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The Magnolia gazette. [volume] (Magnolia, Miss.) 1872-current, 1884-10-09

On tine night of the 29Gh thieves entered
the Post-ofiice at Mineville, o., and stole
1900 in money and - 70 in stamps. As they
We're leaving, they were discovered. In
the effort to capture them Kate Richards,
the Postmaster's daughter, was fatally
stabbed. The robbers escaped with their
booty.
A BOILER exploded in the engine.room
of the Millwood (Pa.) coal shaft the even
ing of the goth, killing John Hanna and a
number Of others.
AT the Cunyngham shaft of the Della
ware and Hudson Coal Company the boil
er exploded with great violence on the
evening of the Goth, wrecking the building
and damaging the other three boilers.
On the Both Dir. Abram Babcock, Of SYRIA
cuse, N. ", arrested on charge Of Grim
inal practice, committed suicide in jail
On the Both Mrs. Lillian, a grass-widow
Of seventeen, took poison and died in hay
stack on her fathers farm near Ogden,
Mich.
The negro, Bill Smith, who assaulted a
dusky damsel in Franklin County, Miss,
on the 10Th, was taken from a magistrate
on the Both and hanged by mob.
SEVERAL passengers were seriously in.
iured in an accident on the D. s. G. u.
Road near Hearne, Tex, on the Both.
AT Lachine, Canada, twenty three
houses burned the night Of the 295h. Loss,
about $35, 900; partly insured, Some fifty
families were turned out OF homes. This
is the second disastrous conhaGration that
| has visited Lachine within short period.
on the 1st the largest business block Of
4 Millcan, Tex, was destroyed by fire.
Roscoe CoNKLING was killed in base
ball game at River Head, r. i, on the LIST,
This is not the ex-senator, but a namesake
Of seventeen.
ON the 1st registered package of $40,
$50 in bonds, sent from New York, arrived
al East Hampton Comm Post-olice with
broken seals and containing only brown
paper. The officials are investigating.
A COLLISION occurred on the Denver 4
Rio Grande Railroad about eighteen miles
from Denver, Col, on the 1st. About thir
ty passengers were injured, none serious
ly.
A NUT my Of prisoners occurred a
Mandalay a few days ago, in quellins
which the Burmese soldiers set fire to th'
prison aud shot 430 Of the inmates whil'
they were attempting to escape from tn
burning building.
A PARTY Of men called at Dennis Nc
Gratn's house, near Providence, ~ l., q
the I'd, and murdered him.
DURING the races at Strabone, Ireland
on the ID, platform gave way and many
persons were injured.
on the ID dynamite outrages at Guy =
The Magnolia gazette. [volume] (Magnolia, Miss.) 1872-current, 1884-10-09
ORInfEs ANp CAsUALTIEs.

AN Egyptian nuggar, laden with troops
and stores, was capsized on the Nile, and
Two men were drowned and q quantity Of
ssaTes lost
The Magnolia gazette. [volume] (Magnolia, Miss.) 1872-current, 1884-10-09

INDIANAfUL4Iei AF'H7't VVt7Y' y
Late last night street car in
the southern part Of the city was stopped
BY a highwayman, who commanded
the driver 10 give up his casn
box. The latter refused and the rohber
fred two shots, one OF which took effect
In the omach OF Albert Nuilman, an
iron N ,ldeT, who was the only psssen'
ger on tho car, killing nim almost ln'
Slsntly, yhe pausdsTeg escaped,
The Magnolia gazette. [volume] (Magnolia, Miss.) 1872-current, 1884-10-09

FUtI LAsFDf VINH't V0ROEVI =
News has been received that the dwell
ing belonging to Mrs. David Overman,
an old widow lady, near Pioneer, Idaho,
burned. Mrs. Oy,rmau's body was
found burned to ashes among
the charred debris Of the house. She
lived a one. The origin OF the fire Is
unknown. The genera belief is that the
old lady was murdered for her money
and iewelry, and the premises burned TO
| destroy all traces of the crime.
The Osceola times., 1884-08-02

