” 26—Trial of Stokes for the murder of Fisk begun. After several trials he was condemned to imprisonment for murder.
July 24—Spotted-Tail and other western Indians visit Washington.
Aug. 16—Yellow Fever appears at New York.
Sept. 2—Father Hyacinthe, a liberal French Catholic priest, marries an American lady.
” 14—The arbitrators of the Alabama Claims, to whom the case had been submitted, and who had been two months sitting at Geneva, Switzerland, announced their award. The United States was to receive $15,500,000 in gold.
Oct. 14—Wm. H. Seward, one of our most distinguished statesmen, is this day buried at Auburn, N. Y.
” 25—About this time the Horse disease commences, and spreads rapidly over the whole country.
Nov. 5—In the presidential election on this day President Grant is re-elected.
” 9—A great fire in Boston, Mass. Loss $75,000,000 in buildings and merchandise. Insurance $50,000,000.
In this month and December following storms of extreme severity caused great loss of life and property. An overflow of the river Po, in Italy, rendered 40,000 persons homeless. In the Baltic Sea 80 vessels were wrecked, some islands were inundated, and all their inhabitants drowned. It was not less severe on the coasts of England and Ireland.