National opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1865-1874, 1873-01-03
Events Of the Year.
JANUARY.

JANUARY
3. Riots in New Orleans. Split in
the Legislature. The Speaker, Carter,
is removed.
6. James Fisk, Jr, shot dead by
Edward s. Stokes.
9. Death of Major-Gen. II. W. Hal
leck, U. s. A. Mt Louisville.
IL. Duke of Persigny dies at Nice.
II, dwelling of the Franklin statne
in Printing Mouse Square by Professor
s. +. b. Morse.
%. General Grant, on the requisition
of the Louisiana State authorities, di-
rects the U. $. troops to interfere, which
secures the victory of Warmoth. de
cision of the Supreme Court, U. ). that
all debts contracted prior to the enact
ment of the Legal Tender act must be
paid in coin if specially contracted in
such.
%. Prof Panormo assassinated in
Brooklyn.
"a. Acquittal of Mrs. Wharton in
Annapolis. death of the German poet
Franz Gnlloarzer, at Vienna Secretary
Boutwell, announces the suspension OF
the Civil Service Reform j II.
%. Gen. Ewell, of the late Confeder-
ate army, dies in Maury Co, Tenn.
2G. Murder of Geo. W. Watson by
Mrs. Fanny Hyde, in Brooklyn.
~. A crazy German tailor, Henry
Hepner, shoots his own son IN Grand
St, New York, and commits suicide.
30. Passage of the New Congressional
Apportionment bill.
|. Congress. by strict party vote,
approves of the Syndicate.
2 The French National Assembly re-
iects, by small majority, the PROPOSE
ton to change its seat from Versailles
to Paris. death of Dawson, the great
German actor.
3. Great excitement in London about
the demands of the United States i'll the
Alabama question. Protest Of England
against indirect claims.
6. Opening of the British Parliament.
Gladstone speaks against the demands
of the United States.
I. Death of Archbishop Spaldng of
Baltimore. death of ex-U. 5. Senator
Grimes, of Iowa Steamer Colorado
wrecked III the Mersey.
s. Earl of Mayo murdered by a con-
vict at Por Blair, Andamine Islands. -
Tke Legislature of Missouri resolves to
pay the old State debt i'll paper money.
8. Passage of Summers Civil Rights
amendment in the U. S. Senate. The
Amnesty bill rejected.
10. Mayor Hall of New York, and
others indicted by the Grand Jury.
10. The House of Representatives
takes the duty off from tea and coffee.
%. Workingmen' National Conven-
ton ut Columbus, Ohio. Judge Davis
nominated for the Presidency. Tenn
perance National Convention. Judge
Black for President.
&c Commencement Of Mayor Halls
trial before Judge Daily.
MARCH
4. Presentation of the japanese En-
bassy at the White House.
6. Defeat of the Mexican insurgents
at Zacatecas.
7. Francepay the fourth half milliard'
to Germany.
10. Death of Mazzini, at Paris.
II. The Erie Railroad Office taken pos
session of by the English stockholders
General Dix elected President of the
company.
II. Election in New Hampshire. Vic
tory of the Republicans.
il. Death of police officer Lambrecht,
who was murdered Ivy r,ltfian named
Lavery. Declaration of the L. S. Gov
ernment that it must insist upon re-
ferring the indirect claims to the Geneva
Passage by the French
Assembly of law suppressing the In
ternational.
20. Burnh 4 of the Art Gallery in
Dusseldorf
26. Wild speculations in Erie shares,
which rise to 6S, but recede. Earth f
quake in Ino county, California; 80 peo- .
pie killed.
80. Hurricane in ST. Louis.
APRIL
2. Death of Professor Morse.
3. Earthquake in Antioch.
8. Death of Erastus Coming at Al
bany.
10. National Convention of colored
men at New Orleans.
II. Burning of the steamer Oceanic
at Cairo. 70 lives lost.
Is. The L. S. Supreme Court declares
the interference of the U. S. against
polygamy in Utah as unconstitutional.
20. An army train attacked by Indians
near the Texas frontier. r.---Destruction of
a large portion of Jeddo by fire.
"a. Messrs. Stevenson, Cline and
Dutron murdered bya mob near Holden,
Mo. Active measures adopted in Spain
against the Carlist movement.
26. Terrible eruption of Vesuvius.
|. Liberal Republican Convention at
Opening of the Strasburg
3. Horace Greeley and b. Gratz
Brown nominated for President and
Vice President of the United States.
T. Defeat of the Carlists, who retreat
ed into France.
g. Niblo's Garden New York destroy
I'd by fire.
TO- A second charter for New York
,ity passed by the State Legislature.
13. Buffers Amnesty bill passed.
II. Adjournment of the New York
State Legislature.
Is. Perry elected U. s. Senator from
Connecticut. 80 State Convention at
Rochester.
IL. The steamer Tripoli" wrecked
,n the Irish coast.
26 Death of Sir Henry Lytton Bull
wer.
~. Death of Arch-duchess Sophia of
Austria, mother of the Emperor. +,
30 Congress changes the day of the
Louisiana election to the first Monday
N November.
JUNE.