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SATURDAY EVENING. DEC. 31, 1881.
1881.
THE LEADING EVENTS OF 1881-
Accidents and Incident Flre and flood
Politics, Literature, Commerce and
Secial Development The
Illustrious Dead.
The following record of the main events
of the year that closes te clay will be found
full of interest, and of value te preserve
for reference, It is mere tbau an index te
the Intelligencer, for this time it is an
epitome of contemporaneous history. On
our iuside pages is a resume of local hap
penings for the past twelve-mouth :
JANUARY.
1. Reck Island, 111., badly burned.
2. Extensive lires in Madisen, Wis.,
Milwaukee, New Orleans, Kingsten, N.
Y. and Canten, O.
3. Intensely cold weather in Northwest.
New Yerk tenement house lire horror.
4. Pennsylvania Legislature meets ; gov
ernor's message. Ilodge opera house,
. Lockport, N. Y. limned.
5. Chicago stores l-uiued.
G. Secretary of Navy Geff appointed.
Fatal boiler explosion in Allcntewn.
7. Strafford, N. II., hospital and in
mates burned.
8. Ausenia watch f.ict&ry, Brooklyn,
burned.
9. Fires in St. Leuis and BoynteD, Ont.
10. Smallpox attacks Wilmington, Del.
11. Water famine at Galcsburg, Ills.
12. Secretary Sherman " swinging
around."
13. Philadelphia Republicans lenemiuate
Mayer Stokley ; general senatorial nomi
nations ; Ilarrisburg Grew belt. Death
of the " Buckeye Blacksmith."
14. Ceal companies considering resump
tion. 15. Fires in Baltimeic and Norfolk. Dur
ham, N. C, badiy burned.
1G. Fatal snow slides in Utah.
17. Grant in Albany. Silk stores burned
in New Yerk.
18. Great oil fire at Peiut Breeze. Leng
legislative deadlock ever U. S. senator
begins.
19. Jehn S. Morten ii:mleucd.
20. Milten, N. II., burned out. Severe
wcathcrin England. Heuse committees
at Harrisburg anueuueed
21. Death of E. A. Sethein, actor.
23. Fatal factory the in Chicago Death
of Father Edwaul Puiccll.
23. Storms and Heeds. Disaster by river
ice.
24. Five inches of snow in Mobile.
25. Ice harvest. Snow blockades in
North Carolina.
2G Stanley Matthews named for supreme
judge.
27. Grain elevator epeunl at Pm t Royal,
S. C.
28. Big fires in Oswego, N. Y., Wcht
Point, Ga., Jacksonville, Fla. and Chi
cago. 29. Destiuctive lires. Nitre glycerine
explosion at Kinzua, McKcan county.
30. Eight Chinameu entombed in Cali
fornia by laud slide.
31. Beth Eden Baptist ehurcb, Philadel
phia, burned.
FJSBIilAICY.
1. New Yerk, Texas and Seuth Ameri
can telegraph company chartered. Ply
mouth, N. C, burned out.
2! Black smallpox devastating parts of
Dakota.
3. Gee. Smith and Carel ine Miller
hanged in Williamsport. Western Union
and American Union telegraph consolida
tion. 4. Irish members ejected from Parlia
ment and Davitt arrested.
5. Failure of Jehn Brown's Sens, Phila
delphia. Deal h of Themas Carlyle.
G. lleavy floods in Sacramento Valley,
Cal , and in New Orleans.
7. Twe uewly discovered pyramids re
ported from Egypt.
8. Fall of New Yerk Central depot,
. Buffalo.
9. Electoral vote ceuuted. Twelve
Democrats support Wolfe for senator.
Oliver and Grew withdraw.
10. Disastrous accident- en North Pcnn
railroad,
tl. February thaw, general freshets.
12. Waterbury, Conn., button works
burned.
14. Death of Fernande Weed.
14. Hanlan beats Laycock in the Londen
beat raec.
15. King elected mayor of Philadelphia.
1G. Prize Fighter Paddy Ryan arrested.
Cotten warehouses burned, Columbus,
Ga.
17. Buffalo's Palace hotel burned.
18. Numerous Southern railroad calami
ties. 19. Rufus E. Shaplcy disclosed as author
of "Mulhoely." Five negre murderers
hanged by Tennessee mob.
