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Harb facts have mounted the t« our occlusion. Ram your against them,dear reader, try philosopher and be happy. But philoso pherorf—», merry or miserable, you have the G/Wti nii's good wishes and hqpes lory our happiness during all thi yew. May "God bless us every one

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WAKING UP TO Til"- FACTS. There is a growing confidence anion 4lll impartial men that Gov. Tilden will b« Jiwiugura ed President and take the he4tt M«#cfe. The lair minded Republicans all «orrr the country are following the lend «t James-Russell Lowell and all the BriCtow Republicans ol Massachusetts in lth*4r belief that Gov. Tilden has been Jjir.esrly elected and that the office to •WhldhVhe people have chosen him must foe ^resigned to him at the time appointed. 'I he appeal ot prominent Republics is of Philadelphia •for an honest count and a decision ol the •election on the facts and not by partisan ^prejudices, has alto h^l a maiked efltct.

Thevruthis the Republican manageis went ahead too fast witb their scheme ot pleating three States. They thought the party would sustain them in jinv net designed to continue i*s control, .aniMn this course they were ably «M*nded by Gov Hayes, who «Wder his careful reserve and invariable dignity,conceals no little cunning Now 4faey hcuin to find that it they luid paus•ed bo test the sense of the purty they

Ivouid probably never have begun this .•MPl^ementiiry campaign. N in all directions their own soldiers are rebellling at being expectedio'aid in tlie yrork •ol IwinHits unit rufli.ms. I.n«' Springifieltl .Republican declares that every Bristo«v man in Massachusetts feels as Mr. -Lowell does. The decision of the "Sup'rem- Court in (Florida, •ihowing'the return of the canvassing •Jboaril on the Governorship to have been •fraudulent, has excited the suspicion iliat ithe rciurn on the Presiden a- fraudulent too. ^Before the time comes to inauguratc our President, so many of ihe lindtfpendent men will have shown their ibfliet'thut Mr. tTilden has been hooastly fleeted that there will probably be no opposition 'o' his installation. Then wc ,«hilt,binvfijjeacc, and a Government the Constitution.

MU'/AJ W RIGHT A AN.DONS 'I Al E.REPUBLIC AN PARI Y. ^Tfiaur .Wright, an original Abolitionist years -Secretary of the American jf^nii.Xlavwy Society, and one ot the #0Miders -of the Republican party in Maisachasetts, lias abandoned that party, flnd tells the reasons whv in a letter to hc Springfield Republican, which con.4C.udes as follows: •••As one that worked some, long ago, that the Republican party might have.* beiiiiT, though since but an infinitesimal of.:t,l tiiriprovc the right to say 4luit ii lost mv v«te by two things: First it allowed the Fwedinan's bank to be robbed of a million a a ihalf dolla^ Chiufly by leading JRepublicans, and never •aid a word about restoring the money.

Second, it did not «ebuke the Andersonville sjeech of Blame's the wickedest and and nost mischievous, under the circum'jfcMM, jth8t was .ever uttered an tlvr floor of Congress

Every intelligent colored man at the S juth kno*« how the bank was robbed A 1.1 every one of them in the Democratic States know# tb*t he ha* been though aot ao/ too

Well, yet as well pro

tected by his state as his colored brother has been under the of Stearns, Chuinberlain or Kellogg. Yet Blaine raised such a storm at the Xorth, that it i* difficult to find a Republican unless, he ha6 traveled in the South himself, who can believe that any ex-slave can have voted the Democratic ticket without deadly intiir.idation! Was ever a people •o aillioteJ with faUehooJ, since the •world was made?

Boston, December ii,1S76. .- Eli/i Wright.

WELLS.

