Democratic Sentinel, Volume 8, Number 49, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 January 1885 — THE YEAR’S RECORD. [ARTICLE]

THE YEAR’S RECORD.

A Brief Abstract and Chronicle of the Busy World’s Doings for 1884. A Retrospective Glance Into Every Quarter of the Habitable Globe. lieview of the Important Political and Other Occurrences of the Tear. CHRONOLOGY OF 1884. JANUARY. The 3d, 4th, and sth days of the first month of the year were noud for the coldest weather ever experienced In the Northwest. The frigid wave extenued itself over nearly the entire North American Continent. The more notable events of the month are as herewith recorded: The Egyptian Ministry resigned, because of the advice given the Khedive by England in relation to the Soudan rebellion. The Spanish Ministry resigned, and a new Cabinet was formed. Henry B. Payne and E. K. Wilson elected United States Senators from Ohio and Maryland. A statue of the late Gov. O. P. Morton unveiled at Indianapolis. James Nutt acquitted of the murder of N. L. Dukes, at Union town, Pa. William B. Allison re-elected U. S. Senator from lowa. Fred Douglass married to a white woman at Washington. Orrin A. Carpenter indicted for the murder of Zora Burns, at Lincoln, 111. Vignaux defeats Schaefer for the billiard championship of the world, at Paris. The National House of Representatives voted to abolish the iron-clad oath. The Sherman resolution of inquiry into the Danville massacre and Copiah murder passed by the Senate.

FEBRUARY. The bill to restore Gen. Fitz-John Porter to the army passed the National House. Mr. Morrison introduces his new tariff bill in the House. British Parliament meets. Mr. Bradlaugh excluded from the House of Commons. The Egyptian forces in the Soudan meet w ith serious reverses. A horrible massacre took place in Tonquin; one priest, twenty-two catechists, and 215 Christians were put to death, and 108 mission houses were destroyed. The Texas Legislature met in extra session. J. C. S. Blackburn elected United States Senator from Kentucky. Gen. W. T. Sherman placed on the retired list of the army. England dispatches re-enforce-ments to Egypt. Bloody affray between rival factions of gamblers at Hot Springs, Ark. The mysterious murder of Mr. and Mrs. Willson, an aged and wealthy couple, near Chicago. The Lasker sympathy resolutions returned by Bismarck to the German Minister at Washington. A negro family murdered near Cincinnati, and their bodies sold to a medical college. The McPherson bank circulation bill passes the United States Senate. The people of Hot Springs, Ark., banish about thirty undesirable citizens.

MARCH. The Egyptian rebels defeated by Gen. Graham's rear. The Supreme Court of the • United States affirmed the constitutionality Of the legal tender act of 1878. The British Government presented to the United States, for the use of the Greely relief expedition, the steamer Alert. Treaty of pea<» between Chili and Peru ratified. The desperado, Frank Ran de, makes a murderous assault upon the officers of the Joliet Penitentiary. A bust of the poet Longfellow unveiled in London. New York enacts a law prohibiting the making of contracts for the labor of convicts in the State prisons. lowa enacts a law prohibiting the manufacture or sale of liquors in the State. A man named Glasscock, in Fauquier County, Va.. murders his wife and three children, and commits suicide. The Governor of California calls an extra session of the State Legislature. Excitement over the outbreak among Kansas cattle herds of a malady resembling the foot and mouth disease. Frank Rande the noted desperado, commits suicide in the Joliet Prison. Completion of the first railway line connecting the American cities with the City of Mexico. Matthew Arnold sails for England. Excitement in the West growing out of gold discoveries in the, ■Coeur d’Alene regions. Ben Thompson and* King Fisher, two noted desperadoes, killed in a theater at San Antonio, Tex. Gov. Glick calls an extra session of the Kansas Legislature. The French defeat the Chinese in Tonquin and capture Bac-Ninh. Orrin A. Carpenter acquitted at Petersburg, 111., for the murder of Zora Burns. David J. Brewer, cf Kansas, appointed Judge of the Eighth Federal Circuit, to succeed Judge McCrary. Sections of Kentucky, Ohio, and South Carolina devastated by cyclones. Sevei e earthquake shocks at San Francisco. Minister Sargent ordered from Berlin to St. Petersburg, but declines the latter mission. Bloody riots in the city of Cincinnati, in which nearly fifty people are killed.

