CITY AND SUBURBAN NEWS.; NEW-YORK.
Date: 28 May 1878
New York Conference (African)
The May 27, 1878 was a Monday under the star sign of ♊. It was the 146 day of the year. President of the United States was Rutherford B. Hayes.
If you were born on this day, you are 147 years old. Your last birthday was on the Tuesday, May 27, 2025, 111 days ago. Your next birthday is on Wednesday, May 27, 2026, in 253 days. You have lived for 53,802 days, or about 1,291,250 hours, or about 77,475,006 minutes, or about 4,648,500,360 seconds.
Date: 28 May 1878
Presbyterian General Assembly (North) at Pittsburg
Date: 27 May 1878
The regatta of the Manhattan Yacht Club, announced for June 6, has been postponed till late in the season.
Date: 28 May 1878
Dr. Butt Retains Leadership
Date: 28 May 1878
LONDON, May 27. The Madrid dispatch of the Daily News says: "There was a stormy debate in the Cortes Saturday in regard to the troubles at Barcelona. It seems that the agitation there grew out of the resistance of the people to a municipal tax on gas, which the gas companies assessed on consumers.
Date: 28 May 1878
Austria Occupies Ada-Kaleh
Date: 28 May 1878
Special Dispatch to the New-York Times
BOSTON, May 27. John G. Tappan, of Boston, has begun a law suit against Amherst College for $25,000 for a breach of the conditions whereby the college holds a bequest of his father, John Tappan. According to the Springfield Republican, John Tappan died in 1871, having been "for 40 years one of the standing and unfailing resources of the college in every emergency."