Jasper County Democrat, Volume 6, Number 16, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 July 1903 — THE WEEKLY HISTORIAN [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

THE WEEKLY HISTORIAN

ONE HUNDRED YEARS AGO. John Hawkins exhibited at Philadelphia a machine for taking portrait! in profile at 1 cent each—a predecessor of the modern photograph camera. A cargo of slaves about to be sold at Petersburg, Va., were found to be free negroes, who had been kidnaped from North Oarcf na. The Ohio congressional election returns showed a total of 5,558 Republican votes to 1,960 Federalist. Bowles, the notorious desperado, wat brought into New Orleans by Indiana who had been offered $3,000 reward bj the Governor of Louisiana for his capture. Charles Jordan, a famous North Carolina hunter, died at the age or 114 years. SEVENTY-FIVE YEARS AGO. Martin Van Buren, afterwards President of the United States, consented to become the “Jackson” candidate for Governor of New York. President John Quincy Adama was presented with a web of cloth made by Baltimore weavers during a street parade, and which he predicted was the forerunner of a great American lndu»try. Forty dollars reward was advertised In the American newspapers for the return of Letty Brown and her two slave children, who had been stolen by her husband when he was sold to another master. The Secretary of War sent to England for plans to educate and civilise the American Indians. Commodore Creighton was placed in command of the United States squadron operating off Brazil and Commodore Biddle was ordered home.

FIFTY YEARS AGO. Ex-President John Tyler readied Old Point Comfort, Va., in what was reported to be a dying condition. Commodore M. C. Perry secured an Interview with the Mikado of Japan which first opened the porta of that nation to the world. The King of Portugal dissolved the •three States of his realm and precipitated a government crisis. The city of Teiberan, Persia, with 00,000 population, waa almost totally destroyed by earthquake. The monument to Sir Isaac Brock erected at Queenstown Heights by tha British In 1812 waa blown up by gunpowder. FORTY TEARS AGO. The great draft riot occurred In New York City, a mob of 5,000 burning the United State* recruiting office at Third avenue and Forty-sixth street, the negro orphan asylum, and adjacent residences, cutting telegraph wires, assaulting negroes and cheering for Jefferson Davis and the Confederacy. The retreating rebel troop* under Longstreet, Hill and Ewell crossed the Potomac river into Virginia, while tha army of the Potomac, under Gen. Meade, made no effort to cut them off. Gen. Morgan’s raiders left Harrison, Ohio, and plundered farmers north of Cincinnati, in which city martial law waa declared by Gen. Burnside. Gen. Morgan’s rebel army was met at Vernon, Ind., by 1,200 militia under Col. Love and practically repulsed; 65,000 Indlanl citizens tendered their service* to Gov. Morton and 30,000 were armed and organized to resist the Invasion. THIRTY YEARS AGO. The Spanish government tried to conciliate Cuban revolutionists by revoking its edict for the sequestration of their property. The first silver trade dollar we* coined by the United States. The famous steamer Virginius reached Kingston, Jamaica, followed by the Spanish frigate Bazan and the United States ship Kansas. Seven hundred Mormons sent by Brigham Young to colonize Arizona returned starving to Salt Lake City. The Spanish colonial minister proposed to raise Porto Rico from a territory to a State. Immigrants were reported pouring into Nebraska at the rate of 100,000 a year.

TWENTY YEARS AGO. Henry Ward Beecher declared In a Chicago Interview that if liquor selling is made a crime drinking should be also, and that moral suasion is a better promoter of temperance than legislation. Thirty persons were drowned by a cloudburst and eighty hours' rain at London, Canada. Ex-Gov. John P. St. John of Kansas predicted thst the Republican party would meet with the same overthrow as the Whig unless its leaders recognised the “tidal wavs’* of prohibition sentiment that was about to “sweep the land from ocean to ocean.” TEN YEARS AGO. Gov. Waite of Colorado, In speaking at a Denver pro-ailver meeting, urged resistance to the proposed demonetization of silver, even if “blood should flow to the horses’ bridles." W. J. Bryan was proposed by Congressman Bland ss his lieutenant in the fight for free silver. Bismarck, in a speech to German excursionists at Friedrlchsrnhe, warned against the dangers of bureaucracy, which he said was threatening te stifle the German national idea.