Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1872-08-30
General News Summary,
THE OLD WORLD.

The st. Petersburg and Florence Geograph-
ical Societies have each sent to Stanley, the
African traveller, gold medal. Stanley says
the cost Of hi expedition has been over $780,
000
Recent London dispatches give accounts OF
riots in Belfast, Ireland. On the 18th there
were several collisions between Protestant
and Catholic professions, during which a
large number were injured. The entire cit,
was In an uproar, and disturbances were only
quelled by the most active exertions of the
police. Many rioters had been arrested.
Two schoolmasters and guide assembled
to the Rothal Glacier, in the Bernese Alps,
Switzerland, on the 14th. The extreme heat
Of the day loosened large mass of ice,
which descended and crushed to death the
guide, Biscbotf, and one of the schoolmas-
ters The other escaped, though severely
injured
The Sydney (Australia) News says that in
tasmania land slide OF five hundred acres
had stopped the course Of the river Devon,
causing an overflow, and devastating large
section of the surrounding country, which
Is the richest in the colony.
A dispatch from Geneva on the 18th says
the supplementary arguments of American
counsel before the Board of Arbitration were
published in pamphlet form. The argument
Of Mr.. Evarts covers hundred pages, while
those of Messrs. Gushing and Waite are less
extended.
At banquet given in Brighton, England,
on the 18th, Mr.. Stanley, while responding
to toast, thought he heard expressions of
incredu1ity from some of the guests as to
n. s..t.. IT..
ly retorted, withdrew in indignation from
the table, and subsequently left Brighton.
General Sherman arrived in Edinburgh,
Scotland, on the nth.
The riots in Belfast, Ireland, continued on
the 18th, four persons being killed in the
streets on that day. On the 10Th shots con-
tinued to be exchanged In the streets, and
martial law would probably be declared. Sc
rious disturbances had also occurred in Ul-
ster
A Dublin Qreland) dispatch states that the
iourneymen bakers of that city were on n
strike for higher wages, in consequence of
which large numbers of the inhabitants were
deprived of bread and in a suffering condi-
ton. Intense excitement prevailed, and
hundreds OF women were in the streets in
clined to riot, and pouring imprecatlons
.'non the leads of the master bakers. At
he shops were feared.
-~tinued all day on
the 10Th, the fighting being kept up -
Gus quarters. Business in the city was en-
trely suspended. The authorities surren-
dered the city into the hands of the military
on the Goth, and comparative quiet was re-
stored. During the outbreak several ware
houses were attacked by mobs, much dam
age resulting therefrom. Many private
houses were completely gutted and their
owners were in mortal fear of their lives.
The number of the killed and wounded was
not known on the Goth.
Correspondence from Alexandria, Egypt,
received in Lendon on the 2lst says the in
Vestigation into the recent shooting affair
there had been concluded, but no verdict
had been rendered on account of the alb
sence of Consul-General Butler. The evil
dence taken by the Commission of Investi-
CATION bears strongly against Butler.
The religious troubles in Belfast, ireland,
which were supposed for a time to have
died out, recommended on the 2lst, with
greater fury than ever. School houses were
destroyed, and it was with the utmost diff
Guilty that some of the churches were saved
from sharing the same fate. The authorities
were almost powerless, although supported
by military force numbering five thousand
men.
A London dispatch of the 22d announces
the failure of Gladstone & Co., large East
India and China merchants. Their liabilities
are stated at a2,000, ,0O0
There were further disturbances In Belfast
on the ED. The military continued to oc-
cupy the streets, and stringent regulations
were in force.
The bakers strike in Dublin has come to
an end, and peace and order have been re-
stored.