Waterbury evening Democrat., 1888-01-02
THE GENERAL RECORD.

Dates of Personal, Commercial and Mis-
 ceuaneoA Nature.
 JANUARY.
 6. The Standard, Henry Georges paper, ap- peared in New York, began O vigorous campaign on the land for the people theory and defended Father McGlynn.
 15. 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, Augusts brother act ing for him.
 C. Sunday law enforced in New Orleans
 7 Failure of Dennison Paper company at Ne chanics' Falls, N. Y. Liabilities, $45O,ooo.
 g. Western National bank, of New York, makes ex-secretary Manning it's president.
 MARCH,
 12. Schooner yachts Coronet and Dauntless be- gan race across the Atlantic finishing on the ton, Del, fail for $10OO0. 14. Failure of Smith Brothers New York Mo rocco company. for $375, ,o00
 24. Failure of Edminston-waddell company, Brooklyn, for saoo,Ooo.
 APRu.
 6. Statue of Gen. Albert Sydney Johnston dedi. cated at New Orleans.
 10. Sunday laws enforced in Washington, D. C.
 13 Columbia college, New York, 100 years old. Appropriate celebration was made of the event.
 14 The bodies of President Lincoln and wife were removed from secret grave to the monu- ment vault at Springfield, Ills
 %. John c. Calhoun's monument unveiled at Charleston, S. c.
 1. New York city authorities enforced the Sum day liquor laws.
 13. Auction sale of the French crown jewels.
 16. Treasure amounting to .S250, 900 900 discov- cred in an East Indian palace.
 21. Father McGlynn formally communicated by orders from Rome.
 IA. Nathan Hall statue unveiled at Hartford, Conn.
 14. Wheat panic in Chicago.
 IS. Charges of heresy sustained against Profes- sor Smythe, of Andover. The other professors were acquitted.
 1s. Veterans of Robert E. Lee camp of Virginia. visiting Grand Army men at Boston. left for home. 5. Failure of Hubbard & Palmer, bankers, Hart ford, Conn.,, for $60o,00o 25. American fishing schooner Annie W. Hodg- son seized by Canadians of Shelburne, and the Argona,it, seized of Souri's g. Henry S. Ives resigns the presidency of the Cincinnati, Hamilton and Dayton railroad. Il. Henry s. Ives & Co. assigned; liabilities, S15, 900, 900. 2s. Canadian sealers seized by United States authorities in the North Pacific. SEPTEMBER. g. International Medical congress met at Wash lngton, D. C.-Ameriean schooner seized fishing outside the three mile shore limit by Canadian authorities. 17. Celebration of centennial of adoption of United States constitution closed at Philadelphia. 23 Steamship Alesia reached New York from Italy with cholera on board. 9. The Grand Army of the Republic held it's grand encampment at St. Louis, closing on the 30th.-The Burgess centerboard yacht Volunteer defeated the Scotch cutter Thistle, holding the Americas cup. B. Beginning of International Military encamp. ment in Chicago, Ills. 5. Western Union Telegraph company sue ceeded in buying up the Baltimore and Ohio greatly to Robert Garrett's disgust ls Travelling of statue to Gen. Meade ct Fair. mount park, Philadelphia | % Lincoln statue unveiled in Chicago. 29 Lief Ericson statue unveiled in Boston. NOVEMBER. 16. Breckenridge statue unveiled in Louisville, Ky. h. Beginning of conference between British and American fish commission. Little or nothing accomplished. | DECEMBER. 1. Unveiling of Garfield statue in Cincinnati, O. 2. Evangelical Alliance conference in Washing ton, D. c. 13 Failure of De Castro & O., of New York commission merchants; $750, 900 assigned. ! 16 Differences with Courtlandt Palmer to So ciaIism induce Andrew Carnegie to resign from the Nineteenth Century club, New York. 1S Kilrain and Smith fight 106 rounds to ( draw in France for Richard K. Foxs diamond belt and the championship of the world.