French Relief Efforts Continue Amid Paris Distress
The Mansion House French Relief Committee reports 123,000 subscriptions with 6,444 pounds 3s 7d in hand. Seed distribution to French farmers aims to sow 40,000 acres of crops, including 14 000 acres of wheat and 9 000 of barley, with 600 tons of seed potatoes ordered. Plenipotentiaries for peace talks named from Prussia and Belgium. Mortality in Paris drops to 2,576. 60,000 disarmed infantry depart Paris for Orleans.
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M. de Bonnechose
Paris
France
Lord Vernon
Boulogne and
Honfleur
Lord Mayor’s Fund
Bordeaux
Count Arnim
Rome
M. de Balan
Brussels
Hotel de Flandres
Echo du Nord
Rouen
Dieppe
Hamburg
Sykes
Swinburne
Johnston
M. John Lemoinne
Journal Des Débate
Germany
Orleans
Bishop’s Sermon Provokes Droll Obedience
A bishop’s jocular tale about preaching to a sleepy congregation follows as the warden requests the sermon for home reading. The bishop reveals the sermon was requested because the weather made listeners doze, turning a sermon into a humorous lesson on attention.
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Grambler
Brsitor
Australian Federation Efforts Highlighted In Melbourne Reports
Foreign and Colonial from Melbourne notes preparations for a general election in Victoria in February and March. It reports the McCulloch manifesto endorsing federation via Imperial Act, NSW Premier Sir James Martin’s stance opposing federation while colonies remain British. Also mentions Hobson’s Bay fortifications and the death of Dr. Corrigan, Wesley College headmaster.
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Melbourne
Overland Mail
Victoria
James McCulloch
Australian Federation Commission
James Martin
New South Wales
Duffy
Argus
Hobson’s Bay
Signal and Torpedo Corps
Corrigan
Wesley College
Board of Education
Rumours of Dutch Guiana Sale to England Gather Pace
The Hague whispers that Holland may cede Dutch Guiana to England for 75,000. Paris journals discuss a possible asylum for the Pope in France. A new Russian sect the Sighers forms at Kalonga. Sir Samuel Baker reports trampling out the slave trade on the White Nile and sends praise to the Khedive.
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Hague
Holland
Dutch Guiana
England
Corsica
Paris
M. Thiers
France
Kalonga
David
Roderick Murchison
Sir Samuel Baker
Tewfi Keeya
White Nile
N. Lat
Samuel
Gedge
Sir Samuel
Europe
Gondokoro
Russia
London
St. Petersburg
Prince Gortohakoff
Prussia
Rome
Daily News
Gesu
Father Tommaszsi
Company of Jesus
Romer
Peasony Trust
Peabody
Union
Philadelphia
the Times
Richmond
Virginia
Petersburg
North Carolina
South Carolina
Georgia
Atlanta
Florida
Alabama
Mississippi
Lousiana
Peabody Normal Seminary
New Orleans
Texas
Arkansas
Little Rock
Fort Smith
Tennessee
West Virginia
South
Tientsin
Jane
Interpreter Frater
Frater
Chih Haien
Hsie-tai
Tientsin Hsien
Swiss Canton Bans Smoking Under Fourteen
The Grand Council of the Canton de Vanda discusses a bill prohibiting tobacco smoking by anyone under fourteen years old. The proposal targets youth smoking and aims to curb underage tobacco use.
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Grand Council of
Canton de Vanda
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Australia
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