The Bee-Hive. — 1874-07-25 (London, England)

FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE.  A MOT.EATING tiger is roaming in the vicinity of Hazsreebagh. It is estimated that during the last six months he has killed 200 Hindoos.  --- A SEVERE conflagration has taken place at Kioto ; sixteen hundred houses were burned down; thirteen hundred have also been burned at liamantatzu.  A LETTER to the Cologne Gazette states that Captain Schmidt, who was recently murdered by ihe Carlists, was forcibly baptized as a Roman Catholic before his execution.  THE following are the details of the fatal fracas reported by telegraph as having taken place between the soldiery and civilians in the Island of Corfu. A private was walking in the street followed by a cur, which a person accidentally trod upon in passing by. The soldier drew his sword, and struck at not only the person who had innocently made his dog yelp, but everybody else at hand. Several persons were severely wounded. The outrage was reported to the commandant of the garrison, a certain Demitrakarakos, who, instead of putting the soldier under arrest and ordering an inquiry, allowed him to go at largo. The next day, this gallant fellow, taking some comrades with him, repaired to the spot where the previous scene had occurred, and began to fall upon the unarmed citizens. The latter massed together and drove the soldiers back into the citadel. Thereupon, Commandant Demitrakarakos ordered the garrison to fire upon the town. The volley killed and wounded a number of persons, among the former being the wife of Mr. Miliaressi, a medical gentleman, and an English groom. The foreign consuls took the matter up, but made no impression on the commandant, who vauntingly declared that it was he who had given the order to fire on the people. It is said that this barbarian became "well-known to the police" during a visit with which he honoured the English capital some years ago. A REUTER'S telegram from Gibraltar, dated the 15th inst., reports that the Oriana, from Newcastle, had put in there on the 7th. Her boilers had burst and killed two men.  ON the very day that the attempt was made on Prince de Bismarck's life, his son fought a duel with pistols with M. liarskow, an officer of infantry. The encounter took place at six in the morning, at ten paces distant. Three shots were to have been exchanged, but at the first tire, M. de Bisniarck, jun., shot his adversary in the abdomen. The wounded man was removed to the military hospital, but he died two hours after.  A MILAN journal mentions an extraordinary suicide at Albino, in Lombardy. Madame Penaroli, wife of an advocate there, wae suffering from melancholy monomania, and, taking advantage of a moment when she was loft alone, set fire to her clothes with a lueifer match, and was burnt to death.  A VIOLENT storm,• says the Continental Herald, broke over the valley of Poschiavo, in the Grisons, the other day. In the nunnery situated in that valley the idea was prevalent that Antichrist was about tri make his appearance upon earth, and that the comet was his precumor. Is their despair these artless religious devotees hastened to ring all the bells in order to ward off the danger.  - Dlt. ALLNATT, dating from Frant on the 18th inst., states: —The comet since its first appearance has been throughout its course on this altitude, 591 ft. above the mean level of the sea, a most wonderful object. Last night (Friday), at ten o'clock, the nucleus was entirely lost in the northern horizon, but the tail, or coma, was of enormous magnitude, both as to its elongation and lateral extension. The preternatural brilliancy of the stars betoken a pellucid atmosphere, and the coma appeared as an auroral streamer reaching from the horizon almost to the Great Bear, and rivalling in distinctness the fainter portions of the Via Laotea. I have seen most of the famous comets of the present century, but none, I think, have approached the one now visible in length and breadth of the luminous vapour which constitutes the coma.  DURING the past year (says the Continental Herald) M. Ernest Stamm, an Alsatian engineer, devoted much time and care to the study of the question of a connection between France and Italy independently of Swiss territety. With this object the idea of tunnelling Mont Blanc is advocated by him in a paper which has been read by M. Stamm before the Societ6 Industrielle de Mulhouse. A survey proves that while Chamounix is 3,445 feet above the sea level, and Entr6veB, on the south, 4,21 G feet, a tunnel between the two points would not be longer, nor its gradients more difficult, than the Mont Collis tunnel.  atifE.  THE Franconian Courier gives the following a 3 an authentic account of Prince Bismarck's interview with the prisoner Kullmapn :—Bismarck: Why did you wish to kill me? Kullmann : On account of the ecclesiastical laws. Bismarck: Those laws do not concern you, as everybody is at liberty to believe what he likes. Did you commit this act of your own will? Kullmann : ; I have been engaged to do it. Bismarck: By whom? Kullmann : I stall not tell. Bismarck : Is it not sad that a fellow-countryman should have wished to kill me ? Kullmann: 1 did it on account of the ecclesiastical laws. Bismarck: Did you not think that the consequence of your crime would be to render those laws still more severe? Kullmann remained silent.  DOMICIL/AIM visits were made by the police at Berlin on Saturday to the house of Herr von Kehler, Councillor of Legation, and Director of the Mayence Catholic Union; and that of Herr Cremen, editor of the Germania, an Ultramontane journal. A large number of documents were seized at the one place and a few at the ether.  ACCORDING to the De bats a curious deputation waited upon his Holiness the Pope the other day, to congratulate him on the attainment of his eighty-third year. The deputation consisted of eighty-three maidens, ranging from one year old to fourscore and three. The Pope, it is said, was much pleased with the interview.  THE New York papers give an account of a new system which has been adopted for the purpose of getting rid of stray dogs that have been brought to the pound. A large tank is prepared and tilted with carbonic acil gas before the dogs are put into it, so that they may be rendered insensible as soon as they are dropped in, fly placing a lighted candle in the tank it is ascertained whether the receptacle is full, as in that case the light is extinguished.. The old method of exhausting the air after the dogs had been placed in the tank, and introducing about half the quantity of gas necessary to fill the tank, effected a much dower and more cruel death.  - Br the fire at Constantinople, which burned for six hours, 200 houses, including twenty built of stone, were destroyed. The damage done 4°. estimated at £lOO,