Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1873-02-03
A CHRONOLOGICAL REVIEW
OF THE PRINCIPAL POLITICAL. CIVIL AND
DOMESTIC, HOME AND FOREIGN EVENTS
OF ONE YEAR 1872.
JANUARY.

unit Worlds Telegraphic Congress
at Rome. By Royal decree fifteen hum
dred slaves are freed in Siam.
2. Brigham Young arrested for mur-
der. Chicagoans entertain Duke Alxeis.
5. Snow blockade on the Northern Pa
cifc Railroad in Wyoming; now lasted
two weeks.
6. The Fisk-Stokes tragedy occurs at
New York
%. japanese Embassy at San Fran
cisco. Henry Wilson first named for
Vice President
"a. Woman Suffrage Petition, with
5000 names, presented at Congress-
France refuses to confscate the ex-Em-
perors private property. The market
Savings Bank defalcation of half mil
| lion at New York.
%. Fifteen large sun-spots visible.
80. The Apportionment Bill, making
42 Senators and 293 Representatives, be,
comes law.
| 81. National Religious Convention at
| Cincinnati, to secure an acknowledge
ment of God in the United States Consti,
tuition
! FEBRUARY
|. Congress reports bill for carrying
into effect the treaty with Great Britain.
4. Telegraphic cable laid from Java to
Australia.
Z. The Senate after 81 days work has
passed 4 bills, some of them trivial, and
has 6O2 on the calendar.
TO- Five indictments found against
Oakley Hall. Colfax declines renomina-
ton, and advocates Grant. Election day
made a legal holiday in Wisconsin.
IL. Cuba enslaves her Chinese SUBJ
jects Turkey to construct network of
railroads in Asia Minor.
Is. Emperor and Empress of Brazil
arrive at Madrid. and Prince Charles
Fredrick visits Egypt.
II. New York Museum of Art Open
ed.
20. Great speech of Carl Schurz in the
Senate on the Sale of Arms question.
21. National Labor Reform Conven-
tion, Columbus, 0.
%. A twenty-eight days snow block
ade on the Pacific Railroad broken
27. Thanksgiving for the recovery of
| Wales in England. Extraordinary pa
geant at London; grand procession and
four million spectators. Duke Alexis
arrives at Havana. Scotch National
Dog Show at Glasgow 700 ours.
20. japanese Embassy, 80 persons,
reach Washington in five palace cars.
MARCH.
A temperance reform in Russia an
nounced, and Czar Alexander signs the
pledge.
4. The jury decide against Tichborne
at London.
9. England said to contribute $780,
900 to Chicago.
IL. Revolution in Erie; old Directors
expelled and Gen. Dix made President
Joseph Mazzini dies.
IA. Pennsylvania passes a law forbid
ding the sale of liquors on Election Day.
Is. Work begins on the Boston Coli
scum. Swiss engineers project railroad
to the top of Vesuvius.
%. The Tariff Bill passes the Senate
and the odious Income Tax is abolished
at last.
80. The Cincinnati Convention called
by New Workers.
81 Spiritualism in jubilee over it.
twenty fourth anniversary.
. APRIL
| 2. death of Prof. S. B. Morse, aget
81.
g. Obsequies of Gen. Robert Ander
,, son of New York.
Z. Converted Jews III the Unite,
e States, only number 800.
f The postal card project agitated il
g Congress.
IL. Iowa abolishes the death penalty
II. Mr.. Greeley and the Tribune 9
for the Liberal Cincinnati Convention
n Is. The Supreme Court decides ad
Il versely to Judge Mckean's action |
Utah, and sustains the Mormon side
y Young to be released Geneva Confer
: ence meets
4 10. Presidential proclamation relatin
d to the South Carolina ku,Klux.
20. Navigation opens on the gre;
l. lakes.
ST % Brigham Young released; Mo
If mons jubilant By decree Japan (on IL
n 23) abolishes all edicts against Christ
anity, now in force three centuries.
to 26. The Coliseum dashed to the ear
ed by wind loss, $4,000. Miss Nell
- Grant presented to Queen Victoria
of l Nj. E. Church General Conferen
at Brooklyn, lay delegates admitted.
"a Cincinnati Convention opens The 7
src and Coffee Bill passed by Congress.
90 l-2 DR.. Livingstone reported ST
,ly and with Stanley.
ou 3 Nomination of Greeley and Bro,
a at Cincinnati
'uC 9 The hottest Nav for 10 wears