A m»Qg hileresting personal just now her^'&aftiiaed by the congressional committeuM. Wells. He \*a President ot the ^Returning Board 11 Louisiana which transformed a majority of several thousand for lilden on the face of the returns, '-o almost an equal amount the other wa/. The proceeding ileit is revolutionary, and on that ac count, if not vi#id ascertainly abaJ pr c.iVr.' for the future avoidance of which the whole energy of the people should be lud. But granting for a moment

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thjU our institution* contemplate the cislon of a presidential election, V~ placed in the hands' of one man certainly '^everybody will admit that it becomes a matter of the highest importance, that the man, to whose hands such extensive powers are entrusted, should be worthy,and of good repute He should be* ina,p of irreproachable character, a person against, whose leputatnn the breath of slander had never been known. Now is J. Wells that type of a man? Is he not rather just the reverse? Let us see. We pass by the fact that Win. A. Wheeler, the late candidate of the Republican party for the

Vice-Presidency

condemn

ed him in unstinted terms two years ago, when he visited Louisiana, as chairman ot a committee sent thither by the House

Representatives ot which he was a member, to investigate the political condition of affairs in that unhappy commonwealth. We pass by the fact that Pinchb'ack, chosen U. S. Senator by the Legislature of Louisiana, counte I in by the Board over which this same Wells, then, as now, presided, was kicked out ot the U. S. Senate. All these old things, and the list is not nearly exhausted, we pass by. Let us look at the present. And let us grant to Well.' the precious boon of condeming himself out of his own mouth, alter the fashion of babes and sucklings-

Wells was before the Congressional investigating Committee the other day

(if State on'the next. Fourth of, Congressman Blackburn,examined him.

Let in liear what he had to say. Out ot his own dirty depths let the gutter wash flow. Mr. Wells has the

floor: Blackburn—Do you believe the pres ent law is the best larw for the purpose? \VeMs—I believe it is the best which could be made.

The question affecting his personal interests brought out some striking facts as follows:

Morrison—Had you any pecuniary interest involved to sway your action? Wel'.s—I have none.

Morrison—V®u have a claim against theG .verninent unpaid. Wells— The aggregate of the claims of my family to the amount of $700,000 ditl not bias me in the least [ot course not.]

McMahon—Do ycu hold any othci office besides a member of the Returning Board

Wells—I am surveyor of the Port. My salary is

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the average about •f3-5°l3

year My son is mv depu'y. McMahon—How" do you get paid as member of the Returning Board. wells—There is no salary fixed. We get paid per diem and mileage.

Jenk-s—Do you not make out your bills for $12 a day. Wells—Don't know.

Jenks— What relation is. Mr Burgess to you? Wells—lie is my son-in-law.

Jenks—Was he ap,xinted to any office? Wells—Yes, sir Tax Collector of Rapides parish. nks—Was any other member of your family an office-holder in Rapide parish?

Wells—My son was appointed Clerk of the court.

MINISTER'S JNEAV YEAR.

CHASE AKTER AN IGNIS EATUU3

New

Years morning a young gentle

men called at the residence of a prominent north side minister and tendering a bill and a marriage license requested that he call at a cert lin number of houses from church which shall

not

exactly

the same name. He went in

.aud seeing qute a numbei jiresent concluded of course that he was right. He was received with a little surprise but quite cordially. After wailing some time he suggested that things move on as he was in something of a hurry. Nobody understood what he meant and finally he and the gentleman of the house wer.t outina back -room. The minister ren arked that he was certainly at the rigl jlace and that he had been told to cone. This greatly surprised the old gensaud he let out a c.U:hither to kept close in tne bag to'lhd eftcct that his daughter wouid shortly be teamed to a prominent painter hut not before ten days. "Ii mufit be a mistake," replied tne minister,

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Gladitator. Northampton Bank robbery off77S,ooo. Estep Dawson and Nines lynched at Charleston, West Virginia.

28.

Ex-City Treasurer Hawes

Covington,defaults in the sum of

000.

2. Hon. Hester

be mentioned here

in evening a solemnize a marriage. The 11.ini»tcr either misunderstood or the gentleman being a: little flurried (as persons are apt tw become on the near approach of such an event/) did not mention the right church. .In the evening the minuter sallied forth [license (ai fee) in pocket and counting rhe requisite number of houses from the church went .in Ever* thing looked the opposilc of wedding festivities and he therefore inquired for the house of the young lady, lie was told she lived the next door south. Now it happens that there are two young ladies in Terie Haute (or were thast night) of

hud

I have the license in my

pocket." The astonised parent asked to see it and it was instantly produced. Upon examination it was found that the names of the young ladies corresponded but that those of the contracting gentlemen did not. The mincer therefore set out to find out thw whereabouts of the right couple Finally he met some one who knew the gentleman, but who thought that he was already a married man. Disgusted and tired out, and very cold, the minister re turned home, reaching his- residence about nine o'clock. llardiv had he gotten warm, before the bell rang, aWd the gentleman who first came with the license wanted to know in cxcited tones., whv he h.»d not fulfilled his pr.misc. Mutual explanation* followed and the ccremony was performed.

