ce Charles proclaimed King of Roumanla. decennial census of Great Britain taken in one day. earthquake at Chios, Asia Minor. About 5,000 killed, and 45 villages adstone's budget estimated surplus for 1881 £1,285,000: result, reduc1 penny, also of duty on foreign beer and silver plate. Bradlaugh, the expelled Radical, reëlected to Parliament for North ary Windom began refunding by offering to pay July 1, U. S. bonds ption of exchanging for new bonds at 31⁄2 per cent. ve condemned Nihilists convicted of complicity in the Czar's assassina of Commons refused to permit Bradlaugh to take the oath of office. sion of British war-sloop Doterel in the Strait of Magellan, 143 killed. hern Russia, 500 Jewish families massacred by the peasants. This burning and pillage at Kiev and elsewhere to the amount of mil Ellon, M. P., from Tipperary, arrested in Ireland under the Coercion arfleld withdrew from the Senate the New York nominations, except ertson to be collector, which was confirmed May 18. S. Senate confirmed Chinese Immigration and commercial treaty, Columbia and Japan. isbury chosen leader of the Conservative party in Parliament. adlaugh was forcibly expelled from the House of Commons, where on his right to take the oath of office as a member-elect. y of Tunis surrendered to the French, and the Bey compulsorily tually acknowledging France as suzerain. 's Roscoe Conkling and Thomas C. Platt resigned their seats as U. S. w York, because of the nomination and certain confirmation of Col 1 New Testament published by the Universities of Oxford and Cam hate postponed to December resolution asserting the Monroe doctrine anal. estament Revision published in America; 200,000 copies sold in two nate of the U. S. adjourned, having been in session since March 5. ock arose over the Senate offices, the Republicans seeking to remove seeking to retain the Secretary, Sergeant-at-Arms, etc. The control mittees, which had been organized by the Democrats early in the d to the Republicans by the aid of Senator Mahone, of Va. June 22. The British House of Commons rejected bill abolishing 175 to 89. June 23. Railroad accident in Mexico killing 197. July 2. President James A. Garfield was shot at the Baltimore an depot, Washington, by a disappointed office-seeker named Charle criminal was arrested. The President was quickly conveyed to the throngs of excited citizens. Though a fatal result was expected, nearly three months. July 11. The French army bombarded Sfax, in North Africa. A cyclone demolished 100 houses, killing thirty persons a 200 persons have been imprisoned in Ireland under the cial returns give the number of families evicted in Ireland for three 30, at 1063. Aug. 4. The Liquor Prohibition Act passed by North Carolina le to the people and rejected by 116,000 majority. Aug. 8. The Boers received the Transvaal by cession, and a Sou was proclaimed. Aug. 10. International exhibition of electricity opened in Paris. Aug. 16. House of Lords agreed to the Irish Land Bill as finall Commons. Aug. 17. International Law Reform Conference met at Cologne. Aug. 27. British Parliament prorogued. Aug. 30. Mail steamer Teuton lost with 200 lives. Sept. 4. Forest fires began burning in Michigan, spreading over counties, destroying many villages, and over 300 lives. Sept. 9. The Czar of Russia met the German Emperor at Dantzic Sept. 19. The death of President Garfield occurred at 10.35 P. M. Sept. 20. Vice-President Chester A. Arthur took the oath of office United States at about 2 A. M. at his house in New York city. Sept. 22. President Arthur was formally sworn into office at Wash Justice at the Capitol, and gave a brief inaugural address. Sept. 23. A solemn memorial service was held in the rotunda of ington over the remains of President Garfield. Sept. 26. The funeral of President Garfield was attended by a vas land, Ohio, where his remains were placed in Lake View Cemetery. Oct.