The Opelousas journal. [volume] (Opelousas, La.) 1868-1878, 1873-04-05
Weekly Retrospect of Events.
From Appletons, Jonrnal.l

March 9.-Report that Carlists are be-
sieging PampeIuna denied. A band of
Madrid citizens attempt to join the Car
lists, but are oVertaken, andtheir leader
and fifteen others killed.
Property of the New York Central
Railroad at Albany seized for non-pay-
ment Of $460,7 20 Te~venue-tax.
The jury in the John Scannell muir
decrease at New York discharged, fail
ing to agree.
A eoroner's jury of Salisbury, Nd,
find George Hall guilty of numbering
Amelia Shock1ey. An unknown man,
believed to be Hall, commits suicide by
throwing himself under a railroad-train
near Cristield, Md.
Death at Boston of James Savage, dis
tlngulshed American antiquarian, and
President of the Massachusetts HistOri-
cal Society. Death Of Commander "a
mund W. Henry, of the United States
Navy, at Piedmont, n. y.
March 9.-The Federal Republic pro-
claimed in Barcelona.
Intelligence OF an explosion in n car
tr1dge-manufactOry at Fort Mont Vale
rien, France, on 18th inst. One hundred
persons injured, twelve fatally.
A block OF MISUNDERSTANDING DESTROY
ed by fire at Clyde, O.
March 10,-Death of cX-Queen Pau
line of ,WMrtcmberg. Intelligence of
the death of Baron de LOrentz, a vcte-
ran officer of the British Army: of Ar
mand GODDARD at Paris, distinguished
amateur in painting; and of General
Count Christian Dumas at Passy, for
merly aide-de-camp to Louis Philippe.
Fails City Tobacco Bank, at Louis
vile ~, robbed by burglars of
Death of John Torrey, NJ. D., LII. D.,
at New York.
March 11.-Twenty-two of the Span
ish provinces demand the dissolution
OF the Assembly: Report that Catalonia
and Andalusia threaten to set up indie
pendent governments.
Dispatch that Carlists have burned
several INTERPRETATIONS between San
Sebastian and Irun.
Large fire at Indianapolis, Ind. Fire
i'll Brooklyn, n. Y; two personsipiured.
Death, at Concord, of Henry A. Bel
lows, Chief-Justice of New Hampshire.
Dispatch that the MOdOcs agree to
surrender as prisoners of war.
March 12.-Defeat of the Irish Uni
versity Bill in the House of Commons,
and Premier Gladstone tenders his res
lSnatlOn Ill consequence.
The Spanish Assembly sanction the
Government bill suspending the sittings
and cony0king the constituent COrtes.
Senior MartOs, President of the Assem-
bly,, and Senior Lopez, the Secretary, re-
sign. The Federal Republic proclaimed
in Malaga. Intelligence of a Carlist
victory on 18th inst. on the Heights of
QTJarOun; government loss, one hun
dred men.
The Modocs, failing to surrender,
General Gillen orders an advance and
attack.
Intelligence of the defeat of Lozada
anu SIX Thousand Indians, January 28th,
at M0hOneIa, Mexico, loss three hundred
killed, six hundred wounded; govern.
ment loss, three hundred killed; also,
defeat and loss OF two thousand of his
troops at Rosario, january 80. LOzada
reported advancing on Guadalaiara, but
most of his forces dispersed.
George S. Boutwell, elected to the
United States Senate by the Massachu-
sets Legislature.
Frederick j. Smith indicted by the
grand jury at Evansville, Ind, for the
murder OF q woman whose headless re-
mains were found in 1866,
March 13.-ReSignatiOn of the Glad
stone cabinet; dissolution of Parliament
imminent.
Carllsts throw an eNpress-train from
the track near Vi~llafranca, shooting the
engineer and three attendants. but are
DIR ven Oft by the passengers and guards,
The French assembly adopt the con-
Stltuent project of the Committee of
Thirty.
James D. Page, of Vallejo, Cal, shoots
ms wife and commits suicide. General
Candy reported moving against the
MOdOcs.
March14-Dispatch that GeneralNou-
villas had attacked the Carlists under
GENERAL Dorregaray on the Heights of
MOurial, but was driven back, Heavy
losses on both sides.
Socialist disturbances reported in Es-
tremadura.
Intelligence that the steamer Eastern
Queen had fOundered on TampicO bar;
crew believed to be saved,
Dispatch Of Cuban attacks upon the
Spanish lines, and battles at Bayamo,
NaJaza, and LlmOneS victories disDnt-
ed. Battle near Puerto Principe, insur-
gents victorious.
Intelligence that the Spanish authori-
ties il executed the Cuban General
Rubalcaba on 18th inst.
British ministerial crisis continued
probability of Gladstone's withdrawal
OF his resignation gaining ground.
Large fire in Parkersburg, W. Va.
AdVices of the death, at Florence,
Italy, in his seventy-sixth year, of Bish-
op Charles Petit, M~cIlvaine, of the Epis-
Execution ut Knoxville, Ill, of J. W.
Osborne for murder of Mrs. Matthew'S;
and at Chicago OF George Driver for