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March 22d, the Kentucky Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, with head- quarters at Louisville, was incorporated.
A negro named Thomas Smith was hanged on the common between Fourteenth and Fifteenth streets, south of the shops of the Nashville rail- road, for murder. About seven thousand people viewed the execution.
Judge John E. Newman died at Louisville, April 2, aged fifty-three. We are again indebted to the industry of Mr. Collins for a notice :
Born in Spencer county, November 19, 1819; practiced law at Smithland until 1850, and was Commonwealth's attorney and county judge; then at Bardstown; was elected circuit judge for six years, 1862-68, and during this time was ten- dered a seat on the court of appeals bench, to fill a vacancy, but declined ; removed to Louisville in 1868, and continued the practice; was author of a valuable work on pleading and practice, published in 1871, and compiled a digest which is yet unpublished.
April 10th, the statistics of the season's pork- packing were made up. Three hundred and five thousand hogs were packed during the last winter season, over 400,000 pieces of green meat bought in other markets, for "fancy ham " curing; thirteen firms cured 998,814 hams, of which about 15,000 were dry cured, and the rest sweet pickle.
At the Exposition Hall, April 2 1st, the colored people celebrated the first anniversary of the adoption of the Fifteenth Amendment, An im- mense audience of blacks and whites was ad-
dressed, afternoon and evening, by Frederick Douglass and others.
April 24th, the construction of the new alms- house was awarded to contractors, for the total sum of $149,968.
May 6th, the Kentucky State Homoeopathic Medical Society was organized at Louisville.
On the 19th, the first installment of the new Government postal cards (5,000) was received, and all sold within an hour.
On the 2 1st the Fifth Annual Convention of the American Society of Civil Engineers was held here.
May 23d, Mr. J. B. Wilder, of Louisville, be- comes President of the Louisville, Cincinnati & Lexington Railroad, vice General John Echols, of Virginia, resigned.
The graves of the Confederate dead at Louis- ville were decorated May 24th. The Federal graves were similarly decorated on the 30th. There were then over four thousand soldiers' graves in Cave Hill Cemetery.
A tornado, with terrific lightning, passed over the city on the 27th, doing much mischief.
A temporary organization of the Central Uni- versity, the seat whereof had been fixed at An- chorage, in this county, was had here on the 29th. The order locating the University was soon after revoked.
The State Dental Society met in Louisville June 3d, 4th, and 5th.
July 2d, some premium tobacco, from Owen county, sold here for $31.50 to $33 per hundred- weight.
On the 12th a notable concert was given in the Exposition Building, by the band of the King of Saxony. An offer of $35,000, to play during the next Exposition, was accepted con- ditionally by the Band ; but the requisite consent of the King could not be secured.
On the night of the 12th occurred three fires, one of which, adjoining the Public Library Building, was serious, and came near destroying the latter. Total loss by the fires, $84,000 ; in- sured, $67,000. There were also two fire-alarms; and so great fear was excited by an apparently concerted effort to burn the city that the Mayor telegraphed to Cincinnati for more steam fire- engines, which were sent promptly by special train.
On the 26th the Trustees of the Public Li-
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brary made a gift to the Printing House for the Blind of a sufficient sum to print Robinson Crusoe upon its presses in raised letters.
Several deaths from cholera occurred in the city this month. Twenty-one in all died between June 12th and August 16th, and several in the next four weeks.
The second Exposition was held September 2d to October 11th, and was even a greater suc- cess than the other.
September 15th, an outrageous swindle was perpetrated upon two of the Louisville banks by a pair of scamps, with forged letters of intro- duction. They succeeded in getting $6,500 from one and $4,500 from another. 'The fellow who perpetrated the latter swindle was captured, and the money recovered ; but the other escaped with his plunder.
On the 22d a convention of the Kentucky veterans of the war with Mexico was held in the city.
