Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1879-06-27
Death Of Prince Napoleon.
HE FALLS INTO ZULU AMBUSH, AND DIES WIT
SEVENTEEN SPEAR THRUsTs IN MS BODY.

HE FALLS INTO A ZULU AMBUSH, AND DIES WITH
SEVENTEEN SPEAR THRUsTs IN HIS BODY.
Prince Louis Napoleon, the son of Napole-
ON Third of France and the hope of the Ma
poleonic dynasty, was killed early this month
in zululand, Africa, where he had gone only
short time previous as volunteer in the
British army. The official account of his
death says that the Prince with Lieut.. Care y
of the 0Sth regiment six men and one friend
ly Zulu left camp at Keletzi mountain seven
miles beyond Blood river on the LIST for n re-
connoissance. The party halted and unsnd-
died in field ten miles from the camp
Here just rs the Prince gave the order to re-
mount, volley was fired by Zulus who lay
in ambush amid the long grass Tho Prince
tried to mount his horse, but, according to
one account, the girth broke, while another
says that the animal was FESTIVE At all
events, the Prince ran along pathway and
was there overtaken and speared by the pur-
suing Zulus. Two troopers lay dead near the
body, both having also been speared. Lieut.
Carey and four troopers succeeded in return
ing to the camp toward night. The Princes
horse followed them, and Joined them on the
road.
AT daybreak, a cavalry patrol, under Gen
eral Marshall, set out to search for the Prince.
They went toward the kraals, or Zulu stock
ades which are ten miles from the camp, and
found the princes body in long grass 800
yards from kraal The body lay on its back
There were eighteen assegai or spear wounds
in it. two Of them piercing the body from the
chest to the back, two in the side and one
destroying the right eye. There was no bull
let wound. The Prince had been stripped of
his clothes, but on his neck was chain hold
ing locket with hair, mednllions and a rel
iquary. The face wore placid expression.
The body was placed on Il stretchcr formed
of lances, and was borne to the ambulance,
on which it was brought into camp accom-
panied by military escort. In the after
noon there was n military parade. Deep sor-
row prevailed throughout the column The
corpse was to be sent with an escort for trans
portation to England.
The news of the Princes death created a
profound impression when it reached London
at a late hour last Thursday night. Lord
Sydney, an old and tried friend of the Impe-
rial family, left at once for Chislehurst to
break the news to the eX-empress Eugene.
London journals, while deeply deploring
the Princes death, regard it as the end of
Imperialism in France. Prince Napoleon
("Plon-Plon') who has now become the head
of the line, is Democrat in politics and is
distasteful to the entire Bonapartist following.
He has two sons, aged seventeen and fifteen
years respectively. The Gdzctte de France
says that before starting for Zululand the
Prince Imperial made will appointing
Prince Victor eldest son Of Prince Napoleon,
his heir The Princes mother the ex-Em-
press, swooned when she learned Of her sons
death, and remained insensiblo for a long
time. She gradually revived on Friday af-
ternoon and Saturday aud was able to attend
mass on Sunday.