The Opelousas journal. [volume] (Opelousas, La.) 1868-1878, 1873-08-08
A Weekly Retrospect of Events.
From Appleton's Journal.


July 11.-Death, at San Francisco,
Cal, of General Thomas N. Cazneau.
Riot at Malaga, Spain, during a bull
fight. Several councillors assassinated,
and other atrocities committed.
July 12.-Slght shocks of earthquakes
at Rome, FrOsinOne, Alatri, and Paola,
Italy.
Fifteen persons injured by an acct
dent on the st. Louis & Southern Rail
way.
Coroner's jury find Lizzie L. King,
alias Kate StOddard, guilty of killing
Charles Goodrich in Brooklyn, L. I.
July 13.-General Velarde enters
Alcoy>Spain, with a strong republican
force. The international leaders of the
revolt escape before his arrival, the
militia of Alicante having subdued the
rioters.
Report that thirty thousand Ashantees
were menacing the British settlement
at Cape Coast Castle, Africa, June Esd.
July 14.-Death, at New York, of
Jose Maria MayOrga; and, at Albany,
n. Y, of General Amos Pillsbury,
superintendent of the Albany Peni-
Tertiary intelligence of the death, at
S~cheveningen, Holland, OIL. E. Kroesen,
ex-COmmander Of the Dutch East In
dia Army !; at Rio Janeiro, Brazil, of
Senator Gabriel dos Santos; at Lahore,
India, of MahOmed Ismael, a state
prisoner, and nephew of the Emir of
CabHl.
Dispatch that the Khan of khiva had
formally declared himself a vassal of
Russia, and been restored to his throne
by General Kaufman; and that, on the
Gath ultimO, the khan had issued a de-
cree abolishing slavery.
1ntornatiOnals at Carthagena, headed
by COnteras, rise against the authorities,
and hold the entire town except the
arsenal. Intelligence that five thousand
lists, and that rioters in VilladardO,
Spain, had burned a paper-factOry.
July 15.-Eerga surrenders to the Car
lists. Carl SITS besiege Puycerda. The
employees in the cotton and wooden fac
tories in Barcelona strike. Dispatch
that the Spanish Government haL an
nulled all edicts sequestrating the
property of rebels in Cuba.
Cholera reported abating i'll Ger
many.
Intelligence of the wreck of the
steamer DrummOnd Castle, from Shang-
hal, May 31st, on the Chusan Group.
July 16.-Maisonave, Caryajal, and
Berges, of tie Spanish ministry, re-
sign. Intelligence that the crew of the
Spanish man-Of-War Almanac had de-
serted to the Ca"lists.
The French Government interdicts
public rejOicings over the German
evacuation in the occupied departments.
Don Carlos enters Spain, near Pena
Plata, to assume command of the Car
lists.
July 17.-Death, at Providence, R. l.,
Of Samuel B. Gushing, an eminent civil
engineer.
Captain Phillips, of the wrecked
steamer CITY of Washington, suspended
for n year by the court of inquiry at
Halifax, N. S.
Carlists reported to have butchered
forty prisoners at Ciranqui, Spain.
Don Carlos re-enters Spain, and is re-
ceived with great enthusiasm by his
adherents.
College regatta at Springfield, Mass. ;
Yale victorious.
July 18.-Dispatches that Contreras
had levied aforced loan of eighty thous-
and dollars On citizens of Carthagena
that the International Society of Bar
celOna had been dissolved; that Don
Carlos had declared the Cure of Santa
Cruz a rebel, and that Colonel
AiZpurna had taken command of the
forces. CafIlSCS reported marching on
LOgronO, and four thousand Carlists
under Lizzaraga operating in GuipuzcOa.
Intelligence OF the capture of the towns
Of Estella and Puenta la Reina by the
Carlists.
Report of the discovery of a great
goldmine in the valley OF Famatina, in
Rioia, in the Argentine Republic.
July 2O.-lntelligence that the Cure of
Santa Cruz, having escaped into France,
is demanded by the Spanish Govern
ment as a common criminal; the French
Government refuse the demand.