The Magnolia gazette. [volume] (Magnolia, Miss.) 1872-current, 1884-08-07
NEWS AND NOTES.
4 summary Of Important Events.
prRsoNAn AND POLITICAL.

H. McGahan, the war correspondent, upon
their arrival there
THE wife OF Lieutenant Greedy, the Arc.
tic explorer, went East on the 2Sth, to join
her husband.
In the suit for exemplary damages by
Mrs. Weldon against Mr.. Semple, an
English physician, who pronounced her as
Of unsouud mind, the jury decided in her
favor, assessing $1,000 damages. She con-
Quoted her own case.
THE committee formally notified Gov
ernor Cleyeland of his nomination at AL
bany, NJ ", on the Goth.
Hon. A. M. DoCKERY has been renomi-
mated BY acclamation for Congress by the
Democrats at Cameron, Mo.
OK the 29th an old-fashioued Democratic
barbecue at Lexington, Ky, was attended
BY $4,000 people.
announced that 0. G. Baldwin, Jay
Gould, Russell Sage, T. f.. Ryan and John
Z. Green are to retire from the directory
IF the Iouisville& Nashville.
The Democratic National Committee has
chosen Chas. j. Canda, Of New York,
Treasurer and appointed the executive
committee.
". L. ScovILLE, nm employe Of Ward &
Day, proves to have been instrumental in
bringing aboutthe failure Of DeWolf &
Swan at New York.
IN the Fifth North Carolina Congress
sional District the Democrats have nomi-
mated James w. Reed.
GENERAL GoRDoN, according to latest
Intelligence still holds the fort at Khar-
toum, and will SO continue to do until The
rising 81 the Nile, when lie will equin
steamers and get out of his predicament.
PRlslDENT HARRISON Of the Indtanapo.
lis Banking Company was arrested on the
4O-l, charged with embez1ling $05, 900, and
he was held in the sum of IS ,OOJ bond
SECRETARY FoLGER has decided that
carUolic acid is free from duty under the
new taritf.
COMPTROLLER CANNON has declared the
second dividend OF twenty per cent. in
favor Of the creditors OF the First National
Bank Of Monmouth, Ill.
EX-GOVERNOR HENDRICKS was formally
notifcl on The S0th of his nomination us
Vice.President.
lHE Mudir Of Dongola says he has been
advised Of the recapture of Berber by Cor.
don, The report was discredited.
The Democrats Of the Third Virginia
Congressional District have renominated
Geo, D. Davis.
lie Fenian, DAILY, arrested in England
ior having explosives in his possession,
will conduct his own defense.
FAULsTEvENs, Librarian Of the House
o. Representatives under Lincoln and
Grant, died at Camden, Mo-, ON the 3Oth.
JOSEPH H' ORTHwAIrE, of Ohio, has been
nominated for Congress by the Democrats
to succeed Converse.
oNthe evening Of the Goth Dufur, Of
Massachusetts,, won the wrestling match
WIN Mclaughlin, Of Michigan, which took
place before Boston audience.
MINISTER FERRY on the SOth refused the
onllese Minister an extension Of time in
whien emma shall reply to the demands Of
France.
oN the 3)th N. W. Culbertson, Represen-
latlve from Kentucky, shot himself in the
neau Of his room atthe National Hotel,
Washington, D. G,
lliE Republican State Convention at
1arkersburg w. Va, on the Both nomi-
hated Edwin Maxwell for Governor. The
state ticket is Greenbaclx Republican
combination.
HE swedish Minister to America, Count
earl Lewenhaupt, will replace Baron Zib.
Der as Minister at Paris.
oN the 3lst Cleveland and Hendricks
met Tor the first time and conferred at AL
bany, N. Y.
lhE Aepublicans of the Second Congress.
slonal District Of West Virginia nominated
Il M. Reynolds.
HE X Republicans of the Ninth District Of
INDIANA nominated Major J. c. Doxey for
ikEE, MARK PATTIsoN, the famous Eng.
.isu 1eaeher, essayist and critic, died on
'le dist, aged seventy-one.
IhE Democrats of the Ninth Congress
sional District of Virginia nominated
oonelly !. Trigg.
ACCORDING TO the London Neps il ap-
pears that Mr. Gye has declined to assume
,ne direction of the Metropolitan Opera
nonse in New York the coming season.
:, LIE German Ambassador to Russia.
uehePal Schweiniz, has left st. Peters.
p, purs lor the purpose of comforting with
,''silafck at Varz;n in regard to the meet.
Germany s' ny 80 i'e4o = =
= = " BARRY has been nominated by the
Delaocrats = Dacrats of the Fourth Congressional
= ps5lict of Mississippi.
!, w the 3lst the Manhattan Club of
new York gave a reception at the club
,uolns m to members of the Democratic
s,.,., ao.,ucation Committee, on their ar
,iyal 4i irom Saratoga. An elaborate cola.
.r Sloa was served at midnight. Many
speeches were made and toasts drank.
ne a BERLIN dispatch says that Grand
Dake - s'a Louis Of Hesse willabdicate in favor
r.. ~ Als son Ernst, under the advice of the
EMPEROR of Germany. His morganatic
marriage with Mime. Kolamine and sub
sSqueht divorce compromised his position. |
GRIMES AND CASUALTIES.
The 27sh William McDerDig, aged |
~ employed in the Geographical
SDyeparlment n OF the United States Navy in |
-'ew York, was drowned in Harlem River.
q ~ The s7th a passenger steamer capsized
Sns 'ne Volga, and twenty persons were
4 IN n the 9th BIZ Bell, negro desperate
s,,'as n .ne Indian Territory, was captured. He
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