Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1874-07-23
Interesting Personal, Political and
General Intelligence.
FOREIGN.

FOREIGN.
Paris dispatch Of the 18th says an article
in the Figaro melting, revolt against the As
sembly, had caused much irritation The
Government had suspended that paper for two
weeks. The Extreme Right had published a
disavowal of hostility to President MacMa-
hon, but they condemn the action Of the Min
istry in respect to the manifesto of Count de
Chambord.
On the 18th, at Kissen gen, while Prince
Bismarck was driving toward Saline Springs,
he was fired at by young cooper named
Kullman. The ball grazed his wrist and in
ficted a small wound. The populace were
with great difficulty prevented from lynching
the man after his arrest.
According to the London Times special
from Madrid Of the 18th the Carlists were
trying to drive away foreign correspondents.
Some had already been shot as spies. The
Republicans, according to the same author
ity, had recently defeated a Carlist column
near Bilboa.
According to late Panama advices the Pres
ident of Venezuela had decreed the expulsion
from the Republic Of the Bishop of Merida for
opposing the establishment of civil marriages,
but the Bishop had died before he could en-
bark. \ successor was appointed, but he re-
fused to obey other orders than those of the
Holy See Of Rome, and he, too, and several
priests, had been sent out of the country.
A Madrid dispatch Of the 18th says the Car
lists had attacked Cuenca, eighty-four miles
southeast of Madrid
A great crowd Of people waited on Bis
marck on the evening of the 18th, to congrat-
ulatc him on his escape from the bullet of the
assassin The Chancellor appeared and adj
dressed the assemblage. After expressing his
thanks for the demonstration, he said the at
tempt on his life was not aimed at his person,
but at the cause which he represented. A
priest named Hunthalter had been arrested
ut Schwenfurth on suspicion of being impli-
Gated in the attempt
Monsignor de Mirode, private chaplain to
the Pope, died in RoIse on the 18th.
The Government was again defeated in the
French Assembly on the 18th by a majority
of LOG on a proposition to increase the salt
tax.
A Paris dispatch of the 18th says the Com
mittee of Thirty had submitted their Consti-
tutional bill for the consideration of the As
sembly The dispatch adds that its provisions
Madrid dispatch of the 18th reports
Ministerial crisis impending in Spain.
As was expected after the defeat of his
financial plans, NJ. Magne, French Minister of
Finance, resigned on the 10th.
Madrid dispatches of the 10th say that En-
gland, Germany and Russia had concluded to
recognize the Spanish Republic Marshal
Serrano had concluded to demand of France
an indemnity of $50, OOO, 900 francs for the sup
port rendered by the French Legitimists to
the Carlists The Cariists had ordered one
Republican to be shot for every shell fired at
them by the fleet at Bilboa. The siege of
Puycerda had been abandoned by the Carlists.
The latter had occupied houses in the suburbs
OF Cuenca and were theoretically prosecuting
the siege against that city.
The eS-king of Hanover is reported dan
gerously i'll at Vienna.
San Domingo advices of 4 recent date say
that three Cubans who lately landed on the
coast of Camaguay from a vessel in the old
Bahama channel, and who were captured
shortly after landing by Spaniards, were ex-
ecuted on the Spanish gunboat Neptune, in
which they were being conveyed from Nuevi-
tas to Havana
A dispatch from Constantinople of the 10Th
says that an extensive fire was raging in
Galatea, one of the suburbs of the city, and
that many buildings had been destroyed
Constantinople dispatch of the nth SAYS
the fire at Galatea burned six hours, consumed
200 houses, and caused money loss of
S2,O0O,000
Paris dispatch of the 18th says that NJ. de
fpIlrtOO pf no INT
signed in consequence of serious differences
with his colleagues.
According to late Cuban dispatches the
insurgents had recently developed considera-
BILE activity. The garrison of GanyacaIes
had been captured by them and the
city of Trinidad was in their pos
session, They were also in large force
in the environs of Puerto Principe The
United States Consular Agent at Manzanino
had been ordered to leave the island