The Opelousas journal. [volume] (Opelousas, La.) 1868-1878, 1874-05-22
A Weekly Retrospect Of Events.
From Appletons' Journal.l

lFrom Appletons' Journall
April GA famine reported in Ana
tolia, ASIA Minor.
Much suffering caused in Louisiana
by the-oyerhoW of the Mississippi. Many
of the finest plantations under water.
Advices from Little Rock, Ark: Sec
rotary of State Johnson demands the
possession of his office and the State
property, but the claimant Brooks re-
fuses to recognize him as Secretary.
April 24.-Advices from Madrid: Re-
port that the .Carlists have released all
their prisoners of war Three million
reals intended for Carlists have been
seized in Santander.s q IL 80
Cable communication reOpened be-
tween the West Indiesand United States.
A revolution feared In Hayti. ApOlit-
teal geographical division; the north
has its candidate for the presidency, but
President Massage is pledged to deliver
the presidency to- General Dominique,
the Vice-President, who is the southern
candidate. 1914
Three men killed and several wound
ed by the falling of a building in Brook
lyn, n. Y. .'+-
Advices from Honolulu, S. l.: Queen
Emma, the defeated candidate for the
throne, plotting to overthrow Kalakana,
is said to have appealed to Queen Vic
toria for assistance.
Death of Professor John Phillips, long
known as one of the leading biologists
OF Great Britain ; aged "a.
April 25.-The trouble in Arkansas
still continues. All Overtures of peace
refused by Brooks. Jefferson County
placed under martial law.
The steamship Faraday is loading
with +ha nom A flanfia aaa bIn which 10 tO
be laid direct to the United States.
Two railway accidents in England,
causing the death and injury of twenty
persens.g EE9 &gE@E az So
April 26.-Advices from Madrid: Ru-
NOR current that the Carlists have asked
Marshal Serrano for an amnesty.
The Emperor of Germany closed the
Reichstagin person with a formalspeech.
Heavy snow in Maine, Massachusetts,
Vermont, and New Hampshire. Con-
siderable damage done to shipping by a
heavy gale. 900"
Death, at Poughkeepsie, of Professor
S. L. Walker, n of the first in this
co~untryatO make pictures from sunlight.
Death, at Naples, of Prince, Pignatelli,
a well-known ~dipomatist aged 90.
April 27.-A "whiskey crusade" in
augnrated in Manchester, England.
Advices from Spain General Val
les, with 5000 men, has taken possession
of the town of Chelva, SO miles north
west of Valencia. a.
Advices from Acheen: On the nth
inst, unsuccessful attack by natives on
the Dutch positions. On the 10Th ma
tives attempted to carry the works of
the Kraton, but were driven back, with
great slaughter.
Death, at New York, of the Rev.
John Mcleod, d. D., of the Reformed
Presbyterian Church aged So.
Large fire at st. Johns, N. B.
April 28.-Seyeral persons killed by
the falling of three buildings in London.
Three men buried under d falling en-
banknent of sand, at College Point, L. !,
Several buildings burned at Ottawa,
Canada. s5@,s'r't.
Sovereignty of the Fejee Islands
rendered to Queen Victoria. .a an
Death, at Philadelphia, of John Bob
len, well known. citizen of that city. 1se.
April 29.-Advices from Spain that
General Coneha is moving in the diree-
ton of Valmeseda; souths of Bilboa, in
order to strike Carlists in the rear; Ser
rano to attack from front. ~tRr
Advices from Japan: 1~nsurrectiOn
on the island of Kioo-Sioo;. insurgents
marching on Nagasaki.s .4a@ .Fz Ts,.r@
Advices from Mexico: LoZano, we'll
known reyolutionist, assassinated at
Tezoutepec. EscObedo has resigned
the go%vernorship Of San Luis Potosi. A
Adyices of a great food at Bagdad,
in consequence of an overflow of the
Tigris.
Advices of death of NJ. sarraus,
French journalist and Gtt6rGteur, aged
81; ofgGJohns Bnnyan Derbyshire, En-
glish poet, aged SO; of Andrew Archi-
bald Patton, Oriental traveller and au-
thor, British eonsulat Ragusa, Austria,
aged 65. is5a 35o5a
April 30.-Collision III Arkansas be-
tween partizans of the gubernatorial
contestants: a party of Brooks men,
committing sdepredationsai in jefferson
County, we're assaulted by two hundred
Baxter men, and dispersed nine men
killed.
Waltz, under sentence of death for
murder at Catskill, n. Y, kills his
keeper with an iron bar.
Family, by name of bHamnet, six in
all, burned to death near Pittsburg, in
conflagration OF the homestead; there
is evidence of incendiarism and foul
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