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' 7. Death of James Burns.—Death sen! of Hardfnge and Greenwood, murderers of Sandwich, commuted to life imprisonment. 2 1. The supreme court affirms the verdict of 820,000 against.the proprietor of The Evening News in the "Maclean-Scripps libel suit. 27. Reception to Chief Justice B. F. Graves, on his retirement from the Michigan supreme court. •20. David W. Glllet, 50, smothered by coal gas in his room on tug Champion. , State Ikconl for 1883. . JANUARY. 2. Fire at Manistee: $50,000 loss reported. !). Wm. Holt, life convict at Jackson, pardoned. fi. Pardon or Jack Ryan, notorious criminal. 12. Death of Postmaster Samuel N. Crissey, of Galesburg. 21. Funeral at Port Huron of W. E. Wiley, victim of theNewhall house fire. 22. Burning of the Union school^house at Miitord. 23. Harrison H. Soule, of Jackson, elected treasurer of the university, vice Toichard, resigned, and James H. Wade, of Jonesville, steward,vice Bennett, dismissed. 24. Three prisoners escape from Big Rapids jail, first knocking senseless the turnkey. 86. Mrs. David Clark, of Bath, Clinton county, shoots and kills her husband as he leans over their sick child; is adjudged insane. 28. Burning of the catholic church at Posen, Presque Isle county, during services, 30. Hillsdale college students deface the chapel wails because of difficulty with the faculty.—Explosion of molten iron at Peninsular car works, Adrian, fatally burning John Ray and Adelbert Smith. 31. Mrs. Mary Ann O'Connell, an aged widow,burnetl to death in her shanty at Manistee. FEBRUARY. 2. Resignation of Judge Isaac Marston, of tlie supreme court.—Gov. Begole signs the joint resolution requesting the Michigan congressional delegation to vote against the removal of the internal revenue tax on liquors and tobacco, or either.—Mrs. Isbell, of the Lansing house, Lansing, sues Senator Ferry et al. for 82.804 50 board bill.—Frank Mc-Ginnis arid Edward Sullivan pardoned out of Jackson prison. 3. Great commotion at Grand Haven on account of the failure of Senator X. W.Ferry and his brother Ed. P. Ferry.—The joint Legislative convention, for the election of United States senator, adjourns for 10 days. 5. Burning of the Eagle hotel at Grand Rapids; narrow escape of guests and servants. —Death of Mrs. W. W. Cpham, of Jackson, from gasoline stove explosion.—Hillsdale college seniors apologize for their violation of rules. (5. Sophie Lyons sentenced at Ann Arbor to live years in the Detroit house of correction for watch stealing—second conyiction. 8. Murder of Jacob Boldman. an aged hermit, in Monroe township, Newaygo county. 9. Explosion of boiler in Benj. Vf. Grier's sawmill at Charlotte, killing him and engineer William Gordon. 10. Several stores burned at Memphis. 12. Opening of the investigation of alleged bribery in connection with the senatorial contest. 13. Several stores burned at Swartz Creek: loss S7.000.—Suicide of John Finn, at Reed City, and Wm. Hall, aged (57, at Mt. Clemens. —L. E. Rowley, of Ionia, purchases the Lansing Journal. 14. A Chicago & Grand Trunk passenger coach jumps the track near Flint, wrecking three cars, killing Mrs. Huldah Seaman, aged 74, of Benson, Ont, fatally injuring Thos. Peal, of Lindsey, Ont., and slightly woundin others. 20. Mathew Millard, of Palo, found guilty of1 murdering his wife; sentenced to Jackson for lite. 22. Hotel and stores burned at Pierson, Montcalm county; loss 810.000. 23. Four masked robbers bind and gag Porter Brown and wife, 10 miles south of Fenton, and rob them of 82,400. 28. Burning of Peter Deman's house, three children and Miss Mary Burr, a domestic, at Montague. MARCH. 1., Wm. Dilman convicted at Newaygo of the murder of Jacob Boldman, Feb. 8; sentenced to Jackson for lite.—State prohibition convention at Lansing.