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| grossed the Senate bill, permitting women to vote tor schoot commit- tee, by a vote of 120 to 69.
10. Hon. Charles II. Bell, ap- pointed by the governor of New Hampshire U. S. Senator from that State, was admitted to a seat in the Senate, by a vote of 35 to 28.
13. Easter Sunday.
14. The Czar of Russia was shot at several times in St. Petersburg, but escaped harin. The would-be assassin was arrested.
14. Barnabee, Whitney, Tom Karl, Miss Mary Beebe, George Frothinghamn, and other musical celebrities appeared this evening, at the Boston Theatre, in II. M. S. Pinafore.
14. Windsor Howe, of Bolton Centre, Mass., died, aged 102 years, 8 months, and 19 days.
14. Park Theatre was opened to the public, in Boston, this evening.
15. Vice-President Wheeler hav- ing been called away by the siek- ness of his sister. Senator Thurman was elected president pro. tem. of the Senate.
16. J. Truman Burdick elected mayor of Newport, R. I., by a majority of SO. The question of a new City Hall voted down by a majority of 631.
16. Prof. William B. Rogers. of Boston, elected president of the National Academy of Science.
16. Dr. Chalfant, the supposed murderer of Josiah Baeon, treas- urer of the Goodyear Dental Vul- canite Co., of Boston, who was found dead in his room at the Baldwin Hotel, in San Francisco, on the thirteenth instant, has sur- rendered himself, and confesses to have killed Bacon, but that the aet was unintentional, and caused by an accidental discharge of a pistol.
17. Rev. Dr. Duryea installed as pastor of the Central Congrega- tional Church, in Boston.
17. A syndicate, composed of nineteen banks and banking firms of Boston and New York. made a subscription of $150,000,000 United Staies four per cent. bonds and $40,000,000 finding certificates, the largest bid ever made to the treas- ury department.
18. The town of Eurcka, Neb .. destroyed by fire, rendering two thousand people homeless; loss about $1,000,000.
18. A severe storm, comprising rain, hail, snow and wind, with swollen rivers and tidal waves,
10. The Massachusetts House of ; Insting all day and night, extended Representatives passed to be en- ! over most of New England.
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20. Rev. Henry H. Northrop, for- merly of Schenectady, N. Y., com- menced his ministry with the Rich- mond-street Free Congregational Church, Providence.
21. The corner-stone for a new chapel at Fruit Hill, North Provi- dence, was laid to-day.
21. Gen. John A. Dix died at his home in New York, aged 80 years and 9 months
22. The one hundred and fourth anniversary parade of the United Train of Artillery, Providence, took place to-day.
23. While Edwin Booth was performing in McVicker's Tl:catre, Chicago, he was shot at by a young man, named Mark Gray, who is thought to be insane. Mr. Booth was uninjured.
23. John Shaw, an itinerant dealer in peanuts, living at Tooleville, Providence, was murdered by his drunken wife.
24. Two thousand persons have been arrested at St. Petersburg, by order of the Government, within the past few days.
24. Senator Conkling made a speech in the Senate on the army appropriation bill. He was listened to for three hours, and among his anditors were five members of the Cabinet.
24. Conductor Ifartwell, on trial at Dedham for manslaughter. in killing Patrick J. Reagan at the Wollaston railroad disaster, was brought in guilty.
25. Large meeting of citizens in Faneuil Hall this noon, to express sympathy with the negroes wi:o are leaving the South, and to coni- plete arrangements for substantial aid to the exodus. Gov. Talbot and others addressed the meeting.
25. The civil damage liqnor bill was enacted in the Massachusetts Legislature to-day.
25. Early this morning the La- conia, N. H., National Bank was rubbed by burglars of notes, bonds, and money to the value of $150,000. The bank loses about $6,000.
25. Bishop Edwin R. Ames, of the M. E Church, died in Balti- more, Md., aged 74 years.
. Col. W. M. Lowe, represen- tative to Congress from Alabama, sent a challenge to fight a duel to Sen itor Logan, who refused to accept the missive.
Dr. Lorimer preached his farewell sermon at Tremont Tem- ple. Boston.
