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The Magnolia gazette. [volume] (Magnolia, Miss.) 1872-current, 1884-03-20
PERSONAL AND PoLIrTcAI.

POSTMASTER TIFFANY, of Benning-
ton, N. ", is missing, and Government Of
iicials are investigating the affairs Of his
office.
GENERAL GORDON recommends 20
behr Pasha to succeed himself as Governor
of the Soudan.
Oh the l1th the Senate ratified the
Mexican treaty.
On the llth the yacht Atalanta, with
Jay Gould on board, reached Havana.
1t is found that the accounts OF Tif-
fany, the fugitive Postmaster of Benning-
ton, VT, are several thousand dollars
short.
On the 1lth DR.. Mary Walker had an
alteration with a colored messenger at the
Capitol in Washington. The negro fed in
dismay.
In the Seventh District of South ar
olina, Robert Small received the nomina-
ton for Congressman, to succeed Mackay,
deceased
The California Democratic State Con-
vention will be held at Stockton, June 10.
WESLEY A. McPHERsoN and Williai
wright, street-car conductors, were eat 4
lined 500 in st. Louis, Mo-, on the 11th, fos
insulting two young ladies on the public
streets. They were sent up for six months
in default.
IHE so-called new testimony reported
70 have been discovered in relation to the
Fitz John Porter case proves to be fraud.
The Arkansas Democratic State Con
VentiOn is rnllad for lima %
oRRIN CARPENTER, on trial for the
murder Of zura Burns at Petersburg, ILL.,,
VIII rely on an alibi for his defense.
IHE situation of General Gordon at
khartoum is regarded as decidedly critical
oN the 18th George McFadden was
arrested in Sherman, Tex, charged with
completely in the Pacific Express robbery
in St. Louis, Mo.
LIE attention of District Attorneys is
called by Attorney-Ge Brewster tc
tne Federal laws regulating the shipment
Oh explosives, and he has directed that du,
vigilance be exercised to prevent such
snpments from being irregularly made
lnis IS to stop the infernalmachine bust
ness.
LIEUTENANT JOHN w. DANENHowEI
ana Miss Helen Sloan were married on the
L p at oswego, N. Y.
HE bill introduced by Representa-
i've Bland to stop the coinage of one ant
enfee-dollar gold pieces and to limit thu
coinage Of double eagles to twenty per cent
= tne bullion purchase will be reported
favorahly.
~ nus communication to the Secreta
y Of the Navy, Captain Mares, the Arcti
Explorer, expresses a belief that the chance
are good for finding Greely's party aliv
and safe.
oN the l4th Matt Lewis was hange,
:. :, o. Louis, Mo-, for the murder ofhis wifi
IN October, Js76.
oS the 18th Jay Gould sailed from
Hasana for st. Augustine, Fla.
The Magnolia gazette. [volume] (Magnolia, Miss.) 1872-current, 1884-03-20
TnE New York Assembly Commlttee