An important meeting of five commissioners from each State bordering upon the Ohio was held in Louisville October Ist and 2d. The re- sults were the adoption of a memorial to Con- gress for the improvement of the Tennessee River, also a resolution urging upon the United States Engineer Department the importance of widening to one hundred feet the cut-pass down the Falls of the Ohio, and other resolutions of a liberal and commercial character.
The Colored Central or High School was dedicated October 5th, at the corner of Ken- tucky and Sixth streets.
The same day the oldest hemp-bagging factory in the country-that of Richardson, Henry & Company-was burned. Loss, $70,000 ; insur- ance, $42,750.
On the 11th a ball was given by the Italian Brotherhood of Louisville, to celebrate the dis- covery of America by their countryman Christo- pher Columbus.
About the last of September most of the Louisville banks had suspended cash payments, in consequence of the panic caused by the fall of the great banking-house of Jay Cooke & Company, at Philadelphia; but they resumed payment by October 13th.
On that day the new Macauley's Theatre was opened to the public.
On the 15th two deaths from yellow fever oc-
curred in the city. The cases had come from Memphis.
On the 16th, at 7:15 P. M., a terrific explosion occurred at the northwest corner of the city hall, throwing up the flagstones, some of them of great size and height, for sixty feet on Sixth street and one hundred and fifty on Congress alley.
The Masonic Grand Lodge of the State met in the city October 2 Ist.
October 25th $30,000 had been collected in Kentucky, mostly in Louisville, for the relief of the yellow fever sufferers in Memphis, and Dr. Luke P. Blackburn, a Louisville physician, now Governor of the State, went personally to render service to the afflicted city.
The committee of the United States Senate, appointed to inquire as to the canal around the Falls, was at Louisville October 28th. Their observations are reported in our chapter on the canal.
October 29th died Philip Tomppert, Sr., a native of Wurtemberg and Mayor of Louisville 1865-69. He was aged sixty-five years.
The aggregate inspection of tobacco here from November 1, 1872, to October 31, 1873, inclu- sive, was 53,607 hogsheads. Sales, $5,775,983.
November 3d the city was visited by the young Augustin Iturbide, heir-apparent to the Mexican throne under Maximilian. His mother, Madame Iturbide, ex-Minister Thomas H. Nelson, and other persons of distinction were with him.
November 11th, the Minett Orphan Asylum, incorporated by the last Legislature, was organ- ized under the will of Julius Cæsar Minett, de- ceased, its founder. It was expected to be mainly a colored asylum, though open to all or- phaned children.
Colonel Clarence Prentice, only surviving son of George D. Prentice, aged thirty-three, was killed November 15th, by being hurled violently from his buggy a few miles south of Louisville.
The North American Beekeepers' Society met in convention in Louisville December 3d and 4th.
December 20th, the Legislature provided that a diploma from the Law Department of the University shall have full force and effect as a license to practice law in the State.
On the 30th the Ohio River Bridge Company declared a dividend of six per cent.
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1874-PRINCIPAL MATTERS.
The Directory of this year contains 41,496 names-an increase of 2,703, as against 1873.
March 14th, a contract was awarded for com- pleting the main building and south wing of the Masonic Widows' and Orphans' Home, at $48,- 720. The north wing was already finished and occupied, and it was hoped to complete the whole the next year, at a total cost of $105,000, when it would accommodate five hundred in- mates. On the 25th of January, 1873, there were sixty-seven orphans in the building; one hundred and seventeen at the date above given. The Home was then reputed to be the only success- ful institution of the kind in the country.
The Saints Mary and Elizabeth Hospital was opened this year, June rst, on Magnolia avenue, at the corner of Twelfth street. It was the gift of Mr. Shakespeare Caldwell, and is in charge of the Sisters of Charity.
The new Alms-house was opened in the fall, upon the site previously selected, about five miles south of the Court-house, on the Louisville, Paducah & Southwestern Railroad and the Seventh street Turnpike. It cost $210,000. This building was burned in 1879, and subse- quently rebuilt.
