Democratic Sentinel, Volume 7, Number 49, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 January 1884 — CHRONOLOGY. [ARTICLE]

CHRONOLOGY.

A Record of the Notable Occurrences of 1883.jßrought Down to the Close of the Year. JANUARY.* * 1. Ferry-boat ginks near Frankfort. Germany: thirty-five people drowned. Several -white men killed by blacks in a riot at Oconee, Ga. 2. Ferry-boat in Jacksoa county, N. C., up■sets, drowning nineteen negro convicts. 3. Destructive floods along the riveraßhine and Danube; nearly JOO lives lost. Bark Star -of the West lost in the Atlantic ocean, fifteen people perishing. 4- Four men killed at Muskegon, Mich., and three at Black Horse Landing, W. Va., by boiler explosions. United States Senate passes the Civil Service Reform bill. 5. Discovery of a heavy- defalcation by .State Treasurer Polk, of Tennessee. 6. Remains of John Howard Payne shipped .from Tunis to the United States. 7. Steamer City of Brussels sinks in the English channel; ten persons drowned. 9. Ten men killed by a mine explosion at •Coulterville, 111. Flvevnen killed by a burst- • flng boiler at Bethlehem, Pa. Ship Empire .sinks at sea; sixteen lives lost. 10. Burning of the Newhall house, Milwaukee ; nearly 100 lives lost. Terrible floods In Hungary; over fifty people drowned. 13. Over 300 people burned to death in a ■circus building at Berditscheff, Russia. 14. Twenty people killed by a railway acci■dent at Camerlata, Italy. Four persons lost their lives by a fire in the Planters’ house, St. Louis. 15. Attempted assassination of the Sultan -of Turkey. 16. Prince Jerome Napoleon arrested in Paris for issuing a manifesto claiming the •throne. Five pe(sons burned to death in a London tenement nouse. 17. Eight people killed by a boiler explosion -on a steamer in Port Susan Bay, Pacific coast. Meeting of the National Republican committee at Washington. 18. lowa Supreme Court pronounces the State Liquor law unconstitutional. Four men killed by a boiler explosion at Mansfield, La. Phenomenally cold weather in the far West. 19. Steamer Cimbria sinks in the German ■ocean; nearly 400 people drowned. Forty people killed by a powder explosion at Mui--den, Holland. Robberies in Southwestern ■Nevada, involving the killing of five citizens .and two highwaymen,. 20. Six jnen drowned off a Gloucester fishing schooner. Twenty-five people killed by a railway accident near Los Angeles, Cal. In tensely cold weather throughout the Northwest, lasting five days. 21. Nine peopl® drowned by the sinking of ship Forwarts, off Lisbon, Portugal. Several persons killed by a boiler explosion at Elkton, Md. Thirty Chinamen blown to atoms by an -explosion of giant powder near San Francisco. 22. Several lives lost by the sinking of the -German bark Meta, off the Mexican coast. 23. The French cabinet resigns in a body. Twelve persons killed by a railroad smash-up' snear Keyser, W. Va. A mother in Milwaukee murders and carves in pieces her three little children. Eight persons drowned by tne sinking of the brig Mariposa in Long Island •sound. Political excitement in France; exEmpress Eugenie ordered to quit the republic. 24. News of the butchery of forty shipwrecked sailors by savages in New Guinea. ■< Davitt, Healy and Quinn found guilty at Dublin of using seditious language. 25. Burial at Milwaukee of the forty-three .unidentified victims of the Newhall house horror. 26 Four men accidentally drc wned q.t Shreveport, La.,’ and four killed at Reading, Pa., by the caving in of a mine. 27. Wreck of a steamer near Swansea, • Wales; nineteen lives lost. . 28. A caving mine at Bucksville, Pa., ' kills five laborers. A new cabinet formed in France. , 29. A family of nine persons in Laurens -county, S. C., eat a goose that had been bitten by a mad dog, and all qf them die of hydrophobia. Five negroes drowned while trying to cross Georgia river. A hurricane at Denver, Col., destroys $200,000 worth of property. The steamer Black Watch lost on the Welsh coast; twenty-six persons drowned. 