The Opelousas journal. [volume] (Opelousas, La.) 1868-1878, 1873-05-10
A Weekly Retrospect of Events.
From Applctons' Journal

From Applctons' Journal
April 12.-Dispatch of a mandatory
in Rome struck by lightning on 10th
inst, burrying forty persons in the ruins;
five killed, seventeen injured.
Death, at Paris, of NJ. Saint = Marc
Girardin, q distinguished French au-
thor.
April 13.-Intelligence that General
Candy and DR.. Thomas were murdered,
April nth, by the Modocs, while hold
ing a peace conference. Commissioner
Meacham also dangerously wounded.
The MOdOcs attack Colonel MasOn's
pickets, but are driven back. Lieuten-
ant Sherwood dangerously shot through
treachery.
Carlists retreat from Puigcerda, after
besieging the town twenty-four hours.
Conflict at COlfaX, Grant Parish, La,
between n hundred and fifty whites
and four hundred blacks, owing to cleo
ton troubles. The whites set fire to the
courthouse, in which the negroes are
lntrenChed. One hundred negroes kill
ed; one white man killed, several wound
ed.
Intelligence of the quelling of nm at
tempt at revolution in Hayti, and ex-
ecutiOn of thirty of the participants.
Intelligence of the murder, on 18th
nit, OF three men by A~paches, and that
Lleutenant Rice had pursued them, and,
III a conflict, killed seventy-nine Apa-
cheS, and captured tWenty-six women
and children and that Captain Randall.
III a fight, with Apaches, killed forty
seven of them.
April IA. - The War Department.
orders the determination of the Modocs.
Dwight Cotton Mills, in Chiconep.
Mass, burned. Loss $75O,OOO.
Chinese riot at Sacramento, CAL: two
dangerously wounded.
April 15.-Dispatch that the Khan of
khIya had executed his chief counsellor.
and imprisoned his uncle and influential
hllVans hostile to Russia and released
RUSSIAN prisoners, sending themt to meet
the Russian trOOpsadyamcingfr from Oren-
burg.
. Baron Liebig reported dangerously
Death of Lieutenant Sherwood
wounded by the Modocs on the 11t6
inst. 14'n
Death, at Buffalo, N. Y, of Hon. Isaac
A. Eerplanck, Chief-Justico of the ST.
perIor Court. Intelligence of the death
OF LlGntenant-General Caldwell, of the
Brazilian Army.
Intelligence of the complete disner-
sion of LOzada's forces in Mexico,
At Matteawan, n. Y, a chimney of =
burned house falls, burTying five little
girls, kllllngtWO, and injuring the Others
fatally.
Successful advance on the Modoc In
dams made by the United States tr0ons.
alded by the Warm Spring Indians.
April l6.-General Jefferson c.. Davis
snccGedSGeneral Candy in Command of
the Nar Department of Columbia
New OTlE Eitu abortor ron-1
State Legislature.
Death, at New York, of Florrencio Ri
bas, consul from Venezuela,
Severe thunder-stOrms in WaInsg
Crops injured; several persons killed by
City, Utah. A"No
April 17.-Intelligence of a Carlist de-
feat at San Lorenzo de la Muga. Also
a band OF Carlists under SaballO rennIs-
eel near Puigcerda, losing there hundred
men, Carilsts reported surrenderipg in
the north, IN hope of amnesty.
A son OF Prince Henry of Bourbon re-
ported killed ina Carlist engagement.
lnteln%e4ce of the death, at p~lacencia'
Italy, of Don Francisco Garmendia
second Vice-President of Peru, G%,
nOuncement of the death of GeneroI
Soumain, of the French Army.
April 18.-RumOr of the murder of Sir
Samuel Baker and his wife by the M
tyes in the interior of Africa
Dispatch of the capture of Onati nv
CarllstS under DOrregarray.
Intelligence that the Texas Legisla-
t9re refuses to release Satana and Rio
Tree, Indian chiefs, at the reG1est #
President Grant.
Adyices of brilliant successes of Gen
eral Crooks command against the Az
ches of Arizona. "'o
Intelligence of the death, at Paris, of
NJ. Thibaudeau. "' VI
Death, at Munich, of Baron .Justns
Lieblg, aged seventy years.
lnsurrectiOn in Sumatra; the Dutcb
assa!led by the Atchinese, Who fiSht
desperately. "sNO
April 19.-Dispatch from San Fran
cisco states that the MOdocs had fled to
the u hills southeast of the lava-beds,
The cavalry in pursuit. Two DAYS;
lighting had occurred. "'"
Bridge on Providence and Stoninoton
railroad swept away by a flood ni@ht
tram connected with StOnincton boat
plunged into the gap, killing and wound
ing many persons. Cars take fire mas
sengers fastened by the debris bnTnpd
alive; many bodies burned. Nine hod-
les recovered. w