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The Magnolia gazette. [volume] (Magnolia, Miss.) 1872-current, 1880-03-19
NEWS In A NUT SHELL.
EVENTS OF THE PAST WEEK FROM ALL
OVER THE WORLD.
The Cream of the Two Hemispheres Care
fully Condensed and Classifled-An In
teresting Budget of Personal and,
Miscellaneous Information.


THERE is at present torty-fve million dol
lars worth of gold bullion in the New York
Assistant Treasurer's Office ready to be
transported to the Philadelphia mint for
coinage.
THE Senate Finance Committee agreed to
admit classical antiquities free of duty. 1t
is understood one of the special purposes OF
this action is to provide for the free admis-
sion of the Egyptian obelisk.
THE House Committee ON Ways and
Means unanimously agreed to report favor
ably the bill which provides for changing
the rate of duty on malt form 20 per cent.
ad valorem to rs cents per bushel,
A PETITION signed by government Off
cials and Others, is circulating in Washing
ton asking the Governor General of Canada
to take steps, in connection with the United
States government, for the protection of Nj
agara Falls from the encroachments OF
spectators.
THE Ways and Means Committee has de-
cided, by one majority to indefinitely post
pone consideration of the sugar question; to
lay on the table the bill reducing the duty
on steel rails, and to indefinitely postpone
Mr.. Morrison's bill reducing the tariff on
certain goods.
THE President sent to the Senate, II mes
sage transmitting report from the Secre-
tary ofthe Interior, contalntngth agreement
signed by the chiefs and head men of the
Ute Indians, now in Washington. The stip-
ulations of the agreement appear to the
President so reasonable and just, and the
objects to be accomplished by its execution
| SO eminently desirable to both whites and
Indians, that it has his cordial appoval, and
| he earnestly recommends it to Congress
for favorable consideration and appropriate
action.
DE LEssEPs has informed the lnteroceaniC
| Canal Committee that while he was not
present to talk politics, but to give scien-
tific views about the canal, he could not re-
frain from expressing his delight with the
Presidents message yesterday on the sub
iect OF the canal ,becauseit it would certainly b'
advantageous 10 have the protection OF tht
United States during the work and after thu
opening of the canal. He had just sent
message TO his son in Paris, saying thu
Presidents message assured the safety o
the canal. Capt. .Eads read paper in adyo
cacy of his plan of a ship railway.
THE House Committee on Appropriation
has agreed upon special deficiency bill ag
gregatlng $500, 600, including the following
items: For public printing $400 ,OOO to com
plete Chicago postoffice, 500 900; for posta
service 40,000, Including $4,000 for the pa.
of mail route messengers, Sl5,OOO Tor u
pay of postal car clerks, $4,000 for an IN
crease in pay OF route agents, and $1,000
for extra pay of clerks in postotices at Bos
ton. New York and Chicago $4,000 TO
lighthouse steamer on the Mississippi an
Ohio Rivers; $4,000 for Winnie Ream 10
completion of her statute of Admiral tarra
gut. The other deficiency items will be III
corporated in the general deficiency bill.
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rI,e south.

THE Point Coupee, La, Pelican favors
sheep raising for Louisiana and declares it a
good industry for those sections of the State
troubled by the exodus.
GEORGE GRAY, of Lyon county, KY, de-
livered to ]. Il. White Il Co., at Cadia, 1880
pounds Of Tobacco, which he claims to have
grown on one acre of land.
THE New Orleans Picaguie, says that the
youngest twins of the Hood orphans have
been taken by gentleman and his wife, re-
siding in New York, who have adopted
them. The baby member Of the family has
also been taken for adoption by another
family.
AT New Orleans, Judge Woods, of the
Circuit Court, rendered decree declaring
Edwin d. Morgan and James A. Raynor,
Trustees Of the New Orleans and Mobile
Railroad, and ordering the sale of the road
and distribution of the proceeds among the
bond-holdeis. THIS will probably give effect
to the sale of the road to the Louisville and
Nashville Company.
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XIV CONGRESS-.


DENIAL
MARCH 4.-Mr. Vest, from the Committee
on Territories, reported the bill to establish
"a United States Court in the Indian Ter
ritory. The Senate took up and passed
the House bill making additional apprOpria-
tions of 1S5, 600 for the support of certain
Indian tribes for the year ending June 80,
1880. The morning hour having expired
the Seuate resumed consideration of the
biz or the relief of Fitz John Porter. Mr..