VBLEGRAMS.

CONDENSED

There was a fire at Hamilton Ontario ''Jti last night.

ARRESTED.

Three employees at Dodds Express Co were arrested this morning for opening mail bags.

Gov. Hartranft made ljis annual address to-d.iy. The Cleveland and Pittsburg railway company elected directors at Cleveland today.

$100.-

Ohio Senate Repeals Gehan Law. -j. Conviction of Wtn McKce, senior proprietor St. Louis Globe Democrat of whiskey frauds.

FEBRUARY.

1. Terrible explosion by fire damp in Jabin Mine, Belgium. 5. Fatal catastrophe Opera House. .. 2.

at Robinson':

Opening of Moody and Sankey at Barnum's Hipprpdrome, New' York Citv. A nti-Southern Railroad meeting at Rob inson'sOoera House. 8. Great fire 4*4 Broadway, New York, two firemen killed loss

$4,000,000

Opening^)! English Parliament.^ I rial ot O. B. Babcack commences at St. juis.

J. R. Helman, Worcester, Ohio, County Treasurer defaults

$75,000.

12. Arrest of Winslow, Boston torger at London. 1 Opening of the Spanish Cortes by the King. 17.

Collision between the steamships,

Franconia and Strait Clyde in !h_' English Channel—fifty two live- lost. Weston, the pedestrian, completes i8oi mile* in forty-eight hours in Loudon. iS. Aboli ion of death p.-nulty in Maine. 19. Acquittal of Michael Tinneil tor alleged irJer ot Ned O Uaid.viu, Iiih giant20.

End of Carlist war in Spain Madrid illumir ated. 21. Triumph ot Republicans in lance. Condon relief meeting at Robinson's Opera House. 22.

Destructive fir* at Tarrytown,

New York G. S. Orth nominated bv Republicans for Governor of Indiana. Race horse Foster wins

7:39

and

$30, 000

6:53.

Acquittal of Goneral -4-

four

mile race in San Francisco two heats.

Babcock at

St.YouisYor alleged complicity in whiskey trauds. Sale ot W itbash and Eiie Canal. Impeachment of Governor Ames, of Mississippi. 9.

Twenty "rive houses blown down in Hazel Green, Wisconsin. 10.

Announcement of MacMahon's,

Cabinet. Terrific 6torm near Galena, Illinois, and Dubuque, Iowa: forty lives lost. 11. Failure of Daniel Drew, New York stock operator, for $1,500,000. 12.

Twelve persons burned to death at Norwich (Conn Almshouse. 13

Impcach.nentof Lieutenant Gov

ernor Davis, of Mississippi. 14. Suspension of Bank of State of New York. 15.

Adjournment of Colorado constitutional convention. 17.

Burning of Springfield (Ills) Opera house loss $i6S,ooo. Messing and I. Rehm plead guilty to whiskey frauds. 27.

Burning ot steamboat Marg Bell, at Vicksburg. Loss,

Clymer, Pennsyl

vania, submits to house report ot Secretary Belknap's frauds. 6. Train on Baltimore and Ohio railroad drops 1 iS feet, fifteen lives lost. 7.

Judge Taft appointed Secretary of war Burning of Brooklyn home for tne aged nineteen lives lost. Desperate battle between Abssinians and Egyptians at Goodras. 8.

Verdict of

$5,237,117

3s against W,

M. Tweed in Court of common pleasj New York city. I 18.

Resignation of Italian minis^yj Great overflowing and rise of the Dan-

20.

Wrcck of steamer Isabel on Pendever's Rocks, near land', end: thirtylives lost. 1 *1 20.

