Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1891-01-20
SIXTEEN INCHES Office.
The Seine Thronged with Peopie-Fun,
Suffering, and Death.

PARIS, January 19.-The ice on the seine
is sixteen inches thick and ls thronged
with people day and night Inc soio Is
causing great inconvenience and distress
throughout France. The harbors Of Tou-
lon and Laseyne are frozen over for the
first time on record. The olive crop IN the
Department of Gard is fast being ruined:
Whole communities in the neighborhood
of Perpignan, in the Pyrenes, are cut on
from communication with the rest OF the
world, and wayfarers IN those DISTRICTS
have been found frozen TO death. The
Algiers mail-steamer arrived at Port Won:
dres, on the Mediterranean, to-day covered
from stem TO stern with ice and snow ike
ship in the Arctic regions.
A dispatch from Saragossa,
IN SPAIN
reports that the mercury there is at "a de-
grees Fahrenheit and that snow IS failing.
The Seine at its confluence with the Disc
Is jammed with pack-ice ten feet hlgn. Az
Mines wine has frozen in the cellars. The
Loire at Nevers is frozen over. large
number of vessels are ice-bound at Boz
deaux, aud many steamers, TO AVOID oelng
frozen in. have gone down the river 10
anchor in the Verdon roads.
WOLVES AND WILD BoARs.
Packs of wolves are numerous. Wild
boars are invading isolated districts IN
France. The unusually heavy fall OF snow
and the terrible severity OF the weather
have cut of their means OF subsistence,
and the animals have become desperate
through hunger and fearlessly prowl about
houses, to the great CONSERVATION OK the
people.
The same state Of affairs is said to exist
| in Spain, and from Cadiz come reports OF
wolves being killed in the streets and
suburbs.
SNOW IN ALGIERs AND TUN1s.
Adyices have been received from Alglerss
| to the effect that that country is covered
with snow.
A snow-storm is raging in Tunis. and the
snow is already 80 heavy that trainc mas
been stopped.
RELIEF MEASURES.
PAIRS. January 19.-The Chamber Of
| Deputies has voted that two million francs
| be appropriated for tie relief of people IN
| towns who are suffering from the effects OF
| the severe winter. IL is the intention OF
| the Chamber later on 10 appropriate money
for the relief Of sufferers in the country
| districts.
| TARIFF TAXATION.
The Tariff Committee has rejected a
proposal OF the tariff subcommittee to tax
raw cotton and fax. These articles, there
fore, remain exempt from duty. On the
other hand, the Tariff Committee has ap;;
proved the placing of duty on hempsan
tows, which the Government proposed to
place upon the free list.
GRRooIRE TO BE RELEASED.
The Court of Appeals has directed that
! Gregoire, the Anarchist Journalist, con-
ylcted and sentenced to Imprisonment for
alleged participation in the escape OF Pad
lewesk, be discharged from custody. Gre
| goire il released on the same grounds upon
| which De la Bruyere was released-name-
| ly. that il was not proved that the man he
| had assisted to leave France was Pad
! lewski the man accused OF numbering
] General Seliyerskof.
\ SEVENTY OF THE WEATHER INCREASING.
LONDON. January 19.-0wing to the ice
| in the Thames there is much delay in load
ing and unloading vessels. Tugs are ne
cessary to move lighters and barges. The
severity of the weather in Great Britain is
increasing. There is much suffering among
the poorer classes, and from various sec
tions of the country come accounts OF cat
tie. and in several instances OF human
beings, frozen TO death. Several trades are
| at a stand-still owing TO the cold weather.
A lady was found in railway carriage
frozen 10 death at one OF the London
stations to-day. Heavy ice has blocked the
docks at Newport. Monmouthshire, and II
| il impossible for vessels to either enter or
leave. A number of loaded vessels await
the breaking of the ice before they can
sail.
GREAT BODIES OF WATER FROZEN oyER.
HAMBURG, January ia dispatch from
KEEL saws that the Baltic Sea, so tar as II
can be seen from the Buelk lighthouse. is
covered with ice. The channel separating
the island of Fermark from the Holstein
| shore is frozen over.
The Lake OF Constance is so covered with
ice that navigation upon 1t has been sus'
pended.
AUSTRIA SHOWED UNDER.
VIENNA, January 19--Nearly all the roads
and railroads throughout Austria are more
or less blocked with snow, causing conslde'
rable delay in passenger and freight
traffic everywhere. The. mails are alsI
much delayed. In addition number OF
country towns are completely isolated and
are likely to remain so for some time tc
come. These towns are suffering from
their inability to renew their stocks Of
coal and provisions, which are in many
cases exhausted.