The Opelousas journal. [volume] (Opelousas, La.) 1868-1878, 1873-08-02
A weekly Retrospect of Events.
From Appleton's Journal

july 4.-Death, 1T Paris, ef Prince
Joseph POniatowski, distinguished oper-
attic composer.
The irrecOncilable deputies withdraw
from the Spanish COrtes. because of the
extraordinary powers conferred on the
government.
Advices that tilibusters, under PaIa-
clos, had overthrow the government of
Honduras, and were marching on Guate-
mala.
Advices from Arizona that Lieuten-
ant Babcock had killed fourteen
Apaches in a fight, and captured six.
July 5.-The Inman steamship City of
Washington stranded on Gull Rock
Bar, Nova Scotia, in the fog; all ON
board saved.
Death, at Mount Athos, Va, of Judge
John Robertson, Cover
nor of Virginia, and Judge of the Cir
cult Court of Richmond.
Seven Indians at Fort Hill, Id, await
ing trial for murders, attempt to escape;
three succeed, the others are shot.
The second two hundred and fifty
million francs of the last milliard of
the German War indemnity is paid by
France.
July 6.-Death, at Hudson, Ohio, of
DR.. Henry L. Hitchcock, ex-president
OF w eSIern reserve COIleSc.
Intelligence of a socialist outbreak at
PoOnah, India, the HindOo peasants re-
fusing to pay rent, and burning several
houses.
July 7.-Intelligence of the death of
Baron MarjOribanks, member of the
British Parliament; of Colonel Adolf
BOrbstaedt, noted military author of
Berlin.
Carlists besiege the city of Vich.
Dispatch that several hundred va
grants placed at work on the trOcha,
Havana, had escaped, and Joined the
insurgents.
The steamship Virginius lands sup
plies for the Cuban insurgents, and
runs the Spanish blockade.
July 8.-Dispatch that Sir Samuel
Baker had discovered that the lakes
Tanganyika and Albert Nyanza formed
one inland sea hundred miles in
length.
Intelligence that the Russians had de-
strOyed the Khivan town of Mangit be-
cause of a desperate resistance, but
spared Kilai, which surrendered imme-
diately. The viCtOrs had found in
Khiva ten thousand Persian slaves,
many of whom claimed the protection
of Russia.
July 9.-Dispatch that eighteen Nor
wegianS Of the German Arctic Naviga-
ton Company, left at Spitzbergen, had
been found dead by a party sent to
their relief.
July 1O.-Dispatch that General Nou-
villas had resigned the command of the
Spanish Army of the North.
SignOr Minghetti forms a new minis
try in Italy, acting as President of the
Council and Minister of Finance.
Signor Visconte VenOsta appointed
Minister Of Foreign Affairs Minister of
the Interior, SignOr Cantelli Minister of
Justice and Ecclesiastical Affairs; Sig
} nor Vigliani Minister of War, Lieuten-
ant General Ricotti Magnani; Minister
of Marine, Signor SaintbOn; Minister of
Public Works, SignOr Spaventa; Minis
? ter OF Public Instruction, SignOr Scia-
LOLA Minister Of Commerce and Agri-
t culture, SignOr FINAL.
Cholera reported in Breslau and Lau-
5 terberg, Germany.
July 11.-Dispatch of the capture of
= San Guesa, in Navarro, by the Carlists
I Eight Turkish men-of-war reported
= ON their way to Sumatra.
g Intelligence of battle at Santa COlOms
with Carlists; fifty of the insurgents
= killed. Carlists driven out of Sar
= Guesa. Reports that Carlists had sur.
: prised Republican forces near RipOli
under General Cabrinety; Cabrinety
: killed; One-half his command takeI
t prisoners. InternatiOnalists at Alcoy
o have risen, shot the mayor, and burned
s sixty houses. An accident on Southern
Railway, Spain, by which many per
sons were killed and injured,