The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1879-07-15

The dispatches few days since con-
tained a rumor, which, however, lacks
confirmation. that Pierce Nagle, the
Fenian informer, had been murdered i'll
London, where he was employed as a
book-folder. Nag!e made himself odious
to the Irish people by the part he took III
the betrayal of the Fenians in 1865
when he was employed in the Office of
the Irish People, a revolutionary journal
at that time published by James Ste
phens. He was intrusted by Stephens
with important dispatches on many ocCa-
lions, and was frequently employed on
various secret missions to different parts
IF Ireland, bnt it appears that he simply
improved all these occasions to gather in
formation which he subsequently sold to
The Government After the trials of the
Fenians were concluded their betrayer
disappeared from public notice until he
vas discovered in hospital, whittier he
. lad gone in consequence OF a stab he had
received at night from the hand of an
unknown assailant. When Nagle recov-
.red from this wound he again sank into
lbscurity, where he remained until the
'ecent rumor once more brought his name
10 the recollections of a people from
Ehose memory he was fast fading away.
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CHICKENS COMING HOME TO R00sT.
The remote and hitherto unknown Nv
mland has within the past few months
made for itself place in history which
It is not given to many other nations to
accomplish in lifetime. Her uncivil-
zed people have held at bay the dis
.iplined troops Of one of the foremost
nations of the world; outgeneraled vet
trans in the modern arts of war; am
pushed and slaughtered their enemies as
deliberately as the English sportsman
hoots down his game at fashionable
battue. They have caused a worldwide
ensation without parallel in this genera
hon by buLchering the Prince Imperial
IF France--the putative heir to a posi-.
BILE Empire of the first class
The Zulus have exhibited to the world
rapidly succeeding series of tragedies
lttended with all the horrors of moderr
warfare, but if the ensuing statements
ire true their enlightened, ChristianizeC
enemies will stand convicted before the
world of an act of savsgery which the
yaliant African has not yet been accused
IF, and which places the English invaders
IN a level with the North American In
lian.
The London Daily News publishes al
extract from a letter written by mem
Der of the Sixtieth Regiment (the King
Royal Rife Corps, in which are de
tailed. in a matter-of-course manner
pme of the incidents attending the re
lief of Col. Pearson at Ekowe. He de
eribes with great eclat the vast slaugh
TER of Zulus: "They laid in thousand
upon the ground, and we lost our break
last through them, and / never ate NJ
iinner that day because the Zulus wha
We killed stunk so much, and the wound
I'd of them, after the firing were all done
we sent our blacks out amongst then
Ind they killed all Of the wounded, an'
pme of them asked our blacks for drol
,fwater; yes, and they gave them waite
o-they put their assegais througl
hem and stuck them to the ground.
This picture of British clemrncy on tn
battlefield is terribly graphic although
lot very grammatical.
The old "Sixtieth." whose officer