be that of Richelieu. The Cardina, w
buried in the chapel of the Sorhormus ms
but during riot in 1S4S the tomb n,
violated. A member of the Const;,,"@ was
Assembly is said to have obtained en-
skull, and later on to have given !, me
Dentu. >"
The spiritualists have discovered bo,
it is that, when rude investigators aras &
and hold materialized spirit, the sso ea
tured form often proves to be that of ~
medium. In these cases the Banner ne &c
Light explains, "What was intended VI
be naturalization at the outset on,,'
reaches TRANSPORTATION ofthe medium.
body" Thus corporal form is mad
to take on the semblance of denartaS
person; and the editor thinks il il vsr,'
unjust to accuse mediums of fraud in thss
matter.
A Lowell mill girl thought she had
talent with which to become an eminent
actress, She saved all she could from
her wages for several years, and invest.
ed it in theatrical venture in a small
way--all except sixty-dollars, which a
friend surreptitiously took out of the
fund and used in buying in her name a
Florida land grant. She returned from
her professional tour in a year, broken
in purse and spirits, and ready to resume
work at the loom; but the Florida pur-
chase had happened to appreciate about
a hundred fold in value, and, therefore
she can 90 TO Paris for dramatic educa
| ton.
The Osceola times., 1884-08-02
Admiration for Marshall.

John Marshall holds the fist place
among the eminent men who served the
nation as its Chief Justice. He was
profound lawyer and wise judge. The
gravest of constitutional questions came
before him. His decisions were so broad
and sound that they were received, apart
from their judicial authority, as the best
interpretations of the Constitution.
Statesmen, lawyers and the people adj
mired the great judge
Distinguished foreigners, who paid
their respects to the Chief Justice of the
United States, were impressed by the
singular union of modesty and power
gentleness and force, which marked the
man.
"Pride, ostentation and hypocrisy are
Greek to him." wrote an English trav-
eler who saw the Chief Justice when he
was eighty years of age. "He really
lives up to the letter and spirit of repub-
licanisIn, while he maintains all the dig
Ultt uut W illS dEt dill lAlS
is small and more humble in appearance
than that of the average successful law
yers or merchants
The simplicity of child ana the PLAIN
ness of republican, which marked the
venerable judge, were associated with
another beautiful trait. "He maintain
ed through life, and carried to the grave,
a reverence for woman as rare in its
kind as in its degree"
1t is not strange that man of such
excellence and p judge so wise should be
venerated. Even the cynical John Ran
dolph was courteous when he spoke of
the Chief Justice. An anecdote shows
that even the common people admired
the man and the Judge.
While the youngest son of John Mar
shall was student at Cambridge, he
visited Boston, one day, to call on sever
al ladies of his acquaintance. On going
to liver stable TO hire carriage. he
found that he had left his pocketbook in
his room. Frankly stating the fact to
the keepei ofthe stable, he asked TO be
trusted for carriage.
NO. sir |" answered the man. suspect
ing that the young man was trying to
get free ride 81 wouldn't let YOU have
a carriage on trust if You were the son
of Chief Justice Marshall"
But am the son ofthat gentleman y"
said the student, looking the man full in
the face.
"You are?" exclaimed the astonished
proprietor, examining the student from
head 20 foot. Then, as the gaze satisfied
him, he said, "You can have the best
carriage in my stable"
And he did.
The Osceola times., 1884-08-02
STORY or TWO SKULLS.
How two Dusky Lovers settled n Dispute
as TO Dulcinea.
Washington Republican


Two skulls attracted much attention
from members of the medical congress
recently in session here. They are in
case in the Army Medical Museum and
are numbered 74l and $500. "They
have a romantic history" said the at
tendant to reporter. A pair of egg
shells struck by club would have pre-
sented about the same appearance as the
skulls did. One of them showed a COM
pound comminuted fracture. meaning
literally crushed, while the other showed
wide and irregular crack or fracture,
extending from the eye across the dome
of the skull to The left ear. "They are
skulls of two colored men," continued
the attendant, ~ no engaged in desper-
ate bUtting match at Norfolk some time
ago about negro damsel. II appears
that both men were desperately in love
with the girl and she was too tickle to
decide which of them should be her
steady company
"Tha men thereupon held council of
war outside the house and agreed to
meet the next day and settle the whole
thing by genuine Southern darkey but
ting match, after the most approved
cornfield and cottonield rules. These
rules provide that the men should stand
twenty PAGES apart and at the word Go
rush at each other with heads down
this to continue until one or the other OF
the men gives up or is knocked out, the
winner to nave the girl. In the case OF
the dusky darkey Norfolk lovers they
only came together once. Treir heads
collided with crash, crushing them il
the manner described. One of the hu
man billy goats died instantly, the 9th
er in few hours"
The Osceola times., 1884-08-02
Prison Life in jest.
N. Y. Tribune.

