Clearfield Republican. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1851-1937, 1873-01-29
EVENTS OF THE YEAR.


y. Riots In New Orleans. Split in
thc Legislature. The Speaker, Carter
Is removed.
g. James Fisk, Jr., shot dead by
Edward s Stokes. :
o. Death of Major-Gon. II. W. Hal,
leck, U. S. A. at'Louisville.
IL. Duke of Persigny dies at Nice.
H. Unveil.pg OF the Franklin statue
N Printing House Square by Professor
3. +. b. Morse.
". General Grant, on tho roouisi.
ton Of the Louisiana State authorities
Directs the U. S. troops to interfere,
which sen.-.s tho -;.,, ~.sf - sv--s...es,
Decision OF the Supreme Court, u.
s.. that all debts contracted prior TO
the enactment Of the Legal Tender
act must be paid in coin if specially
contracted in such.
%. Prof. Panormo assassinated in
Brooklyn.
"a. Acqulttal of Mrs. Wharton 10
Annapolis-Death ofthe German poet
Franz Grilloarzer, at Vienna.-Sec-
retary Boutwell, announces the sus-
pension of the Civil Service Reform
bill.
25. Gen. Ewell, of the late Confed
crate army, dies in. .Maury Co., Tenn.
26 Murder of Geo. w. Watson by
Mrs. Fanny Hyde, in Brooklyn.
81 A crazy German tailor, Henry
Hcpner, shoots his own son in Grand
street, New York, and commits sui
eide.
20. Passage of the new Congression-
al 9ppor,ionmeLt bill.
FEBRUARY.
l. Congress, by strict party vote,
approves of the Syndicate.
2. The French National Assembly
rejects, by a small majority, the prop
osition TO change its seat from Yer
sailles TO Pars.-Deatb of Dawson,
the great German actor
3. Great excitement in London
about tho demands of the United
States in the Alabama question. Pro-
test of England against indirect claims.
6. Opening of the British Paria-
mcnt Gladstone speaks against the
demands of the United States.
I. Death of Archbishop Spaldng of
Baltimore,-Dcath ofex- U. s. Senator
Grimes, Of Iowa. Steamer Colorado
wrecked in the Mersoy.
s, Earl Of Mayo murdered by n
convict at Por Blair, Andamine Is.
Legislature of Missouri
resolves to pay the old State debt in
paper money.
8. Passage of Summers Civil Rights
amendment in the u. S. Senate. Tho
Amnesty bill rejected.
10 Mayor Hall OF New York, and
others indicted by the Grand Jury,
10. Tho House Of Representatives
takes the duty off from tea and coffee
%. Worlingmen's National Con
vention at Columbus, Ohio. Judge
Davis nominated for the Presidency =
Temperance National Convention.
Judge Black for President.
26. commencement OF Mayor Halls
trial before Judge Daily.
MARCH.
1. Presentation Of the japanese EN-
bassy at the White House.
g. Defeat Of tho Mexican insur-
gents at Zaoatecas.
I. France pays the fourth half mil
lard to Germany.
10. Death of Mazzini, at Paris.
IL. The Erie Railroad Office taken
possession Of by the English stock
holders. General Dix elected Presi-
dent of tho company.
II. Election in New Hampshire !:
Victory Of the Republicans.
H. Death of police officer Lam
brccht, who was murdered by rufian
named Lavery.-Declaration OF the
U. s. Government that il must insist
upon referring the indirect claims to
he Geneva Arbitration.-Passage by
Tho French Assembly of n law sup
pressing tho International.
20. Burning of tho Art Gallery in
Dusseldorf.
2d. Wildspeculations in Erie shares,
which rise TO 6s, but recedc. Earth
quake in ino county, California; 80
people killed. /.
30. Hurricane in ST. Louis.
APRIL.
>, Death Of Professor Morse.
3. Earthquake in Antioch.
0. Death of Erastus Corning at AL
Dany.
10, National Convention of colorod
men at Now Orleans.
IL. Burning of the steamer Oceanic
vt Cairo. 20 lives lost,
l6. Tho U. s. Supreme Court de-
,lares the interference of the United
States against polygamy in Utah as
20. An army tram attacked by Ir-
1iaps near the Texas frontier.-De-
striction Of a largo portion of Jeddo
by fire.
q. Mcssrs Stevenson, Clino and
Du.ron murdered by mob near IIol-
lql, Mo.-Activo measures adopted in
SPUN against tho Carist movement.
96. Terrible eruption of Vcsuvius.
MAY.
I. Liberal Republican Convention
" tCincinnati-Opcning of the Stras-
bag University.
B. Horace Greeley and b. Gratz
BDwn nominated for President and
V'cc President of the United States.
|. Defeat Of the Carlists, who re-
Ir'ated into Franco.
y. Niblo's Garden, New York, de-
stoyed by FIRE
TO a second charter for Now York
Ely passed by the State Legislature.
ll3, Buffers Amnesty bill passed.
ia. Adjournment of the New York
jtlic Legislature.
ll5. Perry elected U. S. Senator
ff)m Connocticut.-Statc Convention
u Rochester.
III. The steamer "Tripoli" wrecked
y the Irish coast.
1875. Death of Sir Henry Lytton Bull
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