POLITICS, LITERATURE, SCIENCE, AND ART.
VOLUME XXIX.
FROM JULY 1 TO DECEMBER 31, 1879.
E. L. GODKIN & CO., PROPRIETORS.
LIBRARY
Leland Stanford, ".
INDEX TO VOLUME XXIX.
JULY TO DECEMBER, 1879.
Alabama blacks of the cotton belt prospering, 50-Army vacancies filled by civilians, 88-American Association for the Advancement of Science at Saratoga, 150-Ed- ward Atkinson on the large cotton crop, 266, chart of areas and products, 377-Arizona strikes an iceberg, 318 -Congressman Aiken on the South and the Democratic Party, 432.
Brooklyn Egle tries and sentences Mr. Blair, 2, 18, embar- rassed by acquittal, 285; Brooklyn aldermen's row, 120, Brooklyn Plymouth Church scratchers, 302- Boston Journal's bad memory for Butlerism, 285-Gen. B F Butler to run for Governor, 67, overtures to regular Democrats rejected, 104, nominated by Independent Democrats and Republicans, and Greenbackers, 200, committee on Rhode Island civil service, 119, lively thrusts at his old friends, 265, 285, defeat, 301-Buford convicted of Elliott murder, 68-Dr. Blackburn's yellow fever specialty, 87, 166-Rev. L. W. Bacon opposes Sun. day excursions at Norwich, 137-H. W. Beecher speaks for Cornell, 301, approves of scratching Woodruff, 302- George Bliss to Gen. Arthur on selling-out, 317-Bi-me- tallic conference in the vocative, 201, 319, 415-Business, 3, 19, 35, 51, 68, 89, 105, 121, 137, 150, 167, 185, 201, 216, 233, 251, 266, 285, 303, 319, 337, 355, 375, 396, 414, 432. California, shooting of Kalloch, 135, election for mayor,
State carried by Republicans, 165-Connecticut town elections, 231-Roscoe Conkling forsaken by female cor- respondents, 1, affair with ex-Gov. Sprague, 104, 120, 136, controls the Republican Convention, 165, speech in Brooklyn, 249, triumph in the election, 301-Zach Chand- ler's pugilistic training, 34, sudden death, 302-D. H. Chamberlain's 4th of July speech at Springfield, 17- Cotton Planters' Association meeting at Vicksburg, 17, account of new machinery, 356-Cincinnati, smoke nui- sance to be abated, 18, election investigated, 103, Con- gress of the National League, 185, Cincinnati Commercial wants more gold coined, 395-Chicago Tribune on the Yazoo trouble, 234, opposes stopping the silver coinage, 395, Chicago chosen for holding the National Republican Convention, 413- Dr. Howard Crosby censures Gov. Robinson, 34-Chastine Cox convicted of the Hull mur- der, 50-Chisholm murder trial, Gully acquitted, 184- Casanave's legal straits, 119, 120-A. B. Cornell nominated for Governor by N. Y. Republicans, 165, elected, 301, 413 -G. W. Curtis resigns chairmanship of Richmond Co. Convention, 249, sustained by Harpers, 250-Congress of the National League, 185-Henry C. Carey deceased, 251 -Champion sunk, 318-Catholic pretensions in Mass., 318, 377, defeat in Coppers burial sult, 336-Comptroller of the Currency's Report, 356-Don Cameron made chair- man of the National Republican Committee, 431-Chit- tenden-Butler legal-tender suit, 432.
Congress, XLVIth, extra session: Judicial Expenses Bill passed both Houses, and signed; Marshals' Expenses Bill passed and vetoed, and veto sustained; bill putting salts of quinine on free-list passed; Burnside's Darien Canal resolution; committees on collection of revenue and codifying House rules; adjournment, 1.
-, first session: meets: resolutions against changing the currency laws (both Houses), 375-Republican caucus committee opposes action on the currency; Bicknell bill to count the electoral vote, 395-Refunding proposi- tions, Garfield's and Wood's (House), 396-Fortifications and Pension Appropriation bills passed (House), 413- Military Academy Appropriation bill passed (House); negro migration investigation committee (Senate); holi- day recess, 431.
Dixon, Colonel Henry M., killed by Barksdale, 119, record, 216 Silas B. Dutcher to stump for Cornell, 215-Judge Matthew Deady's decision in favor of Chinese labor, 216. Evarts, Secretary, circular on Mormonism, 136, decision on Mexican claims, 184, speech for Cornell at Cooper Union, 265-Elections in November, 301, 317, 413-Evening Post on Republican retrenchment in N. Y., 265. Fourth of July orations, 17-Cyrus W. Field's quarrel with Tilden, 135, 136, 166, 199, 200, 215, 216-Freedmen's Savings- Bank liquidation frauds, 150-Charles Foster elected Governor of Ohio, 249, speech on the Brigadiers in N. Y., 28.3. Georgia negroes' taxable property, 377-Gen. Grant declines a third term, 137, reception in San Francisco, 199, refuses
to receive Kearney, 216, proposed uses, Southern popu. larity, 335, Stalwartism doubted, 355, 414, progress to the seaboard, chances of a third term, 413, a willing candi- date, 432-Gen. Garfield on the movement of population in Ohio, 166.