In knot of prison officials at the
Fifth Avenue Hotel recently the humor-
Gus side of prison manage ment came up.
One gentleman told how it had been de.
cided to build Jail in his county. The
Commissioners were all ignorant of pris-
on affairs, and he suggested that they
visit other counties and call in an ar
chitect who was well informed in such
matters. The Chairman of the board re-
piled to him.
whats the use ofthat. All YOU want
of Jail is to hold the prisoner"
"1o which," continued the narrator,
my best reply was to show him a copy
Of the old log Jail, the only entrance be-
ing hole in the gable through which
the prisoner was dropped down into the
well below. Ii was perfectly safe"
The story was told of Presiden. Lin
coins first visit to the penitentiary at
Springfield, Ill. An old criminal look
ing ont through the bars of his cell re-
marked:
"Well, Mr.. Lincoln, you and ought
to be posted on prisons we've seen all
there are in the country"
"Why, this is the first one ever WIS.,
ited," said Mr. Lincoln, and was aston
ished at the response:
But I've been in all the rest"
Probably the best tale was that of
Gov. Vance of Ohio. 1t was in the early
days of the States history, when there
were about a hundred convicts. On
coming into Office he paid visit to the
prison and ordered that every man there
he permitted to come up and speak to
him. The result was a perfect storm of
petitions for pardon-every man plead
ing innocence. One old and grizzled
"tough" stood apart and added nothing
to the clamor. The Governor called him
up:
"What are you in for?"
Stealing"
"Well, were you guilty." .
"Yes it's the way ! make my living"
The Governor went back to his Office
and pardoned the man. When remon-
strated with his only excuse was:
"Weli, / was afraid the thief would
contaminate those cther fellows"
The Osceola times., 1884-08-02
She Would -moke.
Boston Globe .


II was "bloomer" car rattling along
IN Washington street. II was scarcely
halffilled, with plenty of room ''forrard." !"
At Franklin square party of half doz-
en- LADIES' stood upon the crossing, pok-
ing their sunshades at the driver. The
car came to halt, and the urbane con-
ductor sn,ilinely alighted and assisted
his pas sengers to their seats. While he
was thus employed another lady ap-
preached the waiting car, and, unobserv-
ell by him, slipped into one of the rear
seats. The car started. and as the smil-
ING conductor returned TO his place on
the rear platform he discovered his new
passenger.
"Madam," said the conductor, no long
er smiling, "these rear seats are reserved
for smokers. You must 60 forward"
"Eor smokers, is it?"
The bell rang and the car came to a
stop.
ward. Come, the car is waiting"
San is it 90 forward j must?"
ayes. that's the rule. Come, hurry"
Six ears now formed Q procession in
the rear. Drivers were swearing, con-
ductors hurrying forward and passen-
gers were craning their necks out Of the
The Osceola times., 1884-08-02
How Camphor Is Made.

Camphor is made in Japan in this way:
After tree is felled TO the earth it is cut
up into chips. which are laid in a tub on
large iron pot partially filled with wa
ter, and placed over slow fire. Through
holes in the bottom of the tub steam
slowly rises, and, heating the chips,
generates oil and campnor. OF course
The tub with the chips has close
fitting cover. From t cover a barl-
boo pipe leads to succession of other
tubs with bamboo connections, and the
last of these tubs lis divided into two
compartments, one above the other, the
dividing floor being perforated with
small holes 10 allow the water and oil to
pass to the lower compartment. The
upper compartment is supplied with
straw layer, which catches and holds the
campbor in crystal in deposit as il passes
to the cooling process. The camphor is
then separated from the straw, packed
in wooden tubs, and is ready for the
market. The oil is used by natives for
Illuminating and other purposes.
The Osceola times., 1884-08-02
ITEMS OF INT EREST.

