Word: district
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Bologna, and the number was continually increased. In Bologna the two great divisions were the Ultramontane (foreigners) and the Citramontane (natives). The universities were divided into "nations," who received the new-comers according to their extraction, dividing them off according to the number that came from a particular district. Universities modeled after those at Paris and Bologna began with charters defining their powers. Most of them received peculiar political rights, even though within a municipal corporation, and they guarded these rights most jealously. The story is told that two students of Paris, having murdered a man, were hanged...
...President has appointed Judge William S. Woods judge of the seventh district (Indiana), to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Judge Gresham, now Postmaster-General...
Captain Philip B. Thompson, Jr., member of Congress from the eighth Kentucky district, shot Walter Davis dead at Harrodsburg Junction, Ky., yesterday...
...colored people of the District of Columbia celebrated the anniversary of their emancipation yesterday by a street parade and a meeting, at which Frederick Douglass and Robert C. Ingersoll made speeches...
...floods in the West are still on the rise, and a panic prevails throughout the inundated district. Great suffering is experienced from the want of food and clothing, and assistance is called...