The Magnolia gazette. [volume] (Magnolia, Miss.) 1872-current, 1884-06-26


to Chicago was uninstructed.
EARL SPENCER, Lord-Lieutenant of Ire
land performed the ceremony of unvoiling
the Queens portrait at Belfast ON the
18th. iae
On the 18th detective left New York for
Montreal with the extradition papers to
bring back John g. Emo, the ex-President
of New York bank.
On the 18th Sidney Dillon resigned the
Presidency of the Union Pacific, and
Charles Francis Adams was elected to fill
the vacancy. The July dividend is to be
passed.
On the 18th five thousand persons at
tended jubilee at Holborn Tabernacle,
London, Eng, in honor of the fiftieth
birthday of Mr.. Charles H. Spurgeon. Mr..
Moody, the evangelist, was one Of the
speakers.
PATTI is reported TO have signed with
Colonel Mapleson for the next season, and
is to receive "a, 900 for each concert and all
expenses-Ss,0O0 down and $4,000 in DC.
tober. The agreement calls for $50,0 900 se-
curity.
A LETTER has been written by Postmas-
ter-General Gresham positively declining
to allow his name to be used in connection
with the Republican nomination for Gov
ernor Of Indiana.
THE Ohio State Prohibition Convention
met at Columbus on the 18th and reiterated
the assertion that there was false count
of the second amendment last year. Nom
nations were made.
THERE will be $500 seats provided in
| Lan o+ Ch;caoro fo,. tha National nanO-
cratic Convention.
PRINCE BISMARCK had long interview
with Prince Orloff, the Russian Ambassa-
dor, on the 10Th.
Ina letter to the United Ireland Michael
Davitt criUicises the Irish Emigration So
ciety.
THE Indiana Republicans nominated
Hon. w. H. Calllins as their candidate for
4 Governor on the first ballot
JoHN GUsTAvUs DRoYsEN, an eminent
professor Of history at the Berlin Uni
versity, died on the 10Th.
THE Spurgeon jubilee in Londonin honor
Of the fifteth birthday of the eminent
preacher, was continued on the l95h.
The reported resignation of S. II. H.
Clark as General Manager of the Union
.
THE Democrats of Tennessee indorsed
the administration of Governor Bate and
nominated him by acclamation for re-elec'
ton.
MRS. WARREN, of Denver, COL, has
donated 100000 to the Denver Univer'
sity, but with a proviso that there shall
be established a department of divinity.
RuMoRs from Wall street, current on
the 10th, that Commodore Garrison had
failed, proved to be unfounded, and was
Thought to have been started by some ma
licious person.
PRESIDENT ADAMS of the Union Pacific
Railway, denies the report that he had dis
covered a conspiracy whereby the com
pany was being robbed.
on the 10Th Alex. j. DeFossez, formerly
Manager of the New Orleans opera-house
was arrested in New York on charge O
wife abandonment, brought by his better
half, and was sent to jail.
GRIMES AND CASUALTIES.
On the 18th destructive wind storm oc
Cured in the Boyer Valley, Iowa, the dam
age to property in Crawford County being
considerable.
AT Butler, Pa, terrific boiler explosion
on the 10Th killed the engineer and fatal,
injured another person.
ON the 14th vigilantes hanged Alex. Fid
dler, man of many aliases, near Sturges
Oak. on account of his participation il
robbing an emigrant family.
AN Arab, claiming to be the sole survi
vor OF the Berber tragedy, says the rebel
massacred 1900 men in the garrison AM
1000 of the male population, but spare
the women and children of the town.
: FIRE destroyed the Tell City (Ind.) Fur
niture Works on the 10th. Loss, $OO,oOO
insurance, $4,000.
ON the 10th, by the caving in OF well
Wheeling. w, Va, one of the workme
was caught and buried under forty feet O
earth.
, On the 10th boy threw lighted matc
into powder magazine at Akron, ONO
The explosion killed another lad and in
jured others.
A SOLDIER fired at Roosevelt, an Amer
can Consul, during balloon ascensio
at Quincane, France, ON the 18th, takln
him for another party.
THE English police shadowed hous
supposed to be a dynamite factory, an
!. thought they had great thing. On IN
10th there was an explosion, blowing Off
hand of an innocent electrician who prove
to be the owner.
RECENT advices from Greenland stat
that the brig Eleria has been crushed by ic
and ten Of the crew drowned.
ON the 18th Athens, Pa, was visited b
the most destructive fire in the history
the town.
The remains Of Hiram Edmundson,
nrominent coal dealer of McKeesport, Pa
who disappeared last December, was foun
on the 18th floating in the river.
Wsgsa MISCELLANEOUS.
: A NOTED horse-thief named Peter [
Small, who escaped from jail at castor
n Pa, has written a local paper that he ha
a desire to steal General Grants Arabia
o horses. There is a reward for Smalls al
: rest.
ON the 18th Chief of Police Brown
/ Pittsburgh, Pa, notified the proprietors
nrUe