The Magnolia gazette. [volume] (Magnolia, Miss.) 1872-current, 1885-12-04
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

| pound frelghts.
HE total number of hogs packed in the
Western States during the week ended the
2lst was 4so,0 900, against 900 for the cor
responding time last year.
MEETING of tobacco dealers and grow
ers was held at Lancaster, Pa, on the 25th
at which 1t was resolved to petition Con-
gress to increase the duty on foreign to-
bacco to one dollar per pound.
JOHN AND WILLIAM BELTS were arrested
at Angola, N. Y, on the 25th, charged
with selling cancerous beef to their Gus
toners.
SINCE 1878 there has been an increase of
a52,546 acres of forest in the German en-
pire, brought about by replanting COM
mons and waste lands
POPE LEo's encyclical on the Christian
Constitution of States has been translated
In full and is verv different from the cable
| condensations.
The funeral of Vice-President Hendricks
will take place at noon on Tuesday, De-
cember 1st. The President and members
| of the Cabinet will attend.
KING MILAN denies the report that he
Will abdicate. The onward march of the
victorious Bulgarian forces continues.
| JEREMIAH NJ. DWIGHT, of Ithaca, N. Y,
ex-member of Congress, died on the oath,
aged eighty years.
THE Virginia State Board of Canvassers
find Ayres' (Democrat) majority for At
torney General to be 16,246.
MR.. GLADSTONE Is chagrined over the re-
suit of the elections, and has, it Is said,
abandoned all hope of more than the bar
| est Liberal majority at best.
CAPTAIN VIZ. LYTLE, of Keokuk, Ia, and
| his wife, who were estranged for number
of years, have become reconclled and re-
| united.
THE appointment of Mr.. John H. Walsh
as Assistant Superintendent of the Unit
ed States Treasury was made to secure the
services of practical mechanic.
CONSUL GENERAL SUTTON at Matamoras,
Mexico, says the sugar exports have
ceased to be important, owing to the
opening up of home markets through
American railway facilities.
THE steamer Earl Dufferin, engaged In
saving the cargo Of the steamer Brooklyn
at Anticosti Island, was also driven ashore
and Is total wreck.
The members of the Spanish Cabinet de-
sire the Queen Regent to summon the
Cortes quickly, as aprecaution against rev.
olution.
CoMPTRoLLER OF THE CURRENCY CANNON
thinks the coinage of silver dollars should
be checked.
PETER DoNAHuE, the California million.
aire, is dead.
BOSTON CoRBETT, who killed ]. Wilkes
Booth, has come to the front as a law-de-
fer at Concordia, Kas.
THE editors of the Journal la DISCUSSIONS
at Madrid have been arrested for publish
Ing the head line: "Alfonso is Dead; Long
Live the Republic.n
The steamer Emma Graham, of the Gin
cinnati Packet Company, sunk at Ripley's
Landing, Ohio River, on the 9th. One
man was known to be drowned and several
Others were missing.
IT is stated that Prince Alexander is
willing to grant an armistice if Servia
withdraws her troops from Widdin and
pays an indemnity of $5, 100000.
DON MANUEL RODRIGUEZ is leading a
revolt against the State Of Nuevo Leon,
Mexico.
STRIKING coal miners in the Fourth
Pennsylvania Pool attacked and beat a
number of "blacklegs" who attempted to
return to work on the 9th. A serious riot
was expected.
A PLASTER cast of the dead Vice-Presi-
dent which was made on the 9th was not
satisfactory, and another trial was to be
made.
A SUBSCRIPTION list for the benefit of
Riel's family has been opened at Montreal.
SQUATTERs on land included in the dis
puted Ontonagan (Wis.) grant are driving
Off the lumbermen who hold patents on
pine lands.
ROBERT FOWLER, who was to have been
executed at Morganfield, KY, on the 9th,
but who was respited, had to be hurried
out of that place to avoid mob.
EIGHT Indians, convicted Of murder and
participation in the Frog Lake massacre,
were hanged on the 9th at Battleford,
Northwest Territory.
THE failures in the United States for the
seven days ended the 9th numbered 225;
for the year to date, 10,O88.
GERMANY and England have signed an
agreement to recognize Spanish sover-
eighty over the Caroline Islands, Spain
having conceded commercial facilities in
that quarter to these powers.
A STATE of siege has been proclaimed in
the provinces of Barcelona and Carthagena
and Canary Islands.
SILAs HAYES, of Benton, Ark, stole his
sweetheart, Miss English, ran away and
married her, and on his return home was
shot in the face by her guardian.
PROF. GOODWIN SMITH, who has been
dangerously Ill at Toronto, Ont, is now
considered out of danger.
SAM CoLLyER, of New York, challenges
Billy Edwards to prize fight for $4,000
side.
GOVERNOR MARMADUKE of Missouri is-
sued proclamation on the 9th asking the
people to properly honor the memory of
Thomas A. Hendricks on the day of his
burial.
AT Havana, Cuba, all places of amuse-
ment are closed and the city is in mourning
over the death of King Alfonso.
The committee representing the Chicago
and st. Louis Cattle Association, which
met at Springfield, ILL.,, on the 9th, decid-
ed In favor of consolidation under the
name Of "The Cattle Growers Association
of the United States"
A REGULAR meeting of the Cabinet was
held on the 9th. All the members were
present. The Presidents message, so far
as completed, was read and unanimously
approved. 1t is said to be an unusually
strong paper, containing many new and
valuable suggestions.
TELEGRAMs have been received la Paris
by Carlist chiefs from Don Carlos which
Indicate that he expects republican rls-