The Opelousas courier., 1883-06-30
General

in O. fire at Santa Clara, Ae&tco, hFe As'lo
girls were cremated-
The Dakota Capital Commission has h4ed
upon Bismarck as the site OF the new capl'@i
Of the Territory.
Hughes won the six-day pedestrian match
- poltin1oro making 553 miles, to SIG for
Noramac. 5Q for panchot, and 40O for Hart
The tent of Barnum's great circus vas
burned the other night at Chicago. 1he llre
was kindled by sparks from a passing locohlo-
i've
Tho schooner Fannie A. Bailey, from
Cheyoring for phila delphia, went ashore az
Cape May. Three men and one chllo "efo
lost. -.
Theodore Martin, a T-year-old boy OF
Troy, N. Y, shot his l4-years-old pfo9net in ~
the throat while examining a pistol when ne
had found.
Ky the explosion Of q pilo-drfver engine,
On the Memphis and Charleston Railroad,
near IaGrange Tenn, the engineer and hre-
man were killed outright Two other mon
were seriously injured.
Chief Justice Waite says the United
States Supreme Court is abous three years
behind in it's work. 1t is impossible for the
court to consider mere that 4U cases annually,
while very many more are files.
During the performance in Nathan's cir
cus al SUSPENSION Bridge, N. Y, the tents
were struck BY a terrific rain squall and Ut
terIy demolished. About / 800 persons were
in the tents and 8 terrible panic ensued- a
large number of persons were injured though
none fatally.
-Normon missionaries are meeting with
remarkable success among the poor Wnlte
population of North C~arclins, and are making
many converts. a leading newspaper
of the section advises the people to take Shot
guns as a countoractinS agent, and TO chase
Tie proselytizers out of the country.
Postmaster General Gresham has issued
a general order directing Postmasters at n-si
and seeond-class offices to give personal atten.
ton to their official duties and not absen'
themselves from their Offices without permls-
sion from the department
1t is reported at the Treasury Department
in Washington that the British Government
is sending paupers to this country by a round
about process. The people are said to be
assisted to Belgium and then again aided to
ennirrate to the United States. These "as-
sisted migrations are, Of course, from Ire
land.
in the INQUEST upon the victims. OF the
BROOKLYN bridge disaster, the jury returned q
yirdict that "the death of the victims resulted
from suffocation." They also found the 9th.
Gers and Trustees responsible in not having
the bridge properly guarded by police, ane
recommended that the accommodations To-
foot passengers be improved
A telegram from Wilcox, Arizona, says
From a party just arrived from Oposura
Mexico. ii is learned that hostiles are depre.
dating cast and south of that point, rendering
travel very hazardous within a radius o.
thirty miles. It is reported that over twenty
person have been murdered by the Apaehes
1hey were chiefly Mexioans, onlythree Amer
leans being among the victims. Oposura u
situated in a very mountainous part OF Sono
re, surrounded by lofty peaks, and the com
try Is only suitable for grazing purposes. 4
great many Americans arc in that vicinity
engaged in mining, it being one of the riches
mining districts in Sonora.