Mexico weekly ledger., 1879-01-02
Chronology for 1875.
JANUARY,

3. Turkeys request for an armis-
tice was refused by the Russians.
4. Massacre of $4,000 Chinamer
at Kashgar reported.
8. Russians captured Sofia. Sc.
we're weather along the Atlantic coast
several disasters.
6. Egypt sent 5000 troops to Tur.
key.
8. Fx-Gov. Bullock. of Georgia,
acquitted.
9. Call issued for National Con-
vention of National party at Toledo,
Ohio. Vice President Wetmore, of
New York Security Insurance Com
pany, sentenced to one year in peni-
tentiary. Turkish commanders Or
dered to conclude an armistice.
10. Turks driven from Schipka
pass. Ne VS. of great fira at Homo.
lulu, Sandwich islands.
IL. Glover investigation resolution
passed the House.
IL. A million-dollar fire at Lon.
don, England.
Is. Grand Duke Nicholas crossed
the Balkans.
Il. Thirteen lives lost by wreck ot
schooner Little Kate, of Duxbury,
Mass.
Is. George II. Pendleton elected
Senator from Ohio.
II. -Four negroes killed by q moi
near Lexington, Ky. British Par
Lament opened.
Is. Gen. Skobeleff occupied Phil
ippopolis.
80. Sixty thousand persons attend.
ed the funeral of the Fenian McCar-
thy, in Dublin.
21. The Russians reached Adrla-
nople.
%. William B. Allison elected te
the Senate from Iowa. Henry M.
Stanley reached London.
%. King Alfonso and the Infants
Mercedes married in Madrid, Spain.
"a. Earls Derby and Carnarvor
resigned from the English Ministry
Russia made known to the Porte the
terms ofpeace.
25. Turkey accepted the terms.
26. Louisiana Returning Board
locked up. News of great famine ii
China.
27. English vessels entered the
Dardanelles.
%. Stanley Matthews silver reso-
luton passed Congress.
80. The House voted against re
duction of whiskey tax.
81. Steamer Metropolis, from
Philadelphia for Brazil, wrecked of
Kitty Hawk. N. c.. 100 lives lost
A furniture establishment burned il
New York loss, s365,O00 Smiths
dry-goods house, in Philadelphia
burned; loss, 100000.
FEBRUARY.
l. Sea swept over Coney island
N. Y, drowning seven persons.
z. fxluhaaS~ lant hs, tho wsenk q
brig Overton, of Ocracoke, N. c.
3. Armistice between Russia anC
Turkey signed at Adrianople.
4. Asylum burned at Tein-Tsin
China; 1900 lives lost. Madison
Wells surrendered himself.
5. The Chicago Academy of Music
burned. The Prefect of st. Peters
burg shot by Vera Sassulitch.
z. Anderson, of the Louisiana Re
turning Board, found guilty.
8. Tornado at Augusta, Ga. sew
erl persons killed. Twenty six per-
sons poisoned-seven fatally-by us
ing impure water, at Richford, Vt.
IL. Ship British America and brig
Carrie Winslow collided off Sandy
Hook; several lives lost.
13. British fleet entered the Sea OF
Marmora.
IA. Daniel Webster's old house at
Marshfeld, Mass, burned.
Is. Body of Mrs. Benn Pitmar
cremated at Washington, Pa.
"a. Steamer C. NJ. Palmer sunk
by collision off the English coast
fourteen persons drowned.
IS. Heavy rain-storm in Califor'
MIA; eight Cinnamon drowned. Ger
man Princesses Charlotte and Eliza
beth married at Berlin.
20. Cardinal Gioacchino Pecci
elected Pope, under the name ot
Pope Leo XIII.
%. National party organized a,
Toledo, Ohio. Russians occupied
Rustchuk. Big tidal wave at Callao
Chilli.
23. Rande, the murderer, sentenc.
ed to life imprisonment, at Gales.
burg, Ill. Express train on Texas
Central robbed.
25. Officers of State Savings Bank
of Trenton, N. j., convicted and
sentenced to five years in penitentia'
ry.
26. The Constitution sailed from
Philadelphia for Paris with American
exhibit at the Exposition.
%. Silver bill vetoed and passed
over the veto.
/. Most of the Cuban insurgents
laid down their arms and were par
doned.
8. Pope Leo crowned. Peace
treaty signed at San Stefano.
4. Tornado in Casey county, KY.
sever persons killed. British Parlia
ment voted the military estimates.
5. Hot Springs, Ark, nearly de-
stroyed by fire.
z. The business portion Of Spar
tansburg, Pa, burned.
s. Seventeen persons killed by
colliery explosion near Glasgow,
Scotland.
9. News of steamer Sphinx being
burned at sea; 700 lives lost.
IL. Colliery explosion near Bolton,
England; forty lives lost.
IA. Thirty-six excursionists drown
ed ut Brest, France.
II. Treaty of peace ratified at st.
Petersburg.
Is. Anderson's release ordered by
the Louisiana Supreme Court.
%. Boiler explosion at Richmond,
Va. five persons killed. Thessaliar
villages sacked by the Turks.
% Ctoauror Maranta huret no,