The Hickman courier., 1874-03-07
FOREIGN.

Late advices from Buenos Avres bsv
been received. The cholera continued torao
with unabated violence.
The Spanish army under Gen. Mari
ones has made three attacks on the Carlis
force before Bilboa, and was repulsed eacl
time
A dispatch received at the Indian
Office, London, states that o, er a million peo.
PIE are starving to death in the famine-strickeu
districts of India
The Western Canada oil company has
shut down about fifty of their wells. throwing
seventy-hye men out of employment. owing
TO the depies ed state of the market.
The trial of the Tichborne claimant
on charges of perjury, whio4 lasted $50 davs.
resulted in his conviction on all the charges
and he was sentenced to fourteen years penal
seIFsllSss Fsee d9eu 81 u!e creS rev ,ly ne 20
Darling, wrecked on the Scotch COAT in the
recent gales, were washed from che rigging
and drowned. -Four life -guardsmen, gong to
their assistance, lost their lNs by theswamp-
ing of their beat.
A party of fourteen Spaniards, who
had escaped from oonscription in Cuba, have
arrived in New York. They had volunteered
to go to the front, receiving in bounty seven
hundred dollars, but not liking the prospect OF
war, they deserted, and by practice of strategy
and bribery, succeeded in getting on board a
fruit vessel about to sail.
Senior Aldoma, agent of the Cuban
republic at New York, says the patriot forces
more than hold their own They number
about IL 600 armed men, and could put three
A. az
get arms and ammunition. Native Cubans
are all on their side. Nearly half the island
is in their possession. Spanish troops iDAk
field number q, ,OO0 regulars and 5000 vd
teers. They are asking for reinforcemeHss
from Spain.
A terrible affair is reported to have
occurred in the state OF Vera Cruz. A quar-
rel between tswnsmen of Quimixilan and Haus-
caleca resulted in fight in which seventeeIb
persons were killed. 1t is reported that in
furiated Huasc alecaurs afterwad went to
Quimixilan and began indiscriminate mas
sacre, killing chi dren and cutting of the
heads OF women. The neighboring town of
ChaIchicomula sent detachment OF militia to
the scene to put stop to the atrocities.
BY the recent arrival of a steamer
from Rio de Jsneiro, news is received that
Asiatic cholera is raging at Buenos Ayres with
increased intensity, claiming from thirty to
forty victims rer day The total number of
deaths amount to S07. Fifty thousand persons
bad abandoned their homes in the city to seek
refuge in the upper country. ThA president
of the republic has also fled theNcity for
healthier residence on the island of Carapacha.
This act of Saimento is GnfavorablT COM
mented upon by the press.
A report has reached London that a
great battle has been fought at COomassie,
between the Ashantees and the force under
Gen. Sir Garnett Wolsey. The loss of the
British troops is given at nearly 300 including
many officers. The Highlanders alone are
reported to have had $50 men killed and |
wounded. Further details of the ba tie be- /
tween Sir csarnett wolsey's for-es aud the (
AsaiHhteee. say that tks slssser-fousA1a sassPer-
ately, the fight lasting from o'clock in the !
until 5 in the afternoon. Seventeen |
British officers were killed or wounded. The |
naval brigade, 145 strong, lost 80 men; the !
rifle brigade 80, and the engineers 80 men
The loss sustained by others, as far as known,
is very heavy