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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...receipts for the land league fund for the week ending Jan. 31, acknowledged by the Irish World, amount to $17,563.90, the largest amount received in a single week...
...Stewart has donated $4,000,000 for the purpose of constructing a new college in New York. It will be the largest in America, and non-sectarian...
...Doyen, and lastly, a happy conceit, by Boston's young artist, Gaugengige. Last to be visited, the oldest of Boston's art stores, is that of Williams & Everett; here can be seen three pictures owned by a Boston gentleman, who is said to have paid $25.000 for them. The largest one is a characteristic sketch by Detaille, a group of soldiers, a scene in the late Franco-Prussian war. The first feature that one remarks in the picture is the beautiful play of light. Although the coloring does not affect one favorably, yet the fine draughting and grouping...
...deficit for 1880-81, amounting to $34,469.19, is the largest which the college has ever incurred, and has forced the corporation to consider anxiously the measures necessary to prevent the recurrence of such a reduction of capital. After deducting from the deficit all those expenses of the year which can properly be called extraordinary, there remains an excess over receipts to the amount of, at least, $15,000. Since the beginning of the year a gift of $100,000 from the estate of the late Eben Wright has been received for carrying on the library. The corporation will, this...
...gross total of outrages committed in Ireland in December is 574. The largest number of cases occurred in Munster. King's county has been proclaimed...