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The Magnolia gazette. [volume] (Magnolia, Miss.) 1872-current, 1884-04-24

al AtoWSaSpief 4 ast tthpaOycS Ol IOur luI-
naces have struck for an advance in wages.
A CONTEST is to be made over the will of
the late Mrs. V. G. Stone, of Boston, which
gives $780, 900 to charitable institutions.
TEN THOUSAND colored men were in line
on the 10th, at the celebration of the eman,
cipation anniversary in Washington.
CONSIDERABLE excitement prevails at
Shelby, Mich, over recent discoveries OF
gold in that vicinity in paying quantities.
1t is found on bedrock, at depth of eighty
feet.
THE bill to prohibit the issue Of Treasury
notes of less than s. and 20 provide for the
issue Of one, two and three dollar silver
certificates will be reported favorably to
Congress.
On the 10th in bogus butter prosecution
in st. Louis, Mo-, before Judge Noonan,
testimony was given to the effect that deal.
ers could obtain manufactured butter with
any desired percentage of foreign fat in it
and that the transactions in the imitation
are on an enormous scale.
THE Arkwright Club of cotton manu-
facturers at a meeting in Boston on the
10th, resolved to reduce working hours in
May and June ten per cent.
THE Troy IN. W Molders' Union has ac.
cepted reduction Of twenty per cent,
and all the foundries will start up at once,
after deadlock of two months.
Oh the 10th the Queen of Tahati arrived
in New York, en- route for home.
DAMAGING freshets are reported from
Maine. Booms and bridges have been
washed away, and many mills have been
compelled to stop.
On the 10Th the fourteenth annual meet
ing Of the Women's Board of Foreign Mis-
sions of the Presbyterian Church began
its sessions in New York.
THE people of Manitoba are threatening
secession in good earnest.
A POOLING plan is under consideration by
the National Flint and Lime Glass Associa-
tion.
A CASE of cholera resulting fatally was
reported on the 17th as having occurred on
British troop-ship in the Suez Canal.
Mexico is trying to effect loan of t20,-
100000 with the Franco Egyptian Bank.
THE coal companies in the anthracite re-
gion have decided to restrict production
during the year.
THE California wheat crop IL is estimated
will be sixty per cent greater than last
year.
A GORDON has been formed by the United
States Navy around Key West to prevent
the sailing of any more filibusters.
AT Braddock, Pa, on the 18th, serious
riot occurred between Hungarian and Pol
ish rolling-mill hands. Citizens turned out
and quelled the riot.
ON the 18th the Senate Committee on
Commerce indorsed the Presidents recon-.
mendation for dismissal of the Key West
Collector on account Of sympathy with the
Cuban insurgents.
NAVAL officers may carry pretty high
hand over the men on Arctic expeditions,
but the sailors take vigorous revenge when
they get before Congressional committee.
CONTINUED activity prevails among the
Fenianagents in Paris, who are said to re-
ceiye considerable supplies of money from
America. The English police claim to
have made substantial discoveries.
The Magnolia gazette. [volume] (Magnolia, Miss.) 1872-current, 1884-04-24

Atciiison and Vicinity Deluged by n Storm
of Unprecedented Seyerity-HeaVy Losses
by the Flooding OF Easements and the
sweeping Away Of Buildings and Loose
Property.
ATCHIsoN, KAN, April 10.
A fearful rain fell here Thursday night
Old inhabitants say such a storm was
never before known in Kansas. It began
to fall at $50 and for nearly an hour IL
came down in a food and was accom-
panied by fierce thunder and lightning.
The streets Of the city were running
streams from curb TO curb In fifteen min
utes. The roar Of the storm as 1t descend
ed upon the earth resembled mill-dam,
and, TO add to the confusion, several
houses were struck by lightning
and set on fire, The creeks were beyond
their banks In a very few minutes, and
White Clay Greek, which flows through
the center of the city, was an angry
torrent, forty feet deep, and spreading
In some localities 800 yards wide. The
stream was never known to rise TO such
a height before. Dwelling houses which
have for years stood high and dry many
feet above the greatest flood were sur
rounded by the water, and in many
cases = caught In the current
and carried down the stream.
Occupants of houses in low-lying grounds
had TO fee for safety, abandoning their
household goods TO be sweptaway. Num-
erous highway bridges are gone and many
more damaged. So far as reported, the
railroads do not suffer The merchants
suffer heavy losses by flooded cellars and
easements, and manufacturers by the ma
terinl carried away,
While the rain was very heavy the great
food in White Clay was no doubt caused
by waterspout which evidently broke
west of the city. The damage by
lightning was unimportant, The
Baptist Church, the barn Of
DR. Linley and dwelling-house in the
northwest part OF town and barn in
East Atchison were struck and the latter
burned down. Many narrow escapes are
reported, but DO loss Of life. The dam
age TO property can not now be estimat-
ed, but 1t will certainlysbe many thous'
gnds.
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PERSONAL AND poLIrICAL.


