The Opelousas journal. [volume] (Opelousas, La.) 1868-1878, 1874-01-16

from Appletons' Journal

tFr0D Appietuns' Journal
December 1s.-Funeral of the late
Professor ARassi2 from the Appleton
Chapel of Harvard University.
Report that the King of the Sand
wich Islands has withdrawn his ,propo-
sal for a reciprocity treaty with the
United States.
The bombardment of Cartagena con-
tinues. General Dominique offers
pardon to all who surrender. Terrible
Neutrality-suspicious. within the lnsur-
gents lines eighteen men killed.
December 19.-An expedition, in AID
| of the insurgents, numbering five hun
dred men, has effected a landing IN
Cuba. Advices from insurgent sources
| state that five hundred Spaniards set
| out to surprise o depot Of arms and
ammunition near Guaimarco, but fell
! into an ambuscade prepared for them
| by General Gomez; only n hundred
Spaniards escaped.
Report that the King of Dahomey
has united with the Ashantees.
Henry w. Genet, notorious New
York politician, under trial for fraudu-
lently obtaining money from the corpo-
ration, found guilty.
December 20.-News from Acheen
asserts that the Dutch are in possession
of all the territory on the LETT side OF
the Acheen River.
Mr.. Booth elected United States
| Senator from California.
A collision between freight-tralns on
the Eastern Railway, near Kennebunk,
Me. three persons killed.
Intelligence that the ear exhaustion
of food in Bengal renders q famine
certain.
December 21.-Report that the Span
ish Government has demanded the re-
turn of the Virginius and her crew and
passengers recently surrendered.
Ferry-hoat capsizes in the Thames,
neal London thirteen lives lost.
Trouble at Matamoras, Mexico, in an
election for mayor. Several hundred
men concentrated on the plaza IN front
of the City Hall, where the return
judges were to meet to count the vote.
The present mayor attempted to leave
the hall with the returns without an,
~nOuncing the result, when q general
fight ensued, in which the mayor and
eight policemen were wounded. Govern
ment troops, several hundred strong,
entered the plaza, and planted several
pieces of artillery, covering the square,
when the cOmbatants retired.
December 22.-Report that the Sultan
of Acheen has surrendered to the Dutch
commander.
The pope has appointed twelve new
cardinals.
Advices that General Ignacio Con
zales has been elected President of the
Republic of Santo Domingo.
Advices of the death of Sir Gillery
Piggott, Baron of the E~xchequer. ,
A brother and sister, Nicholas and
Mary Ryan, found dead, with their
thrOats cut, at their residence, IN
Broome Street, New York. No trace Of
the murderer. -.
Henry w. Genet, in charge of sheriff,
New York, awaiting sentence, escapes:
December 2~3.-Judge Hager elected
u. S. Senator for California.
Advices of the death, at New Gale
donna, of Count Henri de ROchefort-
Lucay, better known as Henri Roche,
fort, famous as o French journalist and
communist, and for his fierce hatred Of
the Second Empire; recently transpor-
ted for acts committed under the reign
of the Commune. Born 1880.
December 24.-Death, at Baltimore,
in his seventy-ninth year, of Johns o.
Hopkins, reputed the wealthiest man of
that city. During the past year he had
appropriated four million dollars to
found d hospital, and two million to in
stitute a university, in addition to land
for the site.
Ex-Mayor Oakley Hall, of New York,
under trial for willful neglect in office,
acquitted.
Advices from Spain that q fleet of
steamers are at San Sebastian, for the
purpose of embarking the republican
forces under General Moriones, which
are surrounded by thirty thousand
Carlists. ...