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11
Month
April
Year
1879
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Public Domain
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A squadron of the Tenth Husüars were swept away by a current while crossing the Cabul River near Jellalabad on the 31st of March. A lieulenant and fotty men are missing. Sixteen bodies have been recovcred. A Vienna dispateh statcs thst the rinderpest has spread to 100 villages in Bohemia. Infected points have been aurrounded by military forces. The government has resolved to discontinue the precautions against the plague in Russia. Peru and Bolivia have concluded an offensive and defensive alliance, and both countries declared war against Chili. A contractor has undertaken to repair and raise the dams of Szegedin within thirty-eight daya. The rebuilding of the town commences in June. The British, under Capt. Gough, defeated five thousand Afghans, killing four hundred. British loss three officers and three men killed, and thirty-one wounded. A fire at Miragoane, in the West Indies, has destroyed property to the amount of$l,000,000 and rendered five or six thousand people homelesa. Amongthe property burned was 50,000 bags oL coffee and 1,800,000 pounds of logwood, The London Gazette contoins an order of the Privy Council, taking effect from April 4 and continuing in force for two months, according to which cattlc brought from he United States to London may be transshipped in the Victoria doek to another vessel for conveyance to the f oreign cattle inarket at Deptf ord, and the cattle so transferred shall continue to be deemed foreign cattle. The slaughter of cattle on the quay will, therefore,not be necesaary. King Cetewayo has made overtures for peace and it is reported tuat the Znlu army has disbanded and the soldiers dispersed to their homes. The University boat race on the Thames.Saturday, between the Oxford and Cambridge crews was won by the latter. The race was witnessed by over 100,000 people. Oham Cetewayo's brother, with his eldest son and 300 warriors surrendered unconditionally on the 2d of March, and are now in Col. Wood's camp. Oham íb supposed to be an aspirant for Cetewayo's throne. There has been no important military movement against the Zulue. Ekowe is still surrounded, the road leading there being defended by a large force of Zulo. The relieving force under Col. Lewis, is still on the lower Tueel River. The decisión of two-thirds of the pitmen at Durham, England, to strike against reduction of waies will have the effect of nearly 90 pits, throwing idle 25,000 hewers. Several large concerns will be brought to a standstill in the course of a week unless the owners or pitmen give way. Eliza Meteyard, English authoress, bom 1801, is dead. Two hundred and thirty more French communist have been pardoned. A dispatch from Rawul Pindee reporta that the outbreak of the cattle plague threatens to embarrase the British commissaria. Cattle are dying by scores. Sir Anthony Panizzi, late librarían of the British Museum, is dead. A terrible sporadie fever is ragmg at Casablanca, Morocco, among both natives and Europeans. Business is at a standstill. A dispatch f rom Capetown, March 25, says a convoy of supplieR, proceeding from Derby to Luneburg, escorted by 104 men of the Eightieth Regiment, was attacked at daybreak, March 12 on the banks of the Intombe River by 4,000 Zulus, under Umbelin. Owing to a previous alarm the British were under arms, but were overwhelmed by the enormouRly superior force of the enemy. Captain Moriarty and forty men were killed, and twenty are missing. The fate of the wagon driver is unknown. Lieut. Harward, with forty men, succeeded in reaching Luneburg. One hundred and fifty men of the Eightieth Regiment subsequently proceeded to the scène of the fight, recovered a quantity of rockets and ammunition, and buried the dead. Twenty wagons containing supplies were lost. __________■

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