The Opelousas journal. [volume] (Opelousas, La.) 1868-1878, 1874-07-17
A Weekly Retrospect of Events.
From Appletons' Journal

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June 19.-Adyices from Spain: Sick
ness in General Concha's army CaFiists
concentrating at Monte Jurra, near Es-
tella General Palacios, with ten thou-
sand men, marching on Cantarieja, Car
list headquarters in Aragon.
Yellow fever raging in Bahia, Brazil.
The pope, in his address to the cardi-
mails, renews his protests against the
acts of the italian Government, and re-
fuses to m~ake.peaee with the enemies
of the Church"
Deaths: At Paris, of Jules Janin,
author and critic, aged seventy at Lon
don, OF John NJ. Bellew, well-knOwn
elOcutiOnist, aged t%ifty-onc; at Kelly
vile, KY, of Mrs. Audubon, wife of
the celebrated naturalist, aged eighty
eight.
June 20.-Advices from Spain: Tele-
graphic. communication between France
and Spain severed. The frontier town
of Figueras, province. of Corona, in
vested by the Carlist chieftain Saballs,
Intelligence that the Turkish ship.
Kars, on the Sea of MarmOra, en-. route
for Salonica, was ruin into by the Egyp-
tian vessel BhOra, and sunk; three hun
dred and twenty lives lost. .
A crisis brought about in the Dutch
ministry by the rejection of the Govern
ment bill lowering the franchise; the
ministers tender their designations.
Death, at Boston, of DR.. George Der
by, for some years Secretary OF the
Massachusetts, Board OF Health; aged
tifty-ive. y.
June 2l.-Adyices from Spain: Gene
raj Coneha reports the roads in the
ne~ighbOrhood of Estella ~impracticable
for heavy artillery; is obliged to sus-
Vnnl nY1n,n+iD,,c Con +l,o puarnn+
Advices of the death of Rev. John 5.
Falconer, one of the most distinguished
Of the younger clergy of the Scottish
Episcopal Church. .s,.f- ..E.
June 22.-Advices from Cuba, Dis
sessions reported to have broken out in
the insurgent ranks. The supporters of
Santa Lucia and Gomez fighting each
other; have been two encounters, in
which both sides lost heavily. .
Completion of the electric-telegraph
cable between Brazil and Europe COM
municatiOn established and messages
i~nterchanged. ~
A new cabinet formed in Hawaii, as
follows: Minister OF Finance, p. Ma
h%0Olulna Minister Of the Interior and
adj interim Minister of Foreign Affairs,
WI. Green; Acknowledgement, Richard
H.. Stanley. S..s...- 5Sfl
IEHtIlSs al DOStOH, ndSS.s OIs ICNs
Charles Lowe, Secretary of the Ameri-
five at Benton, Ark, of General Will
liam 4. Crawford, prominent citizen of
the State; at Chicago, of Samuel Myers,
well known in theatrical circles and
manager of Myers's OpeEa-House in
that city. =. a.ll .tntta.1 I.se .aftstg
June 23.-Adyices from Spain The
government troops defeat CaEist bands
at .Morella. A fusion of Spanish repub-
lieans and radicals proposed.
Fourteen persons killed and one hum
dred injured, by the fall of a floor of a
room in Syracuse, Ny, where a straw
berry-festival was holding. ze = .fe.f#H
Adjournment of United, States Com
gress among prominent acts passed
during the session is the currency. bill,
fixing maximum of OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
ton at three hundred and eighty-two
millions, redistributing fifty-fiye mil
Eastern to Western banks, abolishing
provision requiring national banks. to
hold reserve of legal tenders; Post
Office bill, requiring prepayment ON all
periodicals. by publishers, at rate of two
cents per pound for newspapers, and
three cents per pound for periodicals
issued less frequently than once q week.
June 94.-Carlists attack Bellmunt,
i'll Tarragona, and garrison surrender;
Carlists afterward attacked by republi-
can forces and defeated. -
Trouble threatened, between Persia
and Turkey, owing to refusal of the
Persian Government to compel return
to Turkish territory of a tribe hitherto
subject to the Porte.
Resignation of US. Postmaster
General Creswell office rendered to
Eugene Hale, of Maine.
June 25.-Contract closed for placing
Pullman palace-cars on all railways in
Upper Italy. hi zt +a,,.
Railway, accident by misplaced rail
in Canada one killed and twenty in
jured.
Ratification at Versailles Of postal
treaty between France and the United
States.
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