Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1879-05-16

published abroad aboutth state of affairs there
is untrue. There has been no prohibition
against the possessions Of arms, but persons
possessing arms must inform the authorities.
All traffic is entirely free ard unmpeded.
The first naval encounter Of the Chillan and
Peruvian forces took place April IL off the
mouth OF the river Loa, between the Peruvian
wooden corvettes Union and Pilcomayo and
the Chilian steam sloop Magallanes. The en-
gagement lasted over two hours. No men
tion is made OF casualties.
Private accounts from Russia represent the
situation all over that country as beyond de-
scription, and that the tendency OF the So
called repressive measures is toward revolu-
tiOn rather than peace, as the present annoy
ances and outrageous oppression Of all classes
of population are rapidly spreading feeling
that anything is preferable to the existing
state of affairs.
An emlssary OF the Khedive at CONSTANT.
nople states that a.compromise has been eff
fected between the Khediyc and England and
France.
On account Of the trichna worm having
been discovered in swine shipped from Phila-
dclphia the English Council have decided to
issue an order that after June lst all swine
shipped from the United States to that coun-
try must be slaughtered at the port OF landing
The great Cheshire stakes, on the Sth, were
won by Parole.
Spotted typhus fever has broken out at
Atrachan.
The Russian evacuation Of Eastern Rourne-
Tia is likely to be completed by the Sd Of July.
The st. Petersburg Golos states that the first
party of 300 out of 1000 arrested in Moscow
during the winter have started for Siberia.
Nine thousand persons arrested in other
towns will be sent to Siberia during the sum
mer.
A Lahore dispatch says Yakoob Khan has
accepted all the British proposals.
The Metropolitan Board of Works at Lon
don after recent experiment on the Thames
embankment find that electricity costs two
and quarter pence an hour per lamp more
than the best gas giving equal light. The re-
port declares that the defects connected with
| electric lighting must prevent its general
adoption.
A semi-ofIlcial statement has been made
denying'the rumor again revived of the Czar's
intended abdcation.
The order of the British CouucH requiring
swine from the United States to be slaughter
ed at the port of landing after the 1st of June
is not in consequence of trichinae but of
typhus.
On a recent trip of the steamer De Ruyter
| from New York to Antwerp, she lost her deck
! load Of cattle and was obliged to throw over
board one hundred and twenty tons of cargo
owing to heavy weather.
Late Cape Town adyices state that brother
of King Cetywayo, with a few followers, had
surrendered to the British.
The Khedive still refuses to appoint Eu-
/ ropean Ministers, but offers to appoint Eu-
ropeans to assist the Governors of Provinces.
Mohammedans in Adrianople on the 10th
were plundering shops on account of hunger.
AT Carleton Junction, Canada, on the
10th, an excursion train, which had been
switched on a side track, was run into by q
Grand Trunk engine, the switch having been
left open. The engine and one car of the ex-
cursion train was wrecked. Five persons
were seriously and several Others more or less
| injured.
Fifteen farm hcusesi near Parma, Italy
have been destroyed by a landslide.
The death of the African explorer, Marqui:
of Antinore, is officially denied.
The principal part OF the Russian town OF
Irbit, at the confluence OF the Irbit and
Nerva Rivers, has been destroyed by fire.