Jasper County Democrat, Volume 6, Number 24, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 September 1903 — THE WEEKLY HISTORIAN [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

THE WEEKLY HISTORIAN

ONE HUNDRED YEARS AOO. Parsons traveling between the Tennessee river and Natch ex, Miss., were so harassed by Indians that President John Adame ordered the War Department to establish block houses along the route. Twenty stand of small arms and fifty pieces of artillery were started for New Orleans, La., where the Spanish intendant was making trouble. The British House of Commons appropriated £20,000 for the construction of a ship canal across Scotland. The King of England, throngh Lord Hawkesbury, ordered a blockade at Havre de Grace and other ports of tbs Seine. BEVENTY-FIVB YEARS AOO. American free traders protested because the kdetiee on 109 bales of wool imported at Boston amounted to $2,450, while the original cost in Smyrna waa only $2,430. The Jewish race was estimated by the London Quarterly Review to number 6,000,000 persons. President John Quincy Adams’ efforts to preserve the government forests resulted in the seizure at St Marks, Fla., of a ship loaded with live oak timber cut on government land.X Gen. Chilly MclntcaA reported the killing of twenty-seven buffaloes in Arkansas territory, out of a herd of over COO. FIFTY YEARS AGO. Table rock fell Into the Niagara river. George Poindexter, second Governor of Mississippi, died. A religious liberty bill was adopted by the upper house of the Dutch parliament. ■ 1 ■ i FORTY YEARS AOO. Oil City (Pa.) newspapers reported smal! boys of that village making $1 to $5 daily after each hard rain by dipping crude oil from ponda and creeks in the neighborhood. Fort Wagner, In Charleston harbor, was abandoned by the rebels just as Gen. Gillmore's troops were' preparing to assault the works. Two hundred Union soldier* of Gen. Gillmore’* command were killed, wounded or taken prisoner* by the rebel garrison at Fort Sumter, which they had tried to surprise while asleep. The rebel brigade under Gen. Fraser was surrounded in Cumberland gap by Union troops under Burnside, Shackelford and De Courcey. Charleston, S. C., wae placed at th# mercy of Union artillery through the evacuation of Fort Wagner by the rebels and it* occupation by federal*. THIRTY YEARS AOO. Fifteen million dollar* waa paid by Greet Britain to the United States, under the Geneva award, for damage* to American shipping by th* rebel cruiser Alabama. John Bigelow, who originated the centennial celebration of 1876, protected against the Philadelphia exposition a* commemorating that event, because of its commercial character. „ Paris police refused to allow the display of the American flag by American citizens in celebration of the proclaiming of the French republic. Nelson Dingley, afterwards Congreaeman and Republican leader of the House, waa elected Governor of Maine. A bad slump in the New York stock market waa blamed to the shipment of fund* for moving the crops and t» Jay Gould. TWENTY YEARS AGO. Frank James was acquitted at Gallatin, Mo., of the Winston train robbery. Jay Gould forced Rufus Hatch and his friends to stop tfaedr litigation with the Western Union Telegraph Company by driving Louisville and Nashville Railroad stock, on which they were “long,” down to 40. Lord Chief Justice Coleridge of England was banqueted in Boston, Dr. Oliver Wendell Hohnes, Gov. Benjamin Butler and Nathan Appleton being among the guest*. The Northwestern State* were visited by * heavy frost, the mercury falling to 40 degree* at Bloomington, 111., and corn being killed outright in many localities. Jay Gould testified before the United States Senate committee on labor end capital, and wept as he described how, when a poor surveyor, he had gone hungry and had knelt and prayed by the roadside. John Jacob Aetor deeded his entire fortune to hie eon, William Waldorf Aetor, then United State* minister at Rome, retaining a pension of SIOO,OOO yearly for himself. The last spike in the Northern Pacific Railroad waa driven near Helena, Mont., ninety-one year*-after President Thomas Jefferson had suggested a highway to th* Northwest. TEN YEARS AGO. The Brasilian fleet blockaded the harbor of Rio de Janeiro and demanded President Peixoto’s resignation. Senator Peffer of Kansas introduced at Washington a bill appropriating SBOO,000 in “aluminum coin” for th* endowment of a “scientific college” in the District of Columbia. I Gov. Horace Boies of lowa, in a centI paign address, declared both th* Denae- . era tic and Republican parties oolanudy bound not to discriminate between gold, ' nnd ittnr as money standard*