The Opelousas journal. [volume] (Opelousas, La.) 1868-1878, 1873-11-14
A Weekly Retrospect Of Evenrs.
from Appletons' Journal

From Appletons' Journal
Oct. 10.-Intelligence of the deathsa at
Santa Barbara, Cal, of Oregon W llsons
a distinguished painter.
Meeting of D hundred Republican
members OF the French Assembly adOD-
ton of an electoraIscheme a committees
appointed for the three groups of the
Left to draw up IN official declaration
NJ. Theirs and NJ. Gambetta support the
action of the meeting.
Tue Council of Geneva complain to the
Federal Council of SWitzerland Ofannoy-
ancc through Bishop Mennillod's in
trigues, and pray that the French Gov
eminent be requested to stop theannoy-
nee
Dispatch Of the completion of the rail-
way from Bombay to Madras.
Oct. 11.-Suicide, in New York, of Au-
gustus f. Phillips, ex-United States con-
sui.
An address, by twenty-seven members
! of the Municipal Council Of Paris, denies
| the right of the Assembly to ALLEVIATE the
national sovereignty, declares that the
majority Of the people reject the CLAIM
| of the Count de ChambOrd, and call on
the people Of the Department of the
Seine to declare how they propose to
vote.
Arrival in Madrid, Spain, of ministers
from Guatemala and Costa RIGA, With
instructions to recognize the republic.
Announcement that the Mangyschlak
detachmento of the Khivan expeditiOnary
force evacuated the capital of the khan
ate August 21st.
Advices that the Cuban insurgents sur
prised the Spanish force near HOlguln,
but were subsequently defeated,
Ex-senator P0meroy, of Kansas, shot
in Washington by NJ. F. Conway, of the
same State slightly wounded.
Oct. 12.-The committee of monarchl-
cal members of the French Assembly
will meet on the 18th to receive and con
slider the final reply of the Count dc
ChambOrd.
The Alfonsista clubs issue amanifesto
declaring that the time has come to pre-
pare for the accession OF Don Alfonso 70
the throne of Spain.
Intelligence of the death, at BOzeman.
Mon, of William W. Maryate, assistant
: astronomer of Lieutenant Wheeler's ex'
ploring expedition.
|, Death at Brooklyn, of James Boyle Nj
A., a Well-knOwn painter.
Oct. 13.-Death, at Washington, of Col
onel William H. Russell, formerly prl'
, waite secretary to Henry Clay.
Dispatch Of the defeat of the Inter
+ national feet. near C~artagena, by thu
f government feet under Admiral Lobo
| Dispatch that Pere Hyacinthe has beer
elected one of the curates of Geneva b,
; the Old Catholics. "" "f"
Advices that the German Ministers O
/ Commerce and the Interior have ordere'
the expulsion of emigration agents iron
+ Germany. "
; American Woman Suffrage Association
: Oct. 14.-Death, at Hartford, Conn, offs
t B. Beresford, a distinguished physician
Trouble between the Austrian an
: Turkish Government, caused by note o
: the Turkish Minister of Foreign Affairs
; An a~pol0gv is expected from the Porte
The Apaches in Arizona on the war
5 path Lieutenant Schuyler and a bod
d of troops at~tackedone OF the bands, an
s killed fourteen warriors.
Intelligence of the death, at Augustf
Ca, of General Alfred Cummings, eS
Governor of Utah. - ~
Opening of the Free Religious Con
G v~ention in New-York City.
IS State electiOnsin Iowa, Ohio, and Penn
e svlyaia; Ohio it is believed, elect
it Democratic governor William Allen, b
u small majority Pennsylvania and Iowa
s, Republican, by reduced majoritles.. "
Ie Oct. t5.-Intelligence of a hurrlcar
a in Southern Hayti on the, 28th ultim,
IS causing much loss of life, and damas
it ing the shipping: .#r :.
re Defalcation of Charles fl. Phelp
cashier in the New-YOrk State Treasul
Department, to the amount Of three, hui
dred thousand dollars. T."
Oct. 16.-Tntelligence of the, death,
Paris. of Madame POnehard, a celebrate
opera-singer.
v Dispatch that in the Chinese PROVING
" of Sliansee thirty-seven villages ha7
been swept away by flood; many hv'
or lost.
r. Testimony OfDr. Bessels of the Polar
Expedition, that Captain Hall died
natural death. =.
n Intelligence of an extensive prair
l. fire a Omaha Ten children we
at burned many houses and large qua
y titles of grain destroyed.
Oct. 17.-YellOw fever still eplden
at Shreveport and Memphis at Mempl
Of from thirty to forty deaths a day. r..
he Gold falls to 108; heavy shipments
nd specie from England during the wee
he financial panic fully over, and bett
or feeling prevailing. 'a ..ura