The Magnolia gazette. [volume] (Magnolia, Miss.) 1872-current, 1885-07-10


under ground in Washington, D. c.
THE South American Commission from
the United States has made its report on
Chilli. 1t received very little encourage
ment there-a chilly greeting, SO to speak.
Mr.. KIMBALL, the new Director of the
Mint, entered on discharge of the duties of
that office on the I'd.
EUGENE SALISBURY, who killed Peter
Miller at Union City, Mich, in Mar, has
been convicted of manslaughter, and sem
fenced to ten years in the States prison at
Jackson.
EDWARD HALL and Isaac Lawrence
were convicted in the United States Court
in New York, on the I'd, of conspiring to
counterfeit Guatemalan currency.
VIM. MEINRIcKs was hanged in the jail
yard at Binghamton, N. Y, on the I'd,
for the murder of Katie Bredhoff.
A BANQUET in honor of Judge j. B..
Stallo, recently appointed Minister to
Italy, will be given at Cincinnati, O., on
the 7th, under the auspices of the Ohio
Club, the same organization which hon.
ored Minister Pendleton in similar way.
GENERAL GRANTS book is nearly COM
pleted.
A SPORADIC case of yellow fever has oc-
Cured at New Orleans.
ROBINSON, the st. John IN. b. default-
er, has been heard from in Mexico
MRS GARFIELD and family arej visiting
at Stockbridge, Mass.
GEO. H. DUNBAR was murdered by un-
known parties at Pittsfeld, Mass, on the
9th.
HENRY WARD BEEcHER has concluded
his series of lectures on Evolution.
The French press has assumed more
friendly tone toward England.
FRANCE has adopted precautions against
the introduction of cholera from Spain.
AN unknown man had his clothes stol :
en- at Omaha, Neb., on the 9th, over which
he went crazy and died.
GENERAL McCooK writes letter ar
raigning the Government for its course in
the matter of Indian leases.
VIM. VAN VoART and Charles Maxwell
were killed by the premature explosion OF
a cannon at Utica, N. Y.
MAYOR HARRISON of Chicago issued q
proclamation on the 9th forbidding the
people to cougreg ate in large bodies along
the car lines.
THE remains of Lousana's war Gov
ernor, Henry Watkins Allen, were re-
moved from New Orleans to Baton Rou ge
on the 9TH, and buried with honors.
LOUIS HAssoN, of New York spent the
Fourth on the top of Storm King Noun
tain, near Newburgh, and wound up the
day by killing himself, after trying to kill
his wife.
GENERAL GRANT spent quiet Iday or
the 9th, and was feeling in good spirits
Senator Chaffee was among the visitors
1T is said that the State Department. has
been informed that Ecuador and Chill
have arranged some sort of an offensive
| and defensive alliance, and there is q cer-
tain amount of anxiety regarding the re.
| port.
| TEN large tobacco. warehouses were
| burned at Stoughton, Wis, on the 9th
and 5000 cases of tobacco were destroyed
The losses will aggregate $500 900.
| THE New York Worlds special Sunday
train made the run between New Yorl
| and Boston on the 9th in five hours ano
seven minutes, the quickest time yet made
between the two cities.
Ex-UNITED STATES Consult GENERAL
| FRYE was banqueted at Halifax, N. S.
the evening of the 4th All the prominent
| business men were present.
The overdue Cunard steamer Gallia ar.
rived at Queenstown on the 9th. Her en-,
| gines were disabled by a breakage in tn,
| tunnel shaft.
| LATE advices from Japan state that tbs
confagration which occurred at Toyama
May 18th, destroyed 5,917 houses.