The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1884-01-05

Three days later Judge David Davis resigned
the Presidency of the Senate and Senator
| Edmunds was elected his successor. On the
4th the Forty-seventh Congress expired by
| limitation James Gifillan, who for twelve
years had been Treasurer of the United States,
resigned that Office on March 8. On the same
day James S. Boynton was sworn in to sue
coed Alexander H. Stephens as Governor of
Georgia. On the 18th the treaty between
United States and Madagascar was ratified.
Judge Gresham, of Indiana, was appointed
Postmaster General on April 3. On the oath
of May the Brooklyn bridge was opened with
a grand celebration. The famous Star route
trials ended on June "a with a general &C.
auittal. The Tariff and the Civil Service Re-
form acts go into effect on July l. Senator
Barca, the Spanish Minister to Washington,
commits suicide in New York on July 20.
The President opened the Louisville EXPOSE
ton on the LIST of August. The Northern
Pacific railroad was completed on September
:. On September II the steamship Gantic
arrived at st. John, N. F., bringing the cap
tain, crew and scientific party of the Greedy
relief steamer Proteus, crushed in the ice at
the entrance of Smiths sound, July q. On
the LIST of October letter postage was re-
duced from three to two cents. October Is
was made memorable for the colored race by
the decision of the Supreme court declaring
void part of the Civil Rights bill, except as
applying to the Territories and the District of
Columbia. The beginning of the year was
marked blythe retirement of Gen. Sherman from
the command of the Army, and the succession
of Gen. Sheridan. On the 18th of November
the new time standard was generally adopted
throughout the United States. Sergt. Mason,
who attempted to assasinate Guiteau, was
pardoned by the President on the oath of
November Mr.. John Griffin Carlisle was
elected Speaker of the House of Representa-
tives on December 5. On the 9th Gen.
Grant received painful injuries by a fall in
New York.
Early in the year the Apache Indians gave
much trouble in the Southwest and in Mexico.
On the 28tlr of March Judge McComas and
his wife, of St. Louis, were killed by the hos
tiles near Lordsburg, N. NJ, and their little
son taken prisoner. On the 18th of May
fierce fight took place between Mexican troops
and the redskins near Hermosillo, Mexico,
whittier the Indians had retired after depre-
dations in the United States. This battle was
followed by terrible atrocities in the surround
ing country by the Apaches. On the LIST of
June Juh and his merciless band swooped
down from their retreat in the mountains upon
the hapless inhabitants of the Sonora foothills.
All who came in their path were slaughtered,
the dwellings burned and the haciendas de-
vastated.
Business depression and widespread labor
troubles have been prominent features of the
years history, both in England and America.
! The most notable strike in this country was
that of the telegraphers, who, to the number
of perhaps 1000, came out on the 18th of
July. On the 18th of August the strike col
lapsed, and the men sought situations at the
best terms they could make. About the
middle of April the coal miners in Southwest
ern Illinois went on strike. An attempt
being made to fill their places with new men,
bloody riots ensued and state troops had to be
called upon to restore order. On the LIST of
May 5000 coal miners in the Pittsburg dis
| trct went out. On July 18th 1000 cigar
makers left their work in New York. They
| gained their point, and went back in few
DAYS. Numberless other smaller strikes &C.
Cured in all trades. In England there were
| also many extensive lockouts and strikes On
| July IA 1000 weavers left work at Ashton
under-Tyne On the LIST of October $1,000
! ironworkers went out in all parts of England.
/ There were also extensive labor movements
in France and other European countries, all
more or less mixed with communism and an
archism. The year has also been marked by
a great number of very heavy business
! failures, both at home and abroad. Early in
| February the great rolling mills at Kansas
/ City collapsed, with liabilities of about $780,,
OO0 In April James Marshall 4 Co., iron
men, of Pittsburg, went under. On the Both
| of July the greatest leather house in the world,
that of Shaw & Bros, of Boston, closed bust
ness, with debts aggregating So 100000. A
few days later the National Bank of St. AL
bans, Vt, suspended. At this time there was
great depression in Wall street, and on the
14th species of panic occurred, in which
George William Ballou & Co., an old and re-
spected house, was swamped, with liabilities
Of 100000. Towards the latter part of Sep
TENDER the clothing trade was in a very bad
state, and in New York two great firms sus-
| pended, having debts that amounted to over
! two millions and half.
The flames have been more than usually
| destructive the past year. On January 9th a
fire at Cohoes, n. Y, did 1926, 900 damage;
on the 10th Tweddle hall, Albany, was de-
stroyed, causing loss of 100000. The
| ROYAL Opera House at Toronto was burned on
February s; loss $4,000. On April 9th a
portion of Westminster, Nd, was burned
two lives lost and $4,000 in property de-
/ stroyed; insurance 10000. Crisfeld, Nd,
was visited on April II by conhagration,
which did 100000 damage. On the 18th the
| old Parliament house at Quebec was con-
sumed. East st. Louis was badly damaged
on the 9th of May; on the 10th lightning de-
| stroyed an immense oil tank at Jersey City.
The lumber regions of New Hampshire were
! devastated later on in the month. The most
! extensive oil well in Louisiana, situated near
| New Orleans, was consumed. The Massa-
| chusetts state almshouse at Bridgewater was
/ swept out of existence on July I; on the 18th
/ the Howe Machine Works, at Bridgeport
/ Conn, loss $3.50, 900; on the 29th block
/ valued at $500, 600 at Minneapolis. Thirty
| buildings were burned in San Francisco on
August 4. st. Josephs Monastery in Balti-
more was burned on September6. The mag
nifcent Pttsburg exposition building was
| Tapped up by the flames on the Bird of Octo.
| Der, causing loss of million dollars. On
the 3lst of the same month Savannah was Wis
! tied by conhagration which cost several
! hundred lives and million dollars in pro-
perty. Twelve days later $50 families were
burned out of their homes at Shenandoah.
| Pa. On November IA Norfolk, Va, suffered
/ loss of 100000 by the destruction of a
freight depot. On the 18th the Windsor
theatre, New York, was burned, and on De-
/ cember IA the Standard theatre, in the same
city, shared the same fate.
The irrepressible conflict between the Irish
/ and their English oppressors has been waged
in various ways and with fluctuating fortune
! the past year. In March Lady Florence Dixie
| accused Parnell and Biggar Of misappropriat-
! ing the Land League funds. On the 18th OF
that month building occupied by Govern
ment officers at Westminster, England, was
blown up by dynamite, the result of a con
| spiracy which originated in New York, and
/ for which DR.. Gallagher, of Brooklyn, and
some other Irish Americans were condemned
to various terms of penal survitude. On the
| Odd, thirteen members of the Armagh ASSESS
ination association were convicted. On the
II of April, in Dublin, began the trials of the
Phoenix Park murderers, Joe Brady, Daniel
Curley, Michael Pagan, Patrick Delaney
and Thomas Gallery were convicted and
hanged. Tim Kelley, after three trials, was
also convicted and hanged on the 1lth ofJune
the trial of the six dynamite conspirators,
already alluded to, began in London. On the
10Th of July, James Carey, who was the lead
| ing informer for the Government in the Ph9-
nix Park murder trials, was shot dead by
Patrick O'Donnell, at Port Elizabeth, South
| Africa. For this crime 0'Donnel was hanged
in London on December II. On November
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