MINOR EVENTS ..
January roth the Western B'nai Berith lodges met in convention at the Liederkranz Hall.
February 9th, Dr. Henry Miller, President of the Louisville Medical College, died; 23d, the temperance crusade was opened in the city; 25th, the steamer Belfast became unmanageable while running the falls, struck a rock near the cement mill, and sank-loss, $47,000.
March 8th, Calvary Episcopal church was con- secrated; 19th, an Architects' Association was or- ganized; 29th, the Vaudeville Theatre burned.
April 20th, a negro riot occurred.
May Ist, the General Conference of the Methodist Episcopal church opened in Library Hall; 5th, Schuff, Wagner & Rick's tannery burned; 6th, the Kentucky Prison Reform Asso- ciation was organized, with headquarters in Louis- ville; 22d, the steamer Allegheny Belle sank at Portland, from striking a loaded barge; 27th, the Kentucky Christian Church Convention and the Convention of the Episcopal Diocese of Ken- tucky met.
June 19th, died the widow of John James Audubon, naturalist, and a former resident of Louisville.
July 30th, the Texas editors visit the city.
August rst, occurred the most exciting elec- tion ever known here; 5th, General Confer- ence of African Methodist Episcopal Church; 16th, Bishop Miles, colored, preaches in the Walnut Street Methodist Episcopal Church, the first case of a colored preacher in a white church known here; 29th, the Merchants' and Manu- facturers' Exchange was organized.
September 1st, the Third Annual Exposition was opened; 8th, the American Pharmaceutical Association met ; 9th, meeting of the pork-packers of the United States; 13th, the new Second Presbyterian church was dedicated.
October 13th, annual meeting of the Grand Lodge Independent Order of Good Templars; 19th, of the Grand Lodge of Royal Arch Masons; 20th, convention of agitators for the re- moval of the National Capital.
November 4th, meeting of the State Grange of Patrons of Husbandry; 12th, election of the Rev. Dr. Thomas Dudley Bishop of the State Episcopal Diocese; 13th, meeting of the Presby- terian Synod; 16th, the western outfall sewer was formally opened; 23d, the Merchants' and Manufacturers' Exchange was opened; 29th, the Reformed Episcopal church was dedicated.
THE EMINENT DEAD.
Elisha Applegate, the venerable citizen named in our record for 1872, died about May 25th of this year, aged ninety-two years and two months. A brief biographical sketch of him is elsewhere given. The growth of the trade to which he had devoted most of his life, is thus graphically set forth in the preamble to the resolutions adopted concerning his death by the Louisville Tobacco Board of Trade, from which we extract the following :
He had the satisfaction of seeing Louisville expand to its present magnificent dimensions, and the tobacco trade to in- crease from a few hundreds of hogsheads a year to sixty thousand, and warehouse facilities from a small shed on Main street, in which he did all the business of the city, to eight large and capacions warehouses, required to accom- modate this large and growing trade.
Mr. Applegate was designated in this pret amble as "the oldest member of the tobacco lade in our city, if not in the State."
On the 15th of July died D. S. Benedict, a
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resident of the city since 1819, and one of the most active and successful steamboatmen the city has ever had. His first services on the Western waters were in 1822-23, as clerk of the Plowboy, and afterwards of the Huntress. He was then made master of the Dove, but shortly after became clerk and then captain of the Diana No. I. He had soon a share in the ownership of the Diana Nos. 2 and 3 and of the General Browne, and subsequently, while head of the mercantile house of Benedict, Carter & Co., which he founded in 1830, at the corner of Main and Bullitt streets, or at other times, be- came entire or part owner of the Talma, the Alice Grey, Alice Scott, Ringgold, General Lane, Falcon, Lexington, Fanny Smith, Georgetown, W. B. Clifton, Fanny Bullitt, Mary Hunt, Ni- agara, Empress, Eclipse, E. H. Fairchild, H. D. Newcomb, Magenta No. 1, Peytonia, Autocrat, and other well-known steamers. In 1853 he was made president of the branch of the Commercial Bank of Kentucky, when it was established here. His later years were spent mainly in the duties of President of several of the local in- surance companies.