—Thos. W. Palmer, of Detroit, elected United States senator. 3. Daniel Boyle, 00 years old, living near Jackson, receives notice of S3.000 back pension awarded him, gets drunk and ireezes to death on his way home.—The Huron house at Harrisville burns. 5. Death or Rev. Dr. Alfred Eddy, of Niles. 6. Seymour Bros', store and other buildings burned at Manistee; loss 850,000. 8. Dam in St. Joseph river at Niles gives way and live mills are stopped. 18. Burning at Sheridan of the Davis house and other buildings; loss-827,000. 21. Burning of depot, etc., at L'Anse; loss S15.000. 215. Death of Mrs. J. C. Banghart, of Rush township. Shiawassee county, from the effects of a runaway. 30. Heavy Are at Deerfleld, Including several stores, APRIL. 5. Ex-Senator T. W. Kerry sails for Europe. 9. Death of Prof. Benjamin F. Cocker, of the state university. 10. John Watts and wife, of Jackson, both die In jail there from drunkenness. 11. Phillip Short killed in his sawmill near Armada. 12. Death at Redmond, Emmet county, of Ralph Ely, aged (53. ex-audltor general. 17. Pardoirof Robert Garbult, a life convict at Jackson for murder. ! 22. Consecration at Grand Rapids of Rev. Henry Joseph Bichter, first bishop of the diocese of Grand Rapids. 23. Local option bill killed in the senate, 16 to 10. 24. Mrs. A. D. Clark, of Battle Creek, shoots I'rankie Casqueville, of Chicago, her husband's "second wife," at the Chapman house, Lansing. 25. The prohibitory amendment bill falls of the necessary two-thirds vole in the senate, 20 to 11. 215. The prohibitory amendment bill fails of the necessary two-thirds vote in the house. 66 to 36. 27. Collision on the Chicago & Grand Trunk road near Olivet station; several persons killed and others seriously wounded. 20. Burning of the business portion of Newaygo; loss 850,000.—Michigan Central passenger train ditched near Monroe; several persons injured. MAY. 3. Christian Jensen, and his wife and daughter, and a neighbor's wife, struck by a D. L. & N. train while crossing the track near Gowen, and all killed. 4. Wm. Boundy and Thos Tregarlon killed at the Champion mine, and Harry Barrett at the Mitchell mine.—VYm. Johnson,.a prisoner In Ann Arbor .jail.fatally shot by Turnkey Wallace while attempting to escape. 0. P. C. Ginnes and Cassius Ide burned to death In the destruction of the former's sawmill at Vermontville.—Death at Kalamazoo of Rev. Geo. W. Tuthill, slate agent of the American bible society. 10. A cyclone at Lansing takes off the cupola of the M. E. church and unroofs several buildings.—Dr. Donald Maclean fails to be elected president of the state medical society In session at Kalamazoo. 14. Cyclone in Branch and St Jiseph counties; several persons badly Injured and much property destroyed. 15, Mrs. Catherine Jewett, of Niles, dies in her buggy, 23. Burning of livery stable and foundry at Montague; loss 818,000. 25. Explosion of Thomas' nltro-glycerlne factory near Bay City, blowing to atoms Joseph Shamburg.—Annual convention at Adrian of the state W. C. T. 17. 28. Burning of the-Mancelona iron furnace; loss 875,000. 29. Mrs. Eliza Morton, an aged lady, drops dead at a funeral at Norvell. JUNE. 1. Explosion of the boiler In Turner's shingle mill at Melbourne, killing John Turner. Hiram Gouluing and John McDowell. 3. Burning of Luther's sawmill at Luther; loss 850,000. 6. The senatorial bribery Investigating committee reports. 15. Lynching of one Warner for the alleged ravishing of Nettle Lyons oil the 12th at Chey- luiiu icat;uco ^rj.n(iiQuuii| anu nit- i,ii,i/,niio k;c»c* brute. 12. Death at Kalamazoo of CoL, F. W. Cur-i tenuis, form'erlyy adjutant general and commander of the Cftth Michigan infantry.—Death i of D. Darwin Hughes, aired 60, at Grand Kapids;oneof tthe leading lawyers of the state. 