Logsn continued his remarks in opposition
to the bill. He proceeded to review, at
leb 9Th, the evidence presented before the
CotrU-martial, by which Porter was tried, to
support his assertion that it proved the
charges that Porter disobeyed orders in face
of the enemy. He consumed the whole
day in going over the history of that event
full night and will continue his remarks to-
morrow, Adjourned.
MARCH 5.-The bill relieving Pay Direc-
tor Charles w. Abbott from liability for de-
falcation by his subordinate, was opposed
by Mr.. Salisbury, who thought the practice
of passing such bills invited carlessness in
the administration of public funds. The
bill passed; yeas 35,nays II. The morning
hour having expired, consideration was re-
sumed of the bill for the relief Of fitz John
Porter. Mr.. Logan continued his remarks
in opposition TO the bill, confining himself
| to two propositions viz: as to whether
there was or was not battle ON August 20
1862, at or near Groveton, and as to whether
there was any force in front of Porter dur
ing that day. He stated that instead o.
25,000 men there were only two pieces O
artillery and small force of cavalry II
| front of him. The number killed ant
wounded in the engagement Of the 10Th wa
from 6,000 to 5000. He reviewed the eyi
dence in the case at length to prove tn
above assertions. In conclusion, Mr.. Logal
protested against the passage of this bill
condoning great crime and making dan
gerous precedent. Mr.. Carpenter obtainet
the floor, and the Senate adjourned unit
tomorrow.
MARCH 6.--Some bills of a personal ma
ture being disposed of, the bill to amen'
section 2,447 Revised Statutes, in relation
to the issue of patents for private lane
claims, confirmed by the act of Congress
was passed Consideration was thel
resumed of the bill for the rehefof Fitz Johl
Porter, and Senator Carpenter addressel
the Senate in opposition to the bill. III
made very lengthy speech, taking tn
ground that the only relief for Porter wa
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HOW 1e Tpol. the oysters nome.

first ward man was told by his wife
to bring home quart of oysters to fry
for supper. He drank few prescrip-
tions of egg-nogg, and then took paper
bagt I'll of selects and started for home.
He stopped at two or three saloons and
the bag began to melt, and when he left
the last saloon the bottom fell out of the
bag and the oysters were on the side
walk. We will leave the man there
gazing upon the wreck, and take the
reader to the residence where he is ex-
pected. A red faced woman is putting
the finishing touches to the supper table
and wondering why her husband does
not come with the oysters. Presently a
noise as OF a lead pencil in the keyhole
salutes her ear, and she goes to the door
and opens it and finds him taking the
pencil out of the keyhole. Not seeing
any oysters she asks him if he has for
gotten the oysters. "Forgotten moth
(hic)-ing," says he. He walks up to
the table and asks for plate, which is
given by the unsuspicious wife. 'Dams-
accident you ever (hlc) see," said the
truly old man, rs he brought his hand
out of his overcoat pocket with tour
oysters, little smoking tobacco and a
piece of cigar stub. "Slipprysoystersey
! (hic) er was" said he, as he ran his
hands down in the other pocket, bring
ing up five oysters, piece of envelope
and piece OF wire that was used as a
bail to the pail, "Got all my p(hic)ock-
cts full, said he, as he took large oys-
ter out of his vest pocket. Then he be-
gan to go down in his pants pockets, and
finding hole in it he said: "Six big
(hic)sters gone down my trousers leg
Sposi'n find them in my boot" and nc
sat down tc pull off his boot, when the
lady took the plate of oysters and other
stuff into the kitchen and threw them
in the swilI and then she put him tc
bed, and all the time he was trying tc
tell her how the bag busted just as hG
was in front of can Saints Ca(hic)the
dral."
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PRESIDENT HAYES will open the Metre
politan Museum Of Art New York, March
80.
The brush manufacturers at I.ansinburgh,
N. ", have increased the wages OF their
workmen.
The new Republican State Committee of
New York, organized with Chester A. Arthur
as Chairman,
McKENzIE's grist and box mill at Bermills,
Me-, burned, together with covered bridge
$50 feet long.
Two brothers named Carrico, living near
Wythville, Va, had fight iii which one
was fatally and the other seriously wounded
THE New York Board of Trade and Trans
portation has scattered circulars through
out the city and State for signatures, calling
attention to railroad abuses.
THE bark Elbana, from Newport, Wales
for st. Johns, N. b., was wrecked at Nlggel
Head, near the latter place. Captain Barry
and seven men were drowned.
