The Opelousas journal. [volume] (Opelousas, La.) 1868-1878, 1874-02-13
a Weekly Retrospect OH Events.
From Apnletons, Journal

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Large fire at the Portsmouth Dock
yard, England. Great amount of stores
for the Ashantee expedition destroyed.
Report of the defeat of Colonel Es-
ponda, with six hundred and fifty men,
in an engagement with Cuban insur-
gents, near Melones.
Advices from Rio Janeiro, s. A, that
the termination of the war in Entire
Rios has been officially declared
Large fire in Brooklyn, N. 7. Kings
| County Jail destroyed.
January 16.-A Papal ConsistOry held
| at Rome. The final ceremonies OF in
s~tallation of the recently-appointed
cardinals celebrated, and several
bishops appointed.
Serious riot at the parliamentary cleo
ton in Limerick, Ireland.
Large fires at Brooklyn, n. Y, OF
tawa, Canada, and Leitll, England.
Intelligence of the death, at Washing
ton. of Charles Astor Bristed, better
known as "Carl Benson his literary,
s0briquet, aged fi~fty-four. Death, ut
Newport, r. l., of Duncan c. Pell, we'll
known in New York, aged sixty-eight.
Accident on the Castle-Shannon Rail-
way, Pa. two lives lost.
Advices from Central America. Hos
tilities begun between Honduras and
Salvador. Marshal Gonzales, of Saliva
dor, attacked fort at Amopala, Decem-
Der 18th, commanded by Vargas, which,
after q vigorous resistance, surrendered.
Mexican Congress have contracted
for the establishment of a line of steam
ers between Vera Cruz, ProgresO, and
Havana. rr..- -
January 17.-Intelligenee of the in
~augurati0n of Governor Cooke, OF
Texas. Governor Davis insisted on re-
tanning possession of the Office until the
28tIr of April.-Mayor Wheeler, of Gal
weston; assaulted by q mob OF negroes
and whites; seven OF the ~rlngleaders
arrested. =8 ~
Adviees from Cuba. The official re-
port of the engagement on the 9Th in
slant, near Puerto Principe, states that
three hundred insurgents made an at
tack on forty-seven Spanish soldiers,
killing thirty-nine and wounding three.
Senior QuijanO, a lawyer, and Senior
Penalver, have been arrested OH a
charge of being Carlist agents.
Death of Rev. William Sparrow, ID.
D., Dean of the Faculty of the Episco-
pal Seminary at Alexandria, Va, for
the last thirty three years; aged
s~eventy-three. rs
Intelligence of the death of Colonel
JohnaMiddleton, at San Francisco, an
ex-member of the California Pioneers.
Intelligence that the. American bark
Mary NJ. Bird collided with al unknown
ship, November Sd, which sunk, with
all on board. 9 &.s#
January 18.-Falling of the railway
yiaduct at Toquella, Spain thirty-three
woHkmen killed.-General Dominique
appointed to the command of the Cen
trail Army operating against the Carlists.
Three Madrid newspapers suspended
by the Government.
Death, at Cincinnati, of Rev Samuel
Fisher, formerly president of Hamilton
College, New York.
Report that the MinniGiha, from CAL
lao for Dublin, has been wrecked OFF
the Scilly Islands; ten of the crew lost.
Report that the Comanche Indians are
on a raid,
News from Cape Coast Castle to De-
cember f4th, reports the retreat Of Ash
antees, and advance of British troops.
Arrival of re-enforcements from Eng
land.
Jan. 19.-Adviees from Madrid that
General Turon has been appointed COM
mander of the Civil Guard.
Nomination by President Grant, of
Morrison r. Waite, of Ohio, as Chief
Justice of the Supreme Court.
Report of a strike among the negroes
Louisiana plantations. Rioters num-
Der four or five hundred, and are armed.
Governor Cooke, of Texas, reported to
bein possession OF his office WithOntfur-
Their dispute.
Intelligence of the death, at London,
of General Sir James G. C~hatterton,
colonel Oftfe Fourth Royal Irish) Regi-
ment0f Dragon Guards.
Death, at Greensboro, N. Co. of Fred
erick Strobels, q disting uisled musician.
Jan. 20,-AdViees from London of Fu-
that the King of Ashantee has sent
embassy to General WOlsely suing
for peace, and offering indemnity.
Nine women killed by an explosion
and fire In a knitting-millat Bennington,
VT.
Intelligence of the death, at Mount
Airy, N. G., of Changand Eng, the Siam
ese Twins, aged sixty-two.
Heavy gale on the English coast.
Governor William Pinekney Whyte
u. 8. Senator from Maryland.
Large FIRE at Chicago.
4 Jan. 9t.-A note from Prince Bismark
holds tie French Government account
able for the virulence of the ultramon-
tame press i'm France.
Reports of great sickness among the
of the Ashantee expedition.
AnpOlitical prisoners az Santo Dolnia.
20 have been released.
AdYices of the death of Augustus
Hoffman won Faliersleben, a German
poet, aged s~eventy-hve.
Jan. l92.-MorrisOn r.. Waite confirmed
5y the u. S. Senate az Chief-Justiee Of
Supreme Court,