The Opelousas journal. [volume] (Opelousas, La.) 1868-1878, 1874-04-10
. Weekly Rearospect Of Events.
from Annletons, Journal

I1ukCA -kAG4lG OMA u 1AAT
list forces have entered Irun, and begun
operations in Olot. Bilbao has been res
prOyisioned. II
Snow at CUnstantingple, eausing much
suffering among ticpOor. Heavy SHOWS
in Scotland, causing stOppage OF all
trains on the Caledonian Railway.
Death, at Rome, on the Gath ult., of
Cardinal Barnabo, Project General of
the Vatican Congregation of the Propa-
ganda; aged seventy-three years.
March 13.-Advices from BuenOs Ayres
to the 9th nit: The presidential election
in the Argentine Republic attended with
much disturbance riot in the capital, in
which four persons were killed and
twelve wounded result of the election
not known. Cholera and yellow fever
have disappeared.
Proposition in the French Assembly
for the Acknowledgement of the French
colonies.
Intelligence Of deaths as follows: At
Paris, Very Rev. Jean b. Etienne, SUI
perior General of LaZarist Fathers and
Sisters OF Charity at Norwich, Conn,
Rear Admiral Lanman, e. S. n, aged
sixty-three years; ut Hartford, Christian
Sharpe, inventor of the famous Sh"gpe
rifle, aged sixty-three years.
March little steamship Queen Eliza
beth, from Calcutta for Glasgow, wreck
cd off Tarifa, Spain fourteen persons
drowned.
All the English forces of the Ashantee
Expedition homeward bound, except the
Highlanders.
Accident pm the Central Pacific Rail-
road !; q train thrown thirty feet down
an embapkment; several persons injur-
ed.
Deaths At London, Countess Brnn-
now, wife of Count Philip de Brunnow,
Russian ambassador ut the court Of ST.
james Dowager-Duchess of Richmond,
mother of his grace Charles Gordon
LennOy, the present and sixth duke of
that title; ut Cannes, Nine. Cornelius dc
Witt, daughter of NJ. Guizot, we'll known
as a writer of tales for children; at Lock
port, N. ", Hiram Gardner, ex-Canal-
Commissioners of this State, aud Judge
Of Niagara County.
March 15.-Adyices from Madrid: Mar
shall Serrano, with an army of thirty
four thousand men is now face TO face
with a CaTlist force of thirty five tious-
and. General Iona, with eight thous-
and men, is moving on the enemy's rear,
Advices that the Achinese are mus
tering all their forces for an attack oil
the Dutch positions.
Intelligence of a destructive fire al
Panama, February 10th; q large hotel
entirely destroyed, and many other
buildings buried losses estimated al
eight hundred thousand dollars.
A Feniar amnesty meeting held al
Hyde Park, London,
Work on the MADEIRA Railroad of Boil
via stopped, IN consequence of the lakes
\ and SWanpS met with,
Death, mt Northampton, Mass, OF
Eliphalet Williams, the Oldest and most
prominent citizen of the place; aged
ninety-four years.
Advices from Rio Janeiro state thai
ltlle Bishop OF Pernambuco has been sen.
tenced to four years Imprisonment foi
Resistance to the laws of the state.
March 16.-Advices that steamship
Laconia, from Alexandria, Egypt, fol
Algiers, having al passengers two hun.
dred and seyenty-eigllt pilgrims return.
ing from Mecca, encountered terrific
gales. One hundred and seventeen OF
the passengers washed overheard.
Advicesfrom Spain; General Seballs
according to Carlist reports, has captur.
ed twenty-five hundred men, under
General NouKiIIas. The Carlist leader
Tristany, defeated in Tarragono. Ru.
mors that the Carlists have raised the
siege of Bilbao. @i1.sta
Advices from Mexico: Outrage per-
petrated by q mob in Ahualulco, excited
by a sermon of a priest advocating the
determination of Professionals. Mob pro-
ceeded to the house of Rev. John Stew
ems, % Congregationalist minister, mash
ed his head to jelly, and cut his body in
to pieces, ransacked the house. carrying
away every thing OF value. after delay,
mob subdued by local authorities, Moi
at Saguays,s acting under similar reli-
gious frenzy, attacked the small gaTri-
son of the town, burned the public
archives, and pillaged the houses Of the
authorities 81 it4l 81
Advicesi from Aeileen h General Van
SWeiten has called for reimbursement.
Much sickness among the Dutch troops,
Funeral of Charles Sumner at Bos.
ton. NV.
March H.---Adviees from West Iitties
Death of Mr. Schlock, Attorney-Gen.
era1 Of Jamaica, of yellow fever. Intel.
ligenee from Port-au- Prince that dis
turbaaces were Threatened along the
coast. a war-stealner dispatched by
the Haytian Governments restore or.
der.
Thirty-ffye buildings burnedin Modot
City, pa.
Al shock Of earthquake near Bald
| Mountain, North Carolina.
Intelligence of the death. of j. PringIt
Jones, formerly presiding JUDGE of the
1 Reading district, PA.
March 18.-Carlist forces enter 5Olot
without opposition.
Death at New York of Rev. Antoine
errens D, well7known French min