Hayes, President, vetoes bill for U. S. marshals' expenses, 1, opposes political organizations in the departments, 108, speaks at Detroit and Youngstown, 199, Thanksgiv- ing proclamation, 318, message to Congress, 375, reported backdown, 395-"Ben" Hill's Tammany 4th of July - speech, 17, reply to S. B. Chittenden, 284-Gen. John B. Hood deceased, 150-Harper's Weekly advises scratching Cornell, 215-Herald begs Tilden to go out of politics, 87 -Harvard-Yale boat-race won by former, 2.
Iowa election carried by Republicans, 265-Indiana colo- nized by N. C. negroes, 413-Indian difficulties on Cana- dian border, 68; Ponca grievances, 120; Ute outbreak, 234, 235, 250, 266, 303, 396-International Silver Conference not getting on, 201, 319, 415.
Jews warned away from Manhattan Beach, 68-John Jay on Cornell's civil-service reform, 284.
Kentucky election carried for Dr. Blackburn, 87-Comptrol- ler Knox on silver demonetization, 104-Rev. I. S. Kal- loch shot in San Francisco, 135-Denis Kearney refused admittance by Gen. Grant, 216-John Kelly's bolt and nomination, 183, electioneering tour, 250, vote, 317. Louisiana, improved Republican party in, 284, 335, speeches of General Woodford, 376, election, stories of violence,
Maine Republican and Democratic conventions, 1, canvass, 34, 149, election, 165, Governor and Council "counting out" the Republican majority, 336, 414,431-Massachusetts Republican rivalries, 166, Convention, 184, Greenback- Labor Convention, 183, amenities of canvass. 265, 266, Re- publican victory, 301, women voting for school commit- tees, 414-Maryland Republican Convention, 183, elec- tion, 301-Mississippi jetties completed, 33, bull-dozing the Independents, 88, 119, election, 31-Memphis yellow fever and repudiation, 49, unsanitary condition exposed, 396-Mormonism, Secretary Evarts's foreign circular on, 136-Mexican claims, Secretary Evarts's decision, 184- Secretary McCrary's annual report, 356.
New York: management of Ludlow Street jail, 2, 49; rate of interest problems, 34, Attorney-General's decision, 88: Gov. Robinson's chances of renomination, 49, 87, Tam- many manifesto against him, 149; Democratic State Committee captured by Tilden, 119, Convention, Robin- son nominated, Tammany bolt, 183, Greenback Conven- tion and platform, 149, Republican Convention, 149, Cor- nell nominated, 165, Independent Republican address, 183, success, 215, address to Union League Club, 250, catechism of Mr. Evarts, 265, exclusion from party press, 284, strength at the polls, 301, 317, 355; election, 301, 317, 335, 355, final returns, 413: Rapid Transit Commis- sioners' second report, 50, 68: Police-Commissioner Wheeler charged with malfeasance, 89, hearing of writ of prohibition, 103, salary withheld, 149; Commissioner Smith's removal approved, 104, resistance, 150; Commis- sioner Nichols's case declared reviewable by Judge Westbrook, 104, who is ordered to show cause by the General Term, 200, and prohibited from proceeding, 215; Mud-scow Superintendent Hunt on trial, 356: Inspectors of election contest, 200, Westbrook's order and revoca- tion, 215, mandamus to appoint Tammany inspectors, 231, county nominations all bad, 284: Railroad Investi- gating Committee at Albany, 136, Custom-house civil- service examinations, 249-New Hampshire law for suing repudiating States, 103-North Carolina negro exodus, 413-National Republican Committee reorgan- ized, 413-Negro emigration from North Carolina, 413. Ohio population and politics, 166, election carried by Repub- licans, 249, 265. Pennsylvania Democratic Convention, 49, Republican, 67, Allegheny County held responsible for Pittsburgh riot losses, 235; Philadelphia Press and Federal interference in local elections, 302, 318-Pistol-carrying and crime, 18 -Ponca Indians' hardships, 120-Pension Office, apology for, 251-Pacific Railroads, Supreme Court affirms valid- ity of Thurman act, 266.
Roach, John, on subsidized ship-building, 2-Rapid Transit Commission discharged, 18, Aldermen embarrassed, 68- Gov. Lucius Robinson renominated, 183, letter of accep tance, 199, defeated, 301.
