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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing) 5 5 Browse Search
Francis Jackson Garrison, William Lloyd Garrison, 1805-1879; the story of his life told by his children: volume 4 1 1 Browse Search
The writings of John Greenleaf Whittier, Volume 4. (ed. John Greenleaf Whittier) 1 1 Browse Search
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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Grant, Ulysses Simpson (search)
$300,000,000, and the national debt has been reduced in the same time over $435,000,000. By refunding the 6 per cent. bonded debt for bonds bearing 5 and 4 1/2 per cent. interest, respectively, the annual interest has been reduced from over $130,000,000 in 1869 to but little over $100,000,000 in 1876. The balance of trade has been changed from over $130,000,000 against the United States in 1869 to more than $120,000,000 in our favor in 1876. Opening the Centennial Exhibition. On May 10, 1876, he formally opened the Centennial Exhibition in Philadelphia with the following speech: My Countrymen,—It has been thought appropriate, upon this centennial occasion, to bring together in Philadelphia, for popular inspection, specimens of our attainments in the industrial and fine arts, and in literature, science, and philosophy, as well as in the great business of agriculture and of commerce. That we may the more thoroughly appreciate the excellences and deficiencies of our achi
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Telephone, the (search)
...July, 1875 Thomas A. Edison, furnished by William Orton, president of the Western Union Telegraph Company, with a description of Reis's telephone, begins experiments with a view to producing an articulating telephone......July, 1875 Elisha Gray files his caveat for an invention to transmit the tones of the human voice through a telegraphic circuit, etc......Feb. 14, 1876 Professor Bell publicly explains his method before the American Academy of Arts and Sciences of Boston......May 10, 1876 Bell's telephone exhibited at the Centennial Exhibition at Philadelphia, Pa.......June, 1876 Iron diaphragm first used by Bell......June 30, 1876 Edison's carbon, loud-speaking telephone invented......January, 1877 Professor Bell exhibits at the Essex Institute, Salem, Mass., his telephone, using a powerful horseshoe magnet, by which a short speech, shouted into a similar telephone in Boston, 16 miles distant, is distinctly audible to an audience of 600 persons in Salem.....
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), United States of America. (search)
, 1876 President Grant vetoes Senate bill to reduce his salary after March 4, 1877, from $50,000 to $25,000......April 19, 1876 Message from President Grant justifying his absence from the seat of government by precedents......May 4, 1876 Dom Pedro II., Emperor of Brazil, with the Empress Theresa, arrives in New York April 15, and is presented to President Grant......May 7, 1876 Centennial Exposition at Fairmount Park, Philadelphia, opened by President Grant and Dom Pedro......May 10, 1876 Prohibition Convention at Cleveland, O., nominates Gen. Green Clay Smith, of Kentucky, for President, and G. T. Stewart, of Ohio, for Vice-President......May 17, 1876 National Greenback Convention at Indianapolis, Ind., nominates Peter Cooper, of New York, for President; United States Senator Newton Booth, nominated for Vice-President, declines, and Samuel F. Cary, of Ohio, substituted......May 18, 1876 Alphonso Taft, Secretary of War, resigns, being appointed Attorney-General.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Pennsylvania, (search)
he miners in the Avondale coal mine (108) suffocated by the burning of the main and only shaft......Sept. 6, 1869 [Investigation results in effecting needed reform in working the coal mines of the State.] Bureau of labor statistics established by the State......July 26, 1873 New State constitution goes into effect......Jan. 1, 1874 Centennial Exposition, at Fairmount Park, Philadelphia, commemorating the 100th anniversary of the Declaration of American Independence, opens......May 10, 1876 Great strike of railroad employes, rapidly extending over most of the lines of the northern United States, inaugurated......July 19, 1877 [The strike was not entirely quieted until November.] Natural gas used as fuel in western counties......1884 Johnstown flood......June 1, 1889 William D. Kelley, born in 1814, the oldest member of the House of Representatives, dies in Washington, D. C.......Jan. 9, 1890 Proposal of Mr. Carnegie to expend $1,000,000 for a public libra
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Rhode Island, (search)
utler, 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 liquors passed in its place......1875 Corliss engine of 1,400 horse-power, and weighing 700 tons, by George H. Corliss, of Providence, is set in motion at the opening of the Centennial Exhibition in Philadelphia by President U. S. Grant and Dom Pedro II., Emperor of Brazil......May 10, 1876 There being no choice for governor at the April election, Henry Lippitt, Republican, is chosen by the legislature......May 30, 1876 First board of harbor commissioners appointed by the governor......June 14, 1876 State board of health established......1878 Legislature elects Alfred H. Littlefield, Republican, governor, there being no choice at the election in April......May 25, 1880 Act passed abolishing the tribal authority and relation of the Narraganset Indians......1880