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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing) 1 1 Browse Search
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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Rhode Island, (search)
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 Providence, March 23, adjourns without platform or ticket......March 23, 1874 Stringent prohibition law is passed, and a constabulary act provided for enforcing it......May, 1874 Vote for governor at election, April 7, 1875: Rowland Hazard, of the National Union Republican and Prohibition parties, 8,724; Henry Lippitt, Republican, 8,368; Charles B. Cutler, Democrat, 5,166. There being no choice, the legislature elects Lippitt by 70, to 36 for Hazard......May 25, 1875 Constabulary act repealed, and an act to regulate and restrain the sale of intoxicating
Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 4, chapter 10 (search)
74, pp. 475– 490; November, 1874. pp. 101-114; June, 1875, pp. 224-229; July. 1875, pp. 297-304; J. W. Forney's Anecdotes of Public Men, vol. II. pp. 259, 260; Christian Union, April 1, 1874, Springfield Republican, March 17, 1874, by Miss A. L. Dawes (Haigha); Philadelphia Press, Sept. 5, 1871, by Mrs. A. L. Howard; New York Independent, June 1, 1871, and March 26, 1874, and Outlines of Men, Women, and Things, pp. 43-45, by Mrs. M C. Ames; New York World, Dec. 11. 1869: Boston Journal, March 23, 1874, by B. P. Poore; Boston Commonwealth, April 4.1868, by C. W. Slack: San Francisco Post, March 24, 1874, by R. J. Hinton; Chicago Tribune, March 20, 1871, and March. 1874, by G. A. Townsend (Gath); New York Tribune, April 5, 1891, by Mrs. Janet Chase Hoyt; Chaplin's Life of Sumner, pp. 471-479. In one corner, the one farthest from his chamber, was his desk, above which, on a shelf, were kept five books,—Harvey's Shakespeare and Hazlitt's Select British Poets (both bought with college pr