Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1871-06-30
Weekly News Summary.
THE OLD WORLD.

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bilee in Brussels, on the 1Sth violent anti
Papal demonstrations were made by large
crowds, who passed through the streets
and smashed the illuminated windows.
Reliable information has reached Wash
ington that the French Government has
appointed Jules Ferry Minister to Wash
ington, in place of M. Treilhard, who will
return TO France.
The railway from Stockholm to Chris
tiana in Sweden, was opened on the 10th.
A Paris dispatch of the evening of the
10Th says $500 women convicted of set
ting fire, or attempting to set fire TO build
ings in Paris, had been sentenced to trans
portation TO New Caledonia.
Late Indian mails mention an earth
qUaiEs Sas; Idonth ON the Island of Bing-
tang, in the Dutch city of RHO, an active
trading post with population of 10000.
There was great destruction of property,
involving millions of dollars, and fully 500
persons perished. RHO is fly miles from
Singapore.
Concerning the terrible famine in Per
sia, correspondent writing to the Turk
ISL JourRdL from Tabreez, says:
"The details which reach us of the des-
titution and misery which the drouth of
last year has caused in the central and
southern provinces of Persia are fearfully
heart-rending. That the people are dying
of hunger, even in the streets of the cap
ital, is minor phase of this terrible ca
lamity. In Khorassan parents are selling
ti..tp pn1,s
To keep them alive, and in Ispahan men
have been seized in the act of digging up
the corpses TO serve rs food for the starv-
ing families. In Shiraz, Kehman, and
Hezo the wretched sufferers endeavor to
live on grass and roots which they find in
the neighborhood. Pestilence follows
hard on the footsteps of famine. and be-
tween them half of the kingdom of Per
siais DGc6nung rapidly depopulated.
A Rome dispatch of the 18th says plot
for the assassination of the Pope had been
discovered 1t was concocted in London,
Florence, and Paris by members of the
International Society. The assassination
was planned to take place on the 18th.
In the French Assembly, On the goth,
nj. Theirs made statement of the finan-
cial condition of the country. He said the
German war had cost France three mil
lizards of francs. The deficit of the fiscal
year 1901 reached 1851 100000 francs,
but of this amount the Bank of France
had advanced to the government 1, $3.50, ,0OO,-
GOO francs, so that the immediate deficiency
for the year was reduced to 301 100000
francs; but to this must be added 436, ,000,.
coo francs for expenses since incurred in
suppressing the insurrection in Paris The
total deficit of 737,000000 francs Theirs
proposed to meet By imposing new taxes.
The situation, he said, was difficult but
not disastrous.
A SPECIAL dispatch 10 the London Daily
Ne,os OF the Goth says that instructions
had been given from Berlin to stop the re.
Turn of German troops from France, and
prisoners.
The French loan is popular in Berlin,
and arrangements have been made for
taking large portion of it by German
capitalists.
Alexander Dumas has received Il letter
from Theirs congratulating him on an ar
ticle lately written by him (Dumas) for
the Press in favor of the continuance of
the Republic.
The census of England, Wales and Ire
land is completed. The population of
England and Wales is officially stated at
about 22,70O000, and that of Ireland at
about 100000
The London Post of the 22d says
"There is an understanding between the
governments of Germany, Austria and
Russia, for the preservation of the peace
Of Europe"
A terrible accident occurred on the 22d,
on the Leipsic line of railway, to train
conveying Pomeranian troops from
France. -Four cars were thrown from the
track, and two officers and twenty-one
privates killed, and one officer and forty
privates injured.
Advices from st. Thomas TO June II
states that ON June troops Of Baez, num-
bering from 1900 to 1900, had attacked
about an equal number of Cabral's forces,
at San Juan. The latter were defeated
with heavy loss, including two cannon
captured. General Saint Clair killed, and
eighteen prisoners and their camp equipage
taken. When Cabral saw il was necessary
for him to retreat, he ordered powder
magazine to be fired, which was done.
Nearly the whole town Of San Juan, &C.
cording to the report, was destroyed.