The Opelousas journal. [volume] (Opelousas, La.) 1868-1878, 1873-07-19
A Weekly Retrospect of Events.
From AppletOn's Journal.

From Appleton's Journal
June 21.-Lieutenant- General Socias
resigns his command in the Spanish ar
my. Dispatch Of the defeat OF Carlist
bands in Lerida. The Car1ist chieftain
QuicO wounded, and Ventosa taken
prisoner.
Accident on the Midland Railway,
England; several persons killed.
FOrty-twO cases of cholera at Dantzic,
Germany twenty-five fatal.
Death of Hon. E. B. Ewing, Judge of
the Supreme Court of Missouri. Intelli-
gence of the death, at Richmond, En-
gland, of Tylor Smith, N. D., an emf
nent physician and medical author; Of
NJ. Lavalle, founder of the EcOle Cen
trale of France, and of NJ. Louis de St.
Arnaud, French senator.
June 29.-Wreck of the steamer Col
umbus on St. Kean's Rock, zeal Holy
head, Wales, with two hundred passen-
gers on board; twelve drowned, and
three of the crew.
Dispatch of the capture of PancOrho
and four hundred prisoners by the Car
lists.
Death, at Hampton, Conn, of Ed
ward S. MOseley, State Treasurer of
Connecticut.
June 23.-The Spanish ministry re-
sign.
The project of Paris prohibits NJ.
Gambetta's giving a public banquet Oh
the anniversary of General HOche's
death.
Dispatch Of q serious revolt in the
Mexican State Of Jalisco, owing to an
effort OF the government to collect back
taxes for sixteen years, unpaid during
the rule of Lozada.
June 24.-Dispatch of the capture by
the Russians of the Khivan fortress at
Kes-arash, on the Anu Daria River.
Intelligence that the Carlist chief Sa-
ballO had shot the Alcalde of Mara for
failing to give notice Of the approach Of
a Republican force.
The Supreme Court of Cincinnati,
Ohio, decides that school boards have
power to exclude the Bible from the
public schools.
Death of Thornton Hunt, an English
painter, art-critic, and politician. In
telligence of the death, at Plymouth,
England, of Admiral Griffin, of the
British Royal Navy, and of Captain
James Murray, of the Queens Army.
June 25.-Carlists under DOrregaray
and Ollo reported severely defeated by
Portilla, near Estella, 21st inst. six
hundred Carlists reported killed, three
hundred wounded; republican loss four
killed, sixty wounded. Carlists deny
being defeated, and report that General
EliO captured two thousand republic
cans at Barranca. Rumor of the cap
ture of General NOuvillas by the Cars
lists near Pampeluna.
Err est Lefevre and NJ. Raphael, Com
munists, arrested at Paris.
Two Carlist cargOes of arms detained
at Plymouth, England the ship Queen
OF the Seas escapes with nine thousand
rifles and one million six hundred thOus-
and cartridges.
June 26.-Dispatch that the Orenburg
and Mangyshlak Russian columns had
captured Kilaii, I'd inst, three days
march from Khiva, and that General
had reached Chraki. The Khan of
Boxhara reported friendly to Russia.
Outbreak in Malaga, Spain; the mayor
killed. Gen. Saballo, Carlist, has shot
three Of his officers, and condemned
several others to death.
Twenty-six deaths from cholera in
the city of Nashville, Tennessee and
seven at Memphis.
June 27;-RepOrts from st. Peters
burg of the capitulatiOn Of Khiva, and
that the Russians occupy the capital of
the khanate.
THE ARTOF NEWSPAPER MAK1NG.-Of
all the writings of man, none is so wide
ly perused and critically examined as
the newspaper ; and of all public char
acters, newspaper contributors mostly
require diligence, energy, and patient
application. The necessity of giving
variety to their articles, in length, and
subject, and style creates a heavy draft
upon the intellect. The articles must
not be too long, Or they will weary, no
matter how much thought expands, it
must be contracted nor how many
ideas may suggest themselves, they
must each be condensed into a narrower
compass !; the marrow of the subject
must be extracted by patient toll, and
served up in tiny mOrsels to fastidiOus
readers. They must not be too short,
or some will complain that the subject
is not finished. They must not be too
dry, or the ftful or careless mind will
not read; they must not be to light, or
the austere will turn from them with
disgust. The language must not be too
learned, or it will shoot over the heads
of the youth, the future strength of the
land it must not be too simple, or the
Self-styled learned will reject the pieces
with contempt. The style must be
easy, flowing, or none will be pleased,
To suit all these various tastes, the
newspaper contributor must rack his
brain to prepare one or more articles in
the several styles. His genius must be
as versatile as the tastes of the reading
public; and whatever may the demands
upon his attention, it must be all done
within the required time. If he fails
often, w0 to his reputation, and cOnse-
quently to his support. Who can en-
tirely satisfy all these demands? To
be all things to all men requires ve7s a-
tility and tact, as we'll as patient toll.
And after all the work is done, to bear
patiently the 94 errors in grammar, or
productions, REQUIRES the a of q