The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1872-01-04

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the Union.
April 90 adjournment of Congress.
May 4, President issued a proclama,
ton in regard to the Ku Klux law.
May ~, meeting of the Senate in ex-
ecutive session to consider the treaty OF
Washington.
July y, parade of Orange lodges in
New York.
October 2, arrest OF Brigham Young
Mormon high priest, on a charge Of
adultery.
October 4. great fires raging in Wis
consin, Michigan, and other Western
States.
October 9, great Chicago fire COM
menced
October -. IS, Presidents proclama-
ton suspending habeas corpus in South
Car DINA
December 6, Prince OF Wales sick,
ness alarming. Burning Of Wall {
Opera House, Washington, D. c.
FOREIGN.
january, Mazeres, France, surren,
dered to the Germans.
January 3, Prince Amadeus took the
oath as King Of Spain.
January 5, Prussians commenced the
bonn ardment of the southern forts OF
Paris.
January 10 and IL, Battle OF LIE
Mans. French defeated with loss OF
10000 prisoners.
January l6, German army capture
Alencon.
January II, Conference upon the
Eastern question assembled at London.
January IS, King Williams procla-
nation as Emperor of Germany.
January %, the Hotel de Vile de-
molished.
January %, the treaty Of Versailles
signed by Count Bismarck and NJ.
Jules Favre.
February II, NJ. Theirs elected Pres
ident of the provisional government Of
the republic.
March !, Prussian army entered
Paris.
March ., final treaty Of ratification
between the Germans and French.
March 81, marriage of the Marquis
of Lorne to Louisa, Princess Of Eng
land.
April II, armistice between Spain
and the Pacific republics of South
America signed at Washington, D. c.
April 10, DR.. Dollinger excommuni'
Gated by the Pope.
May Is, column of Napoleon de-
stroyed in the Place Vendome.
May q, the Versaillists enter Paris.
May "a and %, destruction Of public
and private buildings in Paris by the
Communists.
June Is, triumphali entry Of the Ger
man army into Berlin.
July =, King Victor Emanuel ar
rived in Rome.
August 9, the centenary celebration
of the birth of Sir Walter Scott.
September II, the Mont Cents rail
way between France and Italy formally
opened.
September 81, bill for the emancipa
ton Of slaves passed by the Senate OF
Brazil.
NEUROLOGY, 1871.
The desth-roll Of the year number;
many distinguished nsnes in the ranks
of science, literature, art and politics
For convenient reference we group some
Of the more prominent -.
Savans.-Sir John +. w. Herschell
England, May II, aged 10; Sir Rodericl
|. Murchison, England, October 20, age
IS; Dennis Mahan, Professor Of Yves
Point Academy, committed suicide
September l6.
Authors. Cary, New York
February IL, aged SO; Phoebe Cary
Newport, July 81, aged 45; Georg'
Ticknor, Boston, January, aged 81
Alexander Dumas, novelist, France
December II, 1870 Charles Paul d.
Kock, novelist, France, aged II; Georg,
Gottfreid Gervinus, historian, Heidel
berg, March, aged 66; Georg'
Grote, author of the History o
Greece, England, June IS, aged II
Publishers.-Richsrd Bentley, Lon
don, Oct, aged so; Robert Chambers
Edinburgh, March II, aged 50; Davit
N. Chambers, Lee, England, March Il
aged So; Charles Scribner, head of thu
frn of Charles Scribner & Co., New
York, Lucernel Switzerland, August 20
aged 30.
Military Men.-Genersl Louis Bene
dek, Austrian army, Vienna, October
26, aged 81; Gen. Juan Prlm, assassl
mated in Madrid, Dec. 81, 1870, Gen
James Totten. United States army, Sc
dalia, Mo-, October 2; Gen. Ro6er
Anderson, Nice, October 20; Gen. Ihos
j. Rodman, U. s. army, Rock Island
ILL.,, aged so, inventor OF the Rodmai
gun; Gen. J. Bsnkhead MagrudeE