29. Gorham, N. II., has a great fire, nearly destroying the business portion of the town ; loss 250,000.
28. The men who have been im- prisoned over four days in a mine at Wilkesbarre, Pa., were to-day resened alive and well. Mule meat and a running brook bad relieved them of their immediate neces- sitios.
28. At the Methodist conference in Portland, resolutions were adopted requesting bishops not to transfer any man into the confer- ence who uses tobacco.
28 and 29. In Orenburg. Russia. a fire consumes 949 dwellings, 1 mosque, 4 mills, 292 shops, 10 churches, Court House, market, club houses, and other buildings. creating great suffering and loss.
29. Russia is in a state of terror, on account of the Ninilists, and military rule is virtually estab- lished in the empire.
29. The assembly at Tirnova elected Prince Battenberg, Prince of Bulgaria.
30. Gov. Talbot signed the civil damage liquor bid.
30. Mrs. Sarah J. Hale, fifty years editress of Godey's Lady's Book, died in Philadelphia, aged 88 years.
30. The Mass. Legislature, which has been in session since January 1, adjourned to-day.
May.
1. Charles F. Freeman, a Second Adventist, living at Pocasset, in Sandwich, Mass., killed his little danghter, five years old, he claim- ing to have a revelation from heav- en commanding him to do the deed. He and his wife planned and car- ried out the " sacrifice." They were arrested, and taken to jail.
1. James H. Field, of the firm of Field & Cory, Providence, com- mitted suicide.
2. The complimentary benefit to Carl Zerrahn, on the completion of his twenty-fifth year as conductor of the Handel and Haydn Society, took place at Music Hall this evening, when " Elijah" was per- formed.
3. William E. Gilmore, a well- known musician in Providence, dropped dead in a store at Paw- tucket. He was in his fifty-sixth year.
3. Prof. H. A. Appelles, a mem- ber of the American Band, Provi- dence, died of apopiexy, in Paw- tucket. in his sixty-sixth year.
4. William H. Ayer, chief of police in Providence, died, aged 39 years.
7. " Red" Leary, one of the Northampton Bank robbers. es-
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caped from Ludlow-street Jail, | 21. The widow of Daniel P. New York, by aid of his friends. Stone gives 825,000 to the Boston Y. M. C. Association.
7. The voting on the question of a new constitution in California resulted in its adoption, by a mi- jority of from 6,000 to 10,000.
8. Lorillard's " Parole" won the great Chester handicap stakes at Cheshire, England.
10. Francis E. Ilayden, of Fitch- burg, arrested on a complaint charging him with poisoning his sister, Miss Sarah E. Muyden.
10. Rear-Admiral Enoch G. Parrott died in New York city. He entered the navy in Is3l, and was commissioned rear-admiral in 1873.
11 and 12. In Pennsylvania. New York, Vermont, and New Hampshire, and in other states, thousands of acres of woodland have been burned over.
12. The bill, entitled "An act to prohibit military interference at elections," is returned to the House without the President's signature, and it fails to become a law.
12. The trial of Mr. Talmage before the Brooklyn Presbytery has ended, and the complaint has been dismissed.
13. The season, which has been unusually backward, made a spurt to-day, sending the mercury up among the eighties in Boston, while in some localities one hun- dred degrees in the shade were registered.
16. Ilenry J. Cross, city treas- urer of Salem, committed suicide in his office, at the City Hall. Ile was 56 years old.
17. The jubilee anniversary of Grace Church took place in Provi- dence. Bishop Clark gave an his torical address, and interesting ser- vices were held on Sunday, the sixteenth.
18. Rear-Admiral Gordon, on the retired list of the U. S. Navy. died at Bloise. France. He entered the navy in 1819, and was commis- sioned rear-admiral in 1866.
19. The heroic condnet of Capt. Isaac F. Mayo, of Provincetown, and his boat's crew, who resened the survivors on the wreck of the schooner Surah J Furt, at Peaked Ilili Bars, Cape Cod, April 4, has been neknowledged by the presen- tation of a silver medal to each man by the Humane Society of Massachusetts.
