The Opelousas journal. [volume] (Opelousas, La.) 1868-1878, 1873-04-19
A Weekly Retrospect of Events.
From AppletOns' journal.

l1AVA1 NIIISGohs OOuIlldI'J
March 22.-The Spanish COrtes decree
the immediate emancipation of slaves
in Porto Rico, and the dissolution Of the
Assembly.
Riot Of WOrkmen at Slough Levee
Works, Mo; II nan killed.
J. H%OltshOuser murders his brother at
BardstoWn, Ky.
Death at Reading, Pa, of Commander
Nathaniel Green, of the United States
Navy; and, at Philadelphia, of John
Lewis Baker, a noted actor.
March 23.-Intelligence that Lieuten-
ant Rice had defeated a band of Apa-
ches, killing six.
Death at BinghamtOn, n. Y, of John
A; Collier, an eminent j%urist; and of
ACKNOWLEDGEMENT NJ. II. Pettitt, at
kenOsha, Wis.
Three children burned to death in q
prairie-tire, neal Reeds Landing, MINI.
March Observation-Disclosures among the
Spanish troops at Tarragona.
The Liberty and Xenia Railroad,
Ohio, seized by q number Of the stock
holders, aided by three hundred armed
men. The track torn up, trains stopped,
and telcgraph-wires cut.
Accident on the Chicago and Michi-
gan Shore Railroad; three employees
killed.
Alexander Caldwell, United States
Senator from Kansas, resigns his seat.
Intelligence that the MOdocs demand
a reservation on Lost River as a cOndi-
ton of peace.
Announcement of death, at Addle-
stone, Surrey. England, Of Charles
Knight, a celebrated author and pub
Usher.
March 25.-Twelve members of a Sc
cret socialist society arrested at Edes,
France.
Intelligence of serious disturbances
among the cadets of st. Cyr, France.
Ten students sentenced to imprison-
ment n month.
Explosion at the American Powder
Mills, at Acton, Mass, killing A. G. Fay,
the agent, and two wOrkmen.
Three children burned to death at Il
fire at Grass Point, Mich.
The Senate pronounce charges of bri-
berry against Senator Powell Clayton
unsustained. The committee in the
ease of Senator Bogy report allegations
of bribery in securing his seat not PROV
ed.
Intelligence of the death, at Glasgow,
Scotland, of the Very Rev. DR.. Barclay,
an eminent linguist.
Death, at Carlisle, Pa, of Rear-Admi-
raj John B. Montgomery, of the United
States Navy.
March 9G.-The Spanish garrison at
Barcelona mutinies.
Lieutenant General PieltOn appoint
ed Captain-General of Cuba, and Lieut.
enant-General Primo de RiverO Cap
tain-General Of Porto Rico.
The Spanish Government orders q
levy n mdSSe upon the adult male pop
ulation of Catalonia and neighboring
provinces to suppress the Carlists.
Death, at London, Of Count Arthur
Won Bernstortf, German ambassador tc
Great Britain.
Two hundred and sixty-eight thou
sand six hundred dollars prize claims
awarded to Admiral Farragut and those
under his command at the surrender OF
New Orleans.
Accident ON the Wilmington and Wei
don Railroad several injured.
William NJ. Tweed resigns his seal
as senator in the NeW-YOrk Legisla.
ture.
March 81. - President Theirs orders
the Project Of the Lower Pyrenees tt
arrest Don Carlos wherever found. Gen.
eral Cabrera appointed to the supreme
command of the Carlist troops. Car.
lists reported masters of Upper Gaia.
lonia.
The defendants in the Memphis ani
FL PasO Railway case at Paris fOunC
guilty of sWindling, and sentenced tt
imprisonment ; General Fremont, IL
cORtUmGciGn1 to five years, and to pay
fine of 5000 francs.
Governor Hartranft, of Pennsylvania
signs a bill appropriating n million
dollars for the Centennial Exhibition.
Frederick Heggi acquitted of tn,
charge of poisoning to death Fredericl
Siegfried, of New York.
Death, at Paris, of NJ. Thierry, an0te(
French historian; at Hartford, Conn,
of Hon. James Dixon, United State
Senator; and Of the Rev. John S. Viii
son, D. D., at Atlanta, Ga.
March 28.-Dispatch that Don Carlo
abdicates his claim to the throne o
Spain in favor of his SON.
Intelligence of disaffection in the gov
eminent forces in Catalonia, and figh
of many officers threatened with dealt
by their su~bOrdinates.
Secession movement reported in th
Canary Islands.
Three detachments of Cuban troop
in the Spanish service reported to hav
revolted and joined the insurgents.
Intelligence of the death, at Rome, o
the Countess Guiccioli; of NicOlaus Au
gust, Duke of Delacarlia, brother of Os
car H., King of Sweden :; and of Major
General Patrick Yule, of the Englis1
Royal Engineers.
Letters from ZANZIBAR tina
Sir Bartle Frere had failed in his mis-
sion to the sultan, to prevent the expOr
tatiOn and transportation of slaves i
and across his territory.