The Magnolia gazette. [volume] (Magnolia, Miss.) 1872-current, 1885-04-17
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

ltleS.
THREE people were burned to death in
house near Asheville, Tenn, the night of |
the 9th. Foul play is suspected.
MICHIGAN went Democratic on the 9Th |
by 10000 majority, the election being for
Supreme Court Judge and Reg ents of
the State University.
CAPTAIN HOWARD, of the United States
army, will instruct the Canadian troops
in the use of Sie Gatling guns for service
against the Riel rebels.
THE Central American States asked
President Diaz of Mexico to appoint some
one to mediate between them, and Joaquin
Boranda was chosen.
AT fire in Halifax IN. 81 boarding
house on the 9th Jas. Fuller was burned to
death. Several fishermen, who were
sleeping in the upper part of the house,
escai ed by jumping from window to the
arm of a telephone pole and then sliding
to the ground.
A DISPATCH received on the 9th from the
home of ex-Secretary Frelinghuysen said
he was not expected to live through the
day.
THE visible supply of wheat on the 9th
was 47,567,3lS bushels; corn, S,SS5,963
bushels; oats, 1854, ,498 bushels.
In carefully prepared financial article
the New York Sun shows that mon ey wa
never so cheap as now.
o. G. STEENABURG's sash and door fac
tory at Fond du Lac, Wis, together with
a large stock Of product, was totally de.
stroyed by fire on the 9th. Loss, $4,000;
insurance, $4,000.
The Leon Hotel at Tallahassee, Fla,
burned on the 7th.
JOHN d. MCKEE, an oil broker of Pitts
burgh, Pa, committed suicide on the 7th.
THr Prince and Princess of Wales left
London for Ireland on the 7th.
MIKE MCDONALD, the Chicago gambler,
had fight at the polls during the munich
pal election ON the 7th.
Two Democrats were elected in Cincin-
natl by good majorities.
CHOLERA, it is said, has broken out at
Batavia, Spain.
The Pennsylvania Railroad carried In
one year II, ,429,776 passengers-that they
knew of.
ANTHONY RYAN, of Rushville, Ind, was
run over and killed at Columbus, o., on
the 7th.
SIXTEEN hundred employees of the Nc
Cormick reaper works at Chicago quit
work on the 7th. They want living wages.
THE President of Salvador is not yet
certain of victory, in spite of the reported
death of Barrios.
JOHN HENRY BROWN, formerly a resi-
dent of Missouri, was elected Mayor of
| Dallas, Tex.
HEAVY and destructive rains fell in Mis-
sissippi on the 7th, doing considerable
damage to railway property.
MR.. GLADSTONE thinks that the diff
| Guilty with Russia can be settled by diplo-
matte methods.
BOTH parties claimed victory in Chi
cago on the 7th, and latest advices left the
result in doubt.
JUDGE EWING, of Pittsburgh, Pa, de-
cided that store order given by COM
pany to an employe was illegal.
AMOR SMITH, JR., Republi can, was
elected Mayor of Cincinnati.
THE Pennsylvania Railroad, main line
and branches, earned $50, ,196,ss4 during the
year; net earnings, $40, 0,509,926.
OUT of respect to General Grant the
White House reception, which was to have
taken place the evening of the 7th, was in
definitely postponed.
GENERAL PASSENGER AGENT FORD has
issued an order for the restoration of rates
| on all of the Pennsylvania Compapy's
lines.
AT Fort Madison, Washington Terrific
ry, an Indian woman threw lamp at Geo
Eoeg. 1t exploded and burned Hoeg tc
death.
JOHN L. CUMMINGS, q clerk in the Firs
National Bank of Cincinnati, was sho
| I H. 4, l~xx AE
Mcmillan, who charged the former will
the ruin OF the latter's daughter.
HOWARD COOPER, the negro who as
saulted Miss Kate Gray near Rockland
Nd, was caught and placed in a Balti.
more jail.
REPUBLICAN members of the Tennessee
Legislature absented themselves on tn
7th to prevent vote on a registration bill
Arrests were ordered and there was
lively time generally.
COLONEL MCLEAN, of Terre Haute, Ind.
will be appointed First Assistant Com
missioner of Pensions. He was an office
in the Union army during the war of tn
rebellion.
ONCE more it is reported that an armis
tice has been signed between France an
China.
ADvIoEs from New York on the 7th re
ported General Grants condition as YER
serious, by reason of arterial hemorrhag g
: of the throat. He was resting quietly th
! morning of the Sth.
RUSSIA is making active preparation
: to put the great naval and military sta
, tion at Cronstadt in state of compile
Defense
REAR ADMIRAL JOHN MARsToN died
Philadelphia, Pa, on the Sth in his min,
tieth year.
SIX THOUSAND people attended the OF
era festival in Chicaeo the evening Of Il
Sth. Mile. Nevada scored decided tr
umph.
ENGLISH ship-owners refuse to take ca
goes of rice from China.
t PROCEEDINGS against Mrs. Dudley, wi
z shot O'Donovan Rosa, We're stayed on Il
n Sth, commission in lunacy having be,
f granted to go to England to take test
9 mony.
j. A CONVENTION of manufacturing CO
fectioners met at Philadelphia, Pa, on Il
9th.
FORTY thousand coal miners are on
strike in Yorkshire. England.
THE son of General Barrios, who is a c
:, det at W est Point, does not believe that
? father is dead.
!. GILBERT L. PARKER and Fred v. Ro
ers, of Davenport, Ia, were drowned
the 9Th.
/: MRS. SUsANNAH, the celebrated Can