The Orangeburg news. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1867-1875, 1874-02-07
"A. Years Work.,
FEW OF NOTABLE EVENTS OF
sHa 4fl THE YEAR 1873. glzTr r

| o'"'S LIZ uuWu OF moQern civilization
1873 hus been year Of stirring events,
and yet j, is marked by no great nation
u! change or scientific discovery Which
will make it distinguished 10 the
annals of tiuic, us the beginning Of q n
epoch. Mankind has made steady pro-
gress in Intelligence, material wealth
has been largely increased, and the
seeds have been sown, perhups. for some
of the most important political, scicnti
ic and religious movements Of the fu.
| turc.
Probably the most noteworthy events
of 1873 have been the Industrial Exno.
sltion in Vienna, the meeting of the
Evangelical Alliance in New York. the
visit of thes Persian Shah to Europe, the
political changes in France and Spain.
the American financial panic, and the
Vlrginius affair with Spain. These
occurrences have had more than local
beuring, and may seriously effect in
their results the interests Of generations
yet unborn. The Vienna Exposition
means the greater development and
extension of the peaceful arts tho
Evane ecdical a llinnce, larger religious
liberty the isit OF the Shah, the down
fall asf tho barriers Of Oriental exclu
sivcness tho events in France and
Spain, the strengthening of the rcpub-
llcan sentiment; mud our panic, the
coming of a son"dcr fpanoial system il,
the United Statcs. r '''''N a' =
q We Carried TN snnguinary war dur,
ing the ear!y months of the year again st
the Moaoc Indians Captain Jack
.tfFoadherously assassinated General Can
by, ind .trapped y portion of.our army
in an ambsseade and tlnu ,htereH lit.
Captain Jack was hanged Oct. 3,l.
The southwest was svisitei with tWo
eerrihle fcpprges dcrin, The summer.
ch'lura mud yellow fever, and 'Sl,r,ve
ort, La, and Nashville nna VI eurp has.
Tenn, we've nearly deporilatca by th,
,lattcr. The financial panic. which was
preciritatrd BY the failure ofJay Cooke
Il Co., Sept. Is, swept iHto the vortex
the houses of Fisk, Hatch l. Co, Henry
CleWs Il Co., Peuke, Opdyke T. Co., and
'thers and finally the great mauufactur
ing house ofA.& W Sprague The
end rof the year witnesses steady RI
turn of confidence, but the effects nf til.
crisis of 1873 will not soon be etfaccd
The last event Of considerable signifi-
cauce occurring on this side of the
Atlantic this year was the seizure OF
the steamer yirgiuius on the high seas
by a:Sl,anish gunboat, foll"w,d d by til.
hatchery OF part of its passen.ers and
crew, the breaking out Of the war excite
lnent IN the United States, and re par
alton by Spain. 1. is aot certain tha,
we have seen the end Of this imbroylo
yet. yra
During the past year we have had the
inauguration al President Grant. The
famous Pacific Railroad or Credit
Mobilier frauds make a notable event
The POLITICAL events in Great Britain
have been the Mi .:sterial crisis on ac
count of the rejection of The Irish Uni
versity bill by the House of Commons,
the resignation and subseq uont return
to power Of Mr.. 1ladstone, the be.roth
al of the Duko of Edinburgh to the
Grand Duchess Maria of Russia, and
he war carried Oh in distant African
colonj against the Ashuntees. The
latter still drags its weary length along,
tho deadlness OF the climate being the
principal obstacle in the wny OF the
Immediate success Of the British troops.
Franco has been agituted BY n nun
Der Of atrikins incidents Tho en- ,eror
Napoleon died in exile in January, and
lett the fortunes Of his house to tn.
maintenance Of his young sou. In May,
NJ. Thiors fell from power aud Marshal
MucNlaLon succeeded to the Presidency
The Monarchists, knowing tho warm
aympu,hies of the latter with the cause,
began at once to intrigue for the restora
tion of,he House OF Buu. bon. "A fusion
betweea the Lesitiniists and Orlean IS 5
was effected by the Comte de Cham
bord, ia Vienna, in August, and it was
arranged that the latter should ascend
the throne as Henry tho Fifth. Just
US the schcme was ripe, anl the Nation
al Assembly Was ready 10 proclAim the
king, his would be majesty overturned
every thing and drove his partisans
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