APRIL. The British troops withdrawn from Egypt. The Ohio Legislature enacts a liquor law providing for graded saloon licenses. The British Cabinet formally decided against establishing a protectorate over Egypt. John Jay Knox resigns the Comptrollership of the Treasury. The Queen of Tahiti makes a tour across the continent. Spanish troops in Ouba attack a band of forty-two insurgents and kill thirty of them. Pope Leo issues an •encyclical letter denouncing secret societies, and attributing all the troubles of Italy to Masonry. Severe earthquake shocks in England Frank James, the nandit, acquitted by the United States jury at Huntsville, Ala. The New York Assembly, by a vote of •60 to 63, defeated a constitutional amendment to prohibit the manufacture or sale of liquor. Forest fires in the Catskill Mountain region of New York and the Blue Mountains •of Pennsylvania wrought vast damage. MAY. Congress votes an appropriation of 81,000,•000 for the New Orleans Exposition, places Gen. Grant on the retired list, and kills the Morrison tariff bill An attempt in tne British House of Commons to censure the Gladstone ministry for not taking measures to rescue Gen. Gordon failed by a vote of 375 to 303. Two thousand men, women, and children, many of them refugees from Khar<toom, massacred by Arabs in Shendy. The failure of the Grants produces a great sensation in the financial world. Rev. Dr. Worthington, ■of Detroit, elected Bishop of Nebraska. A statue of Martin Luther unveiled at Washington. National congress of Wool-growers .at Chicago. The British House of Commons rejected the bill for a tunnel under the English Channel to France by a vote of 222 to 84. The Methodist General Conterence, in session at Philadelphia, elected as Bishops Bev. W. X. Ninde, J. M. Walden, and W. F. Maflahen. The Greeley relief expedition sails on its errand of mercy. The American * Forestry Congress met at Washington. Four men attempted to rob a bank at Medicine Lodge, Kan., and when the officials refused to deliver up the funds, shot the Cashier, George Geppert, dead, and fatally wounded the President, E. W. Payne; the robbers were ■caught and lynched. James R. Keene, one ■of the boldest speculators on the New York Stock Exchange, failed. Charley Ford, who, with his brother, killed the bandit Jesse James, committed suicide by shooting hlmeelf through the heart. The National Greenback Convention met at Indianapolis on the .29th. and nominated for President Gen. B. JUNE. Congress passed bills reducing the postage on newspapers and prohibiting Chinese subjects from importing opium into the United States. A treaty of peace between France and Annam signed. The Republican National Convention was held at Chicago, opening on the 3d. John B. Henderson, of Missouri, was chosen Permanent Chairman On the 6th, James G. Blaine, of Maine, was nominated for President on the fourth ballot, and John A. Logan, of Illinois, for Vice President, without opposition. The ballots

for President were as follows: 1. Whole number of votes cast, 818; necessary to a choice, 410; for James G. Blaine, of Maine, 334 S; for Chester A. Arthur, of New York. 278: for George F. Edmunds, of Vermont, 93; for John A. Logan, of Illinois, 63)4; for Johff Sherman, of' Ohio, 30; for Joseph R. Hawley, of Connecticut, 13: for Robert T. Lincoln, of Illlno.s, 4; for William T. Sherman, of Missouri, 2. 2. Whole number of votes cast, 818; necessary to a choice, 410; Blaine, 349; Arthur, 278. Edmunds, 85; Logan, 61; Sherman, 28; Hawley, 13;Lincoln, 4; William T. Sherman, 2. 3. Who e number of votes cast, 819; necessary to a choice, 410; Blaine, 375; Arthur, 274; Edmunds, 69; Logan, 53; Sherman, 25; Hawley, 13; Lincoln, 8; William T. Sherman, 2. 4. Whole number of votes cast, 813; necessary to a choice, 407; Blaine, 541; Arthur, 207; Edmunds, 41; Logan. 7; Hawley, 15; Lincoln, 2. The nomination was then made unanimous. An attack on French troops by Chinese troops at Lang-son, in violation of the treaty, provoked a demand from France for a heavy war indemnity. The cholera made its appearance in France, ipany deaths ocenring at Toulon and Marseilles. The Pan-Presbyterian Council was held at Belfast, Ireland. General Iglesias resigned constitutional the act of the Legislature making it felony to keep a gambling house. Emperor William laid the foundation of the new German Parliament buildings at Berlin. Samuel J. Tilden wrote a letter (June 11) formally declining a nomination for the Presidency. Ex-Senator 8. C. Pomeroy, of Kansas, nominated for President of the United States by the American (Anti-Secret Society) party. Heavy rains in California damaged the wheat crop 25 per cent. Capt. Andrews, 93 years of age, completed his walk from South Carolina to Massachusetts, arriving in Boston in good condition.

