Grand Rapids morning telegram., 1885-01-01
A GLANCE AT THE PAST.
HISTORY OF A YEARS DolNos.
Record OF Notable Occurrences. In
Guiding Deaths of Prominent Men
CHASTITY Catalogue OF Crimes.

Another leaf In the book Of Time has been
turned. another whirl of the wheel of Fate
has been made, the old year is dead and a
new one born. The old year was one of
peace within our borders and with other ma
tions. Bountiful haryests blessed this land
with abundance, and although spectators
were not specially prospered, the year
1884 will be caiendared in the
Book of Ages, as one of plenty. The new
born year comes freighted with brighter
hopes and fonder antie.pations of greater
advancement and blessings, than has been
realized during the existence of any of Its
predecessors. But before the battle of life
is renewed it is well to pause and cast short
retrospective glance at some of the events
of men. Many sad disasters by fire, flood,
storm and earthquake, make up the mishaps
and misfortunes of the year. and the benefits
and blessings realized, it is fair to suppose
were proportionately greater. OF the long
chapter of the years events some of the
months named, as follows:
JANUARY.
The 3D., 4th and 9th days of the first month
were noted for the coldest weather ever ex-
perienced, especially In the Northwest.
Twenty-seven men were killed by railway
collision at Toronto, Canada. The Egyptian
Ministry resigned, because of the advice
given the Khedive by England In relation TO
the Soudan rebellion. The Spanish Minis
try resigned. Henry b. Payne and 4. X.
Wilson elected United States Senators
from Ohio and Maryland. James Mutt ac-
quilted of the murder of n. l.. Dukes, at
Uniontown, Pa w. b. Allison reelected
L. S. Senator from Iowa. Fred Douglass
married to a white woman Thirty-two
nuns and pupils in the Roman Catholic Con-
vent at Belleville, H., burned to death. Two
hundred Chinese LOST by the wreck of a
steamer. Railway train caught fire from
oil on the track. near Bradford, Pa, and
eight persons fatally burned. Steamer City
of Columbus, from Boston to Savannah,
wrecked IN Vineyard Sound 100 lives lost.
Judge Nelson Poe, cousin of the late Edgar
Allen Poe died, also the following: Mary,
seventeenth wife of the late Brigham Young.
Charles Delmonico, famous New York res
taurateur. Ex-COngr essman 5. Bridges, of
Allentown, Pa. Mrs. Valeria Stone, of NAL
den, Mass, who had distributed $1,5OO,0O0
in educational endowments. Vim. q. Weed,
a prominent lawyer and politician of Albany,
N. Y. In London, Earl Grosvenor. aged 81.
In Lexington, Va, ex-Gov. John Letcher,
aged IL. In Washington, ID. c., Hon. K. w.
Nj. Mackey, representative from South Caro-
lima, aged 80. In New York, DIR. Edward
Lasker, member of me German Parliament,
In his 55th year.
FEBRUARY.
Died: Thomas Kinsella, editor of the
Brooklyn Eagle and member of Congress.
Hans Larson Martensen, famous Danish
preacher and theolOgian. Mrs. Dix, widow
of the late Gen. John A. Dix. Thomas
Chenery, for seven years editor of the Lon
don Times. A cyclone sweeps over Georgia,
Mississippi and the CarOlinas, killing up
ward of 400 people. Floods in the Ohio
River. At Cincinnati the water was over
seventy feet deep.
The bill to restore Gen. Fitz-John Porter
to the army passed the National House. Mr..
Morrison introduced his tariff bill. British
Parliament meets. Mr.. Bradlaugh excluded
from the House of Commons. horrible
massacre in Tonquin: one priest, twenty
two catechists, and 5l5 Christians put to
death, and 10S mission houses destroyed.
j. G. S. Blackburn elected United
States Senator from Kentucky. Gen.
w. T.. Sherman placed ON the retired list.
England dispatches reinforcements to Egypt,
The mysterious murder of Mr.. and Mrs.
Wilson, an aged and wealthy couple, near
Chicago. The Lasker sympathy resolutions
by Bismarck to the German Minis
ter at Washington. negro family muir
dered near Cincinnati, and their bodies sold
to medical college. The Mcpherson bank
circulation bill passes the United States SEN
ate.
MARCH.
Died: At Washington, Hon. Kenneth
Raynor, Solicitor of the Treasury, aged
eighty three. In Santo Domingo. General
Baez, ex-President of that island. At Rock
ford, H., Colonel Norman Curtis. the oldest
Freemason in Illinois. At Boston, DR.. Ezra
Abbott, noted for his great Biblical and his
torical learning. Napoleon Joseph Perche.
of New Orleans. George W. Lane, President
of the New York Chamber of Commerce.
Wendell Bollman, famous bridge builder
of Baltimore. Md. DIR. l.. y. Yandell. of
Louisville. KY. who had national reputa-
ton "a physician and medical writer. !
Richard II. Home, English poet and essayist. |
Henry Brown, of Niagara Falls. formerly a
Key Turner, of California, daughter of the |
author of the ''Star Spangled Banner" In |
Omaha. Neb.. Right Rev. r. III. Clarkson. |
Bishop of Nebraska. aged s.. George CraQin. |
Of Utica, n. y. one of the founders of the /
Oneida Community in 1s4s
Oneshundred and tfty-fouT lives lost by an /
explosion in a colliery at Pocahontas. Va /
Thirteen people buried by snow avalanche |
in Utah. Fifteen people killed by a similar l
accident in Colorado. The Supreme Court !
of the United States affirmed the constitn- |
Fionality of the legal tender act of 1878. /
The British Government presented 10 the /
United States for the use of the Greeley re- /
lief expedition. the steamer Alert The des-
perado, Frank Rande. makes murderous /
assault upon the officers Of the Joliet Psni- /
Ientiary. bust Of the poet Loufeliow un-
relied in Westminster Abbey. London. New /
York eDscts p law prohibiting the max i
ng of contracts for the labor of /
,onvicts in the State fsrSzons
Frank Rande. the noted desperate. commits 1
suicide in the Joliet Prison. Completion of i
hs first railway line connecting the k1neri- i
an cltiee With the City Of Mexico. Zen i
Thompson and hing Fisher. two noted de-
eersslees. killed IN tbeafer At San Antonio. /
Ter The French defeat the Chinese in 4
Tonanin and capture Bar. Ninh. orrsn \ 4
CARPENTER acquitted ~ Feterslurn. III. for i
he nnr3es # Tofa Bnfne David J. Rrewvv 4
4 kansas, appointed jaaes of sls Eiesfh i
Federal gifnsit. 10 sncces~a Juage NcCfaFx