STATISTICS OF LAND GRANTS.

Land Grants by Acts of Congress to States and Corporations for Railroad Purposes, from the First Grant in 1850, to June 30, 1881.

Compiled from Reports of the Commissioner of the General Land Office.

NOTE.-It is proper to state that the first column of figures above given, "Estimated quantity embraced in the Grant," although from Official Reports of the General Land Office at Washington, published in 1873, is not regarded as an accurate statement of the amount of public lands to which the railways will be entitled under the various acts, and has been omitted from recent tabular statements issued by the Commissioner of Public Lands.

NOTABLE EVENTS, DEC. 1, 1880, TO DEC. 1, 1881.

Dec. 2, 1880. Gen. Gonzales inaugurated President of the Mexican Republic.

Dec. 6. The 46th Congress met for its third and last session. Pres. Hayes' message recommended treasury and land grants to promote free education, a new Civil Service Commission, a law defining the relations of Congressmen to appointments to office, the suspension of the silver coinage act, repeal of the Tenure of Office act, the government of Utah by a commission with prohibition of suffrage or office to polygamists, and the creation of the office of Captain General of the army for Gen. Grant.

Dec. 8. The British Admiralty decided to abolish flogging in the navy.
Dec. 10. 100 miners killed by explosion at the Pen-y-grage colliery, Wales.

Dec. 17. The Educational Bill passed Senate funding proceeds of public land sales and Patent Office earnings at 4 per cent., dividing the interest among the States in proportion to illiteracy.

Dec. 20. The electric light on the Brush system successfully applied to street light. ing for nearly a mile of Broadway, New York.

Dec. 25. M. Anderwert, President elect of Switzerland, committed suicide.

Dec. 28. Trial of Charles S. Parnell, etc., commenced in Dublin.

Dec. 30. 18 villages submerged in Holland by giving way of the embankment of the river Maas.

Jan. 6, 1881. British Parliament opened. Queen's speech asked for additional powers to suppress agrarian crimes in Ireland.

Jan. 6. Nathan Goff, Jr., of West Virginia, confirmed as Secretary of the Navy.
Jan. 8. Arrival in Paris of the amnestied Communists.

Jan. 13.

Jan 14.

Cronstadt, Russia, Theatre destroyed by fire.

Great strike of Lancashire miners to the number of 50,000.

Jan. 18. Extraordinary snow storm visited London, with hurricanes in England and Wales.

Jan. 23. Callao and Lima, Peru, surrendered to the Chilians, virtually ending the South American war. Justice Swayne of the U. S. Supreme Court resigned.

Jan. 24. The Russians captured Jeok Tepe, Central Asia.

Jan. 24. Mr. Foster moved in Parliament a bill to protect life and property in Ireland. The Home Rulers by disorderly opposition prevented the reading of the bill for fortyone hours prolonged session. The Speaker then arbitrarily declared debate closed, and the bill was read.

Jan. 25. The Irish State Trials ended in a disagreement of the jury. Commotion in Ireland, almost amounting to a reign of terror.

Feb. 3. Mr. Parnell and thirty-four other Irish members removed by the sergeant-atarms for obstructing the course of business in the House of Commons.

Feb. 4. Senate declared the President of the Senate not invested by the Constitution with power to count the Presidential vote so as to determine what votes shall be received or rejected. The House concurred, Feb. 5, declaring it the duty of Congress to pass a law at once providing for the Electoral count. No law however was passed.

Feb. 6. Steamer Bohemia, Boston to Liverpool, went ashore on the Irish coast, drowning 32 passengers.

Feb. 7. Work began on the Panama Canal.

Feb. 9. The electoral vote counted by the Vice-President in convention of both Houses of Congress. Garfield and Arthur declared elected.

Feb. 12. Baroness Burdett-Coutts, aged 67, married W. Ashmead Bartlett, aged 29. March 2. The Irish Coercion Bill signed by the Queen.

March 3. President Hayes vetoed the Funding Bill, which funded about 700 millions of the public debt at 3 per cent. having passed the House Jan. 19, and the Senate Feb. 18, with amendment changing the bonds to twenty years, redeemable after five years, instead of a 5-10 bond.

