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

tatlon of pork hrorh the United States.
Benjamin G. Porteractor, killed at Dallas,
Texas, by james Cur1ro.
2l-French floating battery Arrogande
foundered at Ayeres.
23-Earthquake shocks In Northern Persia
cities Of Tark and Maiolon totally destroyed
25-Defeat of Afghans near Poshbolak BY
General Tytler.
26-Famino reported in Upper Egypt.
29-Five persons burned at fremont
House at Claremont, N. II.
SO--order reigns In Afghanistan; Yakoob
Khan decides SO continue war against Eng
lish,
Si-squadroh Of British bussars swept
away in acurrent while crossing Cabul river
in AGghanistan.
| APRIL.
british defeat Afghans in Peshin VAL
ley; Colonel Pcar5od. with 1000 English
troops surrounded by 10000 zulus at Ekowe,
South Africa.
2-Afghans capture 700 English soldiers;
and ransom them for 100000; General Fits
John Horter exonerated from charges Peru
and Bolivia declare war against Chill; Ger
man expedition sent to explore Central Az
rica.
S-Exodus ofnegroes fromSouthern States
into Kansas
4-Madanie Elizabeth Patterson Bona
parte, widow of Prince Jerome Bonal arte,
died.
5-Niragoane, port of ITayti, reported
destroyed by fire March II; Army Appro-
priation bill passed the HOUSE Of Rerresen-
tatives.
11-Arrest of Nihilists in Russia; In
quique, Peru, blockaded ay Chill.
12-Plague in st. Petersburg.
14-Unsuccessful attempt to assassinate
the Car.
H-U. S. s. Alaska returns from sitka.
1S-Syndicate subscribe for O,OOO, ,OOOj
four per cent. loaf village of zerend, in
Hungary, destroyed by flood village of Wa
terboro, s. c., struck by tornado!
21-Gen. John A. DIG died!
23-Lord Chelmsford relieves the beleag-
uered troops Of Col. Pearson at Ekowe, and
defeating the Zulus at Ginglelwa, South AZ
rica; seven men burned in coal mine at
Wilkesbarre, Pa; attempt to assassinate Ed
win Booth at McVicker's Theatre, Chicago;
Lorrillofd'a Parole wins the great M.tropoli
itan Stakes at EPSON.
2S-Seven men rescded from mine at
Wilkesbarre, Pa.
29-Presdent Hayes vetoes Army Ap-
preparation bill.
3O-City of Oranburg, on the Ural, IN
Russia, nearly destroyed by fire.
NAY.
CHARLES F. Freeman, of Pocasset Me-;
killed his daughter, Edith, aged years, as
religious sacrifice, belieying that she would
be restored to life in three days.
4-Riot at Cork, Ireland.
Fatal explosion OF nitro -glycerine and
100 cars wrecked OF Stratford, Canada; Por-
ter and johnson (negroes) lynched Mt Stark
vile, Mississippij international settling
match on the Tyne, won by Edward Han
Ian over John Hawdon.
0-Bill to prevent military interference
at elections passed by both houses of Con-
gress.
1l-President Hayes vetoes Military In
reference bill.
15-Floods and destruction of villages in
Hungary; more arrests Of NihalisLs in
Russia.
20-pesperGte naval encounter ofrIquique
! PERU between Chlian woodn vessels and
rerIyiah iron-clads, ull being sunk except
the Huascar (Peruvian)i President Hayes
vetces the Legislative bill.
JUNE.
S-M. de Lessep5 begins in Paris the
formation of an Interocoanic Canal Com
pany.
O-Tho Test-oathi:bili passed the U. s
| Senate
7-Sologief' of Russia, who attempted to
kill the Gar, sentenced to be hungj snow
and frost in parts of New England.
ft-strike IF cotton spinners at Fall
River, Mass.
1G-Edward Hanlon defeats VIM. Elliott
in three-mile race ON the River Tyne
England.
IA terrible earthquake occurs in the
Etua region.
26-Ismail Pasha. Khedive of Egypt, de;
posed, and his Con, Prince Mohammed
Tewak, appointed his successor.
2s-FAtGl explosion of boilers of steamer
May Queen on Lake Minetonka, MINI.
JULY.
! 1-Prince Jerome Bonaparte declared
head of Napoleonic dynasty.
0-Brcaking out of yellow fever at Mem
phis, Tenn; National Ameteur Oarsmen's
regatta at Saratoga.
16-Centennial celebration of the battle
of Stony Point; terrible heat in New York
city, thermometer IOl degrees in the shade.
10-Attempt to set fire to the Hudson
river steamer Drew,rhe indondiary captured.
2l-Dsastrous floods at Belfast.
22-severe floods in England; General
Miles has fight with Sioux.
AUGUST.
Thirteen deaths from yellow fever in
Memphis, Tenn.
5-Chilian blockade at Iquique raised.
T-Exchange Bank Of Montreal, Canada
fails.
s-Protest of Secretary Evarts 70 foreign
powers against Mormon immigration capi-
tai of Bosnia burned; 10000 people home
less the Vile Marie (Canadian) Bank sus-
pends.
S-Yellow fever at Memphis declared ep-
idemic.
ll-Riot in Belfast, Ireland earthquake
at st. Thomas.
13-Defalcation in mills at Fall River,
Mass steamer Semarimde sunk at sea by
steamer Corsica floods in Australasia.
16-Napoleonic iete in Paris omitted for
the first time in thirty years.
l7-seizuro of cOmbustibles and gronades.
at st. Petersburg.