The big village of New Liberty, ILL
nois, made mistake in locating itself
too lose and low by river and there
foIe, is now moving itself collectively to
a site half mile dstan.
A proof of the decline of fanaticism in
France, it Is sald, is that Joseph Fabre,
a Deputy, has written glowing life of
Joan Of Arc. He proposes national
fete in her honor
Boston has fond mother who, seeing
her boy astride the rampant wooden lion
of merry -go-round. made him instantly
dismount; but she let him continue his
ride Oh the back of camel.
A Mobammedan zeminbar started
three years ago from district in the
north of the Punjaub and travelling on
foot via COnstantinople, Pesth and Ham
burg, reached London the other day.
HIS object was to invoke aid in some
land dispute.
In Queensland, immunity from pun
ishment induces the white men to think
nothing of taking the lives of natives,
and the latter are killed for stealing a
few pieces of tobacco, as was the case
with skipper at Dufaure Island. For a
trifling theft. he shot three men whom
he suspected.
When shooting at a cat do not hit
your wife. At Droylsden, in England,
Mrs. Egerton kept tame linnets in her
bath room, and observing a cat on the
window sill of the room, called her hus-
bands attention to 1t. He took on; his
gun into the garden. Just as his wife
moved to the window he pulled In. trig-
ger and she fell dead
At the Unitarian tonlcrence in Ber-
nardston, Mass. an address by clergy
man made excitement. He thinks that
there is nothing managed in such utter
disregard of true business principles as
the religious interest of this country.
He holds that every minister should
have at least $50 families in his congre-
cation; that church with that number
of families can be run for about So 800 a
year.
Immediately after the body had been
removed from scaffold, in Naples, the
people swarmed over the place, tearing
into pieces the cords which had bound
The criminal and breaking into fragments
the stool on which he had sat. Each
took away portion, in obedience TO the
superstition that any part of the cord Or
the chair of a prisoner who has suffered
death will bring the possessor good for
tune.
The inventory of the late Edouard
Dentu's collection of books and curiosi-
ties in Paris shows two million volumes
and twenty thousand manus ripts.
Among the things was found skull pre-
served in velvet case, and reported to
The Osceola times., 1884-08-02
The Engagement on.
New York Sun.

New York sun.
any love-" he said. "I have a heavy
burden on my mind tonight. There is
something that must say, which, as my
affianced wife, you should know"
"What is it, George?" she asked anx-
iously.
Il am victim to the demon of drink.
Strive as | may, cannot resist the temp
tation of liquor
"That will be all right in time, dear"
she replied hopefully. when ] am
your wife, my love and influence Will
bring about reform, ! am sure. Is that
all?"
"No Pm confirmed gambler.
dropped Sl3 last night at draw poker
"Ah. George, when we are married !
will make your home so pleasant and
cosy that YOU will never want to go out
at night without me-"
81 don't know. am also specula-
tor in stocks. In fact, during the past
week on Wall street lost every dollar
had in the world"
81 don't care for money! the young
woman then said, as she disentangted
herself from his embrace, but my hus-
band must be honorable and upright in
every way. ] can never consent to risk
my future with man addicted to drink
ing and card playing"
The Osceola times., 1884-08-02
A NEEDLES TRAVELS.
After . Journey Of Ten Years In
womsn's body Il rs Recovered.
New York Herald.

After Journey Of Ten Years In
woman's body Il rs Recovered.
New York Herald.
Ten years ago a woman residing in
Harlem, while walking across the floor
in her stocking feet, stepped upon a
needle, which entered her right foot be-
tween the instep and the joint of the
large toe. Several doctors tried to ex-
tract the needle, but it seemed to have
disappeared. The foot and leg swelled
to great size. and the woman was con-
fined 10 her bed for upward of three
months. Then one evening her daugh-
ter rushed up from the grocery beneath
and said that there were burglars in the
house. The mother jumped out of bed,
and the burglar had just time to get his
heels out of the back window before she
had got down the stairs and was after
him. When the doctor called that day
his patient WAS about, attending to her
work as she had done before she met
with the mishap. THAT run down the
stairs has cured me, do believe" she
said to the doctor, and the latter after
that time was a patient less.
II was but short time afterward.
however, that in lacing her shoe sharp
pain was found at the instep. This last
ed for several weeks, and then there was
pricking sensation in the calf of the
leg, which few months later was trans
ferred to the thigh. At the end of year
there was no further annoyance, and
the needle was soon forgotten, and did
not assert itself again for nine years. A
couple of weeks ago the woman felt a
sharp pain at the point of what the doc
tors call the ensiform cartilage, which is
l,cated Just at the lower termination OF
the breastbone. Hospital surgeons said
there was foreign substance there, and
when the needle incident of ten years
before was recalled and related to them
they advised an operation. The advice
was rejected, but Saturday last the pain
became so bad that physician in East
One e-Hundred-and- Eleventh street was
summoned. Just above and TO the right
of the umbilicus he found something
that evidently did not belong there. He
made halfinch deep incision about an
inch in length, inserted pair of nip
pers, and drew out-eye foremost
needle more than an inch long. 1t had
worked its way down some three inches
from where the pain was first experienc
ed.
When removed the needle was a.
smooth and as sharp as the day it wa
turned out from the factory, but wa
colored dark-blue, somewhat notified
The doctor has carried it in his pocket
book since Saturday, but although it ha
been carefully wrapped up it has rlstet
very much since it was extracted.
j A number of stories of the travels of ,
needle through the human system hav'
been published, but it is said that prob
ably not more than half a dozen are AL
thentic. It would not necessarily caus
death if the needle passed through veins
the lungs, or even the heart, in its errat
tic peregrinations through the body.
The Osceola times., 1884-08-02
An Ark kansaw Divorce Case.
Texas Siftings.