THE New York Assembly COMMITTEES
reported adversely on the bill designed to
protect newspaper dealers from libel suits
like that of Marie Prescott against the
American News Company for circulating
paper containing matter injurious to her.
THE monthly meeting Of the Western
Nail Association was held at Pittsburgh,
Pa, on the 18TH Trade was reported fair
ly good, stocks fair and prices maintained.
The card-rate remains unchanged.
A SUBCOMMITTEE of the Senate For
eign Affairs Committee has recommended
a law authorizing the President, in case our
products are arbitrarily excluded by any
foreign power, to retaliate by excluding
their products.
The authorities of Vienna exercise a
close scrutiny in case of all packages ar
irving from England, America and Swift
zerland. Socialist intrigues are continually
brought to light.
derer who styles himself "Wild Bill OF the
Prairie"
THIRTY-oNE students graduated at the
Womens' Medical College of Pennsylvania
ON the 18th.
AT Dubuque, Ia, mass-meeting Of
Catholic and Protestant pastors, held on
the 18th, protested against the bill pending
TO tax church property.
THE freshmen and sophomores Of
Williams College adopted the following
resolution on the 18th; "In view of the re-
cent disorders in the college occasioned bv
the limitation of personal rights, we, as a
-.
itation."
ON the 18th the French occupied Bac
Mini. The Chinese fed in the direction Of
Thainghuien. The French had seventy
wounded.
The Pacific Express Company having
recovered its Tiller the presumption is that
it will endeavor to steer clear of such en-
barrassing accidents in future.
Oh the 18th General Graham cap
tured osman Digna's camp after short
battle. The British loss was 40 in killed
and wounded. The rebels lost 2,40).
SEVERAL witnesses testified in the
Carpenter trial at Petersburg, ILL.,, on the
18th to defendants intimacy with the MUIR
dered girl, zura Burns.
On the 18th the anniversary meeting
of the National Woman's Foreign Mission
AIRY Society took place in Philadelphia.
Pa. The number of auxiliary societies was
reported at $3.50, an increase OF 3}2 over
the previous year. The number of mem
bers is 5S6,632, an increase of 1861.
AN indianapolis butcher discovered
on the 18th q lusus naturm in an unborn
calf. The animal has the body of the beast.
while its head is alleged to be a perfectly.
shaped image of that of a human being.
Hair has grown along the back of the neck
but the skull is bare like that of an infant
SENECA MILLER, one OF the men who
threw dynamite cartridges into the house
of Pawling, at toughkeepsie, n. r., has
been convicted of murder in the second de-
gaee, and ano her of the gang Immediately
pleaded guilty.
THE forfeiture of the Oregon Centrs
land grant has been agreed to by the Sen
ate Committee on Lands.
The Magnolia gazette. [volume] (Magnolia, Miss.) 1872-current, 1884-03-20

THE Legislature of Massachusetts on
tn 18th rejected the bill extending munich
pal franchise to women.
PRENTICE TuLER, the St. Louis Ex-
press robber, was arrested in Milwaukee,
Wis, on the 18th, and the bulk OF the stolen
money was recovered. An alleged accom-
plice named McFadden has been arrested
in Sherman, Tex, and both will soon be
sdoing time"
On the 18th Archbishop Gibbons ar
rived at Baltimore from Rome. He declined
a public reception.
The Senate passed the bill to reinstate
Fitz John Porter on the 18th, 36 to 20, and it
now goes to the President for approval.
I. J. DRTRICHs, teller of the La
clede Bank of st. Louis, No, who was re-
Gently given leave of absence by reason
OF i'll health, appears to have carried up
wards Of 700 away with him.
RESOLUTIONS were adopted by the
Western wool growers, in convention at
Denver, Col, on the 18th, opposing tariff
reduction.
SEVERAL Nihilists have recently been
arrested in Russia, among them the author
Kriemenko, high official of the Ministry
of Ways and Communications, and five
students.
On the 18th Bismarck made a speech
to the Reichstag explaining his position re-
garding the Lasker resolutions.
The Magnolia gazette. [volume] (Magnolia, Miss.) 1872-current, 1884-03-20
cRIMEs ANp cAusUALTIEs.

