The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1889-06-04
MANY SENSATIONS.
Great Events of 100 Years G.
American Independence.
NOTED POLITICAL OCCURRENCES.
R1citAments in the Moral and Religious
World-Public Calamities, Panics ana
Disasters-CuriOus Phenomena.

While the average school UOy is LdI1IAltA
with the general history Of his country, there |
are a good many salient events connected |
with our countrys growth during the last |
hundred years that have been forgotten by |
even grown men. 1t is obviously impractical
BILE, however, in the limits of this article to |
do more than refer to them briefly and thus
present a birds eye view of those things that
have become memorable and are interesting
in view of the recent centennial celebration
of Washington's inauguration.
After the revolution the first serious trou-
bic which the government had to encounter
was an organized rebellion in 1876. While
the spirit of turbulence permeated the whole
Of New England, the center Of lawless vio-
lence was in the state Of Massachusetts,, where
Daniel Shays, placing himself at the head of
q strong insurgent force, attempted to pre-
vent the sitting of the courts and the eIecu-
ton of the laws.
The rallying cry was taxation and
tyranny" mass of war debt having accu-
mulated that had become oppressive espe-
ciaIly to those dependent on the New England
fisheries. The rebellion was suppressed by
the veteran Gen. Lincoln, who, at the head
of 1000 militia scattered the insurgents and
secured the imprisonment Of the principal
leaders.
THE COTTON GIN
1t is a significant fact that almost con-
temporaneous with the organization OF the
government Eli Whitney invented the cot
ton gin, which, in an industrial point Of view,
revolutionized the manufactures and COM
rnerce of the world. 1t was the first key
that unlocked the wonderful natural capa-
bilities Of the new born republic and made
cotton 'rking" This occurred in 1898.
In 1874, the country was excited by the
Whisky Insurrection in Pennsylvania, result
ing from excise duties imposed upon spirits
manufactured in the United States. Wash
ington himself declared that the Union was
in peril and he prepared to head an army of
fifteen thousand militia, but before they
moved the rebels were dispersed and the law
was enforced Thus, in the words of Wash
ington, was decided the contest whether q
small proportion of the United States shall
dictate to the whole Union
The corner stone of the Capitol having been
laid by Washington in lE93 the archives Of
the government were removed from Phila-
delphia in the summer of 1900, and the first
session of congress in its new quarters took
place In the ensuing November. Washington
City. including the Capitol, was burned by
the British in August, 1914.
In 1903 the young republic had a ructlon
with the Barbary States, growing out of the
tributes exacted by their piratical cruisers
upon American commerce. The punishment
was prompt, severe, and the submission COM
plete.
KILLING OF ALEXANDER HAMILTON.
1ue following year the country was plunged
inmourning by the killing of Alexander Ham
iIton in duel with Aaron Burr, then the
vice president of the United States. The
affair took place at Weehawken, New Jersey
opposite the city Of New York. Hamilton
widow survived him some fifty years. II
1906 Burr was tried for conspiracy IN at
tempting to establish a separate government
in the southwest. The prosecution failed
but Burr became an exile; returning to Thu
country, he found himself banished from
society and died in disgrace
Next in Importance to the invention OF th'
cotton gin was Fultons triumphant applica
ton Of steam to navigation in 1897, his frs
trip being made down the Hudson from Al
bany to New York. From this time steam
navigation became fixed fact end eItende'
with astonishing rapidity.
There are people yet alive who recall ca
lamitous earthquake in 1911. 1t began
New Madrid, on the Mississippi, and extend
ed over o region three hundred miles
length. The shocks continued from Decen
her until February, during which the groun
rose and sank in great fluctuations, lake
were formed, boats and houses were wrecke
and the entire surface Of the countr
changed.
Passing over the war of 1912 with its grea
achievements on land and sea, because the
are familiar to the general reader, the mex
memorable event was the visit of Lafayett
to America as the guest of the republic. III
took place in 1924, and from the time
landed on Staten Island, where the first
greet him was Joseph BOnapartc, the broth'
of the great Napoleon, until his departur
he received a national ovation. During b
tour he Travelled over 5000 miles and visite
every one Of the twenty four states Of Il
Union
DEATH OF ADAMS AND JEFFERSON.
In 1926 was celebrated the fftieth anuive
sary of the republic. The day, 4ch Of Jul
was one Of mingled JOY and profound n
tional sorrow, for while the people we're ]
ioicing amid the peals of artillery and strai
of music, John Adams and Thomas JefeTsc
two ex-presidents of the United States, pass
away.
Passing in quick review the famous debt
between Hayne and Daniel Webster in cc
gress, in 1880, now familiar TO every scho
boy; the rise and progress Of the Mormo
under Joseph Smith, beginning In 1880;
capture and execution OF Gibbs, the M
noted pirate of the century, in 1881, IN
who by his own confession had destroyed
score Of ships and murdered their crews;
notification outbreak in South Carolina
1852. that reused the wrath OF President ia
son and threatened TO sever the Union;
marvellous meteoric showers of 1898, wi
the most brilliant celestial phenomenon e.
Lebeld by man occurred, the whole irmam
being in fiery connection all over the Uni
States, and putting half a continent in /
sumed jeopardy; the attempted asSassi
ton of President jackson on the steps of
Cauitol in Washington in 1885 by Rich
Lawrence, an insane artist one may pa
for a moment to contemplate that mod
mechanical miracle, the evolution OF the e
trio telegraph.
TIE ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.
As an artist, S. +. B. Morse had exhibi
before the Royal Academy Of England
ture of colossal size, entitled The by
Hercules, - and attained no little distinct
While returning from Europe in lSS
casual conversation with a fellow passen
brought up tho question as TO the lengtl
time occupied by the electric fluid in pas
through q given length Of wire. The thou
on which Morse subsequently worked was
DEVELOPED, and three years afterwards
was abIs to exhibit working model of
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