Several days ago young negro and
his wife appeared before Simon Patter-
son, a black knight of the rural Arkansaw
bench, and demanded divorce.
"Whut's de trouble, 'twixt yer?" ask
ed old Simon.
81 KANT lib wild her an she kain't lib
wild me-" replied the husband.
"Why KANT yer?"
"Cause she amt eddycated up ter my
standpint.'
"Ise better eddycated then he is.
Jedge, case ken read an he kain't,"
said the woman.
"Oh, she mout hab more book larnin'
den has, boss, but her knowledge amt
de kline whut suits de undersigned.
She ken spell cat an dog, but she KANT
spell billed cabbage ter suit me. Ebery
time comes to de house | finds dis
oman han'lin her book, but | doesn't
smell nuthin' bilin' in de pot"
"Ef yer wuster fetch su,hi in de
house, yer woul' smell hit bilin in de
pot" rejoined the wife.
"Oh, dat ain my lookout. DE 'oman's
duty, ez un'erstans de case, is to fur
nish suthin' ter eat. OATS whut mar
ried yer fur. KANT speck me tur keep
up de repertation o. de family an hustle
for bread. longs ter de s'cisty.'
MADAM, said the Justice, de case is
ergin yer. De Bible says dat er oman
mus mind whut her husband says. Ef
he tole yer ter put suthin in de pot. and
yer didn't do hit, why, den, yer's laid
yerself liable. MIR. Clerk, write out er
'vorce fur dis gennernan but doan' gin
one ter de lady.
The Osceola times., 1884-08-02
Points by PhysioRnomist.
Pail Mall Gazette.

A Physiognomist writes: "A scholar
ly person will have good length of brain
from the opening OF the ear to the root
Of the nose, and i'll be full all across the
brow. The mechanical man has wide
head at the temples upward and forward
of the ear The poet is expanded in the
upper part of the temples. The CONNER
cial man has broad head just forward
of the ears, where TIE desire for proper
ty is presented. The quarrelsome man
is broad above and behind the ears; such
men are inclined to be warlike, or very
forcble and energetic in business. The
pious and sympathetic person is devel-
oped in the top head. Those who have
a lordy, pround, dominating nature are
high at the crowd of the head. Those
who are social, l,warm-hearted, loving and
affectionate are largely developed in the
back part of the head, and the distance
from the opening Ut the ear b long
The Osceola times., 1884-08-02
Worse than MormOnism.
Texas Siftings.

talk about Mormonism." said Bulger,
4 don't see what right people have to
howl about il when such things as this
are permitted in Pennsylvania" and he
pointed his finger to an item in the pa
per he had in his hand.
"What is it?" inquired Sucker.
"Why, here it tells Of one man who
has married no less than | 800 women"
Incredible"
"But 1t is 80. His name is Mayes, and
he marries a new woman every few days
and yet the authorities don't interfere
"Horrible How does he evade the
law?'
He doesn't evade it. lie is a justice
of the peace. and his pace is q sort OF
Gretna Green for Ohio and West Virgin
IA runaway couples"
"Oh |" said Sucker, and then went off
muttering something about people being
too smart.
The Osceola times., 1884-08-02

windows and speculating as ITO the mean
ing of the delay.
"An' these seats are for smokes?"
"Yes, they are. Come, hurry"
"An' must move forrard or smoker
"Yes, you must"
"Begorra, then, an III smoke. Have
ye match?"
And the lady drew from her pocket a
black dudeen, which she proceeded to
light, and leaning back in her seat puff
ed contentedly away. The conductor
pulled the bell with energy and the
procession moved on, but 1t was fully
five minutes before he fully recovered
his breath.