The Opelousas journal. [volume] (Opelousas, La.) 1868-1878, 1875-01-01
wEEKLY RETROSPECT OF EVENTS.
FROM Appletons, journal.

Iff0ln Appter0ns' JOIITna1.i
December ~4.-Advices from Spain: The Car
list leader LozonO shot, having been adiudged
guilty of robbery and assassination.
The Spanish cOasting-steafneF Tomas Brooks,
romSantiagOde for Guantanamo, lost with
ninety persons on board. Al ship imposed to be
the Pontiac, from Sunderland for Bombay, burn
isled.
Dock Commissioner and formerly a member of
the Board of Education.
Dec. 5.-A second conference on the rules of
International law invited by the Russian Gov
Funeral services of the late Mayor Hayemeyer
held at st. Pallfs Methodist Episcopal Church,
New York.
Death, at windsor, Nova Scotia, of Richard
MeHeffery, member of the Executive Council
since 1867, aged seyenty-f0ur.
Dec. 6.-Acfiye preparations against the Car
lists at Orduna and Guipuzeoa, Spain.
Statement by General Brisbiil, commissioned
by General Ord to collect funds for Nebraska
sufferers, that there are ten thousand persons
In the western part OF the State on the verge of
starvation.
Death Of b. Duncan, ex-Chief-Justiee of
South Carolina.
Dee. limited States Congress assemblies;
message from President Grant, wh0reeommends
resumption of speeie payments; advises the re-
peal0f the 1egal-tenaer act; recommends meas
ures for the accumulation of gold in the Treas
llry also for banking says our foreign relations
are satisfactory; recommends change in the
tariff so lis to secure larger revenue on fewer
articles urges restitution OF duties on tea and
coffee; deciafeahe must reeegnizeth the Louisiana
Kellogg government because it was legally
elected !; declares he will enforce all legislation
for the protection of the negro, hut urges C0il4
gress toinvestigate reported 0utrages. declares
it impossihlef0 carry out eiyil-seryiee reform
without support Of Congress; recommends the
encouragement of shipabuilding.
Tho Japanese troops have evacuated the is
of Farln0sa.
VicRsbnrg fMiss.l attacked by seven hundred
negroes for the purpose of reinstating the negro
sheriff, who was forced to resign because he had
not given bonds. The citizens fepllsed the ne
groes, killing twenty-five and taking forty
prisoners.
Genera Dorregaray appointed to the com
maRd of the Carlist Army of the Centre in
Spain.
Dee. s.-Report that Don Carlos is negotiating
with ex-Queen Isabella.
Considerable damage done to property in st.
Petersburg by a severe storm.
Death, at Jersey City, of Dudley Sanford Gre
gerry, aged seventy-five, three times mayor of
the city. andin 1876 elected member of Congress.
Dec. IA violent storm on the British coast.
Great damage done to shiNnilg, and fifteen
lives lost
Fighting at Viekshurg renewed, and. after a
brief skirmish, four negroes were killed and sew
eral wounded. Sheriff Crosby has resigned,
and Governor Ames has called an extra session
OF the Legislature.
Death ut Ithaca, II. ", OF Ezra Cornell, folln-
der Of the Cornell University, aged sixty-seven.
81 Is announced from Spain that General 10
mas preparing q proclamation slsnaMoning the
garlfst insurgents to surrender within eight
days, and threatening to aevastafe the country
occupied by them In case Of further resistance.