The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1881-03-11
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
FOREIGN NEWS.

The correspondent who was with Gen.
Colley at Spitzkop, and who was captured and
subsequently released by tho Beers, has writ
ten very graphic description of the engage
ment His statement shows that, with every
advantage on the side OF the British, the Beers
carried the day by sheer fighting. Gen.
Cooley had 600 men, and position that
was regarded as absolutely impregnable,
Tho Beers, who numbered about LOCO, made
several attempts to carry the position with q
rush, but each time they were driven back
with the bayonet. At last they made a tre-
mendous charge, and the British were routed.
1t was az instantaneous change from perfect
safety to total defest
Drouyn de L'Huys, Minister Of For.
eign Alters in France under the republic, and
again Nnder the empire, is dead.
In the debate on the second reading Of
the Arms bill in the British House of Com
mons, Dillon defended his advice to the Irish
to arm, and said that in the event of their dis
armament they were resolved to disarm the
landlords also. He declared that were he
tenant farmer he would keep rife to kill land
lords, aud expressed bis regret that the Irish
people had not resorted to civil war.
Advices from Honolulu report de-
plorable condition OF affairs there. Smallpox
is epidemic, and many houses are quarantined,
and no one is allowed to enter or leave the
city.
The Pope has asked the Gar to grant
amnesty to the Bishops and priests exiled to
Siberia.
Full returns of the census just taken
in Germany show population Of As, l94, IT,
A cable dispatch from Rome says
"The loss Of life by the earthquake on the
island of Ischia is appalling. One hundred
and two bodies have been found at Cassamas-
Ciati up to the present. 1t is stated that 300
houscs have fallen at Cassamaciati One hun
dred and ten cOrpses have been recovered, and
sixty-Seven wounded sent to the hospital.
The assures in the streets were fifty centimetres
wide, and the people fed from town and en-
campsd in the fields"
The British Ministry has settled upon
terms Of peace with the Beers, which were tele-
graphed Gen Wood last week.
1t has been showing r ~ in Scot
land for seventy hours. T lc is blocked, and
many shipwrecks are rero'ted on the coast.
Harris, Boyton and Sheridan, the
Tish traver5ers, have rearpeared.
About twenty Americans in the coun-
ties of Cork, Limerick and Kerry, Ireland, have
applied to the United States Consul at Queens
town for protection. They fear arrest under
the Coercion act.
The dreaded plague has made its APP
pearnnce in Mesopotamia.
The Ameer Abdur Rahman Khan is
preparing to occupy Candahar when the Brit
ish garrison is wholly withdrawn, and Ayoob
Khan's adherents are preparing to resist, 80
that there are excellent prospects Of lively
times in Afghanistan during the spring and
summer, 1t seems to be the settled policy
OF the Gladstone Ministry to let Abdur Rah-
man Khan and Ayoob Khan settle their own
disputes.
The French Government has resolved
to recall its representative in Venezuela. The
cause assigned for the action is the bad faith of
the Venezuelan Government to French credi-
tors.
The latest dispatches state that twenty
vessels were lost on the Scottish coast during
the recent storm and 200 persons drowned.
Notwithstanding the reports to the
contrary, it does not appear that tho Irish
Land-Leaguers are much scared at the passage
of the Coercion act. Those agitators who were
in Ireland before the measure became law have
stood their ground, and others, like Dillon and
Brennan, who were in England or France, are
returning to the Green Isle.