JULY. The Democratic National Convention was held at Chicago, opening on the Bth. W. F. Vilas, of Wisconsin, was chosen Permanent Chairman. On the 11th, Grover Cleveland, of New York, was nominated for President on the second ballot, and Thomas A. Hendricks, of Indiana, for Vice President, without opposition. The ballots for President were as follows: First—Whole number of votes cast, 820; necessary to a choice, 547; for Grover Cleveland, of New York, 392; for Thomas F. Bayard, of Delaware. 168; for Allan G. Thurman, of Ohio, 88; for Samuel J. Randall, of Pennsylvania, 78; for Joseph E. McDonald, of Indiana, 56; for John G. Carlisle, of Kentucky, 27; for Roswell P. Flower, of New York, 4; for George Hoadly, of Ohio, 3; for Samuel J. Ti.den, of New York, 1; for Thomas A. Hendricks, of Indiana, 1. Second—Whole number of votes cast, 820; necessary to a choice, 547; Cleveland, 684; Bayard, 8154; Thurman, 4; Randal, 4; McDonald, 1; Hendricks, 4554. The nomination was then made unanimous. The National Prohibition Convention met in Pittsburgh on the 28d, and nominated for. President, ex-Governor St. John, of Kansas, and for Vice-President William Daniel, of Maryland. Congress adjourned on the 7th of month. The President vetoed the Fitz-John Porter bill. It was passed over his veto by the House, but the Senate sustained the veto. The President nominated John A Kasson to be Minister to Germany, Alphonso Taft to be Minister to Russia, John M. Francis to be Minister to Austria, Lewis Richmond to be Minister Resident to Portugal; Ward McAllister, Jr., to be United States Judge of Alaska; and John Jarrett to be Comissioner of Labor. The Bartholdi statue was formally presented to the United States, Ministei Morton receiving it in Paris. News of the rescue of Lieutenant A. W. Greely, the arctic explorer, and a number of his party by the relief expedition under command of Capt. Schley Cholera raged at Toulon and other cities in France, many persons falling victims to the epidemic. Serious anti-Jewish riots in Algiers. Gen. Porflrio Diaz elected President of Mexico without opposition. France demanded an indemnity of 25,0,000,000 francs from China for the Langson affair. Premier Ferry ordered Admiral Courbet to seize the Chinese arsenal at the Presidency of Peru, and ordered a general election. General Diaz was elected President of Mexico. The Supreme Court of Tennessee declared Foucheon and hold it as security until the indemnity was paid. The Greely relief expedition returns from the arctic regions with Lieut. Greely and six of his surviving fellow-explorers. Seventeen others of the expedition perished from starvation, and one was lost while bunting seals. The corpses of twelve of the party were brought back, the remains of the other five having been swept out to sea by the winds. Greely and his surviving associates would have perished in foity eight hours but for the relief expedition. They won the honor of reaching the farthest known point to the northward. China makes preparations for war with France. Twenty horse-thieves hanged by cowboys in Montana. Eon Rafael Zalvidary Lazo, President of the Republic of San Salvador, arrived at New York. Mr. D. L. Moody, the American evangelist, arrived in New York from London. Dr. Barnard, of Nashville, discovers a new comet. Near Chesterton, Md„ 2,000 men engaged in a riot at a negro camp-meeting, in which one person was killed, ten fatally injured, and a number of others seriously cut. The President removes Gen. James Longstreet from the Marshalship of Georgia. The National Prohibition Convention, after a two days’ session at Pittsburgh (June 23-24), nominated John P. St. John, of Kansas, for President, and William Daniel, of Maryland, for Vice President. The Virginia Court of Appeals declared unconstitutional the act of the Legislature prohibiting school superintendents from taking part in uolitics.

