Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1873-05-30
General News Summary,
THE OLD WORLD.

The city of Hong Kong, China, was visited
by destructive confagrntion, March %, by
which five thousand people were rendered
homeless. There was also a terrible fire at
Osaka on the Goth of March. Many lives were
lost. 1t ragged all day and night. There were
two violent shocks of earthquake at the same
place on the 18th of March.
A Vienna telegram of the 10Th says hun
dred additional business failures had been
announced in that city, owing to the con-
tiuued stringency in the money market. No
important bank had yet suspended The panic
paralyzed business.
President Theirs has reorganized his Cabinet
by the appointment of NJ. Casimer Perier, Min
lister of the Interior; NJ. Tourton, Minister of
Public Worship; NJ. Beranger, Minister of Pub
lie Works; and NJ Waddngton, Minister of
Public Instruction. The other ministers are
unchanged. 1t is expected that on the meet
ing of the Assembly, NJ. Perier will move the
postponement of all debate on questions Of
general policy until the territory is evacuated
by the Germans. 1t is understood that the
programme of the new Ministry will be to or
ganize a republic by the enactment of conserv-
ative laws, and wholly reject the radical plans.
1t is announced that Don Carlos entered
Navarro on the night of the 14th inst, and
took command of an army numbering 1900
men, with whom he resolved to conquer or
perish. 1t is also stated that Don Carlos has
concluded a loan Of $1,000, 600 reals with an
English banker, and has promised to make Ollo
a Field Marshal and Dorregarry Lieutenant
General.
Snow fell in the north of England on the
18th.
NJ. Louis Buffet has been reelected President
of the French National Assembly, by vote of
359 to 2S9 for his opponent, NJ. Martel.
BY the burning of Prospect Mill, at Halifax,
Eng, four hundred operatives have been
thrown out of employment.
The Shah of Persia arrived at Moscow, Rus.
sia, on the 18th.
The session of the Prusian Diet closed on
the Goth.
News from the Khivan seat of war, via St
Petersburg, goth, says there was no truth in
the report that Khiya had been taken and the
Khan was prisoner. There was much anx-
| iety in St. Petersburg concerning the ultimate
| success of the expedition against Khiva. Two
of the columns had been delayed by heavy
snow storms, and the third, which formed the
| advance, was still obstructed
In the french Assembly on the Slst tnert
was an excited contest over the election OF
| Presidents. NJ. Martel (the avowed sup
porter of President Thiers) was elected Fourth
| Vice-President on the third ballot, by a vote
of $50 to 827. The election of NJ. Martel was
made a test question, the Bonapartists, Legiti
Hists and Oreanists being all combined
| against him.
The garrison Of Savahiya, Spain, surrender
| ed to the attack of the Carlsts under Dor
| Alfonzo, on the 2lst. The dispatch says that
Notwithstanding the promise that the lives OF
| the garrison should be spared sixteen volun
teers first stated at 150) were massacred.
| A telegram from Barcelona, ed, says thai
| General Valarde has issued a proclamation
calling all males between fourteen and sixteer
years Of age into the Republican columns, anC
threatening the infiction of heavy penalties
upon all municipalities attempting to thwar
its operation.
| The Shah of Persia arrived at st. Petersburg
on the 22d, and had brilliant reception.
The Khedive of Egypt arrived at CONSTANT
nople on the 22d.