The Opelousas journal. [volume] (Opelousas, La.) 1868-1878, 1873-07-26
A Weekly Retrospect of Events
-[From Apnletnn,s Lonrual.l

June 96.-Carlists capture Fort Irut-
yum, in Navarro. Are attacked by
General Castanon between Legumbert
and Jaben. Loss about three hundred
on each side. Carlists under Ellio vic
t~oriOus, taking eighty prisoners. Gene
raj Dorregaray and his chief-Of-staff
wounded. General NOuvillas retreats
to Pampeluna.
Cabinet crisis in Italy. Victor EN-
manuel summons Minghetti to form q
new ministry.
Death of Colonel L. Hillen, Congress-
man and eX-MayOr of Baltimore.
Hiram Powers, the American sculptor.
cellor of New Jersey.
Town of Hamilton, Nevada, destroyed
by fire.
Advices of a legislative Congress to
be elected in Japan.
Victory of ElliO over NOuvillas in
Navarro, 29d instant, confirmed by the
Carlists, but denied by the Spanish
Government. Carlist leader Rodica
killed. Cabinet crisis at Madrid.
June 29.-Earthquake in Northern
Italy. Thirty-eight persons killed at
| FelettO, eleven at Pu0s, fourteen near
Vittoria lives lost and churches and
dwellings leveled at several other places.
Dispatch Of the murder of two hun
dred and seventy Christians in Bosnia
by MOhammedans within six weeks,
and that foreign representatives to
Turkey had demanded an investigation.
Many Christians reported emigrating in
alarm.
Don Alfonso reported defeated by
| General Cabrinety.
| pOu6nr avO1OSiOO of VipCinio Hitv
Cal, killing ten persons. Explosion in
HOOsic Tunnel, four killed.
Death at COvingtOn, KY, of Jesse
r. Grant, father of President Grant !;
at Boston, of Hon. William Whiting,
Congressman and at Chicago, ILL.,, of
Colonel John W. Foster, president of
the American Scientific Association.
June 30.-Dispatch of the occupation
of the capital Of Khiva by the Russians
under Kaufman, 10th instant, and
flight of the khan to Youmandow.
Disorders at Seville, Spain, by radi-
Gals. The government troops with
drawn to prevent a conflict.
July 1.-The Spanish COrtes grants
extraordinary powers to the Govern
ment to suppress the Carlist insurrec-
ton. -Four thousand men in Biscay de-
clare in favor of Don Carlos.
O1SpCONA JL1SRO All 0duEt " tSu
returned to Khartoum, having annexed
to Egypt the country as far south as the
equator, and suppressed the slave-trade.
Victory reported by Baker with one
hundred and five men over the army Of
0nios0, on May 9th. g..
Ex-Judge W. H. Cooley of New Or
leans, La, killed in q duel by Colonel
r. B. Rhett, editor of the New Orleans
Picayune. Death at Cincinnati, Ohio
of General D. Z. York at Marietta,
Ohio, of Hon. Joseph G. Wilson, mem
Der of Congress from Oregon; and at
New York, of General W. II. Slidell.
July 2'-Intelligence of the capture of
Momeit, in Bnrmah, by the Chinese.
Six persons killed by the falling of a
burning building on Kensal Green,
London.
Cabinet crisis in Italy, Minghetti fail
ing to form a ministry.
The constituent committee OF the
Spanish Cortes complete the draft of a
new Federal Constitution, fixing q single
term of four years for the presidency,
dividing Spain into eleven States, and
Cuba, Porto Rico, and the Philippine
Islands into Territories.
Frank WafWOFth tried at New York
for killing his father Mansfield T. WAL
worth, convicted of murder in the
second degree. Frank GilIen, of New
York, sentenced to State-prison for life
for the murder of his wife.
July 3-Be1luno. Italy, shaken by
earthquake.
July Anniversary Of Declaration
of Independence celebrated in all parts
Of the country. At Philadelphia preli-
minary ceremonies of the great Centen.
NAL BY transfer to the commissioners OF
the site selected for the Industrial Palace
in West Paramount Park.