South Carolina, report of Superintendent of Education;
educational suffrage qualification proposed, 396-South- ern colonization as a cure for the solid South, 17-John F. Seymour murdered, 18-Gen. Sherman on the Utes, 303 Secretary Sherman's estimates exceeded, 33, speeches in Maine, 67, in Ohio, 135, in Kentucky, 149, sympathy for Casanave, 135, leave to Silas B Dutcher to stump the State for Cornell, 215, 249, 302, speech at Pater- son and Cooper Union, 283, 301, will not stump Louisiana, 335, annual report, 375-Secretary Schurz's speech in Ohio, 135, annual report and Indian question, 376-Gen. Sheridan's blundering censure of the Interior Depart- ment, 266-Speculation rife, 233, 266-Father Scully and the public schools, 318-Stalwartism explaining itself away, 356-Sutro Tunnel completed, 33-State text-books, 51, State suability for repudiation, 103-Sprague-Conk- ling scandal, 104, Herald and Tribune on the duty of the press towards it, 120, silence of Conkling, 136-Stewart grave-robbery correspondence, 12. Tennessee debt compromise rejected, 103-Texas, area, pro- ducts, and capacity, 377-N. Y. Times on the exodus, 33, 34, on the public services of C. F. Adams, 87, on the Presi- dent's Youngstown speech, 199, 215, 233, correspondent on apathy of N. Y. canvass, 283, joins the Grant move- ment, 414-Tribune's aged advice against scratching. 233, turned upon it by Independent Republicans, 250, 265, reason for not being a reformer now, 302, premature report of Vanderbilt sale, 355, 376-Toledo "National" assessments, 49-S. J. Tilden's difference with Cyrus W. Field, 135, 136, 166, 199, 200, 215, 216, bill of particulars in income-suit refused, 216–Talmage attacks the minority of the Presbytery, 414, whitewashed by the Synod, 432- Trade-mark decision of U. S. Supreme Court, 336. Ute outbreak, 234, 235, 250, 266, 303, terms of surrender, 396, Virginia election carried by Readjusters, 817-Vanderbilt sale of N. Y. Central stock, 355, 376. Wisconsin Republican Convention, 67, Democratic, 183- Stewart L. Woodford and the Mines story, 50, speeches in New Orleans, 376-Wallace Committee enquiries in Rhode Island and Mass., 119-Vice-President Wheeler's speech at Saratoga, 165-George Walker not received by Bismarck, 415-World on the Hull murder, 2, polling for Gov. Robinson, 49.
Yellow-fever cases in Memphis, 33, 49, and New Orleans, 67, 88, 150-Yazoo City political bull-dozing, 88, 119, new In- dependent candidate, 284.
(See also Special Correspondence.)
GREAT BRITAIN :-Talmage's success, 2-Irish University scheme; Mr. Goschen on silver, 8-Alarming condition of British agriculture; Liberals divided on abolition of flogging, 19-Honors paid the Prince Imperial's memory, 35; Dean Stanley and the Prince Imperial's monument in Westminster Abbey, 105, 121, 137; the Prince's politi- cal intentions, 105-Approaching close of Parliament, Forster's Liberal programme, 35-Chaplin on agricultu- ral distress and Bright on land monopoly, 51, 69-Addi tional credit of £3,000,000 for South African war, 89– Debate on Turkish failure to reform, 105-Parliament prorogued, 121-Gladstone's attack on the Ministry in the Ni etee th Century, 121; stumping Midlothian, 377, 397, 415-Business depression and emigration; O'Connor Power's defence of Home Rule; Parnell's riotous meet- ings in Limerick, 151-Capt. Carey's court martial and popularity, 167-Sir Henry Rawlinson on the Afghan campaign, 185-Beaconsfield on the agricultural dim- culty, 151; on American farmers flocking to Canada, 201; speech at Lord Mayor's dinner, 319, 377-Liberals triumphing over the Ministry on account of ghanistan, 217, attitude on the land question, 235–Law. son-Labouchere street fight, 251, trial, 357-Salisbury not responsible for reform in Asia Minor, 69; misjudg ment of foreign affairs exposed by Grant Duff; speech at Manchester, 267, 319, 337 -Preparing for elections, 285 --Irish rent troubles, 285, 857, 397-Death of Mr. Delane of the Times, 357-Liberal victory at Sheffield, 433 FRANCE-Bonapartists confounded by Prince Imperial's death, 19, 35, codicil to his will, 35, mode of death, 3, 19, 33-Ferry's defence of his laws on instruction, 51- Press making fun of Beaconsfield, 217– Ex-Communist Humbert sentenced for insulting the magistracy, 267-
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