Snow in New Orleans ami henv^ snow-stormsall over the country. Laigoj tire in Charleston, South Carolina.22. Opening Republican State Co'i-j vention New York, at Utica Fruj ti«ht between Michael Cleary and Jamei Weaden, Newark, Delaware, seventy-} ei"ht rounds, one hour and thirty minutes. Ihree men killed by nitro glycer, ineexplosion West Chester, New York} 25. Law abolishing death penally in Maine took effect. ,, 26.

Death «t Rysdik Stallion Ilam-

bletonian, aged twenty-eight. 28. Advices of the loss in Arabian Sea of steamer Howard

ernor

500

Ames,

pilgrim^

ot li»sis-ippi.

Breaking awav ot dam at 3°Worcester, Masbrook Reservoir, near sachusetts.

APRIL.

Ingersoll elected Democratic Governor In Connecticut. ...

Senate rejects R. H. Dana, Minister to England. National Negro Convention at Nashville.

Thirtv-two

disaster

lives lost by ferry-boat

on Dee, near Aberdeen, Scot-

Four

Reu

powder magazines blown

u'n atPalt Lake, Utah two lives lost.

Captain F. Kal.n, of the steamer Franconia, which sank the Strathclvde, found guilty of man-slaughter. 5 Annual Oxford and Cambridge boat race from Putney to Mortlake, on the Thames won by Cambridge.

challenge? Tom." Allen for champion

ship. 36.

ime

—20 minutes, 19 seconds. Laredo, Mexico, shelled by Americans. Garrioaldi accepts a purse

100.000

tion. 13.

Canon. Steamer Dictator \VreckeJ near Hannibal, Misiouri twelve lives

^°8jtj Ri0t in Dublin and Limerick. Expulsion of President Dominique firbm Hyatt, 18.

Tennvson's '-Qjeen MafC1

brought out at London Lyceum. 21.Tifnne explosion in V\ ales thirteen lives lost. Close of the New York Hotel, after an existence ot thirtv years. 22. Destructive hail storms in

sas, ruining fruit.

34,

Kan

Riots in Barbadoes- Joe Goss

5»

Resignation of Count Kotzenue.

Governor General of Poland. Peace between Guatemala and San Salvador. 28.

New York Democratic Conven

tion met. 28. Foundering at sea of steamer Onessant, and loss of twenty-one lives. Queen yictoria proclaimed Empress ot India. Dcbul of Kate Field, authoress, as Volante in "Honeymoon," at the Gaie iv, London. 39.

Convention of Gipsies at Johet,

Illinois. 30. Thirty-one lives lost by the col-li-ion of two'steam ferrvbats, near Bin gen on the Rhine Escape of fourteen prisoners from Chicago jail.

MAY.

Heaviest tailure in Western Massachusetts, Harvey, Alnold & Co.. at North Adams, for $1,500,000. 3.

Iuauguration of Governor Ingersoll, of Co meclicut. 4.

Don Alfot.NO'S letter to Pope de fining rt ligious toleration in Soain. 5.

Election of Governor Richard Coke a^' U»ited States Senator trom Texis, Count F* de la Grange's filly Catnelia. wins the thousand guinea pane—$20,000 —England. General CusUr deprived of his command 6. Religious riot at Salor.ica, Turkey, and assasination ol French and German Consuls. Dynamite explo ion in Jersey City, caused bv discharged workmen. Wind storm in Chicago.

S. Debut o." Anna Dickinson "Crown of Thorns," Globe Theatre. Bo»ton. 9.

O _ning of Philalelplua Centen nial Exposition. Unvailing of Schiller Memorial Statue on aniversar* of poet death at Marback, Wirten.burg. 11. Arrival of Prince of Wales in England from India. 1^. W. 11. Barnum elected Unite States senator, Connecticut. Filth Vvenue Hotel conference. 17.

Democratic State Convention

held in Exposi ion Hall. Steamer Pat Cleburne xplodes near Shawneetown— t.venty lives lost. 18. Expulsion of Henry C. Bowe trom Plvmouth Church. 21.

Celebration of Archbfshftp Pur-

ccll's golden jubiUe.

472

JUNE.

1: Blaine scandal in the House. 1. Suicide of Abdul Aziz with a pair of scissors'. Jarrett &Palmer's lightning express roaches Say Francisco trom New York in eighty four hours. 5. trouble among MasoilOn Ohio miners.

