The Opelousas journal. [volume] (Opelousas, La.) 1868-1878, 1874-06-12
A Weekly Retrospect of Events.
From Appletons, Journal

Inc government mas again applied Il
Germany for recognition of the repub
lie.
Advices from Little Rock, Ark: TIL,
Supreme Court has decided, in the sui
before 1t, that the decision OF the Cir
cult Court OF Pulaski County, afirmin.
Brooks a governor, was legal and valid
Death OF John Hecker, citizen o
New York, well known as extensiv,
four-mercllant, as politician, and TO
his zeal in education and, High-ChurcI
EpiscOpalianism aged sixty-two.
May 8.-Advices from Spain: A
body of Carlists, under Don Alfonso
defeated, with heavy loss, by republi.
a troops. Bilbao has been revic.
tualed, and General Concha's command
remain in the city. ~
Advices from Little Rock, Ark: A
party of Baxter men, on board thu
steamer Hattie, intending to intercept
and capture a hundred and sixty stafC
of arms belonging to the Industrial
University which were shipped on
Wednesday, were fired at by the
BrOoksites, who had discovered the ex.
petition six men killed, and five badly
wounded. Partisans of Brooks stop.
ping trains in order to prevent mem.
bers of the Legislature from meeting.
Death,.at Ottawa, Canada, of Senator
Churchill, of Nova Scotia; aged seven
ty-six.
Marriage of the Duke of Wurtem-
berg to the Russian Grand-duchess
Wjera C0nstantinovna.
May 9.-Advices from Spain: Don
Carlos and General EliO reported to be
at Durango, thirteen miles southeast of
Bilbao. General COncha's troops throw
ing up Notifications.
AdVices from Arkansas: A skirmish
in the streets of Little Rock, between
the Brooks and Baxter factions; two
men killed and several wounded.
Representatives of the two factions at
Washington, and terms of compromise
proposed.
, Destructive fires raging in the woods
on the lines of several railroads in
Minnesota.
Death, in Virginia, of Paulus Powell
from 1649 to 1859 member of Congress.
May 10.-Advices from Spain: A
proclamation, issued by Don Carlos,
announcing that he will offer strenuous
resistance to the republican forces in
the Biscay provinces.
Advices from Mexico: Va~lleiano,
the last of the Topic insurgent chiefs,
has been killed. The laborers at
Pachuca attempted to burn the build
ings of the new Baron mine, because of
the introduction of machinery, which
they believed would deprive them of
the means OF making their living in the
future.
Advices from Arkansas: Baxter re-
fuses to accede to the proposition, made
at Washington, for a settlement of the
difficulty, which was, to submit the
question to the State Legislature, the
President to designate who should fill
the Office in the interim; he claims that
the Legislature, now ready to convene,
must decide the question, and that no
provisions or compromises are admis-
sibIe.
May 11-The steamship Siberia, from
London to Madeira, supposed to be lost,
with all on board.
Captain General Concha, of Cuba,
has issued. a decree, permitting mem
bers of the militia, who pay one thou
sand dollars into the treasury, to re-
main at home.
The village of Ridgeway, Iowa, de-
strOyed by fire.
Two children killed and several per
sons wounded by the fall of a building
at Buffalo, N. Y.
Deaths AT New York, Courtlandt
Palmer, an old and prominent citizen;
aged sey~enty-four. At Stamford, Conn.,,
Captain Benjamin l.. Waite, well known
as One Of the most careful and skillful
of navigators aged sixty-nine.
May 12.-Arrest of the Prince Nicho-
las, nephew of the car, at st. Peters
burg; charge not known, but asserted
not 10 PC politlcai.
Large fire att Paris :tfseveral persons
lo oeaIn,
onlaii-po4 ana Gnolera SouUh
llI1ooI LII india.
A9sIces ITohl Uua0emaia egg Fan1na
liz aLISse allu pIlsdi N4ipplHs, "
hngfasI EIcs+consu " OoloneI Gohzaies'
soInl u oan JOSE ] hloGiIe, per-
sonar anlinoslty. Gohzaies, on G1e ap-
pIoasil u GDoops 1ensIitl 9olaho,
/ Iryangk9sscasg gu goara tne steamer
passengers, and probably fatally woun-
ded.
Advices from Arkansas: Another
encounter between the two factions /;
several killed and wounded.
The English Government has pro-
posed to unite Lagos and the Gold
nor, who. will reside forty miles inland
LIUM ACGkAe
May 13.-New Spanish ministry
formed; Zabala, President of the Coun-
Gil and Minister of War; Sagasta,
the Interior Ull0a, Minis
ter Of Foreign Affairs !; Camacho, Minis
ter of Finance MARTINEZ, Minister of
Justice; Colmenareg Minister Of PUB
NC Works; Ortlz, Munster oI the Colo
mes a Arlas, Minister az Marine;
5f 9YaT&G AT H# ET3fEElH& ami ArTInG@GnEG /
Alexis arrived ln England; entertained