18. jobbery ;at noon of the Coldwater nation ai bank. 23. Tornado Iln Ingham and Eaton counties, killing Mrs.Elizabeth Barlow and two children of Eugene Ilenrry, and doing much damage to buildings and sUock. 24- NorthwesU^rn regatta at Muskegon, 20- Flood at {Grand Itapids; railroad bridges carried awav. ¦ ' ¦31. Burning (of salt Mock and lumber mills at Oscoda; loss $75,000. AUGUST. 1. Bodies of five infants found in a privy vault at Bay Citjy. 4. Explosion <of a Michigan Central portable engine at Ogemiaw, killing Ira Brand, Fred. O. Whlett and an umknown man. 7, Burning of one of J. W. French's paper mills at Three Etivers; loss £50,000.—Encamn-nient of state tiroops near Brighton. 13. Bay City lumber shovers strike lor 50 cents an hour and get it. 15. State prohibition convention at Eaton Rapids.—Setii McLean's $8,000 horse, "Raymond/' killed h>y a collision on the Charlotte race course.—Suite firemen's tournament at Marshall. 16. Sale ol A.nn Arbor Register to Kendall Kittridge. 19. J. P. Keninedy, Detroit burglar, shotdead while robbing store at Birmingham. 25. Caleb Lincoln, a farmer of near Saginaw City, shot dead by his son Charles, who was arterward aieQuitted. SEPTEMBER. 4. Death of Dr. Alexander Collar, of Wayne. 9. Ex-State S-enator Heman J. Redfield, of Monroe,suicide^ in the cemetery at that place. 10. Suicide off Virgil Van Vieck, cashier tiec-, ond national batnk, Ionia. OCTOBER. 1. Death at Dtansviile, N. Y., of Rev. J. Mor-, gan Smith, who» had just resigned a 20-years* I pastorate of the First congregational church, Grand Rapids. 2. Death at l»owa Falls, Iowa, of Rice A. Beal, long a prominent citizen of Ann Arbor. 5. House of William Dutton, of Adrian, burglarized of SI 10,000 in bonds and a small amount of cash. 0. Collision on Lake Shore road at Plttsfora, killing Mrs. F. Rogers, of Hudson. A. A. Rose, of Adilan, and Wirick, of West Unity, Ohio, and fatally wounding Mrs. Mark Guy, of Hudson. 9. "Dode" Miudica, 14 years old, fatally shot by Will Smith Bear Nasuviile. it on Cincinnati Southern railway; 51 persons injured, 6 fatalljy. APRIL. 3. Walter Q. Gresnam, of mid,, appointed postm:;s 6. Thirteen oKMons killed by trail ©f a hotel at Greenville, Texas. 9. Bill fixing-penalties for beimg in posses-' slon ot dangerous explosives parses both houses of parliament. 13. Joe Brady, one of the Phcemix'park murderers, convicted and sentenced ait Dublin. 18. Daniel Curiey, Phcenix pairk murderer, convicted and sentenced. 25. Irish-American convention meets in Philadelphia. • 27. Michael Fagin, Phoenix pairk murderer, convicted and sentenced.—Congressman Phil i- Thompson kills Walter Davis at IHarrodsburg Ky. 29. Riot at Port Said, EgyDt; several killed. During this month numerous tornadops throughout the west, destroying some 300 iives. MAT. 3. Steamer Grappler burned on Puget Sound: 70 lives lost. 10. Great oil tank fire at Coramunlpaw. N J.; SI.000,000 loss and (J lives. 14. Joe Brady hanged at Dublin. 15. Collision on the Caledonian railway. Scotland, between Glasgow ami Carlisle: 7 lives lost. 16. Daniel Curiey executed.— Fitz Harris, Dublin car driver, convicted. 19. Carey, the informer, discharged from custody. 21. Walter Evans, of Kentucky, appointed commissioner of internal revenue. 22. Anti-Jewish riot at RostofT, Russia: 130 houses destroyed. 24. Brooklyn bridge formally opened. 27. Alexander III crowned Czar of Ru Moscow. 28. Michael Fagin executed. 30, Panic on Brooklyn bridge and 12 persons crushed to death. JUNE. 2. Thomas Caffrey, Phcenix park conspirator, hanged at Dublin, 6. Judge Foraker nominated for governor of Ohio by the republicans. 9. Timothy Kelly. Phcenix park assassin, hanged.—Suleiman Daoud executed at Alexan-d ria, 11. Gen. Crook returns to Arizona from a successful Indian hunt in Mexico. 13. French forces capture Xamatave in Madagascar.