30. Eight men killed by snow-slides in Colorado. Seven men killed by a fire-works explosion at Arnecameca, Mexico. 31. Four children burned to death at Dassel, Minn. Discovery of a defalcation of -$250,000 by the Alabama State Treasurer. Steamer Ansonia lost on the coast of Tripoli; twenty people drowned. FEBRUARY. ‘ 1. A panic in a woolen factory at Bombay results in the death of thirty people. • 2. The steamer Tacoma lost on the Oregon ■coast; twelve people drowned. The steamship James Gray founders on the English ■coast; twenty-four lives lost, 3. Disastrous floods throughout the Middle States. News of the lynching of ten men in Montana Territory; Failure off the Union Iron and Steel company at Chicago. 4. Thirty-two lives lost by the sinking of the steamer Kenmore Castle, in the Bay of Biscay. Capt. “Oklahoma” Payne and his followers arrested in the Indian Territory. 8. A steamer wrecked off Harwich, Eng., -and all on board, twenty-six in number, lost. 9. Seven men killed by a boiler explosion at Taylorville, 111. 10. Brig Zion lost in the Atlantic; ten people drowned. Five lives lost by the burning ■of the steamer GeA, on the Oregon coast. The authors of the Phoenix Park (Dublin) /murders brought to light. 12. Fourteen fishermen drowned at Yarmouth, Eng. 13-15. Floods cause great destruction of property along the Ohio river. 16. A mine flooded by a cave-in at Braidwood, 111., causing the drowning of eighty •colliers, Four children burned to death at Brackett, Tdxas. 17. Dr. Hugh Glenn, the largest farmer in the world, murdered in California. 19. A panic in a Catholic school in New York, results in the death of 19 children. 20. Fourteen sailors drowned by a collision on the Scotch coast. Dorman B. Eaton, John M. Gregory and L. D. Thoman appointed Civil Service Commissioners. 21. Jules Ferry organizes a new ministry .in France. U. S. steamer Ashuelot sunk off Hongkong and eleven of the crew drowned. Germany prohibits the importation of American pork. Perry H. Smith, a Chicago millionaire, adjudged insane. 24. The freight steamer Glamorgan lost in the Atlantic; eight persons drowned. 26. Three children burned to death at Montague, Mich.

MARCH., > ’ I. Jim Elliott, the ’prize-fighter, killed at Chicago by Jerry Dunn. The long Senatorial ■contest ended in Michigan by the election of Thos. W. Palmer. Marriage at Washington of Senator Tabor, of Colorado. 3. Steamer Yazoo sinks in the Lower Mississippi ;16 lives lost. ‘ „ 4. The Riddleberger law declared unconstitutional by the Virginia . Legislature. United States Treasurer Gilflllan resigns. 7. Train robbery near Fort Smith, Ark. Marriage of ex-Gov. William Sprague, .of Rhode Island. Imprisonment for, debt abolished in Novia Scotja. 7. Three persons cremated at Frederick, Md., by the burning of a house. 9. Seven men drowned opposite Jersey ■City by the sinking of a ferry-boat. 10. Eleven men cremated by the burning of «. boarding-house at Brownsville, Dakota. 11. The day set apart by Prof. Wiggins for hie great storm, which failed to materialize. 12. Patrick Egan, Treasurer of the Land League, arrives at New York. 13. The Missouri Legislature enacts a stringent high-license liquor law. 14. Judge David Davis married to Miss Burr, of North Carolina. 15. Startling explosion in London, attributed to Fenian agents. A. N. Wyman appointed United States Treasurer. 17. Excitement to England over the alleged assault on Lady Florence Dixie. 20. Tennessee enacts a law abolishing public executions. 21. Six lives lost by the sinklag of an oyster boat at Baltimore. 22. Mount Vesuvius in a state of eruption.

