The Opelousas journal. [volume] (Opelousas, La.) 1868-1878, 1874-07-24

From Appletons' Journal

From .Appletons' Journal
June 26.-Carlists raise the siege of
Figueras, neal the French frontier.
Advices from France: Important
documents belonging to Imperialist
journalists and prominent Benapartists
seized by the police. The Assembly
grant 25,00 {, 900 francs indemnity to
sufferers by the late war.
Death, at London, of Howard Staun-
ton, W%ell-knoWn chess-player and
Shakcspearean editor, aged sixty-four.
June 27.-Adyices from Spain: Car
lists defeated at ClIelra, thirty-eight
miles northwest of Valencia. General
COncha has executed q successful flank
movement on the CarlistS before EStel-
la, resulting i'll the capture of several
important positions.
Advices from Russia: Alarming III
mors prevail in st. Petersburg respect
ing affairs in Central Asia. Report that
the Amecr of kahsgar has seized the
Russian envoy and concentrated 10000
troops on the frontier. The car has
banished his nephew, the Grand-dukc
Nicholas, for theft of his mothers
diamonds, to the Caucasus, for lite, and
deprived him OF his orders.
June 2S.-AdVices from Spain: Cap
ture OF ~Zuruenain, A%barZuZa, and Iadal.
by General Concha. Don Carlos expect
ed at EStella with recnfOrcemcnts.
Princess d'Oubril, wife of the Rus
sian ambassador to Prussia, drowned at
POtsdam.
Shocks of earthquake at C%onstauti-
noplo.
IDtelligenccOf the death, at Paris, June
18th, of DR.. James McNaughtOn, preSi-
dent of the Albany Medical College
aged seVentv-seVen.
Advices tnat Senior AVellaneda has
been elected President of the Argentine
Republic.
shall COncha, one hrigadier, and two
staff Officers, killed in an attack upon a
CArlist intrenchment at Muro, three Kill
was aged eighty.) General Iabala, Pres
ident of the Council and Minister OF
War, will assume command of the Re-
publican army. The whole army has
fallen back to LOrin, eight miles from
Estella.
1t is reported from Central Asia that
Yakoob Boy is arming against Russia.
at the instigatiOn of the agents of Great
4 large and destructive fire at Der
ditcher, in the government of Nolhynia,
Russia.
Deaths: At Gmeava, n. Y, of Mr.. i.
SlOsson, Il well nown lawyer of the
place, aged siSxy-fOur; at Hartford,
Conn, of HcnrlSA Perkins, for many
years president Ssof the oil" Hartford
Adviccs from tie Indian Territory re-
port collisions with Indians. Bodies of
two butfalO-hunters, who had been killed
| by Indians, found.
June 30.-Advices from Spain: The
loss of Republicans in the last attack
upon Estella numbers 800 men killed and
wounded. Marshal Serrano to take com
mand of the Republican army.
Advices from Cuba: The crown has
| been removed from the flag over the
palace OF the captain general. \ lighter,
with thirty-tive persons on board, cap
sized off COjimar, sixmiles from Havana,
and sixteen drowned.
Death, at New York, of Henry Grin
nell, distinguished merchant, and widely
known for Ills connection with the Kane
Arctic Expeditions, aged seventy-five,
Boiler explosion in the saW-mill at
CarrOllton, Mich, five killed and several
wounded.
Intelligence of death of John Blackie.
distinguished Edinburgh publisher
aged ninety-two.
July Social Mills, Woonsocket, R,
l., destroyed by fire.
Mr.. Hale declines the postmaSter-gen-
cral-ship offered him by President Grant
Death, at Plymoth, Mass. of Charles
Henry Warren, formerly District Attor-
ney and Judge of Court of Common
Pleas; of John S. Wright, well-known
merchant of Boston, aged eighty-six; OF
Hon. F. G. L. Strive, ex-U. S. consul al
| Quebec: at Boston, of Geo. B. Upton,
distinguished merchant, aged seventy