20. Big cotton fiie at Menree, La.
21. Linseed oil works burned, Buffalo.
Family of eight perish in a fire, Liver
pool, O.
22. Republican factions agree en Mitchell
for senator.
23. Pennsylvania railroad get control of
the P., W. & B. "
24. Sudden death of Seuater Matt Car
penter. -
25. Wall street panicky ever a tight
money market.
2G. "Blue and Gray" reunion in New
Orleans.
27. St. Patrick's orphan asylum, Scran Scran
ten, burned, and 17 children suffo
cated. 28. Feg causes numerous collisions en
New Yerk elevated railroad.
MARCH.
1,' Mardijras in the Seuth. Minnesota
state capitol burned.
2. Starvation and cattle fieezing in
Mentana.
3. Hayes vetoes the funding bill'. Bark
A jace wrecked off Rockaway.
4. Garfield inaugurated. Pearl hominy
mill burned, Baltimore.
5. New cabinet announced
6. Danville asylum burned.
7. Big fire, Springfield, Ohie.
8. Twe hundred lives lest by earth
quake en Ischia island.
9. Democratic senators fix committees.
10. Kansas City badly burned.
11. David Davis maintains his independ
ence. 12. Supt. Wickersbaai's outgoing pub
lished. Fire in Wakefield, Mass., less
$500,000.
1 Czar Alexander, of Russia, asta-.si-nated.
14. Senater Hill flays Maheue,
15. Floods in Hungary. Suicide of Gen.
Upton, U. S. A.
10. Landsharks arrested in. St. Leuis.
Oil train burned nearPettsville.
17. Correspondent Palmer expelled from
the Heuse at Harrisburg. .
16. Gee. Jenes announces $2e0,000 Grant '
fund raised. Samuel Clugsten, Valley
Ferge, killed by burglars.
19. Snow storm and blockade in Chi
cago. "
20. Training stables burned, Paris, Ky.
21. Speaker Hewit's arbitrary rulings in
the Heuse at Harrisbunr.
22. Republican-Mahone fusion en Senate
officers.
23. Nice epeia house burned.
24 Attorney General Palmer decides
against legislators' extra compensation.
25. Senate debate en Virginia politics.
26. Stock barns burned near Princeton,
N-.T.
27. Explosion and fire in Elizabeth, N.
J
28. Death of Benj. L. Temple, Philadel
phia, floods m Dakota.
29. Western storms and floods.
30. Knock-down between Representative
Kneass and Senater Gee. Handy Smith.
31. Davidsen's jewelry store, Philadel
phia, boldly robbed.
APRIL.
1. Bismarck, Dak., inundated. Fatal
boiler explosion at Tyrene.
2. Millien dollar fire in Cincinnati. Rus
sia adepts rigorous measures.
J. x.artuquaKcs in Mediterranean is
lands.
4, Mayer King inaugurated. Beacons
field's serious illness.
5. News of 2,000 Chincse massacred in
Panama. Continuing floods in Dakota.
G. Five theusaud victims of Scie earth
quake. 7. Guttenbcrg Bible sold for $8,000,
Fires in Oswego, N. Y. and Newark.
N.J.
9. F. S. Bend judicially declared P. &
R. president.
10. Mt. Vernen, Ohie, iron works
burned.
11. Explosion iu Allcntewn manufactur
ing company.
12. Heavy snow along the Hudsen.
13. Democrat municipal victories.
14. Hat factories burned in Buffalo.
15. The Czar's murderers hanged.
19. Smyrna carpet mills, Philadelphia,
burned.
17. Teriific tornadoes in Arkansas.
18. Jes. E. Tomple's gift of $25,000 for
Gen. Reynolds' monument.
19. Death of Beacensficld.
20. Floods in Desplains river, III.
21. Gewen's deferred bend scheme de
clared illegal. Railroad train, near
Clinten, la., tumbled into a torrent.
22. Susquehanna crowded with rafts at
Leck Haven.
23. Syracuse salt works burned.
24. Fires in Ogdcn, Utah, and Pittsfield,
Mass.
