The Opelousas journal. [volume] (Opelousas, La.) 1868-1878, 1873-03-29
Weekly Retrospect Of Events
LFronlA pnletona' JollEnall

from Appletons' Journal
Mares41-An unknownstearaer form-
dared ii the Mersey below liverpool,
Oh board lost. Intelligence OF
the wreck of the bark Boyne Oft the
coast of England, with the
loss of fifteen Of her crew. AdvlceS
from Victoria of The loss Of the steamer
George S. Wright, with all on board;
The Sundry Civil Appropriation Bill
passes the Senate.
Death of Major-General Edward
johnson, Of the late Confederate army,
March 2,-The ship Chacabuco runs
into fhe ship Torch in the Irish Channel,
and both sink; tventy-four OF the crew
Of the former drowned, all on board the
Torch saved.
Official dispatch of the defeat OF
several Carlist bands. Intelligence that
Corlists had destroyed NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
at Areta, LlodiO, LeZalna, and AmuTrO,
and we're b~lockading the toWnso OF Rech'
Roda, and Contellas, for refusing to
pay tribute. G
Death, at Jersey City, Of Charles s.
| Durant, a%erOnaut.
March 3.-Intelligence that Carlists,
under Seballo, had defeated govern
ment troops near T'ornera. Reports OF
numerous desertiOns from the Spanish
republican forces; the army at NlttoT1a
reduced from twelve thousand to seven
thousand by desertions. r
Discovery of frauds on the Bank OF
Fnrland 20 the amount of two million
dollars. by means of forgeries of the
names of the ROtlschilds, and other
great houses.
3 The House passes several appropriate
ton bills, including a bill to increase
tbc salary of the president to fifty
thousand dollars; of the chief justice
of the Supreme Court to ten Thousand
Ave hundred dollars; justices OF the
Supreme Court. vice president, speaker
and members Of the cabinet, ten th0us:
and dollars; senators, members anC
delegates in Congress, seven Thousand
five hundred dollars.
Election rioters at Quebec make
raid upon the polls, and are charged
upon and scattered by the cavalry
The city placed under martial law dur
ing the day. 49,.
4 boat OF an Italian man-of-War il
the Tagus capsized, and eleven person
drowned.
Marclr4.-InahguratiOn at Washing
ton of. Ulysses S. Grant for a. sec0nt
term as President of the United States
Inauguration of Henry Wilson as Vic
J President.
!, The Senate adopts the House bill, in
creasing the salaries of government
} officials and members of Congress. e.,
The Forty-second Congress adjourn
| sine die. An extra session of the Senat
. Governor Dix, ofNew York, suspend
: the execution Of Foster, the murderer
: until the 21st.inst. +~:
: Railroad collision at Tivoli, n. Y.
y oneman killed. Fl
, The French Assembly adopts tn
Il preamble Of the constitutional proiecl
t Dispatch of, a great victory by Cal
r lists over government troops at lrul
I Marshal SerranO reported appOlnte
= dictator Of Spain. -: f.t't.
Advices Of yellow fever raging j
: many parts of Brazil. 4, III
J. The Medocs reject the terms Of til
= peace. commissioners. %
> March 5.zDeath of General Cary T
s. Fry, at San Francisco, and OF Colon
q William Hopkins, at PittsbuFg, Pa,
Accident on the Panhandle Railroa'
= Pa. ; twenty persOnsiniured. /
e COrnelia ChristentOn and Annett
Lawson, murdered for money by Lou
Il Wagner, at Smutty Nose Island, n. Fl.
= Several hundred citizen militia !
IL New Orleans attempt to capture IL
t, District Gourtrooms and a police-statiC
for the MoEnery government, but a
g dispersed by the police and Unite
States troops; two killed, q numb
re wounded. President Grant direc
IL Major-General Emory to sustain tt
It, Kellogg government 4 number
citizens arrested as rioters. Order 7
stored. =
ie March 6.-Belligerent rights of Il
he Carlists recognized BY Theirs.
re Railroad accident at Portage Static
= Pa. two men killed. Extensive fir
:, at Blossb1rg, Pa. and Woburn, Mass.
fd Louis Wagner, the Smutty Nose Islal
ae murderer, arrested at Boston.
in Odd-Fellows' Hall, at New 0rleaT
:. occupied by the McEnery Legislatul
seized by the Kellogg police, andanuI
Der of members and Governor Meme
n arrested, but released again. The t
sion Legislature meet and protf
- against the action of the United Stat
"a government in the Louisiana trouble
O. March 7.-Intelligence Of an unsr
en- eessfTI attempt to create a rising in !
he Yor of Don Carlos. by two hundred &c
- hineers Of the garrison at San Roql
. Andalusia., -.
he Dispatch that Captain Curry of t
ir- British ship Algona, bound from A
ia twerp to New York had carried az, aw
schooner L'Africaine.
ce Death Of John Evelyn Denison, {
Speaker House of Commons, and OF
:. r. Z. Cory, membero OF Parliament.
MurderOf Mrs. LaWton andher ado
g. ed daughter in St. Louis.
Gold reaches. 1154. '
A. The Piejan Indians, Montana, on
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