The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1880-01-17

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7--Major Cavssnari and staff massacreed .
by Afghans at Csbul.
1s-Daniel Drew dies at N. Y. city Cam
bridge Lexington diesj close of the Zulu
war in Africa.
2O--Reception to General Grant at San
Francisco.
22-1hdian raid in Arizona treaty be-
tween Indians and Moxcausj fatal boiler
explosion in Chicago.
2S-In international cricket match the
gentlemen of Ireland defeated fourteen New
Workers.
27-Charles Rowell wins the Ashley Bolt
making $40 miles.
OCTOBER.
S-Derrick for moving Cleopatra's Needle
shipped.
4-Correspondence with lottery dealers
prohibited; first battle at shutargarden
Pass, between English and Afghans.
5-O'Leary walking match, six days, be-
gun at Gilmore's Garden.
9-"Molly Mcguire" McManus hung at
sunbury, Pa; Tooth anniversary of the
siege of Savannah, and death of John Jas
per.
11-Nicholas Murphy won the oLeary
belt with score Of sos, Howard 800, Faber
4s7 miles.
lS-English enter Chbul.
14-Charles Foster elected governor of
Ohio.
16--ITanlan rows alone over course Court
ney's boat being cut; DR.. F. J. Lemoyne
cremated at Washington, Pa.
l9-one thousand persons drowned by
floods in Spain.
2O-Riley, oarsman, beats Ross at Nor.
witch, Conn.
23-Yorktown, Va, centennial anniver-
sary celebration the Egyptian obelisk de-
livcred to American representatives.
2o-The Ute Indians make oYcrtures Of
peace.
2s-Memphis fever quarantine raised,
NOVEMBER.
S-Disastrous fire damp explosion in a
coal mine at Mill Creek, Pa.
4--Elections held in the states of New
York, New Jersey, Connecticut, Massachu-
setts, Pennsylvania, Maryland, Minnesota,
Mississippi, Nebraska, Virginia and Wis,
consin.
Fatal fire in Kansas City, Mo. steam
ship Arizona crushes into an iceberg off the
Newfoundland coast
Six survivors of the lost steamship
Champion arrive in New York city.
14-At fire at No. so Cannon street, N.
Y, fYe persons are killed.
2S-A tug fleet wrecked on Lake Ontario
in snow storm,
19-The statute of Gen. Geo. II. Thomas
unveiled at Washington.
24-At Sligo the examination of the Irish
State prisoners is begun, Mr.. Parnell attend
ing.
25-Eighth avenue horse car stables
burned down in New York city.
~ Paris restored to the legal title oi
capital of France; animal Thanksgiving
day in the United States massacre of All
med Mukhtar Pasha, Turkish General and
body guard in Montenegro.
29-Chilian Minister to England confirms
the report that the Chilans have captured
Iquique; Alfonso XII, King of spain, mar
ried to Archduchess Marie Christina, o.
Austria, at Madrid.
DECEMBER.
1-Seeond session of the forty sixth Con
gress begun.
2-Attempt to kill the Gar of Russia by
exploding an internal machine in the street.
of Moscow.
9-Mahmud Jan, the Afghan defeats tn
British.
l2-Thc town of Red Rock, Pa, destroyed
by fire.
l7-News received of a crushing defeat o
the Peruvian Army by the Chilians at tn
battle OF San Francisco, Nov. 26; Ayoo
Khan, the Afghan Governor, deposod Rev
DIR. Talmage's Ocquittal sustained by th
Long Island Synod.
23-Gen. Roberts defeats the Afghans o
Cabul Heights.
27-Edison, the inventor, lights his labc
ratory with electric lamps.
2S-In Scotland, an entire railway trai
and a portion of the Tay Bridge preciptate
into the river. All on board the trai
lost.
3O-An unsuccessful attempt made to Xxi
the King of Spain by shooting.