25. Death of James T. Fields.
20. News of $1,000,000 fire iu Pauaina.
27. Terrible floods in Minnesota. Bea Bea
censfield's will read.
28. Girard Peiut elevator, Philadelphia,
burned. Ferry beat capsizes, Elgin,
III., aud scholars drowned.
29. Pennsylvania forest fires checked by
rain.
20. Pi inters strike in New Yerk.
MAY.
1. Revolution in San Dominge.
2. Ferest lires in central Pennsylvania.
Great shad catch at Gloucester.
3. Warreu, ()., machine shops burned.
4. Billy the Kid's murderous cscaie
from Lincoln jail,
5. Jay Ceeko repurchases "Ogontz."
0. Proposed impeachment of lleyt and
Palmer.
7. Big fire, Paterseu, N. J.
8. Dersoy exposed in star reute frauds.
9. Colerado Indians ruuning off cattle
and killing ranchmen.
10. Bradlaugh asserts his right te enter
Parliament.
11. Bill Chandler's nomination laid en
the table. Niagara paper mills burned.
12. Stanley Matthews confirmed supictn.
uidire.
13. Meb law tragedies iu Misseiui.
11. Hibernian convention in St. Leuis.
Death of L. A. Gobright.
15. Particulars of Lieut. Cherry's minder
published.
1G. Conkling and Piatt resign.
17. Brookville, Vt , badly burned. Half
million dollar fire iu Nashville.
18. Robertsen confirmed collector of
New Yerk.
19. Grant opens lire ou Garfield.
20. Revised Bible under general disciu disciu
sien. 21. .Death of Cel. Thes. A. Scott.
22. British steamer Ganes suuk near
Bosten.
23. Russian revolutionists reply te the
Czai's manifesto. Fatal oil explosion in
St. Jeseph, Me.
24. Twe hundred and forty-five persons
drowned by cellapse of a steamer near
Londen, Ont.
25. Sharp senatorial cauvass in Albauy.
26. Wind storms, gales and shipwrecks.
27. Earthquake in Illinois.
28. Shoe factory, Ephring, N. II., burned
29. Cellier white lead works, St. Leuis,
burned.
30. Decoration Day.
at Bear Swamp, N. J
Railroad fatality
31. Senatorial balloting begun at Albany.
JUNE.
1. Gaffncy & Delau's dye house explo
sion, Philadelphia.
2. Train wreck and bridge fall en the
Missouri Pacific railroad.
3. Virginia Readjuster convention.
4. Death of Rev. S. R. Fisher, D. D.
5. Removal of Pcnn's rem lins te Phila
delphia refused.
G. Texas peaches in Chicago. Great
bail storm in Doadwoed.
7. ' National Millers' association iu Chi
cago. 8. Quebec devastated by fire ; less, $2,
000,000. 9. Pennsylvania Legislature adjourns.
10. Continuous rains aud heavy floods in
Western Pennsylvania.
11. Great tornadoes in Kansas. Locusts
in Illinois and Kentucky.
12. Ludington en Lake Michigan wiped
out by fire. Cyclone iu Missouri.
13. Pennsylvania appropriations discov
ered te be in excess of income. Galves
ton, Tex., badly burned.
14. Particulars published of the less of
the Panama with 70 lives.
15. Wall Street ferry bended waic waic
heuses burned.
1C. Iroquois wins the St. James slakes at
Ascot. Frest in New Yerk. Gewen's
second speech.
17. Inter-state cock fight at Cincinnati.
18.' Oil and soap works, Cincinnati,
'burned. Governer Heyt vetoes the ju
diciary bill.
19. Death of Henry S. Lane.
20. Prince Leepold enters the Heuse of
Lords.
21. Washington monument reaches alti
tude of 200 feet. Iren trade depressed.
22. Seven children born te a Tennessee
woman.
23. Baby killed by rats in Philadelphia.
24. Grant and Garfield met at Leng
Branch.
25. Fire at Judsen, Ala.
2G. Death of Hen. Henry R. Stanberry.
27. Death of DeFaure, French states
man. 28 Lofroy-Geld murder in English rail
way carriage.
29. College- commencements prevailing.
Tornado sweeps Virginia.
SO. Gov. Heyt gets in some geed, vetoes.
JULY.
