The Opelousas journal. [volume] (Opelousas, La.) 1868-1878, 1873-11-14
weekly Retrospect of Events.

Observation-Disclosures BY. fire of
Ardverikie, the former residence OF the
Duze of Abercorn.
Dispatch Of q battle between the adj
herents of General Zepeda, the deposeI
Governor Of Coabuila, Mexico, and
those Of DR.. Salas. Result doubtful.
Intelligence of q contest between the
Brule-Sioux and Ponca Indians. Twen-
ty warriors slain.
October 18.-AnnOuncementthat elgh-
teen deputies, from the Department OF
the Seine, have signed protest against
/ the attempt at royal restoration.
Election of John Bright to the British
| Parliament without opposition.
Advices of the dissolution OF the
Danish ministry.
October 19.EDispatch that the
Spanish man-Of-War Numancla had
sunk the Fernando cl CatOliCa; half OF
the crew drowned.
Prince Bismarck IN Vienna it is be-
lieved he will s0On resume the position
| of president of the Ministry of State.
The insurgent squadron from Carta-
gena off Alicante.
Intcrdict of Bishop MermillOd against
| the three cures chosen by the Old CathO-
lies in Geneva; Pere Hyacinthc denies
his authority to take such action.
COnSGCFtJIOU VI tIlt SAiCIlNliOCCSC vi
Baltimore to the Sacred Heart of Jesus.
October 20.-Death of Rev. Robert
Candlish, D. D., a famous Scotch
Arrival, off Valencia, Spain, Of the
| Spanish Intransigent squadron ;
preparations making to lombard the
city.
Advices that the Internationals have
caDtured three merchantmen in the
harhor of Valencia, and threaten to
seize the gunboat Lepanto.
Seizure of six converts at Rome by a
committee appointed under the law for
the abolition of religious corporations.
Announcement that the Society of
Jcsuits in Rome have been notified by
the Italian Government that the order
must Immediately vacate the building
occupied by them in.thaJ city. $500 H.
Death Of Alexander McCann, cy-
Mayor of Newburg, New York.
Oct. 21.-Audiencc of Prince Bismarb
with the Emperor of Austria, Count
+. Andrassy, and the Italian envoy, at Vi
:. enua; discussion of tue papal question
the prince presses the question of ma,
tional ecclesiastical legislation. Austria
: is urged to act in unity with Germany
in regard to a papal election.
= Intelligence Of an attack on the tow
3 of Baive by five hundred Cuban insur>
l., gents, who were Tepulsed with a loss O.
} four killed and thirty wounded.
' The Cunard Steamship Company an
I~nOunce their intention of establishing
f daily line of steamers between New
York and Liverpool.
q October 32.-Death, at Paris, of NJ
Emile GabOrian, the celebrated Frencl
e novelist. ,.r.
Address of John Bright to his consti
tuents at Birmingham, England; h
l.. commends the Gladstone administra
d ton, and advocates. the withdrawal O
the British colonies from the Ashante
coast.
have left Valencia, after plundering te.
v Spanish merchant-vessels.
Death of Nine. Felix, mother of tn
tr%agedienne, Mile. Rachel.
Admiral Lobos pleads guilty to havin
disObeyed orders in taking the SPANS
squadron to Gibraltar.
The members of the Right Centre c
the French Assembly adopt resolution
/ recalling De ChambOrd to France.
Is Dispatch that the insurgents in Sont
IA, Mexico, have captured Amos: Gov
al ernOr Pesquera is in command of til
government troops.
The jury in the McCook murder cas-
at Yankton, Oak, have indicted VIII
tersmute for m~anslaughter.
Announcement of the death, at Bay
g, onne, France, of Lord HoWden, formerl
British ambassador at the court of Mac
D. drid and at Sheffield, England, of NJ
Alfred Gatty, editor and author.
at Death, at Providence, r. l., of Cal
ID tain COmstock, one of the earle
steamboat captains on long-Islan
% Sound; aged eighty-seven years.
October 23.-Death, ut New Orlean
La.,o of A. H. Davenport, the well-knOW
actor. 5-s .- 30.
is The Deputies of the Left Centre
o the French Assembly pronounce in f
vor of a conservative republic.
lie The Carlists claim an important vi
re tory over Republican troops in the pr
n vince of Corona. 4 ot's.
The police of Lisbon seize arms i
bic tended for the Carlists.
his The King of Saxony reported dyin
of Hiram Perkins of Walden, Vernon
k; is pulled up by the possession of c
5eT that is of a blue blark. eolar, with f
from three to six inches long, a ma
~. six inches long, and a tail as long a