The Newtown bee., 1879-03-18
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The court of inquiry appointed to investigate the conduct of Major Reno at the time of the Custer massacre, reported favorably to the major and the report has been approved by the general of the army and the secretary of war. It was charged that at the time of the massacre Major Reno failed to go to Clusters relief.
 At fire in Georgetown, D. G. three chil- dren of Daniel Martin, colored man, were burned to death.
 $750 ,000 the last payment voted to him in the sundry civil appropriation bil on account of his improvement of the southwest pass of the Mississippi
 Foreign News.
 A telegram from Tashkend states that after the death of Sbere Ali. at Mazar-i- Sheriff, & bloody conflict broke out among the followers of the various pretenders to the Afghan throne, and the partisans of Yakoob Khan were vic torious.
 The progress of the plague in Russia is said to have been effectually checked.
 English newspapers declare that the annihila- tion of the British column in South Africa by Zulus, was due to the blundering and inca pacity of Lord Chelmsford, commander of the Cape of Good Hope forces, and that he should be recalled.
 Bismarcks bill to discipline outspoken mem bers of the German parliament has been re- jected by that body.
 Passanante, would-be assassin of King Hum bert, at Naples, has been sentenced to death.
 A new Spanish cabinet has been formed with General Martinez Campos at the head, as minister of war and president of the council.
 Bolivia is preparing for war with Chil to settle one of the many disputes which are constantly arising among the South American governments.
 The rope connected with an ascending cage n 9 Wal all nd and eight men were precipitated 360 feet and killed.
 The Zulus have been defeated with great loss by the British troops in South Africa.
 Regarding the recent massacre of relatives and others by the king of Burmah, 8 Calcutta dispatch tells this brief story of kingy cruelty :" It is said that while the massacres, at the in stance of the king, only amounted to forty, the killing was attended by every possible atrocity. The victims were beaten and kicked. The women were shameful1y abused. The royal princes were reserved to the last, and made to witness the torture and death of their families. The bodies of all the victims were thrown into old wells''
 The Afghan ambassadors to Russia have re- ceiyed news that Yakoob Khan has been pro- claimed ameer of Cabul. A message from Y&- koob Khan, dated Cabul, says that two English battalions, supposed to be about eleven hun dred men, had been completely defeated and pursued by the Eldji tribes in the Akosta val.- ley, where the English had already established an administration of their own. He says that the British troops also sustained severe de feat at Lagna fort at the foot of the Khonak mountains, and sixty miles south of | Gazni. This fort was taken by the Eldji after g severe fight, and the English governor, bound with ropes, was carried in triumph to Cabul. 1 This fort is an important post on the main road between the Indus valley and Gazni, by way of the Gomal pass, and if it can be held will serve as a check to the further progress oi the British in that region.
 The village of Porozma, Hungary, containing 400 houses, has been totally destroyed by g flood, the inhabitants taking refuge on g neighboring hill
 l The arrival of General Grant at Calcutta India, is announced.
 Wallace Ross, of St. John, N. B., easily de feated Francis Emmett, an Englishman, in rowing match over the Thames championship course.
 The ocean steamer Arizona, the largest il the world except the Great Eastern, has beer successfully launched at Glasgow.