1, The Delavan hotel scandal drops
Piatt from the New Yerk senatorial
contest.
2. President Garfield shot by Guiteau.
3. National excitement ever presidential
assassination.
4. Philadelphia experiment with non
explosive celebration.
e. spring City, Pa., steve works
burned.
G. Intense beat in Europe.
7. The comet divided. Brewery and
malt houses, Newark, N. J., burned.
Millien dollar fiie, Marqua & Sens baby
carriage factory, Cincinnati. Surveyors
massacred in Mexico.
8. Tobacco factory burned iu Teledo.
New Yerk Republicans agree en Lap
ham and Miller for U. S. senators.
9. Favorable reports from the presideut.
10. Fall of a church in Oaxaca, Mexico ;
fifty persons killed.
11. Fires iu Jelict, Canada, aud Louis
ville, Ky.
12. Stables and mules burned in Pitts
burgh. 13. Ohie Democrats nominate Bookw.il Beokw.il Boekw.il
tcr. Maud S. makes 2: 10J.
14. The president is going te get well.
Floods iu Iowa. Fatal laud slide iu
Cincinnati.
15. Manhattan elevated railway receivers
appointed. $10,00 stolen from a wagon
en streets of .New Yerk.
16. Lapham elected successor te Piatt.
New Ulm, Minn., devastated by tor
nado. 17. Religious massacre ou Tine islands.
18. Oil lire iu Brooklyn. Death of Dean
Stanley. "
19. Paris money n:arket pauicky. Dis
astrous fires in Michigan Iumb3r re
gions. .
20. Alarming aud fatal het weather in
the West. Celeman Miner sheeting in
New Yerk.
21. Six young Bosteuians drowned by
capsizing of yacht. Death of Prel". .1.
S. Ermcntreut.
22. Leck Haven paper mills binned.
23. Hanford, W. T., burned.
24. Earthquake iu Switzerland. Prison
tragedy, I'aducab, Ky.
25. Death of Supreme Judge Clifferd.
20. Judge Pearson sustains Attorney
General Palmer ou the salary grab.
27. Pierrepent house burned, Ceney
Islaud.
28. Garringteu, O., burned out.
29. Parliament passes laud bill.
30. Numerous fires aud explosion?.
31. Y. M. C. A. triennial confereucc,
Londen. Death of Geve Salsbury.
AUGUST.
1. Colerado iron works burned.
2. Robbery and murder of G. A. Mc
Clure, McKccspert. Death of Bishop
E. O. Havan.
3. Bradlaugh bclligcicnt and hustled
out of Parliament.
4. Truckee, Cal., and Dead weed rav
aged by lire. Spotted Tail killed by
Crew Dez.
Majority against Prohibition iu North
Carolina, 00,000. Death of Orville
Grant.
G. Fire in Orauge, N. J. Terrible heat
prevailing.
7 Press publishes Judge Black's vindi
cation. Jennie Cramer murder mys
tery, New" Haven, Conn.
8. Dr. Aguew operates en the picsident.
Big floods iu Colerado.
9. Mr. Garfield makes his siguature.
Death of Gen. Robt. Patterson.
10. Meeting of Democratic state central
committee te fix time and place of state
convention. Death of Matthew Vassar.
11. Parry beuse, Beach Haven, burned.
St. Paul's P. E. church, Erie, burned.
12. Mercury marks 108 in Illinois. Ex
plosion aud burning of Atlantic lleuriug
mills, St. Leuis.
13. Terrible accident ou Grand Trunk
railway, Ogdcnburg, N. Y.
14. Death of State Senater Jehn Coch
rane. 15. Electric li-rhts illuminate Niagara.
10. Lexington, Ky., badly burned.
17. State Democracy discussing reorgani
zation. 18. Nihilist Lee Hartmann applies for
naturalization. Foxburg, Pa., wiped
out by lire. Yale, B. C, burned.
19. International polar conference, St.
Petersburg.
20. Irviuc, Ky., burned.
21. Geve steve works, St. Leuis, burned.
22. Death of Gen. Leslie Coombs, aged
88.
23. Warner & Mcrritt's fruit warehouse,
Philadelphia, burned.
