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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Kansas, (search)
Kansas Indians......May 8, 1872 Congress provides for the removal of Osage Indians and the sale of their lands......July 15, 1872 Session of farmers' State convention at Topeka; constitution of the Farmers' Cooperative Association formed......March 26, 1873 Rich discoveries of lead near Baxter Springs......Sept. 8, 1873 Buffalo products shipped over Kansas railways: bones, 10,074,950 lbs.; hides, 1,314,300 lbs.; meat, 632,800 lbs......1874 Indian raids on the frontier......June, 1874 Drought and grasshoppers cause great destitution in portions of Kansas......July-August, 1874 One thousand five hundred Mennonite immigrants come to Topeka in September and purchase 100,000 acres of land in Marion, Harvey, and Reno counties, from the Atchison, Topeka, and Santa Fe Railroad Company......Oct. 14, 1874 Eighty barrels of salt made at Alma, Kansas, sold in Denver......May 13, 1875 Great injury to crops by grasshoppers......May 15, 1875 State relief committee repo
Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight), P. (search)
sured by rubbing them with black-lead. In their construction, sharp interior angles should be avoided as tending to cause a breaking down of the mold at that point and weakening the casting. Patterns, especially for small castings, are sometimes made of metal. These have the advantage of being more durable, but if of iron require to be taken good care of to prevent rusting. See list under founding; molding. For machine for pattern-making, see numbers of American Artisan for May and June, 1874. Pat′tern-box. （Weaving.) a. A box in a loom holding a number of shuttles, either of which may be projected along the shed, according to the pattern. The automatic means for operating the shuttles in due sequence is a pattern-cylinder or patternchain (which see). b. The box perforated for the harness-cards in the Jacquard figure-loom. See pattern-card. Pattern-card. （Wearing.) One of the perforated cards in a Jacquard loom through which the needles pass; the perforati<
Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight), T. (search)
h sound preserves a specific character. Fig. 6259 shows in the upper portion the effect of words of quantity which require a large volume of air, and are maintained a relatively longer time than the more explosive or intense kind. The lower diagram is what the tracer wrote when the familiar stanza from Hohenlinden was repeated. A much more delicate instrument for obtaining sonorous vibrations has been made by Professor A. Graham Bell and Clarence J. Blake, M. D., of Boston, Mass. (June, 1874), by using the membrana tympani of the human ear as a phonautograph. Dr. Blake's mode of exposing the middle ear without injuring the ossiculae or the delicate tympanic membrane is described at length in the Boston Medical and surgical journal, February 4, 1875, pages 121-123. The stapes was removed, and a short style of hay substituted of about the same weight, so as to increase the amplitude of the vibrations and afford means of obtaining tracings upon smoked glass, as in the phonaut
Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 3, Chapter 40: outrages in Kansas.—speech on Kansas.—the Brooks assault.—1855-1856. (search)
n the Congressional cemetery, when George William Curtis, his companion, pointed out to him the cenotaph of Brooks, which he had not before observed.—He stood silent before it for a few moments, and then turning away, said, Poor fellow, poor fellow! Curtis then asked him, How did you feel about Brooks? His reply was, Only as to a brick that should fall upon my head from a chimney. He was the unconscious agent of a malign power. Mr. Curtis gave a part of the above in Harper's Monthly, June, 1874 ( Editor's Easy Chair ), and the remainder in conversation with the writer. See also his sketch of Sumner in Appleton's Cyclopaedia of American Biography. Longfellow, at whose house Sumner was the day after Brooks's death, wrote in his journal: Sumner came out. His assailant Brooks has died suddenly at Washington. I do not think Sumner had any personal feeling against him. He looked upon him as a mere tool of the slaveholders, or, at all events, of the South Carolinians. It was their w
Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 4, Chapter 50: last months of the Civil War.—Chase and Taney, chief-justices.—the first colored attorney in the supreme court —reciprocity with Canada.—the New Jersey monopoly.— retaliation in war.—reconstruction.—debate on Louisiana.—Lincoln and Sumner.—visit to Richmond.—the president's death by assassination.—Sumner's eulogy upon him. —President Johnson; his method of reconstruction.—Sumner's protests against race distinctions.—death of friends. —French visitors and correspondents.—1864-1865. (search)
