The Magnolia gazette. [volume] (Magnolia, Miss.) 1872-current, 1884-10-30
NEWS AND NOTES.
4 Summary Of Important Events.
PERSONAL AND PoLrTIoAI..

a nBelva Dear'' club, composed of $50
drummers wearing the Lockwood colors,
paraded the streets, creating considerable
amusement.
Pope LEO will shortly create eight new
Cardinals.
MARY BLACKBURN MORRIS, lady well
known in Chicago for her sympathy with
the Confederate cause during the war, and
who spent fortune in support of her con-
victions, died at the Blackburn Santa
rum at Louisville, KY, on the 18th inst,
in her sixty-sixth year. She was lady
highly esteemed for her many noble quail
ties.
H. CAMPBELL BANNERMAN,. Secretary to
the British Admiralty, has been appointed
Secretary for Ireland, vice Trevelyan.
SECRETARY GRESHAM returned to Wash
ington from New York on the 21st.
PRESIDENT ARTHUR has appointed VIM.
P. Dunwoody, of Iowa, to be member of
the National Board of Health, vice Dir. H.
A. Johnson, resigned.
THE President has designated Minister
Kasson to represent the United States at
the Congo Conference, which is to be held
in Berlin.
A WARRANT has been served on Mr.. w.
H. Dempsey, a Washington statoner,
based ON an indictment found by the
United States Circuit Court for Massa-
chusetts, October 15sh, 1891, charging
him with falsely making, forging and
counterfeiting navy vouchers.
THE English court is doing two weeks
mourning for the late Duke of Bruns-
wick.
TIE distinguished French philologian,
Jaques Auguste Adolphe Rignier, died on
the 22d.
In the election for members of the City
Council of Baltimore, Nd, ON the 22d,
the Democrats made almost clean
sweep.
BY the advice of her physicians Sarah
Bernhardt has gone to the seaside. They
say she needs repose.
The crank who attacked Governor
Cleveland at Albany, N. ", recently, was
declared sane by physicians, but they said
lie was laboring undsr great nervous ex-
element He was discharged.
SECRETARY GRESHAM on the 22d received
the report of the special committee ap.
pointed to consider the general classifica
tion under the new tariff.
The Dublin Freenlda'S Journal speaks of
the new Secretary of Ireland as "a courte-
Gus nonenity, ignorant of Ireland"
LIQUOR dealer named Frank Rigney,
of Winnipeg, Man, has disappeared, and
isaccused of forgeries of 5000. He is
probably now a citizen of Mexico or Can
ada.
The message OF Queen Victoria to Par
lament on the 22l, expressed the hope of
her Majesty that the franchise bill might
soon be passed.
In his annual report General Hazen,
chief Signal officer, says the service is
greatly crippled for the want of money.
lie regards the Greely expedition as fore
most among its kind.
AT the meeting of the Grand Lodge OF
Masons Of Kentucky, at Louisville, on the
vi, High Priest Farleigh discussed the
papal letter against the order. He de
clared that the charges of Pope Lee
against Masonry were false.
COMMODORE SCHLEY, commander of the
Greely relief parry, has submitted his re
port 10 the Secretary of the Navy. He re
iates interesting details concerning th,
aiscovery of the explorers and theil
Wretched condition when rescued.
oN the 22d the annual convention of tht
National Wholesale Drug Association me
IN 81. Louis, Mo. Q. f. G. Meyer, of st
Louis, was elected President for the en-
SUING year; A. A. Mellier, OF st. Louis
vice President; A. B. Merriam, of Gin
clnnati, Secretary, and S. NJ. Strong, O
cleveland, Treasurer. The delegates at
@nued banquet on the night of th,
<oli and went on an excursion to Crysta
City on the oath,
WILLIAM B. WAsHBURY, was electeC
PRESIDENT of the American Missionary
association at Boston, Mass, on the 2Sd
IT is reported that Admiral Mot is ne
eouating with the Hova chiefs in MAZDA
gascar
IN the % Senator Platt addressed
sO'VOo people at the dedication of the sol
uers monument at Waterbury, Conn.
IRE United States Grand Jury at Bosto,
nas indicted VIM. Fl. Dempsey for fraud
N supplying the Navy Department witt
stationery.
y, IHE firm of H. D. Cooke Sc Co., bankers
y, rm,asnington, D. c., suspended ON the 23d
~ cause is attributed TO outside specula
"ohs' Liabilities, $lSO,OOO.
EMPEROR WILLIAM and Bismarck hav
recently been holding series of confer
ences all by themselves.
NOTICE has been given by Mr.. Glad
ZONE That he will ask in the Commons tina
priority be granted for tile franchise bill
LONG letter has been written by Glad
suue to the s.. Osaph Diocesan Confer
enee on the subject of the "Disestablish
"snS OF the Church of England"
p..ll LhE contract of Colonel Mapleson wit
i,sa a.a Tor the Drury Lane (London) seasoi
sn s'n'ts her fee TO ESQ nightly. Nilsson
'se IS limited to e350 nightly.
~ sne 2Sd the King OF Portugal CAV
an audience 10 Richmond, the newly AZ
pSln'ed = American Minister, who present
I'd his credentials.
WHILE mhILE dining on the asd, captai
snses Ballard, of Atlanta, Ga, placed hi
sc as,,u up on his forehead and exclaimina
! such paint" died. He was welI know
ira ~ pIatroad men as the originator q
sallard's Express.u
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