Evening star

From the original pageDe la página original

This page carries the passage as it was found on the newspaper page, copied with its reading errors and all. The article's fuller presentation is still to come; the original page is linked above.Esta página lleva el pasaje tal como se encontró en la página del periódico, copiado con sus errores de lectura y todo. La presentación completa del artículo aún está por venir; la página original está enlazada arriba.

1S23 to 1825. He was Killed in a battle at

Eogota, Colombia, in 1-bGO.

Juan Jacob Dessalines of Haiti was a.

leader with Toussaint I'Ouverturo in sue

cessful' resistance to Knglish troops by

the l'ormer slaves after the publication <>f

an emancipation proclamation. In ISO-,

after l'Ouverture had died a prisoner in

a French prison. Dessalines led another

revolution, this time a successful on. the

French abandoning tie contest in ISO.'-;.

January 1. 1S04. Dessalines promulgated

the Haitian declaration of independence,

which lias been maintained es'cr sinc?-.

After being proclaimed govrnmr general

for life, and afterward emperor a-s .lean

Jacques I. in November, ISOC, Dessalines

was assassinated.

Of Marti, the Cuban patriot, whose his

tory is of such recent, date, it remains

to speak briefly. He was the apostle of

TENPIN balls?that is, those that are

not molded out of a composition?

are turned from the heart of lig

num vitae, words that may be translated

as "living stone." Many persons believe

that lignum vitae is not a botanical name

or designation, but merely a trade name

covering numerous varieties of very hard,

compact and heavy wood. This is not so.

The lignum vitae is a tree perhaps bet

ter known to botanists, or students of

that department of botany known as den

drology, as Guaiaeum sanctum.

Lignum vitae trees grow in Florida, on

the Florida keys, in the Bahama Islands

and various islands or the West Indies.

The trade is mainly supplied by the Ba

hamas. The tree is a low gnarled, round

How to cite this articleCómo citar este artículo

Evening star. (1914). Washington, D.C., 1914-02-15. Haiti in the American Press. Library of Congress, Chronicling America: https://www.loc.gov/resource/sn83045462/1914-02-15/ed-1/?sp=51

ReferencesReferencias

Library of Congress, Chronicling America: Evening star, 1914-02-15.