23. Six men killed in a fight between cattle | herders in Arizona. Indian outbreak in Ari- i zona. Several people slaughtered. The re- 1 mains of John Howard Payne, author of “Home, Sweet Home,” arrive at New York ; from Tunis, Africa, where he died in 1852. Six miners killed by a gas explosion at Lost Creek, Pa. 25. Recovery of the bodies of a large number of the victims of the mine disaster on Feb. 16, near Braidwood, 111. 28. The Massachusetts Legislature passes a law providing for biennial elections in that State. * 29. Count Von Szekhely, President of the Hungarian Court of Cassation, murdered. 30. News of fresh Indian massacres in Arizona. Several persons killed by a collision on the Cincinnati Southern railroad. 81. Twenty-three people drowned by a shipwreck at Holy head, England. APRIL. 1. Six persons killed by a boiler explosion on the steamer Polar Star, Mississippi river. 2. Fifty people killed by the explosion of a powder factory near Paris, France. Excitement in England over the discovery of dynamite plots. 4. Walter Q. Gresham, of Indiana, appointed Postmaster General. The President starts on a Southern tour for the benefit of his health. 5. Four persons burned to death at Hartwick, N. Y., and three at Elsbury, N. Y. News of a great fire at Iquique, Peru. News of a war of races on the line of the Panama Canal. Michael Davitt writes a letter denouncing the dynamite policy of the Ii sh; 6. The Coroner’s jury in the Braidwood mine disaster exonerates the mine owners from blame. 7. Disastrous floods in Austria and Poland. 8. A hotel burned at Greenville, Texas, and eight guests cremated. 11. Judge Gresham, the new Postmaster General, enters upon his duties. The bill for local self-government in Ireland defeated fa the British House of Commons. 12. Prohibition defeated in the Connecticut Legislature. Earthquake shocks in Southern Illinois. Wisconsin’.s first cotton factory, opened at Sheboygan Falls. 13. Six negro children poisoned to death at McDermott, Ark., and three burned to death in Grant county, Ark. Discovery of rich silver mines -in East Tennessee. The first iron sailing vessel ever built in America launched at Philadelphia. Charles Smith, of Delaware county, lewa, kills his wife and two children and commits suicide. Brady, one of the Phoenix Park murderers, sentenced to death at Dublin. 14. .First tornadoes of the season felt in Arkansas, lowa and Nebraska. 15. Burning of the Atlantic House and three guests at Albia, lowa. 16. Twontv-slx Nihilists sentenced at Odessa, Russia. Three children burned to death at Portsmouth, Texas. 17. Prohibition killed in the Delaware Legislature. The Scott liquor license law passed by the Ohio Legislature. 19. Eighteen Nihilists sentenced at St. Petersburg. 20. Four men drowned at Seattle, W. T., and four at Williamsport, Pa., by the upsetting of boats. Prohibition voted down by the Pennsylvania Legislature. Eight people killed by a falling wall at Sacramento, Cal. 21. Bloody fight between citizens and circus men at Dover. Del. Five persons drowned at New Bedford, Mass., and seven at San Francisco, by the upsetting of boats. 27. Michael Fagin sentenced to death at Dublin. Congressman Pifil Thompson kills Walter Davis at Harrodsburg, Ky. MAY. 1. Four men killed in a riot at Marshall, Tex. 2. Acquittal of Fitz Harris, the fifth man tried at Dublin for the murder of Lord Cavendish. 3. Four people run over and killed by a train at Gowan, Mich. Seven men killed by a mine accident at New Glasgow, Nova Scotia. Seventy Chinamen drowned by the wreckihg of the steamer Grappler bn the Pacific coast. 6. Moody and Sankey return from Europe. Battle between Mexican troops and Apache Indians, in Mexico. 7. Arthur Sullivan, author of ‘‘Pinafore,” made a Knight. 11. Suicide of Amasa Stone, the wealthiest man (n Cleveland, Ohio. • 13. Destructive tornado in Missouri. Bonanza Fair, the Nevada Senator, divorced from his wife. 14. Joe Brady, one of the Phoenix Park murderers, hanged at Dublin. 16. Fitz Harris, the cab-driver, convicted at Dublin. Meeting at Washington of the Society of the Army of the Potomac. Congressnian Philip Thompson acquitted at Harrodsburg, Ky. A series Of cyclones in Illinois and Wisconsin kills upward of seventy people and destroys much property. Daniel Curley, one of the Phoenix Park assassins, hanged at- Dublin. Steamer Granite State burned on the Connecticut river; five lives lost. 19. Carey, the informer, turned loose at Dublin. 