The Opelousas journal. [volume] (Opelousas, La.) 1868-1878, 1874-12-11
A Weekly Retrospect of Events.
From Appletons' Journal.


November 13.-Advices from Spain
CarIists concentrated in the province OF
Navarro.
Advices from Cuba: The town of San
Geronimo, in the Central Department,
garriSOneh by one hundred and thirty
Guardias Civilps and s~eventy-tive vol
]unteers, sacked and captured by insur-
gents, and most OF the garrison killed.
Cases of typhoid fever and small pOX
are increasing in Montreal.
The Rev. JOHN Scarborough, OfTrinity
Church, PittShurg, Pay, elected Bishop
OF the new Diocese OF New Jersey.
Death, at Boston, of Daniel n. Haskell,
editor of the Boston Transcript; ut New
York, of William Wilson, well known
as the organizer of the famous Wilson
Z~ouaves at the beginning Of the war.
Nov. 14.-Advices from Sautander,
Spain: All available steamers in the
port seized by the Republican autllori-
ties to transport troops.
Governor Garland, of Arkansas. has
obtained orders for the arrest OF eX-
Lipntpnant-GOVPrnOr Smith and JOHN
G. Price. of the Little Rock Republican,
fOl c0nSpiring to nsu'p certain Offices.
Nov. 15.-PArticulars OF the t~yphOOn
in China, in September, estimate that
the loss Of life in and about HOng-kOng
and Macao amounted 10 thirty thousand
persons, and fifty million dollars worth
OF property destroyed.
Advicps from BnPn0s Ayes represent
that the insnrrectiOn is on the decline.
The Austrian and Plnssian GOvetn-
ments have agreed to appoint a JOINT
commission to define tEIeir boundaries.
Order restored at Little Rock, AK.
Nov. 16.-Advices rom Spain: Sever
nj bands OF Carlists in the D~OrtheaslcIn
provinces have solicited amnesty. The
Carlist forces have returned to ItuD,
and are stationed around The town.
Garihaldi, La Marm0ra, R~icasOIi, aud
Chamber of Deputies.
AdviceS from South America Intelli-
gence from Venezuela to the effect that
the whole country has risen againsf
President Guzman BlancO. Chill visited
by an earthquake, October Goth.
A large amount of damage done to
mOperty in Cuba by p severe storm.
The towns OF Suan0 and TanamO flood
ed, End houses, cattle, and goods, swept
awav,
Riots have occurred at several points
in Poland on account Of the fOrcihle in
trndnctlOn Ivy the government of church
reforms, and the anDOintment of priests
by imperial authority.
Great amOnnt ofsnffp. ingin Nebraska
for wont OF food n large number of
families at the point OF starvation.
Nov. fisk men murdered and fonr
hrntalY assaulted in the Pennsylvania
coal regions; no arrests have been
mode.
The ships French Empire and City Of
Edinhnroh came into collision in the
Hooglv 0ndia) and sunk a number of
The crew missing.
Reno,tS that General Losprno. COM
mandrr OF The Army Of the North OF
is dead.
AdviceS li0m London: Five Yar-
month tiShinH-cInit missing since tn"
Gale. and supposed ~ he lost with
all on board. nnwa;h OF thirty persons.
Scanning LILY blown M at He'll Cate.
East River, and the captain killed four
miSsin@ and two wounded.
Nov. 1S,-AdviceS from Snain: A Wig
nprSpd the CaElists who returned to
1rUu.
Herr Forkpnhpck has resigned the
presidency Of the German RpicIlStac.
Thiijv-fw0 o. the Turks charged with
thP mU'rlpr of M~0ntenegrins sentenced
twenfv venIS' imnrisonmpnt.
Nov. 19.-CHrIiStS have retakpn Ovas-
mi. Sky members Of the Communist
arrested at Naples. Explosion OF a
chemical factoIy at ST. Denis, France.
in which tInee persons were killed and
injured. Boat rnn down on the
and seventeen men drowned.
DiSnatc'i from Calcutta announces
HAT YAkouh Khan, the AmeerOf Cahul,
has been treacheronsly arrested and i'm
nliS"ned. RnmOr that q force Of EgVp-
have captured Darfour, Africa,
and killed the sultan.
Latest intelligence from Buenos Avres
asserts iilat thP government il neg0tia-
ing with the insurgents, with the hone
IF terminating the difficulty. Hostili-
les, meanwhile, continue.