—N. L. Dukes, the murderer of Nutcan Uniontown, Pa., killed by Nutt's son. 14. Conviction of Gailagher and other dynamite conspirators in London. 16. Failure of Peter McGeoch, lard speculator in Chicago.—Panic in a public hall at I Czar of Russia at 21. Burning ,-at Middleville of S. B. Smith's Sunderland, England; 197 children crushed store; Mr. Smitih and two boys, Archie Welsh: and Charlie Bundy, killed, and Silas Geer j and suffocated. 22. Collision of steamers Hurunul and seriously injured by a falling wall; property Waitara in English,Chanel; 25 lives lost. loss S30.000. 22. Burning of Stearns' windmill factory and other buildings at Grand Haven; loss S50.000. 25. Wm. Snrmley, of Lowell, abuses Charles Hodges, of the same place, is knocked down by him, and dies from the effect of the blow. 29. Thomas Fox, aged 70 years, farmer near Marshall, fatally drugged and robbed by confidence men. 30. Burning of Michigan Central freight depot at East Saginaw; ioss S18.000. NOVEMBER. 3. Postmaster David Hobart, of Holly, held up and robbed of §450 in stamps and cash. 7. Murder of Barney Cunningham at Schoolcraft. 9. Suicide by shooting of Paul Camlne, prominent lumberman of Manistee.—careless and fatal shooting of Miss Anna -Nelson by her brother Charles at Ithaca. 10. Death at Eaton Rapids of Rev. Dr. Miles Bronson. aged 71, for 40 years a baotist missionary in Burmah. 11. Drowning la Petoskey bay of 0. M. Chase, of Detroit, superintendent of the Michigan fish hatchery, and six others. 13. Beginning of the most terrible gale ever known on Lakes Michigan, Huron and Erie: many vessels, scores of lives and hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of property lost. 20. Mysterious murderer suicide of Byron M. Sibley at Marshall. 21. Ex-Depury Sheriff George Flickenger and Night-Watcliman Henry Kerback,caught in the act of setting lire to J. Hanselman's furniture store at Manistee, saying they were to be paid $250 by Hanselman for so doing.—Murder of Jacob D. Crouch, aged 74, his daughter Mrs. Henry White and her husband and Henry Pauley, a drover, at the former's farm house in Summit, Jackson county— all shot dead in their beds. 23, Henry Pockllngton and Isaac Ballou aie suffocated by ga-5 in a well at Macon, Lanawee county. 30. Several business houses burned at Pin-conning; loss SI4,0;)0. DECEMBER. 6. David Brooks.of White Pigeon.arrested for the murder of Mrs. Catherine Beard, of the same place, in August, 18N2. 10. Wm. E, Ramsey, of Saginaw City, accidentally shoots his brother dead while hunting ror a burglar. 14. Burning of the Benton Harbor plow works and other buildings; loss $25,000.-— Death of Jacob Barns, aged 58, at Traverse City. 16. Heavy fire at Rockford: loss $35,000. 15. Burning of the Commercial hotel at Ish-peming; loss $9,000. 20. Death of Capt. Mortimer Mansfield, 57, Coldwater; ex-grand master mason of Michigan. 21. Death of Dr. A. J. Mead, prominent physician of Niles. 25. A dance door at Mattawan breaks and drops 40 dancers into the room below.—Death of Dr. Franklin French, 47 years a resident ol Hillsdale. 27- Burning of several stores at Saranae; loss SI5,000. 28. Heavy fire at Palo; Charles Swartout, one of the oldest citizens, drops de ad during the fire. ______________ Ucsieral J\cws SSeeoi'd for 188*5. JANUARY. 2. Steamship City of Brussels sunk by col- « llsion oh* Liverpool; 10 lives lost. 4. Pendleton civil service bill passes the house, and Is signed by-the president Jan. 16. 5- Discovery of heavy defalcation by State Treasurer Polk, or Tennessee. 7- Spanish ministry resign. 10. Newhail house, Milwaukee, burned; more than 100 lives test. 14. Fire in Planters' house, St. Louis; four lives lost. 15. Attempted agpasslnatlon of sultan of Turkey. ? 16- Prince Napoleon arrested for issuing a manifesto criticizing the government. 