The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1881-01-07
THE DEAD PAST.
A "ceord of the Important Happen.
ings of the Year 1850.
CHRONOLOGY.
JANUARY.

CHRONOLOGY.
JANUARY.
Great floods in England and France.
s. Parnelland Dillon arrive at New York.
4. A Gypsy camp is fqhnd in Prussian Silesia,
with eleven persons sitting around the remains
OF nre frozen to death.
5. By fire at East Turner Hall, New York
city, nve persons lose their lives.
6. -Four persons consumed in a San Francisco
fire.
II. The island Of st. Kits West Indies, de
vastatedby floods 200 lives are lost.
la Terrible wind-storm in Oregon causes
lossof life and property.
19 Aterrible eonflagration occurs at Toxic,
Z 9apRA turning fifteen acres and DESTROYING the
aveSs5f ,.v,ss 100 -l-sot,le. -=a..sssss.s
d colhery explosion near New Castle. En-
ghnd seventy-seven miners killed.
D. Bill for the gradual abolition o. slavery
in Cuba passes the Spanish Cortes
% A dood in the Cauca valley New Grenada
destroys Sl.O00,OOe worth Of property and
number of lives.
25 The steamboat Charmer burns near the
mouth of Red uyer. II Louisiana eight lives
lost.
2S. Fifteen miners killed by an explosion in
SaXony
Afghanistan
EEBKUARX.
1. Steamer Bengore, fr0m Penrath to Glib
raltar. founders, and thirteen Of her crew
drowned.
,. Terrible hurricane in the Philippine isl
ands
5 Ten Cinnamon cremated in a wash house
fire in San Francisco. Nine negroes burned TO
death in a cabin near Columbia, S. G.. The
II 100000 Court House at Dallas, Texas,
burned.
:. Two hundred Turkish solliers killed bv
the fall Of a barract az Constantnople.
Q. The Dublin Theater Royal burned eight
lives lost
loss, 5L00O0JO.
Is. 4 family Of nine persons drowned by the
Hood ntar Mayfield. Ky.
II. An unsuccessful attempt to kill the impe-
rial family of Russia by explosion Of a mine at
the Winter Palace fails; ten solqiers are
killed
10 Eight men killed by the explosion OF the
boiler Ct q Peoria (Ill.) dsullcry.
20 Twenty persons killed by the explosion Of
shells IN the Valparaiso (South America ar
scnal
23. Bark Strathnairn from London for Mel
bourne, sunk by collision and sixteen persons
drowned
%. A steamer between two East Indian ports
founders, sixty-hve lives being lost.
MARCH.
l. The St Gothard tunnel through the Alps
is cut through.
.. Twsnty-tlree persons killed by g boiler
explosion at Glasgow, Scotland
g. The Kansas Insane Asylum at Osawatemie
burns.
Z. Great fire in St Paul. Mimi.
s. Iwenty-four soldiers killed by the blowing
uu of the artillery barracks at Santiago, Chill.
o. Thirty villages swept away by Hood from
the river Nlstula on the Austro-Russian
frontier.
TO- By n fire in the great weaving works at
Moscow. Russia, twenty-four persons are
burned to death.
II. Boiler explosion in the faxseed-mils at
Frankfort. Ind, by which ten employees were
torn 20 pieces
"a Parliament prorogued by the Queen and
new elections ordered.
APRIL
/ By fre-damp explosion in q coal mine in
Belgium $50 miners are killed
2 Nine murderers are hung at various places
IN the United States.
g. Triumph Of the Liberals at the English
Parliamentary elections. MOhammed Jan
killed in Afghanistan, and his army scattered.
+ Thirty-ono dwellings, burned at village
Of Savoy. seventeen persons perlshiug.
s The Psruyians defeat the Chluans, with
loss Of 1900 killed.
9. Seven hundred men, women and children
blried alive at AIandalay, Burmah, as a sacrifice
TO restore the Kings health
T. BY the explosion OF stuI IN creosote
factory, near London, eleven persons lose their
lives.
Il. A schooner, with all hands, goes down
in Long Island sound, during severe gale.
Il Thirty mon torn to pieces by the eXplo-
sion Of giant powder, near San Francisco.
IS Marshield. No, almost wiped out by
cvclone about 100 lives and $500, 900 worth OF
property destroyed.
10 Seven men drowned of the north shore
OF Michigan by the swamping Of their sailboat
d The walls Of the Madison Square Garden,
in New York, give way, killing four persons
and wounding several.
%. Queen Victoria accepts the resignation of
the Beaconsieid Ministry. Nineteen fishermen
drowned of the Scotch coast
23 Gladstone is asked to form Cabinet
liie-sav1ng crew Of seven men, of the coast OF
Michigan lose their lives. son Of Mayor Kali
loch of san Francisco, kills Charles DE Young,
editor of the Chronicle.
25. Cyclone at Macon, Miss, kills seventeen
persons. Six people killed by storm IN ClrlS-
tan county, LII.
I. fireworks factory, near Paris, blows up.
killing number of workmen.
4 A fleet of fishing boats driven upon the
coast of Oregon and twenty-five OF the hsher-
men are drowned.
s. Fourteen persons killed at a FIRE in Lon
10 By an explosion of powder in the ST.
Gothard tunnel, in Switzerland, eighteen work
men are killed
"A. Milton, Pa, is wiped out by the flames
loss, 81. OOO-
Is. An explosion in a London England) iron
foundry kills twenty-five persons.
10 United States Senator Gordon, of Geor-
gia. resigns, and ex-Goy. Brown is appointed
Is. Col. Hatch attacks the redskins in New
Mexico. and kills fifty-five of them.
2s. Twenty persons perished in the floods
caused by excessive rain-storm IN Texas.
@. The town of Savoy, Texas, is wiped out
by cyclone about fifteen persons killed.
81. fight with the indians occurs in New
Mexico, in which about dozen white men are
killed.
s. Gen. Garfield nominated for President by
ball at
Chicago.
10. Twenty persons lose their lives by cy-
clone IN Pottawattamie county. Iowa.
H. j. b. Weaver nominated by the Green
hackers for the Presidency, at Chicago.
II: Collision on Long Island sound between
the Nsrragansett and Stonington, in which the
former takes fire and goes down, with fifty pas
sengers.
13. The boiler of the Spanish war ship Cuba
Espanola explodes, killing twenty persons and
wounding 113.
II. Neal Dow nominated for the Presidency
by the Prohibitionists at Cleveland, Ohio.
1S- Sixty-three persons lose their lives in
terrible storm and waterspout near Dresden,
Germany
"a. Gen. W. S. Hancock nominated by the
Democrats for President, at Cincinnati.
%: Fifty passengers lost by the burning Of
near New York city.
]. Four persons are killed by the explosion of
the boiler of the pleasure boat Mary on Lake
Mnnetonka
!. Seven persons drown by the overturning Of
yacht on White Bear lake, in Minnesota.
T. raft with forty persons upon it breaks
to pieces IN the Black sea, near Odessa, and all
are drowned
10: By an explosion in a coal mine at Risca,
in Wales, 119 miners all in the shaft-are
killed.
49, Cleonatra.s naadIa ,,rasanted N tba citv,
OF New York by the late Khedive Of Egypt, ar
rives at that city.
Il The Jersey City tunnel, in process of con-
structlon, caves In, burying twenty-one work
men.
p. Eighteen persons lose their lives through
the explosion of powder in the artillery works
| in kooisk, Southern Russia
- An excursion steamer runs over a Yacht
IN tne Detroit river, and seventeen persons are
AUGUST.