20. The directors of the Fitch- burg Railroad vote to withdraw from the agreement made with the Hoo'ne Tunnel line, on account of too high to !! 4.
22. The police parade took place in Boston to-day, and over five hundred men were in line.
24. William Lloyd Garrison died this evening, at the residence of his daughter, in New York, aged 74 yours, 5 months, and 12 days.
26. It was announced in the English Parliament to-day that a trenty with the Ameer ot Afghan- istan had been signed.
26. Charles H. Huit was in- stalled chief of police, in Provi- denee.
27. The one hundredth anni- versary of the birth of Thomas Moore, which occurs to-morrow, was connuemorated by a banquet at the Parker House this evening.
28. . The funeral of Win. Lloyd Garrison took place in the church at Eliot square, Roxbury. Wendeil Phillips delivered an oration, and addresses were made by Theodore Weld, Rev. Samuel May, Sanmel Johnson, and Imney Stone. The singing was by a colored quartette. 29. The President's veto message of the Legislative appropriation bill was received and read in the Honse, und the veto was sustained.
30. Decoration Day was gener- ally observed throughout the coun- try, and with an increased devotion to the perpetuntion of the memory of the gallant dead.
30. The American horse, Parole, won the Epsom gold cup in Eng- land.
June.
1. A confession of one of the Manhattan Bank robbers, giving a detailed account of the burglary, is made public.
1. The thermometer, at signal office in Boston, registered 94.5 degrees in the shade at 2 P.M.
1. Gen. James Shields died in Ottumwa, Iowa, aged 69 years. During his life he has represented Illinois, Minnesota, and Missouri in the United States Senute, and was in both the Mexican and Civil wars.
2. The American Chemical Works, at North Woburn, Mass., were burned, cansing a loss of over $60,000.
3. The Prince Imperial of France, who had volunteered his services in the South African War, while out on a reconnoitering ex- pedition with a few British soldiers, was surprised and killed by Zulus. The prince was the only child of Napoleon III. and Eugenie, and
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was twenty-three years old. The | body of the prince was recovered.
4. Pardee Hall, one of the La- fayette College buildings, at Ens- ton, Pa., destroyed by fire; loss $300,000.
5. Hon. Natt Head was inan- gurated governor of New Hamp- shire to-day at Concord.
7. Mrs. Howard Faul, actress and singer, died in London.
8. The sloop Fairy enpsized in Salem harbor, and Charies B. Fi- field, William Rowell, and William O. Pinkham, belonging to Salem. were drowned.
10. The 89th annual convention ! Hanlan is now champion oarsman of the Protestant Episcopal Church | of Rhode Island assembled at Grace Church, Providence.
10. The association of American superintendents of insane asyiums met in Providence to-day, to hold a five days' session.
10. The Rhode Island Congre- gational Conference met in the Beneficent Church, Providence.
10. Commodore Foxhall A. Parker, commandant of the U. S. Naval Academy at Annapolis, Md., died in that city. He entered the navy in 1839, and was commis- sioned commodore in 1872.
11. The Rhode Island Universa- list Convention met in Providence.
11. Mrs. Jane L. de Forrest Hull, wife of Dr. Alonzo F. Hull, was found dead in bed, at her home in New York city. Her hands and feet were tied, and a gag was in her mouth. A trunk had been rifled of its contents, and articles of jewelry taken, showing robbery to have been a motive in the crime. Mrs. Hull was 38 years of age.
11. Jackson, Michigan, hns a $175,000 fire, which destroys saw- mills and a lumber yard.
11. The golden wedding of the Emperor William was celebrated in Berlin.
11 Semi-Centennial of the Ab- bot Academy, at Andover, com- menced to-day.
13. The Point Breeze, Philadel- phia, fire, which first occurred on the eleventh instant, broke out afresh to-day, destroying all the remaining wharfage in that place, in all. one-half mile in length. Immense quantities of oil have been destroyed. The total loss is $5.70,140).
13. The semi-centennial anni- versary of Friendly Lodge, I. O. O. F., was held in Providence. Hon. Schuyler Colfax, ex-vice- president of the United States, de- tivered an interesting address.
