Sunbury American. [volume] (Sunbury, Pa.) 1848-1879, 1858-01-09
The Principal Events OF General In
terest During the Year 1867.
- .JANITARv


18th. Foreign residents in China dscov
plot to murder them with poisoned bread al
oranges, 5000 poisoned oranges discover,
at Hong Kong.
:, 10th. Cold weather. At Philadelphia,
q deg. above zero; Woodstock, Me-, Us de
=, below zero.---S. y. Norcross, of Mass, Xxi
d led by ID. S. McKim near Altoona, Bla
county, Pa.
18th. Great snow storm and obstruction
: to travel.
t oath. DR.. Harvey Burdell found murde
. in his Office, 81 Bond street, New York, ha,
ing received fifteen stabs.
9th. Preston S. Brooks, NJ. c., fror
, South Carolina, died, at Washington, {
Group.
FEBRUARY.
9th. Great freshet in Delaware, SchuyI
kill. Susquehannn, Ohio, Hudson, Osweg
aud other rivers: much property destroyed
about Albany, New York, loss estimated a
100000.
l6. DR.. L. X. Kane died at Havana; bi
remains were brought home via New Orlean
honors being paid by principal cities alon;
the route.
18th. Freshet, without destruction of pro
perry, in New England rivers
26th. Hon. James Buchanan attacked
MARCH.
4th. Jamas Buchanan inaugurated Pres
dent of United States.
9th. Decision in Dred Scott case, by
which Missouri Compromise was declared un-
constitutional delivered in U. S. Supreme
Court by Chief Justice l'aney.
9TH. Justices Mclean and Curtis dissen-
ted from decision in Scott case.-Dr. VIM.
...t. sr ~
United States, died at Morris, n. Y, aged
80.
18th. Frightful railroad accident at Des
Jardnes river, in Canada eighty killed.
l4th. Great snow storm South mails de-
layed.
2Oth. J. w Geary resigned Governorship
of Kansas.
7th. TIVE feet snow fell at Emira and
Dunkirk, n. Y.
20,h. Great storm in Pennsylvania and
New York.
Both. Strike Of 100 Conductors on Balti-
more and Ohio Railroad. who roted and at
tempted to stop trains, several persons shot.
MAY.
1st. Gen. VIM. Walker and staff, with
300 men, surrendered to Capt Davis, Of the
L. s. sloop St Marys
18th Bill for sale of the Main Line of the
Public Works passed Pennsylvania Legisla-
ture finally.
25th. New cent, smaller than old, compo.
sed mainly Of nickel, with new device, issued
from U. S. Mint.
lst, Election riot at Washington, D. c.. =.
L. 5. Marines called out; eight men killed |
and many wounded.
24th. Cawnpore India, taken by Sepovs
GAO American and European men, women
and children, including American mssiona.
ries massacred by Mann Sahb.
2oth. Main Line of Public Works sold |
by d. Is. Myers, auctioneer Philadelphia;
bought by Pennsylvania Railroad Company
for S7,50O0,0G0
JULY.
Goth. Tremendous wind and rain storm in
Northern Pennsylvania several lives lost
and much property destroyed.
22d. Excitement at Cincinnati caused by
accidental poisoning Of 20 children; four
leaths.
25th. Storm in Central New York. Ca.
lals and railroads damaged.
29th. Senator II. $. Rush, of Texas, com.
nitted suicide.
AUGUST.
LIST. Cambria Rolling Mill Pennsylvania,
ourued; loss 100000.
10th. Cable of Atlantic telegraph while
being paid ont from United States Steamer
Niagara, broke three hundred miles had
1een laid
2lSt. d. S. McKim hung at Holidays.
)urg.
25th. Money panic started at New York
" failure OF Ohio Life and Trust Company:
;l,00O,O 600 of attachments issued, mainly bv
oreign creditors.
SEPTEMBER
lst. Fearful panic in New York money
market; defulcation in Mechanics Banking
Association discovered and many failures oc.
urrod.
18th. California steamer Central Ameri.
a, Capt. Herndon, sunk, after heavy gale,
arrying down nearly every man on board
otal number lost $50 saved, lT8.
18th. brigham Young publicly denoun.
ed anc dehed U. ). authority at Salt Lake
,ity.
25th. Stringency n Philadelphia Money
larket reached panic; Bank of Pennsylva.
ia suspended, causing run on all other
tanks.
26th. Run on Philadelphia Banks contin- {
ed with such vlgor as induced partial sus-
S'o' aii anu III uOteS DalQ and .
hecks marked; interior Banks generally :
lspended, with Baltimore aud Wilmington
'auks c
% Panic in money tremendous Phila. '
eiphia Banks all in confusion call issued .
'r extra session Pennsylvania Legislature !
lspension extended to Washington and the ;
irginia Banks. ]
229th. Brigham Young, by proclamation,
rders the United States troops to leave y
tab, aud deiies United States. =
~. New York Banks hold out money L
'ported easier and no failures; startling de- II
ication OF f. w. Porter, Secretary Ameri II
an S..S. Union 900 disappeared. 5
OCTOBER. y
3D. Panic awful in New York all markets 81
ling aud no sale for any stocks. O
oth. Gloomy times in New York Bowen u
McNamee, with other firms, failed. Two b
locks of earthquake at st. Louis and in Illi. n
os. n
9Th. Two bank suspensions in New York D
oV. Walker, OF Kansas, refused to receive G
ro-savery fraudulent election returns. and O
,iven out of Lecompton. American shin II
arden dashed to pieces on the English b
'ast Z men drowned. s,
18th. Gen. w. +. Packer, elected Cover fc
'r Of Pennsylvania; S. p. Chase, Governor m
Ohio; Americans carry Maryland riots S
Baltimore three killed. d.-Eghteen New s.,