The Opelousas journal. [volume] (Opelousas, La.) 1868-1878, 1874-02-27
A weekly retrospect OF Events,
from Appletons' Journal

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January 29.-General Moriones is re-
ported to have raised the siege of Bill
baO, Spain.
Zurich, of Field-M Marshal Baron Won
| Gablentz, of the Austrian service.
| Death of General Henry j. French, an
| eminent officer of the British army.
Elme Marie Caro-, Alfred Mezieres,
and Alexandra Dumas, elected MEM
beers of the French Academy.
Olympic Theatre, Philadelphia,
burned ; two fremen killed.
January 3.-Large fire at Cleveland,
Ohio.
The steamer. Glaucus, of the metro
politan Steamship Company, burned at
her dock in Boston.
January 31.-Advices from the Gold
Coast that the main force under Sir
Garnet WOlseley had reached the river
Prah, January list the acknowledgements
had penetrated thirteen miles beyond
the Prar.
Advices from Spain: General Marti-
neg CampOs arrested and imprisoned.
The municipality of Bilbao offer to sur
render the city to the insurgents in one
week, but the ~besiegers grant but four
days before making the attack.
Fall of a railrOad-bridge over the
Winooski River, near Waterbury, Vt,
while being tested two men injured.
Advices that twenty men, engaged in
chopping wood neal Fort Rice, Dakota
Territory, have been murdered by
Sioux Indians.
February 1.-Advices from Cape
Coast Castle that the Ashantees have
sued for peace. Sir Garnet Wolseley
refuses to.treat with other than the king,
at Coomassie.
Report that the Sultan of Acheen is
dead, and the Achinese War virtually
at an end.
Large fire ut South Norwalk, Conn.
February 2.-Several Spanish minis
tiers at foreign courts have been recalled.
The floor of a factory in Lancashire,
England, where q meeting was being
held, gives way six persons killed and
many seriously injured.
Large fire at COnstantinople.
Central American news: Marshal
Gonzales, being dissatisfied with Senior
Arias, the provisional President Of
Honduras, ordered Senior Leiva pro-
claimed in his place, which met with
serious opposition by the people and
government. Latest news report Senior
Arias shut up in COmayagua, and that
Senior Leiva has established his govern
plent at Legueigalpa.
Death, at London, of James Matthew
Cape, connected with the London press
in capacities of Parliamentary reporter,
correspondent, and critic. Death of
Right Hon. Duncan McNeill, in London !;
age, eighty-one; created Baron Colon
say in 1867.
February 3.-The Carlists threaten to
begin the hombardment of Bilbao,
Spain, at once. General Moriones is
receiving re-enforcements, and will ad-
vance to it's relief.
B. L. Bruce, negro, elected United
States Senator from Mississippi.
Large fire at Memphis, Tenn.
Death, on Long Island, of Captain
David Richie, au officer of the United
States revenue marine. Death, at
Boston, of N. S. Dodge, well-known
itteTdteur, aged sixty four.
February affections for new Par
lament have been proceeding in Great
Britain general gain of the Conserva-
tives up to this date, one hundred and
forty Conservatives and M hundred
and eight Liberals elected.
Advices from the African Gold Coast
that the British troops have advanced
to within a days march of Coomassie,
the Ashantee capital.