The Magnolia gazette. [volume] (Magnolia, Miss.) 1872-current, 1885-11-27

PERSONAL AND GENERAL.


AT Sherbrooke, Quebec, an attempt was
made by mob on the niRhtsof the 10th to
burn In e1igy Sir John Macdonald. The
1 attempt was frustrated by the authoriti es
Several arrests were made. -
Two noted horse-thieves, John Truston
and Silas Davis, were captursd In the In :
dian Territory on the 18th, but afterward
released by friends ss.% sssF
I The Quebec Chronicle. demands that an
Investigation be made into the escape of
Jackson, Reps Secretary, from punish .
ment, and says that his plea of insanity
appears to be a dodge. III sas
GENERAL SroNEHoUsE, Of ALBANY, N,
r., who was member Of President Cleve-
lands STAFF when he was Governor OF New
York. Is lying very seriously iii at the Eb.
bett House, Washington.
4 Mr.. NBAYARD, Secretary of State and
M Romero, the Mexican Minister, are
about to exchange the Qualifications Of an
additional article to the Commercial treaty
between the United States and Mexico OF
January 20, 1888, extending the time to
May 20, 1885, for the approval Of the nec-
sssary laws 70 carry into effect She opera
lions OF the said commercial treaty.
esrErHEN M! osrRANDER, the. historian,
OF Long Island, N. j., died on the night Of
che 18Th, aged ffty-four. ssss
Mr.. RoBERr Z. RRAM, sR. father of Mrs.
Winnie Ream Hoxie, Is dangerously LII of
heart disease at the residence OF his daugh-
Ter, Mrs. Fuller, at Washington, D.. G. 8aE
THE suit broughthy Grove, the notori
GUS body-snatcher, against Dr. Tyler,
deinonstrator Of the Georgetown ID. C.)
Medical College, to recover the balance on
an account fol-" anatomical materialu fur
nished the college, was decided In favor of
the defendant on the 10th. Grove declined
to swear that be was owner of the amate-
rial. .nsi ss.'ns las s. = /.
DR. ALLEN COPE, q prominent dentist of
Coldwater, Mich, while using q avulcanizer,
had his left arm blown of and was se-
verely wounded In the breast by the sx-
plosion Of the apparatus. gs 50
The body OF Judge A.. s.. Sanborn, OF
Madison Wis, was found in Lansing's
woods near that city ON the 18th with eyi.
dence that he hadsuicided with laudanum,
He was subject to temporary Ats of iasan-
ity.s sfsf ,.sr4 Al
|, Ex-GovHRNoR SMITH will contest Mr..
Edmunds' reelection to the Vermont
Senatorship.
aGorrLErB VARTz, aged thirty eight, was
scalded to death in a vat of boiling malt at
the Empire Brewery, New York, on the
Goth. -
A GERMAN American named Thielman, :,
locksmith, has been expelled from Fleus-
burg, Prussia.
APPOINTMENT CLERK HIaarSs Is said
to be deyoting his energies to secure the
position Of Sergeant-at-Arms Of the House
of Representatives.
WILKINSON, the murderer of Officer Law
renee, was hanged at Thomaston, Me-, on
the 2oth, and died coolly and unrepentant.
MAS. SADIE KIRK and Reeta Emmons,
her niece, of Dale City, Ia, retired at
hotel at Creston, Ia, on the night Of the
18th and blew out the gas. When called
to take the 3:45 a. m. train for their desti-
nation both were found to be nearly suffo-
Gated, with slim chances of recovery.
SEVERAL persons were poisoned by drink
ing water from an old we'll, recently re-
opened, in Chester County, Pa, two OF
whom, Annie Poole and Frank Townsend.
died. The water is believed to be impreg-
mated with deadly mineral poison. Mt
Russell SAGE has given $6O,00O to Cor
nell University to found professorship of
Ethics and Moral Philosophy, which was
duly acknowledged at the fall meeting OF
the Trustees on the Goth. te'sF
Two persons were instantly killed and
several severely injured on the Goth, by an
explosion of a new boiler which was being
tested in min which had just been COM
pleted at Richland City, Ind. The dam
age to the property is estimated at $6,OOO.s
JOHN GEAR Hart, a farmer living near
Catawissa, Pa, has recently lost three
children by diphtheria, and on the Doth
had four lying i'll with the dread, disease.
He had family of fourteen children.
u THE panic in the corn trade in Denmark
CONTINUES unabated.
" sOTTo KoBLANK, a drunken brute, went TO
his boarding -house In Jersey City, N. T..
and began to abuse the landlady, Mrs.
Sweeny, and wound up by pouring kettle
Of boiling water over her, scalding her SO
severely that her recovery is impossible.
~ WILLIAM q. SMITH, the successor Of Mr..
Coon, az Assistant Secretary of the Treas
nry, took charge of his Office on the Goth.
TwRHTY-NIaE new cases of small -pox
were reported at Montreal on the Goth. t7- :
AN attempt was made to wreck the
Glencoe express near st. Thomas, Ont, on
the Goth, by placing distractions on the
track of the Air Line Road. 'n'N
A BODY, found near Los angeles, Cal,
has been identified as that of BENZ. H.
Longnecker, ,defaulting Poor Director Of
Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. s 81.
JAMES BLAcKBURN, a former paymaster
ofthe Lake Shore & Western Railway, has
been arrested at Milwaukee, wis, In com
nection with q a'shortage in his accounts.
MALCOLM s, DoTY obtained Judgment
Tor 81 200 against the st.. Joseph Hospital
at Omaha, Neb., for the loss Of an eye by a
servants carelessness. as.,, y.
INFORMATION comes from Battleford, N,
W. T., THAT the Indians are preparing for
q general onslaught on the whites. =
TIE weavers at st. Quentin, France, are
on strike and are very riotous in. their
demonstrations. msa asat
The complete correspondence of Carlyle
and Goethe has been discovered in the,
archives of the latter. (,
THR feeling at various points in Canada
over the execution of Rielis still at fever
heat. (,gsast fgiJ
BENAToR CALL, of Florida, is building
himself q fine residence in Washington. !
1 Mrs. GOTHAM, wife Of Norman J.tCol-
man, Commissioner OF Agriculture, is dam
gerously flat Washington.
A LlNEN-rHREAp factory is to be started
at Fevark, n T., by Marshall & Co., of
Leeds, England. x43 4ss@'
a DISPATCH from Feldn, China, says that
all difficulty between France and, China
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