Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1879-08-13

The xulas Go % Plooas.
| Cape Town dispatch says: Chief Horisi
has submitted the present trouble with
Basutos, therefore It IL settled, but much
discontentment still exits. Il 10 feared
there will be severe famine next year in
zululand, - it IL new sssd time and no
land 10 being sown, while much seed has
been destroyed and many cattle ssissd.
King Cstywsyo when leaving tAs battlefield
Of Ulundi told his chiefs to look 70 their
own safety and sssk tsrms Of peace ~ bsst
they eoald. His army y broken up. The
nation aispstusd aa1 ~ kfss . SeAfvs
zululaad win probably bs divided into
three or four separate prineipalitiss, each
under the rule Of IN indspsndsnt noble.
Cetywayo's brother, Oham, viii receive his
own tsrritory under this arrangement
Deosh oa the nam.
Five persons we're killed and eleven seri.
ously and forty slightly injured BY railway
accident between Nancy and veselizs,
France, on the 4th.
On the evening Of the 4th inst, . train
ran into team containing Pierre Goudreau
and two ladiss-Ross Martin and Celina
Normal French, and of Lewiston, As.-at
the crossing in Lisbon. All were instantly
killed. They were returning from . we'd.
ding excursion.
During . storm ct Doylestown, Pa, on
the 26th, the accommodation and Bethlehem
express collidsd ON the North Pennsylvania
branch Of the Reading railroad, completely
wrscking both trains and severely injuring
nambsr Of passenger.
The Fever 0oearge.
The ship Templar arrived at San Fran.
cisco on the lst inst, 161 days from Rio
Janeiro, where she pat in for repairs on =
voyage out from New York. While in Rio
nine Of The crew died and when one day
out from that port the fever rssppsarsd,
carrying o6 the eaptaia's wife and two ssa-
men.
There were sevs1ty-ons deaths at Mem.
phis, Tenn, for the week ending July %,
thisty.four being from yellow fever. The
city IL nearly deserted, camps hsving been
established outside the limits.
There are now six yellow fever patients
in the quarantine hospital ct New York.
4 slippery 0alne oa les.
At the G. A. r encampmsnt ct Erie, Pa,
on the Set ult, documents were laid before
the department staff BY the committee from
AcKsssport. Pa, having reference to the
petition Of Eli Ice 70 al the grand posts Of
the country. Ice 10 in Noundsvills psni.
sentiary, sentenced for life for shooting . |
rebel prisoner, who was escaping In 1868,
and for which he was honorably acquitted |
BY Q general court-martial, but re-arrested |
after serving through the war, and tried and
condemned In few days BY the civil an.
thorities. II II alleged Of the two lawyer
who prosecuted him, that one has Ices wife
and the other his property.
DistreasfDg Accident.
A Paducah, KY, special to the Louisville
CosIrierJ Journal says: "OuT neighboring
county Of Livingston, was the scene Of a|
distressing accident On the s0th ult Two
yeung sons Of DR.. A. H. Boyd beinE III,
their father determined 10 give them santo.
nine, but through mistake gave them some
poison. In half an hour they took spasms,
and one died in . half and the other in
three quarters Of An hour. Dr.. Boyd nj
one Of the most respectable citisens Of Liv,
ingston, and the boys were promising youths.
The santonins viii be analysed"
ssafnuraer.
10 Avery, while in ft Of dependency,
committed suicide few days since, ON the
banks Of the Plata river, two miles below
Denver, Col, BY shooting himsslf in Tie
temple with revolver. The body was not
found till last night.
| A young man named Joseph Dsvins, aged
II, whose parents reside in New Haven,
committed suicide at Greeley, Dol, on the
Let inst He put . shot gun to his head,
psllsd the trigger By attacking wire, and
blew Of The top Of his head. No causs ~
dgasd.
J. E Bari, farmer about e6 years Of ags,
Asng himself IN his hay barn near Elm.
wood, H., on the 3lst ult. The deceased
was In good circumstances and out Of debt
He had. twice before attempted TO commit
suicide. and was undoubtedly dssaassd.
Here Hard Lack loF Eog11sA Eaxmern.
The seversst storm for many years raged
on The night Of the I'd inst The storm Wa
attsndsd By fall Of hail stones, some I've
inches in eireumfsrsnes. The damage to
glass around London amounts 70 thousands
Of pounds starting. In great part Of Bed.
ferdahirs Tie hay crop il completely swept
away and many sattls drowned. Newman.
ket and Asighborhood are flooded. The
raaniall IN BuckingAazshirs h estimated at
ssvsnty tons PR sera Damages by foods
and Ightning ere also reported from Cam.
bridge, Norfolk, 0uilfogd. Lootor. Both and