THE steamship Alhambra, which arrived
at New York from Halifax, was caught IL
the ice while attempting to run into Cow
Bay, and drifted in the ice for six days.
THE starch manufacturers have deter
mined on advance of half cent per pount
on the higher grades, provided that the hrln
not represented at the Cincinnati meeting
agree to the advance.
A NEw YoRK dispatch says:-A snow
storm struck this city at half-past nine to
day. Storm signals fly at ali stations aloni
the coast from Norfolk up at this port. Tn
wind blows 25 miles an hour.
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AT the Crescent Steel Works in this
city a steam-pipe two and a half inches
in diameter, carrying from 30 to 100
pounds pressure, was laid under ground
about three years ago, incased in COM
mon pine boards about one inch thick.
few days since occasion was had to
dig up the pipe, and the whole length OF
the wooden drain was found TO be char
red and apparently burnt about three
quarters fthe thickness of the wood,
the other quarter being partially rotted
The whole inside of the drain was turn
ed to charcoal, with here and there spots
Oh white ashes, showing that ignition had
actually taken place. 1t seems probable
mat II the casing had not been excluded
nom the air by the earth covering it, II
would have blazed and been entirely
consumed. tits generally admitted tha
asieam-pipe cannot set fire to wood, bu
'his case seems to prove the contrary
ana 1t may explain the origin of many
mysterious fires.-NcD York Erpress.
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following: by Mr.. King; Placing on free
list all chemical substances and materials
imported exclusively for the manufacture
of printing paper and printing inks, and all
sized or unszed paper used exclusively for
books, magazines and newspapers; by
Mr.. Nichols: To remove the duty on wood
and straw pulp, soda ash, and other chemi-
Gals now used in the manufacture Of paper,
and to reduce the duty on unsized paper to 5
per cent. ad valorem; by Mr.. Speer: Max
ing it unlawful for any officer of the regular
army to order inspections, dress parades or
concerts by his men on the Sabbath day;
by Mr.. McKenzie Abolishing all duties
ON agricultural machinery and implements;
by Mr. Caldwell: To equalize at 50 per
month all duties for total disabil-
ity; by Mr. Hatch: To provide for
the importation of salt free of duty;
by Mr.. Cox: To repeal the tax on bank
checks, matches and legacies by Mr..
Covert: To admit chromate of iron free of
duty; also to punish blackmailing in
the District of Columbia. Mr.. Scales,
Chairman of the Committee on Indian At
fairs, reported bill authorizing the Secre-
tary Of the Interior to allot lands in sever
atty TO Indians. Ordered printed and re-
committed. Mr.. Sawyer, from the Com
mittee on Elections, reported Il resolution
| declaring w. ). Slemons entitled to his seat
as Representative from the Second District
i Vi iEhatlshS. MI. lJdNlS kOl Ill. OueTeuu
resolution tor the appointment of com
mittee to ascertain the terms on which the
/ State of Illinois will cede to the United
States the Illinois and Michigan Canal. .
! Mr.. Hunton presented the petition of %, 900
citizens of Washington, asking the crime,
rape, be punished with death in the Dis
trict of Columbia. Referred. Adjourned.
MARCH "a number of bills were re-
ported back to the House from COM
mituces, among them bill providing for
fitting out an Arctic expedition; also to pre-
vent Indians from going into the State Of
Texas Tor any purpose whatever. The
political assessments bill came up and was
debated. Adjourned.
MARCH 10.-Bills were placed on the
House calendar appropriating $500, 900 for
the relief of the poor of Ireland; to restrict
Chinese emigration; to prevent the removal
of Indians from the States into the Indian
Territory; to prevent the withho ding oi
pensions from pensioners under the act oi
1861. Consideration was resumed of the
political assessment bill, and the House was
addressed by Mr.. Young, Of Ohio. Al
the evening session the House passed lif
teen or twenty pension bills and adjourned
MARCH 11-Bills were reported from the
Committee on Public Buildings and Grounds
and referred to Committee of the Whole
for the erection of public buildings in tn,
following cities: Paducah KY; Charles
town, w. Va; Cleveland, o.. Pittsburg, Pa.