S. Reunion of the Aimy of the Potomac at Philadelphia. 3-" Iw«iaVatUn of Governor Cheney ofVSrmont, Wevt Virginia StaLe Democratic Convention at Cnarleston. 10.

Sale of Toledo, Wabash and

Western Rfiilroad to bondholder's ,com mittee for

$2,500,000.

13.

Catholics obtain a majority of

twelve in the Chamber of Deputies at 'Brussels,'and'riots" ensue. 14.

Republican 'Nat onal Conven^'on

Mrs. ex-Pn side:.t Lincoln, discharged from insane asylum. 15.

Tne Turkish Ministers of Whr ind' Foreign Atl'airj.. murdered in the Council Cliamber. 16.

'^'"Republican Ohio State Convent' Senatorfrom New llampshire. Presen29. ttcpuuiH- nI„ „IV,ti1,nof(

Great fire in enrfiet manufactories

at Aver, England twentv-four lives lost. I'.ustees, of Vandcrbilt UolveiMty, Nashville' Tennessee, receive another

arrests made

in New York City' under the Exdsc Law. Eight miner's kille by an expiosio in Virgthi^ Coal Pit, Chesteifieid County. 25. j. Cameron appointed Secretaofwar, i\. Taft, Attorney General, and E. Pierrepont. Minister to England^ 24.

Foundering of Guatemala gunboat, General Barnos, fifteen lives lost. 25.

President issues Centennial procla'iiation. 26

Destruction of celebrated painting by fire, "The Prodigal Son," at Melode011

Hall.

27.

$500,000:

partially:

insured. 28. Tornado at St. Charles, Missouri several lives lost. Lord Lytton appoint ed Governor General of India.^

MARCH.

Tho Pandora sails from Cowes for Artie legions 28.

Funeral of Baron De Palm, at Masonic '1\ tnple, by Egyptian rites. 29.

Failure of prominent Louisville pork firms. 30.

Dethronement of Abdul Aziz, and Murad Eflendi proclaimed Sultan of Turkey. One thousand houses burned in Quebec. 31. "Kisber" wins the English Derby Peter Cooper accepts the Greenbackers' nomination.

$300000

from their founder. 17. General Crook encounters the Sioux at Rosebud Greek. 18.

Destructive fire at St. John's, Canada. Loss, $1,500,000, 20.

E. 11. Roliins elected United States

tation of jmmemorative va»e to W. C.

tion at Columbus. Bryant, anniversary of his eighteth

birthday. American steamer Tybee, boarded by Dominican troops protest ot PaulJones, American Consul. 24.

A. Hesing sentenced to two years, and

$5,000

fine, at Chicago, for

"whiskey frauds. 25. Indian village, forty nvles below Little Hon., attacked by Genferal Custer. General Custer and entire command Slaughtered. 27. petnocratic National Convention at ist Louis Chamber of Commerce. 2

Louise Hawthorne, actress, falls faom a fourth story Chicago hotel window and is killed. S. J. Tild»n nominated for the Presidency, at the Democratic Convention, on the secoiiJ bailot. Murad

lires, given by King and Na

Avery sentenced to two years and

General McDonald to three veare in the penitentiary, lor St. Louis whisky frauds. Lincoln staiue unveiled at Washir.gton D,

^"14. Thirty thousand striking colliers in Yorkshire and Derbyshire. 15. Reception of Dom Pedro II, Emperor Of Brazil, in New Yoik City. Coat riots break out at Massillion, Ohio.- In die merit of General O. E. Babcock lor the conspiracy, at Washington, D.. C. 16.

osen wrecked near the Straits of Sueda—twenty-five lives lost. Election of Senor Anibal Pinto as President of Chiii.

JULY.

Hamburg Massacre. Don Carlos arrives at New Orleans. 9.

Burning of Castle Garden. New York City. Steamer St. Clair burned on Lake Michigan, nine lives lost. 10 Resignation of Marshall Jewell, Postmaster General. -2.

olu-) Bank, St. Louis. Departure of Dom I'cdro on the

Russia.

19.

