Alpena weekly argus. [volume] (Alpena, Mich.) 1871-1893, 1879-02-19

tho disaster TO the British force III l
Z,,n show that the guns were /
spiked before they were captured
Madrid, Feb. IA letter from
Tangier, Morocco, says the Govern
or Of Fee has taken refuge in a
sanctuary to escape the populaee'
who have risen against him. Inc
Snl,an has had a stroke OF para'y-
sis. Anarchy reigns throughout
the empire.
SOUTH AMERICA.
The Berald's letter from braHi'
) gives a frightful picture oil tue
drought, famine and pes.''e"'.
raging in the northern portion oil
, that country for more than a year
J mast II Is said to be the greatest
calamity in 200 years. Han
million people have been swept
= away by starvation and disease
: Smallpox and the black plague
carried off victims in appalling
: numbers, and thousands of BODIES
n were ro,ting in open trenches at
)" Lapoa. Thousands of other corpseS
he we're torn and devoured 10y wild
~ animals. Starving peasants a'c
- their own offspring. Some places
- including the city of Cereaoep
have been depopulated by the tern
:" ble struggles for life--children tie
=. ing abandoned or sold for bread
= Thousands of living skeletons wer
n he seen. Government all l
40 tardy. In fact such picture {
80 woe can scarcely be paralleled !
49, history except by the siege OF J'
g rusalem. and the black death whlc
80 desolated Europe in the 18th Gel
lpa tury.
an UNITED STATES.
,o2 DR.. Rose has been reinstated
on the university at Ann Arbor.
les. Chicago, Feb. 10.-A Coun'
and Bluffs, Iowa, dispatch says t
I is surviving seven Cheyenne bncl
,ere captured near Fort Robinson, Ne
after a desperate resistance, we
ow- taken through Council Bluffs Il
re- evening, en- route for Fort Leave
lem worth, where they will proha'
~ of he tried for murder of white $
re- Tiers in Kansas. Besides tie bra
an there were fourteen women
veen children in the party, wives
II 2 children of the prisoners.
,ord Galveston, Feb. l0.--A Fort
'ront Indian Territory, dispatch sa
.ame Major Wilcox with his comm'
hers returned from q scout after
.os;s- renegade Indians from Fort
the reservation. He brought 450
,urtb was, Comanches, and Apache
the Two hundred are yet out in cha
,nty- of Capt. Moan. The Indians
two peaceably disposed.
, and A Kansas City dispatch says
,e,m- cut being made for the Chi ag
ming Alton Railroad, at thatp'ace, CT
and in, on the nth, killing six per
was and wounding several others.
,fend. sides of the cut were ninety
must in height.
! and The embanllment at Zeis
off, ore beds, fifteen miles from "A
perial town, Pa, caved in, Feb. III, |
minis ing fifteen persons, killing one
of the seriously injuring four.
Norwich, Conn, Feb. r.
troops ice in the Shetucket and Y
comp. Rivers broke to-day. and
hon. a streams overAowed their b
of il. inundatiug the country.
,,vnn's tracks of the New London n
, after ern Railroad were buried
, been time under hugh cakes OF
al lday, The wharves are flooded.
ing. we Washington, Feb. II The
which call for the redemption OF
|, 5000 900, 900 of the six per cent.
ose by was issued to-day by the Sec
'wenty- OF the Treasury
gallant. Washington, Feb. 13.-Th
bodies scriptions to the four cent &c
com the past week amount to 81
DO here $50.
the dis Buffalo, N. Y, Feb.
the en- collision occurred on the New
900. Central at Verde Station,
inc No. miles east Of here, yesterda,
lxed. but noon, demolishing two engir
the caboose, breaking the b,
as can of every car and killing
i in my of sheep and hogs in transit
YOU by East.
Albany, Feb. 13.-The
been or Board has fixed the toll on
:: I1 fra;o,bt at oue-ouart