The Tiffin tribune. (Tiffin, Ohio) 1868-1887, 1871-01-26
KING WILLIAM ASSUMES THE IaIPER.
IAL CROWN.

may be restored. We partake of the
dignity, conscious of our duty to pre-
serve with German fidelity the rights
of the empire and the rights Of its
members ; to maintain peace to sup
port and strengthen Germany, in the
hope that the German people will
reap lasting peace within our bound
aries, the fruits of their bloody battles,
and be safe against the renewal of
French attacks. God grant that we
and our successors may protect the
/ Empire, not by warlike cOnquests,
but by works of peace, freedom and
civilization"
There was a great military pageant
at Versailles, to-day, in honor of the
! restoration of the German Empire.
! VERSAILLES, January l9.-WiIliam
/ of Prussia was to-day proclaimed EN-
perOr of Germany in the Hall of Mir
rOrs, in the presence of all the German
princes, and representatives Of the
regiments in the army.
LONDON, January 19.-BOurbaki,
after two days fighting, crossed the
LisOnne six miles below BelfOrt, Won
/ Werder receiving re-enfOrcements, a
great battle was fought on the 18th,
which resulted in a decisive repulse of
the French. The German loss in the
three battles was 4, 200, while the loss
of the French was $500. No guns
were captured by the Germans, and
but few prisoners.
[The following can be taken with
some little degree of allOwance-EDs.1 !
A FEARFUL PICTURE FROM PARIS
STARVATION
NEW YORK, January %.
A balloon letter from Paris, dated
December 25th, SAYS : "Our stock of
horses is fast diminishing. Eight
hundred are slaughtered daily, two
hundred for the army and six hun
dred for the civil population. Eggs are
4OtO 90 cents each; butter 81 pound;
turkeys and geese SIG to SIS apiece,
and worthless even at that; chickens
So each, and getting very scarce; pig
cons S2 apiece. This morning L gave
l so for one pound of salt beef. Rats
are so cents each. Nearly every res
taurant in Paris is closed, and those
which remain open half vow every
night that they will not open next
morning. Onions, carrots and tdr-
nips are to cents apiece. a pack
ct of soup herbs, which from time i'm
memorial has cost 3 cents, costs now
| from 40 to 50 cents. Everybody has
| been buying string beans put up green
/ in tin cans; although two or three
times the old price was asked for
them they have all disappeared. Peas
and other vegetables prepared in the
same way are quite abundant, but no.
/ body buys them, for we have no means
of cooking them. The calico printers
/ use sizing made of whites of oggs,
dried here during the summer and
/ sent to manufacturing towns. The
siege prevented their transmission
and they are now on sale as an article
/ of food. IntOXicatiOn has been so pre-
/ valent since the commencement Of
/ the siege that the supply of wines and.
| spirits sufficient to last eight months
will be exhausted in four. There are
/ bread panics daily, but are mereyl
/ local; still they are important as indi-
cations Ofincreasing embarrassments.
I While there is wheat enough there is
not flour in sufficient quantity, and
/ the mills are unable TO turn out an
adequate supply. Then there is the
question of fuel for the mills and ba-
] keries, which is daily becoming more
| difficult of solution. Bread is cheaper
/ than oats or barley, and horses and
/ cows are fed on bread. The supply5of
medicines is becoming very low.
There are rumOrs that the govern
/ ment intends to cOnfiscate all of them
/ for the military hospitals. Laun-
dresses refuse to work, for there is no
/ starch, no soap, no hot water, no
means of heating irons. In some
quarters of the towns there is an insult
| ticient supply of water. A great many
wealthy families are obliged to do
their own washing, and dry the linen
/ in the dining room. Wood is now
| five cents n pound dealers require re-
tail buyers to pay for saving and car
| riage home, which makes the cost
eight cents or ten cents pound. l
! lose hours daily hunting for some
! thing to eat. l occasionally get some
| thing which makes me i'll ofnausea for
six or eight hours. More than one
meat pie have bought has made me
| i'll. A physician told me this morn
| ing he advised all his friends to drink
daily wine glass of genuine wine to
counteract general debility. From
want of food in sufficient quantities,
many people will die. II is painful to
| see the wan, pinched, famishing faces
in the ribbons of people stretched in
/ front of the butchers, and especially of
the public kitchens. Istepped off one
this morning as / walked by il and I
found it 2l0 yards long. Some of the !
wretched women had skeleton babies |
sucking. Typhoid and hospital fever
sweep TO the grave a larger number of
persons every day. There have been I
%, 900 deaths in Paris since the siege /
commenced. Smallpox continues its
ravages with scarcely any abatement I
There are many suicides. There is a |
good deal of insanity. There never /
was before so much drunkenness in |
Paris. 1t has large share in the in
creasing mortality"
FAvRE TO GO TO THE CONFERENCE
LONDON, January 23-8 P. Mn. /
Jules Favre will attend the London .
Conference. Count Bismarck having, /
in his capacity of Chancellor and PO- /
litical Chief of the German Empire, I
refused a safe conduct to N. Favre
through the German lines of invest /.
ment surrounding Paris, the latter re- /
newed his application to the military
authorities, who have granted him a
pass so carefully wOrded as to divest .
it of all inferences of a political nature. .
NJ. Favre has probably already left
Paris.
DIsLoDGED.
ARLIN, January 23.-The garrison .
Of LOngwy, in a sOrtie, dislOdged the .
PTussians from Huart and subsequent
ly repulsed an attempt of the latter to .
surpr sc Mont st. Gartin. The losses /
of the besiegers were considerable in .
both cases. The French Notifications .
keep up a vigorous fire and with such
effect that already three Prussian bat
teries have been sileneed.
FRENCH VICTORY.
The following dispatch has been re-
ceived and made public by the public .
by the government here:
DION, Sunday evening.-The .
French repulsed an attack Of the Prus- .
slams to-day along the whole line.
The enemy were pursued, and the pO-
sitsOns held By them at Daix and
Hautyille were seized. The Garibal-
dians entered Dion amid immense
enthusiasm. The Prussians in their
flight abandoned wounded.
THE ARMY OF THE NORTH DIsBAND-
ED.
The French army Of the North isar-
irving at Arras, DOnai and Lille in a
totally disbanded and discouraged con-
dition. The citizens Of Lille are in
dignant against NJ. Gambetta, whom
they charge with deceiving them as
TO the state Of the army and the coun-
try, !