Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1872-11-01
General News Summary.
THE OLD WORLD.

A party of tourists recently ascended
Mount Vesuvius, when Messrs. James Will
cox and Francie Lemieur, an American and
a Frenchman, insisted on being lowered
down to cavern which Is formed below the
mouth Of the volcano. The guides complied
with the request, and lowered them with
ropes. After they had been down some
time, and making no response to repeated
evils to them, guide was lowered down to
ascertain what had become Of the adven-
turers. He discovered that there was moth.
ing but q very narrow rock at the mouth of
the cavern, and, as far as any living person
can tell, the unfortunate strangers had been
hurled into the abysses OF Mount Vesuvius.
Sir Rounded Palmer England received
$50, 900 for his services before the Geneva
Tribunal.
The Spanish Cortes has voted In favor Of
considering a resolution providing for the
abolition Of capital punishment for political
offenses.
The King and Queen of Spain visited the
American feet at Lisbon, on the 10th, and
lunched on board the flagship. The next day
Admiral Alden and the Captain Of the
squadron dined at the palace, and were most
cordially entertained by the King and men,
bers Of the royal family.
Senator Sumner visited Gambetta on the
18th. He expressed the warmest sympathy
for the French Republic. Gambetta was
deeply impressed by the interview.
The gallery of a circus at Sheffield, En-
gland, gave way on the night Of the 21st,
while filled with spectators, and was precip-
itated on the heads of those below. 1t is
reported that seventy persons were injured
by the accident and in the panic which en-
sued.
The Rev. Jean Henri Merle d'Aubigne, the
celebrated historian of the Reformation, died
suddenly at Geneva, Switzerland, on the 21st,
in the seventy-third year of his age.
The Royal Geographical Society in Lon
don gave absnquet to Stanley, on the night
OF the 21st. Many of the nobility, and num-
Der of American gentlemen, we're present.
Among the latter were Moran, United States
Charge d. Afdires, and ''Mark Twain" the
humorist. Moran replied to a toast in homer
of the President Of the United States.
A large meeting in favor OF amnesty to
the Fenian prisoners was held in Manches-
ter, England, on the evening of the 22d, at
which Isaac Butt, VI. P, leader of the Irish
home rule party, was the principal speaker.
Mr.. Butt, in the course Of his remarks, said
that Ireland never could welcome Gladstone
to her soil unless amnesty to her sons was
made complete. He also spoke in terms OF
vigorous censure of the treatment accorded
to prisoners, who, he alleged, have suffered
during their confinement gross cruelties at
the hands of their jailors.
Several Japanese ships were wrecked re.
Gently on Formosa, and the crews eaten by
the natives. The King Of Loochoos sent an
embassy to Yeddo for aid to avenge then
death.
The German troops have evacuated
Rheims, and the French garrison marched in
on the oath, amid great rejoicing.
| A Yokohama dispatch OF the I'd says the
authorities had notified foreigners residing
outside the foreign settlements to return AT
once, and japanese were forbidden to lease
their premises. This course was considered
impOlitic and illiberal by the friends of the
| Government.
| Sir John Duke Caleridge, Attorney Gen
eral of Great Britain, recently delivered an
address before the Liberal Association of the
city of Exeter, in the course of which he
| said Of the result of the Geneva Arbitration
that England had got well out Of bad
| business"
Roussel, prominent French Communist
found guilty Of the charges against him, has
been sentenced to death.