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APPENDIX.

A SYNOPSIS OP THE PRINCIPAL EVENTS ALL OVER THE WORLD IN 1885.

April 1.-Revolutionists burned Aspinwall, the principal city of Panama, leaving thousands of people homeless and shelterless.- Bismarck celebrated his seventieth birthday.-Battleford, Canada,, was pillaged and burned by the half-breed insurgents.-General Grant was reported as dying.

April 3.-General Graham with the British troops occupied Tamai.-The United States Government despatched a force of 800 marines and war vessels to the Isthmus of Panama to protect the property of Americans, and open up communication across the Isthmus. Gold discoveries in North Carolina were reported.

April 5.-A new French Cabinet was formed.-Preparations for war with Russia progressed in England, as Russia’s answer to England’s demand was considered as ” slimily evasive.”

April 6.-Peace was concluded between France and China.

April 7.-The new French Ministry defined its policy to the Chamber of Deputies, and the latter voted $30,000,000 for operations in Tonquin. The Prince and Princess of Wales with their eldest son started for Ireland.

April 8.-The ” Castle hacks ” received the Prince and Princess of Wales with all honor, the citizens holding aloof. An official proclamation against the Mahdi was issued at Constantinople.

April 9.-The most frantic excitement was caused in England by the news of a battle fought between the Russian troops and Afghans near Penjdeh on the Afghan frontier. War with Russia was considered inevitable, and the Government naval and dock-yards were worked at the highest pressure.-The report that Barrios was killed in an engagement in Central America was confirmed.

April 10.-Fourteen whites were killed by Indians at Frog Lake, Winnipeg.

April 11.-England, on her mettle, demanded that Russia disavow the act of her commander on the Afghan frontier and recall him. The war feeling was at its height.-General Grant was reported as much worse.

April 13.-Turkey announced her disinclination to enter into an alliance with either England or Russia.-At the Mallow Junction, Ireland, a riot occurred upon the arrival of the Prince and Princess of Wales, the people desiring ” none of them,” and clamoring for “Justice to Ireland ” and singing ” God save Ireland.”-The United States Supreme Court decided that a wife’s estate is not liable for the debts contracted by her husband, while pretending to act as trustee for her, unless she intended her estate to be so bound.

April 14.-Peace was proclaimed in Central America.

April 15.-A riot occurred in Cork on the visit of the Prince and Princess of Wales, the rioters being fired on by the police. Rotten eggs and decomposed cabbages were freely flung at the Royal party, who were hooted and groaned as they passed through the city.

April 18.-Primrose day was celebrated in England, so-called as being the anniversary of Lord Beaconsfield’s death, the primrose being his favorite flower.

April 20.-Six hundred colored people left South Carolina for Arkansas.

April 21.-Sir Peter Lumsden’s despatch in reply to the British Government’s inquiry as to the correctness of the Russian accounts of the Penjdeh affair was published, and it contradicted in many particulars the Russian General Komaroff’s despatch. The British Government asked Parliament for a ” credit” of $55,000,-000 for the Army and Navy.-Mr. Keiley, Minister to Italy, resigned. An attempt was made to blow up the University of Chicago.

April 22.-The Reserves came out strong in England, the call to arms being enthusiastically responded to.-A terrific volcanic eruption took place on the Island of Java.-The United States troops in Panama were fired upon and a proclamation directed against them. Ice 20 inches in thickness and snow drifts 10 feet high were reported in the State of New York.

April 23.-A dynamite explosion in the Admiralty Office, London, again scared the Cockneys, and the papers ” went ” for the United States. In Belfast the Orange section, descendants of Cromwell’s Ironsides, received the Prince and Princess of Wales with the most frantic loyalty. At Stratford-on-Avon the 321st birthday of Shakespeare was jubilantly celebrated, the crowd of visitors being numerous. The Austrian Government seized upon five Vienna papers for printing objectionable political matter.-Destructive forest fires ravaged Eastern Pennsylvania and New Jersey.

April 24.-United States troops took possession of Panama, and arrested Aizpuru, commander of the rebels.

April 25.-A battle was fought between the Canadian troops and Kiel’s half-breeds.-Emma, Queen Do wager of Hawaii, widow of King Kamehameha, died.

April 27.-The British House of Commons, after a powerful address from the G. O- M., without a division, voted $55,000.000 for the war with Russia.

April 28.-A fleet of mackerel schooners arrived at New York -with 12,000,000 fish caught off the Virginia Capes within twenty-our hours.

April 29.-The rebels at Panama surrendered.-The Police Commissioners of Cincinnatti decided to close the theatres on Sundays. [”he new Chicago Board of Trade opened its palatial building, which cost $2,000,000.

April 30.-Mr. Keiley, whose appointment as Minister to Italy vas objected to on account of his personal opinion in regard to the Catholicity and morality of the late king, Victor Emanuel, was appointed Minister to Austria.

May 1.-Brinley Richards, the musical composer, died aged 67.

