Richland beacon., 1875-01-09

-. LNltpSIpb VI iuo StaliDtht
Cre.cen, City, near Memphis.
23 Victory Of Cambridge over
Oxford in The English college boat
, lace.
2. Col. James Winsfeld sni Cbas
Briggs. died
5. Victery Of GARNER over Da'v.
at New York. in second match f1r
nat;"as' tbree-ball championship game
of hiIiirda.
4. A. j. philips and Aris'de
Bienvenu duel Mt Bay St. Louis
Bienvcnu killed.-Aurder Of Edward
Ciaren at the New Basin
s. Widespread alarm hv general
rising of the Mississippi River and
commencement Of crcvasses.
| 10. Inauguration Of the Monumert
to the Confederate Dead, erected bv
the Ladies' Beneyoicnt Association
Of Louisiana"
H. Murder Of Jules g. Roux.
II. Charles Behress killed by Ed
ward l.. Coleman.
II. First session Of the new Supe-
rior Criminal Court.
Is. A. j. Bachemin aud Wallace
Wood duel, on Mobile Railroad.
Bachemim wounded-Death of Col.
James L. misunderstanding Jay
Richards scapsized At Belle Chase
crevasse, below the city; twelve lives
lost.
Is. Baxter Brooks war commenced
in Arkansas.
/ %. Charles Howard killed by
Thomas Curley.
| 90. Celel ration of Odd Fellows
Hall of the ffty-fflh anniversary Of
the |. y. o. I.
2. Departure of New Orleans dele
gates for Catholic Pilgrimage to
/ Lourdes and Rome.
l6 The Mill river disaster in Mas. |
sashusetts.
81. Marriage of young Sartoris
and N'l,ie Grant, at Washington.
90. l. s. Senate passed the civil
rights bill.
- Arrival OF Henri Rochefort in
the United States.
JUNE
2. Lease of the St. Louis Hotel to
serve as the capitol of Louisiana
5. Passage of the Fort st. Philip
Canal in the lower House of Con-
gress.
II. Twenty-eighth anniversary OF
the election of Pio Mono.
"a. St. Johns Day.
25. Revival Of tie Beccher- -Tilton
scandal.
/. Organization of the White
League.
4. Opening of the great railroad
bridge at St Louis.
q. Coggia's Comet discerhable TO
The naked eye ct p. m.
IL. Attempted assassination OF
Bismarck.
II. The second Chicago fire, loss
100000
%. Beginning of the grssshopper
plague in Nebraska.
30. The great Pittsbarg flood
2l9 lives lost.
AUGUST. F.,
9. Large fire in the Fourth District I
-Thirty-fve houses destroyed.
81. The FIVE murderers of Elisha f
Eastwood executed in Assumption.
25. Thirty-six houses destroyed by I
FIRE in the Third District.
SEPTEMBER.
]. Alexander Newton kills Mr.. 9
Justin Bourdonnay. i
3. Goldsmith Maid trots mile in c
2:l4. i
8. Seizure of arms by Kellogg's
Metropolitans. t
IA. Louisiana revolution. b
IL. Col. Brooke took possession of 9
the State House il
Is. Restoration Of the Kellogg q
government-The great mill fire at q
Fall River; thirty lives lost. a
OCTOBER. q
l. Outbreak Of the South Ameri- Z
can rebellion.
5. Seventy-ive houses destroyed u
by fire in the Fourth District. :,
s. Assembling of the Democratic /,
Parish Convention in Orleans.
IL Assembling of the Republican u"
Parish Convention in Orleans. 6
13. Elections in seven States :,
of the Democratic tidal .
wave.
Is. The Lincoln statue unveiled in :.
Springfield, i'll. =
10. Francois Aubrey killed his wife .
by stabbing her fifteen times. ;,
81. Earle and Garvey admitten to =
bail after three years and a half im- :
prisonment.
"a Arrests at Shreveport under h
The enforcement act. .
81. 4 cyclone in India destroyed 4
lwo thousand lives. ,,
90 Mass meeting in protest of the :,
action in the Second District Court 7
matier-The Burke .
Kellogg cowhiding affair. h
NOVEMBER. ia
2. Killing of John Keegan, Sr. by b
Willie Burk
.. Anniversary Of the capture Of
ba Virpinins in l2T2-Elec-ionc in ie