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| South America & Caribbean:The United States demands removal of French forces from Mexico. Coalition forces of Argentina and Brazil are winning against Paraguay. | |||||||||||
| North America:President Johnson's veto of a civil Rights Bill is overridden by Congress. It secures for former slaves all rights intended by the 13th Amendment. Post war depression begins after war-time inflation. The American Equal Rights Association is organized from the Woman's Rights Society. National Labor Union formed in Baltimore. ASPCA is founded in New York to prevent cruelty to horses who are abused in urban transit. First oil pipeline in Pennsylvania as climbing price of sperm oil creates demand for petroleum and kerosene. European cholera spreads to the United States, killing almost 50,000. Cholera, small pox , typhoid, typhus, scarlet and yellow fever will plague U.S. cities in the next few years. Poetry by Walt Whitman and John Greenleaf Whittier; first Broadway musical. Salmon canneries on Columbia River, San Francisco. Crop report by new Agriculture Department, cattle driven north from Texas to railroads in Kansas. | |||||||||||
| Europe: French Austrian, German, Italian and Prussian forces are at war in Europe for almost two months. Prussian troops of Bismarck have superior fire power with breech loading weapons against Austrian muzzle loaders. Cholera takes 120,000 in Prussia and 100,000 in Austria. Financial panic in London May 11. Crude internal combustion engine and dynamo-electrical machine in Germany. Dynamite perfected by Nobel in Sweden. A new cable is completed for communication across the Atlantic Ocean. Fiction by George Eliot, Victor Hugo, War and Peace by Tolstoy, Crime and Punishment by Dostoyevski; poetry by Swineburne; painting by Manet. Nestle makes infant formula. | |||||||||||
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July 30 Former governor and U. S. Senator George Michael Hahn is nearly murdered at a New Orleans Police riot which erupts over actions taken under the Constitutional Convention of 1864 which tries to introduce blackk suffrage. Governor James Madison Wells does little to prevent violence and General Sheridan holds him responsible when many blacks and Republicans are killed. Wells reverts back to his conservative façade, until Sheridan removes him from office. As a witness Henry C. Warmoth writes an account of the riot. |
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| Street railways begin to multiply with the end of the Civil War. Gen. PGT Beauregard and some associates lease the New Orleans and Carrollton line and connect it to the Pontchartrain Railroad that runs on Elysian Fields out to the lake. The new entrepreneurs introduced many new innovations. First, to reduce accidents caused by frightened horses, they replaced the old steam locomotive with horses. The horses had increased in number with the human population. Since that change also reduced efficiency they came up with the walking beam car, pneumatic engines, ammonia engines and in 1871 the thermo-specific engine. After may years of experimentation electricity was tried in 1893. General Beauregard was also president of the New Orleans, Jackson and Great Northern Railroad for a time and was state adjutant general and commissioner of New Orleans public works. He had been offered the command of the Egyptian and Romanian armies, but could not bear to leave New Orleans. With General Jubal Early he also presided at the Louisiana lottery drawings. |
Land in Homer, Claiborne Parish is donated by Joshua Willis to J.W. Nicholson. Nicholson organized a private school, which became one of the leading academies in the state and became a public school 1910. T.H. Harris is a noted graduate. Nicholson was later president of L.S.U. A community of houseboats is growing along Bayou St. John which is used as a drainage canal. |
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