The Magnolia gazette. [volume] (Magnolia, Miss.) 1872-current, 1884-07-24
NEWS AND NOTES.
/ Summary of Important Events.
PERsoNAn AND POLITICAL


On the 10th Minister TAFT lett Vienna
Tor st. Petersburg.
CH1Er of the Postage-stamp Division OF
tbe Post-ofice Department, I. P. Graham,
resioned by request on the 18th, the Post
master.General believing that his lack Of
vigilance rendered Bruggeman's thieving
possible.
WIN. DICKSON, it is reported, will be
elected Secretary Of the National Demo.
cratic Committee.
Ex.MIN1sTER SARGENT arrived in Wash
iugton on the 10th.
THE editor OF the Rochester IN. W
Jraion, Hon. William Purcell, takes leave
Of absence until after the November cleo
tion.
ON the 18th James Ellis French, director
Of the detective department at Dublin,
was arrested in connection with the
Cornwall case.
MRS. ALMIRA LINCOLN PHELPS died in
Baltimore, Md, on the 18th, it being her
pinety.frst birthday. She was the author
Of many works of a scientific nature, some
Of them being recognized as of great
value.
PRESIDENT ARTHUR has recognized j.
j. r. Dawson, Consul Of Belgium for Ore
gon, to reside at Portland; Eugene j.
Ledyard, Consul-General Of Costa Rica
in Louisiana, to reside at New Orlea MS,
and Walter Tschudi Tyall, Consul of her
Britanic Majesty for Texas, to reside at
Galveston.
CoMPTE DE PARIS and family have do.
mated f2,000 to the relief of the Toulon
sufferers.
THE case Of Tom Campbell for disbar-
mant began at Cincinnati on the 10th.
Judge Buchwalter refused to sit on the
case, having been law partner of Camp
BELLS. The case went over till the Supreme
Court assigned another Judge.
ENo, the ex-New York bank President, is
assiduously shadowed at Quebec by United
States detectives.
In the Fifth Indiana District the Repub-
licans have nominated George w. Grubbs
for Congress.
SEcRETAEY SHIvELY of the Anti. Monop-
olist COMMITTEES says that General b. +,
Butler will certainly be an independent
candidate for President
On the 16h J. NJ. Allen was nominated
for Congress by the Democrats OF the Sixth
Mississippi District; D. L. Robinson by
the Republicans. The Independents in
dorsed Chalmers.
In recent letter Prince Krapotkine ac
euses Minister Ferry of preventing his re.
lease though Grevy favors it. The Prince
claims he is dying Of scurvy.
iHE German champion, Charles Moth,
mas challenged Andy Christol TO a wrest-
ling match. Christol has acc epted.
On the 10th the Expressmen's Conven.
tion at Boston, Mass, elected H. w.
Dwight, Of the United States and Canada
Express Company, President; E. NJ. Morse.
man, Vice-President and General Man
ager OF the Pacific Express, Vice. Presi-
dent; Sutherland Dewitt, Secretary and
Treasurer.
IHE Ihetis, Bear and Alert, com prising
the Greedy relief expedition, have returned
ana were heard from at st. Johns, N. f.,
on the l7th, of the twenty five compris.
ing the Greedy party, seven, including
Lleutsnant Greedy, were rescued alive,
ouS IN terribly exhausted condition.
Their companions succumbed to starvation
ana exposure, and day or two more
would have finished the entire party.
oN the 18th Miss Phoebe Couzins was
sworn in as Deputy United States Mar
shai under her father at st. Lotus, Mo.
lHE Mormon missionary, Paul Hammer,
ior whose arrest warrant was recently
issued IN Austria, has come to America.
oN the 18th monument to Nathaniel
sylvester, the first settler of Shelter
Island, was unveiled.
1T is asserted that w. G. Swan, of the
Northern Pacific, can explain his accounts
Wneh he recovers from the effects of the
chloral taken.
w the 18th the fune raj of the Prince of
orange took place at The Hague, repre-.
sentatives of all the royal houses of Europe
being present.
WIN W. JOHNSON, of Greenpoint, L. l.,
mas disappeared, leaving his wife and four
vniiaren' and has taken "a 1000 or 5000 be.
longing TO other people.
COUNSEL for Senator Sharon on the nth
announced their side of the celebrated
onaron'Hill case closed. Miss Hilps coun-
SCI objected to chemical analysis of the
uk on the marriage contract.
IiTE Republicans of the Sixth Ohio Dis
erlct have nominated H. C. Glenn for Con-
-. siess ana James G. Holcomb for Presiden-
ual elector.
4hE Minnesota Democrats of the Fourth
district have nominated o. C. Merriam, a
wealthy lumberman of Minneapolis, for
Congress-.
IT Is charged by Malcolm Hay, of Penn
syIyania, that Henry Watterson misrepre-
ssnted his action In the Committee ON Res.
nlutions at Chicago.
CRIMES ANN Cssuarrvus n
oN the 14th seven men were buried by a
saving embankment, at Parker, Pa.
AT smyrna, on the 14th, fire on the
300. 80 " Vie eA'enU u @4o'-
:. oS the l4th VIM. 7. Kelley, Postmaster
~ ~ oa,noen, N. j., was arrested on charge
OF embezzlement.
a. a NUMBER of passengers were badly in.
sureu C IN an accident on the Brooklyn s.
Svney Island Railroad on the 14th.
!. TWO men were killed and two others SER
ihuuSiy hy injured by the cavlng in of an en-
Dankment on the Clarion River, Pennsyl.
a... as city Of San Jose, CAL, was almost
A7seioyed bV fire nm kha 1Alh lU.4o.