Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1879-08-15
FOREIGN News.

Lord Chelmsford, who commanded the Brit
ish tr ops in South Africa at the outbreak of
the Zulu war, has resigned.
1t is stated that the city of Serinagur, the
capital of Cashmere, ordinarily containing
three hundred thousand inhabitants, has only
thirty thousand since the famine.
A powder magazine at Durango, Spain, has
ex ploded, killing fourteen persons.
Colonel Valdez, at Chupedaros de Ia Nseva,
Mexico, reports that he has pursued three
bands OF Nescalero and Iipan Indians which
have been raiding that country from Texas.
They carried off two hundred and fifty horses
killed fifteen persons in Mexico, and crossed
back into Texas.
A recent cable dispatch from Glasgow, Scot
land, says "the enthusiasm Tor Kew DIR. Tai
mage continues undated, During the past
three weeks he has lectured nightly to thous-
ands. and on Sundays he has preached to tens
OF thousands in st. Andrews Hall To-day
he preached to six thousand worshipers in
this city"
Seven persons, comprising the family OF
Joseph Monette, a French Canadian farmer re-
siding at st. Martins, Canada, were poisoned by
eating heartily of bread that had accidentally
absorbed some Paris green intended for potato
bugs. Joseph Monette and two sons soon died
| in great agony, and the other members OF the
family are not expected to live.
The Prince of Bulgaria has proclaimed a
state OF siege against Mohammedan insurgents
| in Varna, Rasgrad and Elena.
Dispatches from the seat of war in South
| Africa say that King Cetywayo when leaving
the battlefield OF Ulundi told his chiefs to look
to their own safety and seek terms of peace as
best they could. His army is broken up, the
md fI,a
| Zululand will probably be divided into three
or four prncipahties, each under the rule OF
an Independent noble. Cetywayo's brother
Oham will receive his own territory under this
arrangement. General Wolseley, in an address
| to a number of Zulu Chiefs said that Cetywayo
was fugitive and could never more be king
The chiefs said they wished to have no more
| black kings, and would prefer John Dunn, q
renegade white, as their ruler.
The severest storm known there for many
years ragged in various parts of England, and
especially in the valley OF the Thames, n few
nights ago. The storm was attended by Iall
| of hailstones, some OF which were five inches
in circumference. The damage to glass in
places Immediately around London amounts to
thousands OF pounds sterling In a great part
of Bedtordshire the hay crop has been com
| pletely swept away, and many cattle have
been drowned. Newmarket and the neighbor.
hood we're flooded. The rainfall at Bucking-
hamshire is estimated Mt seventy tons per acre
Damages by floods and lightning are also re.
| port d from Cambridge, Norfolk, Guilford
| Leicester, Bath and Monmouth.
In railroad accident between Nancy an6
| Vezelise, France, five persons were killed, and
eleven seriously and forty slightly injured.
The iron steamship Louis David, from Ant.
werp, bound to Naples, has been wrecked
during fog off the Island of Ushant France
Twenty-seven persons were drowned.
The Infanta Marie del Pillar, second sister o.
the King of Spain, is dead in her nineteenth
year. She was the third child oil the ex Queer
Isabella and unmarried.
Late advices from Hayti say " the govern
ment is at present administered by Mr.. De
| lorme native writer of European reputation
| But for his patience and forbearance many
| bloody conflicts would have taken place since
the president left. Business is entirely sus
pended and has been for the past week. The
streets are thronged with soldiers, and an out
break is momentarily expected"
The United States Consul at Tangier reports
that the Sultan of Morocco has subdued the
! instruction OF the Berber tribes. Thirty-foul
| heads of rebels were exposed on the walls o.
the city to inspire terror among other rebels
| At the funeral in Hamburg OF Socialist
member oil the German Parliament named Gief
twenty thousand persons followed the bier.
Water has burst into the Ludwig Gluci
mine Mt the Zabrze colheries in Prussia, Two
corpses have been recovered and eleven more
are supposed to be in the pit.
French official reports state that the grain il
the south of France has been harvested in ex
cellent condition, and that in the north and
west good average crop may be expected.
| A fire at Chateneis, near Strasburg, has dc.
stroyed half the town and rendered two thous
and peasants homeless.
| Keith tombstone noted African explorer
] is dead, having passed away while at the head
ola expedition to explore Lake Nyassa in
| Africa.
The Exchange Bank of Montreal, has sus-
| pended. Its circulation is about 100000.
fearful hurricane passed up the Buclushe
river, N B., and vicinity, carrying away q
large bridge and destroying eighty buildings.
Three people were killed and many badly in
jured
| A Madrid dispatch says the carnage in which
King Alfonso was riding upset, and the kings
arm was dislocated.