20. Heavy gale on the Northern lakes; many vessels wrecked, with considerable loss of life. ’ 22. The Czar enters Moscow with great' pomp. , .. . ■ 23. The ceremony of blessing the Russian imperial flag performed at Moscow. 24. Opening of the great East River bridge.' JUNE. 2. Destructive cyclone at Greenville, Texas. Thomas Caffrey, the fourth of the Phoenix park conspirators, hanged in Dublin. Healy and Davitt released from imprisonment in Ireland. 6. Democratic- State convention of lowa. Republican State convention of Ohio. 7. Lynching bee at Waverly, lowa. 8. One hundred and fifty people killed by a powder explosion at Scutari, Albania. 9. Timothy Kelly hanged at Dublin for the murder of Lord Catendish. Suleiman Daoud executed at Alexandria. 10. Five men killed by a boiler explosionat College Point, L. I 11. Five persons drowned at Benjamin. Utah, by the capsizing of a boat. Violent storms in lowa and Wisconsin. Gen. Crook returns to Arizona from a successful Indian hunt in Mexico. 13. N. L. Dukes killed by young Nutt at Unointown, Pa. Greenback convention in Ohio. Arguments concluded in the starroute trial; the jury render a verdict of acquittal. 14. The dynamite conspirators, Gallagher and others, convicted and sentenced at London. 15. The high license liquor law passes the Dlinois Legislature. 16. Meeting of the Ohio Prohibition convention. Great excitement on the Chicago Board of Trade, caused by the failure of Peter McGeoch. 17. Destructive rain and wind storms in Illinois, Missouri, Kansas and Nebraska. Over 200 children killed ar Sunderland, England, by a panic and rush in a public hall. Fourteen people drowned by floods near Seneca, Kas. 21. Ohio Democratic convention. Destructive tornados in Missouri and Kansas. 22. Four train-robbers executed in Arkansas. Two men lynched in Tennessee.’ 23. Twenty-five lives lost by the sinking of the steamship Waitara, off Portland, England. 24. Great damage in the region of St.-Louis by an overflow of the Mississippi river. 26. The Ohio Supreme court decides the Scott Liquor law constitutional. The Cabinet at Washington decides to aid in preventing the landing of “assisted” emigrants at New York.

29. A family of five persons drowned near Madison, Ind., by the upsetting of a boat. News of the drowning by floods of Seventeen persons in Nemaha county, Neb. | JUDY. 1. Duel between two Richmond (Va.) editors, Beirne and Elam. Terrible ravages of the cholera at Damietta, Egypt. Six persons killed by a railroad accident at Roselas, Pa. 2. Opening of the celebration, at Santa Fe, New Mexico, of the 338 d anniversary of the settlement of the' town. Tornadoes in Wisconsin, Connecticut and Massachusetts. War waged on the trade dollar. 3. About 150 people drowned by an accident while launching a new steamer at Glasgow, Scotland. Six persons run down and killed by a train near Cincinnati. 7. Female suffrage rejected by the British House of Commons. Alarm in Europe over the spread of chplera in Egypt. 10. A British Parliament committee reports against building the channel tunnel. De Lesseps arranges with the English Government for a second Suez canal. Destructive storms in Minnesota, Wisconsin and Kansas* 11. Thirty people drowned at Londen,

Ontario, by a Budded overflow, in the night, of the river Thames. I 12. National convention of colored editors at St. Louis, Mo. Andrew White, a wealthy citizen of Dwight, HL, while insane, murders his wife and children and commits suicide. 13. Destructive tornadoes in Missouri, Kansas. lowa, Nebraska, Illinois and Indiana. ■ 14. Twenty people burned to death during a Are in a Hungarian village. Exciting and bloody hunt for the assassins of Postmaster Clingan, of Polk City, lowa. " 16. Disastrous storms in Wisconsin, lowa, Illinois and Indiana. 17. News of the sacking of the American consulate at Monterey, Mexico. 18. Accident to Chief Justice Waite, in Montana. Frost in some sections of lowa. 19. Inauguration of the great strike of telegraph operators throughout the country. 21. A cyclone kills a number of people and destroys much property in Dakota and Min23. Eight men killed by falling bricks while repairing a blast-furnace at Syracuse, N. Y. Disastrous tornado in Ingham county, Mich. 24. About eighty people drowned by the giving way of a steamboat pier near Baltimore, Md. Capt. the famous swimmer, drowned at Niagara Falls. Hardy, one of the Polk county (Iowa) assassins, executed by a mob. 25. Eight colored people drowned at Claremont, Va.. 26. Ex-Treasurer M. T. Polk sentenced to twenty years in the penitentiary at Nashville, Tenn. 28. Thirty-six persons killed by a mine explosion in Sicily. Over 5,000 people killed by an earthquake on the Italian island of Ischia. 