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Identifier: americaencyclopa00newm (find matches)
Title: America: an encyclopaedia of its history and biography
Year: 1882 (1880s)
Authors: Newman, Stephen Morrell. (from old catalog)
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Publisher: Chicago, Coburn & Cook publishing company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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ent. The result of all was,after many witnesses had been examinedby the congressional committee, the ex-posure of the plans and workings ofthese mysterious organizations. The ex-istence of the bands, which was at firstregarded by the country as a huge joke,proved in the end to be instead a horriblereality. 1872. In Honduras, Gen. Medinawas deposed, and Don Celeo Arias wasmade provisional president. 1873. Jan. 10. Samana Bay. AUnited States company leased the harborand shore of Samana Bay in San Do-mingo, in an attempt to carry out someof the objects sought in the proposed an-nexation of that island to the UnitedStates. But the rights of the companywere annulled the next year because ofthe non-payment of the rent. 1873. Jan. 30. An extreme coldwave was felt throughout New England.Prof. Loomis, of Yale Col- ims-isis.lege, reported that in a rec- Napoleon in.ord of the last hundred years therehad been no colder day. In twenty-nine Massachusetts towns, the averagewas 21,9 deg. below zero.
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782 MRST STEAMER ON THE ORINOCO. 1869-187G. THE PROBLEMS OF TO-DAT. 783 LIEVT M>LVRY.1873. Feb. 1. Lieut. Matthew F.Maury, an eminent American student ofmarine and astronomical phenomena,died at Lexington, Va., aged sixty-sevenyears. He was born in Virginia, Jan.14, 1S06, and entered the naval serviceat nineteen years of age. His studiesbegan almost immediately upon this ap-pointment, and with scholarly tastes he1803-1873. pursued them all his life. Tiwma!<Gtithrie. jjg wrote much of greatvalue in relation to the physical geogra-phv of the sea, also in relation to theGulf Stream and other currents in theocean. From 1S39 to the outbreak ofthe Civil War he was connected withthe land ofhces of the navy at Washing-ton, being in charge, for a time, of thecharts and instruments, and then superin-tendent of the National Observatory, inconnection with which the former wereafterward kept. Lieut. Maurv enteredthe confederate service, and was madecommodore. His writings rank veryhigh in th

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