The Magnolia gazette. [volume] (Magnolia, Miss.) 1872-current, 1885-05-01
OPICS OF THE DAY.
News from Everywhere.

rHE entire editions of five newspapers
re seized on the 23d by the Austrian
bvernment at Vienna.
hHs oklahoma boomers have decided to
home ahdsawait further action on the
rt of the government.
FHE MASSACHUSETTS Legislature is con-
herring bill providing for fortnightly
yment tosemp.oyes by manufacturing
mpanies. ~
In is semi -eeBcially announced at Paris
LAD Bismarck offered to arbitrate for the
ttloment Of tha dispute between Russia
Id England.
8rHe Treasury Department on the 23d
rchased 425,OO0 ounces of silver for de-
kery at the New Orleans and Phila-
III hia mints.
GovERNoR CAMERON (Readjuster) will
II an extra session of tho Virginia Leg
ature to consider the Supreme Court de-
6on on the coupon casa.
2Ex- CONGRESSMAN WHTTTHoRNE, of Ten
kssee, wants the Assistant Secretary Oh
late ''to go outside the United States 10
lttle little matter between tn sm."
IAN explosion occurred in the basement
the Admiralty building in London, on
Ie 23d, which was damaged considera-
", and one person was seriously injured.
AIT is said that the Pope will confer with
o Irish Bishops at Rome in reference to
o discourtesy toward the Prince OF
ales, il not, in fact, issue pastoral lot
PTypBoIp maiarial fever is prevailing at
ymouth, Pa, to such an alarming ex-
Int that all business is practically sus-
knded. Polluted wells are said to be the
(use.
3Tag French ambassador at Berlin has
BEN instructed to protest against General
lon Mol .ke's recent excursions in differ
I'D passes in the French frontier in the
ievera.
&THE Armstrong works at Newcastle, En-
and, have received large order from
ussia, but decline to fill it, and have noti-
ed the British Admiralty of the nature of
4e order.
8MR. WYMAN, Treasurer of the United
a,es, has resigned, and G. N. Jordan, OF
lew York, was appointed his successor.
he action of Mr.. Wymaa was entirely
pituitary.
ELEVEN miners were buried in snow
de on Homestake Mountain in Colorado
b the 25th. A large rescuing party start
i for the scene, but it was feared that all
bd perished.
la ST. PETERSBURG correspondent of a
london paper states that the latest En-
Iish proposals arrived, and that the Gar
Lii favors the maintenance of the Rus
IAN demand.
4 NUMEROUS forest fires, extending fifty
lilies each side of the Blue Ridge Noun
hins, west of Lynchburg, Va, have been
Ilrning for several days. The loss Is re-
brted heavy.
4 THE First Comptroller of the Treasury
as recommended to the Secretary that
be divisions in his Office be reduced from
6ne to five and the force be reduced cor
Fspondingly.
A SENIOR MANUEL DE PERALTA, the new
3inister to the United States from the Re-
&ublic of Salvador, was presented to Pres
lent Cleveland on the 23d. Secretary
ayard made the presentation.
THE Postmaster Gen eral has forbidden
be delivery of money orders OF regis
bred letters to g. F. Smidt & Co., of De :
foit, Mich, who have bsen convicted Of
ealing in fraudulent lottery tickets.
II INFORMATION received at Vienna from
70. Petersburgh political circles is to the
Ifect that England must acknowledge the
complete neutrality Of Afghanistan and
he extinction of English influence in the
Nmeer's country, or there will be war.
THE London Standards correspondent
barns that the United States Govern
bent has intimated that If war breaks out
otween England and Russia the United
tates will not allow Russia to buy ships
b arm privateers in American harbors.
Y The United States Marshal at New York
rrested Ernest Pernert on the 22d on
Complaint of the German Consul. It is
alleged that on the night OF the 9th OF
June, 1884, he set fire to the house of one
Haasen, in the city of Berlin, Germany.
N s
In Difference to the wishes of the italian
iovernmant, A. M. Kelly, recently ap-
Pointed United States Minister at Rome,
vas requested to resign, and he has done
%. His speech against King Victor Eman-
el several years ago was not forgotten.
The Southern Pacific Railroad Com
any has directed it's attorney in Wash
ston to take an appeal from the decision
4 the Commissioner of the General Land
Office, throwing open to settlement lands
laimed by the company as part of its
and grant.
A CONSIGNMENT of hardware from New
York State has been seized by the Gus
oms authorities of Ottawa, Canada, who
ire in possession of information to the
feet that the goods were manufactured
by prison labor. The Importation of such
foods into Canada is prohibited.
A LEATHER match box has been found
riHong tne euectb hheSeu W DeioEE u
Preller, who was murdered in st. Louis
with the name "Hugh M. Brooks" marked
hereon. A ticket to Frisco was sold tt
Pne Hugh NJ. Brooks. The question nov
whether this is not the supposed Max
well.
THE Indiana Legislature has just passed
bill limiting the rental of telephones il
hat State to S. per month, with reduc'
Ion Of fifty cents when two or more ar
sed by the same firm. The telephone hal
Pecoms public necessity, but it is in tht
pands of powerful monopoly who hav
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