National opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1865-1874, 1872-01-26
Tho Chronology Of 1871.
JANUARY.

ton Oh emancipation " DeibB tho 'lbhe'
ami, ersary,
10. The great coal mine strikes il
Pennsylvania, began in Schuylkin re
9ion.
II. Congress appoints the San Domin
go Commissioners.
IA. Steamboat McGll exploded he
boilers on the Mississippi River, causing
the death of 81 persons
II. Sailing of the Tennessee from New
York with the U. s. Commissioners Il
San Domingo.
rs. The severest snow-storm in New
York which has occurred for many years
aud great damage.
26 The United States Senate votes, q
to %, TO repeal tho income tax
n. Explosion and burning of gas works
in Brooklyn.
%. Steamboat w. r, Arthur explodes
boilers on the Mississippi, and 81 lives
were lost.
80 British Columbia joins the Confed.
Grafton of Canada.
FEBRUARY.
2. The Test Oath bill became law in
the South.
3. Newfoundland votes not to Join the
! Confederation Of Canada.
1-3. Georgia Senators admitted to
Congress and every State now represent
ed.
{. The New Hamburg accident occurs
and % lives are lost by it,
10. New York and Boston sends provis-
ions to feed Paris, valued at 800, 600.
Na.ly IN,.,nDtSt I innnaa hill
becomes law.
15 Dominion Parliament begins at OF
iowa.
H. Terrific hurricane in Arkansas and
Missouri
u. The Brooklyn side of the great
bridge caisson finished.
%. Washington's birthday honored ev-
erywhere.
~23. The English Joint High Commits
sion arrive ut New York.
q. First session of the Joint High
Commission.
2. British High Commissioners visit
the U. S. Senate
4. The Forty-first Congress expires
and the Forty-second is formed.
6. The New United States loan put in
to market.
10. Senator Sumner ruled out of the
Committee on Foreign Relations by the
Senate.
~. A hot term. Earliest date of dis
appearance of ice from the New England
rivers.
IA. Election in New Hampshire, and
Democrats win.
Is. Soldiers 800 pounty bill passed in
Senate.
Is. Navigation opened on all the rivers
in the country
II. Terrible massacres by Indians in
Arizon.
81. Gov. Holden, of North Carolina, de-
posed by impeachment
% Great peace celebration in San
Francisco.
"a. Executive proclamation against the
KuKlnx.
%. Peru for several weeks has hat
floods, causing loss of 81 0G0, 0G0.
90 One hundred and twenty buildings
burned at 1ruckee.
80 Anniversary celebration of the Fiji
teenth Amendment by the United States
colored people.
81 British Columbia is voted into the
Dominion.
5. Civil war prevails in the Argentine
Republic.
7. in Albany a fire destroyed forty
buildings, 100000 worth of property,
and threw three hundred men out of en-
ployment.
10. Peace celebration and monster Ger
man procession IN New York.
II. Indian and Mexican border warfare
in Texas.
u. Cespedes protests against Spanish
cruelty in Cuba.
II. Miners Arbitration Conference
meets at Mauch Chunk.
10. Anniversary of Bunker Hill oele-
brated.
"a. The legal-tender decision is made
Ivy the United States Supreme Court.
26. The Bonnet Care crevasse is ], 900 |
feet in width, and all the country to New
Orleans under water.
26. The Pennsylvania Central leases
the New jersey railways
%. The court sustams the suit of the
English stockholders against Erie
%. Massacre of eighty five Indians in
Arizona by the settlers.
2. Commissioners appointed by the |
President to arrange for the centennial at
Philadelphia, 1876.
7. The work of the Joint High Com
mission is announced concluded, and |
Treaty signed
8. Battle between Indians and United
States troops at Larapie.
9. Miners riot at Hyde Park, Pa.
10. The Alabama Treaty sent to the
Z. S. Senate.
Is. The Senate arrests the Tt'ibiae cor
respondents, who refuse to divulge the |
name of the treaty seller
II. Another riot at Scranton mines.
%. The coal strike of five and half |
months ended. and work is resumed.
Loss by the strike, SIS, 100000
% Excursion of New York and Penn
sylvania editors.
%. Ten thousand acres wood land |
burned in three counties of New York |
Loss $4,000
~. The coal mine horror at Pittston.
Ia. twenty men are suflocated to
death.
30. Decoration Day of the graves of
soldiers of the Union.
JUNE.
4. The U. S. army reduced to peace
footing of 35, 2S4 men.
5. The New Orleans food by crevasse
covers six square miles, and $500 houses
are in several feet of water
I. Battle in Cuba and insurgents de-
feated.
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