Quincy, ILL.,: Maysville, KY; Minneapolis
Mimi; Denver, Col; Houston Tex; Clarks
burg, W. Va; Peoria, ILL.,; Portsmouth, o
: Owensboro, KY, and Louisville, Ky. TIL
political assessments bill eame on deman
of the previous question. The Republican
: refrained from voting and after maxim
! several attempts to get quorum the Hous
f adjourned
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Physicians Fees regulated by Law.l

The fees which physician may charge
in Prussia for their services is regulated
by law, and according to the most recent
ordinance the charge for the first visit to
sick person is fixed at two marks
twenty-five cents standing for mark, !,
and one mark for each subsequent visit.
Where, however, several persons belong
ing to the same family, and dwelling in
the same house, have TO be treated at
the same time, then. for the second and
each succeeding person, only the half of
those fees respectively is to be charged.
The same rule is TO apply to boarding
schools and similar institutions; also TO
prisons. When there is consultation
Of several physicians about the treatment
Of sick person, including their person
al visits, each physician-is to receive for
the first consultation five marks, and
three marks for each subsequent similar
consultation. On the occasion of the
first visit to the physician's residence for
his medical advice, one mark and half.
For the administration of chloroform,
etc, when necessary for the treatment OF
the patient, three marks.
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TIE total receipts of lumber at Chicago
In 1879 was 1,467, T20, 900 feet, an increase OF
800 O0O, 600 feet over 1878.
AT Shelbyvi}le, Ind.,. Joseph MeCreight
was shot and fatally wounded by Newton
Spanner. Both boys are under l6 years OF
age.
PArRIcK MuLLALY, u well-known con-
tractor, was killed by the falling of scat
fold from the Courthouse at Topeka, Kan
sas.
IT Is announced that the principal paper
manufacturers of the Northwest will Yigor-
ously oppose the reduction or abolition OF
the tariff on articles used in manufacturing
paper.
THE Milwaukee SentineFs Winneconne,
Wis. special says the entire winter wheat
crop Of that section will be failure, caused
by frequent freezing and thawing Most
farmers plow 1t up.
A THROUGH rate of IA cents on grain froIn
Chicago to New York, by propeller, was Of
fered at Chicago. AS the marine insurance
1. it is probable that heavy shipments OF
grain by lake will begin shortly.
THE grand Jury in New York has dismissed
the bill against Charles A. Byrne for bigamy
the assistant district attorney holding that
bigamy is not a punishable crime in New
York when the celebration of marriage
takes place in foreign State. Byrne and
his first wife were married in Canada.
ANOTHER attempt was made at Orick,
Mo-, TO wreck the passenger train going east,
Mr.. Thomas Ross, ofthat place, was cutting
logs one mile east of the station and on re-
turning home in the evening walked the
track, when. he discovered ties placed per.
pendiculAr between the ties at the end Of
1 the bridge across q small stream three-quar'
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The Swedish postal authorities have
just published list of the newspapers
and periodicals. appearing in Sweden.
The total number is s1G, Of which 92 are
published in Stockholm. After Stock
holm ranks Gothenburg with 20, then
Upsala with IA, Malmo with 8, and Gehe
and Jonkoping each with s. OF these
Sl6 publications, only about one-third
are properly newspapers, and there are
10 daily papers, in Stockholm, 2 in
Gothenburg, and each in Nordkoping,
Malmo and Helsingborg.
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A ST. PETERSBURG dispatch says: Military
maneuvers ON grand scale are culminat-
ing.
HORACE MAYNARD, u. S. Minister to Tur-
key, has sailed from Smyrna on three
months tour in Syria and Egypt.
THE Temps say the Russian Government
will probably take advantage of the journey
to st. Petersburg of the Russian Embassa-
dor to draw up an extradition treaty with
France.
A BERLIN dispatch reports that the Car,
in his letter to Emperor William, states that
the Emperor's letter Of congratulation has
produced most intense satisfaction in st.
Petersburg.
RoUTHER and wife have started for Chisel-
hurst to take leave OF ex-Empress Eugenie
previous to her departure for the Cape. The
ex-Empress will stop at st. Helena on her
return voyage.
THE Turkish troops landed at Salonica
are to persue the brigands who captured
Col. Synge and wife: The belief on the
spot is that the landing of the soldiers is
serious mistake.
A BERLIN dispatch says the population oi
] Finland are manifesting a desire for lnde'
pendence. This movement is believed to be
u serious one, and founded ON wide and
especial public feeling.
IT is said seven men taken into custody
| by the police, in St. Petersburg, at the exc
cution of Moadetsky, were arrested for say
ing that though the present attempt hac
failed, another would succeed.
