The Opelousas journal. [volume] (Opelousas, La.) 1868-1878, 1871-08-12
Domestic News.

Washington, Aug. L. The debt
statement shows a reduction of 49,
zoe, 600.
Miss Phoebe Carey, ~sisterof Alice,
is dead.
Samuel Wakefield has been ap-
pointed postmaster at New Iberia.
Burlington, Vt, Aug. 1.-The cor
porati0n Of Vermont University vot-
ed to admit women.
Boston, Aug. 1.-During a storm
at Haverhill, four barns were struck
by lightning, and one burned, with
several valuable horses.
The mail steamer Delta, from Ber-
muda, reports a fire at Point-a-Pltre,
Guadalupe. Nearly the whole town
was burned and 10000 people left
without shelter. Sugar ready for
shipping was destroyed.
The town was rebuilt entirely of
wood after it's destruction by an
earthquake in 1913. The fire is sup
posed to be the work of an incen-
diary.
New York, Aug. 1.-The number
of dead thus far by the ferry eXplo-
sion is 10. Wounded 122, Of whom
probably two-thirds will die.
San Francisco, Aug. IA wife
from Nevada, finding her husband
and a woman together in a hotel at
Stockton, shot the woman three
times, fatally. The wife and hus-
band were arrested.
Philadelphia, Aug. "a special
to the Erening Telegraph, from At
lantic City, says about thirty per
SONS, after eating corn starch pud-
ding at dinner, at the Alhambra Ho-
tel, yesterday, showed signs of hav-
ing been poisoned. 1t is supposed
arsenic was put in the corn starch
by a discharged domestic.
Charleston, Aug. 2.-The munich
pal election, which took place to-day,
was one of the most exciting ever
known here. The opposing parties
were the Citizens party, embracing
the white voters, with such colored
voters as they could draw to their
support, and the Republican party,
consisting of the bulk Of the colored
voters, witha small portion of whites,
chiefly State and city officials. Gil
bert Pillsbury, the present Mayor,
and John A. Wagner, a prominent
German, were respectively the Re
publican and citizens candidates.
Charleston, Aug. 1.-THE official
count shows that the municipal cleo
ton of Wednesday resulted i'll the
choice of the citizens candidate,
Gen. John A. Wagner, by a major,
ity of TT votes over Gilbert Pills.
bury, the present Republican Maycs,
The entire citizens ticket is elected
by about the same majority.
Springfield, Mass, Aug. 4.-Dr
W. G. Brock received $4,000 from
the Connecticut River Railroad fol-
INJURIES received. DR.. Brock claimed
$4,000.
Cincinnati, O., Aug. "a secret
organization, known as the Union
League of the United Sons of Amer
ica," composed principally of young
men. is forming here to oppose
Catholicism in all shapes. All ma.
tionalities will be admitted.
Washington, Aug. 5.-The Sub
Kuk1ux Committee have adjourned
to the Goth of September.
Lieut.. Pickett, commanding the
troops in PontotOc and Monroe cOun
ties, Mississippi, testified that q
Kuklux organization existed in five
northern counties bordering on Ala
bama, to which Re believed it was
confined in Mississippi.
The purpose of the Kuklux was tt
intimidate colored voters, and drive
Northern men from their section
Within his knowledge they ha(
murdered nine negroes in Monroe
county in the four months he was
stationed there. He believed The
presence of the troops had a goot
effect.