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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Atlantic Telegraph. (search)
March 10, 1854, five gentlemen met at the house of Mr. Field, on Gramercy Park, New York, and signed an agreeme Mr. Cooper was chosen president of the company. Mr. Field procured a cable in England to span the waters bet and was suceessfully laid in 1856. The same year Mr. Field organized in London the Atlantic Telegraph Company to carry the line across the ocean. Mr. Field subscribed for one-fourth of the stock of the company. The Amedepth. These wonderful facts were communicated by Mr. Field, by telegram, from Trinity Bay, Newfoundland, on Aeputed despatches were only part of a huge fraud. Mr. Field's faith never faltered, though discouragements thae, and it was lost. The company was discouraged. Mr. Field went to Thomas Brassey, a great and liberal Englisgraph Company had suddenly come to a stand-still. Mr. Field, said Mr. Brassey, don't be discouraged: go down tears of hard and anxious labor, during which time Mr. Field crossed the ocean nearly fifty times, he saw the g
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Electoral commission. (search)
selected five of its members to serve on the Electoral Commission, the Senate members being George F. Edmunds (Vt.), Oliver P. Morton (Ind.), Frederick T. Frelinghuysen (N. J.), Thomas F. Bayard (Del.), and Allen G. Thurman (O.), and the House members, Henry B. Payne (O.), Eppa Hunton (Va.), Josiah G. Abbott (Mass.), James A. Garfield (O.), and George F. Hoar (Mass.). Senator Francis Kernan (N. Y.) was afterwards substituted for Senator Thurman, who had become ill. Judges Clifford, Miller, Field, and Strong, of the Supreme Court, were named in the bill, and these chose as the fifth member of associate justices Joseph P. Bradley. The Electoral Commission assembled in the hall of the House of Representatives, Feb. 1, 1877. The legality of returns from several States was questioned, and was passed upon and decided by the commission. The counting was completed on March 2, and the commission made the final decision in all cases. The president of the Senate then announced that Hayes a
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Mormons, (search)
t Congress had the right to seize the property, and said: Congress had before it a contumacious organization, wielding by its resources an immense power in the Territory of Utah and employing those resources in constantly attempting to oppose, subvert, and thwart the legislation of Congress and the will of the government. Under such circumstances we have no doubt of the right of Congress to do as it did. The decree of the lower court is affirmed. Justice Fuller said that he and Justices Field and Lamar were constrained to dissent from this decision. The power of Congress to legislate over the Territories was not incident to the treaty-making power; and its power was restricted directly to that expressed or implied in the Constitution. There was no such power granted as that involved in the act under consideration. Congress unquestionably had power to suppress polygamy, and it was immaterial whether the crime was committed in the name of religion. But Congress had not powe
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), United States of America. (search)
arrive at St. John's, Newfoundland, on the steamer Kite, sent to the Arctic regions in search of them......Sept. 11, 1892 Cabin passengers of the Normannia prevented from landing at Fire Island, by injunction restraining the health authorities from using the island for quarantine purposes, Sept. 12, injunction dissolved, and two regiments of National Guard and Naval Reserves ordered out by Governor Flower; passengers are finally suffered to land......Sept. 13, 1892 Generals Weaver and Field accept the nomination of the People's party......Sept. 17, 1892 Gen. John Pope, born 1823, dies at Sandusky, O.......Sept. 23, 1892 Patrick S. Gilmore, leader of Gilmore's band, born 1829, dies at St. Louis......Sept. 24, 1892 Grover Cleveland's letter of acceptance......Sept. 26, 1892 Encounter at Coffeyville, Kan.; the famous Dalton gang, attempting to rob the banks, are annihilated by a marshal's posse, in which affray four citizens are killed by the desperadoes......Oct. 5, 1