19. Steamship Cimbria sunk by collision in North sea; nearly 400 lives lost.—Train wrecked near Tehichipa, Ual., and 21 passengers killed. 21. Explosion of giant powder at Oakland, Cat.; 40 Chinese killed. 23. Resignation of French cabinet. 25. Burial at Milwaukee of 43 unidentified bodies, victims of the Newhall house fire, 28. French ministry resigned. 31. Cetywayo reinstated King of Zululand.— Discovery of a S250.000 defalcation in Alabama state trea FEBRUARY. \* 1. D. M. Sabi.n elected U. S. senator frorn Minnesota. 2. S;eamer K^nmure Castlo foundered in Bay of Biscay; 312 lives lost. 9- PridCflNap«>leon released. 12. Kaiakaua,. Kingof theSandwIcu islands, crowned, 16. Coal mine* at Braidwood, III., flooded, and 70 men drowned.— Japanese indemnity bill passed congress, by which §785,000 was returned to Japain. 17. Dr. Hugh Glenn, the largest farmer m the world, miurdered in California. 18. Jules Feir;y organizes a new ministry in Franco. 20- Panic in ai German catholic school in New York and li5 children kilijd. MARCH. 1, Thomas W. Paimer elected United States senator from Michigan. 4. Forty-seven r.h congress adjourned. 7. Marriage or ex-Gov. Wm. Sorague of R. I, Kate Chase's divorced husband. 5. .Steamer Navarro founders in North sea; 65 persons drowned. 14. Senator David Davis married to Miss Burr, ot N. C. 8. M'lle Litta, operatic singer. 13. Queen Ranavalo II., of Madagascar. 14. Charles H. Stratto-n, better known as Gen. Tom Thumb, 45. 20. The king of Anam, altera reign of 36 years. ¦22. Gen. E. 0. C. Ord, aged 64. 24. Ex-Gov. Thomas Swann, of Maryland, 78.— Capt. Matthew Webb drowned inNiagara whirlpool rapids, aged 35. 27- Ex-Postmaster General Montgomery' Blair, 70. 29. By suicide, Don Francisco Barca, Spanish minister to the United states, 52. AUGUST. 15. Wm. Wirt Sykes, author and U. S. consul at Cardiff, 46. 19, Jeremiah S. Black, statesman and jurist, 73. 24. Comte de Chambord, the last legitimate-heir to the throne of Hrancc, 63. SEPTEMBER. 3. Ivan S. Tonrgueneff, Russian author, Go. 4. Marwood, English hangsnian. 12. Hugh J. Hastings, ^ew York journalist and politician, 65. 16. Junius Brutus Booth, brother of Edwin Booth. 62. 22. Rev. Edwin F. Hatfield, emlnentjnetho-dist clergyman, 76. 26. George Knapp, St. Louis journalist. OCTOBER. 1. Rev. J. Morgan Smith, congregational clergyman of Grand Rapids. 2. Rice A. Beaf, Michigan journalist and politician.—Rear Admiral Sands, U.S. N., 88. 10. Charles H. Crane, surgeon generalU. S. A. 18. Gen. J. B, Steedman, 65. 21. Capt. Mayne Reid, author, 65. NOVEMBER. 15. Rear Admiral Trenchard, U. S. N., 65. 26. Sojourner Truth, colored lecturer and philanthropist, 108. 28. Ex-Gov. Wm. L. Greenly, of Michigan. 30. Prof. Tlce, weather prophet, of St Louis. DECEMBER, 13. Mrs. Lillie Lugenbeel Christlancy, divorced wife ot ex-Senator Christlancy. 14. Jacob Barns, former Detroit journalist, 58. 16. Prof. Sophocles, of Harvard university, 76,—Congressman D. C. Haskell, of Kansas. 41. ,20. Brevet Maj.-Gen. Thos. J. Cram (retired), engineer corps. 22. Ex-Gov. Lowe, of Iowa, 27. Brig.-Gen. Andrew A. Humphrey.retired, 73-—Archbishop Napoleon J. Perche, of New Orleans, 79. 30. Joseph Longworth, benevolent Cincin- ! natian, 70. ___________________ 12. Republican national committee elect Senator Sabin or Minnesota chairman, and i determine to hold the national convention at | Chicago in June, 1884. 13. Brooklyn ferry boat Garden City burned. —Archbishop Elder invested with the palhium at Cincinnati. 16. Steamship St. Augustin burned in the bay ol Biscay and 50 lives lost. 17. The French capture Sontay. 17. Sontay, in Tonquin, captured by the j French.—Patrick O'Donnell executed In Lon-¦f don. —Crown prince of Germany, arrived m Rome on a visit to King Humbert and the pope. 20. New cantllever'bridge over the Niagara river publicly tested. 