The Magnolia gazette., 1882-03-31

-GNOLIA, MISSISSIPPI
consequently be extended to political
prisoners.
THE Sunday saloon question, just now,
is the topic Of interest in whether
1t is better to go in by the front door or
by the back door. No saloonist was
ever known to keep both doors locked at
the same time.
The report that four towns were
destroyed by an earthquake in Costa
Rica, later information says, was an
" exaggeration, yet how great an exag
geration is not stated. Perhaps it was
all exaggeration.
FoUR women in the vicinity of Rich
mond, Ind, and Methodist preacher
and two women at North Lewisburg,
Champaign County, Ohio, have gone
insane over religion the past two weeks
and been placed in lunatic asylums.
THE beautiful Mrs. Langtry would
like to come to this country but her
agent wants SO much that she will prob
ably lie denied the privilege. As a rule
managers endeavor to make contracts
with view to making something for
themselves.
DIR. GEORGE H. LAMsoN, of London,
tried for the murder of his brother-in-
law, Percy Malcolm John, mere boy,
that he might come into possession of
his property, has been found guilty and
sentenced to be hanged. The evidence
was circumstantial, but conclusive.
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THE outlook on the Lower Mississippi
is everything but promising. The whole
country is flooded, without any prospect
Of the water receding at an early day.
In the vicinity Of Helena, Arkansas, the
country for forty miles around, on either
side Of the river, is like an ocean.
AN ITEM to sausage eaters from the
Louisville Coarier-Jommal: "a man
who detected piece of bark in his
sausage visited the. butcher shop to
know what had become Of the rest Of
the dog. The butcher was so affected
that he could give him only part Of the
tale"
THE Police Commissioners Of Balti
more have dismissed a policeman fol
not arresting woman who was assault
ing another with horsewhip. AS she
was his wife and the assaulted woman
his sweetheart, he felt that he could not
interfere without great embarrassment.
The Commissioners relieved him OF all
further embarrassment ly relieving him
HALE the silver dollars circulated in
Montana are alleged to be counterfeiI
made by the Chinese in San Francisco.
They are described as Of exactly tbs
weight of the genuine ones, and ono
thirty-second part of an inch larger il
diameter. They contain only sixteen
cents worth of silver, which is all on
the surface.
EIanry-EIvE houses in South Bethle-
hem, Pennsylvania, are quarantined be-
cause Of smallpox, and the disease is re-
ported on the increase. Why this dis.
case has become so alarming there it is
difficult to say The town is high and
healthy, and is the home of the Mo-
ravians, than whom no one could be
cleaner or more particular In neatness.
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Mrs. SARAH e. HowE, the defaulting
Boston Bank President, who has been
sentenced to the House Of Correction for
a term Of three years, may wen congrat-
ulate hegself. She promised to pay her
depositors an interest that amounted to
SO per cent, and in consequence failed
to return the principal, by which the de-
lpositors lost something like $i75,000.
The Milwaukee Sun suggests plan
for " saving the country 1t says "Let
Northern people go South in the winter,
and Southern people GO North in the
summer, and let the young Of both sec
tions fall in love with each other and do
a little marrying, and whom Northern
and Southern grmdmothers go travelling
back and forth to visit the babies that
will naturally come upon the scene, that
will naturally end all sectional feeling" :"
THE Paris Figaro says Of Skobeleff /:
"This General has not changed during
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