Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1879-11-28
FOREIGN INTELLIGENCR.

London dispatch of the 18th says the
former Confederate cruiser Shenandoah sunk
off the island of Socotra, in the Indian Ocean.
The date of the disaster is unknown. Most
OF the crew were drowned. The Shenandoah
belonged TO the Sultun of Zanzibar.
The st. Petersburg No0re Vremya, discuss
ing the prospect of war says; " Neither the
Russian people nor the Russian Government
wish for war because the bad financial state
| of the Empire enioins peace, but every day
and every hour the conviction deepens that
| great struggle is soon to break out"
telegram from Madrid asserts that Gen.
Martinez Campos will resign the Premiership
and will be sent to Cuba with $1,000 men to
pacify the island.
The Sultan has appointed Baker Pasha to
| supertntend the introduction of reforms
throughout the whole of Asia Minor.
A Rome telegram confirms the statement
that an agreement has been reached between
Germany and the Vatican.
The cattle plague has violently broken out
at Posen and in the Warsaw (Poland) district.
! Michael Davitt, James Bryce Killen aud
James DAILY were arrested at Dublin on the
18th charged with having used language in
| public speeches calculated to iucite a breach
of the peace. The Central News Agency says
seventeen warrants were issued for the arrest
of other persons charged with seditious con-
duct, including several clergymen.
| A Berlin dispatch says the state of siege
which has existed there for year will be re-
newed on the 2Sth inst. for another year, as
the Government does not think the Social
Democracy has been uprooted.
Herr Won Schelling, Under Secretary of the
Prussian Ministry OF Justice, has been APP
pointed Imperial Secretary of the Department
of Justice.
At meeting at Dublin on the night of the
2lst to denounce the arrests of DAILY, Davit
and Killen, Charles Stewart Parnell, member
of Parliament, accused the Government of en-
trapping Irishmen by means of paid spies. He
| advised Irishmen to be calm, because IL they
attempted to emulate the Government in ille-
gal action or violence or disorder, then they
would be doing what the butcher and destroy
er of the poor Afghan aud Zulu desires them
to do. He said no earthly power could ever
succeed against the united and determined
efforts of Irishmen. In their struggle for the
soil the Irishmen would show Lord Beacons-
field that they knew how to win battle, and
though they played against man who had
loaded dice their cause was the strongest. He
said the land system was already tottering to
its fall.
Sixty-fve farmers and their families, bound
for Texas sailed from Liverpool on the 2lst
A sensation in Hong Kong was caused by
quarrel between Mosby and Governor Hen
messy. The latter official was deslrous of
obtaining full official information concern
ing the opium traffic between Hong Kong
and Macao In order 10 check the noto-
rious illegal practices, and applied to Mosby
for copies of the United States records of
shipments, etc. The Governor alleges that
the request was made for the public good and
with perfect courtesy, having been preferred
to other foreign Consuls and all willingly re-
sponded. MosbY alleges that the request inn
piled claim of right to inspect Consular doc
uments, which he was bound to resent.
American citizens regret that the United
States Consul has broken relations with the
Governor, who had previously shown him
great attention and consideration. The actual
merits of the question are undetermined.
The Countess De Montijo, mother of Ex-
Empress Eugenie, died at Madrid on the 23d.
Spanish dispatches from Cape Town, South
Africa, report that the attitude of the Beers
is very threatening.
The widow of Charles Dickens died at her
residence in Gloucester, Crescent Regents
Park, England, or the 22d.
Pisangua Peru, was captured by the Chilian
feet or she ID, after severe fight
San Domingo advices to the Sth inst, re-
)ort that the revolutionists were besieging
the capital. The cause of Guillermo, Presi-
dc Mt OF the Republic, is considered lost.
Three vessels were wrecked at Guirpon,
Labrador, on the 4th inst The three craft
had on board 12S individuals, meu, women
and children, but only one person was
drowned.