Henry nil. gave John Cabot Ms com
mission; Melendez founded St. Augus
tine, Fla.; the Mayflower, with the Pil
grim fathers, made the harbor of
Provincetown their first in America;
they landed on Plymouth Rock; George
Washington was bom; Bunker Hill
seized and fortified; the Saratoga sur
render took place; Arnold’s treason was
laid bare; Yorktown surrendered; July
7, 1776. R. H. Lee moved that the
United States are and ought to be tr.de
pendent; the Great Eastern sailed from
Vienna with the first transatlantic
cable and arrived at Heart's Content,
Newfoundland—all on Friday.
THE WORLD’S FAIR.
V hat the Columbian txliibitiuii will do for
America.