INFORMATION has reached the Navy De-
partmsnt that a rumor prevailed at st.
Johns, N, f., that the Greely party had
been rescued from mass of floating ice by
the crew of a whaling schooner.
The Crown Prince of Austria has gone
on visit to Turkey.
CARDINAL LEDoCHowsKI has resigned the
Archbishopric of Posen. The Pope has ac-
cepted the resignation.
IT transpires that the defalcatiou of
Church, the Treasurer of Troy, N. Y, ex-
ceeds $4,000.
THE President has appointed Chas. E.
Coon, of New York, to succeed John c.
New as Assistant Secretary of the Treas
ury.
II was the crew Of a sealer and not the
freely party who were recently rescued
from an ice foe.
Ell MAnDI has issued proclamation in
which he urges the tribes to blockade
all roads and push the siege of Khartoum
as religious duty.
On the 10Th Minister Lowell represented
American colleges at the ceremonies attend
ing the celebration of Edinburgh University
tercentenary,
COMPTROLLER KNOX will embark in the
banking business May 1.
oN the 10th, the Pennsylvania Republi-
can Convention instructed for Blaine and
Lincoln.
Or, LAWS, of Cornell University, is in
Kansas investigating the cattle plague.
On the 10Th, Thos. A. Hendricks arrived
at indianapolis after four months' trip in
Europe.
a BANKING firm in Washington has pre-
lerred charges of fraud against Brigadier-
General D. G. Swain.
1t is reported that Stanley is meditating
an expedition across the African continent
from Congo to the Soudan.
The Republicans of Illinois on the 10Th
nominated Richard G. (Dick) Oglesby for
0oVernor and N. Q. Smith for lieutenant
Governor.
WEN. BLISS, of Boston, and Sherman S.
Sewett, Of Buffalo, are the new men in the
new York Central directory.
oN the 10th the West Virginia Demo-
craue State Convention adopted resolu-
dent.
IN The contested election case Of Farrell
Ssalnst Paul, from Virginia. the House
Committee on Elections will report in ia.
vor of Farrell.
n, lHE removal'of Collector Wickers of Key
vest IS recommended by the President for
eolusIon with the filibusters.
GENERAL GORDON, writing under date Of
Aprii :, indicated that he was in no i'm.
meulate danger owing to dissensions in the
enemy's camp.
IN card published by General Badeau
~ s,ates that his resignation was not de-
sAsu Oy the Government at Washington
ana that the Captain-Geueral of Cuba had
oppressed thanks for his course as Consul.
NasAER PAsHA has declined the post
y assistant Governor Of the soudan.
nAIEMAN, the Washington banker, has
Swain. esS Ss''s' -
an tNcE FREDERICK WILLIAM OF Prussia
Council. - ''-S ~s'''''
~ Tue nth proclamation was issued
freely party. '-
The Magnolia gazette. [volume] (Magnolia, Miss.) 1872-current, 1884-04-24
MAGNOLIA, MISSISSIPPI, THURSDAY, APRIL a. 1884,

On the 10Th Mrs Adeline Green, Of North
Carolina, died at Bloomington, ILL.,, at the
residence of her niece, the wife of the Hon.
David Davis.
UNDER instructions of the Court, Sheriff
Davidson Of New York, on trial for frauds,
was acquitted.
The departure Of Emperor William for
Wiesbaden has been deferred on account
of the Empress illness.
MINISTER LOWELL and NJ. De Lesseps re-
ceived the degree LII. d. at the Edinburgh
University tercentenary.
A CONSULTATION has been held by Gen.
eral Terry and General Sheridan regard
ing the proposed concentration of military
posts in Dakota.
THE Democratic Association Of Indiana
in Washington, d. c., formally announces
McDonald's candidacy for the Presidential
nomination.
MILE CoLoMBIER, the writer of the book
"Sarah Barnum," has been committed for
trial in Paris on charge of outraging pub
lie morals.
THOUGH the Star.route trial resulted in
an acquittal, Attorney General Brewster
thinks it was not without its usefulness in
soaring the jobbers away from the Post
office Department.
On the 18th the House Committee ON For.
eign Affairs tSok up the claim of John E,
Wheelock for redress for outrages perpe-
trated by an officer of Venezuela, and the
opinion is expressed that measures more
vigorous than diplomatic correspondence
will be necessary to secure Justice.
THE Republicans of Tennessee on the
18th indorsed President Arthur's admins.
tration, but gave no instructions to the Ma.
tional delegates.
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CRIMEs ANp cAusuALTIEs.

