Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1873-09-26
General News summary,
THE OLD WORLD.

According to Madrid telegram OF the 10Th
the situation there and throughout the coun
try was improving. The Government is sait
TO be capable of putting $4,000 effective mel
| in the field. The command of the Army o
the North had been confided to General SEQ
bala. General Furon will enter upon q vigor
Gus campaign in Catalonia with 10000 men
The resources of the Northern provinces ha(
been exhausted by war and the exactions o.
the Carists. The Carlists keep TO the noun
tans. Being without cavalry they do not dar,
to descend to the plains In any considerable
number.
An expiess train which left Vittoria, Spain
on the morning Of the 18th, for Madrid, while
going at full speed ran of the track. The
cars were badly wrecked, and seventeen per
sons were killed and seventy wounded
Scarcely person on the train escaped unin
jured.
dispatch has been received at the Admi
rally Office in London, from the commander
of the British steam-sloop Daphne, an
nouncing the capture, in the Indian
Ocean, near the Zychelle Islands, of q
slave ship, upon which there had been horrible
suffering. The smallpox had ragged in the
ship, aud out of 800 slaves taken on board 25C
had died. The remaining fifty were terribly
emaciated from disease and want.
The walls of building in Stonehouse,
Devonshire, England, fell, ON the 18th, killing
eight persons aud injuring several Others.
A dispatch from Havre announces the
death, near that city, of the Duke de Riaus-
ores, the husband of Queen Christine of
Spain.
Dispatches from Australia report a great
fire in Auckland New Zealand, by which for
ty-eight buildings were destroyed. Loss,
100000.
A special dispatch from Madrid says the
bombardment of Cartagena had recommended.
The insurgents were actively engaged Ia
mounting their guns, made frequent sortes
out, and captured cattle with impunity. The
Pampelunia authorities had levied tax on
clergymen and Others suspected of fayorng
the Carlists.
Areport was current in London, on the 10th,
that further changes would be made in the
British Cabinet.
Serious riots occurred at Tralee, Ireland, on
the 10TH and several houses were gutted The
police were obliged to charge on the mob with
fixed bayonets.
The evacuation of France by the German
army Of occupation was completed at $50
a. IN. on the 10Th.
A recent storm on the Black Sea caused the
loss of seventy vessels south of the Bosphorus
AT one point PCS dead bodies had been washed
ashore.
According to a Berlin dispatch of the 10th
addresses signed by large numbers of the
Catholic clergy Of the United States had been
received by the German priests, approving of
their attitude in opposition to the Prussian
Government,
A dispatch from Ftankfort-on- the Main, OF
the 18th, says that Carlist bonds are quoted in
that market.
A Madrid dispatch of the nth says that the
insurgent frigates have sailed from Cartegena
for Agujlas, thirty-seven miles distant, to col
lect provisions. The latter town is faithful to
the National Government, and will resist any
attempt to levy contributions. The Brltish
Admiral is there, aud promised the Govern
ment that he will prevent the insurgent fleet
from bombarding the town. There was
serious riot on the 10th in Ecija, provoked by
Iutransigentes. Many persons were injured
and killed. The municipal election in Malaga
on the 10th was attended with disorder and
boodshed. There was fighting at several of
the polling places, and rioting continued late
into the night.
Mr.. Starnes, the English traveller, reached
Paris from Central Africa on the 18th. He
reports that he met DR.. Livingstone on the lst
of July, at which time he was in perfect
health.
Chief Justice Cockburn, at the close of the
hearing in the Tichborne case on the 18th, said
that if the claimant resumed his travels
through the country representing himself as a
martyr, il would be the duty Of the court TO
put stop to the scandal by committing him
to Jail. Every judge and juryman connected
with the case had beeu threatened with assassi-
nation if verdict against the defendant should
be brought in. The Chief Justice warned the
claimant that If he made another speech or
appeal before the public he would surely be
imprisoned. New revelations are made every
day of the trial, and public interest in the case
increases.
The British Board of Admiralty have received
information that boats belonging to the navy
have been attacked by pirates near Penang
and two of their officers wounded, The man
of-war Thala had been dispatched to the scene
of the outrage with orders TO chastise the
pirates.
The Cologne Gazette of the 18th says that
cholera is raging with great violence In Hun
gary, and that the percentage of deaths is un-
usually large.
King Lunalilo, of the Sandwich Islands, is
seriously Ill.