Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1880-05-28
FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE.

FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE.
THE Russian Government contemplates send
ing five war vessels to the Pacific.
The Turkish Grand Nizier insists upon i'm
mediate adoption of measures for preventing
the threatened conflict between Albanians and
Montenegrins. Disturbances have occurred
at Siros, in the villayct of Salonca, and martial
law has been proclaimed.
RUSSIAN authorities have decided to check
all emigration to America and have arrested
several cmigrant agents.
THE Rev. B. Larabee the well-known Amer
lean missionary at Oroomiah, North Persia,
where the famine chiefly prevails, hiss written
letter stating that the people there are living
largely on scanty roots. Reports from the
mountains of HISTORIANS are equally distress
ing
THE report telegraphed from London recent.
ly that George Eliot, the noted authOrcss, had
married a Mr.. Cross, is contradicted. The
person who has married NJ. Cross is Mrs. G..
II. Lewes, the legal widow of the philosopher,
whose separation from him took place many
years ago.
A CoNsTANTINoPLE dispatch says after the
return Of Maynard, the American Minister to
Constantinople Sarvas Pasha renewed his
protest against the Jurisdiction which May
nard had assumed through orders from Wash
ingtoH. Maynard has gone TO Alexandria to
try another American accused of numbering
an Egyptian.
MEXICO has only 5s5 miles of railway in op
Grafton.
, An Englishman named Burness and two
ladies while walking in the suburbs at Con-
s.antinople, on the 18th, we're attacked by
| three Musselman robbers armed with knives.
Burness was severely wounded. Two of the
assaiants were arrested and will be court-mar-
tialcd.
A ROME telegram says that many Jesuits
will go TO America when the DEGREES against
! them are enforced. -,.---.-..
A PEsTn dispatch says the famine in North
| Hungary is increasing. Fourteen hundred
persons at szinna, Comitat and Zemp-
| lin have no other food but grass, nettles
and mushrooms. Troops Of emigrants are
| leaving the country.
THERE is a serious drought in Jamaica.
Water is so scarce that it is sold for six cents
a gallon. Stock of all kinds arc dying for
want of water.
! THE Russian Tekke-Turcoman expedition
has been postponed until August.
+ a CoNsTANTINoPLE dispatch says fifty bri-
/
captured and their prisoners rescued
The Archbishop of Quebec has issued pas
toral letter against trade unions, threatening
to excommunicate any Catholic who attacks
or CONSUMES against persons willing to work.
TIE British Parliament reassembled
on the Goth. The Queens speech referred to
the cordial relations with all the powers and
hoped for speedy execution of the whole
Treaty of Berlin.
THIRTEEN of the men who wrecked a
passenger train il Spain last year have been
sentenced to death and thirteen to twenty
! years imprisonment.
A HALIFAX dispatch, on the 21st,
stated that immense fields of ice extended from
the west coast of Newfoundland to Cape Canso.
Two vessels were lost and some others were
4 in danger
! TIE steamer Prince Wilhelm, from
Barrow for Montreal, with railroad iron, had
both bows stove in by ice May 10th, and had
to throw overheard 250 tons of cargo to save
the vessel.
ONE thousand workingmen at Chris.
tiania, Norway, created riot on the 23d. The
soldicry charged the crowd and wounded sev
eral. Nine soldiers were injured.
THE Cologne Gazette'S Rome CORE,
spondent asserts that Cardinal Jacobini hai
been instructed by Curia to inform Prussia thai
the Pope disapproves the permissive system il
the bill amending the May laws and withdraw:
the concession made in brief to the Archbishop
of Cologne regarding the notification to b,
made to tho Prussian Government of the ap
pointment of priests, declaring it void.
Two old persons named Strader los
their lives in the burning of their house il
I hn
PRINCE BISMARCK has declined t.
preside over the new European Conference
apd has nominated Prince Hohenlohe.