Five people killed by Indies ire

Edinburgh. Issuing of Secretary Cam erertVorder to General Sherman in reference te'frnops sent south: 20. SteAmer Colon explode* her boil er at sea. mile* from New York tuta persens kil'ed, the rest rescued by stfc.uner i«tna. 23,

Prize fight between Miles GiUe»-

p'e, of Philadelphia- and "Fiddler''* Nearv. of New York. Gillespie wins tw'entvrounds in ninetepn minutes. 30

Sultan am id proclaimed Em

peror of I'urkev. Horatio Seymour nommated for Governor of New York by the Democratic State Convention. 31.

Declination of H. Seymour. SEPTEMBER. !**i,

Six hundred houses burned at St. Ilvacinth, Quebeck. 5. Accident at !!ell Gate by explosion of nitroglycerine throe persons killed. 6. Inauguration Lifivtte statue. New York City. Negr i-.t at Charles ton. South Carolina. Charles Franci® Adams nominated by Massachusetts and R. E. Hubbard by 'Connectsut Democratic Conventions for Governor. 7.

Allen and Goss fight. Goss winon afoul 21 rounds in one hour and

27.

Prince Milan proctain ed King of Servia, by Gen*» al-Tchernaett's army. 17

Riot at El'enton, North Carolina. 15 Professor Huxley delivers his first lecture on Evolution, at Chickering Hall, New York City. 21

Capture of four of the Northfield bank robbers, nr.-r Madelia Minnesota.

ted rail Agenc). They agree the Black Hills. Accident

011

Carolina procla.nati in. Half a milliondollar conflagration in Louis".ille, Ky. 21. News of the loss of twelve whaling ships in the Arctic Sea received at San Francisco. 27.

Arrival at Valencia of the English Arctic exploring ex. edition. 30.

Seven Persons killed and twenty wounded in a railway accident near Spranton. l'mnsylvania, on Ihe Pennsylva nia an 1 Lackawanna Railroxd, Panic in a Sacramento Chinese Theater.

NOVEMBER.

1. Slade. fhe London spiritualist, serftenced to three months imprisonment as a vagrant. 3.

Wceden, Collyer and Goodwin prize ring murderers sent to penitentiary or six years each Cl2tk and Neary two rs cacli 4

Jack (lushes and Barham attempt to rob the tomb of President Lin coin at Springfield Idinois. 7.

Great inundation in Cuba. 9 Judge McAllister of Chicago, peti tinned to resign for rulings in Sul ivanllanford case by S.000 citizens. 10 Pardon of W. M. McKee. proprietor of the St. Louis Globe Democrat. 13.

Withdrawal of MoilUn'g fifty-thousand-dollar suit against II. W Beecher. 16. Battle near Iluamantia, Mexico victory of D!az. 18.

Seven persons killed and-over one hundred vvounded by the falling in of a variety theater floor. Sacramento California Rebels capture Piubla., Mex ico, 21. Escape of General Lcrdo from Mexico with one thousand men. 23. General Diaz takes possession of the city of Mexico. 25.

Eftendi dethroned and nis youn

ger brother appointed rejjeut. 22. Dutch steamer Lieutenant Gener al

Failure of Central Savings (Cath

Loss ol the yatch Mohawk, aud

drowing

of Commodore Garner and wile

and three others. Cornell crew wim'the Saratoga boat race. 26. Two persons burned to death in a Philadelphia shoddy mill.

AUGUST.

l/' Ninc persons drowned at a picnic, at -Coldwa er, Michigan. Acqultal of General BJknap 3^ to

25.

Breaking away ol Beaver Creek Dam, Montana, twelve lives los:. ij.' Musical festival at Baireuth, Bav aria. 14. English Parliament prorogued. ic. Unveiling of Livingston statue at

Marriage ot Sir Vernon Harcourtto Elizabeth C. Innes, daughter of J. Motley, the historian, at Westminster Abbey. Hon. S. J. Randall nominated speaker of the House on first ballot. 4.

Unveiling Greeley momument at Greenwood Cemetery. Germany reuses by a Cabinet vote to participate in French Exposition of

1878.

