Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1888-01-06
THE GENERAL RECORD.
Dates of Personal, Commercial and Mis-.
celIaneous Nature.

Dates of Personal, Commercial and Mis-.
celianeous Nature.
JANUARY.
8. The Standard Henry Georges paper, APP
peared in New York, began vigorous campaign
on the land for the people theory and defended
Father McGlynn
Is. Father McGlynn deposed from St. Stephens
Roman Catholic church, in New York. and Rev.
Arthur Donnelly installed in his place.
FEBRUARY.
1. Nina Van Zandt married Anarchist August
Spies, of Chicago, by proxy, August's brother act.
ing for him.
8. Sunday law enforced in New orleans.
Z. Failure of Dennison Paper company at Me-
chanics' Falls, n. Y. Liabilities, $4,000.
9. Western National bank, of New York makes
ex-Secretary Manning its president.
MARCH.
10 Schooner yachts Coronet and Dauntess be-
gan race across the Atlantic, finishing on the
2ath, the Coronet winner.-Lord Polk Whining
ton, Del, fail for $4,000
a. Failure of Smith Brothers. New York Mo-
rocco company. for S315,000
"a Failure of Edmnston- Waddell company,
Brooklyn, for S200,0O0.
APRIL.
6. Statue of Gen. Albert Sydney Johnston dedi-
Gated at New Orleans.
TO- Sunday laws enforced in Washington, D. @.
u. Columbia college, New York, 100 years old.
Appropriate celebration was made of the event.
IA. The bodies of President Lincoln and wife
were removed from secret grave to the monu-
ment vault at Springfield, Ills.
%. John c. Calhouns monument unveiled at
Charleston, S. C.
/. New York city authorities enforced the Sun.
day liquor laws.
-. Auction sale of the French crown Jewels
IL. Treasure amounting to $3.50, 900 discov-
cred in an East Indian palace.
81. Father McGlynn formally accommodated
by orders from Rome.
IA. Nathan Hall statue unveiled at Hartford,
Conn.
II. Wheat panic in Chicago.
Is. Charges of heresy sustained against Profess
Smythe, of Andover. The other professors
were acquitted.
49, Veterans of Robert E. Lee camp of Virginia,
visiting Grand Army men at Boston. left for
home
s. Failure of Hubbard 6 Palmer, bankers, Hart
ford, Conn, for 100000.
25. American fishing schooner Annie W. Hodg-
son seized by Canadians off Sheburne and the
Argonaut, seized off Souri's.
AUGUST.
o. Henry S. Ives resigns the presidency of the
Cincinnati, Hamilton and Dayton railroad.
II. Henry S. Ives & Co. assigned; liabilities,
Sl5,0O0oO0.
%. Canadian sealers seized by United States
authorities in the North Pacific.
SEPTEMBER.
g. International Medical congress met at Wash.
ington, D. C.-American schooner seized fishing
outside tho three mile shore limit by Canadian
authorities.
II. Celebration of centennial of adoption Of
United States constitution closed at Philadelphia.
%. Steamship Alesia reached New York from
Italy with cholera on board.
q. The Grand Army of the Republic held its
grand encampment at st. Louis closing on the
3Oth.-The Burgess centerboard yacht Volunteer
defeated the Scotch cutter Thistle, holding the
Americas cup.
OCTOBER.
g. Beginning of International Military encamp-
ment in Chicago, Ills.
s. Western Union Telegraph company sue
ceeded in buying up the Baltimore and Ohio,
greatly TO Robert CARROTS disgust
Is. dwelling of statue to Gen. Meade at Fair
mount park, Philadelphia.
%. Lincoln statue unveiled in Chicago.
20. Lief Ericsson statue unveiled in Boston.
NOVEMBER.
l6. Breckenridge statue unveiled in Louisville,
Ky.
II. Beginning of conference between British
and American fish commission. Lit, lie or nothing
accomplished.
DECEMBER.
l. Unwilling of Garfield statue in Cincinnati, o.
l. Evangelical Alliance conference i'll Washing
ton, d. G.
10. Failure of De Castro & Co, of New York,
commission merchants; S750,000 assigned.
lG. Differences with Courtlandt Palmer as to So
cialism induce Andrew Carnegie to resign from
the Nineteenth Century club, New York.
Is. Kilrain and Smith fight 1906 rounds to
draw in France for Richard X. FoX's diamond
belt and the championship of the world