Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1880-09-17
FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE.

JlOu. Inc proprietor clhlllS luab ne mas eA-
tracted 81 ,060 from ten barrels Of water.
FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE.
BULGARIA will in October declare her
independence.
A TERRIBLE fire swept through the
village Of Upton and surrounding country,
in the Province Of Quebec, on the 9th. Brush
fires had been numerous for some time
and little attention had been paid to
them; but on the 9th the high wind
famed the flames until the inhabit-
ants saw with dismay the wall OF flames com
ing toward them with a steady sweep as fast
as m an could run and swallowing up every
thing In its course The fire ran along rail
fences, burning grain, and the wind sent the
sparks In all direct ons. so quickly was one
farm house after another enveloped that men,
women and children had barely time to es-
cape out of its line until the fire was upon
them. AS night drew on the flames increased
in volume and covered a width of from three
TO four miles House after house and barns
filed with the best crops known for years were
licked up, and when the fugitives were all
counted 1t was found that there were three
persons burned to death and eighteen badly
burned. Some seventy-ive families were
burned out, representing nearly four hundred
and fifty persons.
A BERLIN dispatch of the 9th says
in no case has the Imperial Bank of Germany
in Berlin refused to pay gold for its notes or
checks.
A LONDON dispatch, on the 9th, stated
that fifty-nine men had been rescued from the
Seaham colliery, in which an explosion occur
red on the Sth. One hundred and thirty men
we're yet to be accounted for. The bodies Of
the furnacemen were found at the bottom Of
the shaft quite shrivelled up. Vague hopes
we're entertained that some Of the men may
have escaped to the distant workings, but one
of the agents of the Durham Miners Union,
who had been down, expressed the opinion
that not a man or horse in the lower pit sur
vived the explosion. There were one hundred
and eighty horses in the mine.
THIRTY corpses were recovered from
the Seaham colliery on the 10th. From the
list published it appeared that one hundred
and sixty-two men and boys were missing.
A STRIKE of $4,000 nailmakers of
East Worcestershire and staffordshire, En-
| gland, began on the 10th in opposition TO any
further reduction OF their wages, which they
allege have already been reduced twenty per
cent.
RIGA PAsHA telegraphed to Constan-
tinople on the 10th that the Albanians had
determined to resist the cession Of any of
their territory to Greece.
A ROME dispatch, on the 10th, stated
that a stream OF lava was Issuing from Mt.
Vesuvius near the new roadway to the crater.
Some imprudent visitors had been injured.
THE steamer Thanemore, from Balti-
more for Liverpool, lost $50 head of cattle in
her last trip across.
SOME trouble between England and
France is likely to grow out Of the encroach-
ments of the citizens Of the latter country on
the African coast.
A BRUSSELS paper says it learns from
a reliable source in Berlin that the conferences
between Bismarck and Baron Haymerle re.
suited in the conclusion of an offensive and
defensive alliance between Austria and Ger
many.
DUELING is increasing in the German
army at almost an alarming rate Count
Goltz, of the Captain Generals staff, has been
killed by a brother officer in an encounter al
Fulda.
A TRAIN from Waterloo station, Lon
don, for Hampton Court came in collision
with an engine on the night of the 11th. Foui
persons were killed and thirty wounded.
A DAUGHTER was born to the Queer
of Spain on the 11th.
CONTINUOUS rains and high winds on
the Island of Dominica from August 18th tC
the 10Th put the whole island under waite
and destroyed the crops.
A STONE lighthouse on the west coast
of Java was thrown down by recent earth
quake.
The French expedition which started
up the Niger April f. under Captain Gallini
was attacked near the village of Dis in tn
Barbara country on May IL by a thousand ma
tives After several hours fighting and tn
loss of fourteen killed, eleven wounded snd
all the baggage, Captain Gallini retreated, re-
fitted and started by another route.
A LONDON dispatch on the 18th stated
that the Government Inspector had ofiiciall,
announced his conclusion that the number o
dead at the Seaham colliery is close upon 1866