The Magnolia gazette. [volume] (Magnolia, Miss.) 1872-current, 1885-06-26
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

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| raise treasure sunk there in 1702.
| GENERAL WESLEY MERRITT is to be
transferred from West Point to new
| field of duty.
THE labor strike at Brunn, Aust ria, is
spreading, though the riots hav been
suppressed.
GEO. A. PYERs, for whipping his wife
in Baltimore, wtss sentenced on the 18th
to receive fifteen lashes and to be confined
four months in Jail.
The sunken- drede,e in the Su,,z Canal
has stopped traffic and caused enormous
loss to shipping interests.
| THE French dispatch boat Reu.aud foun-
dered during a cyclone in the Indian
Ocean and 127 lives were lost.
| AARON s. CoLMAN, of New York, has
been appointed chief of the sp ecial exam
ination division of the Pension Office,
| Washington.
A CoLoRED man and an Italian had
difficulty at Evansville, Ind, on the 18th,
over bottle of whisky and mortally
| wounded each other.
GENERAL CAcEREs, with 400o men, is
reported near Lima, and battle with the
government troops is imminent.
THE acrimonious expressions of the
| French newspapers on the death of Prince
Frederick Charles have greatly irritated
| the Germans in Paris.
| BERNARD MAGooNAUGH, an arniless vet
eran of the ordnance service, has been
designated by the Secretary of the In
terror as custodian of the Detroit arsenal
property at Dearborn, Mich, vice j. A.
Patrick, resigned.
IT is rumored that General Alfred
Pleasonton will be appointed Governor Of
the Soldiers Home at Hampton, Va, to
| succeed the present incumbent.
Ex-SECRETARY LINCOLN, who has re-
sided in Washington since tho change of
the Administration, has gone to Fortress
| Monroe. After a short stay there, he will
go to Chicago and resume the practice of
law.
A BOY named Kipp ,tt Newark, N. j., is
suffering from hydrophobia.
THE Davenport (Ia.) woolen mills were
almost wholly destroyed by fire on the
10th.
THE next annual meeting of the Asso-
citation of Railroad Telegr aph Superin-
tendents will be held at st. Paul, Mimi,
June 18th, 1886.
THE cotton mill owners of Oldham,
Eng, have decided upon short time and a
reduction of ten per cent. in wages. The
operatives agreed to the former but not
to the latter. A strike on large scale is
expected.
Politics are running high in tho Indian
Territory.
AT a meeting of the Builders Laborers
Union in Toronto, Ont, on the 18th, it was
resolved to strike if their demand for an
increase in wages of from sixteen to eigh-
teen cents an hour is not complied with.
The strike will stop all building opera
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collapsed.
THE late Admiral Courbet will be buried
at Abbeville, his birthplace
THE Exeter IN. HI. } mills are shutting
down until September.
In the Pindlebury colliery explosion,
near Manchester, England, 14o lives were
lost.
THERE were ITO business failures in the
United States during the seven days ended
the 10Th, as compared with 1877 the previ-
Gus week.
THE French Chamber of Deputies has
refused to exempt priests from service in
the reserves.
GEORGE SCHNEIDER was hanged at
Hamilton, o., on the 10th, for killing his
mother.
A GRAND banquet was given at Paris or
the 10Th to retiring Minister Morton Of the
United States.
A COUPLE of attaches of Coles circus
killed each other in fight at Houghton,
Mich, on the 10th.
1T is stated that Caceras, the Peruvian
insnrrectionist, has asked a suspension oi
hostiities.
, SAMUEL III. WARD, of Minneapolis
Mimi, has been arrested on charge Of
land swindling in Berlin.
THE Ameer has massed his army Ii
Afghan -Turkistan, and is said to be men,
acing the Russians.
HERMAN G. WEBER has been appointed
: United States Marshal for the Southern
!, District of Illinois.
NINE men have so far been killed in the
Jones Hall faction war in Knott County,
Kentucky.
The Irish are satisfied with the appoint.
ment of the Earl of Carnarvon as Lore
. Lieutenant of Ireland.
EMPLOYEES of the Para Rubber Shoe
Company's works at South Framingha M
: Mass, have struck.
T. j. CLUvERIUs was sentenced to death
. at Richmond, Va, for the murder of Fan.
ME Lillian Madison.
EIGHTY Bulgarian brigands have beer
, captured and fifteen killed in Roumelia
/ where they were stirring up a rebellion.
s FRED LEWIS has been expelled from th
8 st. Louis League team for insubordina
. tion.
JAMES T. TANNING, an old actor, ha
been sent to the House of Industry at Bos
ton as vagrant
In the case of johnson for the killing o
Henry at Greenville, Tenn, the evidence
was all in on the 10th and argument be
gan on the Goth.
n GENERAL EDGARToN, POST office Inspec
o tor at st. Louis, Mo-, has been transferret
o to Boston. He will be succeeded by In
d spector Crowell, of Kansas.
u CHARLES CAMPBELL was hanged il
Plaquemne Parish, Louisiana, on the 19tl
10 for murder.
i ACCORDING to reports direct from tn
= fields there are splendid prospects for
E. good cotton crop.
r. ARTHUR j. GROVER, wanted for murde
It in Wood County, Ohio, has been capture
near Menominee, Wis.
JACK DEMPSEY and Charley Mitche
are matched to fight to finish with sma
T gloves for $1,000.
!, In the Supreme Court of New York o