Rensselaer Republican, Volume 17, Number 17, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 January 1885 — Glance Into [?]er of the Hab[?]ole Globe. [ARTICLE]

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th® Important Political and ' Other Occurrences of the Tear. 4| ' % CHRONOLOGY OF 1884. JANUARY. The 3d, 4th, and sth days of the first month --of the year were noted for the coldest weather ever experienced In the Northwest. The lrigid wave extended 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 re- - signed, 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. Ik Dukes, at Unlontown, 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 champlon- • ship of the world, at Paris. The National House of Bepresentatives 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. Eradlaugh excluded from the House of Commons. The Egyptian forces in the Soudan meet«ith serious reverses. A horrible massacre took pluci in Tonquln; one priest, twenty-two catechists, and 215 Christians were put to death, and 103 mission houses were destroyed. The Texas Legislature met in extra session. J. C. S. Blackburn elected United States Senator from Kentucky. Hen. H 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, nehr 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 MoHierson 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 ©F 1878. The British ■'Government presented to the United States, for the use of the Greely relief expedition, the steamer Alert. Treaty of peace between Chili and Peru ratified. The desperado, Frauk Kande, makes a murderous assault upon the oilicers of the Joliet Penitentiary. A bust of the poet Longfellow unveiled In Westminster Abbey, London. New York enacts a law prohibiting the making of contracts for the labor of convicts In the State ■pi isons. 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 Btate Legislature. Excitement over the outbreak among Kansas cattle herds of a malady resembling the foot and mouth disease. Frank Kande the noted desperado, commits suicide in the Joliet Prison. Completion of the first railway lino connecting the American citle3 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, Tfx. Gov. Click calls an extra session of the Kansas Legislature. The French dol'eat the Chineso in 'Tonquln and capture Bac-Ninh. Orrin A. Carpenter acquitted at Petersburg, 111., for -the murder of Zora Burns. David J. Brewer, -of Kansas, appointed Judge of the Eighth Federal to eucceed 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 oity of Cineinnati, 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 deoided 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 Cuba attack a band of forty-two insurgents and kill thirty of them. Pope Leo issues an -encyollcal letter denouncing seoret societies, and attributing all the trouble's of Italy to Masonry. Severe earthquake shocks in England Frank James, the Dandit, acquitted by the United States jury at Huntsville, Ala. The New York Assembly, by a vote of -80 -to 63, defeated a constitutional amendment to prohibit the manufacture or sale pf liquor. Forest fires in the Catskiil Mountain region of New York and the Blue Mountains o's Pennsylvania wrought vast damage. MAY. Congress votes an appropriation of $1,000,- • 000 for the New Orleans Exposition, places Gen. Grant on the retired list, and kills the Morrison tariff bill An attempt In ttie British House of Commons to censure the ■ Gladstone ministry for not taking measures to rescue Gen. Gordon failed by a vote of 275 to 303. Two thousand men, women, and children, many of thorn refugees from Khar- • toom, massacred by Arabs in Sbendy. 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 34. The Methodist General Conlerence, in session at Philadelphia, elected as Bishops .Rev. W. X. Ninde, J. M. Walden, and W. F. Mallahen. 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 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. Gharley Ford, who, with his brother, killed the bandit Jesse James, committod suicide by shooting himself through the heart. The National Greenback Convention met at Indianapolis on the 29th. and nominated for President Gen. B. Butler, of Massachusetts; for Vioe President, A. M. West, of Mississippi. - JUNE. Congress passed bills reducing the postage on newspapers and prohibiting Chinese subjects from importing opium into the United State*,. A treaty of peae4P between France and Annum 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

m - ’ —! • n .i;_! - fr President were as follows: 1. Whole •Amber of votes oast, 818; necessary to a Choice, 410; for James G. Blaine, of Maine, 8841 t; for Chester A. Arthur, of Now York. 278;.f0r George F. Edmunds, of Vermont, 03; for John A. Logan, of Illinois, 63H; for John Sherman, of Ohio, 30; for Joseph B. Hawley, of Connecticut, 13; for Robert T. Lincoln, of Illinois, 4; for William T. Sherman, of Missouri, 2. 2. Whole number of votes cast, 818; necessary to a choice, 410; Blaine, 849; Arthur, 276. Edmunds, Mi; Logan, 81; Sherman, 28; Hawley, 18; Linooln, 4; William T. Sherman, 8. r 3. Who'e number Of votes cast, 319; necessary to a choice, 410; Blaine, 375; Arthur, 274; Edmunds, 69; Logan, 58; Sherman, 25: Hawley, 13; Lincoln, 8; William T. Sherman, 2. 4. Whole number of votes oast, 813; necessary to a choice,- 407; Blaine, 511; Arthur, 207; Edmunds, 41; Logan. 7; Hawley, 15; Lincoln, 2. The nomination was then made unanimous. Au 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,many deaths ooeuring at Toulon and Mar-ellles. The Pan-Presbyterian Council was held at Belfast, Ireland. General Igleslas 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 S. 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 ohoice, 547; for Grover Cleveland, of New York, 392; for Thomas F. Bayard, of Delaware. 188; 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. Tilden, 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, 8114; Thurman, 4; Randal, 4; McDonald, 1; Hendricks, 4514. The nomination was then made unanimous. The National Prohibition Convention met In Pittsburgh on the 23d, 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 Comissloner of Labor. The Bartholdi statue was formally presented to the United States, Ministe) 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 oities m France, many persons falling victims to the epidemic. Serious afiti-Jewish riots in Algiers. Gen. Porflrio Diaz elected President of Mexico without opposition. France demanded an Indemnity of 250,000,000 francs from China for the Langsoiv affair. Premier Ferry ordered Admiral Courbet to seize the Chineso 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 Greqly 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 hunting 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 forty 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. Don Rafael Zalvidiry Lazo, President of the Republic of San j Salvador, arrived at New York. Mr. D. L. Moody, the American evangelist, arrived in New York from London. Dr. Darnard, 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 Long* street 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 VirginiaCourtof Appeals declared unconstitutional the act of the Legislature prohibiting school superintendents from taking part in politics. < AUGUST. The corner-stone of the pedestal for Bartholdi’s statue of Liberty was laid on Bedloe’s Island, New York Harbor. An earthquake ocourred In thirteen of the United States: The shock was felt from Richmond, Virginia, to Portland, Maine, and from the Atlantic coast to Ohio. Both bouses 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 ±’300,000 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 fuvor 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 Stutes 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 lynch twenty-eight of them. Admiral Lespes, with five vessels of the French squadron, bombarded and captured the town of Kelung, on the Island of Formosa. Charges of cannibalism in connection with the Greely expedition cause a sensation in the country. Hanlan, the oarsman, defeated in Australia by Beach, for the first time in years. Robert Bonner pays W. H. Vanderbilt $48,000 and becomes the owner of Maud S. Excitement among stockmen in the West over the outbreak of pleuro-pne.umonia at several points. The United States steamship Tallapoosa, with 140 officers and men on board, sunk off Martha’s Vineyard, by collision with the schooner 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 niace was captured. China formally declared war on France on the 25th of August. Antl-Jewish riots reported in Western Russia.