Year: 1878

Plaza Mayor. He aimed too low, however,
and the ball passed through the hand Of
soldier standing guard on the opposite side
of the street. The King saw the flash and,
with an involuntary movement of his hand,
checked his horse momentarily. He then
rode TRANQUILITY onward toward the
palace. Several women who were standing
near the man who fired pointed him out
with loud cries, and he was at once secured
He did not make the slightest attempt to
escape. Terrible indignation was mani
tested among the people forming the crowd
that almost Immediately gathered from the
that doleful old enclosed square, where
the autos da fS and the festas reales took
place during and even since the days Of the
Inquisition, but now given over to the
venders Of dates, pomegranates and base
metal jewelry. Attempts were made to
wreak summary vengeance upon the assas-
sin when he was on his way to the Gobierno
Civil. Thence he was soon removed to the
Captain Generally.


DESCRIPTION OF THE PRISONER.


The prisoner displayed great coolness
drew a cigar from his pocket. which, after
having struck o match, he coolly lit and
began to smoke. He is very thin man, Of
medium height, wears light mustache
and has his hair closely cropped. He ad-
mitted the crime and triumphantly de-
clared himself socialist and Information
alist but when Intercepted as to who his
accomplices were denied that he had acted
in concert with any one. He said that he
came alone from Tarragona purposely to
kill king. This was his first serious dis
appointment in life.


GENERAL GRANT WITNESS.


General Grant was standing when the shot
was fired at o window Of the Hotel de Paris
(situated at the junction of the Carrera San
Geronimo and the Gale de Alcala), overlook
ing the Puerta del Sol. This hotel is long
distance from the scene of the attack, but
looks across the great central plaza of
Madrid directly down the Gale Mayor.
General Grant, who was following with
his eyes the progress of the royal caval-
cade which had just passed across the
to the HERaL aLD correspondent that he clearly
saw the fash Of the assassin's pistol. The
General had already i'booked" for Lisbon
by the night train leaving at seven o'clock,
and therefore could not in person present
his congratulations to King Alfonso; but
to Sefior Silvera, the Minister Of State, who
called soon after and accompanied him to
the railway station, General Grant ex-
pressed his sympathies, and regrets that he
was unable to postpone his journey in
order that he might personally call upon
His Majesty. He begged Sefior Silvera
to convey to the King his sincere congratu-
lations on his escape from the assassin's
bullet There was q great gathering of
diplomats, mobiles and men of all parties
at the palaceto to offer congratulations on Fri
day night and yesterday. Marshal Scrrano
Duke de la Torre) wns one of the first
callers. Minister James Russell Lowell
ani Mr.. Ried, Secretary of Legation, called
at the palace yesterday and expressed their
qualification at the Kings escape. The
King continues to make light Of the whole
affair, but the popular indignation is still
extreme.


PRAYERS AT THE ArocHA CHAPEL.


The King drove yesterday to the Chapel
Of the Atocha (as he does every Saturday
afternoon) with his sister, the Princess of
the Asturias, by his side. They were
seated in q two-horse brake with two
lackeys behind and one outrider, but
without any escort. His reception by the
populace amounted almost to an ovation.
The royal party drove from the
palace up through the street in
which the shooting occurred, across
the Puerta del Sol. down the Gale
de Alcala to the Prado, and thence along
the Passeo Botanico into the Passed de
Atocha-the very route over which, on
January 20 last, the young King drove to
the same convent chapel to claim the hand