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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), United States of America. (search)
cquisition of part of that island......March27, 1871 First civil service commission, George William Curtis, Alexander G. Cattell, Joseph Medill, D. A. Walker, E. B. Ellicott, Joseph H. Blackfan, and David C. Cox, appointed by President......March, 1871 William H. Gibson (colored), United States mail agent on the Lexington and Louisville Railroad, assaulted at North Benson, Ky., Jan. 26; United States troops sent into Kentucky, and mail withdrawn on that route for one month......March, 187March, 1871 Santo Domingo commission's report sent to Congress with a special message by the President......April 5, 1871 Act to enforce the fourteenth amendment (Ku-klux act)......April 20, 1871 Branch mint at Dahlonega, Ga., conveyed to trustees of the North Georgia Agricultural College for educational purposes, by act......April 20, 1871 First session adjourns......April 20, 1871 Under call, dated April 20, Senate meets in special session......May 10, 1871 Extra session of Senate adj
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resident of the Senate, acting lieutenant-governor, is inaugurated......Feb. 13, 1871 Over 100 armed men enter Frankfort at dawn and free a white man charged with murdering a negro, though the jail was guarded by four militiamen......Feb. 25, 1871 An assault on a United States mail agent (a negro, William H. Gibson), on the Lexington and Louisville Railroad train at North Benson depot, Jan. 26, 1871, occasions sending troops into Kentucky and stopping the mail route for a month......March, 1871 Preston H. Leslie elected governor......Aug. 7, 1871 National convention in Louisville of Straight-out Democrats, who repudiate the action of the Baltimore convention nominating Horace Greeley for President, and nominate Charles O'Conor, of New York, for President, and John Quincy Adams for Vice-President......Sept. 3-5, 1872 National industrial exposition opens at Louisville......Sept. 3, 1872 Colored Liberal Republican National Convention at Louisville; delegates from twenty
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tion at Providence......October, 1869 Fifteenth Amendment to the Constitution of the United States is ratified......Jan. 18, 1870 Cove lands ceded to the towns by the colony, May 28, 1707, are conveyed to the city of Providence by the State on payment of $200,000......1870 Legislature, by 56 to 2, abolishes imprisonment for debt......1870 Statue of Roger Williams, executed for the State by Franklin Simmons, presented to the federal government to be placed in the Capitol......March, 1871 Free public library, art gallery, and museum for the city of Providence chartered......1871 Prohibition party in the State adopt the Republican candidate for governor, Henry Howard......1873 State convention of the Prohibition party at the State-house in Providence nominates a distinct, separate, teetotal prohibition ticket for State officers, with Henry Howard for governor, Feb. 26, 1874. The Republican party adopt Howard by acclamation, March 11. The Democratic convention at