The Opelousas journal. [volume] (Opelousas, La.) 1868-1878, 1874-08-21
A Weekly Retrospect of Events,
From Appletons' Journal.

NJ. Casimir Perier's constitutional bill
was rejected by the Assembly, and that
a motion OF dissolution was Immediately
made by the Left and rejected by a ma
jority of thirty.
Advices from Spain that thirty-four
bodies of Republicans, murdered by the
Carlists, were fOundin ahOuse at Cuenca.
From England, the news that the
House of Commons, by a nearly unani-
nous vote, has made an annual grant of
seventy-fve thousand dollars to Prince
Leopold.
Bids for the remainder Of the five per
cent. loan opened (23d) at the Treasury
Department.
July 25.-News from France that the
consideration of the constitutional bills
has been postponed until after the recess,
and that a motion for prOrOguing the
Assembly until January S, 1876, was de-
clared urgent.
Advices from Spain that Seniors Cas-
telar and Gorilla are preparing to act in
concert to secure the definite establish
ment of q conservative republic, and
that General MOriones has won a great
victory in Navarro, taking fifteen hum
dred prisoners.
A report that the Pacific Mail steam
ship City of Guatemala went ashore on
Watling's Island, n of the Bahama
group, on Thursday, the 10th inst. The
officers and crew we're saved.
A water-spout burst near Carson City,
New, causing great destruction OF prop
erty.
July 2e;-Advices from Spain Of a ter
rible landslide at Alarva, in the pro-
terly destroyed, and few of the inhabi-
tants escaped. A report that thirty men
were killed and wounded by the ex-
plOsiOn of a Carlist magazine at Quiza.
A fire in Newburg, n. Y, destroyed
property valued at tfty-tive thousand
dollars.
News that the loss by the flood at
Eureka, New, amounts to n hundred
thousand dollars, and that fourteen dead
bodies have been recovered.
Pittsburg and Allegheny City visited
by a terrible deluge on Sunday evening,
caused by the bursting Of a water-spout
over the city. A vast amount Of prop
erty was destroyed, and the number of
lives lost is ~varioNsly estimated between
one and two hundred.
July 27.-Report that the town of
Azagra, in MOravia, has been over
wheImed by a torrent.
Advices from Spain that the Impair
ClCh VI uCuOuAlLCo UiO tb1ACSOo
completely of France with the Carlists.
French journals assert that the Spanish
frontier is we'll guarded by the French
authorities, and that the contraband Of
wal which reaches the Carlists is impor-
ted by sea from England.
1t is reported that an Irish home-rule
member of the British Parliament will
retire in order to give John Mitchell an
opportunity Of being returned to the
vacant seat.
A demonstration against the money
grant to Prince Leopold, Of England,
was made by the republicans in Clerken-
we'll.
The International Congress at Brus-
sells convened; Russia is disposed to
adopt a cOnciliatory curse thereat'
July 28.-Advices from Europe that
Dr.. Janizewski, Suffragan Bishop, of
Posen, has been sentenced to fifteen
months imprisonment for violations of
the German ecclesiastical laws.
Forty-one leading Carlists have been
arrested at Barcelona by way of reprisal.
Aid has been withdrawn from the
lOcked-out laborers in the eastern coun-
ties of England by the Agricultural La
borers' Union.
The Cuban insurgents have attacked
the villages of Calderon and Unas.
The President has ratified the extra
dition treaty with Peru and the treaty
with Russia respecting trademarks.
Theodore TiltOn arrested on q war;
rant issued by Justice Riley, of Brook
Ign, in which he is charged by William
J. Gaynor with ibeling the Rev. Henry
Ward Beecher. Mr.. Tilton pleaded
mot guilty" and was released ON his
own recOgnlZance.
July 29.-Advices from Spain that the
government has sent a strOngly-wOrded
list operations on the frontier, and that
the Carlists have shot two hundred and
thirty-fve prisoners who were captured
from General Nouvilla's column in
Catalonia.
The Secretary of State for Foreign
Affairs stated, in the British House of
Commons, that the German squadron
had been sent to the coast of Spain mere
" to protect German citizens.
The motion for the dissolution of the
French Assembly was defeated this day
by three hundred and thirty-two yeas
to three hundred and seventy-four-nays.
July 0.-Advices from Europe that
England, Germany, and Italy, have
agreed to establish o joint surveillance
over the Spanish frontiers, and that the
Portuguese authorities have taken meas
ures to prevent violations Of the frontier
by Carlists.
A heavy rain-storm has been raging
in Vermont since last Sunday.
DIsCOURAGING TO IMMIGRANTS
John and Fannie Champion, man and
wife, were on Thursday sent to the Char
ity Hospital sick and destitute.
TTS+I, +I,ss Iys - ~ n,+i1o ToI., ool Tfr~,
ME are disposed of, but when the facts
we'll merited rebuke to our citizens agri-
culturally inclined, and those who pre-
tend to encourage emigration.
These parties came to the city from
Mobile, expecting to find in Louisiana a
situation on a farm. ButaIas they met
with no hospitable reception and en-
eOuragement. John was taken sick, and
he and his wife wandered around with
out home and friends, living subjects OF
compassion. Their appeals for work
MET WITH NO RESPONSIVE ECHO
in the hearts Of those to whom they
sought for employment, and in despair
they applied f~0rrefuge to the police, and
by them were sent to Che hospital. Here's
encouragement to immigrants; it's nc
wonder our productive State lacks
white tiIIers of the soil.
This is not the only instance of the
kind, ais mot long since an English cou.
pie amigrated to Louisiana with bright
expectations of wealth to be earned by
the frugal and industrious. They, too
exhausted their funds, and twas only
through the charity of the pastor of q
Canal street church that they were ena'
bled to return to the house they had
left.-[N. 0. Orleans.
The Picayune says the Times has al,
ready dona all the charm il can hu 1t.