THE United States and Brazil Mail Steam
ship Company's steamer, Reliance, is re-
ported lost.
AT Naples, Italy, drunken soldier on
the 14th killed five of his comrades and
wounded three others by shooting them in
their dormitory.
On the 14th fire-damp explosion oc-
Cured in colliery near Elizabeth, Pa,
killing two men and injuring others.
THE conference of Osman Digna with
the sheiks friendly to the British failed to
produce any pacific result.
A DOUBLE lynching occurred in Breathitt
County, KY, ON the 14th, and more blood
shed is likely to follow.
On the 10Th train ran into washout
near Ackworth, Ca, killing the mail
weigher, engineer and fireman.
THE West Virginia squatters who re-
Gently fired on surveying party have
served the County Assessor in the same
way aud killed his horse. A force will be
sent into the mountains to subdue the re-
bellion.
WADswoRTH, New, was totally de-
stroyed by fire on the 15th.
AT Grand Rapids, Mich, the wall of
Hubbard's hardware store, recently
burned, fell on the 10th. during heavy
gale, and crushed an adjoining dwelling
occupied by Daniel Affeldt. Mrs. Affeldt,
three-year-old daughter and boarder
named Murphy were killed.
On the 18th, great confagration was re,
ported at Rangoon, British Burmah.
NEAR Newark, Pa, on the 18th, freight
wreck resulted in the death of a man who
was stealing ride.
Lorenzo DIMMIcK, of the firm of Crosby
s. Dimmick, Buffalo, n. Y, is under three
charges of larceny. The amount involved
Is over 100000.
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A RAID ON TUE BEARS.
A Party Of Chicago Provision Men Make n
Raid on the Bears in the Wheat Pit and
Get Away with a Huge "ScaIp"-CIeYeI
Cudahy.



CHICAGO, ILL.,, April 10.
Have the Milwaukee and the Hobbs
crowd sold their wheat? everybody in
quired yesterday. At first the little
traders thought they had; on Wednesday
they were sure they had. Yesterday most
people admitted that they knew nothing
about it. There were some very strong
buyers in the wheat pit in the morn
ing. The opening was weak. May
wheat at one time selling
down to eighty-three and scven-eighths
cents. The weather was fine and the
feeling decidedly hearish; all at once
there was metamorphosis. The scalp
ers, who had been disputing over eighths
and quarters, suddenly dropped their
haggling. They all turned buyers, and
anxious buyers, too. They did not stand
on small fractions, but in twinkling bid
the price up from eighty-three and seven
eights cents for May to eighty-five and a
half cents.
ALL WANTED IT.
From being very uncertain and even
little bearish the temper at once became
very bulllsh Everybody wanted wheat.
The shorts became frightened. The fel-
lows who havs been persistent bulls dur
ing the thirty-cent decline, and who were
on the point Of giving up hope, whirled
about and acted as II now finally the ad-
vance had begun, and that unless the ut
moft speed was used the stuff would ad-
va(ce too fast and get away from them.
TIE cause for this sudden conversion was
aiscalp successfully made by a provision
dcowd presumably acting under the
direction Of Cudahy. When wheat was
at its lowest early in the morning
crowd Of provision brokers made their
appearance and quietly picked up about
one million bushels Of wheat. The fig
ures advanced under this buying, and
continued to advance long after the buy
ing ceased, under the influence Of the
purchasing of the shorts, who had
taken fright The theory last night was
that the wheat bought by tie provis-
ion traders In the forenoon at s4G.
and thereabouts was all sold out
at above s5c. 1t is set down
as huge, successful scalp by that
very cleYer operator, Cudahy.
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CURIOUS PROCEEDINGS.

One OF tho Berncr Jury Relates the Suspio.
ious Tactics Employed to Bring About n
Verdict of slaughter--Foreman shaw
And Three others Placed in an UnenvI-
able Light.
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A KANSAS STORM.

