The Magnolia gazette. [volume] (Magnolia, Miss.) 1872-current, 1884-10-02
NEWS AND NOTES.
4 summary of Important Events.
pERsoNAL ANp POLITICAL

New York Herald, was badly shaken up
I IL railroad accident near San Francisco,
CAL
,,ctv. grandson of the illustrious Henry
cov died from the wounds inflicted by
Councilman Wepler, of Louisville.
OK the 92d Edward Claytor, OF Wheel
np W. Va, defeated Priddy, OF Pitts
hnrph. in three-mile scull race tor l,000
a side.
on the 22d Sadie Robinson, twelve
vear.old girl of birmingham, Mass,
hacked a yaise with 1000 worth of dia-
monds and negotiable bonds belonging TO
n her mother and prepared to elope, but was
arrested at Boston.
Ex UNITED STATES SENATOR NEsMITH,
Of Oregon, is now an inmate oil the Insane
Asylum at Salem, Oregon.
EMPEROR WILLIAM, during the recent
maneuvres of the German army, declined
to receive deputation with an address
from the Catholic nobility of Westphalia,
remarkng that the parade ground was not
a fit place for polemies.
MR.. Coon, Acting Secretary Of the
Treasury, has directed the Collector OF
Customs of New York to admit, free Of
duty the cup won by Keene's FoXhall,
which has been in the custody of the Col
leCtor nearly two years.
In Dublin a fund is being raised to as.
sist the families Of Daily and Egan, who
are undergoing life imprisonment for com
mtting outrages by the use of dynamite.
IT is said that FL Mahdi has twenty
Krupp cannon, and that 10000 of his fol-
lowers are armed with American rifles.
An opinion was delivered by Justice
Field in San Francisco, Cal, on the 23d, in
reference to the Chinese question.
FREDERICK S. NICHOLS, editor Of the
Memphis (lenn.) AcalapcAe, died sud
c1nly at Davenport, Ia., on the 23d, of
paralysis Of the brain.
PROF. JOHN LORD TAYLOR, an eminent
Congregational divine Of Andover, Mass,
ded on the 23l, in the seventy-third year
0this age.
fNa three-mile scull race at PeekslSill,
y, on the 23d, Ton Eyck defeated Ri.
ley.
MISS MINNIE GARRISON, eldest daughter
Of the late VIM. L. Garrison, was married
on the 23l to NJ. CASTOR Chandon de Buail
less, son Of a French Count, at her moth
er's country seat near Elberon, N. j.
IHE last letter from General Gordon
stated that many OF the rebels besieging
Ahartoum were retiring. Supplies were
coming in well from the South. He had
sentfour steamers 10 relieve SEMINAR.
lHE late Charles w. West, of Cincinnati
q, bequeaths in his will large amounts tC
charitable institutions.
DfFFERENCEs with Prime Minister Fer
ry, 1t is limited, will induce General Cam
penon, French Minister Of War, to resigr
shortly.
THE Colorado Democratic State Conven
ton was held at Denver on the oath. Alv,
Adams, Of Pueblo, was nominated fo
Governor, Mr.. Grant declining renomi
nation unanimously rendered.
oN the 24th Alfred Hopkins, late Cap
tain Of the United States navy, died at hi
residence in Cleveland from the effects o
an overdose Of chloral, taken to alleviate
his sufferings.
EMPEROR WILLIAM of Germany has con
lerred upon Herbert Bismarck the Orde
OF the Red Eagle.
PRESIDENT GREvY has telegraphed Kin,
Humbert that the catastrophe which ha
beiallen italy excites the deepest commits
Grafton Of the whole world. Grevy adds
Ihe sublime, heroic, magnanimous con
euct OF your Majesty excites the admira
uon ana enthusiasm of the universe.D
oN the 18th Galbraith McMullen died a
sandy Lake, Pa, in his 105th year.
IHE report that President Mitchell o
the Milwaukee & St Paul Road is abou
TO oresign, is denied by that gentleman.
PRESIDENT JOHN w. GARRETT OF tn
Baltimore & Ohio Railroad Company was
az iast accounts, extremely ill and his n
eoVery deemed impossible.
oN the night of the oath w. .. Gresham
received the appointment and qualified d
secretary Of the Treasury. Mr.. Hatto
becomes Acting Postmaster General TO
ten days.
oN the 25th Hank Adams, New Jerse
negro, who abducted daughter of one {
Ihe wealthiest citizens in the State, wa
sentenced to fifteen years. Imprisonment
BLAINE, Butler and st. John will be i
indianapolis, Ind, on Thursday, Octobe
NEGOTIATIONS are in progress for
single scull race for 81, 900 between Han
Ian, Beach and Teemer
IHE late Hon. Francis q. Hayes, of Bo
ton, Mass, bequeaths in his will larg
proportion of his estate to relatives; I
Dartmouth College, $4,000; to Berwic
academy, $4,000, and 70 Harvard colleG
HENRY C. FRIEDMAN, the New Yor
stock broker who eloped with Miss Sara
scheuer, daughter of Solomon Scheue
tne millionaire, was at the Arlington HI
tel in Washington on the 25th. The coup
We're 'doing' the city.
EFFORTS are being made TO erect at Ne
orleans, La, a statue Of the late G aptai
Samuel Chesterrid, who commanded tn
United s ates private armed brig "Gel
eral ARMSTRONG" to commemorate h
heroic battle with Bfieish squadron I
Fayal on the night of the och and 27i
of ssptembers lslfS which resulted
saving Louisiana from British conques
CRIMES AND CASUALTIES.
On the 22d. two large buildings of Il
Middlesex Bleachery and Dye Works
sommerville, Mass, were burned. II
buildings covered two and half acre
They were filed with valuable fabric
and the total loss is estimated to be $2OC
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