29. Twenty-five people killed by a railway accident near. Albany, N. Y. Ten colored people drowned at Mayersville, Miss. The Spanish Minister to the United States commits suicide in New York. 30. President Arthur leaves Washington on an extended Western tour. James Carey, the Irish Informer, killed in South Africa. AUGUST. 1. Eight people killed by a railroad collision near PownalL Vt. 2. The New Hampshire Legislature elects Austin F. Pike, U. S. Senator, after balloting nearly two months. 3-5. Heavy failures ip the leather trade in the New England cities. 6. Serious revolt in Spain. Formidable anti-Jewish riots in Russia and Hungary. 8. Thirteen sailors drowned by the sinking of a bark off Dover, England. • 9. Four Irish dynamite conspirators sentenced for life at Liverpool. • 11. Burning of the Kimball house, the largest hotel in the South, at Atlanta. 12. Twelve men accidentally killed in a rail road tunnel in Montana. 13. Suicide of the wife of Senator Allison, of lowa. The Mayor and other officials indicted at Baltimore for malfeasance. 15. Twenty men killed by a mine accident at Cornwall, England. 17. Seven persons killed by a railway collision at Lexington, Ky. 18. End of the long strike of the telegraph operators. 21. A tornado kills upward of forty people and destroys a vast amount of property in and about Rochester, Minn. Opening of the Knights Templar triennial conclave at San Francisco. 22. News of a fearful massacre of Indians by Chilians in Peru. Completion of tracklaying on the Northern Pacific railroad. 26. Five men perish in a burning building at Boston. Eighteen sailors drowned by a collision in the English channel. . 27. News of the death of the Queen of Madagascar. 28. 29, 30. Volcanic eruptions in the island of Java cause frightful destruction of life and property; upward of 100,000 people killed.. i,, .. 31. The Czar of Russia visits the King of Denmark. The steamship Ludwig, from Antwerp for Montreal, with seventy people on board, given up rs lost. , SEPTEMBER. 2. Six persons killed by a boiler explosion atFrftnklin, Dakota.. 3. A single highwayman robs the passengers on a Utah railway train. A priest and six of his congregation killed by a thunderbolt in a church at Lagos, Mexico. Eleven working girls burned to death in a factory as Cincinnati. Over forty people killed by a railway train near Berlin, Germany. 4. King Alfonzo issues a proclamation restoring; the constitutional guarantees in Spain., ’• ’ '/ ■ 7. President Arthur returns to Washington after an extended trip to the far West. Acquittal of Frank James, the Missouri outlaw. 8. Formal opening of the Northern Pacific railroad. 9. Sale of the Horace Greeley farm at Chappaqua, N. Y. 11. Serious riots at Canton, China. 12. Oklahonja Payne again arrested in the Indian Territory. , ■ 18. News of the disaster to the Greeley Arctic search expedition. Twelve people drowned by the staking »f a Norwegian ship in the English Channel. Celebration in Germany of Martin Luther’s 400th birthday. 15. Prof,.Swift,.of Rochester, discovers the new comet. v 16. The seventy-third anniversary of Mexican independence celebrated in the City of Mexico, a < 17. Yellow fever epidemic, in Mexican cities. Bark Britannia lost hear Halifax, N. 8.; twelve people drowned. 18. King Koffee defeated iii Ashantee after a bloody battle, ■ . ' 19. Great weavers’ strike at Ashton, En gland. National, convention of postal railway clerks at St. Paul. Hurricane in Bahama islands; many vessels wrecked and sixty-fl ve people drowned. 20. Fifteen coal miners killed in Westphalia by fire-damp explosion. Statue of Zachary Taylor unveiled at Louisville, Ky. Seven persons killed by a boiler explosion at Pittsburgh. 21. Return to Sweden of NordenSkjold, the Arctic explorer. Lord Chief Justice Coleridge, of England, banqueted at Chicago. 22. France torn up.bver the Chinese question. 23. A boiler explosion at Shreveport, La., kills seven people. Extensive military preparations in Russia. 