The Opelousas journal. [volume] (Opelousas, La.) 1868-1878, 1873-09-26
: weekly Retrospeet OF Events.
From Apnletoae Journal.l

August 29.-M. T. Rodman, Deputy
Citv Treasurer of Brooklyn, n. Y, ar
rested for embezzlement of the public
funds.
Boiler-explosion in a mill at Hillo-
roed, Sweden, killing nine persons, and
Wounding many.
August 3O.-Reports confirmed Of
great loss Of shipping. by the Nova
Scotia cyclone, 22d and 23d instant.
Frightful loss Of life; many vessels
sunk with alton board. !
Discovery Of a large amount OF cOun.
terfeit bonds ON the New York Central
Railroad Leonard Brown, a New York
broker, arrested for negotiating them.
Adyices of an instruction in the
Feejee Islands, and murder Of white
settlers by natives.
Dispatch that NJ. Beule, Minister Of
the Interior, of France, prohibited
demonstrations on the anniversary of
the proclamation Of the republic, Sep
TENDER 4th.
Death, at Savannah, Ca, of Jacob N.
Cardoza, a well-known Southern editor
and author. i
Dispatch that Admiral Lobos had
withdrawn from b~ombarding Cartagena,
Spain. 81 ..'j, !.
August 31.-The Spanish COrtes re-
fuses to grant amnesty to the Interna-
tiOnal insurgents t-+ *'
Ten thousand Spanish government
troops marching on Estella. Dispatch
that the Carlists had resumed the siege
of Bilboa. r.. "'" "a.
September death, at Greenbrier
| White Sulphur Springs, Va, of Daniel
| NJ. Barringer, ex-Congressman and mi
mister to Spain under Taylor.
Five men killed by a cOlliery explo-
sion at Swansea, Wales. "'
Dispatch that the Government of
Portugal had shipped tWenty-seven
Spanish International refugees to
Southampton, England.
Carlists enter Cantavizi, and march
against Caspi. Intelligence of the mu-
tiny of a battalion of Republican chas-
seurs at Vich, and of the military es-
cort of supplies for the Republicans at
Berga. "&
Spanish Cortes adjourns until Novem-
Der Sd. '+t s5'F'-. r"
Forty Republicans, holding a meeting
at Havana, Cuba, are assaulted by a
mob, and the authorities arrest the
Republicans. @g
September 2.-Six thousand Carlists
advancing on Ternel, in Aragon.
Death, at Greenbrier, White Sulphur
Springs, Va, of Chester J.. Reid, ex-
Judge of the Superior Court Of Massa-
chusetts; and at Smyrna, n. Y, of
Demas Hubbard, ex-Congressman. In
telligence of the death, at Kilchattan
Bay, Scotland, of John Lindsay, Di-
rector of Chaneery for Scotland, and
an eminent lawyer and botanist. ~
Reports of cholera at Millersburg and
Paris, KY, and O'Kauville, Ill. also
among the troops at Havre, France. IT.
September3.-Death, at Little Rock:
Ark, Of D. Rings, the first Chief-Jus-
tice of Arkansas. .-
Dispatch of the capsizing of a ferry
boat on the Indus, near Kairah, India
Ninety passengers reported drowned.
Eight persons reported killed and ff-
teen injured by an accident on the
Nuremberg Railway, Germany. .e.as
General Riguners appointed Captain
General of Madrid in place of Hidalgo
Dispatch that socialists in Andalusis
had burned forty farm -houses, anG
committed other atrocities. -.a: ,...
Dispatch that Vice-Admiral Ye1ver.
ton, commanding the British feet il
Spanish waters, removed the captured
iron-clads Almanac and Vittoria from
Cartagena to Gibraltar, notwithstaud.
ing threats of the International Junts
to open fire OF him in case of their re
mOVal. ,s5s
September4.-Death at Meptic Bridge
Conn, of Colonel Hiram Appelman
late Secretary of State of Connecticut
Advices that the revolutions il
Guatemala, headed by Melgar ant
PalaeiQs, had been subdued by tn
government. s9se% za- AZ. -
The Duke of Harcourtappointed min
lister from France to Austria. ant
Duke Deeazes to England. 3
A party of Germans from Strasburl
attacked by a mobat Luneville, France
and several injured. s-.
Three socialists condemned to dealt
at Valencia, SPAIN ..,
September 5.-The last instalment 0
!, the French war indemnity to German.
, paid. :
Forty thousand Carlists reported I'M
der arms in Spain. Dispatch that Vii
1aIon, commanding the artillery of th
Republican Spanish forces at Carriage
ma, had resigned, having insufficient
means to cope with the guns of the in
) surgents.
, ST. TAMMANr PAR!sH.-It appears b
a communication which we publish thi
morning, from the parish Of st. Tam
many, that the fathers in and aroun
govington, like those of st. Landry
Franklin, CatahouIa, etc, have bee
| guilty OF sparing their rods and spoilin
: their children. Therest blooms ont i
, a crop Of F0Wdyism which is exceeding
" mconVenient to quiet people, an
bids fair to grow into such proportion
I as will bid defiance to the ordinary col
: receive influences. We are not def
nitely informed as to the immediat
causes of the d~isgraceful proceeding
= reported, which exhibited the rare spee
tacle of q judge being assaulted an
: dragged from the bench ; and the clerk
desk, in which tits presumed were pa
pers OF Importance, forCibIy seized an
Q carried aWay. But we assure the pee
& pie of Covington that they are permit
ing very dangerous practices to Obtain
q practices which are sure to int
= eVIssOf such magnitude that they wi
soon overshadow them all, and fnall
II demand the interpositiOn of b Vigilanc
committee, with the hue and cry, to ez
tTpates The people who permit til
laws to be outraged, under any nre
tense whatever, eventually become Til
! great sufferers, as they thereby destr0
: the protection which even the s6rOnges
y often find 1t necessary to invoke an
leave their whole community at til
mercy OF laWless persons. We hope [
hear of q better state of affairs In Coz
: ington, for we cannot believe the pee
I pie are ready to consent TO the intrc
= duction of practices which will not onl
dfsorganize society there, but rende
7 ID a place to be avoid8dINeW Orlean
] Republican, Sept. 23ds
], WAGES AND DIEr or EURoPEANFAR
: : LABoRERs.-The following shows I'll
9 wages and food received by the far
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