Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1880-08-05
FOREIGN NEWS.

LONDON, August 4th.-The Times saws
Burrows appears to have accepted battle in
parallel order. and not to have attempted
any maneuvering. 1t is evident that the
Bombay Sepoys were OF such inferior ply.
sique that they could not stand up to the
stalwart Ghazis, who bore down on them
sword in hand, and giving way to a sudden
panic they mobbed the veteran Sixty-sixth
Regiment and caused the almost total ami
hilation OF that corps. The cavalry do not
seem to have co-operated with much effect.
The sufferings of the troops i'll their uninter-
rupted flight of 40 miles must have been ter
rible, for the present season is the hottest
time of the year there, and they had been
fighting and marching without food or water
"a hours.
LONDON, August 4th.-General Roberts
force for Candahar starts on Sunday. 1t in
cludes three British infantry regiments and
one of cavalry. A new brigade from Bengal,
which consists of one regiment Of British in
fantry and two regiments of natives, has been
sent from Bombay to Southern Afghanistan.
OF So officers of General Burrows force,
21 are killed or missing, s wounded and es-
capped, and IL arrived at Candahar unhurt.
This leaves IL unaecounted for, and it may be
presumed that though nomlnally attached to
General Burrows brigade, they did not ac-
company him.
Chile and Peru-RarbaP0us Warfare.
New York, August Aha Lima letter
says of the taking Of Tacna by the Chilean
troops: Only one street escaped sack. Hun
dreds of wounded prisoners were slaughtered
in cold blood. Not one wounded ally was
found alive on the field the day succeeding
the battle. Women and girls of the tender
est ages were violated, and many killed.
Farmers in the vicinity and their families
shared the fate of the town. Every day six,
eight or ten murders are committed, while
the bodies of the victims are allowed to re-
main unburied until their removal becomes q
necessity. africa suffered even more severely
than Tacna. All the houses are eithsr to
tally or partially destroyed. Out of 1,S00
defenders only 600 survived Those of the
/, 200 who did not fall in the fight were sub
sequently massacred in cold blood It is an
authenticated fact that 40 soldiers who had
thrown away their arms and taken refuge in
the United States Commercial Agency, over
which our flag was fiyiD&, were taken out and
butchered in the street.
The Republican Victory IN France.
PARIS, August 4th.-The defeat of the
Resctionaries in the elections for Councils
General is crushing. The Irrecoucilables
were also defeated at Lyons, Toulouse, Lille,
Besancon and other large towns, which they
contested. They won seat at Bourges.
are supplanted by the Advanced Republi.
cans The distinguished character of the
elections was the Clerical attempt to move
constituencies by representing the religious
DEGREES as an attack on liberty. This signally
failed.
PARIS, August 4th.-The Bonapartists
have been ignominiously defeated, and the
Clericals were treated even worse.
More Exiled Communists Return.
PARIS, August 4th.-One hundred and two
amnestied Communists arrived from Brest
yesterday, and 100 policemen were at the
railway station, but scarcely 250 persons had
assembled to greet the Communists Henri
Rochefort was present. Twenty.four other
Communists arrived later in the day
An American Missionary NM dered.
CoNsTANTINoPLE, August 4th.--Dr. Par
sons, an American missionary, and two of
his American servants, while on their road to
relieve the famished population, were found
with their throats cut rear Ismidt. Tie
murderers have been arrested. They are
two nomad Turks, and confessed the crime.
GIadstole Befter.
LONDON. August 4th.-Gladstone is i'm
proving. The lung congestion has ceased,
and he is free from pain.
LONDON, August 4tb-The Taees says:
The doctor visited Mr.. Gladstone at 1880 to-
night, and found the symptoms 50 favorable
that ne did not issue formal bulletin. If
there is no relapse the doctor is hopeful that.
Gladstone will be well enough 10 al pear i'm
the House Of Commons before its prorogs-
ton.
The Chincse Commissioners = King sf
Siam.
WASHINGTON. August 4sb.--Rear Admiral
Passersoc, coD manding the Asiatic ststier,
rep ,rts that he expects u 20 fe,ri Yakohsna
tn The n,e1lh ssf +h.s ps..ia.. ;n raf.Ytsfy WI