On the 9Th snow-slide in Little Cot
tonwood Canyon, U. T., swept away the
works of the new Emma mine and killed
dozen persons.
OK the 9Th City Marshal Van Doren,
of Wilmington, o., was shot dead by a
drunken man whom he was taking TO Jail.
On the 11th sleeping car, with fif-
teen passengers, was upset by broken
rail on the Michigan Central Railroad, but
nobody was seriously injured.
In East st. Louis, ILL.,, the Advance
elevator burned the evening of the 18th
with 100000 bushels of grain, about one
hundred freight cars and a dozen frame
buildings.
NEAR Alpine Pass, Col, snow-slide
occurred on the 18th, which swept away all
the buildings at Woodstock together with
seventeen people, all but two of whom were
killed.
On the 18th fire destroyed twenty
three buildings at Allegan, Mich.
OK the 18th freight collision, near
Newberg, N. ", resulted in the burning of
ten cars of refined oil.
OK the 18th five laborers were injured
and one killed by a fall of coal in the Avon
dale shaft at Wilk esbarre, Pa.
On the 18th $4,000 worth of naphtha
exploded at Hunters Point. L. l.
By coal mine explosion at Poca-
hontas, Va, on the 18th one hundred aud
sixty lives were lost. 1t was one of the
most appalling disasters on record.
By the fire in Grand Rapids, Mich,
on the 18th, two lives were lost and q fire
man was made blind.
THE leading inventors of the country
have issued a call for mass Convention
to take action to prevent pernicious legisla
tion by Congress. The Convention will b'
held in Music Hall, in Cincinnati, Marcel
%. Responses from all parts ofthe United
States and Territories, 1t is reported
already show that an attendance of 300
may be expected.
The Magnolia gazette. [volume] (Magnolia, Miss.) 1872-current, 1884-03-20
NUMBER 5.

There are no hopes for the entombed
miners whose families are left penniless
aud
The Magnolia gazette. [volume] (Magnolia, Miss.) 1872-current, 1884-03-20

After a Brief Season as n Roaming Capital
list the Pacific Express Robber Safely In
the Clutches of the Law--An Interview
With the Thief.
Morning journal and courier., 1884-04-14
Tennessee.

I'm a Death Trap-A PeddIer Butchered
 Before His Wtfs's Eyes.
 NASHVILLE, April 13.-Myer Friedman, Russian dry goods and notion peddler, fell into death trap set for him by Rssassins at o'clock last night and was literally carved to pieces with butcher knife and beaten to death with 8 boulder. The trap was formed by placing stones on the steps leading from Friedman's room to the front street door and placing two eighty pound boulders against the door 50 it could not be opened from the outside. A lamp hanging in the hallway was blown out and as Friedman came tumbling down stairs over the stones on the steps two men attacked him, one with butcher knife and the other with boulder, and cut him In six places and beat his head in with 8 stone. The left side of the scalp was almost cut from his head. One rib was cut entirely through; the left lung was cut in two; the skull was fractured; an artery was cut in his shoulder and hand, besides other death wounds. Friedman's young wife heard him fall and scream, My God, am gone" as the assassins struck him, and hastened to the rained down on the head of her husband. She screamed while the fends were doing their bloody york and the crowd hastened to the front door, but could not get in because it was braced with boulders. As soon as the crowd com- msnced hallooing 'Murderl" the assassins ran out the back way, jumped over a stone fence and escaped. There is not the slight- est clue to their identity except bloody foot prints left by one of them on the floor of the hall showing 8 slender, we'll shaped shoe. Friedman had no enemies as far as known.
Morning journal and courier., 1884-04-14
Virginia.

Getting Dat The Bodies-FIfty-five Tak-
 en Out Up to The Present.
 PGsAHoNTAs, April 18.-Fifty five bodies have been brought out up to the present time, 26 being recovered to-day. Most of these were as badly mutilated as those aI- ready described. At o'clock this morning twenty-eight bodies were found in the fan entry. The explanation of their being all to- gether as furnished by miner who escaped is that on the night of the explosion the sir in the mines became so foul that the men at work were oppressed by it and stopped work in order to go out and get some fresh air. When they reached the above entry the siE current from the fan was strong and they proposed to lie down and rest ahwlle and then go back to work He and few others went on and gained the outside in safety, the others were all killed by the explosion a few minutes after. This vein of coal, which is higher than the surrounding coal fields, haa evidently been thrown up by some rpheaval and the opinion of Captain Welch, skiIlful prospector and mine engineer, is that when this took place large cavity was formed which having become full of gas and being blasted into produced the terrific explosion which caused so much destruction. If this be the case, he says, there will be no further explosion as the gas nest probably found full vent. Of the bodies recovered to day sixteen were Identified as follows: Emil Goodman, c. 2. Mills, M. Jewell, B. Am dros, Frank Solka. Peter RoGgendorf, w. Oummorford, Andre Futo E~hite1 and John Little. Ru<rows, Silas Bacon, Ben Henly, James Campbell, Creed Rurks and ]. V. Yatt (coloredl The twenty-eight- bodies found together in the fan entry have. not yet been brought ous, but will be in the morning.
Morning journal and courier., 1884-04-14
Sent to an Asylum.