13. The entire capital stock of i the new Central Union Telegraph Company has been taken up.
15. A bouquet of unusual mag- nificence was given by the Boston Comereint Club to the Chicago Commercial Club, at Horticultural Hall.
15. The Young Men's Christian Association, of Providence, cele- brate their twenty-sixth anniver- sary.
16. Edward Hanlan, the Cana- dinn oarsman, defeuted Eitiott, the English champion, in the sculling match at New Castle, on the Tyne. of England und America.
17. Oakland Garden, a new sum- mer resort in Dorchester District, Boston, opened this evening.
17. The one hundred and fourth anniversary of the battle of Bunker Hill was celebrated in the Charles- town District.
17. The two hundred and fiftieth anniversary of . the settlement of Lynn was celebrated to-day, with great enthusiasm.
18. Park Garden, on Broad st., Providence, was opened, with in- teresting exercises.
18. A violent conflict of words between Senators Conkling and Lamar.
18. One hundred and eleventh commencement of Brown Univer- sity. There was a large attend- ance.
18. The Society of the Army of the Potomac met at Albany to- day. Gen. Hawley delivered an oration.
20. A sham battle, between Union and Confederate forces, was fought by the Grand Army men, at Wyoma park. Lynn, to-day, giving a vivid representation of a real contest, and lasting nearly an hour.
21. The great walking match in London for the Astley belt and championship of the world was won by Weston, and the belt will be brought back to America. Wcs- ton performed the remarkable feat of walking five hundred and fifty miles inside of six days.
21. John Kemmler, a German, living at South Holyoke, Mass , shot his three little girls, aged fit- teen months, four years, and six years. Two died immediately, and the other was fatally injured. The father gave as his motive to the deed that he was fearful that they would grow up and "go to the bad," and that by killing them their souls would be saved.
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23. The President's veto of the : thirds vote required to pass it over indicial bill was sustained by the the veto. action of the House.
23. Chastine Cox, the murderer of Mrs. J. de Forrest Hull. of New York, was arrested at the Ebenezer Baptist Church in Boston, to which place he had been tracked. The prisoner confessed the deed. Cox is a colored man, and abont thirty- two years of age. His arrest was due to the sagacity of Mr. W. R. Balch. a Herald reporter.
24. Knights Templars from Bos- ton and Worcester visited Provi- dence, and Ind & sail down the bay, and were otherwise hand- somely entertained by Providence brethren.
24. The Providence Directory and Rhode Island Business Direc- tory for 1879 is just from the press, containing over 709 pages, with 37,193 names. Some new features have been added, notably a large list of persons whose names np- peared in the Directory of- 1830, and who still reside in Providence.
25. New London, N. H., cele- brated its one hundredth anniver- sary.
26. The Khedive of Egypt, in accordance with the order of the Sultan of Turkey, ahdicated in favor of his sou, Trofik, who is proclaimed Viceroy of Egypt.
26. Strike of the Fall River mule spinners in nearly all the mills.
27. Harvard won a victory over Yale at New London, Conn., in the four-mile race, coming in twenty-five lengths ahead. Time 22 min. 15 sec.
25. Paymaster-General John O. Bradford, U. S. N., died in Brook- lyn, N. Y. He entered the navy in 1845,and wasappointed paymaster- general in 1869.
28. The store of C. R. Linke, Providence, R. I., was entered by burglars, and watches and jewelry, amounting to about $15,000 were stolen.
28. The steamship City of New York collided with the barque Helen, off Barnegat, sinking the latter. The captain and four of the crew were lost.
29. James F. Edmands, a prom- inent citizen of Newton, and a leading flour merchant in Boston, was arrested to-day on the charge of forgery. The amount of irreg-
ular paper is said to be over $80,000. ; 10 ft. long. 5 ft. 4 in. beam at water
30. The U. S. Marshal's appro- priation bill, with its political rid- rs. was vetoed hy President Haves, nd this hill, Like its innediate edecessors, failed of the two- i Memphis, Tenn ..
