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| North America:American Women's Suffrage Association founded by Susan B. Anthony, while new Wyoming territory allows women the vote and offices holding. Transcontinental railroad completed at Promomtory Point in Utah Territory. Travel from New York falls from a minimum of three months to just eight days. Street riots against chinese labor in San Francisco. Jay Gould and others try to corner the gold market. Pennsylvania leads in petroleum production. First railroad bridge spans Missouri at Kandas City. Cornelius has monopoly on railroad in New York. Knights of Labor founded. Canada's half-breed metis establish a short-lived government in Manitoba. in the Red River Rebellion. The New York Herald sends Henry Morton Stanley to find Scotish missionary David Livingstone in Africa. Howard University holds first classes.. Purdue University, University of Nebraska. Thomas Nast, a cartoonist, helps break up the "Tweed Ring" in New York City. Fiction by Bret Hart, Mark Twain, Horatio Alger, Louisa May Alcott. Cincinnati Redlegs, first professional baseball team go undefeated in 56 games. First intercollegite football game between Rutgers and Princeton looks more like soccer. Cardiff Giant discovered in New York will be a hoax. Garden City on Long island first planned community for moderate income families. Gypsy moths are brought to Massachusetts for a budding silk industry, but its larvae will defoliate much of New England. John Wesley Powell explores Southwest U. S. Abbe Cleveland becomes first U. S. Weather Bureau meteorolgist. Butterine is first margerine. Campbell Soup Company, H. J. Heinz Company, The Great Atlantic and Pacific Tea Company, Welch's Grape Juice developed as temperance substitute for communion service at Vineland, N.J. National Prohibition Party founded. | ||||||||||||
| Europe: Debtors prisons abolished in Britain. Clipper ship Cutty Sark launched. Suez Canal opens to reduce by 5,000 miles the trip from Europe to Asia. Cyrus Field lays another, more successful Transatlantic Cable Nature weekly begins publication. Hormones discovered. Vatican Council is first great meeting of bishops since the Council of Trent of 1545 to 1563. Fiction by Sostoievski, Hugo, Trollope, R. D. Blackmore; poetry by Robert Browning; theatre by Ibsen; music by Schubert, Rimski-Korsakov, Brahms; opera by Richard Wagner. Ecology coined as word for environmental balance in Germany. British Medical Association condemns beastly contrivances for limiting number of offspring. Pope Pius IX declares abortion of any kind an excommunicatory sin. | ||||||||||||
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{{{{{{{Republican carpetbag Governor Warmoth and black Lieutenant Governor Pinchback sign an act making Mardi Gras a legal holiday in Louisiana. Ironically, most of Carnival is canceled by political turmoil. |
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| George Washington Cable works as a columnist for the Daily Picayune. He will gain fame for his Creole stories and novels. | The corner of Piety and Burgundy is the location of the G. A. Schwegmann Grocery Co. The 9th Ward market is a counter-service store, like all others in the city. In 1939 it will be acquired by John W. Schwegmann who introduces self-service shopping. (see 1946) | Seminary of Learning and Military Academy moves to Baton Rouge to become L.S.U. In 1869 Winn Parish gives up part of its original area for the formation of a new southern neighbor, Grant Parish. Winnfield, the parish seat since its organization is located in the geographical center of the parish. |
Luther Egbert Halll is born near Bastrop in Morehouse Parish. State Senator, 1898-1900; State District Judge, 1900-1906; State Appellate Judge, 1906-1911; Louisiana Governor, 1912-1916; Assistant Attorney General, 1918-1921. Died 1921 and buried in Bastrop Cemetery. | Morgan Whitney (1869-1913) Photographer who takes many images of early 20th century New Orleans including Vieux Carré architecture. Franklin native, Charles Austin O Neill (1869-1951) will become Chief Justice of the Louisiana Supreme Court , 1914-1949. One of the state’s immortals, he made many contributions to law in the United States and to the cause of justice and freedom. |
Louis Moreau Gottschalk dies.
Luther Egbert Hall Grant Parish |
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