Brooklyn Theater burned

anniversary of the battle ot

nvnutes, S. Capture \Vm. Tweed and cousin, Wm Hunt, at Porte Vigo. 9 General Crook engages hostile Soux,de«troving nn Ind a:i village. 10. Death of E han Allen, celebrated trotting-horseat Lawrence, Kansas,aged

it Hon. Lucius Robinson nominated Governor of New York, by adjourned Democratic Convention. 14

America wins at Centennial International shooting match at Creedmoor. 16

Pan-Han

dle railroad at Black Lick Station. Thir-ty-one deaths from yellow fever at Savannah, Georgia. 23

Great fiie in Baltimore loss

000. 24

$300-

liellGate blown up by Gen. Newton. Six hundred cases of yellow fever at Brunswick. Georgia. 26.

Unveiling of statue ofW. II.

Stewart at New York City. OCTODER. 7.

Burning of bark Europa en New Yoik dry dock five lives Ust. 8. Aries of E. A- Woodward, clerk of Tammany Ring, atChicago. 9.

Disastrous fire in Cleveland O."^ 10 J. I). Lee sentenced to be shot for Mountain Meadow massacre, seventeen years ago, at Salt Luke, ah. Ohio State election, RepuUlican triumpl.. Blue Jeans Williams elected Governor of Indiana^ 12.

Count Von Arnim sentenced to

five years imprisonment and forfeiture of title? Arrival of M. F. Tupper, English poet, at New York C:ty. Unveiling of Columbus statue at Philadelphia. Four teen men kilted at Pittsburg (Pa.) Nailmill explosion 17.

President Grant issues South

397

bodies recovered. So not recognizable. '1. Cremation of Baron de Palm at Washington, fennsy Ivania. 7.

Cardinal Simeo ii appointed toAntonclli's place' 8. Retirement of A. II. Green from the Comptrollership of New York Ciry. 9.

Announcement in London of Dr. SchliemJinn's discoveries at Myccnz, E. B. Cron receives his certificate a Presidential elector from Oregon. 10. Incendiary fire in Burlington, Now Jer&ey, Polar wave sweeps through ihe country, and violent storms on tiic cjast. 11. Canvassing Board of South Caro lina discharged by Judge Bond. 12.

Four steamers sunk at St. Louis, by icegorge. Loss,

$200,000.

14.

Destructive fire at Little Rock, Arkansas loss f2 jo,000. 20.

Democratic inass meeting at

Pike's Ooera ho.ise. 21O.ie nun Jred and fifty lives lost by wrecks on English coast. 22.

Ciose

vV-ftti' fHghtful loss'of'

n.ton.

iUi^ro|Kt wreck A«ht

BUSINESS REVIEW. ARCHITECTS Aim BUILDERS.

Our architects^ aritT builders all report th#t bu«in ss in their line, has beei* quit* dull during the past year when comn pared with the business oi* farmer years,' However, all had moch more to do than was expected before the opening of th« building season, and all are looking forward to a harvest in the coming

year.

Bielow will be found statements from all whom we were able tQ- interview on the subject:

CHARLES FI'PINGIIOI SF.X.

One of Terre Haute'* leading arch!-' tecL- has been engaged a great deal on outs de work which will noi be mentioned here.

Work has been built or completed during theyear from his plan as follows McKeert & Minshall's bank

$22,000.00

Seventh ward school $i5,aoa.oo. There have been other smaller jobs put up by Clilt Si Williams and Snap on Mr E's plans not Catalogued here.

BENJAMIN- ROGERS, ARCHITECT.

Reports that he has piepared plans

follows: Residence of T. E. knex E-*q., corner of Sixth and College streets cost $5,000.

Block of residences for C. J.

Brackenbush, on Ohio street near Sixth cost $S,ooo. A residence for Mrs. Lander at Wheeling West V'a.

He bus plans already completed for several large and costly buildings, upon which work has no* yet commenced.

He regard, the outlook tor the coming season as very good.

A. WEIULE, BUILDER ANI

general contractor, reports the following business during the year: Repair* on wood work, in the citv and vicinity,. $9,400.

Brick work, $11,000. New

buildirgs erected, including the brick

Trea.y signed by the Sioux at Spot I building now being completed for Rich3 I ail Agency, 1 hey agree to leave

ar(

])unnigan Esq., on the corner of Third and Chestnut. The swt of thisbuilding will be about

$6,000.

