The Opelousas journal. [volume] (Opelousas, La.) 1868-1878, 1874-09-25
A Weekly Retrospect of Events.
From ApplCtOns' Journal.

dCQtlttiliS MI. I9ceclieF OF Tlle charges
of adultery is presented and accepted at
a meeting Of the congregation.
Advices from Spain state that the
Puigcerda, and have been again repulsed.
Women said to be assisting in the de-
Tense.
A battle III Bueyabajo, in Cuba, be-
tween the insurgents and Spaniards, re-
ported from Havana.
August 2~9.-Troubles between the ne
groes and whites at C0usllatta, La. Two
negroes shot.
Advices from Paris state that NJ. Ber-
ger, candidate for the Assembly in the
Department of Maine-et-LOire. has is
sued an address to the electors, boldly
ayOWiDg his devotion to imperialism and
the Bonaparte dynasty, and advocating
the plebiscitum.
The anniversary of the landing of the
English colony at Sabine, August 10 20.
-, 1907, celebrated ut Port Popham,
Ne.
August 3O.-Thc Carlist Generals
1rlstany and Nora defeated by the Re-
Lopez Dominiguez said to be marching
to the relief of Puigcerda.
The negro troubles at C~oushatta, La.
continue. Six white leaders of the ne
groes murdered while being conveyed
to Shreveport as prisoners.
ire IN San francisco destroys lair
works valued at twenty thousand dol
lars.
Steam saW-mill burned at West Town
send, Mass. Loss, forty thousand dollars.
August 31.-Dispatches from Rome
state that Mount Etna has been in a
state OF eruption since Saturday, and
streams OF lava are pouring from three
craters.
Several regiments have been sent to
Sicily because of the increase of bri-
gandage and generallawlessness. Court
martials have been established for the
prompt punishment Of offenders.
General Custer reports to L~ieutenant-.
General Sheridan the return to-day to
Fort Lincoln of the Black-Hills Expe-
dltlOn, after an absence Of nearly two
months, and a march of about one thOus-
and miles.
September 1.-Election of governor,
Legislature, and members of Congress,
in Vermont.
Advices from Havana report, that q
company of Spanish guerrillas were at
tackled neal Puerto Principe by the in
surgents, and that the latter were re-
pulsed: Other engagement at Las Char
cas- and Fort Martin Lopez reported. A
Madrid dispatch states that the Carlists
made two determined assaults on PUG
cerda to-day, but without effect. Both
attacks were defeated, and the besiegers,
in their rage, set fire to and destroyed
the houses outside the walls.
Sept. 2.-European advices report that
there has been some rioting in the pro-
vince of Barcelona, caused by OPPOSE
ton to the CONSUMPTION.
Three Paris newspapers have been
fined for publishing a letter of Marshal
Bazaine's.
The epizooty has broken out in St.
John, n. B., with great violence.
Six surveyors from Lawrence, Kan,
have been murdered by Indians near
Fort Dodge.
Work has been resumed in the princi-
pal Pennsylvania coal-mines.
Sept. 3.-TheB Bishop of Yucatan, Mex
leo, has issued an order accommodating
all Catholics who contract civil mar
riages.
The civil guards of Bazaine, who were
arrested on @ charge of assisting his es-
cape, have been released.
The eruption Of Mount Etna shows no
signs OF abatement. The inhabitants
are fleeing from tile Villages at the foot
of the mountain. t
The sale OF ten provincial Bonapar-
list Journals has been prohibited by the
French Government.
The Long-Branch steamer River Belle
was burned at her wharf i'm New York:
lost estimated at forty thousand dollars.
The New Orleans correspondent Of the
Philadelphia New Age, says:
Theleague known as the White League.
q combination formed mainly for the
purpose OF SURPRISING the employment
OF colOred persons, is an organization
whose existence is deeply deplOred by
numbers Of the very best of the citizens
who contend that such arbitrary embar-
goes upon their domestic and business
affairs is as detrimental as q matter of
policy, as it is irksome and inconvenient
to them rs individuals, maintaining as
they do that it is an ebulition, an irrita-
ton of temporary life that must soon
subside, only to leave an awkward scar
behind. Those of the Southern men
who do not come into the arrangement
are frOWned upon as hostile to the South
ern cause. 1t is sadly strange this peo-
pie have not yet learned a lesson from
frequent failures and bitter disasters in !
similar past experiments. .@@
The natural consequence OF this pO- |
litical broil is that more than exciting |
times are feared at the coming election. |
In this condition of affairs is it n won
der that the business outlook is so
gloomy, and that a nervous trembling |
perVades the social atmosphere? Is it a
matter of surprise then that commercial
houses and residences are placarded all
over the city with the ominous "For
Sale or For Rent cards, Or that cor
porati0n and individual failures are of
such frequent occurrence, and that such
stock as that of the great Bank of Amer
lea is quoted at 500 per share, when only
a year ago it found ready sale at $165;
that State warrants are of difficult ne
collation. at sixty-five per cent discount, |
and city seven per cent bonds can hard
~ be disposed OF at forty-fve cents on
the dollar! And this IN the face of the
acttiat. the cotton receipts alone at this
port, this season, thus far, exceeds Ill
$4,000 bales, worth over 800, 900, 900!
This unhappy State torn and distracted
by civil dissentions more than she was
during the war, needs regeneration
and relief, but she will never receive
either so long as pistols and shotguns"
are called for TO enforce injustice or OPP
preston. For a newspaper here urges
those who have not those weapons to
procure them at once, and the Peoples
party denies to one class of the people
what the people promised to all, and de-
cided by the bayonet in battle and the
ballot in peace that all shall have.
A Lynehburg man, arrested as a va
grant, protested that he had a regular
trade, and that was smoking glass for
total eclipses of the vi He remarked