The Opelousas journal. [volume] (Opelousas, La.) 1868-1878, 1873-11-21
A weekly Retrospece Of Events.
From Annlsfona, Ionrnal.l

Oct. A.-Death, at Ipswich, England,
of Henry Bright, an eminent water-color
painter.
The Bishop of Orleans orders the
curates Of his diocese to pray for the
restoration of The monarchy.
Death, at San Francisco, of Captain
Thomas Lewis, of the ship Great West
ern, of New York.
Oct. 25.-Death at Chicago, Ill, of
Judge Samuel w. Fuller, an eminent
member of the Chicago Bar.
The Grand-Jury of Brooklyn finds
indictments against Whitelaw Reid and
Charles A. Dana, for libel of Alexander
McCue and ". C. Kingsley. $50 e.
Death, at Boston, of Rev. Samuel B..
Babcock, d. D., aged 81.
Oct. 26:-Death, at Salt-Lake City, Of
John Z. Heenan, the noted pugilist.
Dispatch that the Spanish Govern
ment feet has arrived off Cartagena,
Spain, and been fired on by the insur-
gents. -. g.. az
The insurgents of Cartagesna demand
a ransom of $4,000 for each of the mer-
chant-ships they have captured.
Adyices that the thirty former depu-
ties of A1sace and Lorraine haYesigned
an address to the French Assembly III
favor Of the republic.
Announcement of the death, at Fresh
water, Isle of Wight, of General C.
Cranfurd Hay, colonel of the Ninety
third Regiment OF British Infantry and
at London, Of Paul Edmund Count dt
Stnzelecki, an eminent Australian ex.
plorer.
Installation Of the three curates re
Gently appointed by the Old Catholic
of Geneva.
Oct. 27.-Death, at Chicago, H., o
Judge William II. Porter, Chief-Justic
: of the Supreme Court of Illinois.
, Announcement that the city election
in Paris have resulted generally in vic
tories for the republicans.
Dispatch that the Intransigente yes
sells obtained 20,0 900 reals in specie b
' the plundering of the merchantmen o
. Valencia.
3 The Spanish Government is prepan
ing to send nor troops to Cuba.
s Dispatch that the deposed GOEernC
G OF COahulla, Mexico, has been forced t
retreat, with a few followers, to Piedra
Negras.
Trial aud acquittal Of NJ. Lefevr
managing editor of the ,Rappel, on I'll
G charge of participating in the acts of ii
Commune.
Oct. 28.-Dispatch that the Liberia
have carried the preliminary election
d to the German Landtag by large mi
e jorities. -, .
PRONUNCIATION of the law for the REQ
V %ganization of the italian army, WhiC
n will number 214,000 men.
Advices that the r~eleasesof the Kiou
n chiefs has been followed by murders al
Is outrages by the Indians of Western TIE:
# as. SIXTH ...
Death of John Nepumecene Mar
Joseph, King of Saxony, aged 70.
n Oct. 29.-Death, at London, of S
is Henry Holland, the well-known auth
and physician, aged So. -... .a.5 =
Edward S. Stokes found guilty
m~ansiaugilter in the third degree; Sc
fenced to Sing Sing for four years.
J. The eldest son of the late King Jol
succeeds to the throne of Saxony.
m Death, at Louisville, KY, of ox-May
IF Philip T0mpert. "
ii Oct: O.-Count dc Chambord refus
I'd to r%elinquish the white flag, and declar
en- that frances only hope lies in havil
him for a ruler.
at Dispatch that President MacMah,
" has publicly rebuked the insubordin
ton of General Bellemane.<
he Adyices that a famineis threatened
he the East Indies, owing to failure of t
ID crops.
O. Intelligence of the loss of sixty-s
e. lives by the sinking Of the Intransigeu
ce war-vessel Fernando ell Catolico. H.
Suspension of Hoyt, Sprague & c
of New York, large dry goods house.
h. Oct. 5.-Last span of the great Int
r. national Bridge at Buffalo placed, co
l. pleting the structure.
n Yellow fever subsiding at Mempl
and at other Southern places. II