Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1879-02-13
FOREIGN NEWS.
SOUTH AFRICA

SOUTH AFRICA.
CAPE Town, VIA ST.. VINCENT, Feb. 10. |
On the 2Ist ult. a British column, con-
sisting of portion of the Sixth Regi-
ment, battery of artillery and 500 native |
auxlllaries, was utterly annihilated near
Tugela River, by 20,0O0 Zulus, who cap
tured a valuable convoy of 102 wagons,
l 900 oxen, two cannon, 400 shot and
shell, 1 900 rifles, 800, 900 rounds of am
munition, 10000 pounds weight of pro-
visions, and the colors of the twenty
fourth regiment. 1t is estimated that
:, 900 Zulus were killed and wounded in
Among the killed on the British side
are two Majors, foua Captains, twelve
Lieutenants, and the Quartefmaster of
the Twenty-fourth Regiment; two Cap
tains of the Royal Artillery, Colonel, a
Captain, four Lieutenants, and the Ser
geant Major of Engineers, besides twenty
one other British officers commanding
native levies-
GREAT BRITAIN.
LONDON, February 10.-Three of the
| largest jute factories in Forfarshire have
stopped, owing to depressed trade. Four
| in Dundee are expected to stop.
A special supplement to the Gazette has
| been issued, containing an order of the
Privy Council revoking, after March 8,
1879, Article 13 of the foreign animals or
der. so far as it relates to the United
tie have hitherto been landed without
slaughter oraquarantine. The present or
der applies to ports in Great Britain only.
/ A Liverpool dispatch says; ''The num-
Der of strikers of all classes here is now
Iestimated at 90, GOO to SO, 900. The send
ing of a deputation- of laborers to the
steamship owners is regarded as a hope
full sign. The sailors express willingness
to send a deputatiOn with view to an
adjustment.
PLAGUE.
ST. PETERsBURG, February 10.-Ad-
vices from the interior state that general
unhealthiness and predisposition to cpl
demie exist. The Government of Sara
toff complain of the foul condition of Ka-
mishin Typhus fever and smallpox are
! increasing in an alarming manner in the
Government of the Tyer. The Siberian
plague has appeared in another village.
The cattle plague in the vicinity OF
Ekatermasslay has spread to twenty
seven neighboring localities. OF 1900
: head attacked half have perished.
The plague has appeared at village on
the Kieff Railway.
There is great mortality at Orsk from
) smallpox and another unknown disease
: The unknown epidemic has appeared
| in two villages of TambOO, and the plague
: at Rastov.
5 A large number of Cossacks who fec
: from Wetlianka, were found frozen t.
death on the banks of the Volga.
t The Golos publishes sensational letters
t stating that hundreds of bodies of thos,
who died from the plague in Astrakhan
e in December, remain still unburied, ant
i. corpses are strewn over eight versts o
a Enostajewsker District.
f ROME, Feb. 1O.-Reassuring advices
e have been received at the Foreign Minis
l try about the plague. It is believed tina
2 its spread will be prevented.
t BERLIN, February 10.-It is officiall,
= announced that the Greek Government
d has received a report from the Consul a
: Kavola, on the Aegean Sea, confirmin!
the rumors of the outbreak of the plagu
there.
TREATY OF PEACE.
LONDON, February 10.-A Constantine
IS pie dispatch says the de1nitive treaty be
o tween Russia and Turkey declares peace
K and cordial relations are to be re-estak
Is Iished between Russia and Turkey.