The Magnolia gazette. [volume] (Magnolia, Miss.) 1872-current, 1884-11-20
NEWS AND NOTES.
a Summary Of Important Events.
PERSONAL AND POLITICAL.

plurality of 10000. Minnesota gave him a
majority Of 5000, and Pennsylvania gave
plurality of S0,55O.
on the 18th Assistant Postmaster Gen
,ral Crosby took the oath of office and be-
gan the discharge of his duties.
OWING to advancing years and i'll health,
Hon G. Wells, of Michigan, Presiding
bulge Of the Court of Commissioners of
Alabama claims, has resigned.
Colonel. BURNSIDE, recently indicted at
Washington, d. c., for embezzling POST
Office Department funds, has been placed
in the Government Insane Asylum by order
Of Secretary Teller.
Gosslps are again busy because Presi-
dent Arthur attended Miss Tillie Freling-
huysen at the opening of the new Grand
Opera-house at Washington.
THE next House of Representatives will
consist Of lS2 Democrats, 141 Republicans,
one Cireenbacker and one Fusionist. Dem
ocratic majority over all, thirty mine. This
shows loss Of nineteen Democrats and
four Independents and gain Of twenty
two Republicans and one Fusienist.
THE new French Minister to Washing
ton, NJ. Roustan, arrived in New York by
the steamer Normandie on the 11th.
On the 18th John Mccullough, the
tragedian, left Chicago for st. Louis, and
at the depot kept the baggagemen in a fer
ment hunting up his wardrobe, saying
he was to play "The Gladiator that night
in st. Louis. It turned out that he only
had valise. Friends in st. Louis We're
notified.
CHAIRMAN DANIEL MANNING of the New
York Democratic State Committee, is to be
married on the 10Th 20 Miss Mary Marga-
retta Fryer, Of Albany. They will sail for
Europe on the following Saturday.
ON the 18th Ormsby Phillips, one of the
proprietors Of the Pittsburgh tPa.) Dis
patch, died suddenly. Cause, oyerwork.
RuMoRs were again current in London on
the 18th that FL Mahdi had captured Khar-
toum and k He'd General Gordon.
On the 18th Major General w. S. Har-
ney, who is eighty -four years of age, was
married in st. Louis, Mo-, to Mrs, Marie
st. Cyr.
PRESIDENT ARTHUR has appointed Caleb
H, Barney Commissioner and Joseph IL.
Reynolds alternate Commissioner, to rep
resent New Jersey at the New Orleans Ex-
position,
LORD LANsDowNE, Governor General Of
Canada, has refused to commute the SEN
tence Of Mrs. Boutelle, sentenced to be
hanged at Quebec on the 29th for poison-
Ing Mrs. Savers, with whose husband she
was crminally intimate.
The official canvass of the votes in New
York was continued on the 18th. No ma
teria errors had thus far been encoun-
tered.
CALL has been received by Rev. DIR. G.
L. Goodell, Of the Pilgrim Congregational
Church. st. Louis, Mo-, TO Washington,
D " from the Congregationalists of that
city.
ON the evening of the 18th Nine. Salchi
made her first appearance this season at
the Academy of Music, New York, and re-
eeived great ovation.
It IS intimated that Deputy Commits
sloner of Pensions Clarke will be APP
signed.
liiE report Of Dr. Salmon, chief of th Q
Bureau Of Animal Industry, has been sub
mltted to the Commissioner of Agriculture.
ms report dwclls largely upon the conta-
glous diseases among domestic animals,
ana contains many valuable suggestions.
The canvassing the vote Of New York
was continued ON the 18Th, and according
% reports received quite number Of
changes We're made in the footings in the
,lst eight OF the twenty four Assembly
districts of New York County, caused by
clerical and other errors, giving Mr.. Blaine
hee gam of 351 votes in those districts.
another dispatch, however, stated that
no change whatever'' had been made In
view Of such conflicting statements the
necessity Of awaiting patiently the report
VI une board OF CanyasseTs becomes more
apparent. The official returns from the
counties outside of New York show but
ieW and unimportant changes from the
original figures.
DUNCAN Y. Ross, the wrestler, has chal-
Nnged any man in the world to a tussle.
oN the 18th Maxey Cobb and Netta Me-
uiunl driven double, trotted mile at New
York in 2;I53-4.
L., LIE House of Lords passed the franchise
VI, 70 It's first reading on the 18th.
DENIAL comes from Washington of the
,ulnor That Mr. Astor, Minister to Austria,
nad rendered his resi- gnation.
oN the 18th Miss Pearl Tyler, daughter
y tne late ex-President Tyler, was united
y, ~ marriage at Richmond, Va, with VIM.
Aumford Ellis.
~ ~ .ne 18th Lieutenant Greedy called at
sue war Department. He is gradually
sesainlng his strength and will soon COM
'uence writing his report
II Is intimated that Secretary McCulloch
= - us forthcoming report TO Congress will
make some important recommendations in
regard to revision of the tariff.
JOHN GILLESPIE, of Pittsburgh, Pa. is
Sn ms muscle and wants to meet either
sullivan sullivan Or Mitchell, with gloves, within
suree weeks. If that challenge is not ac-
,i. sep.ea he will later fight either of them
m'sn pare knuckles, somewhere in the West
French tribunal which recently
Saa1red decree Of divorce to the Marquis
ae eaux, husband of Adelina Patti, con-
suit. @ y pay 'ne cos's Oh 'ne
ORiAIEs AND CASUALTIES.