Atciison and Vicinity Deluged by Storm
of Unprecedented Severity-Heavy Losses
by the Flooding OF Easements and the
sweeping Away Of Buildings and Loose
Prnnerfv.
The Magnolia gazette. [volume] (Magnolia, Miss.) 1872-current, 1884-04-24

Dallas Visited by Destructive storm-A
SchOol-HOuse DemOllahed and n Number
OF It's Inmates Injured-POrtlcns Of the
City Flooded.
Chariton courier. (Keytesville, Chariton County, Mo.) 1878-current, 1884-07-25
Buy with Your Own Money.

We can not refrain from talking a
little plain English to our friends in
the cattle business hereabouts. There
has been series of blunders all
along the line. The rapid advance
in values had the effect of unbalanc-
ing the whole country. The boys
knew each other, and had SO much
confidence in the integrity of the
average cattle man that they did not
hesitate to endorse notes for all their
friends. This thing has gone on
until there is a world of good paper
out, but it must all be paid. The
buying of lands made the majority
of ralsers debtors. Now that times
are tightening up and pay day is
about here, the fallacy of the IN
dorsing system is becoming appar-
ent. You must stand by each other
to the bitter end now that you are in
a boat, but wipe out these notes as
fast as possible by the sale of prop
erty, and when you are once out of
the woods see to it that you keep
out. Stock cattle at S25 per head
are good property if they are paid
for with your own money and you are
not indorser on some other mans
paper. Bnt they are dear at $15 a
head if you have to borrow the money
at one and one-half or two per cent,
and in return for the favor of in
dorsing you have to place your name
on your friends note. As long as
you are borrowers you are under OBJ
legations to those who help you. The
only safe way is to go slow, and let
the 500 COWS grow 5000 by the nat
ural process. You may not be called
a "buIlionaire," but you will have
better cash balance when everything
is squared by the trial sheet, and
your sleep at night will be of a
sweeter and more beneficial charac-
ter. We repeat, by buying cattle
with your own money You can scarce
Iy pay too high a price, but if you
are buying with the banks money
don't buy.-Henrietta (Texas)
Shield.
Chariton courier. (Keytesville, Chariton County, Mo.) 1878-current, 1884-07-25
Halnden.

Not seeing anything in your
wide-awake paper of late from this
thriving borough, / will send you a
few notes.
On the evening of the 18th inst,
we were visited by severe storm,
which carried destruction in its path,
Heavy peals of thunder, vivid flashes
of lightning and vast amount of
hail, accompanied by considerable
wind, which leveled the uncut oats
and meadows to the ground and lit
orally tore the corn into strings.
The new granary of A. Brown was
torn into atoms, removing it some
SIX rods. We can not at this writ
ing give full details of the fearful
work of this terrible storm.
Things are on the boom here. A
new store has just been built by the
grangers, near their hall at Hamden.
Bring on your money and exchange
for goods.
-1he holiness people mad q ceie-
bration in the pasture of Henry
Brewer, beginning on the 4th inst,
and continuing three days.
WILDERNESS.
-LATER-We learn that many of
the oats fields will not be cut on ac-
count of the fearful loss of grain and
fallen condition.
One year ago we were visited
by one of the worst storms known
here for many years. Perhaps this
time we were too proud of our fine
crops. We are sure of good only
when we get it.
-Healtn is good.
Mrs. Mclaughlin and Mrs. A.
Brown.spent several days recently
among friends at Salisbury. w.
Chariton courier. (Keytesville, Chariton County, Mo.) 1878-current, 1884-07-25
The Power Of Music.

