The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1871-05-01
Foreign Affairs.

Difficulties have arisen in the Peace Con-
gress at Brussels.
People ore fleeing from Paris at the rate
of two thousand day.
The cable reports the death of Thalberg,
the celebrated pianist
The workmen of Paris on Saturday issued
a revolutionary address.
More prisoners released by the Germans
have just arrived in France
The imprisoned Archbishop of Paris is
reported to have been released.
The wounded soldiers of the late war
as well es civilians have been impressed in
Paris.
Fort dIssy has been abandoned, the
garrison becoming panic-stricken and mu-
tinous.
M. .Thiers is charged with using Prussian
weapons of warfare against the insurgents.
The soldiers of the Versailles army are
accused in Paris Of shooting some of their
prisoners.
The lower house of the Austrian Reichs-
rath hes ratified the naturalization treaty with
the United States
On Saturday a Masonic procession half
a mile long planted their banners on the
rampaTts of Paris under a heavy fire.
Throughout all of Friday aud Saturday
the forts south of Paris were vigorously bonn
barded, and the Nationals prepared to aban-
don them.
-luS troops OI Tue commune are repre-
sented to be only twenty-five thousand in
number aud rapidly falling off, owing to the
murderous fire of the enemy's guns.
The Napoieonists consider that the Yer
sailles Assembly does not represent the popu-
lar WILL and that when the present strife is
ended it will be necessary to consult the peo-
pie anew on the question of government.
Domestic Affairs.
The threatened strike of the Boston
bakers will not occur.
-Track-laying on the Southern Pacific
Railroad has commenced.
The Magdalena Bay colonists are re-
ported to be in a suffering condition.
The Cincinnati Times made its last ap-
pearance on Saturday, having been merged
into the Chronicle of that city.
John Donovan, his wife, and child were
suffocated on Saturday by coal gas, at their
residence in Albany, N. Y.
Several breaches are reported to have
occurred in the Erie Canal within the past
few days which will require several weeks to
repair.
"A determined warfare has commenced
against the hostile indians of Arizona, who
have recently committed many gross depre-
dations.
The Indians in the West, generally, give
indications of causing trouble shortly, they
complaining that their annuities are withheld
from them.
Hon. Sharon Tyndale, late Secretary of
State OF Illinois, was murdered at Springfield
on Saturday morning, while on his way to the
railroad station.
"A strike has commenced at the Mckay
Locomotive Works, at Jersey City, some of
the employees not having received any wages
since January.
The Board of Health regulations in St.
Louis, for the supply of pure milk, has
caused storm of indignation to burst forth
from the dairymen of that city.
The decision expected to be made to-day
by the United States Supreme Court, sustain
ing the validity of gold contracts, will proba-
bly, not be delivered until next October.
Commissioner Pleasonton has Just writ
ten letter to Supervisor butcher, of New
York, saying that persons whose incomes are
less than $4,000 per year are not required to
make returns, nor is there any authority of
law for assessors or assistant assessors to call
for such returns.