The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1903-07-12

July II, 1782.-Etienne Marc Qua
tremere, distinguished French Orient
alist, born in Paris. His historical
and geographical memoirs are of In
calculable value.
July IL, 1S16.-James Plaisted Wilde
(Lord Penzance), English jurfst, born
in London
July ~, 1874 = Thomas Frederick
Crane, American folklorist and profess
sor in Cornell university, born In New
York.
July 1919 1S61.-Battle at Carrick's
Ford, in which Gen. Garnett, Confed-
crate, was killed, and the Union vic
tory practically ended the war in West
Virginia.
July Is. 1S55.-Clara Eaton Cum
nings, professor of botany, Wellesley
college, born in Plymouth, N. II.
July 10, 17S7-The congress of the
Confederation, in session in New York,
passed the famous ordinance for the
government of the territory northwest
of the Ohio. 1t contains an "unaltera-
BILE" article forbidding slavery or in
voluntary Servitude. The ordinance
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member from Massachusetts. 1.-THE
ordinance Of 1887" says George F.
Hoar, belongs with the Declaration
of Independence and the constitution.
1t is. one of the three title deeds of
American constitutional liberty" II
doubt" says Daniel Webster, ''wheth-
er one single law of any language, an
ctent or modern, has produced effects
of more distinct, marked and lasting
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existence only as the reusult of long
and varied contest. It created two
new American institutions, the terri
tory and the state, formed out of the
public domain.
July 13, 1866-In the summer of 1866
the steamship Great Eastern laid a
new cable between Valentia Bay, Ire
land, and the port of Hearts Content,
Newfoundland, thence connecting with
the United States. The Great Eastern
left Valentia on Friday, July 10, and
reached Hearts Content on Friday,
July u, 1866, instantaneous commune
cation beneath the ocean was estab-
lished between the Old World and the
New. This communication has never
since been interrupted. The first cable
was laid in 1858. by which messages
were sent for few weeks, and then it
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the promoter of both companies.
July 10, 1S32-Henry r. SchooIcraft
discovered the source of the Missis-
sippi river in North Central Mime
sofa.
July IA, 1S09-Count Camille Di
Cavour, statesman, born at Turin.
Italy.
July IA, 1S37-Amanda Minnie Doug
las, author, born in New York.
July IA. 1S37-A man was publicly
whipped in Providence. r. l., for horse
stealing This had long been a lawful
punishment in Rhode Island, but this
was the last time it was enforced, as
the law was soon afterwards repealed.
July Is. 1796-Thomas Bulfnch, au-
thor and business man, born In Bos-
ton, Mass. Among his best known
books are 'The Age of Fable" age
of Chivalry" /and Oregon and Eldora-
do"
July Is, 18OS-Henry Edward Man
ming, prelate born in Hertfordshire
England He entered the Anglican
church in 1884, but in 1851 joined the
Roman Catholic communion; was or
dained priest in 1857; archbishop of
Westminster in 1865, and cardinal in
1875. He was an active defender of
the doctrine of papal infallibility, and
his controversial writings are very
voluminous. He died in 1892.
July is, 1sSe-William Winter, au-
thor and dramatic critic, born in
Gloucester, Mass
July Is, 1774-A convention of dele