AUGUST. The corner-stone of the pedestal for Bartholdi’s statue of Liberty was laid on Bedloe’s Island, New York Harbor. An earthquake occurred in thirteen of the United States. The shock was felt from Richmond, Virginia, to Portland, Maine, and from the Atlantic coast to Ohio. Both houses of the Parliament of Holland met in joint congress and passed, by a vote of 97 to 3, a bill naming Queen Emma regent during the minority of the Princess Wilhelmina. The British House of Commons passed the Irish Constabulary bill, and voted a credit of £390,000 for an expedition to relieve General Gordon. Henry M. Stanley, the African explorer, returned to England, having completed the work of establishing satisfactory trading stations along the Congo River from its mouth to Stanley Pool, 1,400 miles by river. State elections in Kentucky and Arkansas result in favor of the Democracy. China refuses to accede to the demands of France. Queen Victoria commissioned Earl Northbrook to proceed to Egypt and report on the condition of affairs in that unfortunate country. Utah county elections result in the success of the Mormon tickets all over the Territory. Capt. Payne and his band of invaders expelled from the Indian Territory by United States soldiers. Severe earthquake shocks along the East Atlantic coast. Cowboys in Montana make another raid on the horse-thieves with whom that country is infested, and lyneh twenty-eight of them. Admiral Lespes, with five vessels of the French squadron, bomjiarded and captured the town of Keluag, on of cannibalism in connection with the Greely ,expedition cauSb a sensation in the country. Hanlan, the oarsman, defeated in Australia by Beach, for time in years. Robert Bonner pays W,. H. Vanderbilt 840,000 and becomes the owner of Maud S. Excitement among stockmen in the West over the outbreak of pie unopneumonia at several points. The United States steamship Tallapoosa, with 140 officers and men on board, sunk off Martha’s Vineyard, by co lision with the schoonef James S. Lowell. The lives of all but four persons were saved; The French fleet bombarded the Chinese port of Foo Chow, and the Chinese fleet at the place was captured. China formally declared war on France on the 25th of August. Antl-Jewlah riots re ported in Western Russia. SEPTEMBER. * The Czar pardons a large number of Nihilists. Conference of the German, Russian, and Austrian Emperors in Poland. The Republican- Presidential candidate brings suit for libel against the Indianapolis Sentinel. The cholera causes great destruction of life in the Italian cities. Capt. Ellsworth nominated for President by the American Political Alliance. Severe earthquake shocks were felt in Michigan, Ohio, and Indiana on the 19th of the month. EX-Senator James W. Nesmith, of Oregon, placed in an insane asylum. Judge Gresham of Indiana appointed • • •

Secretary of the Treasury. From the outbreak of the cholera in Italy to Sept, 30, 13,320 persons were attacked and 0,580 died. An election in Arkansas for Governor and other State officers resulted in the success of the Democratic ticket by more than 40,000 majority. The Vermont election resulted favorably to the Republicans by 20,000 majority. A German gunboat, in the name of the German Empire, takes possession of the west coast of Africa, between the 11th and 36th degrees south latitude, except Walrisch Bay.

OCTOBER. Elections were held in Ohio. West Virginia, and Georgia, the Republicans carrying Ohio, and the Democrats the othqr two State*. Gen. Wm. A. Throop, a prominent dltizen of Detroit, committed sujel*e by ihootlng himself through the headj Near Sulhvan, lad., a Shot was fired into the railway car occupied by Gov. John P. St, John, the Prohibition candidate for President. The Governor -of Kansas issued a proclamation prohibiting the introduction of Jersey cattle. As a national convention of “Drummers,” at Louisville, Joseph Mulbatton was nominated for President of the United States, and Z. T. Colter, of Ohio, for Vice President, The pacing horse Johnston made a mile in 2:06)4, at Chicago. Gon. Valentine Baker restored to his rank in the British army. Rumors of the early marriage of President Arthur. John McCullough, the eminent tragedian, loses his mind and breaks down while playing upon the stage of McVicker’s Theater, Chicago. The Mexican war veterans held their annual reunion at St. Louis. The Russian Government closed the University of Kieff for a year, and arrested 168 students because of their Nihilistic connections. The contest for the ba=e of the United States ended in favor of the Providence Club. The British Government annexes the southern shores of New Guinea and the adjacent islands. Hon. Justin S. Morrill re-elected United States Senator from Vermont. Nathaniel Mitchell, lynched at LaCrosse, Wis., for the murder of Frank A. Burton, President of a Republican marching club. William H. Vanderbilt gives #500,000 as a building fund to the New York College of Physlans and Surgeons. Arthur Orton, the "Tichborne claimant,” released from prison. The Pope affirms eight new cardinals. Sir Moses Monteflore, the Hebrew philanthropist, celebrated his 100th birthday on the 24th ot the month. The Ohio Supreme Court declared the Scott liquor tax statute unconstitutional. Great popular demonstration in London in favor of the abolition of the House of Lords. Col. Stewart and his party massacred by Arabs in the Soudan. Liberals successful at the Parliamentary election in Holland. William Jones, who attempted to kill Guiteau, the assassin, acquitted at Washington, A political riot at New Iberia, La., resulted in the killing of eighteen men.