21. Car shops, Harrisburg, Tex., burned.
25. Saw mills burned near White Haven.
2U. Au anonymous lady gives $100,000 te
Princeton theological seminary.
27. Millien dollar fire, Union stock yard?,
Chicago.
28. Terrific bterrn iu Charleston, S. C.
29. Beaver Falls manufactories burned.
30. Alarming dreuth in Western Penn
sylvania. '
31. English crops destroyed by excessive
rain.
SEPTEMBER.
1. Feicht lires in Algiers. Union mail
steamer, Fcnten, and 500 souls lest off
Cape Town.
2. Death of Hen. llcndrick B. Wright.
3. Indian massacre of Gen. Carrand's
military force , near Camp Apache.
4. Destractivc drought in Virginia..
5. Preparations for removal of Garfield
te Leng Branch.
G. The president reaches Elbcren. 20
persons killed by railroad accident near
Marseilles. Remarkable mirages ou the
sea coast.
7. Ferest lires in Michigan ; awful less
of life.
S. Cameren state couventien nominates
Baily. Terrible railroad accident near
Anchorage, Ky.
9 Wolfe's Independent candidacy for
state treasurer anneunced.
10. Steamer Columbia and 15 lives lest
ou Lake Michigan.
11. Fearful suffering in the burnt dis
tricts, Michigan.
12. Twe hundred persons killed by 1 ind
slides in Switzerland.
13.
14.
15.
Death et Senater Burn3ide.
Iroquois wins the St. Lcger race.
Steve foundry burned in Trey, N.
Y.
10. $210,000 fire in Oswego, N. Y.
17. The president at death's gates.
18. Ten weed choppers drowned in Col
umbia river.
19. Death of the president.
20. President Arthur sworn in.
21. New Chinatown, Chice, Cal., burned
down.
22. Cellier white lead factory, St. Leuis,
burned. Salem, Oregon, burned.
23. The president's body laid in state
under the dome of the capitol.
24; The president's body taken from
Washington te Cleveland.
25. Drought and weed fires in northwest
ern New Yerk.
20. Burial of the president.
27. New comet discovered in constella
tion Virge.
28. Democratic convention at Williams,
pert.
29. Disastrous fire in Elmira, N. Y.
30. National baseball league at Saratoga,
N. Y.
OCTOBER.
1. Oil fire at Greenwich Point, Philadel
phia. Madisen, Neb., devastated by a
tornado.
2. Bishop O'Hara denounces graveyaid
insurance.
3. Pennsylvania supreme court reverses
twenty-two cases out of thirty-nine.
4. Guiteau formerly indicted.
5. Arrival of French visitors te York Yerk
town centennial. Continental brewery,
New Yerk, burned. Drowning of Hen.
Edw. Law. Philadelphia.
6. Damagiusr frost in Virginia. 850.-
000 barrels of crude oil burned ea the
rne railroad. St. Theresa college,
Montreal, burned.
7. Louden ex.chauge building burned.
Guiteau's autobiography published.
8. Lee Hartmann returns te Europe.
Eight monks murdered in Hungary.
9. Masscr & Keek's tannery, Allcntewn,
burned.
10. Bayanl elected president of the
Senate.
11. Cesarewitch stakc3 wen by Fexball.
Vanderbilt's stable and Merrill's store
house burned, New Yerk ; less, $2,000,-
U0O. Republicans carry Ohie and New
Yerk.
12. Oriele festival in Baltimore. ". Death
of Dr. J. G. Helland. Landcnbcrger's
mill burned,, Philadelphia; many lives
lest.
13. Ireland in a ferment ever Parnell's
arrest. Half million dollar lire, explo
sion and less of life at Kokomo, Cel.
14. Guiteau arraigned. Garfield fuud
amounts te $340,000.
15. Damage in England by hurricane.
Iroquois takes the Newmarket Derby
sweepstakes.
1G. Disastrous typhoons iu China. Race
riots in Irish cities.
17. Opening of Yorktown centcnuial
celebration.-
18. Laying of Yorktown Centennial
monument corner stone.
19. The Great Eastern sold at auction for
$150,000.
20. Disastrous floods in Iowa and Illiuei.
21. Archbishop Croke condemns the
"Ne Rent " manifesto of the Land
League. Death of the sleeping Hunga
rian at the Lehigh ceuuty almshouse.
