The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1875-01-16

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bic to grant the petition.
MISCELLANEOUS.
Early in the summer Kalakaua, King Of the
Hawaiian Islands, resolved to make visit 70
the United States He was conveyed IN an
American naval vessel to San Francisco,
where be arrived November 80, and on De-
cember 10 be reached Washington. He was
formally presented to the President at the
White House ON the 10th inst, and to Com
gress two days later. At the present time Of
writing he has been the guest Of the city Of
New York for week.
Among other notable events Of the year in
the United States have been the abduction Of
little Charlie Ross from his parents in Phila-
delphia, July l, and the killing of his sap
posed kidnappers at Bay Ridge, Long Island,
about two weeks ago; the marriage Of Miss
Nellie Grant, daughter Of the President, to
Mr.. Sartoris, an English gentleman, in May;
the victory Of the Columbia crew in the coll
lege boat race on Saratoga Lake, and the kill
ing Of Mr. Byerly, the editor Of the New
Orleans Bulletin, in a street fight in that city,
by Ex-Governor Warmoth. The Government
expedition under General Custer to explore
the Black Hills country in Dakota, started
July 2, and reached its destination August l..
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The most prominent event in English his
tory during the year was the change in the
Ministry. The Gladstone regime determined
to appeal to the country, and Parliament was
dissolved by royal decree January "a. An
exciting contest for new House Of Commons
followed, and by the middle Of February it
was ascertained that majority Of conserva-
tives had been elected Mr.. Gladstone then
sent his resignation to the Queen, and Mr..
Disraeli was called to Office. The next Par
lament assembled March s, aud its political
complexion was found to be-. Conservatives,
s5li Liberals, sO2. Tie Ashantee war was
brought to a close by the defeat Of King
Koiiee and the entry of Sir Garnet wolseley
into Coomassie February 5. Satisfactory
guarantees of future good behavior having
been obtained from the King, the heroes re.
turned home to England in March, and were
reviewed by the Queen in the Park Of Wind.
sor on the Both inst The marriage of the
Duke Of Edinburg, the Queens second son,
to the Grand Duchess Maria, the only daugh.
ter of the Emperor Russia, took place at st.
Petersburg January 20. The royal bridal
pair started for England to spend their hon
eymoon, and made public entry into London
March II. Two months later the Gar fol-
lowed on visit to England, and was the
guest ofthe nation for two weeks. The long
trial Of the Tchborne claimant for perjury
came to an end February %, and he was
found guilty and sentence to fourteen years
penal servitude. Theintelligence ofthe death
of DR.. Livingstone was received in England
January 2e, nearly FIVE nloEihs after the event
had occurred. His remains arrived in Eng.
land in April, and were inferred with appro.
pirate ceremonies in Westminster Abbey on
on the 18th instant The great controversy
raging in Germany between the Government
and the party of the Ultramontanes elected
several meetings of sympathy for the former
from portion Of the English people, and il
October Mr.. Gladstone still further intensified
the excitement by publishing pamphlet OF
the Vatican decrees, in which he attempted
to show that obedience on the part of British
Roman Catholics to all of the requirement.
of the Holy See was incompatible with thsil
allegiance to their own country. This brought
forth responses from Archbishop Manning and
Monseignor Capel, and the dispnte was sill
in progress at the last advices.
FRAscg
The political year in France was distin
guished by the intrigues Of factions and yio
lent debates in the National Assembly ON til,
questions of dissolving that body and the
powers that should be granted to Presiden
hacMahon. The Bonapariist propagand.
was busily at work during the early months O
the year, but notwithstanding occasional sue
eesses in the elections, the drift was steadil,
in favor Of the Republicans. A rupture be
tween the ex-Empress Eugenis and Prime,
Napoleon occurred in March and his connec
tion with the Bonapartist party ceased from
that time. The coming of age Of the Primes
Imperial was celebrated by .fete at Chisel
hurst in England on March 16, and was mad,
the occasion for great assemblage Of the
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blythe Prince, in which he adroitly announc
ed his policy and aired his love for France
The debates in the Assembly on the constitu-
tional powers created so much excitemeni
that when NJ. Gambetta, in an impassioned
harangue on June alluded TO the Bonapar-
lists as ''wretches, he was threatened with
violence to his person, and the next day wa,
actually assaulted in Paris by the Count st,
Croix.
The De Broglie ministry went out Of power
in May, and were succeeded by a Cabine
formed by General de Cissey and the Duke
Decazes, which isstill in Office, though threat
ened at the last adyices. The escape Of Henr
Rochefort from his imprisonment in New
Caledonia in April caused something of 4
sensation in France, but this was revived BY
the escape Of Marshal Bazainein August from
the Isle of Ste. Marguerite. He wentt to Bel
GUM to reside, and Rochefort planted hinsel
in Switzerland, and resumed the publication
Of La Lantenc.
GrRMAxY.
The war Of the German government ON th'
Ultramontane party and its representative
in the Roman Catholic Church was the grea
oyershadowing event Of the year in Germany
Several churchmen were arrested and sent I,
prison for contumacy, and in February th'
distinguished Archbishop Ledochowsk be
came victim Of the displeasure Of the Chan
ccllor. In July an attempt was made at ks
singer to assassinate Prince Bismarck Tn
perpetrator Of this crime was a Catholi
workman named Kullmann, and il was sus
pected at first that he was the Representative
Of a large band Of conspirators. No accom-
plices, however, were discovered, and he wa
tried and convicted in October and sentences
70 fourteen years imprisonment In th'
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