Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1879-12-12
FOREIGN TNTELLTGENCE.


pounds of produce, valued at s23,OOO,O 900 was
sold at Chicago.
FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE.
The sentence of death, passed by military
court upon the Nlhilist Mrsky, convicted of
attempting the assassination of General
DTentlln, has been commuted to hard labor
in the Siberian mines for an indefinite period.
Hereafter sheep exported from the United
States to England will not be required to be
slaughtered at the place of landing the re-
striction in consequence Of foot and mouth
disease having been removed.
The Chemnitz (Saxony) Tdgeblaa states
that an explosion OF ire-damp occurred in a
mine in that district on the 1st, and from
| seventy to eighty persons were reported
killed. The recovery of the corpses Of vic
tins was actively proceeding.
The official account OF the attempt to de.
stroy the Imperial train on the night of the
LIST states that an explosion occurred as the
baggage train was entering the Rogosh quar-
ter of Moscow. The train was thrown off the
rails, and one baggage van was overturned
and two passenger carriages thrown right
across the line. The explosion caused
gap in the permanent roadway
teen feet long aud eighteen feet broad.
Two railway officials who were in the imme-
diate vicinity, were badly injured. The bag
gage train was dispatched half an hour before
the train carrying the Car, but by fortunate
chance, the Czar's train overlook it, passed
and left it some distance behind. The perpe-
traitors doubtless thought the Car was in the
! second train. In the court yard of an empty
hAn 1aI A1A
some wires were discovered connected
with battery placed in an out
house, from which passing trains could
easily be seen. The house was bought in Sep
tember by young man who stated that he
was citizen of samara. He had been OBJ
served digging in his cellar by his neighbors,
but disarmed suspicion by declaring that his
reason for doing so was to obtain sand. From
this cellar was dug passage way, in which
train Of powder was laid connecting with
mine under the railway. More wires were
| found behind the wall paper. 1t is supposed
several persons were engaged in the work.
The rinderpest in Russian Poland, contin-
ues to gain ground.
There is a serious famine in Upper SIlesia,
Prussia. Many of the inhabitants are starV-
| ing.
Thomas BagleY Potter, NJ. P, recently re-
turned to England from America, speaks en-
Enthusiastically of the progress and prospects
of the United States and Of the solidity of
the Republican institutions of the country.
The st. Petersburg GolOS was suspended be-
cause it published articles denouncing the
dishonesty and barbarism of the Communal
! authorities, and declaring that widespread
misery and poverty existed throughout the
interior provinces.
An uprising has taken place in the Rodope
| Mountain district.
| A telegram was received at Valparaiso on
the 4th confirming the previous report OF the
disaster to the Chilian forces near Loa, at the
mouth of the river of the same name, on the
boundary between Peru and Bolivia. After a
stubborn fight 800 Chilians surrendered to
the allies, with all their cannon and ammuni-
tion.
The Spanish Government has decided to
dispatch several small war vessels to Cuba
The Cabinet have approved the report of the
Senate Committee on the bill for the abolition
of slavery on the island.
Accounts from Egypt state that the Govern
ment is completing preparations for war with
Abyssinia.
The Russian fortresses in Poland have been
greatly strengthened.
storm wave swept over Monkishkal ISL
and, in the Bay of Bengal, recently, and sew
eral hundred persons were drowned.
Berlin correspondent estimates that $50,
600 persons are suffering from famine In Up
per Silesia, mostly Poles.
The Wesleyan Chapel in London, founded
by John Wesley, was nearly burned down on
the 9TH.
Pesth Hungary, dispatch, on the 7th,
reported that the Koros River had risen rap
idly in consequence of severe snow storms
and had inundated the city of Crusswordein
Many houses were destroyed and thousands
of persons were left homeless Neighboring
villages were threatened with destruction.
Queen Victoria received the officers and
men who distinguished themselves in Lhe
Zulu war, at Windsor Castle on the sth and
conferred the Victoria cross and other deco
rations on one corporal and three privates.
A late Yokohama dispatch says considera-
BILE changes are being made in the Japanese
Ministry. The Government, following Gem
eral Grants advice, is determined to thwart
the wishes of meddlesome agents who are at
tempting to create trouble with China. The
Government is determined to maintain peace
unless absolutely forced to hostility.
Cairo, Egypt dispatch of the Sth states
that information from Massonah represents
that King John of Abysslnla declares that
European Intervention will not prevent him
from enforcing his just claims, and that he
was then marching with the main body OF his
army to occupy the districts of Seminar and
Golabat in the Blue Nile Territory.