The Opelousas journal. [volume] (Opelousas, La.) 1868-1878, 1873-05-03
A Weekly of Events.
From Appletons' Journal

Aprll f. M. Louis Buffet elected
PRESIDENT OF the French National AS
sembly.
Several bank = forgers arrested at
Rome.
Dispatch that the Parliament Of New
South Wales had voted two hundrcd
thousand dollars in aid of immigra-
ton.
Report OF the murder of a m~ail-carrier
and several surveyors by Cheyenne In
April 5.-Dispatch of a battle in the
Arichall Igui Mountains between $50
Carlists and 500 Republicans. Most of
the churches in Catalonia closed or
turned into barracks. Twenty-Five
Carllsts captured near Barcelona-mob
prevented with difficulty from lynch
ing them.
t~lre-damp explosion in a coal-mine
near Abertillery, England, killing five
miners and WOunding many.
Freshet on the Hudson at Albany,
n. I. SNOW storm in Colorado. lorna
do at Burlington, Iowa, Seven neT-
sons killed by the blowing down of a
house, and over twenty injured. Much
property destroyed.
Death OF Ex-Governor A. B. Moore, of
Alabama. Dispatch from Belgrade,
OF the death of Milivoi B~lasnayatz. Min
lister of War and Public Construction,
and President of the Servian Cabinet
Council.
Intelligence that the town of Manzan-
lilo had been sacked by the Cuban in
%SurgentS.
Adyices that Major Brown had de-
teated the Apaches III a fight, killing
thirty-eight.
April G.-Dispatch of the Russian ex-
petition moving against khiya.
Intelligence that the churches in Reno, |
Spain, had been closed and guarded by
armed peasants, and Of the burning of
San Guin Railway-station by the Car
lists. Continued INSTRUMENTATION re-
ported among Contrera'S troops in Bar
| celOna.
Advices of conflicts in Guatemala be-
tween the Church party and the Repub- |
nc. The rebels attack Esquintla, dri- |
wing the garrison away. A forced loan
decreed by the government.
April 1.-The national budget sub
mltted to the British Parliament; bal
ance G12,O 1000.
Bill passed by the French Assembly |
~relmburslng Paris its war contribution
OF 2S,OOO,OOO francs, and granting idem-
nifty to the departments of "a, 1000, 900
francs.
Observation-Disclosures reported in
Jamaica, W. |.
Intelligence that Sir Benjamin Pine
had retired from the government of the
Leeward Islands, and accepted the gov
ernOrship of Natal.
Charles R. Ingersoll elected Governor
Of Connecticut.
FREDERICK Krouse, Of shutdown, Pa,
kills his wife.
Dispatch of the arrest of James O'Kel- |
", the Cuban correspondent of the
New York Herald, by the Spanish au-
thorities at Manzanillo.
April 8.-CarliStsreSum the campaign
in Navarro; desertions reported from
the government forces to their ranks.
MenOttl Garlbaldi reported to have of
fered his services to the Spanish Rcpub-
lie.
Intelligence of the suicide of Mitscha-
jeff, a Russian political cOnspiratOr, CON
demned to twenty years exile to ST.
IBERIA.
Freshets in the Genesee, Chenango.
~Susquehanna, Delaware, Mississippi, and
other rivers. Lands submerged, and
much property destroyed.
Brigham Young resigns as trustee in
trust for the Mormon Church, but re-
tains the leadership.
The fOundation-walls of u new city
building at Rochester, N. Y, under
mined by the flood, precipitating up
ward of twenty-five persons into the
Genesee. Fifteen rescued !; number
drowned unknown.
Death of Alderman Peter Gilsey, a
prominent citizen of New York.
April 9.-Conf1ict between the police
of Kinsale, Ireland, and fishermen on a
strike ; two of the strikers killed, sever
al wounded.
The Carlist General Saballo reported
near Puigcerda, and women fleeing
from the town, fearing an assault. Dis
patch of the expulsion of the Jesuits
from Salamanca.
Forest cOnf1agratiOn neal GOrdons-
vile, Va; many f~arm-hOuses and o
railway-station burned.
Fall Of Shepard's Block, Middletown,
Conn, burrying thirty persons in the
ruins; nine removed injured, and six
dead bodies found.
Fire at the National Tube Works, at
McKeespOrt, Pa. One employee killed,
and several injured.
Intelligence from India of the death
of William ,Brydon, C. B., of the Ben
gal medical service; and from Mel
bourne, of the death of Henry Gritton,
an artist.
Shell explOdes on the British man-of-
war Cambridge, at Davenport, England;
many persons wounded.
April 10.-Pnigcerda bombarded by
the Carlists; relief sent from Corona.
Strike of two hundred quarrymen in
Hainault, Belgium. Attempted demon
stration suppressed by gendarmes.
Food-famine reported on the islands
on the Irish coast off Galway.
The Kioways, Cheyennes, and Arapa-
hoe Indians reported preparing for war.
Apache raids reported in Mexico. The
Modocs fortify the Lava-beds.
Great freshet at Thamesville, Onta-
rio.
Fuse-factory burned at Avon, Conn.,;
a boy injured.
Tie New-York City CHARTER passes
the State Senate.
April 11.-Dispatch that sCeneral Ca
manos had beaten a bang Of Carlists
menacing GelOni, and th&t the insur-
gents had demanded a forced loan from
Villafranca, under threats of burning
the town, which was refused.
Intelligence of a fight between two
rival companies of actors, at OlOnne,
France; nine killed, several wounded.
Report of an engagement at ManZan-
lilo, Cuba; twenty-five insurgents kill
ed, and twelve government troops.
April 12.-Intelligence that the city of
San Salvador, capital of the republic of
Central America of that name, has been
DESTROYED by an earthquake eighthun-
dred persons persisted, and property
destroyed valued at twelve million dol
lars. There was a series of shocks ex-
tending through several days.