The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-05-23
TODAY IN HISTORY.
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 Name Day: Desiderius. Sun rises at 4:47; sets as 7:13.
 1720-The French Mississippi scheme, projected by John Law. dissolved.
 1609--A new charter to the London Company limits their territory to 200 miles north of Old Point Comfort. Smiths administration gives dissatisN faction to the Colonists. and he is de- posed and sent to England in the month of September. The company appointed Lord Delaware Governor.
 1610-The English wrecked on the Island of Bermudas, having built two small vessels and paid the seams with lime and tortoise oil, arrived in them at the settlement of Jamestown; they found the inhabitants reduced from 300 to sixty by famine. and seeing no other means of preserving them than by abandoning the country, they took them all on board, witE the intention of re- turning to England. At this juncture Lord Delaware arrived with three ships, 150 men and plenty of provisions. and settled the colony.
 1752-William Bradford, noted American printer, died, aged 94. He established the first printing office in Philadelphia, and also in New York. He was Government printer more than fifty years, and is said to have walked over greater part of the city of New York on the day he died.
 1774-A committee meeting in New York proposes a Congress of Deputies from the Colonies" and writes to Bos- ton asking the committee there to fix a time and place of meeting. Similar meetings are held in Philadelphia (26), Annapolis. Md, (26) and Baltimore. 17S3-James Otis, an American pa triot and statesman, killed by lightning. He was one of the most zealous pro- motors of the revolution.
 17S3-South Carolina adopted the Federal Constitution, recommending 6 amendments, being the eighth State in succession; votes 149 to TS.
 1S36-Edward Livingston, an eminent American jurist. died. He was a na- tive of New York, and after holding va- rious offices, removed to New Orleans, where on invasion of Louisiana by the British he offered his services to Gen eral Jackson, and acted as aide. He was afterwards Secretary of State at Washington and Minister. to France, in which offices he manifested distinguish ed ability.
 1S4S-Freedom of negroes proclaimed at St Pierre. Martinique: an insurrec- tion followed and several houses and thirty-two persons were burned.
 1S51-Charles l.. Brace, an American, is arrested and imprisoned in Hungary, on a charge of being member of the democratic committee, an agent Of Ut- hazy and Cretz and of travelling with revolutionary writings to spread rev. olutionary movements"
 Is5O-Grinnelrs ships of discovery sailed from New York in search of Sir John Franklin.
 is55-- The state cr ricee "nd Hinck ade of the island of Cuba withdrawn.
 1S62-Battle of Port Royal, Va.
 1s64-Sioux Indian warriors to the number of 5000 encamped on the upper Missouri River. Union troops under General sully were being mobiIized at Sioux City to give the redskins battle.
 1S74-A national civil rights bill pats ed in the United States Senate. 1Sss-The lst California Regiment embarked on the City of Picking for Manila. This composed the first d's- tachment of brigade to be coFnrnsna- ed by Gen. T. \. Anderson.