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A CRY comes from Brazil as bitter and
neartrending as that from Ireland, and
Russia and silesia add their voices to the
wall for help which comes to us. There
are terrible mistakes in government in
all THESE places, or so much misery could
scarcely occur. No wider or nobler field
ever existed for the efforts of philanthro-
py Than the rectifcation of defects, not
always willful, in the control of large
masses Of people. A "bad year" or a
nooa or an epidemic usually finds the
nietehed sufferers totally unprepared to
resist calamity, and can do nothing but
ue heiplessly and wait for succor. That
alu Is 50 quickly and generously gwen is
Oieoitable to human nature, but although
Utopia is impossible, it is to be hoped
.'iat The time viii come when those who
asVe power and wealth win not wait fol
.sss'er to awaken their sympathy fol
', .ue,r less happy fellow creatures, bui
n Snl exert themselves continuously tc
s'ieViate their condition and guard them
4On sudden and heavy calamity.
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Ina work on the principles of light and

Ina work on the principles of light and
color, the author, DR.. Babbitt, contends
that if a yellow or amber collored bottle
of water be exposed TO the sunlight a
while, the water within will become
medicated, so that it will act as a laxa-
tive and animating principle generally,
while the water exposed in a blue bottle
will act as a nervine, astringent and mar
cotic. The experiment can easily be
tried,
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IT has been discovered that the eli
mate Of California and northern Georgia
and Alabama is just suited to the cultiva-
tion of the cinchona tree, from which
quinine is made, and it is proposed to
introduce the cultivation of these trees
into this country, 50 as to save the ex-
pense it incurs every year in sending to
South America for Peruvian bark.
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II is said that Faber, the pencil maker,
who began business in Nuremberg about
thirty years ago, with capital of 9250
will commemorate the event by setting
aside $4,000, the interest of which at five
per a250-is to be annually given,
under the direction of trustees, to some
poor and worthy young man about to
start in business, and native of Nu-
remberg.
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IeIbOllhl
PARNELL will go back to Ireland immedi-
ately.
Mrs. THOMAS HIcKs-LoRp goes back to
Europe.
MN. PoMERoY will temporarily reside in
Colorado.
PROFESSOR NoRDENsJKoLD contemplates
new expedition.
TENNYsoN has his tobacco sent him from
Africa and he smokes clay pipes.
REDPATH is in Ireland writingup the fam
inc for the New York Tribune.
THE Duchess of Edinburgh has a muif
made Of the feathers of the blujay.
GAMnErTA has been ordered to give up
smoking for fear of losing his voice
NJ. DIE LEssEPs doesn't speak English,
though his wife and children do quite tlu-
emily.
THE election expenses of the defeated
Lord Ramsay at Liverpool amounted to
S65, 600,
JEFFERSON DAVIS expects to raise about
one thousand bales of cotton this seaso on
his plantation in Mississippi.
The Pope, who was q great pedestrian in
the days of his youth, still distinguishe:
himself in that way, taking his daily walks
| in the gardens of the Vatican at such pace
that his attendants can hardly keep up Will
| him.
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A life prisoner in the State Prison at
Thomaston, Me-, has made, with nothing
but two knives, calendar clock, which
keeps accurate time, has rooster which
crows every hour, and 242 moving figures.
among them companies of infantry and
cavalry, which go through the full man
nal of arms.
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Az interesting discovery has just been
made at Wells, England, ofupwards of a
thousand original documents. some OF
which date back to the thirteenth centu-
tv Many OF the seals are in beautiful
state of preservation. They were found
in an old oaken press in the almshouse.
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tiers of mile east of the depot. Mr.. Ross
at once tried to remove the obstruction but
was commanded to pass on, Which he did
reporting to Mr.. Hearn, the section fore
man, who Immediately had the ties removed,
The obstruction was placed on but few
minutes before the arrival of the train,
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Oshkosh, Wis, has the largest match
factory in the world. 1t cut 100000
feet of logs into matches, and used
s8oO0OO worth of revenue stamps curing
1870
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TIMELY TOPICS.

SEVEN machines in Pittsburgh, Pa,
nrodneed. last year, over 1,O63.345 kegs
of nails.
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Dr.. BULLs Cough Syrup is fast taking
the place of all the old fashioned Cough
remedies. Itnever fails 10 relieve the most
violent Cold, and for Throat Diseases it is
invaluable, Price a cents.
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al1E rhE hackensack Republican saws it is
AnSys AnS "a a last day with chained dog.
nt an ~ .he same may be said of many .uen