NOVEMBER. The most important event of the month was the Presidential election, which occurred on the 4th, after one of the hottest political campaigns In the history of the country. Grover Cleveland, the Democratic candidate, was elected President of the United States for four years, beginning on the 4th of March next, receiving 2X9 electoral votes, against 182 cast for James G. Blaine, the candidate of the Republican party. The excitement did not subside with the closing of the polls, as is usual, but was maintained for several days on account of the closeness of the vote in New York, many Republicans claiming that the official count of the vote of that State would elect Mr. Blaine. The canvass of the votes, which was not completed until two weeks after the balloting, showed a small plurality for Mr. Cleveland in New York. All parties at once conceded that he was elected, and the political excitement, which had been wrought up to a high pitch, at once abated. The Republicans were greatly incensed at the part played by Gov. John P. St. John, the Prohibitionist candidate for President, in the canvass, and the cold water leader was hanged in effigy in various parts of the country. Other notable occurrences of the month were as recorded below: The crofters on the island of Skye in an almost open state of rebellion against the landed proprietors. Cholera raged in Paris, carrying off many victims, and causing an exodus of those who could conveniently leave. Hugh McCulloch appointed Secretary of the Treasury. Earthquake shocks in New Hampshire and Canada. The National Monument at Washington reached a height greater than any structure in the world. The mare Maud S. beat all records by trotting a mile in l:09)£ at Lexington, Kentucky. The Legislature of Jamaica voted solidly against annexation to Canada. General W. 8. Harney, the veteran soldier, causes a sensation by marrying his housekeeper. Indians make a raid into Presidio Cqunty, Texas, and murder a number ot settlers. An exploring party in British Northwest Territory discover a lake of immense size, abounding in fish. Joseph E. Brown re-elected Senator from Georgia. M. H. De Young, of the San Francisco Chronicle, shot by Adolph Spreckels.

DECEMBER. Congress assembled in annual session on Monday, the first day of the month. The World’s Exposition at New Orleans was opened on the 16th, to continue until the Ist of June. The electors chosen by the people on Nov. 4 met at the various State capitals Dec. 3, and cast their votes for President and Vice President. James L. Pugh reelected United States Senator from Alabama. Fight between Americans and Mexicans over a copper mine in Sonora, several being killed on both sides. Gen. Porfirlo Diaz enters upon his second term as President of the Republic of Mexico. Deadly affray between Diggs and Watkins, editors of rival newspapers at Vienna, Mo., in which Diggs is killed. Official announcement made of the complete cessation of cholera in France. Mr. Gladstone introduces his redistribution bill in the British House of Commons. A coolie riot in the Island of Trinidad; the coolies fired upon and fifty of them wounded. The French Parliament enacts a law abolishing public executions inthatcountry. The British Parliament passes a new suffrage bill, conferring franchise on 2,000,000 citizens. The Georgia Legislature passed a resolution authorizing the Clerk of the House to employ women to perform clerical work. A railway train stopped and the passengers robbed by bandits near Little Rock, Ark. The great national monument was practically completed on the 6th of the month. Wade Hampton re-elected U. 8. Senator from South Carolina. Attempt to blow up London bridge with dynamite. Severe earthquake shocks startle the people of New Hampshire.