Mr. Edwin H. Arnold. of Hartford, is Sent
 by Relatives to New Hampshire In-
 sane Retreat - How Ills Release Was
 Effected.
 A bold attempt to shut up a wealthy man of Hartford in an insane asylum has just come to light. The man is Edwin H. Arnold. Nr. Arnold has had domestic difficulties for several years and about 8 month ago began drinking heavily. On Wednesday, March 18th, his son called two Hartford physicians to the house. and after brief examination they gave certificate of insanity. An off cer took Mr. Arnold to Concord that alters noon. The certificate reed that he was ''in- sane and fit subject for treatment at the New Hamps shire Asylum for the Insane" but it was worthless, not having been sworn to by the physicians. Subsequently an applica- ton was made to the Probate court for the appointment of oonservator. his relatives desiring to secure control of his property in- cluding fine residence grist mill and black smith shop The hearing was set for Wednesday of this week, but mean time some friends of Arnold, who believed that 8 wrong had been done, secured counsel in his sbehslf, and the hear ing was postponed. The lawyer engaged promptly went to Concord and brought MT. Arnold here on Thursday. Mir. Arnold claims that his two brothers and his wife couspired against him, and proposes to bring suit for damages against the former. A council of six physicians was held last even ing and the result is that Arnold WAS set at liberty. The most suspicious circumstances telling against his relatives Is that he was sent to a distant State when there is an asy- lum of good reputation in Hartford, where he would have been received and well taken care of
Morning journal and courier., 1884-04-14
PENNSYLVANIA.

Escaped From k1er Shackles-Ths Re-
 markable Story Told by Q Betrayed Gi1I.
 SCRANTON, April 13.-A girl named Sadie
 McClanaghan escaped yesterday afternoon
 from back room on Spruce street, where
 she had been chained to the floor for nearly three weeks by quack calling himself W. s.
 Madden. She made her way to the Susque-
 hannah hotel, where she begged Mrs. Car
 penter, wife of the hotel proprietor, to save
 her. Madden, following in close pursuit,
 dashed into the hotel and seized his tremb- ling victim. The girl breke from his grasp and, clasping her arms around Mrs. Carpen-
 ter, begged her piteously, 'sFor Gods sake save me; don't let him take me back again or he will kill me-" Madden was compelled to go away without her, and was arrested shortly after at his office, where the chains and locks with which he had bound her were found.
 The girl appeared against him before May or Beamish and told sad story. She said she had known him for two years. He be- trayed her, and promised that as soon as he secured divorce from his wife, who is iv- 1 ing at Altoona, he would marry her. Sadie WAS then living with her sister in LsWistown. Madden wanted her to come to Scranton, and after much urging she consented. Find ing that there was no sign of a divorce she wanted to go away, but this made him angry, and he threw her down in his office, put chains on her ankles and fastened one to staple in the office and the other to bed. Whenever she
 raised an outcry he jumped on her and choked her until she thought she would die He nailed down the windows, and often left her chained to the floor all night. Her food consisted of sandwiches and pieces of bread
 and butter which he brought home from the neighboring saloons in his pocket. Some 1 times he came home drunk, and then he beat her. Yesterday afternoon he took of her chains for a short time and she rushed into { the street and escaped.
 Madden at first denied her statement but finally admitted having chained her to the floor for fear she would go away. In default of bail he was committed to the county jail There is an intense feeling against him, and
 threats of lynching were freely indulgsd in on the streets He is about thirty five years old, and came to Scranton little over year ago in company with one Gibson. and he has been practising quackery here ever since His victim is g farmer's daughter, about twenty years old.
Morning journal and courier., 1884-04-14

RF respectable girl situation to do general SA0 houseWork Apply at her present place for bHo aAya, 1z9 BIT. JOHN STREET.
Morning journal and courier., 1884-04-14
DEATHS. .