22. Wastes and steals under Secretary of
the Treasury Sherman exposed.
23. Steamer Alexandria with thirty six
lives lest.
24. E. D. Morgan nominated for secretary
of the treasury.
25. Atterney General MacVeagh's deter
mination te withdraw from the cabinet.
Burning of Crescent brewery, Aurera,
111., and 200,000 kegs of beer,
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26.
vuuifiuiuug JIUUUn IU Aunt tli
27. Weschlcr. Abraham & Ce.'s drv
goods hliue, Brooklyn, L. I., burned
out. Morgan declining, Chas. J. Felgcr
nominated for secretary of the treasury.
28. Steamboat Gilchrist broken and up
bet at Davenport, Iowa ; seventeen lives
lest.
29. Maheue's cause referred te Arthur.
Steamer Calcutta lest, with 22 persons
en beard. Steamer Calliepe lest.
30. Twe-thirds of Edgeville, S. C,
burned, and the leading Presbyterian
church of Louisville, Ky.
31. Faihue of the Newark bank.
NOVEMBER.
1. Philadelphia revolt against besMsm ;
Shapley declares for Independent com
missioners. 2. Minnesota adjusts repudiated debt.
3. Arrival of new British minister.
Patti welcomed te New Yerk.
4. Destructive lire iu St. Jehn, N. B.
5. Danville, Ky., training stables
burned.
0. Railroad bridge, Cynthiana, Ky.,
burned.
7. Spanish Honduras suffers ten million
dollars less from floods. Statue of
Byren unveiled in Greece.
8. Election day ; Baily beats Neble for
state treasurer ; AVolfe peiling nearly
.jUjUUU votes; Kepublicans carry New
Yerk and Virginia.
9. $3,000,000 lest by Heeds areuud
Quincy, 111. Fatal fall of New Yerk
tenement house.
10. Stir reute criminals discharged. Ex Ex
tensive losses by fire, Spring Lake,
Mick ; Austin, Tex.
11. Shocking railroad accidents in Mis
souri aud Texas ; 21 convicts killed in
the latter. Woodstock, N. B., burned ;
also hotels, Modeste, Cal.
12. King of Ashantee killed two hundred
girls and mixed mortar with their bleed.
Mecca stricken with cholera epidemic.
13. Trey ferry beat capsized ; many lives
lest. Cycloue in Mississippi.
14. Guiteau put ou trial.
15. Presideut appoints Cameren's man
postmaster at McKcespert.
10. Guiteau iury sworn. Wayne Mac
Veagh's house burucd.
17. Sav.llpex ragiug in Oregon.
18. Death of Gee. Law, New Yerk.
19. The president's backbone produced
iu court.
20. Lynching of Ed. Maxwell, Durand,
Wis., and of Davis in Athens, O.
21. Commonwealth proceeds against
graveyard insurance companies. Guiteau
shot at by Bill Jenes.
22. Kccly meter company stockholders
call "time."
23. " Killing fret " in N. C.
24. Exposure of Philadelphia tax office
thefts.
25. Atlanta exposition iu full bloom.
2G. Disastrous gales in Ireland.
27. Koscuiscke, Miss., burned out.
28. Failure of American book exchange.
Rubber factory burned, EastCambiidge
Mass.
29. Tariff convention in New Yerk.
30. Newman's framing establishmeut,
Philadelphia, burned. Ste:k barns and
Helstcin cattle burned, Geneva, N. Y.
DECEMBER.
1. Poughkcepsie glass works burned.
2. Iowa Frce Trade lcague organized.
3. Republican caucus agrees ou Keifer
for speaker.
4. Meeting of Congress ; Kcifer elected
speaker.
5. President's message.
G. News of J. I). Kilpatrick's death.
7. French crown jewels for sale.
8. Vienna Ring theatre burned ; 600 lives
lest.
9. Death of Cel. Jehn W. Ferney. G
lives lest by colliery explosion, Brussels.
10. Railroad shanty and dozen laborers
burned near Pittsburgh.
11. Fatal railroad collision near Londen.
12. Yellow fever in San Dominge and
the Barbadoes. President announces
White Heuse hours.
