The Daily times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1886-1889, 1888-01-01
M o.
ONE YEARS HISTORY.
Record Of the Most Important
Events Of 1887.
DEATH, THE GRIM REAPER.
Eminent People Who Have Passed
to the Majority,
A TWELVEMONTH'S STRIKES.
TWELvEMONTH'S STRIKES.
The Never Ending Contest Between
Employers and Employees.
The World of Politics Briefly M,rrorcd.
What European Nations Have Been DO
ing--Thc Cause Of irish I~iberty-T:ie
Eastern Question Casualties Of a
Twelve Month - Criminal Matters.
kporting-Pcrsonal-M miscellaneous.

The twelyemonth we all agree iB number
Ing 1887 was in some respects "A singular pc
riod. But, upon the whole, il averages well
with the years that went before it. In
ch~ronologically considering n given year one
almost insensibly turns first to its neurology,
for one may measure the importance Of a
year very accurately by taking note of the
important figures that have passed from the
worlds stage during its sway. And it was
indeed a goodly company that passed from
the visible to tho invisible during the
year 1897. Poets and statesmen, and
warriors and seamen, singers and actors,
md fnanciers and eminent people Of all de
grees. But the world goes on very well with
out them, as it will continue 30 go on long
after those who come after them have been
succeeded, in turn, by others.
Humanity made a good bit Of material
progress during 1887. To be sure, no won
derful new invention came INTO general util-
ity, and no one of the few great scientific
prizes that mother nature sometimes gives
to her persevering children was found
between its extreme days, but there
was q steady improvement of such mechan-
ical contrivances rs man had already made
himself master Of; many miles of new rail
road were constructed, many new industries
we're established and many old ones were ex-
tended. And while not all who contribute
to the nations wealth by the labor of the
hand and brain have profited by their work
as they should, there was a steady i'm
working classes during the year. The
unemployed and the destitute are to he found
mostly in the great cities Of the earth. and it
is there that most Of the riots of the year
lsual. Among the more important strikes of
the year was the 'lopgshorcme's strike, left
over from 1886 and concluded in February;
the printers strike in New York, st. Louis
and Chicago; the ~cigarinakers' strike and
the big coal strike ordered in the middle of
December.
A complete list OF the dark deeds com
mitted in 1887 would include everything in
the way of crime that the mind of dcbasel
'nan can c/ceive or carry into execution,
1u, only such crimes H. from their extraordi-
nary nature demand recognition in the record
of a years doings are here ST down.
Among the most notable events Of the year
was the hanging Of the Chicago Anarchists.
The casualties of Isl include fire and
storm and food, and that most awful mani
f~cstation Of natures power, the earthquake,
besides those accidents tAat are due solely To
the carclcssncss of man himself. The most
appalling disasters IF the year were the
earthquakes of the Italian Riviera and the
floods caused ia China by the yellow river
bursting ill., bounds.
Eighteen hundred and eighty-Scycn wit
messed 10 great WARS, and the fact that the
republic If France passed safely through a
crisis that was feared would WrecipitIte tur-
MOL and bioolshc1 should be a matter for
the encouragement al the hopeful student Of
humanity. Two powerful monarchS cello
hratcl importar; dates IN their lives with
great slcceSs-Nictoria. queen Of England,
completed the fftietli year of her reign II
the Emperor William of Germany passed his
Goth birthday.
The year closed with the ever present
eastern question menaclng the peace Of
Europe with rather deeper muttcrings
than usual, and il is quite within
the bounds Of possibility that the first
few months Of 1885 may bring storms of shot
and shell to busy towns and quiet valleys
that have not seen worse storms tlan rain
and wind and snow for years. In America
the years last days looked upon the busy
preparations of politicians and voters for the
coming presidential campaign, and lNSS viii
be a much hvcller political ~twelvemouth
than its Predecessor.
But the years record will speak for itself.