ALEBY-In this city. April 12. Mary J. Aleby, wife of Daniel N. Aleby, aged 51 years. Funeral from the residence of her brother 1n-laW, Edward Burlington, No. S9 Union street. on Tues day at o'clock.
 LoWELL-In this city, at IF York street, early on the morning of Easter day, Ellen J., widow of the late Captain Jchn P. Lowell Funeral Tuesday afternoon at o'clock from Trinity chapel, George street. Please omit flowers. Waterbury and Winsted papers copy. TOWNSEND-At her homo, New Haven, Conn, April I3, 1884, Maria Theresa, daughter Of the late Epaphras Clark of MjddletoWn, Conn, and wife of James M. Townsend, Notice of funeral herestter. MATTHEWS-On Eater eve, at the residence of her Ron-in-lav, the Rev Dr. Beardsley, Ms. Jane Mat thews, widow of the Rev. Edmund Matthews of St. Smnn's Island. Georgia. aged 8i yeArs and A dAya Funeral from StsTheHaAe' church, Wednesday after noon at 2 o'clock.
 BRooKETT--I Forth Haven, Sunday, April 1s Ros- well Crockett.
 Funeral Tuesday, April 15. at 1:3n p. Relatives and friends invited without fur ther notice. Register and Union p copy. FOsTER-In this city. Friday, April Il, Miss Jane Newell Foster, daughter of the late Eleazer and Mary Pierrepont FoAter in the 73d year of her age Funeral from her late residence, 73 Elm street, Mon dsy afternoon, Epril 14 at o'clock TUTILE-In Hartford, April H. suddenly, John Int tle Of this city, aged 5S years months ana IS daya.
Morning journal and courier., 1884-04-14
THE SOUTH.
West Virginia.

Ninety Days Without Siaep-A Remarka-
 bIe Case of Insomnia.
 WHEELING, April 13,-A most remarkable case of insomnia has just come to light ia this city. Joseph Saulsburz, 8 ship carpenter, about sixty years of age, has not slept an hour at time, nor more than ten hoars in all, since January 1. Ofherwise he seems sound and healthy, and works every day at his trade. When these facts first became known his aoquaintsnces doubted his state ment, thinking that the matter was 8 dodge to gain notoriety; but when Joseph and his family persisted that such was the case it was determined that two persons should watch with him every night after his work. It was done for five nights in succession, and during that time he manifested no desire to sleep, spending the night reading and smoking and resuming his work in the morning apparently as fresh and invigorated as though he had just risen from sound nights sleep. Since this test was made others have watched him closely; among them several physicians, who are at loss to account for this remarkable phenomenon. It is safe to say that it has been at least ninety days since Saulsbury's insomnia commenced and all this time he has not been in bed.
Morning journal and courier., 1884-04-14
Thomas O'Brien & Co.,. ,eaI Estate Agent and Loan Office.

500 CHAPEL STREET,
 Money ts loan at 5 and per cent
 AS.as FOR SALF-A two family House. 13 rooms. ESiifIS all modern improvements Ward street. for EfsI5 S5 300. A small house and large lot Vernon street SS, ,5oO two family house with good lot on Daggett street for $S 200 cheap large house, lot 6Oxl48 Chapel stl eet, for g, 500. Lot Oak street, 40x16o, with two houses, for $3 GOO. two family houses Cedar and Spring street. from 300 to S, 500. Nice tenement, rooms, Ward street. for Sl5 per month. Good tenements in different parts of the city. Houses rented and rents collected Office open every evening. a7
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Morning journal and courier., 1884-04-14
Lareer Sale of stamps.


