Democratic Sentinel, Volume 2, Number 39, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 November 1878 — Bismarck’s Peril. [ARTICLE]

Bismarck’s Peril.

Prince Bismarck has been followed by shoals of threatening letters to Varzin, Kissingen, Gastein, and the Wilhelm Strasse. Whithersoever his steps have been bent, in quest of health, these productions have dogged him with regularity. Nor are the Chancellor’s nerves what they formerly were. Since Kullmann attempted his life at Kissingen his old scorn of risk and his indifference to menace have diminished. When in Berlip he confines himself almost absolutely to his house and garden, which are carefully watched, at all times, by policemen in plain clothes; if compelled by his official duties to visit the palace he drives thither and back in a close carriage, with the windows up, sitting well back, so as to be invisible to passers, by. Yarzin is as carefully guarded and as difficult to penetrate as Mecca itself; and at Lauenburg his park has just been surrounded with a high wall, shutting it completely in from the public ken.