The following clipping taken from
the Washington Star will, no doubt,
awaken in the minds of many old
soldiers similar incidents, all to
memory dear:
''Talking about the power of mu-
sic, think one of the happiest Incl
dents which / remembered occurred
during the late war. Our army, un-
der General Bragg, was lying in the
trenches outside of Chattanooga
watching the Yankees, and there had
been considerable skirmishing going
on all day, but toward nightfalL even
the picket firing seemed to cease
with common consent. The evening
was lovely, and during the compara-
tive stiffness one of the Federal
bands took position on little knoll
just inside of their lines, within
hearing distance of both armies, and
began to play old tunes familiar 10
all of us.
"The boys dropped everything to
listen, and as the sweet tones, mel
lowed by distance, came throbbing
down the lines men ceased to talk,
or only spoke in subdded voices, for
the music seemed almost divine. BY
and by the notes of Hail Columbia
rang out, and cheer on cheer went
up from the Union soldiIrs, which
were echoed back by the Confeder-
ates when the band followed with
'Dixie's Land Then came the
Star Spangled Banner and we
could hear the loud voices of the
Yankees as they came in on the
chorus. 'Bo lnie Blue Flag next
awakened our enthusiasm, and we
sang it with religious fervor. A
short interval followed, and then the
air of Home, Sweet Home, touched
us with an effect which / never ex-
perienced before or since. The men
drank in that music as if it came
from heaven, and every now and
then, as it struck some tender men,
ory, you would see some one bury
his face in his hands or turn away to
hide his agitation, and we listened
for full five minutes, it seems to me,
after the music ceased. Then from
the ranks of Federals and Codfeder-
ates alike a mighty volume of shouts
and cheers went up, answered and
answered back till the echoes of
Lookout Mountain re-echoed from
the great sounding-board of Mission
Ridge. have heard the Marseil-
laise Hymn sung by 10000 voices,
but never expect to hear such mu-
sic on earth again as 1 heard that
night on the qanks of the Tennessee
Piryar
Chariton courier. (Keytesville, Chariton County, Mo.) 1878-current, 1884-07-25
NUMBER 21.
Charge Whisky with 1t.

This was the bitter exclamation of
young Sopher, who now languishes
in jail at Oskaloosa for numbering
his father while on drunken spree.
That is the sad and sober after
thought of wild and reckless young
desperate, who has for some time
been stimulating his naturally bad
passions by strong drink. But the
grand jury will charge young Sopher,
not whisky, with the crime. Whisky
infiamed the bad passions within the
young mans heart, but didn't create
them. The boy had cherished them,
and had followed in the lead of a
willful and reckless nature, going
step by step on the downward career
of dissipation and wickedness, until
now he is brought up at a sudden
turn and finds himself q parricide in
the strong hands of the law. Now
he reflects and moralizes, and would
sneakingly charge the whole re-
sponsibllity on whisky. That won't
do. Whisky as beverage is terri
BILE liquid, charged with the fires of
hell, and brimful of murder and in
citement to all manner of mischief;
but it can never do anything bad of
itself, and its devilish potentalitles
are brought forth when the poison is
poured into the human stomach. We
can't punish whisky, but the man
who takes it INTO partnership for the
qualification of a depraved appetite
and wicked passions, must be held
strictly to account for all the bad
deeds committed while under its in
fluence. No other code of law or
morals can be safely adopted.
As to young Sopher, it is said by
those who know him that he has been
for some time terror to the family
and neighborhood. He and whisky
have been in "cahoots'' in many
kinds of mischief. Now the books
are closed, and the accounts must be
settled in full. There is no scape-
goat provided to bear the penalty
DeSMOineS Capital.
Chariton courier. (Keytesville, Chariton County, Mo.) 1878-current, 1884-07-25
Prairie Hill.

AS nothing has appeared in your
paper from this section for quite
awhile few items may be of interest.
The crop prospects have been
excellent, but many of the farmers
have the blues over the effects of the
fearful hail-storm that passed this
way on tho evening of the 18th inst,
northeast of Prairie Hill. A heavy
roaring was heard in the northwest a
little after dusk, which proved to be
one of the severest hall-storms that
ever visited these parts. Many of
the hail stones were as large as hens
eggs, which dealt great destruction
to crops, houses, &C., but FORUM
ately was not very extensive in its
scope, being from two to three miles
wide.
The political caldron is boiling
steadily. An attentive and anxious
ear is given as the news comes in
from the Presidential contest down.
We advise all parties to keep cool,
as much excitement is expected as
the fight wakes warmer and the time
draws near.
George EpperlY has gone to
Southwest Missouri to hunt loca-
ton.
-Siias Grant has sold his vaIua-
BILE farm to Mr. Wood for $25 per
acre. Mr.. Grant expects to ge West.
-Wm. Sears returned home few
days since. He had been attending
school at Liberty. He will engage
in teaching this fall, having engaged
the school on Puzzle Ridge, at the
John School-house.
Miss Mollie Nelson, of Hamden,
and Ella Hise, of Bynumville, are
guests of Miss Leyinia Sears.
-Married-On the 14th inst, at
the residence of the BRIDES father,
by Squire Cox, Mr.. John Baker to
Miss Ella Howell. A large company
of relatives and friends were present.