Sistersville daily oil review. [volume] (Sistersville, W. Va.) 1902-1905, 1903-08-28

IN important pdlI al taS o4osSAJ ~
our own country and of the world.
The name August was bestowed
on the eighth month of the calen-
dar by the Roman Senate, as a
compliment to Octavius Caesar,
who assumed the title Of Augustus
when declared Emperor. The
month then called Sextalis marked
the occupation of Egypt In 80 B. c.
and the deaths of Anthony and
Cleopatra by suicide. 1t also
marked the end of the civil wars
and the closing of the gates OF
Janus as a token of universal peace.
August 10 A. D. ID, the Emperor
Augustus died at Nola, the great
est of the noble patriclans who
ruled over Rome.
Leonides and 800 Spartans per
ished at Thermopylae on August I
$50 B. G. aud turned the tide of
Asiatlc barbarism from the gates
of Europe. Fifteen years later, on
August 5, Xerxes was slain and
the power of Persia broken by Ar
tabauus.
AUGUST IN PAPAL SUGGESTIONS.
The election of Joseph Sarto to
the papacy, as Plus x, on August
4th last, was only one of many
meetings of the college of cardinals
In the eighth month. Seventeen
of the successors of St. Peter have
been chosen In August, and 26 have
died In that month. From Plus II,
who was elected on the 10TH of the
month In 1853, to Alexander VI,
elected on the nth. In 1892 through
FIVE popes, the succession was each
time In August. One of the great
est events In history occurred Aug.
ust 3, 1892, when Columbus sailed
from Palos, Spain, on his first voy-
age to America, and his discoveries
were completed one August day In
1903. when the shores OF Trinidad
stretched before his eyes as his ship
moved through the waves of the
Caribbean sea. In August, 1897
the Cabots turned the PROV OF
their vessel homeward from the
shores of America on their first
voyage of discovery.
August 5th, 1883, Sir Humphrey
Gilbert sailed into the harbor Of St.
Johns and claimed Northumberland
for the crown of England.
Four years later, on Roanoke
Island, Virginia, was born the first
English child In the United States.
The first English settlement In
Maryland was established on Kent
Island 10 August, 1851, and a
trading post was set up near the
mouth of the Susquehanna.
WHEN THE PILGRIMS SAILED.
On August S, 1920, the Pilgrims,
In the Mayfower and Speedwell,
sailed from Southampton, on their
voyage to the new world, having
left Holland IL July. Twice they
put back into the harbor of Ply
mouth and abandoning the Speed
we'll, the Mayhower set out In
September alone for the new Ply.
mouth on the shores o. Massachu-
sets.
From August, 1922, dates the
patent of Georges and Mason for the
territory now called Maine. The
first settlement was In 1928 The
Massachusetts, charter was granted
at Cambridge, Eng, August 90.
1929, and John Winthrop and II
others formed the "New England
Company" The first church In
Boston received communion Au-
gust 2, and Thomas Higginson,
governor of Salem. died August E.
In the closi-g days OF August,
1909, Sir Henry Hudson was sail
Ing northward from the mouth of
the Chesapeake on the voyage In
which he discovered and named the
Hudson river on September 2 A
year later, ON the 10th of the month,
he entered the Hudson. bay. On
August 80, 1647, the treaty was
signed at Fort Amsterdam between
the dutch and Indians, which
brought cessation of hostilities for
40 years.
In the French war Forts Oswego
and George were captured by
Montcalm in August, 1856; Fort
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