Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1871-01-21
KILOGRAMS TO THE STAR
This Afternoons Dispatches,
Associated Press Reports.
THE WAR IN EUROPE.
Cessation Of Firing south or Paris
Reported 1eSOtiatto4s-APr swge.
ments Making for More Active
Operations by Ne siegers
and Resiexed.
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BALLOON NEWS FROM PARIS.
LONDON, Jan. ia balloon has landed in
Belgium with advices from Paris to the 18th
The bomb IrdTent was Causing consider abe
damage, but the fires occasioned were easily
eStipguished. Some mills for grinding corn
we're damaged, and supplies of meal were ia
consequence obtained with great difficulty.
THE COMMANDMENT OF LoNGwY.
A dispatch from Arlcn says the bomblrd-
ment OF Lorgwy continued vigorously to-day
Three hunc,cd shell have already fallen in the
owl.
THE RUSSIAN BUDGET.
ST. PETERSBURG, Jan. 1.-THE Imperial
budget estimates the revenue for tue current
iscsl year as follows: Ordinary receipts, direct
and Indirect taxes, state monupolies, state do
mains, miscellaneous receipts, revenue OF Po-
land, and trans Caucasus, at . OO0, 900 rubles:
extraordinary receipts, resources from former
loars. special receipts, and railway cOnstruc-
lion, l0l Geo, o00 to 1G3 600, 900.
INTERESTING NEWS FROM YER
SAILLES.
VERSAILLES, Jan. H.-ISpecial to n. Y. Tile
gTom There has been silence Of twenty-iour
hours, with the exception OF an occasion al boom
Of Nalerien. Fer three days the ba tteries have
been slack. Various theories account Tor this
singular cessation. Some insist tn at negotia-
tons are pending.
A paramentare came out on the 18th. His
object is secret. An answer was returned yes
terday. 1t Is Tumored that the Germans have
agreed TO a four days srmistice. This seems
the only plausible way to account for the almost
total cessation Of the firing. Rumors insist that
tue effect Of the tire is unequal TO German an
ticpations.
The batteries being re- armed, a general at
tack, it is said, will be organized Tomorrow, to
include st. Denis and Valerier. Twenty-Five
batteries are now in position, available for the
bOmbaTdment.
1t is said that TTochu has decided to COM
mence aesries Of sorties on the 30th, to be con-
tinued necessarily unless there is peace on the
side of the French. MonIrouge was active on
the 18th. There was great firing on the 10th at
the north.
There were several sorties on the 18th. Thir-
ty mobiles, unwounded, were found frozen to
death in the woods in front of Mendon. They
had been cut of by the advance of the 9th Ger
man corps. Several large guns on the road
were stopped by the weather.
The Latest p. m-Overtures of some nature
are certain, but there is good reason to believe
they have failed. Bombardment Of increased
severity will recomme nee imnediately.
The GERMANS PURSUING BOURBAKI
LONDON, Jan. 20, 4. m.-Gen. Won Gunner
telegraphs to Carisruhe that his vanguard is in
pursuit OF the retreafing army OF Bourbaki,
and that there would be \ general advance
along the whole line of tire German army on
the 18th. The Baden brigade is marching to
Sevres.
THE LONDON CONFERENCE.
BELGRADE, Jan. I9.-The government of Ser
via has dispatched q semi-C fiicial representative
TO the London conference.