Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1879-04-16
ort is blockaded by CHILEAN squad

port Is blOCkaded by Gillian squad
ron.
The 36th race between Cambridge
and Oxford university crews was won
by the former on the 9Th inst.
THE German government expects to
derive revenue Of 1O0,0OO,000 marks
(about $25 ,OOO,OO0) from the new pro-
tective tariff.
IT is reported that King Alfonso, of
Spain, is to marry the Arch Duchess
Maria, daughter of Arcn Duke Charles
of Austria
A CoNsTANTINoPE dispatch says the
inhabitants of ErZerOum are showing q
seditious spirit. They have refused to
pay their land tax except in paper.
The Bonapartists are much elated at
the almost certain triumph of BOdel,
the Bonapartist candidate for the
chamber of deputies in the district of
the Champs EIysees on the second
ballot.
APRIL 9th was election day in Pari
Twenty-One members of the chambe
of deputies were voted for. A Bona
partist carried the district Of Champs
Ulysses.
IT is declared in official English cir
Giles that CetewayO's wish for peace is
said to be a mere pretense to gain time
until the harvest is gathered. ONLY
unconditional surrender will be accept
ed
A LONDON cabIegram of April 9th
says: The steamer kangaroo, with
part of the cable to be laid between
Natal and Oden, will leave to-
morrow for Natal via the Suez canal.
The Natal and Zanzibar section
will be open for business in July. This
will place South Africa within a weeks
communication Of London. The re-
mainder of the line will be completed
before the end of the present year.
A LETTER of the pope to the cardinal
vicar is published, in which the pope
announces that, as the success of the
movement for increasing and improv-
ing Catholic schools will greatly depend
upon pecuniary means, he proposes to
contribute annually as large an amount
of money as his private means will
permit; and as conservation of faith in
Rome is connected with incidents of
the Catholic world he will devote to the
Roman schools as much of Peters
pence as the needs Of the church will
permit. The pope has contributed
e., goo to the Catholic school fund.
RUSSIAN Grand Duke Nicholas Con-
stantlnowitch, In work just published
recommending the construction of the
'Orenburg aud Tashkend railway an
nounces that he is preparing an expedi-
ton to pursue a study relative to rail
way matters beyond the boundaries of
Aslatlc Russia, across Anudaria, as far
as Defile Bemian in Afghanistan, and
IN the direction of Cabul. 1t was an
nounced, some time since, that the
grand duke had been exiled for pub
fishing the work in question, but his
and great preparations are making for
the expedition.
ADDITIONAL advices from Cape Town
about the disaster to the Brit
ish convoy on the Intombe
river, March II, report that besides the
British troops, it is thought that 40
wagon drivers and followers were
killed. Twenty-Five Zulu corpses were
found on the field of battle. 1t is be-
heyed that many more were drowned.
The Zulus had ample time to get news
Of the convoy, as it was delayed
at the ford three days by heavy rains.
The ford was only four miles from Lun-
neberg. It is thought there was great
carelessness in selecting the position OF
the camp, and in negecting to send a
larger force from Lunnoberg to meet
the convoy.
The latest dispatch from Cape Town,
South Africa, gives the following infOr-
nation concerning the great slaughter
Of English troops: A convoy ofsupplies
proceeding from Derby to Lu Weburg,
escorted by 104 men of the 18th regi-
ment was attacked at day-break, March
18th, on the banks of Intombe river,
by 1000 Zulus, under Umbelini. Owing
to previous alarm the British were I'M
der arms, but were overwhelmed by
the enormously superior force of the
enemy. Capt. Moriarity and forty
missing. Fate of wagon drivers un-
known. Lieut.. HARDWOOD, with 30 men,
succeeding in reaching Luzeburg, $50
men OF the SOth regiment subsequently
proceeded to the scene of the fighting
and recovered a quantity of racks and
ammunition and buried the dead.
Twenty wagons, containing supplies,
were lost. A relief column for Ekowe
will start March Goth. A party of vol
unteers have visited the battle field Of
Isandula and found that the Zulus had
left 100 wagons Their e, but had removed
the guns and ammunition.
WASHINGTON
The Nebraska senators are trying to
secure branch mint for Omaha.
Hon. CHAs. III. BELL was admitted to
the United States senate from New
Hampshire by a vote Of So to %, on the
10th inst.
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