The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1873-01-01
CHRONOLOGICAL CALENDAR
THE EVENTS OF THE YEAR.
Public Occurrences in State and City
1874

Public Occurrences In State and City
inIs72.
The following is chronological statement
of the principal occurrences within the bor-
derS of the Slate of South Carolina during the
year 1872:
January 8. Drawing of the Academy of
Music Gift scheme. First annual Message OF
Mayor WAGNER.
January 9. Organization of the Charleston
Light Dragon Association.
January 10. Tournament at Charleston Fair
Grounds.
January IT. Circuit judges elected by the
General Assembly.
January 10. Great fire at Abbeville Court
house.
January %. Resolution impeaching Cover
nor Scott Introduced In the House OF Repre-.
sentatives.
February 2. Execution Of Samuel White,
colored, at Charleston, for the murder OF W.
B. Fidea.
February 7. Defeat OF the Metropolitan
police scheme In the General Assembly
February IL. Installation Of Rev. T. W.
Dosh, as pastor of st. John's Lutheran Church.
February 49, Radical State Convention.
March 10. Dedication OF the Plymouth
(colored) Congregational Church.
March l3. Adjournment OF the. General AS
March Is. Great fire at Union Courthouse.
March %. Dedication OF the German Lulh-
eran Church.
April l. Opening of the new Inferior Court,
of Charleston, by Judge George Lee, colored.
April S. Negro procession ana riot at TO-
April 10. Tornado at Chester and Columbia.
April %. Opening OF the German Schutzen-
May l. Floral exhibition by the State Agrl-
cultural Society.
Nav i. Tournement at oraugeburg.
May 8. Tournament of the Charleston Steam
May 8. Episcopal Diocesan Convention
Southern Lutheran Synod.
May 10. Memorial Day.
Nav Is. State sunday-School Convention.
Nav 20. Tournament Of the Charleston
NAV as. Violent storm at Charleston.
Nav 27. Rifle Club Festival under the
auspices of the Irish Rifle Club.
June s. Charleston Regatta.
June IL. State Democratic Convention at
Columbia.
June 23. Christ Church reopened.
July |. Shooting of N. F. Turner by Captain
C. ]. Black, at Blackvi!le.
August 2l. Radical State Convention.
August 23 Boilers State Convention.
September g. Murder OF he6ry L. Perrin bJ
L. /. WooIf.
Sportsmans' Club.
September 10. Negro riot on the Port Royal
Railroad.
September 81. Homicide of Captain John D.
Caldwell, at Columbia.
October l6. State election. Franklin j.
Moses, Jr., elected Governor.
October 22. Organization at Columbia OF the
South Carolina Peace Society.
November 2. Appearance OF the epIzootlc 10
Charleston.
November As. State Fair at Columbia.
November s. Presidential election and stale
senatorial elections 10 Chester and Union
November IA. Municipal thanksgiving in
Charleston.
November Il. Annual session at Columbia
of the Presbyterian synod OF South Carolina.
November II. C.eaL hre at Abbevllle.
November 10. BANKRUPTCY proceedings
against the Greenvllle and Columbia Railroad
Company denied by Judge Bryan.
November 20-23. Baptist Slate Convention
at Darlington.
November &c. Election Of city officers by the
Charleston City Council.
November 26. Meeting Of the General As.
sembly for the regular session OF ls72-73.
November q. Ope0ing OF The Charleston
Exchange.
November 27-29. Fall races at Sherwood
Course, Barnwell County.
November %. National thanksgiving day.
December 3. Inauguration of Governor
Moses.
December 10. Dedication Of the Masonic
Temple, Charleston.
December 10. Election by the General As
semby of John j. Patterson as United STATES
senator. Arrest oil Patterson tor bribery.
December IL. Annual meeting OF the Sur
vivors' Association.
December Ill. South Carolina NJ. E. Con-
ference at Anderson.
December l3. E ectlon by the General AS.
semoy OF Richard B. Carpenter as Judge ol
the Fifth Circuit.
December Is. Great fire at Chester.
December 20. Day Of intercesslon In the
Episcopal Churches.
December 81. Opening OF the new Sumter
Theatre and Town Hall.
December "a. Rioting on King stress,
Charleston.
December Is. Hard freeze throughout the
SLMe. Thermometer falls to nine de- ices, and
three persons frozen TO death In Columbia.
December 28. Disastrous cotton IRE on
board the bark J. Z. Duffls at Charleston.
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