The Opelousas journal. [volume] (Opelousas, La.) 1868-1878, 1874-08-14
A Weekly Retrospect Of Events.



From Applctons' Journal.
July 17.-Terrible storm passed over
Lowell, Mass, doing great damage.
Advices from Spain that the CarlistS
have abandoned the siege of Puigccrda.
A large fire reported to be raging in
Galata, a suburb of Constantinople.
July 18.-Advices from Spain that
sixteen hundred hostages have been
seized by the Carlists.
Ratification of the French postal con-
ventiOn were exchanged at the Post
Office Department.
Advices that the British Government
is unwilling to accept the c~eSsiOn of the
Feeiee Islands under the conditions i'm
posed.
The university regatta takes place at
Saratoga. The Columbia crew wins.
Time, 16.42!.
July 19.-Boston and Maine House,
at Old Orchard, Me, destroyed by fire.
There is Il ministerial crisis III France.
The Duke de BrOglie has been unable
to form a ministry on account of the
opposition of the Legitimists to an or
g~anizatiOp of MacMahon's powers.
Advices from Spain that the whole
country has been declared in Il state
of siege, and that the city OF Cuenca has
surrendered to the Carlists.
July 2O.-Advices that a column of
Spanish troops have defeated d body of
Cuban insurgents in the hills of Bijaru.
News that fifteen miners have been
killed by a colliery-explOsiOn ut Wigan,
England, on the 18th.
July 21.-In the French Assembly
yesterday General de Cissev announced
that NJ. de Chaband La Tour had been
appointed Minister of the Interior, and
NJ. Matthew BOdet Minister of Finance.
Experienced frOntiersmen express the
opinion that the late Indian raid into
Fort Steele indicates the approach of a
general Indian war.
Theodore Tilton's statement to the
investigating committee of Plymouth
Church published in the morning jour
mails.
Ex-Attorney-Gencra Clarke, of Mani
tOba, the prosecutor of the kidnappers
of Lord" Gordon, was brutality beaten
in st. Paul, Mimi.
July 22.-Advices from Europe that
the French Government will declare its
opposition to NJ. Casimir-P6rier bill on
Thursday. Don Carlos has issued a
manifesto guaranteeing religious tOlera-
ton. The fall of CuencA is confirmed
by reports from Madrid. France will
insist upon the exclusion of naval ques-
lions from consideration by the Brlls-
sells Congress.
Communication of the sentence OF death
against the American, DOckray. tried as
a spy ip Cuba, to ten years imprison-
ment.
The Columbia crew were cordially re-
ceived on their arrival, President Bar
nard making a cOngratulatOry speech.
More Indian fighting is reported Sec
rotary Belknap has issued instructions
for the pursuit and punishment of the
marauding bands.
July 22.-Advices from France that
the deputies of the Left are circulating
petitions for the dissolution of the
French Assembly.
News from Spain that General Ia
bala has sent eight battaliOns of troops
to re-enforce the Republicans in tie
| province of Cuenca. The Carlists are
in strong force in the province of Alava,
between Miranda and VittOria.
The Secretary of War has counter
manded his order for troops to be sent
to Nicksburg.
"Mind your P's and Q's"had it's origin
in the ale, houses in the Olden times,
when 1t was customary to keep each
mans account upon the wall or door.
At the head of the bill would be the
initials p and Q, which stood for pints
and quarts, and as the numbers noun
ted up, we can imagine one kindly rus
tic saying to another, "Mind your p's
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