-. The election in France largely increased Republican Chamber embracing 457 Republicans, 47 Bonapartists, and 43 Mona v. Edwin D. Morgan appointed and confirmed Secretary of the Treashe office. es J. Folger, of N. Y., appointed and confirmed Secretary of the ermany, elections for the Reichstag resulted in majority of Liberals J. S. Senate adjourned its special session, having confirmed most of the Inations. ship Calcutta foundered near Melbourne. 22 lives lost. anics National Bank of Newark, N. J., wrecked by embezzlement of unds by 'the cashier, O. L. Baldwin. rance, the Cabinet headed by Jules Ferry resigned. M. Gambetta as a new ministry with M: Cazot, as Minister of Justice; M. Waldeck-RosPaul Bert, Public Instruction; M. Bouvier, Commerce and Colonies; Es and Telegraphs; M. Allain-targe, Finance; M. Compenon, War; M. ne; M. Provit, Fine Arts; M. Deves, Agriculture; M. Raynal, Public of Guiteau for the murder of President Garfield began in the Supreme trict of Columbia. 'NOTABLE PERSONS, DEC. 1, 1880 TO DEC. 1, 1881. At Paris, Mme. Thiers, widow of the French statesman, a. 62. ris, Michael Chasles, French mathematician, a. 87. ondon, Francis T. Buckland, naturalist, a. 54. ndon, Mary Ann Lewes Cross, author of Adam Bede and other works by Feorge Eliot, a. 60. ndon, John J. Mechi, alderman and agriculturist, a. 78. w York, Rev. E. H. Chapin, D. D., Universalist divine, a. 66. ston, Epes Sargent, editor and author, a. 66. At Paris, Louis A. Blanqui, noted communist, half of whose life was assed in prison, a. 75. sterdam, Frederick Müller, eminent bookseller, a. 63. mington, N. C., Thomas Atkinson, D. D., bishop of North Carolina, a. 73. t Arrivabene, Italian statesman, a. 94. S. Frances Bateman, actress, a. 58. ussels, Eugene Verboeckhoven, celebrated painter, a. 82. -ndon, Edward A. Sothern, comic actor, a. 55. -ndon, Anna Maria (Mrs. S. C.) Hall, a copious writer, a. 81, ndon, John Gould, eminent ornithologist, a. 77. ndon, Thomas Carlyle, the eminent author, a. 65. May 19. At Nice, Count H. von Arnim, Prussian diplomatist, a. 58. May 21. At Woodburn, Pa., Thomas A. Scott, railroad president, a At New York, Prof. Alex. Schem, author, a. 55. May 21. May 22. At Paris, Prosper Duvergier de Hauranne, author of the tory of France, a. 83. Juno 2. At Paris, M. P. Emile Littré, senator and lexicographer, a June 2. At Albany, Alfred B. Street, poet and prose writer, a. 70. June 26. At New York, Henry Stanbery, ex-Attorney General of th June 27. At Paris, Jules A. S. Dufaure, senator and member of th July 5. Dr. John Cumming, voluminous theological writer, a. 70. July 10. At London, W. Page Wood, Lord Hatherley, formerly Lor a. 79. July 18. At London, Arthur Penrhyn Stanley, Dean of Westm author, a. 65. July 25. July 30. At Cornish, Me., Nathan Clifford, Associate Justice of At London, George Borrow, traveller and author, a. 78. Aug. 3. At Buffalo, Wm. G. Fargo, Prest. of American Express Co. Aug. 3. At Salem, Oregon, Bishop Erastus O. Haven, of the M Church, a. 60. Aug. 10. Aug. 7. At Philadelphia, Gen. Robert Patterson, a. 87. Aug. 20. Aug. 22. Aug. 28. Sept. 2. Sept. 7. Sept. 8. Sept. 13. At Fire Island, N. Y., Samuel B. Ruggles, LL. D., a. 81. At Lynn, S. C., Sidney Lanier, author, a. 39. At Providence, R. I., Gen. Ambrose E. Burnside, U. S. S Oct. 12. At New York, Dr. J. G. Holland, author and editor, a. 62. Oct. 21. At Heidelberg, J. C. Bluntschli, an eminent German ju political science, a. 73. Nov. 3. Giovanni Ruffini, author of Dr. Antonio and other books, Nov. 15. At London, Wm. Rathbone Greg, political and literary w Nov. 18. At Now York, George Law, capitalist, a. 75. |