The Opelousas journal. [volume] (Opelousas, La.) 1868-1878, 1873-06-14
A Weekly Retrospect of Events.
From Anp1etons. journal

May 9.-Pan1c on the Vienna BOurse,
owing to the failuresof leading firm !;
business suspended prominent bankers
subscribe twelve million forms to ease
the panic in the stock market.
May 10.-A mob of two hundred per-
sons march on the Quirinal at Rome and
demand of the Chamber ofDeputies the
p%OratiOns. The police prevent the riot
ers from entering the Quirinal, and ar
rest twenty of them.
United States troops take possession
of st. M%artinsVille, La, and order is res
tOFed.
The Modocs attack Captain Has
brouk's camp, but are repulsed and pur-
sued, with the loss of two killed.
Intelligence that Captain Jack had
attacked q WagOn-train on the 7th inst,
wOunding three men and capturing
horses and ammunition.
May 11.-Election Of members to the
Constituent Assembly of Spain; Fede-
ralists overwhelmingly triumphant.
Don A~lphonso's and other Carlist bands
reported routed, with heavy losses.
Priests in Madrid in sympathy with the
Carlist arrested. Government troops in
Biscay mutiny, on account of arrears Of
pay.
Dispatch of q conAagration at Port an
Prince, Hayti, at which six persons were
burned to death.
Intelligence of the reelection of Guz-
man Blanco as President of Venezuela.
May 12.-Oscar II. crowned King of
Sweden.
One thousand Carlist prisoners landed
at Havana to reinforce the Spanish ar
my in Cuba.
Death of Lieutenant Harris, of wounds
received in a fight with the Modocs.
Death, at Washington, of Major-Gene-
raj John G.. Chandler, of the United
States Army. Intelligenceof the death,
at Rome, of Prince Camille Massimo;
at Botzen, in the TyrOl, of Colonel Ga
briel Ussani; at Magny, in Normandy,
of Arcisse de CaumOnt, president of the
French Archaeological Society at Milan,
of Carlo COccia, an eminent Italian com
eral Goodwin, and Dartmouth, Eng
land, of Captain D. T. Chamberlayne,
distinguished British officers.
Dispatch that BOkharese hOrsemen
had surprised and impaled a Russian
picket-party under the command of a
colonel in the advance-guard of General
Kauffman's column.
May.13.-The DrummOnd Colliery, at
Westville, Nova Scotia, takes fire, from
the improper use Of gunpowder, and ex-
blossoms ensue. Seventy-f1ve golfers,
at work, reported killed. Six GOLFERS
escape, two mortally wounded. Four
volunteers, in attempting to descend to
the rescue, are blown up and instantly
killed.
The German bourses seriously de-
pressed i'll consequence of the continued
panic in the Vienna bourse. Austria
c,1connTc Tho han1- ont +o 1O11oTyo 46o
crisis.
A Carlist conspiracy for the over
throw Of the republic discovered in
Madrid, and three arrests made.
Dispatch of the successful advance of
the Russians in KhiVa, and Of their
march across the Kill Kun Desert to
the Lower OXus.
Death Of the Rev. Thomas Robinson,
D. D., Canon of Rochester, England.
May 14.-M. Goulard, the French Min
lister of the Interior, and NJ. Jules ST.
mon, Minister of Public Instruction, ten
der their designations.
Intelligence that the Cuban general,
Ignacio Agramonte, and eighty of his
command, had been killed in a battle at
Jimagayu.
Vienna. The glass of the western front
vi LII C0pOSIU1OA Olt1lNLA@ 10 1ON III 1
down, injuring a number of visitors and
damaging a quantity of goods.
May 15.-Dispatch that the rivers of
the province Of Bosnia, in Turkey, had
inundated the country, causing loss of
life and great destruction of property.
Dispatch of the capture of the city of
Mataro by the Cariists under Saballo.
May 16.-Intelligence of a Carlist vic
tory, under Dorregaray, i'll the battle Of
Puente de Eraul, in Navarro, 5th inst.
Dispatch that the Russians had de-
feated af0rce of TOOrkomans at lydia,
Khiva, killing twenty-five and captur-
ing one thousand camels.
The panic in the Vienna bOurse ex-
tends to Odessa, Russia 4; business sus-
ponds, and discounts advance to nine
per cent.
Intelligence from China and japan /:
terrible fire at Hong-Kong, March 22d.
in which forty acres of buildings were
destroyed; great confiagration at Oseka,
Japan, March goth, in which many lives
were lost. Two violent shocks of earth
quake, same place, March 18th. Remoy-
al of edicts against Christianity causes
an instruction in the provinces of Jet
sizen and Prusho.
May 18.-The f~rstclause of the bill for
the suppression of religious bodies in
Rome approved by the Chamber of De-
puties, and the second clause adoDted.
granting the pope four hundred thou
sand lire annually for the maintenance
of generals of the orders. A mob in
Florence opposes the Religious CoTpo-
rations Bill.
The German Government resolves
upon the Punishment within six months
of the members of the chief monastic
orders.
Rachid Pachas succeeds Sarfet Pacha |
as Turkish Minister Of Foreign Affairs.
Colonel George Williamson appointed
United States Minister to Central Amer
lea.
May 18.-Dispatch of Sir Samuel Ba-
ker's successful progress up the White
Nile.
Report that Don Carlos had assumed
the command of an armyo # fifteen thou
sand in Navarro, on the 14th inst. The
Government troops in Arag0n under
Colonel Moreno, reported defeated by
the CaTlists under General Tristany.
The charges of bribery and corruption
made against the suspended American
commissioners to the Vienna Exposition
reported sustained.
Death, at GAINESVILLE, O., of Hon. Eze-
kielT. Cox.
The Kickapoo Indians having COM
united outrages on the Texan borders,
General Mckenzie, of Fort CLARK, at
tacks and routs them near the Santa
Rosa Mountains, in Mexico, kilGngnine-
teen warriors and capturing forty
squaWs and one hundred horses.
May 19-Battle at Antelope Creek
between the Modocs and Hasbrouk's
command. Five warriors killed and
ten sqnaWs captured. Modocs reported