The Magnolia gazette. [volume] (Magnolia, Miss.) 1872-current, 1885-12-18
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

were 1854; for the last seven days of that
period, 221.
SERvIA will abide by the decision of the
powers If compatible with her interests
and dignity.
QUEEN VICTORIA has donated $500 to-
ward the relief of the wounded Bulga-
rians.
TIE American Public Health Associa-
on the 11th, selected Toronto, Ont, as their
next place Of meeting.
PANAMA adyices report favorable prog
ress being made on the inter oceanic canal
across the lsthmus, }$
BENJAMIN MILLER and John D. Boren
were arrested in Indiana on the 11th and
carried to Evansville on charges Of coun-
terfeiting. Of
The Mexican Congress has approved the
modified contract with Captain Eads for
the Tehuantepec ship railway.
TWENTY -THREE thousand Turkish troops
are massed in the Epiuis and the inhab-
itants are fleeing from their homes
Mr.. THOMAS P. o'CoNNoR defines the
Nationalist view of home rule for ireland
as like that of the Government Of Canada.
AT Chadbourn, N. G., on the 11th, col
cred woman left her two children in the :.
house while she went to church, and they
were burned to death. M
,MILLIE CoLBURN, a colored woman,
threw herself undera train at Peach Tree
Creek, Ca, on the 11th, and was torn to
pieces by the wheels. 81 ~ zy,s
AN outbreak Of the Ute Indians in Utah
is threatened on account OF the refusal of
the Union Pacific Road to pay for one of
their number who was killed by the cars.
A FAMINE is threatened in iron ore in
the East, the only district accessible in
winter months being the Pilot Knob region
in Missouri.
THE State authorities at Monterey, Mex
leo, have surrendered to the Federal forces,
and martial law has been declared.
THE remains of VIM. H. Vanderbilt were
consigned to the tomb on Staten Island on
the 11th.
THOMAS KAHoE escaped from the Ohio
Penitentiary on the 11th. He was en,-
ployed on the outside, and walked away
while the attention of the guards was tenn
porarily withdrawn.
EMILY BURTON has been arrested at New
port, Mass, as an accessory to the murder
of her father.
THE Supreme Court of Ohio has reversed
the decision Of the lower court in the HAM
ilton County mandamus case, and the
Democratic Senators will get the eertif1-
Gates of election.
THE striking weavers at Gloucester City,
Pa, are boycotting the business men who
have anything to do with the employers or
employees of the gingham mills.
THE General Council of Switzerland has
granted credit for the purpose Of fortify-
ing the Swiss end of the St. Gothard tun-
mel.
THE weather throughout England was
reported ON the 18th as being intensely
cold, the temperature being lower than at
any time during the past five years.
CoMpTRoLLER CANNON is endeavoring to
bring the affairs Of the Freedmen's Bank
to a final settlement.
A REDUCTION of one-third of present
rates has been made on the cost of interna-
tional money orders.
EIGHT of the survivors of the wreck of the
propeller Oconoto succeeded in effecting a
landing in yawl and after long walk
reached Tawas City, Mich, on the 11th.
They reported all the survivors living in a
hut on the island where they were wrecked,
growing respondent.
MINISTER Cox seems disgusted with life
at Constantinople, and has written that he
intends to return home next year in time
to secure the nomination for Congress in
his old district.
THE Second Comptroller of the Treasury
has disallowed the claim of Samuel Archi-
bold for compensation and expenses
amounting to $1,542 for services as q
civilian member of the Naval Advisory
Board from June 10th to September 30th,
1885.
SECOND COMPTROLLER MAYNARD, has
given an opinion that pensioners who live
in the United States can not give other
receipt for their pension money.
REV. w. w. Downs and Mrs. Annie
Taber have been indicted by the Boston
Grand Jury ON three counts for adultery.
SOFIA was decorated with flags on til
18th, and the people were rejoicing ovel
the news that the Roumelian union will
Bulgaria had been officially recognized.
KING MrLAN's acquiesence to the de-
mands of Bulgaria was announced on the
18th, just in time to prevent an assault OF
Nissa.
THE Catholics of Paris are greatly ex
ercised over a municipal order expellins
all nuns and Sisters of Charity from the
hospitals.
The bi-centennial anniversary of the in
| PRODUCTION of printing was commemoratet
at Philadelphia, Pa, on the 18th, by an ex
hibition illustrating the progress of the az
| during the past 200 years.
VIENNA is agitated over one of the bold
| est jewelry robberies on record in the Aus
| trian Empire, in which the burglars Sc
| cured 100000 fiorins' worth of diamond
and pearls, cutting through three safes t
| get at them.
AN additional $4,000 of fraudulent In
| diana township warrants signed Ernes
Kitz has been discovered in Chicago
| Kitz maintains that the signature of hi
name is aforgery.
THE Tonquin Committee in Paris
warming toits work, aud the reputation
/ of several public men of note seem likely t
be seriously compromised by the develop
ments.
MINNIE PALMER concluded a fiftee
weeks tour of the British provinces a
Cardiff, Wales, on the evening of the 18th
After a fortnight's rest she will open th
Metropolitan season at the Strand Theatre
Lendon, and will leave in May for he
Australian tour, returning thence to Er
gland.
A BLOODY engagement occurred on til
4 18th between the BULGARIAN and Sarvial