The Opelousas journal. [volume] (Opelousas, La.) 1868-1878, 1873-10-10
A weekly Retrospect Of Eveants
From Appleton's Journal.l

Sept. 13.-General zabala assumes
command of the Spanish Republican
troops in the meth.
Verdun, France, evacuated by the
German troops.
Death of Colonel George H. Pierce, at
Dover, n. FL.
Sept. 14-Dispatch that the British
steamship Daphne had captured in the
Indian Ocean, near Seychelle, a pes
tilential slaveship, on which two hum
dred and fifty out OF three hundred on
board had died.
Advices Of the complete defeat Of the
EnriquiP alaccias flfbustering expedi-
ton to Guatemala and Honduras.
The walls of q stone-lIOuse, DevOnshire,
England, recently burned, fall, killing
eight persons and injuring several.
Sept. 15.-Death, at Havre, France,
of the Duke de Rianzares, husband of ex-
Queen Christina of Spain.
General Moriones appointed general
issimo of the Republican armiesin Spain.
Cortland A. Sprague, late City Treas
urer OF Brooklyn, N. Y, arrested on
charges of enlightenment and malfeas-
ance in office, and released on bail.
The propeller Ironsides fOundered and
sunk off Grand Haven, Mich; thirty
five reported saved in open boats, four
teen lost by boats capsizing.
Sept. 16.-The German, evacuation OF
France completed.
Riotin Eclja, Spain, provoked by Inter;
nationals. Many persons killed and
wounded. Election riot in Malaga, Spain
Unknown schooner sunk in the river
Mersey, England, with all on board
Dispatch that a rain-stOrm in Texas
a inundated the country from Browns.
vile to the Gulf, destroying crops and
| sweeping away railway and telegraph
lines.
Six hundred cases of yellow fever re,
ported at Shreveport, La.
Sept. 17.-Death of the English lord
Charles Philip YOrke, Earl Of Hard
wicke, admiral. Death, at Paris, of F
n. A. Farbly, member of the French
| Chamber of Deputies from 1841 to 1848
Dispatch that seventy vessels had beel
| wrecked near the mouth of the B0spO
rus, on the Black Sea, nearly all TIL
crews perishing. Two hundred anC
~sixty4hve corpses had been WASHED
ashore at one point.
Sept. 19.-Dr. Livingstone reported
in perfect health, in Central Africa
July list.
Failure of Jay Cooke & Co., bankers
NeW-York City.
Loss Of the Pacific mail steamship
Costa RIGA, at Point Diablo, near Sal
Francisco, Cal. Passengers saved.
Sept. 19.-Dispatch that boats belong
ing to. the British navy We're attacket
by pirates near Penang, Malay Archi
pelago. The man-of-war ITALIA ha
been dispatched with orders to chastis
the pirates.
Dispatch that the crews of insurgen
men-of-War from Cartagena, Spair
pillaged the town of Aquilas and sub
urbs, and that the Internati0nals j
Seville had attacked Republican re
cr1its, killing several.
Dispatch that Cuddington and part.
of the Polaris, were rescued by 1t Scotc
whaler.
Failure of Jay Cooke & Co. followe
by panicin Wall Street; Fisk and Hatcl
bankers, and eighteen other firms sus
pend. General fall Of stocks.
Announcement Of the safe arrival q
Dundee, Scotland, OF the remainder
the crew of the Polaris.
yellow fever on the increase at Men
phis. #.
Intelligence Of the death of the En-
peror of Morocco. Civil war has broke
out in Morocco between the 0 and til
brother of the deceased emperor.
Announcement that 2,755 cases {
cholera have occurred in Vienna sint
its outbreak, with /, no fatal cases.