1817. Richard Lovell Edgeworth, an English philanthropist and practical philosopher, died. He invented the telegraph, which was generally adopted during his lifetime. He spent a great part of his life in improving and experimenting on various instruments used in agriculture and the arts.
1833. James Andrew died; principal of the East India company's seminary at Addiscombe, and author of a Hebrew grammar and dictionary.
1843. Charles Sterns Wheeler, of Massachusetts, a good scholar, died at Leipsic, Germany, aged 23.
1848. Pierre Van Cortland died, aged 86; a gentleman who filled many important public stations, civil and military, in the state of New York.
1848. Gamaliel S. Olds, a distinguished American scholar, died at Circleville, Ohio, aged 71.
1855. The anti-slavery branch of the American party, called the Know-somethings, assembled in convention at Cincinnati.
1857. Whirlwinds occurred in several parts of the state of New York, and in other states. This was the day in which the astrologers of Europe had predicted the destruction of the earth by a comet, and much alarm existed even in this country, insomuch that deaths actually occurred from fear. The village of Pania, Ill., was wholly destroyed.
JUNE 14.
510 B. C. The Roman republic established and the first consuls elected, according to the Capitoline marbles. This noble political fabric subsisted for a period of 462 years, until the battle of Pharsalia.
1631. Francis Garasse, a French Jesuit, died. As a preacher he was eloquent and popular, but his writings were gross, and kindled a violent feud between his order and the Jansenists. He lost his life by attending the sick during the pestilence at Poictiers.