Northern Ohio journal. [volume] (Painesville, Ohio) 1872-1896, 1874-02-14

seem the best in hunger dazed eyes.
Edwin Booth has become bankrupt
and seeks relief from his debts in the |
courts. Among his Indebtedness is that
to the estate of Oakes Ames of 500, 200.
his theatre is what did it, and
probably that will not fetch nearly as
much as 1t cost.
FROM OTHER LANDS.
Cuba.
Captain-General Jovellar, having been
invested with extraordinary power ev-
identity purposes exercising it. The
whole island is proclaimed in a state of
siege, the entire population to be made
available for military purposes, and q
vigorous and rigorous system Of hostil-
tiles against the insurgents to be at once
put in force. The insurrection is to be
stamped out, if the island is devastated
in the process.
On Friday of last week, the session of
Reichstag was opened with speech
from the throne, delivered by the Impe-
rial Commission. The Emperor regrets
that he cannot attend the opening in
person. He intimates as among the prin-
cipal measures to be submitted during
the session are bills relating to the army,
the press, trades unions. and marine ju-
risdiction. The speech concludes with
the assurance that all nations of Europe
are resolved to preserve peace.
spain.
According to Havana letter, the late
Carlist successes in Spain were more
important in their influence on Cuba
than on the mother country. Santaneer,
captured by the Carlists, is one of the
largest ports in Spain. and through it
comes the bulk of the Spanish -four used
in Cuba. The Impression caused by that
capture and the coincident successes of
the Cuban insurgents convinced Cap
tain General Jovellar that 'something
has to be done," and he is ssgoing to do
it or burst.'' The one thing that will
trouble him is money. Spain can send
him noue, for it has all it can do to meet
the cost of its home fighting.
India.
We referred a short time since to the
antfcipations of famine in Eastern In
dia and the efforts making by the au-
thorities to mitigate its horrors by pur-
chasing supplies of rice. Later advice
bring news of the pinch being already
severely felt. Indian famines are not
| infrequent, though not often covering'so
great an extent of territory as is now
threatened, yet in one instance at least
being worse than is now looked for. Old
residents who have studied the subject,
say that famine in India is simply the
result of two or three consecutive sea-
sons of drought, not the accident of a
bad harvest. The Indian ryot, or culti-
vator, lives from hand to mouth, exist
ing in a chronic state of debt to the vii
lage merchant, who makes advances on
his crop to purchase cattle, seeds and
implements, and to pay the taxes. In
ordinary years the cultivator barely
makes both ends meet, but the first bad
season cripples him, a second ruins him
and If the drought is severe and contin-
ues, he and his family starve to death
That appears to be the threatened con.
dition now.
It now seems to be settled that in the
elections which have lately been held
Gladstone has been defeated and the
Liberals placed in the majority. In a
recent issue the Times says that it is nov
evident the country has returned an ad
verse answer to Gladstone's appeal
The elections in Ireland may show un
looked for results, but nothing is likely
to restore the losses of the Liberals il
Great Britain. Disraeli is bound to ac
cept the office if the Cover nment fol
lowing his example in 1868 resign!
without awaiting the reassembling o
Parliament. The Post in an editorial il
similar strain says: tsThe blunders o
the Government are far more than av
erage. Its exercise Of power has bee,
as absolute as it has been indiscreet. 1
is immaterial whether the adverse re
suits of the elections are due to the dis
satisfaction of the country at the past o
the uncertainty regarding the policy o
the Government in the future" Til
Daily Telegraph says the opinion of tn
country has been pronounced and it i
strongly adverse to Mr.. Gladstone. H
will comply with the decision, as he
bound to do, and will follow the consti
tutional precedents set by Peel, Mel
bourne, and others under similar cir
cumstanees. They met Parliamen
with a royal speech and either Resigned
therenpon or submitted to formal defeat
Not only is the field lost, but is lost mos
decisively. The result is to beattribute
t, to Bruce's unpopular Licensing Act, tn
division of the Liberal party on side i:
sues, such as the Education Act, femal
suffrage, the Permissive Bill, etc., dee
and not unnatural displeasure at the vi
olent language against society used b
the supporters of the Workmen's cand
: dates, and lastly the want Of tact an
sympathy shown by several members G
the administration.
The following highly important d.
spatch from Sir Garnet .Wolseley, con
= mander of the Ashantee expedition, W;
:. received to-day by the Secretary I
u State for War:
"All the white prisoners held by ii
Ashantces have been delivered to me-
: The King accepts my terms. for the ce
sation OF hostilities, which he asked, al
= has agreed TO pay an indemnity of 5000
9 900. we halt for few days 30 mil,
It from Coomassie."