The democrat. [volume] (Weston, W. Va.) 1868-1874, 1873-01-06
FEBRUARY.

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Apportionment bill.
FEBRUARY.
!. Congress, by q strict party vote,
approves Of tho Syndicate.
4. The French National Assembly re-
jects, by small majority, the proposi-
tion to change its seat from Versailles
to Paris, death Of Dawson, the great
German actor.
g. Great excitement in London about
tho demands OF the United StatGs in the
Alabama question. Protest OF England
against indirect claims.
Q. Opening Of the British Parliament.
Gladstone speaks against the demands
OF the United States.
I. Death OF Archbishop Spalling OF
Baltimore. death Of ex-U. s. Senator
Grimes, Of Iowu..--Stcamer Colorado
wrecked in the Mersey.
8. Earl OF Mayo murdered by n con.
vict at Por Blair, Andamino Islands. ..-
The Legislature Of Missouri resolves to
pay tho old State debt in pape. money.
8. Passage Of Summers Civil Rights
amendment in the U. s. Senate. 1.-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 of from ten and coffee.
%. Workingmen's National Conyen-
ton at Columbus, Ohio. Judge Davis
nominated for the Presidency. ---Tcm-
pcrnnce National Convention. Judge
Black for President.
20. Commencement of Mayor Halls
trial before Judge Daily.
MARCH.
4. Presentation OF the Japanese EN-
bassy ut tho White House. .....
Q. Defeat Of tho Mexican insurgents
ut zacatecas.
Z. Francepays the fourth half milliard
to Germany.
10. Death of Mnzzini, at Paris.
II. The Erie Railroad office taken pos
session OF by the English stockholders.
General Dix elected President OF the
company.
12. Election in New Hampshire. Vic
tory OF tho Republicans.
IL. Death OF police officer Lumbrecht,
who was murdered by rlfllan named
Layery. Declaration Of tho U. s. Gov
ernment that it must insist upon re-
ferring the indirect claims to tho Geneva
Arbitration. Passage by tho French
Assembly Of q law suppressing tho In
ternational.
20. Btrning OF tho Art Gallery in
Dusseldorf. s
20. Wild speculations in Eric shares,
which rise TO 6S, but recedc. Earth.
quake in Ino county, California; 30peo-
plo killed.
80. Hurricane in st. Louis.
APRIL.
2. Death OF Professor Morse.
8. Earthquake in Antioch.
0. Death OF Erastus Corning at Al
bany.
ID. National Convention OF colored
mon at New Orleans.
u. Burning OF the steamer Oceanic
at Cairo. 20 lives lost.
10. The q. s. Supreme Court declares
the interference OF tho U. $. against
polygamy in Utah IA unconstitutional
20. An army train attacked by Indians
near the Texas frontier. Destruction Of
q large portion Of Jcddo by fire.
q. Mcssrs. Stevenson, Clino and
Dutron murdered by a mob near Holden,
Mo,.-Activo measures adopted in Spain
against tho Carlist movement.
90. Terrible eruption Of ycsuyius.
MAY.
/. Liberal Republican Convention at
Cincinnati. -.-opening Of the strasburg
University.
8. Horace Greeley and B. Grntz
Brown nominated for President and
Vice President Of the United States.
4. Defeat OF the Carlists, who retreat
cd into France.
Q, Niblo's Garden Now York destroy
cd by fire.
10. A second charter for New York
city passed by the State Legislature.
Is. Butler's Amnesty bill passed.
II. Adjournment Of tho New York
State Legislature.
10. Perry elected U. s. Senator from
Connecticut, go State Convention At
Rochester.
II. The steamer "Tripoli" wrecked
on tho Irish coast.
20. Death of Sir Henry Lytton Bull
wer,
81. Death Of Arch.duchcss Sophia ol
Austria, mother Of the Emperor
20. Congress changes tho day Of the
Louisiana election TO the first Monday
In November.
/. Death Of James Gordon Bennett.
2. Death OF Charles Lever, tho Eng