May 2.-The Exposition at Antwerp was opened with considerable flourish of trumpets.-A threatened “strike ” riot in Joliet, II.. was nipped in the bud by the interposition of the soldiery. The railway war in cut rates enabled a traveler to proceed from New York to the Pacific for $43.00.

May 4.-The World’s Exhibition of Inventions, or the ” Inventories,” was opened in London.-General Grant resumed work on his book. The Patent-office reported that for the month of April 3,159 applications for patents were sent in.

May 5.-The Mexicans celebrated the defeat of the French, in 1862, with freat furore, the Capital being a scene of the brightest festivity.-A treaty was concluded by the United States Government, and the Columbian Government at Bogotá, providing a joint protectorate over the Isthmus.

May 6.-The Columbian Government hanged two rebels who were prominent in the insurrection.-Cable cars were introduced into Philadelphia streets.

May 7.-James Russell Lowell unveiled a bust of Coleridge in Westminster Abbey, and delivered an address.

May 9.-Another battle was fought between the Canadian troops and the half-breeds, in which the latter were routed by General Middleton.

May 13.-A riot occurred in Trafalgar Square, London, between the police and the mob which had gathered to protest against the proposed increase of tax on spirits and beer.

May 14.-The House of Commons voted the Princess Beatrice, the youngest and only unmarried daughter of Queen Victoria, an annuity of $30,000 on the occasion of her marriage with a pauper German princeling.

May 15.-Queen Victoria was presented with the first complete copy of the “Revised Bible.”-Louis Riel, the half-breed instigator of the Canadian Rebellion, was captured.

May 16.-The Revised Edition of the Bible was issued to the newspapers.

19.-The rebels in Columbia attacked the city of Carthagena, but were repulsed with heavy loss.-Mr. Lowell took official leave of the Queen, and Mr. Phelps “kissed hands” as the new American Minister.

May 21.-The Presbyterian General Council opened in Cincinnatti.

May 22.-Victor Hugo, French author, poet and dramatist, lied aged 83. [He was the youngest of three sons of -General Hugo, who served with distinction through Napoleon’s campaigns .n Italy and Spain. Madame Hugo and her children followed the General into both countries. Thus their early years were spent amid strange sights and scenes, following the fortunes of war. The first volume of Victor Hugo’s ” Odes and Ballads ” appeared 111 1822, and his tales, “Hans of Iceland” and ” Bug-Jargal,” were written about this time. In 1826 he published a second volume of “Odes and Ballads.” which exhibited a change in his political and literary opinions, and in 1827 he composed his drama. ” Cromwell.” In 1829 he published his “Last Days of a Condemned Criminal.” Shortly after the Revolution of July 1830, his “Marion de Lorme,” which had been suppressed by the censorship under the Restoration, was brought out with success. ” Le Roi s’amuse ” was performed at the Theatre Francais in January, 1832. After the coup d’etat of 1851, Victor Hugo refused the amnesty offered by Napoleon HI., rejected with scorn the triumph of Imperialism, and went into a voluntary exile for nineteen years afterward at Guernsey. His prose works during this period included ” Les Miserables,” “Les Travailleurs de laMer,” ” L’Homrne qui Rit,” and ” Quatre-vingt Treize”; his poems, “Napoleon le petit,” “Les Chatiments,” “La Legende des Siecles.” ” Chansons des Rues et des Bois,” and ” Les Contemplations.” On the fall of the Empire he hastened back to his native country, and was returned to the National Assembty at Bordeaux. He then sought refuge in the seclusion of the little town of Vianden, in Luxemburg, where he composed “L’Annee Terrible.” Returning to Paris in Jul3^r, 1871, he pleaded earnestly for the lives of Rossel, Ferre, and the other Communists. M. Victor Hugo has given an account of this period of his career in “Actes et Paroles, 1870-71-72,” published in 1872. Collections of his lyrics, which were published from time to time, bore the titles: “Les Rayons et les Ombres,” “Les Voix Interieures.” “Les Feuilles d’Atttomne,” “Chants du Crepnscule,” etc. Victor Hugo’s literary works brought him a moderate fortune, and his latter years were spent in a pleasant house on the outskirts of Paris, in an avenue named in his honor.]

May 27.-The Supreme Court of Mexico decided that foreigners may hold property in the Republic.-The Mikado of Japan conferred honorary titles on four American citizens, for services rendered as teachers in the University of Tokio.-A Philadelphia woman was convicted of being a “common scold,” and sentenced to four months’ imprisonment.

May 28.-The President and Cabinet refused to encourage the re-opening of the New Orleans Exhibition in the fall.

May 30.-The Apache Indians committed atrocities in Arizona. Great excitement was caused by the discovery of a gold mine in Josephine County, Oregon.

June 1.-The funeral of Victor Hugo took place in Paris. He was interred in the Pantheon. The cortege and ceremonial was one of the most imposing ever witnessed in “glittering Lutetia.”

June 2.-A terrible earthquake occurred in Cashmere, India.- The mayor of Chicago issued a proclamation against gamblers and gambling in that city, which caused a sensation.