13. Storms en. Atlantic ; rough voyages
for steamers from Europe.
14. Intense cold in Manitoba.
15. Feast of bull fights, San Guadaleupe,
N. M.
1G. Fire iu Newark, N. J. ; Columbus,
O., opera house, and Orange, N. J.,
hat factory burned. B. H. Brewster
appointed attorney general.
17. Terrible hurricane m Tunis.
18. Extensive fires in New Yerk, Cincin
nati, Albany, Montreal and Newburg,
N. Y., St. Paris, Ohie, Cleveland and
Lerain. -Plaster cast of Guiteau's head
taken.
19. Colliery explosion at Bolten, Eng. ;
many lives lest.
20. Howe nominated for postmaster gen
eral. Fire in West Bay City, Mich.
Smallpox in Chicago.
21. Keifer names the Heuse committees.
Return Tinker Meuat sentenced in Phil
adelphia. 23. The Jeannette survivors heard from
via Russia.
23. King Leuis of Bavaria missing. Fire
at Red Bank, N. J.
24. Steamer Granger burned near Char
leston, 8. C. Graveyard insurance poli
cies cremated in Berks.
25. Panic in a ehurcb, Warsaw ; 40 lives
lest.
26. Christmas jollity resulting in a cycle
of crimes and disaster.
27. Moravia, Iowa, burned. Steamer ex
plosion at West Point, W. Va. : 19 lives
lest.
28. Smallpox in Dakota. Fires in Balti
more and Augusta, Me.
29. Floods in the rivers. Guiteau put
into the prisoner's deck. Three vessels
foundered in Mediterranean gales ; 100
lives lest.
31. The complete news of the day will be
found en our second and third pages.
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I found Dr. Bull's Cough Syrup te be a most
effectual remedy, and leel sure that the most
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Alt?. t. IS75.
Experleatla vocal.
We must tell sorae men a great deal te teach
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read te health. Trice $1. Fer oale at II. II.
Cochran's drug store, 137 North Queen street,
Lancaster.
A Baptist Minister's Experience.
I inn a Baptist Minister, and before 1 even
thought et being a clergyman, I graduated in
medicine, but left a lucrative practice for my
present profession, 40 years age. I was ler
many years a sufferer from quinsy ; "Thema
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will take a small teaspoon and hair nil It with
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one nostril and draw the OU out of thcsjHxm
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STOATS, DOLMANS, JACKETS.
WATT.SHAND&C0.
Have opened another choice line of thes
Klegant Clese-Filling
LIGHT COLORED
COATS and JACKETS
AT THICKS LOWER THAN EVER
BARGAINS IN
DRESS GOODS
Twe Cases DAMMASSK DRKSS GOO US
At 8c. and 10c. a yard.
One Case UEKSTKIt SUITING, Sfie. a yard
One Case ALL-WOOL CLOTH SUITING,
25c. a yard.
We offer the very best possible value In
BLACK CASHMERES
At 35, 45, SO, 02 1-2, 75, 87 1-Xc, SI a yaid.
All the New Shades in 3-lNCH
All-Weel CASHMERES. 50c. a vd.
I.udies', Gentlemen's and Clillilren'a Mfc
KINO anil ALL-WOOL
.. HOSIERY AND UNDERWEAR
In all sizes and qualities at bottom prices.
Wc have again received a full line or
BLANKET AND THIBET SHAWLS
at the same Lew Trice.
COUSETS GLOVES, LACES. EMBROID
ERIES. RIBBONS. HANDKERCHIEFS,
KOTIOXS,
IN ENDLESS VARIETY AT
NEW YORK STORE
8 & 10 E. KING STREET.
iriSIT OUK STOKE,
DAY OR EVENING.
CHRISTMAS
GIFTS
IN
FANCr ARTICLES.
LARGE REDUCTIONS
WILL HE MADE. AS WE DO NOT
D1STLAY THIS CLASS OF GOODS AFTER
HOLIDAY WEEK.
AND WE LIKE TO CLOSE OUR
ENTIRE STOCK EACH SEASON.
J. B. MARTIN & CO.,
DRY GOODS,
CARPETS,
WALL PAPERS,
CHINA,
GLASS AND
QUEENSWARE.
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