1881 United States Senate election in New York caucus of the Democratic State legislators met on January 17, State Senator Charles A. Fowler (14th D.) presided. They re-nominated the incumbent U.S. Senator Francis Kernan by acclamation. Thomas C. Platt was the choice of both the State Senate and the Assembly, and was declared elected. Notes: Platt remained in office for only ten weeks, until May 16, 1881, when he resigned together with his boss Roscoe Conkling in protest against the distribution of federal patronage in New York by President James A. Garfield, a Half-Breed, without being consulted, what Conkling said was a breach of a pledge given by
SS Waxholm (1881) sold for scrap, and was scrapped in Hamburg, Germany. After the 1881-built "Waxholm" had been scrapped, the Waxholmsbolaget reused her name on a 1909-built steamer that had previously been named "Express II" and, before that, "Brevik". SS Waxholm (1881) The Waxholm was a steam ship that was built in 1881, at Stockholm in Sweden, for the Waxholmsbolaget. She operated on services throughout the Stockholm archipelago for that company until 1956, when she was scrapped. The "Waxholm" was built in 1881 by , on Sodermalm in Stockholm, for the Waxholms Ångfartygs AB, better known as the Waxholmsbolaget. Her design would set