Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1872-10-11
General News Summary,
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before the Alabama Claims Arbitration Tri-
bunal. sailed from Liverpool on the Goth, for
New York,
In recent speech at GLASGOW, Mr.. Lowe,
Chancellor Of the British Exchequer, severe
ly condemned Sir Alexander Cockburn in not
signing the award for damages in the Ala
bama claims, and forpublishing an argument
which opens up the question and renews all
the ill-feeling. He insisted that 1t Is the duty
of England to accept the award loyalty.
Vienna dispatch OF the 2sth says the
health of the exiEmpress Carlotta was Inn
proving.
A Berlin letter says that during the recent
reception in that city of the Imperial party,
eight persons were suffocated and trampled
to death on one night, and fifteen more were
mortally wounded. The mounted police
charged the masses at one time with drawn
sabres,
General Garibaldi, In a letter to the Presi-
dent of the International Peace Congress,
at sugona, Switzerland, alludes to the set
Element of the Alabama Claims controversy
by peaceful means, and heartily approves Of
this sublime idea of solving international
disputes.
Advices from China report that the rice
crop is abundant.
Victor Hugo has been nominated by the
Republicans OF A1giers for member Of the
French Assembly.
Gambetta, in recent speech at Grenoble,
Savoy, criticised the conduct Of Theirs In
prohibiting public celebrations Of the ami
versary of the first Republic. The Govern
ment condemns Gambetta's course, and his
| speeches are considered iudiscreet and Ill
| timed, and as calculated to needlessly agi-
tate the country, which needs repose.
| 1t was reported in Madrid on the 3oth ult.
that the Spanish Government had resolved
to submit to the other European powers the
question of the justice of its claims against
the United States for damages by Cuban tli-
clustering expeditions.
A recent Washington dispatch says that
private advices from Japan report crisis in
public affairs, and indicate the aseendeney
of the old Japan party over the Reformers,
and an end, for the present, of the spread of
| civilization in the Empire. Minister Mori
is to be succeeded by a representative of the
! non-progressives. Horace Capron, who
went from Washington as Commissioner Of
Agriculture to fill the same post in Japan, has
been discharged. Peshine Smith, who went
to organize Law Department there, has
| also been discharged. Information from
Europe represents that the japanese En-
bassy to the Western treaty powers was
stranded in London without funds or author
ity.
Particulars have been received of the burn
ing and sinking in the harbor of Yokohama
| of the steamer America, which accident hap
pened on the Doth of August. Three Ameri-
cans and fifty-nine Chinese, besides some
Japanese, lost their lives. There was
$300,000 in treasure and light freight
on board.
During the past three months, 1900 emf
grants sailed from Liverpool for America.
On the morning of the I'd, a passenger
| train from LONDON rOr edinburgh, while
running at rapid rate of speed to make up
| lost time, came in collision, near Kirtle Bridge,
with freight train, and was badly wrecked.
Eleven persons were killed, and several
| others injured.
A Paris dispatch of the I'd says: "The
departure from Alsace and Lorraine of in
habitants who decline to assume German
citizenship are upon an immense scale. 1t
is estimated that IS, 900 emigrating Alsatians
will take up their reside nee in Nancy alone,
while large numbers will go to other places.
Eighteen thousand persons have left Metz
the last fortnight to seek homes under French
jurisdiction. The population of that city
now numbers only 10000
The Monastery of the Escurial of Spain
was struck by lightning and partially de-
stroyed on the I'd. The fire was confined to
that part of the building in which the library
was located. A large number Of books and
manuscripts we're removed, but in a dam
aged condition.
The Pope, replying to a deputation which
visited him on the anniversary of taking the
plebiscitum in Rome, declared that the tri-
umph of the church would assuredly come,
if not in his lifetime in that of his success.
sors.