The Rev. Father Abell, of the Roman Cath- olic church, died in Louisville this year. An adequate notice of him will be given in another chapter.
1875.
The number of names upon the city directory of this year was 40,965.
SUMMARY OF EVENTS.
January 3, death of the Hon. M. R. Hardin, ex-chief justice of the court of appeals ; 8th death of General George W. Chambers ; 11th, meeting of the Bricklayers' National union; 12th, death of ex-Governor Thomas E. Bram- lette; 16th, of Rev. Charles I .. Daubert ; 20th, of Dr. T. L. Caldwell; 23d, of Colonel W. P. Boone.
February 7, the Sunday Globe is started; 9th, first celebration of Mardi Gras in the city ; 1och, beginning of the Whittle and Bliss revival.
March 5, death of J. M. S. McCorkle, P. G. M. and G. S. of the grand lodge of Free Ma- sons; 8th, death of Flora Dupee, aged one hun- dred and four; 21st, dedication of the College Street Presbyterian church.
April 3, Dr. W. E. Gilpin killed by an overdose of chloroform; 18th, heavy snow storm, cold so severe as to produce ice of an inch in thickness; 30th, visit of Vice-President Wilson.
May 4, meeting of the American Medical Association; 10th, State Republican convention and nomination of John M. Harlan for Governor; 17th, first races under direction of Louisville Jockey Club ; 21st, death of Colonel W. F. Bullock, Jr.
June 2, heavy wind storm, blowing down part of Masonic Home and Baptist Orphans' Home, and doing much other damage; 13th, death of Dr. Lewis Rogers; 16th, City Auditor John M. O'Neil drowned at the Falls.
July 4, the steamer James D. Parker sinks on the Falls, but is soon raised; 12th, death of Col- onel Philip Lee, prosecuting attorney; 15th, death of Mrs. Helen Stansberry, aged one hundred years and seven months; 16th, another great storm, unroofing several houses.
August 7, the river reached the highest point ever known in this month, inundating houses from Third to Seventh street (height at head of canal, 321/2 feet ; at foot of Falls 56); 17th, the Avery Institute was organized.
September 1, opening of the Fourth Industrial Exposition ; 14th, boiler explosion at Nadal & Sons' kindling wood factory, killing the engineer and one other; 25th, death of M. Kean, pro- prietor of the Louisville Hotel.
October 1, burning of the Fourth street coffin works, one man killed and five injured by an ex- plosion ; roth, death of Captain J. F. Huber ; 12th, meeting of grand lodge Independent Order Good Templars; 19th, of grand lodge Free and Accepted Masons.
November 17, City Hall tower nearly con- sumed by fire, loss about $10,000, and meeting of National Grange Patrons of Husbandry; 14th, organization of the Clearing House Asso- ciation ; 27th, Miss Mary Anderson, tragic actress, makes her debut at Macauley's as " Ju- liet."
December 2, partial burning of the Broadway Baptist church; 7th, total vote for Mayor, 20,- 834, the largest polled in the city to that date ; 13th, Monks & Monks' tannery partially burned -loss $12,000.
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1876.
January 2d, the Bethel Methodist Epis- copal church was dedicated; 3d, the Clear- ing House commenced operations; 30th, very high water in the Ohio, and damage to property on river front; reaching thirty-five and a half feet above the canal, and fifty-nine and a half be: low it.
February Ist, great storm, and heavy loss of coal on the river; 6th, dedication of Wesley Methodist Episcopal Mission building; 8th, dis- astrous fire on Fourth street, Miss Schultz's store; 29th, Mardi Gras celebration.
