The Opelousas journal. [volume] (Opelousas, La.) 1868-1878, 1873-05-31
A Weekly Retrospect of Events.
From Appletons, Journal

A W. eekAy retrospect Oh Events
from Appletons' Journal
May 2.-Aceident on the Grand
Trunk Railway; t%hirty-two passengers
injured,
Baron Louis de Viel-Castel elected
member. of the French Academy.
Colonel w. A. Cameron, Of the United
States Army, commits suicide at New
York.
May s.-Railfoad accident near
jured.
Dispatch from Spain, that General
lEelaTde fines Berga ten thousand dol
SabattO, to enter the town. Amnesty
to Carlists who surrender within a
week proclaimed. A number of Carlist
prisoners i'll the Canary Islands killed
and wounded by the authorities in sub
DUNG q mutiny among them. Dispatch
that Russia demands of the Porte
punishment of the culprit monks at
Bethlehem. r..
May 4-The two end-spans of an
iron-bFidge at Dixon, ILL.,, across Rock
River, give way while crowded with
peopleto witness a baptism !; seventy
sever are reported drowned or crushed
to death, and thirty injured.
New Orleans police take possession of
st. MartinsviHe, La, by orderof Cover
nor Kellogg. The citizens arm and
oppose them. 10.
Dispatch that, the Spanish peasants
violently oppose the order to retreat to
the cities with their provisions. 9
May 5.-Death, at st. Petersburg, of
the Hon. James 1. Orr, United States
raTnySfnr &n Prussia , ~ D,2sr e D.oo,T+
do GenOuilly, Admiral of France; at
Charlottesville, Va, of w. H. McGufey,
professor in the University of Virginia.
A new bridge gives way on Lanure
River, Mo-, killing three workmen, and
injuring eight.
Advices of n landslide at P~iscObamba,
| Peru, killing thirty-six persons.
Senior Martos is arrested at Vittoria
by the Spanish Government. Intelli-
| gence that General Caballos de ROdas
had been arrested while endeavOring tC
escape from Madrid. Victor Emmanuel
refuses to accept the resignation of Min
lister LAMA and his colleagues, and they
refrain their offices, the Laramie biz
being withdrawn.
Suicide, at Sackett's Harbor, N. Y.
| of Lieutenant John L. WOrden. of the
| United States Army.
May, 6.-Death, at New York, O.
Jose Antonio Paez, twice President Of
Venezuela and of John r. Broadhead
American antiquarian and historian
death, at Brooklyn, N. Y, of Captain
George c, StOufer, famous for having
rescued the passengers OF the steamel
San Francisco, i'll a violent storm il
das, the Earl of Zetland.
4 oratnnf m1siooI fnctiro1 o7nn,ne "a TN;v,
cinnati; o. r.,
May death, at New York, of Sal
mon P. Chase, ,Chief-Justice of tn,
United States Supreme Court. s-iT'
Inauguration Of Governor Ingersoll
of Connecticut. a.
Dispatch that the Duchess of Madrit
had been denied a residence in Switzer
land, and all Carlist agents ordered t.
leave. Carlists under Don Alfons,
surrounded by the republicans nea
Igualada.
Conflict, at St. MartinsviIle, La, be
tween the Kellogg police and citizens
thee men wounded; New Orleans in
tensely excited a gun shop sacked b,
the mob; Governor Kellogg fired at
but escapes injury.
May 8.-Death, at North Easton
Mass, of the Hon. Cakes Ames; and, a
Philadelphia. of ex-Judge EdwarC
King.
Death, at Avignon, France, of Joh1
Stuart Mill, in his sixty-seventh year.
Intelligence of the surrender Of four
teen hundred Apaehes at Camp Verde
Dispatch of a. railway accident nea
Pesth, Hungary; twenty killed AM
forty injured.
Dispatch that the Khan Of Khiva ha,
released Russian slaves, and demande,
the withdrawal of the Russian expedi
ton. .zEE -.
May9.-Dispatch of the total rout o
the Carlists under Dorregaray. Car
lists defeated at Anes by General Yillar
Cos, and three of their leaders killed
Intelligence that Captain General Vel
} arde had cOuntermanded the order t
the farmers to retreat to the cities, OF
their promise to rally against the Car
lists.
Dispatch of a railway accident nea
Shrewsbury. England; four killed
many injured.
intelligence that the dead bodies @
eight persons had been found under
house in Labette County, Kansas, mu1
dered by the Bender family, that ha
left the place two weeks before.
Carlists claim a victory instead O
defeat, under General Dorregaray. !
levy en- masse is in preparation to crus
out the instruction. The Carlists un
der Campo and Gomez said to hay
been defeated.
Intelligence of the failure Of tn
/ Hall, October, 1871; thirteen of til
, crew of the .Polaris rescued by til
TigFess after many months drifting o
: an iceberg, living on seal and white
! bear meat. a @ 7@@