March 3. House passed an Apportionment Bill providing for 319 Representatives. Not considered in the Senate.

March 3. Senate passed the Japanese Indemnity Bill to repay $1,463,224 to Japan. March 4. James A. Garfield publicly inaugurated President. His address strongly urged universal education, regulation and improvement of the civil service by law, thorough protection to the suffrage for both races and in all the States alike, and the reform of the coinage, giving it full value in all the markets of the world.

March 4. A furious snow storm and gale in Scotland. 200 lives lost.

March 5.

President Garfield's Cabinet confirmed as follows: James G. Blaine, of Me., Sec. of State; William Windom, of Minn., Sec. of Treasury; Robt. T. Lincoln, of Ill., Sec. of War; Wm. H. Hunt, of La., Sec. of Navy; Sam'l J. Kirkwood, of Iowa, Sec. of Interior; Thos. L. James, of N. Y., Postmaster General; Wayne McVeagh, of Pa., Attorney General.

March 13. The Czar of Russia, Alexander II, was assassinated, two bombs being thrown at him on returning from a parade. His eldest son succeeded to the empire, under the title of Alexander III.

March 17. Irish Arms Bill passed prohibiting under severe penalties the carrying or sale of arms and explosives except by license.

March 19. At Paris, the International Monetary Conference began its sessions.
Senate confirmed Levi P. Morton, of N. Y., Minister to France.

March 21.
March 23.
March 23.

The Boer war in S. Africa ended, the Boers accepting the British terms.
Opera House at Nice burned with loss of 100 lives.

March 23. Pres. Garfield with other important nominations named Wm. H. Robertson collector of customs at New York.

March 26. Prince Charles proclaimed King of Roumania.

April 3. Eighth decennial census of Great Britain taken in one day.

April 3. Great earthquake at Chios, Asia Minor. About 5,000 killed, and 45 villages destroyed.

April 4. Mr. Gladstone's budget estimated surplus for 1881 £1,285,000: result, reduction of income tax, 1 penny, also of duty on foreign beer and silver plate.

April 9. Charles Bradlaugh, the expelled Radical, reëlected to Parliament for Northampton.

April 11. Secretary Windom began refunding by offering to pay July 1, U. S. bonds $336,235,050 with option of exchanging for new bonds at 3% per cent.

April 15. The five condemned Nihilists convicted of complicity in the Czar's assassination, were hanged.

April 26. House of Commons refused to permit Bradlaugh to take the oath of office. April 26. Explosion of British war-sloop Doterel in the Strait of Magellan, 143 killed. May 1. In Southern Russia, 500 Jewish families massacred by the peasants. This persecution caused burning and pillage at Kiev and elsewhere to the amount of millions of dollars.

May 2. John Dillon, M. P., from Tipperary, arrested in Ireland under the Coercion Act.

May 4. Prest. Garfield withdrew from the Senate the New York nominations, except that of Judge Robertson to be collector, which was confirmed May 18.

May 5. The U. S. Senate confirmed Chinese Immigration and commercial treaty, also treaties with Columbia and Japan.

May 9. Lord Salisbury chosen leader of the Conservative party in Parliament. May 10. Mr. Bradlaugh was forcibly expelled from the House of Commons, where he had insisted upon his right to take the oath of office as a member-elect.

May 12. The city of Tunis surrendered to the French, and the Bey compulsorily signed a treaty virtually acknowledging France as suzerain.

May 16. Senators Roscoe Conkling and Thomas C. Platt resigned their seats as U. S. Senators from New York, because of the nomination and certain confirmation of Collector Robertson.

May 17. Revised New Testament published by the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge.

May 18. The Senate postponed to December resolution asserting the Monroe doctrine as to the Isthmus canal.

May 19. New Testament Revision published in America; 200,000 copies sold in two days.

May 20. The Senate of the U. S. adjourned, having been in session since March 5. A protracted deadlock arose over the Senate offices, the Republicans seeking to remove and the Democrats seeking to retain the Secretary, Sergeant-at-Arms, etc. The control of the Senate committees, which had been organized by the Democrats early in the session was changed to the Republicans by the aid of Senator Mahone, of Va.