Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1879-08-22


ings containing cases of fever on the 18th,
and posted guards to prohibit communica-
tion with the inmates.
FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE.
The London Post says the Commission on
Depression of Agricultural Interests will send
commissioners to Canada and the United
States to inquire into food supplies.
At Wieliczka, Austria, in the center Of the
salt mining region Of Gallcia. in consequence
of the violent movement of the waters and
the surface OF the ground, recently, row Of
houses we're split in several places and the
people fled in panic.
A St. Petersburg correspondent states that
in order to colonize the Central Asian prov
inces Russia has promised all her subjects re-
siding therein unlimited land grants and ex-
emption from military service and payment of
taxes.
Russia, it is reported, has formed an alliance
with Persia.
A recent storm in Denmark destroyed over
100 farm houses, killed fifty persons, and did
incalculable damage to crops.
In the recent fire at Seraievo / 1,476 houses
were burned, and forty-six soldiers killed
and wounded.
De Lessep's Panama Canal scheme is be-
lieved to be a failure. or 100000 shares
placed on the market only 10000 had been ap-
piled for up to the 14th.
A Madrid dispatch of the 14th states that
several fires, some incendiary, had occurred
in the provinces, and in one case thirty houses
we're destroyed and thirty-four persons per-
ished.
Constantinople dispatch says the Porte
having made concessions the ServiaD bound
airy question has been settled.
Henry NJ Stanley arrived at Sierra Leone
on the oath of July, and started for the River
Congo.
A conference of miners representing 10000
men was held in Manchester, England, on
the 14th. The President of the conference
stated that there was some opening for miners
in the United States, and a resolution was
unanimously passed in favor Of emigration to
the United States.
A correspondent of St. Petersburg paper,
supposed to be directly connected with the
Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, states
that Germany has abandoned the friendship
of Russia for that of Austria and England.
The ship laborers of the Society of Strocks,
lower part of the city on the 18th, intending
| to proceed to the coves. As they entered
Champlain street, the stronghold of the Ship
Laborers' Society, from which the Strocks
men seeded, battle was begun, and one man
was killed, and twenty-six wounded, more or
less seriously.
disturbance occurred at Lurgan, Ireland,
on the 14th, between a Home Rule procession
and police Many police were wounded by
stones. The police fired upon the mob, kill
ing one and wounding two. The mob subse-
quently wrecked Lord Lurgan's lodges and
the house of a Protestant.
A Vienna dispatch says a person of unde-
niable authority writes, that from the recent
meeting of the Emperors of Germany and
Austria will date the commencement of a clear
and decided policy of Austria in the East,
| aiming at the attainment of a strong foothold
in Turkey.
1t is proposed to hold an international con-
gress at Berlin in May next to perfect uni
form patent law for the adoption by the ma
tions represented in the congress.
Roting continued at Quebec on the 10Th.
An old man was fatally beaten and several
other persons were brutally assaulted. The
Ninth Battalion was called out but they were
found to be in sympathy with the rioters and
they we're disarmed. The estimated loss to
the city by the riot is over $50, 900, exclusive
of the commercial loss which must ensue.
The United States war ship Ticonderoga has
been compelled to leave the west coast of
| Africa on account of sickness among her
crew. She has gone to St. Helena to recruit.
Fifteen persons were killed and thirty-six
wounded by a collision on the Argentan ~
| Granville Railroad in France, on the 18th.
The announcement of the death of Mrs.
Sartoris, daughter Of General Grant, is not
true. The mistake arose from the death of
Mrs. E. T. Sartorls, formerly Adelaide Kem-
! BILE.
At Lurgan, Ireland, on the 16th 200 police
charged on mob with fixed bayonets. The
police were beaten back and twenty of their
number injured. Rival mobs fired at each
other with rifles.
In Derbyshire, Trent, and Dermont all low
| lands were overfiowed on the 18th. The crops
we're badly damaged.
The Egyptian Ministry, formed by Cheerii
Pasha on the accession of the present Khe-
dive, has resigned and another Ministry, COM
posed of various Pashas of whom little is
known, has been formed, the Khediye hold
ing the Presidency of the Council.
A weeks notice of five per cent. reduction
of wages of operatives was posted in most OF
the cotton mills in the Italy Bridge district
England, on the 18TH Two hundred Thousand
spindles we're on short tire, and 100000 ha6
stopped altogether, while 635,OOO were work
| ing full time,