The Magnolia gazette. [volume] (Magnolia, Miss.) 1872-current, 1885-10-16

THE special delivery system docs not
work satisfactorily in many places, the
limitations for the compensation Of the
carriers making their earnings SO ridicu
lously small that there is no object in re.
tanning their positions.
GEORGE RoMNEY and VIM. Rossiter,
Mormons, were each sentenced to six
months Imprisonment and to pay a fine
5000 in the United States Court at Salt
Lake City, Utah, on the 10th.
A SHARP shock of earthquake was felt
at Olympia, Washington Territory, on the
morning of the 10th. No serious damage
resulted.
THE blowing up of Flood Rock, at He'll
Gate, East River, New York, was success
fully accomplished on the 10th, in the pres
ence of thousands of spectators. The
shock was felt for miles around, but no
serious damage was done,
KATE CoYLE was shot and killed by hei
husband, from whom she had separated.
at Providence, R. l., on the 10th. Coyle
| then shot himself, but did not succeed in
infilcting mortal wound.
DURING the temporary absence Of Mrs.
Bartle Becker from her home at Dodge.
vile, Wis, her nineteen-months-o -old daugh.
ter fell into kettle of boiling water and
was literally boiled to death.
VICTORIA, B. c., is said to be full of
Cinnamon awaiting passage back to Chi
ma, being unable to obtain employment.
1t is thought that 1900 will leave within
d month.
| NINE. NEVADA PALMER, accompanied by
her husband, sailed on the Cunard steam.
er Etruria for New York on the 10th.
| BULGARIA is receiving large quantities
of grain and ammunition from Russia.
RUMoRs are afioat in Paris to the effect
that the French troops will totally aban.
don Tonquin.
THE report that Turkey had recognized
the Bulgarian Union was premature. The
| matter is in the hands of the powers.
CHOLERA continues to find fresh victims
to feed upon in Spain and Italy, but it is
decreasing in virulence.
PRINCE HENRY OF BATTENBERG, hus.
band of Princess Beatrice, was publicly
hissed on the streets of Perth, Scotland, 6
few days ago.
The last spike in the Canadian Pacific
Railway will be driven about the 25th inst
The Monarch Skating Rink at Pitts
burgh, Pa, was destroyed by fire on thu
|
joining, was badly damaged. Loss, $40,
900; fully insured.
THE Naval Board of Appraisers ha
completed its work at Roach's shipy yard
THREE men were seriously burned by al
explosion of natural gas at Tarentum, Pa.
on the 18th.
GERMANY's note to Spain rejects tn
Spanish claims to the Pelew and Carolin
Islands.
Mr.. DoRMAN B. EATON will write
history of the civil-service-reform move
ment.
GENERAL NEILEy, of Ohio, says he ha
paid $1,000 in board bills at Washington
in his search for an office.
ROBERT WHITE, an employe at Fore
paugh's circus headquarters in Philadel
phia, was killed by the elephant Empress
on the night of the 9th.
IRON ore has been discovered at Wasl
ington, Ind, just outside the corporatio
limits.
! WAR preparations continue in Turkey
and the government is said to be we'll SUI
piled with money from tithes.
! The first Hebrew Christian Church
America was dedicated with appropriat
+ services at New York on the 11th.
Mr.. FRED DODGE, of Brooklyn, N. Y
:. some of whose doings have heretofoi
been published, has been expelled fro
!. DR.. Talmage's church.
A MAN calling himself G.. C. Whitne
swindled the First National Bank
. Helena, Nj. T., out of $500, and the Fir
/, National Bank of Butte, M. T., out
70 O0O hv forpery