 WASHINGTON, April 1s.-A statement pre- pared at the Postoffice department shows that whiie the revenue for the quarter ending March 31 is less than tbat of the correspond ing quarter in she preceding year, the issue of two-cent stamps exceeded by twenty seven per cent. the combined issue of two and three cent stamps in that quarter. The large increase in the number of pieces mailed is attributed at the department to the fostering influence of the two cent rate. While allowance was made in the estimates for the normal increase fabout eight per osnt. ), and the benefits to accrue from the substitution of letters for postal cards, this ln- crease in the number of stamps is viewed with qualification at the department. The issue of postal cards has fallen of about thirteen million pieces since the inauguration ot the two cent rate.
Morning journal and courier., 1884-04-14
An Appeal for IMPROVED CATTLE CAR

Order Book at Frank s. PIatts ssed Store. STA snd S76 State street. mSI 6w
Morning journal and courier., 1884-04-14
THE OLD WORLD.
Great Britain.

The Last Illness of Charles Reade.
 LONDON, April 13.-Ths details of the death of MT. Charles Reade which have been made public disclose the fact that he had been suffering intensely for several months. The naladies with which he was afflicted were emuhysema and enlargement of the liver. From the first diagnosis by Sir Joseph Fayrer, physician to the Duke of Edinburgh, and DTS. WiIks and Chapman. there has Teen only faint hope of his recovery Hence his relatives Q month ago urged his return from Cannes, so that his death might happen in Enoland. From state of acute suffering he psssed on Sunday last to comatose con dition, from which he never recovered. Dnripe the early part of his illness he was iu the fullest enjoyment of his faculties, and
Morning journal and courier., 1884-04-14
MOVEMENTS OF STEAMERS
NEw YoRK April 1s.-Arrived, the City of 1EontreaJ from Liverpool, the City of Para from AspiRwau
 TELEGRAPHIO JOTTINGs.

The critics of the London press consider Lawrence Barrett as unable to express deep passion, though his acting is praised as clever and conscientious.
 Hon. Charles R. Mclean. one of the most prominent citizens of East Boston and mep- Der of the governors council died yesterday afternoon, aged sixty.
 Champion John l.. Sullivan received an Easter present Saturday in the form of 2 bouncing son of eleven pounds who is to bear the name of John L., jr. Infant and mother ara doing well.
 Auguste Leavsr, aged sixty, draw tender of the Fitchburg railroad bridge over Charles river, fell overheard last night and was drowned. He had Eavs5 sight pera6ns from drowning in seven years service.
Morning journal and courier., 1884-04-14
Ohio.
Murdered In His Wife,s Arms.

DAYTON, April 13.-At a late hour last night William Turner and John Behn had a dispute in Bohn's saloon, when Turner drew a revolver. Mrs. Bohn with a baby in her arms rushed between the two men and begged Turner to spare her husbands life Turner fired on the family group and sent a bail crashing through the brain of the fath- CT, who fell in his wife s arms dying Turn CT was arrested.
Morning journal and courier., 1884-04-14

First Of 8 Series of Open-Air Meetings.
 The first of & series of open-air meetings was held yesterday afternoon at half-past o'clock at the corner of Minor street and Lafayette Place under the direction of the New Haven Board of City Missions, repre- senting the evangelical churches of this city. The meeting was conducted by MT. Perry, of the Yale seminary, assisted by Messrs. Bow der and Ellis, of the seminary, and Rev. Mir. Mossman, the city missionary. In the even- ing Mir. Mossman preached at the Bethany chapel on ''The Living Christi" and MT. Mott, of the seminary, conducted the singing It is the purpose of the Board of Missions to continue these meetings and to add others in different parts of the city, as people of the churches are found ready to assist in sustain- ing them.