of Paris and the destruction
which ensued, as given in correspondence
and foreign files, the red days of '9S were
more than excelled in terror, for to the
prodigal effusion of blood by the infuriated
Versaillists was added the spectacle of the
burning of Paris by the defeated and re-
treating Communists.
The Verite estimates the damage to Paris
from fighting and conlagrations at $780,
600 coo francs.
A cable dispatch of the 7th says Thiers
insists on giving the Republic fair trial.
All the pieces of the Column Vendome
had been found, and the monument will
be exactly restored.
twenty-five women were killed and
fifty injured by railway accident near
Paris on the 9th.
The British House of Lords has passed
the bill authorizing Canada to organize
territorial governments in the country ly-
ing between the Dominion and the Pa
cific coast.
In the French Assembly on the sth the
law prescribing the Orleans Princes was
abrogated, and the election of the Duke
d Aumale and Prince de Joinville to seats
in the Assembly was declared valid by a
vote of 44S to 113.
The Marquis Gallifet was assassinated
in Paris on the Sth by the widow of one
of the Communists who had been shot by
his order.
The funeral ceremonies in Paris, on the
7th, over the remains of five of the cleri-
cal victims of the Commune were solemn
and impressive.
A letter received from Treasurer Spin
ner, dated London, May %, conveys intel
ligence of the improved health of that
officer, who had commenced operations in
connection with the negotiations for the
new loan.
The Emperor of Russia and his son
Alexis, with brilliant staff, recently ar
rived in Berlin. They were received at
the station by the Emperor William and
his staff, and escorted to the palace by the
Imperial Guard.
Recent advices from Montevideo repre-
sent the condition of affairs in the city of
Buenos Ayres as not only not having i'm
proved, but as having grown alarmingly
worse. About the 1st of May the yellow
fever seemed to be abating, and many refu-
gees returned. The disease again broke
out violently, and the returned citizens
fled in panic. The seat of government
was about being removed to Rosario. At
last advices all communication between
Montevideo and Buenos Ayres was posi-
lively prohibited.
The supplementary elections to the
French Assembly have been fixed for the
9th of July. 1t has been determined that
the courts-martial shall treat offenders
against the government as military, not
political prisoners.
The Prussian troops remaining in France
bugun their homeward march on the 9th
A Paris special of the 9th declares that
a number of Communist leaders reported
shot were still alive, having escaped from
the city in disguise.
THE NEW WORLD.