The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1874-03-13
FOREIGN.

The sale of photographs OF the Count
De Chambord is prohibited in France
The Spanish minister states the pro-
posed blockade of the coast Of Cantabria, is
suspended for the present.
A dispatch received at the Indian
Office, London, states that over million peo-
pie are starving to deathin the famine-stricken
districts of India.
A dispatch from Gen. Woolseley says !:
% Coomassie has been captured and burnt.
The king has fed. The British troops have
commenced their return march unhindered."
A letter from Havana says that since
the late DEGREES were promulgated the natives
among the Spanish volunteers are constantly
deserting to the insurgents, and that whole
families are fleeing to the mountains.
Fifteen of the crew of the ship Grace
Darling, wrecked on the Scotch coast in the
recent gales, were washed from the rigging
and drowned. Four life-guardsmen going to
their assistance lost their lives by the swamp
ing of their beat.
Dispatches from Calcutta report that
the distress among the famine-stricken peo-
pie in Eastern Tishost is increasing. In one
village there have been eighteen deaths from
starvation in four days. The number of ap-
plicants has increased from $1,000 to $4,000
within week.
A party of fourteen Spaniards, who
had escaped from CONSUMPTION in Cuba, have
arrived in New York. They had volunteered
to go to the front, receiving in bounty seven
hundred dollars but not liking the prospect of
war, they deserted, and by practice of strategy
and bribery succeeded in getting on board a
fruit vessel about to sail.
/ Senior Aldoma, agent of the Cuban
republic at New York; says the patriot forces
more than hold their own. They number
/ about u 600 armed men, and could put three
times that number in the field if they could
/ get arms and ammunition. Native Cubans
are all on their side. Nearly half the island
/ is in their possession. Spanish troops in the
/ field number %, 600 regulars and Is, 900 volun-
/ teers. They are asking for reinfOrcements
from Spain.
! A special dispatch from the Ashantee
expedition says an immense force of Ashan-
tees under leadership of the king in person.
aided by his principal chiefs, opposed the pas.
cage of the river Dab by the British fore ss
Two officers of the Highland rs were killed
and thirty white men wounded. The Asian
tees were routed with heavy loss. The king
and his chief abandoned their army and tool
10 flight At the close of the battle Comassit
was occupied by Sir Garnet Wolselys forces
without opposition.
The Brazilian mail steamer from Rio
Janeiro. has arrived. Probability OF war with
the Argentine states on account of new in
surrection in Paraguay was increasing. Troop
and vessels were going forward to Paraguay
At Buenos Ayres elections were in progress
and attended with intense excitement Troop
were being dispatched to various points o.
the frontier, and war with Brazil was locke
upon as liable to break out at any moment
Munitions were arriving from the Unite
States. Cholera continued aud deaths fror
disease averaged seven daily.
The report of the killing OF ex-Presi
dent Cespedes by the San Quentin battalho
is confirmed. On the 9th OF February th
troops captured q negro, who was ordered
be shot. He promised, if his life was spareS
to lead his captors to Cespedes- The prop'
sition was accepted, and the ex-president Wa
; discovered With few friends, five league
from Ascerradoes. His companions fed, b'
, he could not escape, and fired on the trooI
: led by sergeant, who returned the FIR, an
1 Cespedes received bullet in the head al
breast causing instant death. His body vi
brought to Santiago de Cuba, and buried {
u the 1st inst.
a Paris letter anent the approach {
March Is, when the Prince Imperial viii q
tain his majority, eighteen years, aud be
. ago TO govern, Gays For several months ps
y the postofice hiss been showering inillioi
upon millions of Bonspartizt ira II, haud-hiIl
and songs over the country Provincial ele
- tors, both in town and country, hAye recsiY,