The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1870-01-26
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state---Heavy. shockofan earthquake
Lelt throughout Germany Vest Vir.
sInla election returns show Republican
ms5orlty.
3. General Prim submits to the Cortes
the name Of the new Spanish Ministry.
4. Geo rye Peabody, the eminent phil
died-The boiler of the Eng
lish tgun boat Thistle exploded. Ten
men killed-Prince Alfred arrived at
Pekin
6. Jewish Reform Convention of Rab-
bis meet in Philadelphia---Queen Vic
toria visits the city of London to opsn
the new Bridge and the Holborn Yiaduct
Stewart died, aged ninety
9. Rev. l.. ]. Bacon, distinguished
Baptist minister. .died-Inauglral Ban
quet of the Lord Mayor of London at the
Guild Hall-Ex-Governo Pratt. of
Maryland, died-General John z. Wool
died, aged so.
10 The General Assemblies of the Old
and New School Presbyterian churches
meet at Pittsburg-Cholera RACES in the
city of Kief Russia.
II, Robert ]. Walker died in Washing
ton
-. OCO4 &c Z cdDOuy = remains LenpOfd-
rily deposited in Westminster Abbey
Birth Of an heir to the italian throne
The two Presbyterian churches formally
reunited.
l3. The Hon. Amos Kendall died, aged
IA. Horrible accident on the Pacific
Railroad; seventeen persons killed.
II. The Suez Canal opened the En-
peror OF Austria, the Empress Of the
French, the Viceroy of Egypt and the
Princess of Prussia were present-Mr.
Folger succeeds General Butterfeld as Sub
Treasurer--The Society of the Army of
the Tennessee met at Louisville.
ID Thanksgiving day-A terrible
gale and serious disasters on the lakes.
.l9. A stone building falls at St Louis
thirteen killed and wounded-Walte
Brown, the sculler, of Portland, defeats
Sadler, of London, at the international
sculling match.
q. Forty-fve steamers arrive at Suez
having passrd through the Suez Canal
The steamer Bells burnt near Port Wash
ington; eight lives lost.
| p. The Cabinet of Victor Emmanuel
reslgns-Henri Rochefort elected to the
French egislature-The Boyleston
National bank robbed of $3.50, ,O0OAMr.
Burlingame and the Chinese Embassy ar
| rived at Berlin
%. Ben Butler arrested at the suit Of
Miss Florence-Letter received from
DR., Livingstone dated the 18th of May,
1869--Heavy failures in the grain trade
at Liverpool-The Bishop Of Havana
taken to Madrid in custody.
25. Mcfarland shoots Albert D. Rich
ardson in New York.
27. The sale of st, Thomas to the Uni
L ted States T1Oofpore1 al fo,. civ ,,,o,,&6.
20. The Emperor Napoleon addresses
the two French Ohambers-Gold down to
1919,
DECEMBER.
l. Mr. Burlingame and the Chinese En-.
bassy received at the Foreign Office at
Berlin.
2. Rates of postage to Great Britain
and ireland reduced from the lst of Janu-
ary, 1870. to six cents per half ounce letter
ALBERT D. Richardson died in New
| York.
5, The Empress Eugene arrived in
Paris from Constantinople.
6, Grant delivers his first message to
Congress-The Governor of Kentucky
delivers his message to the Legislature.
! z. The "Rebecca" steamship sunk at
Wheeling, eight lives lost.
8, The Rev. DR.. Temple appointed
Bishop of Exeter--The Ecumenical
Council at Rome opened by the Pope,
9. The Viceroy of Egypt yielded TO the
ultimatum of the Sultan-The Car of
Russia confers the Grand Cross of the Or
der of st. George upon the King of Prus-
sia.
10. The Pope addressed the assembled
bishops.
II Father Hyaeinthe sailed for Eu-
rope
u. Great fire at a planning mill in Gin
cinnati. Loss, $4,000.
Is. The Deistical anti-Papal Convention
at Naples dead failure
Is, An important Papal Bull issued for
the regulation of the Ecumenical Council.
i l6. Numerous commercial failures in
New York-The Hon. John w. Steven
son elected United States Senator for Ken.
tucky, for the term beginning March 4,
1871.
Is, A mine at Hazleton, Pennsylvania,
caves in ten persons killed-The Ecu
menical Council adjourned to The 9Th OF
January, l870-Henri Rochefort publish
es new paper, The Marsei0dise, in Paris
I DIR. Lesseps, the engineer, congratula-
ted by the Emperor Napoleon
19 Grant offers Stanton the Supreme
Court Judgeship. which he accepts
20. Stanton confirmed by the Senate
The Pope sends Cardinal Matthew on q
special mission to the French Emperor.
2l. The bill for the reconstruction of
Georgia passed the Legislature--The
steamship Monarch, with the remains OF
George Peabody, sailed from England to
America
%. The Directors of the Bank of Over
end, Gurney & Co., London, acquitted.
"a. Ex-Secretary Edwin NJ. Stanton
dies.
26. Great shock of an earthquake in
Eastern California.
81. Large fire in Syracuse, New York
loss, $4,000