Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 37, Number 1, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 January 1905 — THE WEEKLY HISTORIAN [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

THE WEEKLY HISTORIAN

One Hundred Years Ago. A Paris paper published a statement of the expenses of the coronation of Napoleon, making them $930,000. The British consul at Honduras ordered that mahogany should not be exported in any American or foreign vessel. A new quarantine order in Holland required all American vessels to entCT the port of Helvoetsluis. Thomas Jefferson and George Clinton were unanimously chosen President and Vice President of the United States. " ’ Congress appointed a committee of five to <■ msider the project of erecting a permanent bridge across the Potomac river at Washington. .Seventy-five Years Ago. A treaty of peace and alliance was ratified between Buenos Ayres and Santa Fe. Gold and silver were discovered near Devonshire, England. France, Russia and England could not come to an agreement as to what title the new ruler of Greece was to assume. Prince Frederick of the Netherlands was appointed by the King admiral of the navy and colonel general of the land forces. Fifty Years Ago. Kamehameha 111., King of the Sandwich Islands, died, and was succeeded by Prince Alexander Lihollho. The St. Lawrence river was opened to American vessels. Rufus Choate joined the political party called the “Know Nothings” and became a candidate for the Senate. The steamboat Westmoreland was sunk in Lake Michigan and seventeen lives were lost. Kansas was being settled by New England emigrants, who were resolved to fight against slavery in the Hew territory. Forty Years Ago. Communication south of Cairo, 111., was shut off by the freezing of the river. Several steamboats were sunk and many others injured at St. Louis by the breaking up of the ice in the river. Major Gen. Thomas attacked and routed Hood and his Confederate forces before Nashville, Tenn. A Unibn expedition along the Roanoke river was reporigdto have destroy