July.
1. The extra session of the forty- sixth Congress adjourned sine die.
1. Ont of two hundred and fifty applicants for admission to Har- vard, one Inindred and twenty- nine are successful.
4. The Rhode Island Society of the Cincinnati held its 96th annual meeting nt Providence. Many of the original members were repre- sented hy their grandsons and other descendants.
4. Independence Day was cele- brated in Boston, with customary zest. The programme comprised the band concert, game of Inerosse on the Common, sailing regatta, bicycle races, balloon ascension, fireworks, etc., with the usunl ac- companiment of intense hent, thunder, lightning, rain, and sun- dry accidents. At the Boston The- atre, the exercises consisted of the reading of the Declaration of In- dependence hy a colored man. a prayer by a Catholic priest. and the oration by Heury Cubot Lodge. The children's entertainments, m different halls, afforded solid pleas- ure to crowds of young folks.
4. The British troops, under Lord Chelnstord, gain a decisive victory over Cetywayo's forces, in South Africa.
5. Joshua B. Smith. a well- known colored citizen and caterer of Boston, died, aged 65 years.
7. Thirteen hundred sheep, shipped from Boston by the Bul- garian, were found to be infected with foot and mouth disease, and were slanghtered at Liverpool.
8. George Sennott, a well-known lawyer of Boston, died at Hot Springs, Ark., aged 53 years.
8. The yacht Jeannette sailed from San Francisco on an Aretic exploring expedition.
9. The skeleton of a huge ani- mal has been unearthed near New- burg, N. Y., the skull of which weighs about six hundred pounds.
9. Mrs Sarah A. Dorsey. of New Orleans, just deceased, has be- queathed to Jeff Davis a large property in Mississippi.
9. The little boat Golden Gate sailed from City Point to-day, on her trip around the world. She is
line, and 1 1-7 tons burden. H. F. Burrill and O. B. Coombs are the crew.
10. Yellow fever reappears in
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10. Fifth annual meeting of the V. E. Commercial Travellers Asso- ciation met in Providence, and took a sail down the bay to Rocky Point.
10. Joseph Buzzell was to-day executed at Concord, N. H., for the murder of Susan A. Hanson. lle died without making a confes- sion of the crime.
10. The Duke of Argyle, with his two daughters, arrived in Bos- ton from St. John, N. B.
11. A plot, for the wholesale delivery ot the convicts at the State Prison, Concord, Mass., was discovered and nipped in the bud.
11. Ex-Gov. William Allen, of Ohio, died at his house in fruit Ifill, near Chillicothe, Ohio. Ilis age was 76 years.
12. The funeral of the late prince imperial took place to-day at Chis- elhurst, attended by most of the royal household of great Britain, including the queen. Prince Jer- ome Bonaparte and his two sons were chief mourners.
12. The steamer State of Vir- ginia, from New York for Glasgow, went ashore on Sable Island, in a dense fog, and is n wreck. She had on board one hundred and thirty- six persons, who were taken off in boats. Four women and five chil- dren were drowned in the surf.
JS. Daniel Chamberlin, for many years proprietor of the Adnmis House, Boston, died, aged 60 years. He leaves a property of nearly £1.000,000.
15. Peter Hobart, a well-known citizen, died in Boston, in his seventy-third year.
la. The school of philosophy and literature, a scheme of A. Bronson Alcott, opened to-day at Concord. Mass.
16. A fearful tempest swept over Boston this afternoon, demolishing buildings and chimneys, breaking down and uprooting trees, and flooding the streets. The fall of ; hail broke great quantities of win- dow glass, and did serious damage to vegetation. In the harbor a number of sail boats were capsized, and lives were lost. The storm was very severe 'in Newton, Medford, Waltham, and other suburban lo- calities, and in Fitchburg und Pitts- field, where two men were killed.
16. Coney Island attracted a crowd to-day estimated to number one hundred thousand, including five thousand bathers at Brighton ; mneh discomfiture to the people of Beach.
16. The Stoughton-street Baptist | it was the general opimon that Church at Dorchester, lately de- : stroyed by fire, but now rebuilt | relief of the water takers.
and remodelled, was dedicated this evening.