21. Arrest at Vincennes, Ind., of James Summers, counterfeiter, with S63,454 on bis person. 23. Death of Rev. Charles Terry Collins, prominent congregational clergyman of Cleveland, aged 37. 25. Eight lives lost by snow slide in Colorado; end of six days' terrible snow storm. 26- Death at Philadelphia of Gen. Thos. L. Kane, colonel of the famous Bucktail regiment.—Two orangemen and two cathoiics killed and several wounded at Harbor Grace, N. F., in an attack on orange procession. 28. British house of.loids reject, 145tol40, bill to permit marriage with deceased wife's sister. JULY. 3. Steamer Daphne capsizes while being launched at Glasgow, Scotland; 150 persons drowned. 6. British house of commons reject motion for woman suffrage, 130 to 114- 11. Sudden flood on the Thames at London, Ont., and 30 persons drowned. 19. Great slaughter of Tonqnlm soldiers by the French.—Great telegraph striike begins. 21. International rifle match wton by British team, 1,951 to 1,906. - 23. Arctic steamer Proteus losit in Smftfrs Sound.—Sixty-five persons drowmed by breaking in of a wharf near Baltimore. 26. Ex-Treasurer Polk, of Tenmessee, sentenced to 20 years' imprisonment, 27. Nineteen persons killed In railroad collision at Carlyon, N. Y. 28. Great earthquake on lslamd of Ischia, near Naples; 4.000 lives lost. 30. James Carey, the informer, killed by Patrick O'Donnell In South Affrica.— President Arthur starts^n a trip to the Yellowstone country. AUGUST. i 1. Louisville exposition opened.. 2. Austin F. Pike elected U. S. senator from New Hampshire, after a protracted contest. 6. Proctor Knott elected governor of Ken-ucky.—Republican1 outbreaks in Spain, suppressed. ? 12. French elections; large republican gains.— Kimball house,! Atlanta, Ga., burned; loss SI.000,000. f, L 18. Termination of the telegraph operators* strike, by defeat of the strikers. 21. Destructive cyclone at Rochester, Minn.; 30 lives lost 22. Northern Paolfici railroad (completed. 25.. Hue, capital ,of \Anam, camtured by the French. 27. Volcanic eruption and tldial wavenear coast of Java; manV thousand liives lost and strait of Suuda greatly changed. 28. Explosion of bolters of steamer River-dale at New York; 6 lives lost SEPTEMBER. 1. 27.318 deaths from cholera in Egypt to this date. 3. Burning of the Times-Star (Office in Cincinnati; ll lives lost. ¦ i 7- President Arthur returns fnom his western trip.—Frank James, Missouri outlaw, acquitted. - 8. Government troops defeated by insurgents in Hayti.—Formal opening of Northern ,_ Pacific railroad. 21. Direct telegraphic communication es- Georgia. 71 tablished between New York and Brazil. 7.-J. R. Green, author of a history of the 28. Colossal statue Of Germanla, onposite English people. 45. Blngen on the Rhin e unveiled by Emper- ll. Prince Gortchakoff, eminent Russian. or William. , , statesman and diplomat. KccrologicJii Becoi'd for 1883. JANUARY. 1. Josephine Meeker, survivor of the Ute massacre.—Leon Gambetta, French statesman, 44. 3. Rev. Titus Coan, noted missionary. 4. Gen. Chanzy, French military commander and senator, 59. 7. Wm. A. Seaver. editor ofllarper's Drawer. ' 10. Lot M. Morrill. ex-U. S. senator from ¦ Maine, 70. 12. Clark Mills. American sculptor, 67.— j Dr. Samuel A. Mudd, of Lincoln assassina- j tion memory. 15. Rt. Rev, J. C. Talbot, episcopal bishop j of Indiana. 21. J. C. Fargo, of the American Express Co.— Prince Frederick Charles, brother ol the emperor of Germany, 81. 23. Gustave Dore, eminent French artist, 50.—Joshua Hutchinson, of the once famous Hutchinson family of singers. FEBRUARY. 9. William C. Dodge, New York merchant and philanthropist, 77. 10. Marshall Jeweii, ex-postmaster general anu governor of Connecticut, 5jk 13. Richard Wagner, enilnenHnusical composer, 70. 14. Edwin D. Morgan, ex-governor of New York, 72. 