ns of confidence had subsisted since their meeting in Paris in 1857, visited the United States in 1864-1865. Their familiar intercourse was renewed at that time both in Boston and Washington. Sumner introduced M. Laugel and Madame Laugel, an American lady, at the White House a few days before the great tragedy. Laugel gave to the public the recollections of his intercourse with Sumner at this time, and his impressions of his personal and public character, in the Revue des Deux Mondes, June, 1874, pp. 721-749. His summing — up was as follows:— Le trait le plus frappant de son caractere était un respect sincere, instinctif et plein pour l'intelligence; ses amis les plus chers étaient des poetes, des historiens, des penseurs. II ornait sans cesse son esprit par la lecture des grands derivains de tous les pays. La collection de ses discours, qui sera bien ôt public, formera plus de dix volumes; on y trouvera, au milieu des matieres solvent les plus arides, des échappees frequent
Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 4, Chapter 57: attempts to reconcile the President and the senator.—ineligibility of the President for a second term.—the Civil-rights Bill.—sale of arms to France.—the liberal Republican party: Horace Greeley its candidate adopted by the Democrats.—Sumner's reserve.—his relations with Republican friends and his colleague.—speech against the President.—support of Greeley.—last journey to Europe.—a meeting with Motley.—a night with John Bright.—the President's re-election.—1871-1872. (search)
amps Elysees, and made grateful mention of the governor's tenderness after his return home. The governor urged him to remain abroad, in order to restore health and even to preserve life. Governor Bullock, though abstaining from political activity, approved the senator's separation from the Republican party at this time. Sumner was also the guest of Mr. Johnson, Mr. Seligman, and of his faithful friends Mr. and Mrs. Laugel; M. Laugel. in his article on Sumner (Revue des Deux Mondes, June, 1874), recalls some incidents of this visit of the senator to Paris. and on all these occasions he was the acknowledged head of a large company. Springfield Republican, October 22. The distinguished American, whose private letter, dated October 7, gave an account of Sumner in Paris, was Governor Bullock. His intimate friends remarked not only his physical weakness, but also his depression of spirits, which seemed, however, to pass away when he became absorbed in his search for curious books
Historic leaves, volume 8, April, 1909 - January, 1910, Address of F. M. Hawes at Memorial service October 31, 1909. (search)
The following will not be out of place here: Mrs. Elliot was born in Union, Rock county, Wis., November 23, 1843. She was a teacher in one of the grammar schools of New Orleans, and secretary of the Union Ladies' Soldiers' Aid Society of that city, of which her mother (Mrs. Hyer) was president. This was one of the first organizations of the kind in the Southern states. Mrs. Elliot's own father was David Ring, Jr., who was born in Sumner, Me., April 7, 1801, and died in Wisconsin in June, 1874. He married, June 24, 1824, Mary, daughter of John, Jr., and Mary (Urann) Spencer. She was born in Bangor, Me., in 1806, and died in Wisconsin October 13, 1846. Mr. and Mrs. Elliot were married by Rev. F. E. R. Chubbuck, post chaplain and officiating clergyman at Christ Church, New Orleans. This was a double wedding, the other couple being George Hay Brown, one of the photographers belonging to the Engineer Corps, and Miss Lizzie Sakaski, a friend of Mrs. Elliot. The Somerville Histo
Medford Historical Society Papers, Volume 17., Medford artillery. (search)
y are marked 458 and 459 (probably foundry numbers). They are about three and three-quarters inch bore, five and three-quarters outside at muzzle, nine at breech, and four feet in length. On each is cast the figure of an eagle, and in each is cut the inscription, Presented to the Town of Medford, Mass., June 17, 1874. No copy of Mr. Magoun's letter of presentation appears in the printed report of town officers, issued February, 1875. We recall it as it appeared in the Medford journal of June, 1874. It was probably overshadowed by the larger and more useful gift of Mr. Magoun of the Mansion House of my honoured father, for a library building. Yet the gift of the guns was prompted by a spirit of helpfulness to his town as an economic measure. We scarcely think that the donor expected his gift to become an undue expense to it, or an elephant on its hands. One of the guns shows the effect of an attempt at repolishing, which gives color to the remark, General Lawrence intended to