The Weston Democrat. [volume] (Weston, W. Va.) 1875-current, 1877-01-15

arrived in Richmond.
| s. Coy. Hayes accepted the Cincinnati
nomination.
9. Castle Garden was iurNctl.
II. Postmaster. General Jewell was re-
moved; also Commissioner Pratt Of tie
| internal revenue. Tho will of \. L.
Stewart was admitted to probate.
/ ID. Six lives were lost by the Thiel-
horn tragedy in Newark,
~. CoSuell crews Won the three races
ut Saratoga.
20. ". T. Garner, his wife anl three
other persons lost their lives by tho c4,r-
sizing Of the yacht Mohawk.
%. Mexican insurgents were defeated
ut Forth.
August.
]. Gen. Belknap WAS discharged. :.
Colorado WINS proclaimed Stntc.
i. The Tillen and Hendricks letters Of
acceptance were published.
Q. The appropriations deadlock in
Congress was broken.
IL. The Wagner hrIsicnl festival be-
gun Mt Bayreut!l. ;. Government troops
were defeated in Mexico.
! 1G. Gen. HNmptan WIS nominated for
governor Of South Carolina.
q. Edwin D. Morgan wGs nominated
for governor Of New York by the Repub-
lic,ls NJ Saratoga i. . The Turks were
replllsed by the SeIyians.
%. The international regatta opened
at Philadelphia.
81. Sultan Murad V. was deposed.
SEPTEMBER.
]. Yale won the College rice ut Phila-
delphiN.
1. Tie Scrrinns were defeated by the
Turks.
6. Tie Massachusetts Republicans re-
nominated Gov. Rice.
G. Charles Francis Adams WIS nonli-
mated for governor by the Democrats Of
! Massachusetts.
Z. The Porte declined to give MI ar-
mistire to the Servians.
/ 8. VIM. N. Tweed WAS arrested i'll
Vigo, Spain.
il. Maine gave II Republican majority
Of 1900.
IS. IIucius Robinson WIS nominated
by the Democrats for governor VI New
York.
IA. America won in the Crcetlmoor
rifle mulch.
16. Gen. Crook destroyed MI Indian
village. Turkey and Seryia ugrecl 10
I'LL Rrnistice.
20. The Babcock trial begun.
81. America Won the second match ut
Creelinnor.
q. Tho He'll Gate explosion took
place. "''-
2S. Two hundred and fifty thousand
people visited the Exhibition ut Phila-
delPllia.
%. Tile Turks were routed by Ser
vians.
! OCTOBER.
9. Geu. Babcock was discharged. >.
The sophomore class Of Williams College
WIS suspended.
3. Colorado gave n Republican mr.
iOrity Of 500. \. Roscoe ConlIlinG spoke
at Utica on the issues Of the campaign.
s. Georgia gave Democratic mn-
ioritv Of about $4,000. :. e. 4. Wood
ward Of the Tweed ring was arrested in
Chicago.
10. Ohio went Republican by about
| 6,400 majority, md Indiana Democratic
by 500. ~.
II. Servia rejected the offer Of q six
months Ar,nisticc.
u. Fifteen hundred Turks were slain
by Montencgrins.
10. A forged tclesrapliic tlispatcl, M
mouncetl the death Of Commodore VAN
drrbilt.
is. War III Europe was deemed newt
ablc.
%. Twelve whaling ships we're los. in
the North Pacific.
81. The British Parliament WIS pro-
ragIed.
q. Gov. Tildcn. in Il letter, sud he
would veto Ill Southern CIAims bills if
lie were elected President. Gen. CrOok
captured $50 lodges Of Indians.
NOVEMBER.
l. VIM. N. Ewlrts spoke III New York
on the Presidential issues.
.. Turkey agreed to un arinistice Tor
two months.
:. The Presidential election took
psnrr.
g., y. The Steamer Franklin Lett st.
Thomas for New York with Tweed on
board.
II. Tie President panlonel ". o.
.lycry.
90. The Soutl Carolina canvaSscrs de-
elGred the State for Hayes aud Chamber.
lnin.
%. Tweed arrived IN New York, aul
WIS confined i'll jail :. Tie Suitln Of
Turkey abolished slave tr'Ide in his EN-.
piga.
%. The South Carolina canvassers
were sent to JUL for contempt Of the
supreme court.
q. William 4. Fowler WIS acquitted
by the brooklyn aldermen.
DECEMBER.
.. the French ministry resigned.
1. Meeting of Congress the House
ordered investigations Of the Floritla,
Louisiana anil South Carolina elections.
... Tie bust Of Horace Greeley WIS I'M.
veniled ut Greenwood cemetery, New
York.
g. TIE lives OF Ell persons were lost
by tho burning of the Brooklyn ThrIler
-. The Senate ordered M investigation
Of tile Alabama, Florirla, GeOrgia, Lnu.
isian Rnd Mississippi elections.
6. Sessions Of the electoral colleges.
The President sent to Congress the
report uf Inc visiting Republicans OIL the
Louisiana election.
7. Gov. Chamberlain WIS inapgurated
ut Columbia, S. G.
8. The SeiMtc declared that the joint
rilnS If EpuuresS were mot III force