The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1874-07-24

The csrlists are shooting some cor
respondents as spies in erder to get rid of the
rest.
Monsignor De Merode, archbishop of
NIitylene, and private chaplain of the pope, is
dead.
The Carlists have ordered one repub-
lican shot for every shell fred by the feet of
Blboa.
The republicans have again been sue
cessful in an engagement with the carlists
near BiIDoa.
The Geneva award commissioners,
appointed under the recent act, meet IN Wash
ington, July 22d.
The carlists are trying to drive away
foreign correspondents by shooting them as
! spies. Many Germans have already withdrawn
from their lines.
! The governing nts'of Austria and Russia
have agreed to open negotiations with the
I Sublime Porte, looking to a recognition of the
independence of Roumania by Turkey.
! A private dispatch says Prince Bis
marck was greeting small assembly when he
was shot at by Edward Kullman. The bullet
wounded him in the hand at the moment he
was touching his hat.
/ A dispatch from ST. Petersburg de-
nies that the young Duke Nicholas, who stole
his mothers diamonds, has been sentenced to
banishment, but says his case is still pending
before the emperor.
John Mitchell, the famous exile is
about to return to Ireland to be candidate
for the British parliament. Nearly $4,000
have been collected in this country and
Ireland to defray MitchelTs expenses.
! The famine in India is subsiding.
/ The number of natives now employed on the
relief works is 800, OOO or /, 1000, 900 less than
three weeks ago. Half million persons are
/ still subsisting on the charity of the govern
ment and the public.
Madrid journals state that carlists
have seized a number of men, women and
children on the Cantabrian coast and Biscay,
numbering in all 900 persons and hold them
as hostages, to be shot in case of an attack by
the republicans.
It is said the Brussels congress on
international law, after formal opening and
organization, will appoint committees and
suspend its general sitting. Baron Jamini,
the Russian representative in the congress
will probably be chosen president.
While Prince Bismarck was driving
in the country last week, he was fred at by
young man, and the ball grazed his wrist.
The wound is insignificant. The would-be
assassin was arrested. There is intense ex-
citement in Berlin over the attempt on Bis
msrck's life.
A letter from Havana dated July 4
says There is a great deal CT sickness pre-
vailing here. Many fatal cases of small pox
and yellow fever have occurred. Public
places for vaccination have been established
throughout the city. Business is very dull.
Only about a hundred boxes of sugar were
sold during this~week.
The carlists abandoned the seige of
Puycerda after second assault in which they
were repulsed. The carlists besieging Gu
enca have occupied houses in the suburbs of
the city. Reinforcements for the besieglng
republicans have arrived from Madrid and the
city is being energetcalIy defended. Mar
shal Serrapo has deferred his trip to Lagranjo
until the carlists are driven from Cuenca.
Various accounts agree that Bis
marek's escape was miraculous. His hand
was touching his hat when wounded. His
/ coachman fearing a second shot struc's me
would-be assassin across the face. A number Of
police have been sent to Kissengen to protect
Bismarck from a repetition of the attack.
Evidence has been discovered betokening a
conspiracy.
A special from Berlin says KuIIman
is sconsidered mere tool. Hautfaler, the priest
arrested, belongs to the village of Walchze,
in the Austrian Tyrol. He checked Bismarck g
horses by stepping in front at the critical mo-
ment The Berlin press declare the attempt
ed assassination proves the necessity OF re-
pressing ultramontaine teachings.
An official note is published in Paris,
warning agriculturists and others against en-
igrating without making inquiry of the admin
istration in reference thereto. 1t is stated in
anote that this course is taken because a mum
ber of immigrants have made application to
the government for assistance to enable them
to return to France, particularly from Phila-
delphia, where the promises held out by i'm.
migration agents have not been realized.
Dispatches from Spain report that
Gen. Zabella has removed his headquarters
from Safalla to Lagrange. Gen. Moriones if
also retiring toward the river Ebro. Sickness
is prevalent among the national troops. 1t il
anticipated that active operations will be post.
poned three weeks The main body of the
carlist army have entered Biscay and threaten
to stop the navigation of the river Nervion.
Political affairs in France are still IL
a critical condition. On the 9th inst. the as
sembly passed the municipal electoral bill
The committee of parliamentary initiative OF
the same day rejected NJ. De LarchefoucauIdi
monarchical proposition. The assembly ses
sion on the 8th was one of intense excitement
A motion expressing great regret over tn,
suspension of the journal T. Union by tn,
government was rejected by vote Of 379 t,
so, the Left generally abstaining from voting
Thereupon NJ. Paris, of the Right centre
moved resolution to energetically uphold tn
septennial powers of President NTMahon
and, reserviug the questions submitted to tn
, committee on constitutional bills, pass to tn
the order of the day. General De Cissey
minister OF war, announced that the govern
Inent identified itself with the motion. Tn
resolution was voted down by 331 yeas to SO
nays. The ministry Immediately tenders
their designations, but they were not received
On the 9th President M'Mahon sent a mes
sage to tho assembly firmly insisting upon tn
obligation of following up the law of Novem
s Der last on which the septennate is founded
s by the legislation necessary to complete il
. They cannot, IL they would, he insists, revok
= the powers intrusted to him under that Law
: II. Raoul Duval moved the dissolution of tn
d assembly, and the motion was referred to
! committee.
p MISCELLANEOUS.
/ II. J. Jewett has been elected pre-
o ident of Erie, vice Watson, resigned
d McGrath, the owner of Tom Bow