The Opelousas journal. [volume] (Opelousas, La.) 1868-1878, 1874-03-06

From Appletons, Journal

tees have surrendered. King Koffee ha!
accepted General Wolseley's terms, anG
is to pay a war indemnity of $500, 600.
The Carlists defeated by republican
troops al Lerida, Spain. y
The German Reichstag opened with 6
speech from the throne, delivered By
royal commission. - @a@gs
Accident IN the Chicago and North
western Railroad +; seven persons injured
Death of Judge Alfred Conkling, a
Utica, n. Y; aged eighty-five years.
Feb. 6.-Signor A. Scioloia has resign.
ed his position in the Italian Cabinet.
Collision on the Great Western Rail.
ROAD, England several persons killed
Fatal boiler-explosion near Norfolk
Va. four persons killed.
Advices from Penang gia London, re.
port the cholera decreasing in Acheen
A reconnoltrlng party assaulted by the
Achlnese, and twenty killed and wound.
ed.
Deaths: Baron Mayer Amsehel dc
Rothschild, at London: aged fftv-siy
years. NJ. de Brumend, at Paris, form
erly minister OF France i'm Brazil aged
seventy-nine years.
feb 7.-Spaln announces a blockade
OF two hundred miles of the Biscayan
coast-from Cape Penas to the French
boundary.
Advices from Cuba that Captain
General J0yellar has been r~einvested by
his government with extraordinary pow
er. Advices from Mexico: weather un-
usually cold ten Indians frozen to death
at Paschuea. Smallpox prevails to q
great extentat Minatitlan and Mazatlan.
Coai-mines discovered in Vera Cruz.
Accident on the Rensselaer, and Sara
toga Railroad n man killed and two
wounded.
Death, in New York, of James w.
Gerard, distinguished as a LAWYER, poll
tlclan, and for his interestin public edn-
cation !; aged eighty years. Death of
Right Hon. Cadwallader Davis Blay-
ney, deputy lieutenant and magistrate
for the counties of Antrim and Mona
CHAN, Ireland; aged seventy-one years.
Feb. 8.-Advices that some of the
Achinese chiefs still hold ont, and are
building forts in the interior.
Advices from Mexico: the revolution
in Yucatan is gaining strength. The
Indians have plundered and burned the
town of Canotchel. The Apaches have
raided III Sonora, and committed sveral
murders; The revolution in Jalisco
ended. The appointment of Senores
Benavldes and Corona as ministers to
Germany and Spain respectively, has
been confirmed.
B0iler-explosiOn at St. Louis, Mo,
three men killed.
Deaths: DR.. E. Hatch, superintendent
OF the Connecticut State Reform School,
at Merlden, Conn. Henry Miller, M. D.,
president of the Louisville Medical Col
lege, at Louisville; age, seventy three
years. John Milton Earle, for thirty
five years editor of the Worcester Spy;
aged seventy-nine years.
Feb. 9.-The diplomatic representa-
tlves of Spain at Brussels, Berlin, and
Lisbon, have resigned.
The Captain General of Cuba has
called upon the slave-oWners for one
slave in every one hundred, for military
service. ~
The intransigente refugees at Oran
not convicted of crime have been releas-
ed by the French authorities. Con-
treras, who is writing a history of the
siege OF Cartagena, and Ferrez, have
refused to accept their discharges.
Advices from Japan Ella California:
the government is exultant over the de-
cree OF Portugal s%uppressing the cooIie
trade in Macao. The small detachment
Of French troops stationedat Yokohama
to be withdrawn. The English soldiers,
cSLL4C 4ouA III hAAAOCGS WIZ Ee-
main in defiance of the wish of the Jap
anese Government. A second decree
has been issued recalling all students
now abroad at the expense of the Gov
eminent, except those giving the high
est proofs OF advancement, The great
Temple of Tenshig DaIjOn, at ShidO, in
Yeddo, destroyed by fire.
Deaths: David Frederick Strauss, the
celebrated German t~heOlOgian, at Berlin,
in his sixty-sixth year. Confirmation Of
the death of Commander John Walters,
of the Z. s. Navy, at Baltimore; age,
forty-three years. Elias II. Fly, at
Portland, Me-, for fifty years a member
of the New York Bar; age, ninety-four
years. AtLondon, of Herman Merivale,
C, B., formerly Professor Of Political
Economy at Oxford, England age, six
ty-eight years, Right Reversed JOS
eph Eugene Brun Gurgues, Roman
Catholic Bishop of Ottawa, Canada.
Feb. 1O.-Advices that the Spanish
Government has agreed to an exchange
of prisoners with the Carlists.
4 heavy gale in theloWer Baltic caus-
es the inundation of Kiel and Swine
munde,
Death, at Paris, of Jules Nichelet, the
celebrated French historian; age, seY-
enty-six years. Death, at Alexandria,
Va, of N. P. Trist, aged seventy-four,
envoy under President olkst0 Mexico,
negotiator of the treaty. of peace with
Difficulty In British Columbia; the
ministry having attempted to force
changes in the terms of the ~eonfedera-
ton through the House, the people de-
mand the submission of the question to
them the ministry refusing, the people
proceed tothe House, and break up the
sitting excitement prevailing, and Sc
cession threatened. *E
Feb. 11.-Returns from elections for
members of British Parliament to date
show $40 Conservatives and260 Liberals
elected.
Severe storms in the Baltic and on the
Irish coast.
Advices of an uprising of the Indians
of Wyoming Territory; two q. s. Off
GERS and an Indian agent have been mur-
dered. Indians in possession OF White
Clay agency.
Portions of the HOly0ke Warp Com
pany's Mill at Holyoke, Mass. burned.
Accident at Pittsburg, whereby sixteen
men are severely burned by the eapsizing
of a pot of boiling lead.
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