17. George Dawson, editor of the Albany Journal, 70. 26. Mrs. Jewell, widow of ex-Gov. Marshall Jewell. MARCH. 4. Alexander H. Stephens, governor of 29. King Alfonso, of Spain, booted by mob while passing through Paris.— Propeller Colorado blew up near Buffalo; three men killed, OCTOBER. I. Letter postage reduced from three to two cents. 3. Exposition building at Pittsburg burned; loss SI,000,000. 9. Ohio election carried by democrats, 10,-000 majority. II. Marquis of Lome and Princess Louise leave Canada for England.—New ministry organized in Spain. 14. Mysterious murder of Zura Burns at Lincoln, III. ' 15. Civil rights act declared unconstitutional by U. S. supreme court. 18. Newburg, N. Y., centennial celebration. 20. Treaty of peace signed by Peru and Chili. 21. Henry Irving, the actor, arrives in New York. 23. Lord Lansdowne Inaugurated governor-general of Canada. 30. Two attempts to blow up London underground railway; 30 persons Injured. 31. Disastrous fu'e at Savannah.Ga.;-1 Olives lost.—Collision bet ween steamer Holyhead and ship Alhambra in St. George's channel; 15 lives lost NOVEMBER. 1. Orange riot at Londonderry, Ireland.— Gen. Sheridan succeeds Gen. Sherman in command of the army. 3. Political riot at Uanyille, Va.; seven negroes killed. 4. Mary Churchill, a long-missing St Louis girl, found at Indiananolis. 5. Tornado at Springiield, Mo.; five lives lost. 6. Elections In 10 states. New York goes democratic 12.000 to 19,000; Massachusetts republican 10,000; Pennsylvania republican 17,000 to 20,000; Connecticut republican 5,700. 8. Wing of state capltol, Madlsoin, Wis., falls, killing four men. 10. Four-hundredth anniversary of Martin Luther's birth. 18. Jacob Netting lynched at Oxford, Ind., for murder of Ada AtKinson. 24. Butcbery of the Ruddy family atLaconia, N.II. —Sergeant Mason pardoned. 26. Centennial of the evacuation of New York by the British, and end of tine war of the revolution. DECEMBER. .1. Masonio-temple, New YorK,bmrned.—Conviction and sentence of O'Donnell,. murderer of Carey, the informer. 3. Pilot boat run down at sea l:>y steamship Alaska and 10 lives lost.-The 4.8th congress assembles, and Carlisle is elected speaker. 7. Palais dfi la'Nation at Brussels burned, 16. Karl Marx, founder of the International society. 65. 21. Sir George Jessel, master of the roil3, an eminent English judge, 59. 25. Timothy 0. Howe, postmaster general, 67. 28. John Brown, personal attendant of ; Queen Victoria. 29. Gen. N. a Buford, Illinois politician, 7B- APRIL. 8. Clinrles C. Trowbridge, oldest citizen of Detroit. 4. Peter Cooper, New York philanthropist, 92, 5. Surgeon Gen. Joseph K. Barnes, D. S. A., 9. Dr. B. F. Cocker, professor In university of Michigan. 15. Frederick Franz II., grand duke "of Mecklenbure-Schwerln, 00. 24. Jules Sandeau, French novelist. . 25. Eliza Pinkston, the notorious witness In the presidential contest in 1876. MAY. I. Dr. Henry Backus, the pioneer educator of idiots. 6. Kev. Joslah Houson, the original oi Mrs. Slowe's '-Uncle Tom." II. Mrs. Hannah Cram, mother of ex-President Grant.—Atnasa Stone, wealthy capitalist of Cleveland. 25. F.Jouard Bene Lefebvre Laboulaye, . French author, 72. 2i>. Abd-ei-Kader, famous Arabian patriot and statesman, 77. JUNE. 5. James Flsk, father ol the notorious Jim Flsk. , 7. Charles C. Fulton, well known journalist of Baltimore, 08.—Prof, Charles E. Antlion, a native or Detroit and editor of a number of Greek and Latin text books, 00. 13. Israel Washburne, ex-governor of Maine. 17. Bishop Peek, of the M. E. church. IS. Lydia Pinkham, the famous patent medicine advertiser.-James "VY. Sheahan.Chicago journalist. 20. KL Rev. John William Colenso, bishop of Natal, of heterodox notoriety,—Wm. Chambers, famous Edinburgh publisher, S'S. 23. Arbuckle, the famous cornetist.