The Opelousas journal. [volume] (Opelousas, La.) 1868-1878, 1873-05-17
A Weekly Retrospect of Events.
from Appletons, Journal. !

April 18.-Death, at Vallejo, CAL, OF
Commodore Watson, of the United
States Navy.
General Pieltain assumes the captain
g~eneralship of Cuba. Spanish Volun-
teers at Malaga rebel, but the leaders
are arrested, and order is restored.
April 19.-General Primo Rivera as
sames the captain-generalship of Porto
Rico .. .-,
April 20.-The entire destruction of
San Salvador confirmed, but only ffty
lives reported lost. Also advices of the
partial destruction of SOpopangO, Hap
angO, San Tomas, and Santa Teca, by
the same earthquake. Reported defeat
OF Cuban insurgents under CaliXtO Gar
cia, OH the 18th instant. ...'as'.
The Shah of Persia leaves Teheran
for a European tour 4 plot of NOLAN
medans in Bosnia, Turkey, to massacre
the Christians discovered and thwart-
ed.
April 91.-Dispatch of an Atcheen
victory over the Dutch, and retreat of
| the latter to the shore; losses heavy on
| both sides. Riotin Frankfort, Germany,
owing to a rise in the price of beer
twelve persons killed and forty wound
ed, sixteen bFeWeries destroyed; one
hundred and twenty rioters arrested,
and order restored by the military. Car
lists attack the A1caldey of Figneras. but
| are repulsed. Federal republicans in
| Barcelona make acquisitions ON wealthy
| citizens. Dispatch of the execution at
Constantine, Algiers, of four insurgent
! Arabian chiefs.
Penikese Island, near New Bedford.
decided by John Anderson, of New York.
to Professor Agassiz, as site for a nat
ural-histOry school.
April 22.-Intelligence of the crush
ing to death of seven persons by the
falling of a floor at Belleville, Kansas,
| 18th instant.
4AavieesOf the surrender of tive bands
of Apaehes to General Crook at Camp
Verde, Arizona, on the 9th instant, and
that the Apaches u efOr peace. A pOr-
| ton of the MOdocS reported still in the
| Lava Beds, General GiIlem and Warm
! Stirring Indians OF their trial; seventeen
| ModOcs reported killed and as manv
wounded in the three days fight.
April 23.-Dispatch of the recall of
| the Dutch expedition against the Atch-
Gems to Padding loses during the cam
| paign, seven officers and thirty-eiglt
men killed, and thirty-fivet officers and
three hundred and eighty-three men
wounded.
General Velarde resigns the captain
| g~eneralship Of Catalonia, and General
| Pavia that of Madrid.
Intelligence of the death BY drown
ing, on the 18th instant, of Frederick
| DOca, American consul at Manzanillo,
| Cuba. az. *si.. -.,..
Intelligence of a severe wind and
| snow-stOrm in Nebraska; many lives
| reported lost.
The Earl De La War;, a distinguished
m~aiOr-general in the British Army, COM
mits suicide, drowning. himself in the
river Cam.
Dispatch that the Modocs had fred
I OF. an army-tTain, escort, and camp, but
were speedily repulsed. Four hundred
| Cheyennes and Usage Indians reported
| on the war-path in Kansas.
April A.-Dispatch, cOntradicting the
report Of the murder of Sir Samuel Ba-
ker and his wife in Central Africa.
Disorders at Madrid, owing to differ
| ences between the government and the
| Permanent Commission of the Assem-
bly,, caused by President Figueras tent
DOrarily resigning his powers on account
| of the death of. his wife, and the ap-
| pointing of Pi Y Margall to act in his
/ stead. Volunteers take up arms to- de-
| feTfd the commission, but are threaten
| ed with artillery, and surrender. Mar
| shall Serrano attempts a coup d'etGt, but
fails. The ministry force the Perma-
| nent Commission to dissolve.
April Is. = Dispatch of a strike Ot
twenty thousand coal-miners in Leices-
tershire, England. s.
Dispatch that Senior CASTELAR, and his
| colleagues order the enrolment in the
army of men twenty years old through
out Spain. -
AdTices of conflicts and preparations
for war in Sonora, SinalOa, OaXaca, and
| Chihuahua, Mexico.
Reported capture Of a government
supply-train by Indians on Cole Creek
Texas, and the murder Of four atten,
da1ts. - @--~.a.
April 26.-Reports Of threatening as.
pect of affairs in Madrid. Rumor thai
the commune had been proclaimed, an6
that the troops had revOlted. -