JOS. LANG,

builder, furnishes the following report: A brick building for himself at

933

Ohio-

street, cost $1,000. Brick residence fof Geo Hold on Eleventh street bet. Walnut and Poplar, cost $1,400. Wood buildng to oe used as a son" factory, fdt Henry Handick, on Seventh street near theC.&T II. railv'ay, cost $1,000.. Frame resident for John Coffin', corner Second and Vine, cost

Next Mr. Vrydagh designed a large ind comodious bay window to Mr. H. llulman's residence on Ohio Street. his bay window is twelve feet wide in the clear, and while its object was to make it au atraction to the house, it as ul„o intended to admit a laage amount ot sun light in

i.h

room

Ulton

Unveiling of the Webster statue

at Central Park, New York. Capture of a Cheyenne villo^eon powder river by General Crook.

DECEMBER.

Illinois

$^50.

Aside from tnese buildings, Mr. Lang dit* general repairing to the amount ot several hundred dollars.

A. VRYDAUIt. ,'V-|f

J. A. Vrydagh, considering the-limited extent of building at presem joing on iA the United States has done a good fhafe of work, in the year just passed. Noat the sixth whrd school and the polytheo*nic Institute, at the corner of Loc stand thirteenth streets is M. A Chevaiiec'a cottage, the painterofthe Vandalia shoj^ This neat dwelling was erccte^ upon his plans by M. Berny the builder arid is not onlv ta.st.ilv but convcridntly ai-wiged, ullv showing that mechanics appreciate good plans and comfort in every detail of the house, as far as architecture can lend a hand to it.

parlor to render that

bnght and cure it of dampness. The extensive changes of the Terre Haute House, which lorm only part af those conteinpted by the enterprisi»% pioprietor Mr. George Ripley, were com* ducted uuder the superint

.ndance of Mr.

Vrydagh. Ihe delicate task ot removing the fiut story heavy walls and leave tlie upper stories upon iron columns to create the present great arrangement w» successfully peiturmed by Mi. Kimble the bunuer

Mr. Mayer recently erected a vast and dc'^UIlt li.ul. IIUuSC ut cost ot

$20,000,

the plans and superintendence 41 Mr.' J. A. Vrydagh. The excellent brick work was maue by Mr. Jacob Mil? ler the carpentry by iVlessr». Dreustke ii 'lliizel the castings by the Phoenix toundry the galvanized iron 'by Meswr». Moore & llaggerty the sione work bf Mr. Wagner 1 his structure forms an ornament to the city, while the establish* mcnt of Mr. Mayer ranks a* one of the first manufacturers in the city and is largely patronized in this and the State of

with a constant and increas

ing trade. Mr. Vyrdagh furnished also plans for an ele-'ant school house at Greencasrlc lud., "and another for Washington Davies Co. The latter has twelve rooms 25x36 ft. and one session room 45*7^ Its costis

$35,000,

and next to the Nor

mal School.» the largest building in the State. It has a very imposing appearance.

The Posev court house, McVernon, Ind., has just been completed this year upon the plans a.id superintendence of Messrs. Vrydagh and Clark. This building was erected entirely within the estimated coat of he archi'.ecus.

J. A. Vrydagh in his spare time devotes his leasure at writing a work upon light, heat and sound ia architecture. It is to be completed early in

Casii receipts

German Parliament.

Meteoric displays in various parts of Illinois. 26 Trenton, New jersey, celebrates

1S79,

to be

submitted to an European compUilion. His brother Hippalyte of Paris, France is his collaborator.

ARTESIAN WELL.

The patronage of the bath houe connected with tne artesian well, has increased enormously duri ig the past year as the following table will show

Total number of baths touring the year: Gents Ladies

Total

BANDS.

The amusement season no-v it liei 'hth has b.-en a profitable one. uct, ou musicians can IooK,b~ck in Centennial vear with an thing but sorrow. Tout'it McKennan have had dur,.i^ the year 45 engagements ror the brass band and

lhe

slrm«

^"d.

I„ addition engagements during a Urge part of trie dan.mg masters. BANKS.

Chief among the inuitutions of the ch..racier uie city in the hearts of the [xjoplo is the jjJJ savings na.nk. young and old, rich and

It's

deposii"",,

kg*