The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1900-12-01

@uIGNNlMM G iar VO of electoral
GIN R0DfRI LIE Votes divided as
Born Jan. 10. ! o.-pisd follows:. B. Gratz
Hendricks. ~; Charles. j. Jenkins, :;
DAVID Davis, / GOm Sas a.J gGpHstar vote
Nov. 2-Horace Greeley died at peasant
ps xrie Edwin Forrest, a tragedian. died
at Philadelphia. aged %.
~, z-orrade dollar" ordered and silver
fe eeemonetized by act of congress. -
Feb %Oa Ames. OF Mass, and James
Brooks, Of N. X. censuread d ~ congress-
May i~One-cent postal cards first issued,
NAV 7-Chief Justice Salmon P. Chase died
ss at Ne %~1P rarf on New York stock ex:
change; exchange closed; reopened
Ss Sep'ij s%@wtliam H. Tweed. convicted in
penitentiary.
March presidents salary, nxed at ~. 900:
March S-Ex-President Mfllard Fillmore
Observation-Disclosures infest Western
and Northwestern states. p.o,hsr o.-
quilted of charges preferred gainse mn
by Theodore Triton by a committee OF his
Oct. i6-Lincoln monument at Springfield
Nov. ls~National Woman Christian Tenn
perance union pTBdni1eu ~
1875.
May 1-whisky frauds exposed. Loss TO
government in revenue stamps, $l,ooo.vW;
July-Alexander Graham Bell constructed
July sl~Ex-PresIdent Johnson died near
Jonesborough, Tenn, aged 81.
Nov. 22-yice. President Henry wilson
died at Washington. aged Is.
1915.
May 1o-Centennial exposition opened at
PHILADELPHIA BY Pres. Grant and Don
Pedro ii. of Brazil. -.
June 25-Gen. George a.. custer anu $40
men massacred by Indians under SIT
ting Bull near Little Big Horn RIVER
Aug. Nv; W. Belknap. secretary of war.
Nov. 7-Twenty-thi presidential cleo,
ton. Hayes received IS T, eieG'o lsa e ana
toral and 4.2S4. 265 popular votes.
1877.
Jan. l7-Joint congressional committee
agreed upon a plan for counting cleo
toral vote. Electoral commission APP
pointed by this commission awarded 3
disputed votes from Florida to republic
ans Feb. o: vote of Louisiana to repub-
licans Feb. 1e; vote of Oregon 10 repup-
iicans Feb. q. vote of South Carolina
to republicans Feb. "a.
July 16-General railroad strike began IN
Pennsylvania against reduction OF
wages. 1t lasted three months. spread
throughout the eastern and central
states. and resulted disastrously for
Aug. ii~Sateliites Of Mars discovered by
Prof. Hall. of Washington.
Aug. 29-Brigham Young died In Salt Lake
City, aged u. ,s-s
Feb. 2s-Bland silver bill passed over the
presidents veto.
June 12-william, Cullen Bryant dice In
New York, aged "a.
July ~iO-i5-Yeilow fever epidemic began at
New Orleans.
first time since Jan. 10. 1867.
1S7O.
Jan. 1-specie payment resumed by tho
government.
Feb. 15-Act permitting women to prac-
tice before the supreme court passed.
July S-Yacht jeanette sailed from san
Francisco on voyage of arctic explora-
ton. -
Nav 31-League OF American Wheelmen
organized at Newport;
/ June Tenth census taken. Population.
O,155,7 S3.
Nov. 2-Twenty-fourth presidential cleo
ton. Garfield received ga electoral and
4.45t. t2i popular votes; Hancock loo cleo
! toral and 4,4f7.S SS popular votes.
! 1881.
June 24-Secretary of State Blaine notified
1 American ministers at European courts
that any attempt to guarantee ra neutrality
= called-for interference.
July 2-President Garfield shot by Gui-
s teau in. Baltimore and Potomac depot
Sept. 1s~President Garfield died at Ell.
boron. N. j., at 1926 p. m.
: 1852.
i March 24-Henry w. Longfellow died a
Cambridge, Mass. aged Is.
March 25-Edmunds law excluding big
: artists and polygamists from holding
G April 27-Ralph Waldo Emerson died g
Concord. Mass, aged 70.
May ls-Lieut. Lockwood and sergt
Brainard, of Greeley expedition
reached SO degrees % minutes 5 seconds
1888.
May 2i--New York and Brooklyn bridg'
opened.
June l4-vcrdict returned OF not guilt,
l.. in Star-Route case.
July 19-Strike of telegraph operators be
{. gan at Pittsburgh, Pa, and sprea,
throughout the country. 1t involve,
1000 men who asked for is per cent. in
crease of wages. Lasted 30 days and wa
% successful.
Sept. 9-Northern Pacific railroad finished
;" 1854.
4. May 6-7-Firm of Grant & Ward an,
Marine bank failed in New York.
n May 14-Financial crisis occurred In Ne,
York.
n. Nov. 4Twenty-ffth presidential election
a. Cleveland received 2l9 electoral and 4,
ID BLOT popular votes; Blaine 1S4 ~electora
and 4,S4s. 334 popular votes.
J. 1883.
=. Feb. 2l-Washington monument dedicated
Us First f~oundatio
;. stone was lai
kET& .SSS AZ Feb. 2S-Contract 10
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