16. Caroline C. Goodrich and Daniel F. Kimball, who live at 21 La Grange street, Boston, have been arrested as principals in the Jeunie P. Clark tragedy, and Mr. Alien A. Adams, ot No. 421 Dudley street, as an accessory.
15. Gen. W. F. Barry, in com- mand at Fort McHenry, Md., died to-day.
18. Yellow fever breaks out afresh in Memphis, and business is almost wholly suspended.
19. A stay of prorcedings has been granted in the case of Chas- tine Cox, who was convicted of murder in the first degree, on the seventeen instant. The case comes up again in October.
20. President Canal, of Hayti, has abdicated, and a new president is to be elected.
21. Secretary Sherman and Post- master-General Key visit Boston.
22. The town of Rochester, Mass., celebrated its bi-centennial to-day at Marion.
24. Gustavus A. Somerby, a prominent lawyer of Bostou, died suddenly at his residence in South Framingham. aged 58 years.
2. The Fifth Rhode Island Reg- iment aud Battery F held their fitch annual target shot, and election ! of officers, at Bullock's Point.
25. The announcement is made that Gen. Butler will run for gov- ernor this fall.
26. A new trial is to be granted Mrs. Jennie Smith and Cone Ben- net. who are now under sentence of death for the murder of the lius- band of Mrs. Smith.
28. Secretary Evarts received a te'egram, announcing the resig- nation of Mr. Welsh, minister to England.
30. Prescott J. Pillsbury, cashier of the Lawrence National Bank, a defaulter to the amount of $€4,000. Hle confesses and surrenders hin- self to the authorities.
20. The Rhode Island veterans' reunion was held at l'ark Garden. There was a large attendance, and a pleasant time was enjoyed.
30. The Boston Board of Alder- men and other city officers made a tour through Winchester and Wo- burn. for the purpose of inspecting the Mystic water supply, the in- purities of which have caused so
East Boston and Charlestown ; and measures should be taken for the
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91. The eleventh annual tom- : the roof. The front part, contain- pernnee mass meeting was held nt Rocky Point. Gov. Van Zandt, Lieut-Gov. Howard, Judge Stiness, and several others made stirring and convincing addresses.
31. Dencon Dwight Wheelock died in Boston, aged 73 years.
August.
1. The assessors' valuation of Boston for 1879 is, on real estate, $425,756,300; on personal estate, $183,467,200; total, $612.253,600. The rate of taxation on $1,000 is $12.50.
1. The colored Freemasons of Rhode Island, accompanied by Masons from Boston and New Bedford, went to Rocky Point.
1. Extensive fire in Hamilton, Canada; loss abont $1.000,000.
3. Fire at Iloulton, Me., burned seventeen of the most substantial buildings; loss $25,000.
4. Charles Fechter, the actor, died at his residence in Quaker- town, Pa., aged 35 yours.
4. The town of Volcano, W. Va., destroyed by fire; loss $75,000.
5. The poet Tennyson's seven- tieth birthday.
6. A meeting in behalf of the Ponca Indians was held in the Meionian, in Boston, Speeches were made by Mayor Prince and several other gentlemen in favor of doing justice to the Indians.
6. The sixth annual excursion of the Order of Alfredians to Rocky Point took place, where games and amusements were the order of the day.
6. The Bankers' Association met at Saratoga.
7. A fearful hurricane in Wood- stock, N. B., and vicinity destroyed eighty buildings, and property to the amount of $100,000, and many persons v ere killed and injured.
8. By a fire in Serajevo, the cap- ital of Bosnia, over one thousand buildings were consumed, and twenty thousand persons made homeless.
12. The Sovereign Council, Sons of Jonadab, commenced their an- mal session of three days in Prov- idence.
12. The Wallace committee ar- rived in Boston, to investigate charges of intimidation of voters, and alleged frauds, etc., in elee- tions in Massachusetts.
13. Rev. John Holbrook died in Somerville, Mass. ,aged 79 years. Hle had been a preacher of minch note.
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