Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1874-04-09
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FOREIGN.


boat crews of Oxford and Cambridge Univer-
sites came off in London. The Cambridge
boat came in four lengths ahead.
According to Rome Qtaly) dispatch of the
2Sth, Victor Emmanuel had burned the adj
dresses sent to him by citizens of Trieste,
which contained disloyal sentiments toward
Austria. He had forwarded a note to the Aus
trian Government, formally disayowing any
sympathy with the address.
The steamer Maliva, with the remains of Dr.
Livingstone, arrived off Suez, Egypt, on the
night of the 2Sth.
The French Assembly adjourned on the Doth
until May IL.
According to a Madrid dispatch of the 29th
Marshal Serrano had finally been successful,
and the Carlists had been driven beyond Stanta
Guiana. The losses in The battle on the 2Sth
were enormous. Rivera was MORALLY wound
ed.
The Ashantee heroes were reviewed by the
Queen in Windsor Park on the 30th, in the
presence of the forces. Her Majesty, assisted
by the Princess of Wales and the Duchess of
Edinburgh, made Sir Garnet Wolseley a
Knight Commander Of the Order of the Bath,
and conferred on Lord Clifford the Victoria
Cross.
London dispatches of the morning of the
31st ult. say that extensives strikes had &C.
Cured in the coal and iron districts of En-
gland. There was almost panic in domestic
stocks in consequence.
Airport of the escape of Henri Rochefort and
some of his comrades from New Caledonia is
confirmed. They put to sea in an open boat,
oft ba,
picked up by a British sailing vessel and
carried to an Australian port.
From Carlist sources, on the nighG of the
Both, dispatches received claiming a vic
tory in the recent battle before Bilboa. The
Republican loss according to this authority
was 1000 killed and wounded Carlist loss
LOCO. Madrid dispatches of the same date in
sist that the victory was with the Republicans,
and very nearly reverse the figures.
A Calcutta telegram of the 31st ult says
that reports from the districts affected by the
famine show great improvement in the con-
dition of affairs.
In a Berlin dispatch of the LIST the death o
Peter Andrew Hansen, the German astrono-
mer is announced.
According to Bayonne dispatch of the LIST,
the movement of Marshal Serrano against the
Carlists before Bilboa was an inglorious fail
ure.
The Dtario, of Havana, has recently published
articles advocating the restoration of peace
with the insurgents. 1t was said that these
articles were inspired by the Spanish party,
and that their object was to prepare the peo-
pie of the island for manifesto of the prom
inent Cubans demanding an accommodation
between the so-called loyalists and the insur.
gents, to be inaugurated by a temporary ces.
sation of hostilities, and followed by formal
treaty of peace. The bases of the treaty are
made known, and include pledge that the
island shall remain united to the crown OF
Spain; that the people shall elect representa-
tives to the Cortes; that slavery shall only be
interfered with by the consent of owners, aud,
in case that emancipation should be decreed,
then the owners of slaves are to be indemni-
fed. A general pardon will be granted for all
political offenses, and all embargoed property
shall be restored to its original owners
A London dispatch of April l says the Re-
publican troops have taken no position held
by the Carlists since March 25. A three DAYS
armistice, in which Bilboa was not included,
had been agreed upon for the burial of the
dead In the meantime the bombardment of
Bilboa continued
The steamer Alaska arrived in San Francisco
on the Sd with Yokohama dates to March 10
The instruction in the North had beer
quelled through the efforts of Okubo, Minister
of the Interior.