The Magnolia gazette. [volume] (Magnolia, Miss.) 1872-current, 1884-04-10

CHARLES READE, the celebrated Eng
lish novelist, is reported to be nearing his
end.
GRIMES AND CAUsUALTIEs.
A GIRL fourteen years old named Jes-
sic PEBBLES, committed suicide at Hamilton,
Can, on the Goth.
INDICTMENTS have been found against
five of the men engaged in the recent street
butchery at Hot Springs, Ark, for murder
in the first degree.
A LARGE number of wrecks were re-
ported on the Atlantic coast ON the 31st.
On the 31st Edward Bennett was SEN
fenced to six years imprisonment for burn
ing his own house in Milwaukee, Wis.
THE County Treasurers Office at
Greensburg, Pa, was robbed by burglars
on the lst.
A BRAKEMAN named Elijah Wright
was run over by the cars at Union City,
Tenn, on the 3lst., and received injuries
| kelly to prove fatal
OK the I'd VIM. Barnett eifty years of
age, was, together with his horse, struck
by lightning and instantly killed near
Youngstown, o.
A PRISONER set fire TO the Jail at
Waterville, Me-. on the Sd, and persisted in
the flames.
In the United States during the month
of March the fire losses were SS250,O00.
OK the Sd the Michigan Saw Works
at East Saginaw were totally destroyed by
fire. Loss, 100000.
There was a big fire in Pattern ster
Row, London, ON the 81. Tie direction of
the wind was all that saved st. Paul's Ca.
thedral. The loss reaches 100000.
By the burning of the steamer Re-
becca Eyeringham on the Cnattahoochee
River at Fitzgerald's Landing, near Flor.
ence, Ga. the morning of the Sd, twenty
lives are reported lost.
WHILE walking on the railroad track
at Dunsmore, Pa, on the 3d four hungarian
laborers were killed by train. They wero
cut TO pieces.
DURING recent gale Danish bark
was wrecked off the Shetland Isles and fif-
teen of her crew were drowned.
MISCELLANEOUS.
For the quarter ending December
81, the gross receipts of the Post-oiiice De-
partment were $2ss,065 less than for the
last quarter of 1882.
For March the actual decrease in the
public debt was $l4, ,23s,S23.
The boat race between Oxford and
Cambridge has been postponed to April
on account of Prince Leopold's death.
INTEREST amounting to S2i,000,000
on Mexican National bonds fell due on the
1st and the company was unable to pay.
TIE Chamber of Commerce of Rot
terdam asks the Dutch Government to pre-
vent the consummation of the Anglo-Portu-
guese Congo treaty.
Mr.. McCoID will introduce a Joint
resolution in the House of Representatives
for the appointment of commits
sion of two members from each State
to take steps for calling a convention
to propose constitutional amendments re-
lating to the Presidential succession, exer-
else of the veto power, woman suffrage,
etc.
On the 1st, under protection of the
troops, another murderer ventured to take
up his abode in the Cincinnati Jail.
QUITE number of robberies of the
mails between Toronto and Quebec, Can,
have occurred recently. No clew.
AT Troy, n. Y, the carpenters are on
a strike, their demand being u four O'Clock
knock-of Saturday afternoon.
THERE was on the 1st in the United
States Treasury $it2, ,2lO cash.
THE annual fish exhibition at Fulton
Market, New York, opened on the 1st.
The British troops under General
Graham have left SualSem for Suez. The
inhabitants are disgusted and Osman Digna
is stealing their cattle.
IL Asia Minor Turkish agents are at
tempting to close schools conducted by
American Protestant missionaries.
NEAR Grenada, Miss, two hundred
mules have died within few days, from
the buffalo gnat.
THE meeting of the ex-Confederate
soldiers and members of the Grand Army
of the Republic. in aid of the ex.Confeder-
ate Soldiers Home, will be held at Cooper
Union, New York, April9. General Grant
will preside.
The Board of Trade of Dubuque, Ia,
has adopted resolutions opposing the pres.
ent route selected for the HennePin Canal
The illinois Central Railroad Com
pany has filed. a bill in the United States
Court at Jackson, Miss, praying for an in
junction TO restrain the Railroad Commits
sionersfrom interfering with the road in
spy way,