Appleton's annual cyclopedia and register of important events: embracing political, military, an ecclesiastical affairs; public documents; biography, statistics, commerce, finance, literature, science, agriculture, and mechanical industry . labor. At the election, August 6, the Democraticticket received its usual large majority. TheLegislature elected is overwhelmingly Demo-cratic, 32 out of 33 Senators and 91 out of 100members of the House being Democratic. Anamendment to the State Constitution, designedto reduce the amount of local and special legis-lation demanded at each legislative sessio
Appleton's annual cyclopedia and register of important events: embracing political, military, an ecclesiastical affairs; public documents; biography, statistics, commerce, finance, literature, science, agriculture, and mechanical industry . labor. At the election, August 6, the Democraticticket received its usual large majority. TheLegislature elected is overwhelmingly Demo-cratic, 32 out of 33 Senators and 91 out of 100members of the House being Democratic. Anamendment to the State Constitution, designedto reduce the amount of local and special legis-lation demanded at each legislative session,failed of adoption, receiving fewer than 50,000votes out of a total poll of over 180,000. Atthe November election a Democratic delegationto the national House of Representatives waschosen. The Democratic presidential ticketreceived 117,310 votes; the Republican, 57,197;the Prohibition, 583. ALCOTT, AMOS BRONSON, educator, born inWolcott, Conn., Nov. 29,1799 ; died in Boston,Mass., March 4, 1888. The family arms wasgranted to Thomas Alcocke in 1616, and thefirst of the name appearing in English historyis John Alcocke, who, after receiving the de-gree of doctor of divinity at Cambridge, be-came Bishop ot Ely, and was preferred Lord-. AMOS BRONSON ALCOTT. Chancellor of England by Henry VII. Hetransformed the old nunnery of St. Radigundin Cambridge to a new college called was given to learning and piety fromchildhood, growing from grace to grace, so thatin his age were none in England higher for ho-liness. Thomas and George Alcocke cameto New England with Winthrops company in ALOOTT, AMOS BRONSON. ALCOTT, LOUISA MAY. 11 1630, and the descendant of the former, , who held a commission from his kins-man Gov. Trumbull, lived on his fathers es-tate, Spindle Hill, where his grandson, AmosBronson, the son of Joseph Chatfield and AnnaBronson Alcox, was born. My father wasskilful in handicraft, and in these arts I inher-ited some portion of his skill, and early lear
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