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Commissioner ; and McConville, from Ohio, Reviser 

 of Accounts for the Post-Office Department. _ Con- 

 ventions with Mexico, providing for the regulation of 

 the boundary, and prolonging the term for ratifying 

 the treaty of commerce, approved by the Senate. The 

 Austrian Chamber votes the budget. 



20. The freedom of worship bill passed to a third 

 reading in the New York State Senate. James A. 

 Berry chosen to succeed Garland as Senator from Ar- 

 kansas. The Ohio Legislature agrees on a constitu- 

 tional amendment abolishing the October elections. 

 Secretary Whitney asks for an accounting from John 

 Roach, and orders an investigation of the Navy De- 

 partment. Gen. Graham advances, expelling the 

 Arabs from their positions at Hasheen. 



21. King Christian replies with a rebuke to the ad- 

 dress of the Folkething. 



22. The British sharply attacked by the Arabs near 

 Suakin. 



23. The Edmunds anti-polygamy law declared con- 

 stitutional by the Supreme Court. The French 

 Chamber passes the bill re-establishing scrutin de 

 liste. 



24. The sentence against Martin and Gallagher, in 

 Chicago, suspended. The forfeited lands of the Texas 

 Pacific Railroad Company are declared open for settle- 

 ment. The British zariba near Suakin again assailed. 

 Barrios invades Salvador. 



25. The redistricting of Pennsylvania completed by 

 the Legislature. The mounted police attacked by the 

 Winnipeg rebels. 



26. The Niagara Park bill in the New York Legis- 

 lature. Altercation in the Ohio Legislature. 



27. The French Senate agree to the surtax on for- 

 eign wheat. The British House of Commons approves 

 the Egyptian financial agreement. The British troops 

 retire from Korti. The Kiel rebellion begins in North- 

 west Canada. 



28. Costa Rica, Nicaragua, and Salvador form an 

 alliance to resist the President of Guatemala, who 

 crosses the frontier of Salvador with 15,000 men. 



29. Anti-Semitic riot in Liptau, Hungary. The 

 Pescadores Islands occupied by the French. 



30. Cox appointed Minister to Turkey, and Pearson 

 Postmaster of New York city. The news of the 

 French evacuation of Langson and the wounding of 

 Gen. Negrier reaches Paris. Encounter at Penjdeh 

 between the troops of Gen. KomarofF and the Afghans, 

 who abandon their camp and evacuate the district. In 

 consequence of the check at Langson the Ferry minis- 

 try resigns. 



31. The American ship Colon seized, and Aspinwall 

 set on fire, by the revolutionists of Panama. An an- 

 cient Roman street discovered near the Forum. 



April 1. The Republicans win the State election in 

 Rhode Island. Aspinwall burned by the insurgents. 

 Celebration of the seventieth anniversary of Prince 

 Bismarck's birth, and the fiftieth of his entrance into 

 official life : he is presented with the estate of Schon- 

 hausen and 1,200,000 marks as a popular testimonial. 

 The session of the Danish Parliament closed by royal 

 decree, and a provisional financial law promulgated. 

 The Chinese Government otfers to make peace with 

 France. 



2. American troops and marines sent to Aspinwall 

 to protect the freedom of communications between 

 Panama and Colon. Close of the extraordinary ses- 

 sion of the Senate. The freedom of worship bill car- 

 ried in the New York State Senate. The House re- 

 jects the convict-labor bill. Death of Lord Cairnes. 



3. Gen. Graham's force occupies Tamai Springs. 

 Preliminaries of peace between France and China 

 signed at Paris. Several German officers arrested for 

 treason. 



4. President Barrios is defeated and killed at Chal- 

 chuaga. Visit in Vienna of the King and Queen of 

 oweden. 



. 6. Victory of the Fusionists in the Michigan elec- 

 tions. Republican success in Cincinnati. Municipal 

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elections in Chicago. A French ministry formed un- 

 der the presidency of M. Brisson. 



7. A commission appointed to examine the dispatch- 

 boat Dolphin. 



8. The Indians attack Fort Pitt, on the North Sas- 

 katchewan, and are repelled by the garrison, which 

 subsequently withdraws and escapes to Battleford. 

 Floquet elected President of the French Chamber. 

 The French Chambers adjourn, after voting a credit of 

 150,000.000 for Tonquin. The Viceroy of India holds 

 a grand durbar with the Ameer of Afghanistan at 

 Rawul Pindi. Mobilization and massing of Indian 

 troops on the Afghan frontier. The " Bosphore 

 Egyptien" suppressed. 



9. Bank failure in Norfolk, Va. The " Shenan- 

 doah " lands 150 men at Panama. The Indians mas- 

 sacre the whites at Frog Lake, in Winnipeg. The 

 news of the encounter at Penjdeh gives rise to fears 

 in England and throughout Europe of an Anglo- 

 Russian war. 



10. Secretary Bayard refuses to interfere in behalf 

 of Irish-American dynamiters in London. The pre- 

 liminaries of peace between France and China ratified 

 by the French Government. 



14. Discovery of the Preller murder in St. 

 Louis. 



15. Final passage of the Niagara Park bill in the 

 New York Assembly. The Prince of Wales visits 

 Ireland. Gen. de Courcy appointed commander-in- 

 chief of the French forces in Annam. 



16. The Central American Republics conclude a 

 peace. 



17. President Arthur's order in relation to throw- 

 ing the Winnebago reservation open to settlement 

 revoked. 



18. Lynching in Missouri. Reappearance of the 

 cholera in Spain. 



19. Death of Constantino Rosetti, Roumanian states- 

 man. 



20. The Federal Supreme Court decides in favor of 

 the State creditors in the matter of the Virginia bonds 

 and coupons. The grand jury in Chicago takes action 

 in the matter of corrupt practices in the city elec- 

 tions. Death of Gustav Nachtigal, German explorer 

 and special commissioner in Africa. The Reichstag 

 approves the cattle duties. Turkey declares her neu- 

 trality. 



21. The King of the Belgians announces his inten- 

 tion to assume the title of Sovereign of the Congo 

 State. The British ministry ask for a credit of 11,- 

 000,000 for mobilization. The English reserves called 

 out. 



22. United States Treasurer Wyman resigns and is 

 succeeded by C. R. Jordan. Prominent Mormons ar- 

 rested for polygamy in Utah. Cyclone in Texas. 

 Prorogation of the Austrian Reichsrath. Newspapers 

 in Vienna confiscated for publishing the Liberal man- 

 ifesto. 



23. Explosion in the Admiralty offices in London. 

 Anlo-French dispute over the suppression of the 

 " Bosphore." 



24. The French Government breaks off official re- 

 lations with the Egyptian ministry. Gen. Middleton 

 has a disastrous encounter with the rebels at Fish 

 creek, on the banks of the Saskatchewan. American 

 marines occupy Panama. Col. Otter relieves the gar- 

 rison of Battleford, besieged by Cree Indians. 



25. An epidemic of typhoid fever breaks out in 

 Plymouth, Pa. Death of Queen Emma of the Sand- 

 wich Islands. 



26. Further archaeological discoveries on the Pala- 

 tine Hill. The American troops withdraw from the 

 town of Panama. 



27. Dickson, foreman of the jury in the first Star 

 Route trial, acquitted of the charges raised against 

 him. Irish bishops received by the Pope. 



29. Gov. Hill, of New York, vetoes the census bill. 

 Energetic measures taken against the cattle-plague 

 in the West. 



30. Keiley, from Virginia, after the refusal of the 



