The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1876-03-02
FOREIGN.

In the house of commons Disraeli
moved bill enabling the queen to take the
style and title of Empress of India"
Venezuela has demanded her differ
ences with Holland to be submitted to the
arbitrament of one of the great European
powers.
The chief police commissioner of Rot
terdam, states that active search is being
made there and elsewhere on the continent
for Winslow, the Boston forger.
The AZore islands, between the months
of October and December last, exported 12l >
792 cases of oranges and 6,142 pine-appIes,
employing fourteen steamships and forty-twO
sailing vessels.
The steamer FrancOnia ran into the
steamer Strath-Clyde, of Glasgow, of Dover,
on the evening of the 18th. The boiler of
the Strath. Clyde burst, and she sank imme-
diately. Fifty-two of her passengers were
drowned.
Extreme encouragement prevails at
Havana on account of the fact that the rebel
lion cannot be suppressed, that the troops
have not been paid of for months, and that
crowded hospitals have been almost aban-
doned on account of penury and want.
A dispatch from London states that
the liberals have agreed to resist in parlia-
ment the ratification of the purchase OF the
Suez canal shares, believing that serious for
eign complications will arise Bradlaugh,
who has been consulted by Gladstone, is
lecturing to country audiences, and securing
signatures to a petition imploring resistance
to the ratification.
Owing to the devastation and destruc-
ton of over three hundred sugar estates in
Cuba by the Spaniards and rebels, the Diario
says that the sugar crop of the present yeaI
will fall short thirty per cent of that of 1875
Dealers in this article, both in Europe and
America, can base their calculations upon
Cuba's furnishing two hundred thousand tons
less than last year.
just before Alfonso's departure for the
north, Del CASTILLO read to the king a dis
patch from the Spanish consul at Bavonne
announcing that the Carlist junta intended
to hold a meeting at Villa France, to pro
pose conclusion of peace. The Carlists
are represented panic-stricken. They lack
money and provisions. Many priests and
Catholic families are quitting the country.
A special telegram from Vienna give,
the following: "The Bosnia insurgents hav,
Issued a manifesto against Count Andrassy'
note. The manifesto points out the porte,
former breaches of promised reforms, ant
declares that the resistance of MohanmedaI
! beys will battle every reform. The Moham
medans even are expected to revolt if an
attempt is made TO execute the reforms. Tn,
/ insurgents, therefore, refuse to lay dow
/ their arms and appeal to the justice o
/ Europe"
An article in the Cologne Gazett,
/ draws attention to the fact that the Russian
! press is continually instigating the insurgent
/ in Servia and Montenegro against the porte
/ The Gazette declares that the Russian gov
ernment is responsible for the alarming de
meanor of the press, consequently it cauno
be surmised that the people believe IN tn
existence OF n secret agreement by whic
Austria is to be allowed TO annex Bosnis
Russia retaking the Bessarabian territory
which was ceded in 1867. The powers hav
accepted the porte's modification of An
drassay's proposals, so that the application
of the direct taxes of Bosnia and Hero
govinia to the devolopement of those pro,
inces viii not be required.