24. Return to England of the family of Carev, the Irish informer. Agitation by the Land Leaguers reopened in Ireland. Henry M. Stanley, the African explorer, heard from. 25. Destructive gale on Lakes Ontario and Erie. The Emperor of Germany, appoints King Alfonso, of Spain, Colonel of a German regiment, which causes much ill-feeling in France. Terrible railroad accident in Roumania. New York morning newspapers reduce their prices. 28. Heavy express robbery on a train at Laketon, Ind. 29. Attempted train robbery in Western Kansas. Snow-storm in Minnesota. 30. Forty Chinamen killed near San Francisco by the explosion of a powder-mill. The Spanish King hooted by a mob in Paris, which causes much excitement in Spain. OCTOBER. 1. Snow-storm in Maine, 2. Evangelists Moody and Sankey sail for Ireland. Burning of the Pittsburgh Exposition buildings. 4. A woman at Lampasas, Mexico, murders her five children and kills herself. The entire Ministry of Norway Impeached. 7. Nihilist proclamations issued in Russia sentencing the Czar to deatfi. 9. The pacing horse Johnson makes the fastest time at Chicago ever known, a mile in 2:10. News of the discovery in Alaska of an immense fiver. 10. Earthquake in California. Snow-storms In Nebraska and Colorado. 14. Seven persons drowned by the foundering of a schooner near Boston. War preparations in Prussia. Mysterious murder of Zora Burns, at Lincoln, 111. 15. The United States Supreme Court decides the Civil Rights law unconstitutionaL Forty women killed in a crush, in a Jewish synagogue in Russia, caused by a false alarm of fire. 16. Epidemic of trichinosis in Saxony. Disastrous storms on the English coast. 17. Over 200 lives destroyed by an earthquake in Asiatic Turkey. 18. Reappearance of the cholera in Egypt. 19. Twenty-five lives lost by a mine explosion in England. 20. News of the signing of a treaty of peace between Chili and Peru, x 21. Henry Irving, the English actor, arrives at New York. Snow-storm in Minnesota. Discovery of gold deposits at Lisbon, Dakota. 22. Heavy snow-storm in Colorado. 23. The Marquis of Lansdowne, new Gov-

ernor General of Canada, arrives at Quebec. Ten girls lose their lives by the explosion of a squib factory at Kingston, Pa. 25. News of the loss of five vessels on the New England coast, and the drowning of twenty-seven persons. 26. News of war preparations in Russia and Germany. 27. Intelligence of more earthquakes in Asia Minor. Chief Justice Coleridge sails for England. 30. Mysterious exp’osions in the underground railway tunnels in I-ondon, England. 31. Loss of the steamer Holyhead and fifteen lives in the Irish sea. Disastrous conflagration at Savannah, Ga. ;ten lives lost. NOVEMBER. 1. Capture of a large gang of counterfeiters n Pike county, Ind, Orange disturbances at Londonderry, Ireland. Conclusion of the Coroner’s inquest Into the Zora Burns murder mystery at IJncoln', 111. Snow-storm in New York. 3. Moody begins a six months' evangelizing engagement in London. Political riot at Danville, Va., in which seven negroes are killed. 6. Seven people killed and $200,000 worth of property destroyed by a cyclone at Springfield, Mo. 7. A colliery explosion in Lancashire, England, kills sixtv-three men. Adelina Patti arrives at New York. 8. Several persons killed by the falling of a portion of the roof of the Wisconsin Uapitol building at Madison. 11. Orrin A. Carpenter, arrested for the murder of Zora Burns at Lincoln, 111., discharged from custody. Celebration of Luther’s 400th birthday. 12-14. Disastrous gales on the chain of lakes, resulting in the wrecking ot over thirty craft and the drowning of upward of fifty people. •> 15. Destructive storm on the Chesapeake Bay; many lives lost. 17. Eight lives sacrificed in a railway accident at Streator, 111. 18. Lynching of Jacob Nelling at Oxford, Ind., for the murder of Ada Atkinson. 19. Loss of the bark Plormanden, with eleven of her crew, off Halifax, Nova Scotia, arid of the steamers Condor and Hymethus, In the English channel, forty people going down. A hurricane on the Newfoundland coast wrecks many vessels and causes great loss of life. 21. Ex-Senator Spender arrested in Nevada and taken to Washington. Disastrous rainstorms in Indiana, Illinois, and Missouri. A cyclone in Missouri and Arkansas kills several people. 22. Jacob D. Crouch, a millionaire farmer, and three other persons murdered near Jackson, Mich. Intelligence of the massacre of , Hicks Tasha’s Egyptian army, in the Soudan. Minister Lowell chosen rector of Bt. Andrew's academy, in Scotland. 