Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1880-01-30

William McClain, q printer, who were sleep
ing In the Office perished in the flames.
Fifteen Texas COW boys entered Los Vegas,
Col, on the 22d, and killed the City Marshal
and two citizens and wounded five others.
The Nebraska Board of Horticulture re-
pudiate the report OF the Congre sslonal Com
mittee in favor Of Withdrawing all lands west
Of the Tooth meridian, amounting in the ag-
gregate to 100,000,00O acres, from homestead
settlement as unfit for farming, saying It is
untrue and an injury to the State. Farms
have already been successfully cultivated one
hundred miles west OF that liue.
Charles Stewart Parnell and John Dillon,
the Irish agitators, addressed an immense
audience at Cleveland on the night of the
24th. The receipts of the meeting were over
$1,000.
During last year not death by explosion
occurred on the Mississippi River, thing un-
precedented in the history of its navigation.
FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE.
The appeal of the Mansion Committee at
Dublin to the people Of the United States
says that the distress in Ireland is of an acute
and exceptionable character, certain to in
volve actual starvation II extra means of aid
be not promptly and literally forthcoming.
Jules Favre, the eminent Froneh etates-
man, died at Versailles on the 18th, aged sew
enty-one.
A terrible explosion occurred in a colliery
at New wCastle-upon-Tyne, England, on the
2lst. There were seventy-seven persons in
the pit, all but six of whom were believed to
have been killed. A fire in the pit hindered
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hopes OF more victims being rescued alive.
A Panama dispatch of the 21st states that
violent shocks of earthquake were reported
in Salvador In La Libertad, on the night of
the 1st, the earth seemed to be dancing. Per-
sons in the streets were thrown down, and
many buildings suffered. 1t was generally ap-
pretended that San Salvador had been leveled
to the ground. Many business men kept
their animals saddled, prepared for fight.
The Lake of llopango was in motion like
boiling cauldron, emitting dense sulphurous
vapors.
In consequence of public opposition to the
levying of tax of twenty reis per passenger
on street car traffic, at Rio Janeiro, mob
on the 2lst, destroyed the cars and
tracks Of the company, attacked the con-
ductors and stoned and fired at the troops.
The latter charged on and dispersed the mob.
Three persons were killed and twenty
wounded, including some soldiers and police
men. Order was finally restored and railway
traffic resumed.
Lima, Peru, adyices state that a revolt of
negroes recently took place in the department
OF Chincha, which was followed by some hor-
rible butcheries. The band, variously esti-
mated at from 300 to 600, attacked the town
of Chincha and were repulsed by the people
with loss in killed and captured.
De Lesseps arrived at Panama on the 30th
of December.
A London dispatch, on the 22d, stated that
over fifty bodies were taken from the Lycett
colliery at Newcastle upon-Tyne, where the
explosion occurred Cd the 2lst. OF twelve
persons who got out alive, five had died. and
others we're dying.
Minister Layard, at Constautinople, says
help is urgently needed in Mosul, where peo-
pie have been obliged to sell their children to
procure food.
Matters at Cabul are reported to be very uu-
settled and an outbreak is anticipated as soon
as the snow melts. Mohamed Jan, who is
very popular among the Afghans, is actively
preparing for another uprising.
The bill to abolish slavery in Cuba has
passed the Spanish Senate and will be sent to
Havana before April to be carried out.
Odessa, Russia, is believed to be completely
undermined by the Nihilists, and commits
sion has been appointed to make an inves-
tigation underneath the town.
The Canea Valley, in Central America, was
recently inundated by the overflow of a river,
and villages, crops, cattle, horses and other
property, were swept away. Some lives were
lost. The losses are estimated at 8 zoo, ,000.
General Grant and party arrived at Havana
on the 22d.
Severe shocks of earthquake were felt in
Havana on the night of the 22d. No person
was injured and no damage done to property.
The Lord Mayor of Dublin issued an appeal
on the 25th, in behalf of the Mansion House
Relief Committee, stating that there 1;
scarcely a county in ireland in which terrible
privation does not exist in some portion.
The civil marriage ceremony between Gen
eral Garibaldi and Donna Francisco was per
formed at Caprera on the 26th. The General
at the same time recognized his two children
Manlio and Clelia.
On the twenty-ffth anniversary of the
Czar's ascension to the Imperial throne of
Russia, the Prince of Wales and German
Princes related to the Emperor, will visit st
| Petersburg with their numerous suites.
The monster Italian double-turretted iron
clad Duilio, the most powerful war vessel IL
the world in trial ON the.24th, gave fourteen
miles per hour, working six-sevenths OF hel
full capacity. She has powerful ram and {
stern torpedo boat.