March Ist, Messrs. Hall and Cree, evangelists, begin their work; 20th, the Louisville Abstract and Loan association is incorporated.
May 10th, Clark's tobacco factory, at Rowan and Thirteenth, burned; 11th, the Western Unitarian conference begins its session; 13th, Dom Pedro, Emperor of Brazil, makes a short stay; 16th, the splendid new Courier-Journal building is formally opened; 17th, the Western Farmers' association meets; 18th, session of the Republican State convention, which recommends General B. H. Bristow for the Presidency; 22d, dedication of the Kentucky Infirmary for Women and Children: 23d, twenty-second annual con- vention of the Right Worthy Grand Lodge of the Independent Order of Good Templars opens, and the corner-stone of the Broadway Taber- nacle is laid; 24th, the State Baptist association meets; 25th, the Democratic State convention; 26th, second burning of the Vaudeville theater.
June 6th, sixth annual convention of the Ken- tucky Dentists' association; 27th, State Conven- tion of Prohibitionists.
July 8th, death of the brilliant young lawyer and member of Congress, Edward Young Par- sons, aged thirty-three; 17th, incorporation un- der general laws of the Louisville Eye and Ear Infirmary.
September 24th, slight shocks of earthquake.
October 10th, thirteenth annual meeting of the Grand Lodge Independent Order of Good Templars ; 17th, Grand Lodge of Masons, and great fire at the corner of Eighth and Main- loss above $200,000; 24th, Grand Lodge of Odd Fellows; 25th, meeting of Southern and Northwestern general railway ticket agents.
November 2d, contract to build Crescent Hill reservoir; 7th, greatest excitement ever known
here over Presidential election ; 12th, rededica- tion of the Broadway Baptist church.
December 9th, organization of the Polytechnic society; 12th, meeting of the State Grange in Louisville.
The city Directory for 1876 bore forty-four thousand five hundred and sixty-two names, and for 1877 forty-five thousand five hundred and sixty-four.
1877.
Remarkably cold weather in January, the thermometer reaching fourteen degrees below zero. An enormous ice gorge formed in the river, which broke on the 14th. A flood came directly after, reaching on the 21st the height of thirty and a half feet above and fifty-four and a half feet below the Falls. On the 18th the Dem- ocratic State Convention re-assembled to discuss the Presidential situation; 24th, partial destruc- tion by fire of the Louisville Mantel and Casket Works.
February 13th, burning of the Ninth street African Methodist Episcopal church ; 25th, dedi- cation of the Knights Templars' Hall, in the Courier-Journal building.
March 18th, dedication of the Campbell street Christian church.
April 3d, State Medical Convention; 10th, session of the State Grand Lodge Knights of Honor.
May Ist, the withdrawal of Federal troops, by the President's order, from Louisiana and South Carolina, was celebrated; 31st, death of Judge John Joyes.
June 6th, meeting of the International Young Men's Christian Association; 11th, $12,000 sub- scribed toward the erection of a building for the local association.
July 10th, opening of the National Sangerfest at the Exposition Building. July 23d, beginning of labor troubles in the city; riots on the 24th and 25th.
August 14th, the National Education Society assembles.
September 4th, the fifth Industrial Exposition opens; 12th, the City Brewery burns; September 15th, Governor Wade Hampton, of South Caro- lina, arrives to visit the Exposition, and is
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welcomed; also President Hayes and Cabinet on the 27th.
October 9th, Grand Lodge Independent Order of Good Templars; 16th, Grand Lodge Free and Accepted Masons, and Most Worthy High Court of the World of Foresters; 23d, Grand Lodge of Odd Fellows.
November 3d, Taylor & Herr's tobacco factory and McIlvain's whisky establishment consumed; Ioth, death of the Rev. Dr. Lowry; 15th, visit of a delegation of civilized Chickasaw In- dians; 8th, Cochran & Fulton's whisky house burned.