June 4.-The British House of Commons was greatly exercised over the question of diplomatic relations with the Vatican, and the Government announced that it was not their intention to establish same in a regular way.-A motion in the French Chambers impeaching M. Ferry was defeated.-A cyclone in Aden. Arabia, committed fearful havoc.-In Arizona and New Mexico the hostile Indians were on the war path.

June 5.-Sir Julius Benedict. Kt., musical composer, died, aged 81.-Ferdinand Ward, ” the Napoleon of finance,” was indicted for fraud.

June 6.-Cashmere was again desolated by an earthquake.

June 7.-There was a great demonstration in Hyde Park, London, to protest against an increase in the beer and spirit duties.

June 8.-Mr. Gladstone was defeated in the House of Commons on the proposition to increase the tax on wine and spirits. The excitement in England was at fever heat.-The treaty of peace between France and China was signed.-The newspapers published the first extracts from General Grant’s memoirs.

June 9.-The Gladstone Ministry resolved upon resignation, to the utter dismay of the Liberals, and the intense satisfaction of the Conservatives and Parnellites.

June 10.-A fire at Aux Cayes, Hayti, destroyed $2,000,000 worth of property, and rendered over one thousand families homeless.-The supporters of Prince Napoleon issued an election Manifesto, declaring war against “Republican Anarchy.”

June 11–Queen Victoria summoned the Marquis of Salisbury to Balmoral with a view to commanding him to take office and form a Ministry.

June 12.-The Marquis of Salisbury consented to form a Ministry; this after considerable hesitation. The town of Grodno, Russia, was destroyed by fire.

June 15.-The Shah of Persia started a school and a newspaper. -Prince Frederick Charles of Prussia, “The Red Prince,” died aged 57. [Prince Frederick Charles of Prussia, better known as ” The Red Prince,” was the son of Prince Frederick Charles, who was a brother of the present Emperor of Germany. He was born March 20, 1828. He married, November 29.1854, the Princess Marie, daughter of Leopold Frederick, Duke of Anhalt. His children: 1. Princess Marie, born September 14, 1855, married, August 24, 1878, Prince Henry of the Netherlands. 2. Princess Elizabeth, born February 8, 1857, married, February 18. 1878, the Hereditary Duke of Oldenburg. 3. Princess Louise, born July 25, 1860, married, March 13, 1879, the Duke of Connaught; and 4. Prince Joachim, born May 14, 1865.]

June 16-Cholera appeared in Spain. Its malignity spreading terror over the Peninsula.-Another shock of earthquake was experienced at Cashmere, and 2.000 people were reported as killed.

June 17.-The New British Cabinet was announced, and Lord Randolph Churchill being given a portfolio, created at once satisfaction and surprise.-The Bartholdi Statue of ” Liberty Enlightening the World ” arrived at New York.

June 18.-A Cabinet crisis in Italy led to the resignation of the Ministry.-A shock of earthquake was severely felt at York, England.-The increase of cholera in Spain was most serious.

June 19.-The Statue of ” Liberty Enlightening the World ” was formally received in New York, [It is estimated that, of the $390,000 that will have been expended before the statue is finally placed in position, the pedestal alone will have cost $250,000, the interior bracings and structure $25,000, and the placing it in position, $25,000. This will make total cost of statue, pedestal and erection about $650,000, or over half a million. The pedestal is a truncated cone, with galleries on each side supported by Ionic columns. The top of the torch will then be 305 feet 11 inches above low water, 21 feet higher than Trinity Church spire, and 23 feet higher than the towers of the Brooklyn Bridge. Some approximate idea of the size of the statue may be gained when it is stated that the forefinger is nearly 7 feet long, and is over 4 feet in circumference at the second joint. The nail measures 9 by 6 inches, the head is 16 feet high, and the eye is nearly 2 feet wide. Three feet and over is the length of the nose; forty persons can find room inside the head, and twelve in the torch held by the hand.]

June 20.-A shock of earthquake was felt in Switzerland.-The Spanish Ministry tendered their resignation in consequence of the King’s determination to visit the cholera-stricken districts.

June 23.-The Salisbury Ministry formally entered office, the Marquis having received the seals from the Queen.

June 24.-The Russian Government forbade newspapers from making any reference to its action in Afghan affairs.-The decree of the Mexican Government regarding payment of duties and railway subsidies caused a financial crisis.-The second case of whipping for wife-beating took place in Maryland.

June 25–The ravage of disease among the French soldiers at Tonquin was reported as appalling.-A severe shock of earthquake was felt in Inverness-shire, Scotland.

June 26.-The financial embarrassment of the Mexican Government was officially reported.

June 27.-The Rev. Mr. Spurgeon published a pamphlet denouncing immorality in English high life.-The death-rate from cholera in Spain was enormously increased.-Three hundred natives of the Republic of Nicaragua fell in battle.

June 30.-The Nationalist Parliament party issued an address advising Irish electors to vote for Conservatives for Parliament with a view to the promotion of Irish interests.