Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1871-08-11
General News Summary
THE OLD WORLD.

A Paris dispatch of the Goth ult says :
Americans visiting Europe must bring
passports, especially naturalized citizens,
as the latter cannot get them here without
showing the proper papers"
The death, at London, of John Slidell,
formerly Confederate Minister to France,
is announced.
A London telegram of the Both ult. says
Russell Guerney, having been appointed
Commissioner of the British Government
for the settlement of the Alabama claims
under the Treaty of Washington, would
shortly sail for America.
The Halifax correspondent Of the To
ronto Telegraph says: "The fishery clause
in the Washington treaty has become quite
popular in the Provinces. Fishermen and
merchants are quite satisfied with it, No
opposition to the treaty can prove popular
here"
The result of the first and supple
mentary elections for members of the
Municipal Council of Paris has been de-
clared. The Council is composed of 3S
Conservatives, moderate Republicans, 27
Republicans, and 10 ultras.
The British Parliament, on the 31st ult,
voted an allowance of el5000 per annum
to Prince Arthur. At the same time a
vote of censure of the Queens message
abolishing the purchase system in the
army, as an unworthy Ministerial resort,
was voted down in the House of Lords by
a majority of eighty.
A meeting was held in London on the
evening of the 3lst ult. to protest against
the granting of an annuity to Prince
Arthur Five thousand people were pres
ent. Some fighting occurred, and arrests
were made, and the meeting adjourned in
disorder, the crowds being dispersed by
the police.
The Prince of Wales and party arrived
in Dublin on the evening of the 31st ult.,
and had popular reception.
A London telegram of the 3lst ult. says :;
"The Persian Minister denies explicitly
the reports which have been received re-
Gently of the ravages committed by the
famine, plague and cholera in Persia lie
says there is undoubtedly lamentable
scarcity of food among the poor classes,
and that they are fed at the expense ofthe
government in the cemeteries, because
there is in them alone sufficient room to
accommodate the crowds of people who
appeal 10 the government for subsistence
Order is preserved in the cemeteries by
the police, and from this fact has arisen
the story that force has to be employed for
the prevention of the disin crment of the
dead for use as food The Minister ex-
presses the opinion that all the horrible
stories emanating from his country are the
work of commercial agents"
Late dispa ches bring intelligence of the
spread of the cholera in Russia, where it
has been raging for the past two years
Already it has begun its westward march,
has invaded Germany, and is now run
ming a rapid course in the Baltic ports. A
sanitary Gordon has been drawn along the
borders of Prussia, but still the pestilence
pcnetrates it, and threatens to spread into
Poland, Hungary and Prussia, and even
England and France are alarmed.
A dispatch dated Rome, July 81, says
"There is great excitement here over the
vote in the French Assembly ON the posi-
ton of the Pope. The journals regard
war with France as probable, and accuse
the Ministry of betraying the country.
The Gazette says the government should
not have gone to Rome, but having gone,
must stay, though dark clouds should en-
velope the political horizon"
The appointment of Mr. T. Wade as
successor to Sir Rutherford Alcock, as
British Minister to China, is announced
A London special of the I'd says:
"Papers have been seized at Marseilies
relating 10 the purpose of the lnterna-
tionalists to fire the docks, burn the ship
ping, and to take the city during the con,
fusion which was expected in consequence
of the confagrations. Nancy and Bourges
were to be fired and taken on the same
plan"
Quertier, the French Minister of Fl
nance, on the 2d completed the payment
of another installment of 500,000,0 ,000f of
the German indemnity. The German Ar,
my of Occupation had been reduced to
10000.
1t is now announced that trains for the
transportation of passengers and freight
will commence to run through Mont
Gents Tunnel on September 10, when
he for ,.a1 IL u, fNff a
road
The Paris 06iciel Journal of the 3D. an
nOunces the appointment of Count de
Resmusat as Minister of Foreign Affairs in
place of Jules Favre, resigned.
A London dispatch of the Sd says the
British Charge d Afdires at Teheran had
telegraphed to the Foreign Office that the
famine in Persia was over, but provisions
were selling at exorbitant prices.
a dispatch. from Frankfort,on the
Main, Germany, on the Sd, states that a
recent sale of s9,O0O,0OO of bonds Of the
Rockford & st. Louis Railroad, to capital
lists in that city, has been discovered to be
a swindle.
hdlohdl bAdChunOu lCpoilo tuO Jptdl
casualties to the Versailles forces during
the second siege of Paris to have been 75,-
142
The moderate Republieansof of the French
National Assembly, who are largely in the
majority, have voted to make M. Theirs
President of the Republic for three years,
and also to appoint Vice President, and
against interference with the Pope's affairs
in Rome.
The official journal of the 4th promul-
gated law which recently passed the
Spanish Cortes, authorizing the Govern
ment to grant general amnesty for political
offenses.
A London dispatch of the 4th says the
weather throughout England continued
fair and favorable to the crops.