The Opelousas journal. [volume] (Opelousas, La.) 1868-1878, 1873-06-28
weekly Retrospect of Events.
From Appletons, Journal.l

Five uIelueu killed. Dy 1dlI1ng walls.
-Colliery explosion near Wigan, En-
gland, killing six miners and destroying
much property. General Du BaraiI APP
The rebuilding of the Column Ven
dOme%yoted by the French National As
sembly.
The Spanish Admiral Topete released
by the Madrid Government from i'm
prisOnment.
May 31.-Senor Orense elected Presi-
dent Of the Spanish COrtes. Carlists
under Tristany and Don Alfonso de-
feated in Barcelona. Charles Brad
laugh, the English radical, released by
the Carlists.
Intelligence of a revolution in Entire
Rios, in the Argentine Republic.
Governor McEnery issues an address
to the people of Louisiana, advising
submission to the Kellogg government
until the meeting of Congress.
June death, at Halifax, of Hon.
Joseph Howe, Lieutenant Governor of
Nova Scotia.
Intelligence of the murder and mutt
lation OF twenty whites by Feejee-Is-
landers.
Surrender of Captain Jack, with
several of his remaining followers, at
Willow Creek, Oregon.
June 2.-IntelIigence of the surrender
of thirty-four ModOcs, at Willow Greek,
on the Goth ult.
Ex-COngressman John A. Bringham
appointed minister to Japan, cice De
Long, suspended.
June 3.-General L'admirault appoin-
ted commander of the army of Yer
sailles.
General Nouvilas reported in possess
sion of the passes in Biscay, and driving
the Carlists toward the coast.
Railroad accident at Cape Town, Ont. ;
twenty-five passengers injured.
Mansfield Tracy WalWOrth, a novelist,
shot dead by his son, Frank H. Wal
worth, at the Sturtevant House, New
York.
Modoc wal ended by the surrender of
the last of the Modocs to Brigadier-
General Ross, at Lost River Springs,
Oregon.
Forest-fres raging in Nova Scotia,
from John River to Black.
June 4.-Death, at Paris, of Philippe
Eduard POulletier, Count de Verneuil,
an eminent naturalist, and member of
the French Institute. Intelligence of
the death Of Lord William Paget, of
the British Navy.
Dispatch of the capture of the city of
TalifOo, in the Yunnan province, China,
by the imperial troops, and the massacre
of thirty thousand of the MOhammedan
inhabitants.
Advices of the wreck of the mission
aryship Dayspring, in the New He
brides; also Of the schooner Jane, on
New-LOndOn Cape, Prince Edward Is
land, on nth ult., four personsperishing.
THE Carlists attack Irun, capturing
forty carabineers. Battle reported be-
tween DOrregaray and fifteen hundred
republicans.
Dispatch of the killing of thirty-nine
insurgents in the Guarimaro and Lazaro
Mountains, Cuba, and the capture by
the Spanish of Colonel Felix Aguirre.
June 5.-Intelligence that a Dutch
man-of-war had fired into three British
merchant-vessels on their leaving the
harbor of Atcheen.
The American, department of the
Vienna Exposition opened.
Governor Straw, of New Hampshire,
inaugurated.
Death, at Rome, of Urbano Ratazzi,
the Italian statesman. ,
June 6.-Dispatch of a battle in the
Beraja Mountains, in Cuba; seventy
four insurgents killed; Spanish loss,
nineteen killed and forty-two wounded.
Intelligence that Don Alfonso had
levied a years tax upon the city of
MOnistrol de Menserrat, in Barcelona.
Report that the YanktOn Indians we're
On the War-path cOntradicted by the
government agent.
Advices of the disappearance of yell
low fever from Rio JaneirO and the
Rio de la Plata.
THE CRoPs.-With the continued
rains the prospects of the growing crop
in Rapides are by no means f1attering.
There has been entirely too much rain
for the good of the young cotton. The
corn fields are full of grass, and unless
the rain should cease soon there will
hardly be a half crop made.
And thus it is every year. The plan
ters have to undergo the annoyance of
moment the seed is consigned to the
ground until the harvest in the fall.
Too much dry weather, caterpillars and
other mishaps are the burden of their
song and the cause of their distress from
one years end to the other.
And yet the remedy is in their own
hands. We have time and again ad-
vised them to diversity their occupa-
tons, and yet, when the time comes to
plant, they generally wind up by plant
ing the same rea of cotton, with it's
attendant harasSing cares and most
general failure to meet expectations.
The Pine Woods streams never fail.
They afford abundant water power to
turn all the mills that could be put in
them. Why are not cotton and wooden
manufactures set on foot? If they
pay in Massachusetts why cannot they
be madeto pay in sight Of the cotton
fields 2
Grass never fails, and, with our fine
soil, improved grasses could be cuItiva-
ted on every acre of open land in the
Parish. Stock of better quality than
is raised in Texas could be raised all
over the Parish and command higher
prices in the New Orleans Market
Texas stock raisers make fortunes. Is
there any reason why the same thing
cannot be done in Louisiana?
But it is hard to get our people to
wake up to a change of ideas. Their
fathers planted corn and cane, and SO
must they. They cannot realize the
change. The labor system has radi-
cally changed, and a change has taken
place from an honest government to
one of thieves and plunderers. But UNI
less the people do change they are ire
trievably ruined.IAlexandria Demo-
erat.
NOSE PRovERBs.-We have no fewer
than fourteen proverbs relating to this