The Opelousas journal. [volume] (Opelousas, La.) 1868-1878, 1874-02-20

From Appletons' Journnl.l

January 22.--Dispatches from Penang
ria London, report that the Achlnest
continue to make q desperate resistance
to the occupation of the country by thu
| Dutch.
Sanchez Brenza appointed Captain
General of Galieia, Spain.
Large fire at Glasgow Scotland.
Collision on the New Jersey Contra
road; one killed, and several injured.
Ship Panther, from NanaimO, w. 7.
for San Francisco, sunk in Georgia Bay
T~wenty-three lives lost.
Death, at London, of Mime. Eu,
phrosyne Parepa-Rosa, the distinguished
Aongstress, aged thirty-ive.
Jan. 23-Rumor that the Carlists have
entered Santander, Spain. REPORT since
denied.)
Advices from Cuba report the defeat
of Spanish troops under General Portilla
British Parliament dissolved by royal
decree.
Celebration, at st. Petersburg, of the
marriage of Alfred, Duke of Edinburgh.
second son of Queen Victoria, with the
Grand-duchess Maria Alexandrovna,
eldest daughter of Emperor Alexander
of Russia.
Death, in Boston, of General B. F. Ed
monds, of the Massachusetts, State mill
tia.
Jan. 24-Advices from Madrid, Spain,
that the, government has issued an order
closing the Alph0nsist clubs. IF .aF.
AdvIces from Cuba report that a band
of negroes made a raid into Trinidad
Valley, burned the Mayaguara, Laslagas,
and Sacra Famila plantations, carried
Off all the slaves from the Mayaguara
plantation, and destroyed all the ma
chinery. Four thousand insurgents have
surrounded Manzanillo.
Death, at Ottawa, Canada, of John
Bowers Lewis, ex-memberof Parliament,
and an eminent laWyerof Central Cana
da.
Advices of the death, at Jamaica, of
Rev. Isaac Whiteheuse.
Jan. 25.-Advices from Spain. The
Carlists claim that Santander and Por-
tugalete surrendered Internationally,
and that twelve hundred Remington and
four hundred Mimic rifles fell into their
hands. Admiral Topete has resumed
his duties as Minister of Marine.
The schooner Franklin Rogers sunk off
Boston Light. Captain and two of the
crew lost.
Death of Adam Black, the distinguish
ed publisher, of Edinburgh aged ninety.
Death, at Edinburgh, Of Henry Glass
ford Bell, Sheriff of Lanarkshire, Scot
land, aged sixty-nine. Death, at Paris,
Of Father Philippe Superior OF the
Brothers of the Christian School, aged
e~ighty-twO.
Jan. 26.-Advices from Padang. Su-
matra, announce that Kraton, the prin-
been captured by the Dutch.
Advices from Cuba. A fight on the
outskirts Manzanillo, between insur-
gents and Spanish guerillas, General
Esponda re-enfOrced by troops from
Santiago de Cuba, and has arrived at
Holquin. Large fire in the vicinity of
Havana.
Continued disturbances reported
among the natives on the east coast of
New Zealand.
Intelligence of the death, in Eastern
Africa, of David Livingstone, the cele-
brated African explorer aged fifty
seven.
Disastrous FIRE in Jeddo, Japan.
Jan. 27s-Sixteen persons killed by a
collision on the railroad between Ed
inburgh and Glasgow, Scotland.
Flood in the Oswego River, N. Y;
large destruction of property. +
Report that City Treasurer Alexander
D. Hamilton, of Jersey City, N. j., has
disappeared with one hundred thousand
dollars of the city funds. .
Jan. 2s.-Sudden death in the court
room, Philadelphia, of ex-Chief-Justice
James Thomson, of the Superior Court
of Pennsylvania, aged sixty-eight.
Quebec Legislature assemblies.
Adyices that a detachment of United
States troops had been attacked neal
Fort Still, 1T, by Comanche Indians;
Indians driven off without loss. Advi-
ees Of q fight. near Fort Clark, Texas,
between Mexicans and Indians, on the
9th instant nine Indians killed, two
Mexicans wounded,