The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary was removed to the city this year from Green- ville, South Carolina. Two new public school- houses were erected, being that on Grayson street, between Twenty-second and Twenty-third, and that on Overhill, between Broadway and Underhill. The Second Ward house was doubled in capacity.
1878.
January 9th, telephone communication was had with Nashville; 13th, reorganization of the Merchants' and Manufacturers' Exchange; 22d, the first Handel and Haydn concert in Louisville.
February 5th, death of Dr. L. P. Yandell, Sr., aged seventy-three; 13th, commemoration ser- vices at the Cathedral, in honor of Pius IX .; 14th, meeting of the Western Wholesale Drug- gists' Association.
March 12th, death of the venerable Scotch poet, Hugh Ainslie; 17th, burning of the Chess, Carley & Co. oil factory; 24th, explosion of the same firm's great oil-tank.
April rst, laying of the corner-stone of St. Vincent's (Catholic) Church; roth, session of the Grand Lodge of Knights of Honor; 28th, the Citizens' Reform Association organizes.
May 16th, burning of John Fleck's oil factory. June roth, the Tabernacle, at Fourth and Broadway, is dedicated.
July 18th, formation of the American Ladies' Industrial Guild; 19th, death of five persons in the city from excessive heat.
August 7th, completion of the J. M. White, considered the most elegant steamer on the
Western waters; 21st, visit of the Pennsylvania, Ohio, and West Virginia Press Association, and brilliant reception at the Galt House on the 22d. September 4th, opening of the Exposition.
October 8th, opening of the Louisville College of Pharmacy; 9th, the Kentucky editors visit the Exposition; 22d, meeting of the Grand Chapter of Royal Arch Masons; 24th, dedica- tion of the Masonic Widows' and Orphans' Home ; 25th, opening of the Masonic Grand Lodge.
November 12th, death of George P. Doern, of the Anzeiger and Evening News; 15th, or- ganization of the Louisville Association for the Suppression of Vice; 26th, death of R. M. Cunningham, Cashier of the First National Bank.
December 2d, introduction of the electric light into Kelly's ax factory ; 5th, death in Cincinnati of Ben Casseday, an old resident of Louisville, and author of a history of the city; 8th, Davis's new theater completed (opened on the 19th); Ioth, the new Workhouse accepted by the city; 16th, the new hall at Phoenix Hill Park opened; 17th, ovation to O'Meagher Condon by the Irish citizens.
There were 46,570 names on the City Direc- tory.
1879.
January 16th, the ferryboat Wathen was car- ried by the current against the bridge, and the steamer Hobson was sunk.
February Ist, a fire broke out at the Alms- house, with fatal results; 3d, three sons of Mrs. Elizabeth Heinrich were drowned near the Water-works; 8th, the Louisvillle Confederate Historical Association was organized ; 21st, death of Robert J. Ormsby.
May 16th, the General Assembly of the South- ern Presbyterian Church began its annual con- vocation in the Second Presbyterian meeting- house, and remained in session until the 24th ; 17th, the first annual meeting of the Woman's Missionary Society of the Methodist Episcopal Church South was opened ; 23d, a large fire oc- curred at Second and Breckinridge streets.
July 29th, death of Judge Bland Ballard, and another fire at Adams & Fulton; loss, $24,000.
August 28th, the State Convention of Colored Teachers met in Louisville.
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September 2d, Seventh Annual Exposition was opened; 9th, the American Mechanical, Agricultural, and Botanical Association opened its session.
October 15th, annual meeting of the Grand Lodge of the Independent Order of Good Tem- plars ; 16th, the Baptist State Sunday-school Convention.
November 5th, Kentucky High Court of For- esters meets.
December 10th, General Grant visits the city, and is publicly received ; 14th, the new res- ervoir, of 10,000,000 gallons capacity, was com- pleted, and water was let in for the first ; 17th, the new Almshouse was finished and turned over to the city; 22d, the cotton compress and ware- house was opened.
The City Directory of this year bore 49,450 names.
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