24. Butchery of the Ruddy family of four persons at Laconia, N. H. Trftin-robbery near Deming, N. M. Sergt. 'Mason, the would-be slayer of Guiteau, pardoned by the President. 25. Sinking of the steamer Romo and drowning of twenty people in Lake Geneva, Switzerland. v - 26. Celebration in New York of the centennial anniversary of the evacuation of that city by the British. Loss of the steamer Eclipse, on Lake Ontario; eighteen people drowned. . 30. Bloody fight between burglars and officers at Shelby, Ohio. Mrs. Riall, of Baltimore, kills her two Children and 1 commits suicide. DECEMBER. 1. Patrick O’Donnell, the Jof Informer Carey, convicted and sentenced to death at London. 2. Eighteen people killed in a railway collision in France. 3. Meeting of Congress at Washington. 4. Loss of the steamer Princess Louise nnd nine of her crew, on the coast of Newfoundland. •_ • 5. Attempted train robbery’ near Memphis, Tenn. 6. Dynamite explosion in Toronto, Canada. Loss of ,a pilot boat and ten persons in NeW York harbor. 7. Earthquake shock 'in Arkansas. Four men lynched in Brown county, Neb. NoWs of the ibss of seventy sailors belonging to the Gloucester (Mass.) fishing fleet. 8. Four Mexicans lynched at Fort Davis, Tex 12. Meeting st Washington of the National Republican committee. .. 9. Steambatge Enterprise and eight per sons lost on Lake Huron. 11. An oyster sloop and ten men lost in Chesapeake bay, 12. Meeting of the State granges in Michi-, gan, Indiana, Wisconsin, and Pennsylvania. France decides to make war on China. 13. News of the murder of the King of Annum. Defeat of the False Prophet's forces at Suaklm, in the Soudan. 14. Bloody political riot in New Orleans. 17. Patrick O'Donnell, the slayer of the informer Carey, hanged in London. 10. Sarah Bernhardt creates a sensation in Paris by horsewhipping Mlle. Colombier. 20. News of assault and capture of Sontay, in Tonquin, by the French. 21. Bloody riot in the City of Mexico,caused by the introduction of the nickel coin. 23. A family of six persons drowned while trying to cross a stream in Logan county, Ark. 24. Lynching of three men at McDade, Tex., and of one at Petersburg, Ind. ' 25. Bloody affray between whites and negroes at Yazoo, Miss. The Greek and the Christian Ideals. The Greek could not conceive a spirit; he could do nothing without limbs; his god is a finite god, talking, pursuing and going journeys; if at any time he was touched with a true feeling of the unseen powers around him, it was in the field of poised battle, for there is something in the near coming of the shadow of death, something in the devoted fulfillment of mortal duty, that reveals the true God, though darkly; that pause on the field of Platiea was not one of vain superstition; the two white figures that blazed along the Delphic plain, when the earthquake and the fire led the charge from Olympus,, were more than sunbeams on the battle-dust; the sacred cloud, with its lance light and triumph singing,that went down to brood over the masts of Salamis, was more than morning mists among the olives; and yet what were the Greek’s thoughts of his god of battle? No spirit power was in the vision; it was a being of clay strength and human passion, foul, fierce, and changeful; of and vulnerable flesh. Gather what we may of great, from pagan chisel or pagan dream, and set it beside the orderer of Christian warfare, Michael the Archangel, not Milton’s with hostile brow and visage all inflamed,” not even Milton’s in kingly treading of the hills of Paradise, not Raffaele’s with the expanded wings and brandished spear, but Perugino’s, with his triple crest on traceless plume unshaken in heaven, his hand fallen on his crossleted sword, the truth girdle binding his undinted armor; God has put his power upon him, resistless radiance is on his limbs, no lines are there of earthly strength; no trace on the divine features ot earthly anger; trustful and thoughtful, fearless, but full of love, incapable except of the repose of eternal conquest, vessel and instrument of Omnipotence, filled a cloud with the victor light, the dust of principalities and powers beneath his feet, the murmur of hell against him heard by his spiritual ear like the winding of a shell on the far off sea shore. —Ruskin's “Modern Painters.” When a man begins to say, “now you know,” you can make up your mind that he is talking about something that he doesn’t know.— Williamsport Grit <■ -« J