The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1870-02-11
Chrssslsgy u IL Priseipal Issas teeua
ring In 1859.


/ JANUARY.
!. Celebration of Anniversary Of Emsn
cipation Proclamation. - = II
2. The case of John II. surratt dismissed
John Hcott, of Huntington, nominated Z
U. 8. Senate in Pennsylvania Rochester
IN. ~ school house gives way; .epqson.
killed. 30 wounded.
8. Proclamation OF peace issued In Spain
Death of General Lowell II. Rousseau sot
John Minor Bolts.
Q. Charles II. Moreland, bearer of til,
Electoral vote of California dies on tho way
10 Washington. Negro riot at Campvillc
N. c. Earthquake in Mexico; over one
hundred killed. a. Il 1 , -
Is. Indian hattie near Fort Hays, Kansas;
six hundred Indians captured.
IA. Meeting State Horticultural Society,
at Dcs Moincs. $1,000, 600 fire a. Philad.
20. National Wonan's Rights Convention
at Washington. Fcnton elected United
States Senator from New York. '' '''" Il
81. Cuba asks for admission to the United
States; Upton reelected Senator from Ne
braska; Utah asks admission rs . State;
Grant holds the Inauguration Ball
g. d. d. Pratt elected United Suites Sem
ator from Indiana.
g. Death of Miss Augusta St. Clair.
q. Death of Ex-Governor Pickins, of
South Carolina. Death of Hon. Henry 3.
Walbrdge, of New York.
20. First regular passenger train run to
Atlantic r..
80. Murder of Henry Walters, near Keo-
kuk.
FEBRUARY.
2. Great food in Connecticut: heavy
snow storm throughout tho northwest.
Z. Mrs. Surat,'s body surrendered 10 her
friends; Senator Sherman presented the
first petition in the U. 8. Senate, asking that
the name of Almighty God, as . source of
all civil authority he incorporated in the
Constitution. -:".-.+4- " 80 ~
0. Hon. Murray Mcconnell of Jackson.
vile, murdered.
IL. Whalen. tho murderer of Darcy Nc
Gee hung at Ottawa, Canada; the two Wo-
mans Rights Conventions convened in Chi
cago; great fire at Franklin, Tenn.
II. Gov. B:owllow, Of Tenn, resigns.
- Grant officially notified OF his election
to the Presidency.
l6. Missouri Legislature outlaws prize
fighting.
1s. Skaters restaurant fired; Booths re.
mains rc-intcrrcd in Baltimore.
20. Andy parlors DR.. Mudd; three mcr,
frozen to death in Carroll county, Iowa.
%. Ex-Governor, Henry A. Swift, of
Minnesota, died at st. Peters.
20. Hon. N. Il. S. Moore. former U. 8.
Senator FROM Maine, died in Virginia.
MARCH.
l. Nancy Z. Clcm sentenced to tho pcni-
cntiary for life for the murder of jacob
Young and wife near Indianapolis.
]. The Fifteenth Amendment ratified by
he Legislature Of Ncvals. ,... .,s.., 4
.. The Fifteenth Amendment ratified by
he Legislature Of West Virginia. G.t
4. Fifty.ninc Democratic members Of the
indiana Legislature resign their seats to pre-
'cnt he ratification of the Constitutional
a., .....,
4. Inauguration ceremonies a: Washing.
on.
8. President Grants Cabinet confirmed
" the Senate.
O. The Senate decided A. T. Stewart incl.
;gib!e to the Office of Secretary of the
Treasury.
II. Resignation Of Hon., f. B. Wash
,urnc Of the Office of Secretary Of State &C.
.cptcd by the President.
%. Death of Hon. Edward Bates, ut st.
Louis. ,..-,,...-
20. Several steamboats, burned at St. Louis.
APRIL.
I. Great freshet on the Hudson River.
I. Death of DR.. R"blcy Dungiison, at
2. Severe shock Of an earthquake in San
Francisco. '..,~ III
s. Charles A. Wilder, a colored man. con-
irmed as postmaster at Charleston, South
Carolina.
Z. Great fire in Gold Hill Mines, Nevada;
many lives lost. ,e.. 7.2 n =
0. Supreme Court Of Iowa decided against
he power of cities and towns to levy tax to
construct railroads. 49,. ts.I.a=gg|
IA. New York ratifcs tue Fifteenth
Amendment. a.t @" @.'.@&2'
15 A brilliant auroral display appeared
throughout the Eastern and Middle States.
. 60 State Blind Asylum burned 1t Jack.
'onvil!c. III.
e. Great food At Albany and other points
n the East. ..--.
60 Personal difficulty between Senator
spnguc and Abbott settled by the ,interfcr-
nee of friends.
20. A great portion of the town of Hslc-
No, Montana, destroyed by Ore. Loss Eve
hundred thousand dollars. .-.. ,... ..r
NAY. 4~- F sFt 4#1
9. Riot ut Brownville, Tenn, In which
,evcral persons were killed. a
10 Completion of the Pacific railroad.
md the driving Of tho golden spike" at
Point ra44 ,.rs.gsts.
II. Complcsion OF tho Chicago, Rock Il.
land and Pacific Railroad 70 the Missouri
river. p y q e ~ u J, w
IL, Gr~s coa1agEaaoa Of lstsanboass p