The Magnolia gazette. [volume] (Magnolia, Miss.) 1872-current, 1885-09-11
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

IHE dead man found near Chicago, re-
Ported on the 4th, has heen identif I'd as
d. Sulvin, of Springfield, Mass. He had
been drowned.
THE Supreme Court of Illinois on the
4th overruled the motion for continu-
ance in the case of Mackin, convicted OF
perjury in the Chicago election fraud
| cases. N ~a4
HENRY BERsAYER, arrested at Engle-
wood, suburb of Chicago, for the MUIR
der of a young boy named Smith, was
landed at the Iolice station on the 4th
/ with great diff Guilty, owing to the lynch
ing propensities of mob.
JOSEPH HEINZ, shoe manufacturer and
merchant of Louisville, KY, and also
| Treasurer of two benevolent societies, Is
missing, and 1t is charged that he has
taken several thousand dollars of the So
cietes' funds.
IwJ or three members of the Cabinet
are quoted as having recently stated that
the administration will not advocate any
amendment of the civil service law by the
next Congress-
| AT Grand Forks Oak, on the 4th,
Judge Mcconnell sentenced George MIL
Ter, who murdered Mrs. Smell and her two
| SAAAAeA 20 AoSe Wthod w bo uHuSou OtbO-
ber 30th. The prisoner received the sem
tence with the utmost Indifference.
A WAGON load of dynamite exploded
near I.akefield, Ontario, on the 14th, kill
ing two men named Morton and Simmons
| and team of horses. The shock was
| felt for miles around.
THE Second Comptroller of the Treasury
| has disallowed an account for $500 ex-
pended in entertaining distinguished
guests on the flag g-ship Tennessee at the
| New Orleans Exposition.
| BROOKS, alias Maxwell, made his Sec
ond appearance in the Court of Criminal
| Correction, at st. Louis, on the 81 His
lawyer was not ready, and the case was
continued one week, when examination
| may be waived.
Hon. DAN. MANNING visited Mr.. Tilden
| at Greystone on the ID.
The National Convention of the Mason
ic Lodges of Relief, In session at Balti-
| more on the 3D.. elected Martin Collins, of
ST. Louis, President.
TIE American Watch Company of Wal
than, Mass, has received large order
| for their goods from Japan. The casss
| are to be specially engraved with jap
| anese characters.
A FLOUR mill at Hagerstown, Nd, a
hundred years old, burned on the Sd.
GERMANY is willing to havesa friendly
power arbltrate the Caroline Islands
question.
A soNof Admiral Cooper was arrested
at New York on the 3D. on charge Of
burglary.
DREYFUs and Lebaudy, two French
f... - l..
which Lsbaudy was wounded.
! IT is said at New York that the West-
ern Union operators will quit work On ehe
18th inst, If their demand for increased
pay for extra work is not complied with.
In the Province of Quebec frosts have
severely damaged the buckwheat crop.
SPANISH residents Of France have been
admonished not to make anti German
demonstrations.
| A MAN named Winney shot and killed
his step father, Geo. Daniels, near Cedar
Rapids, Ia, on the 3d.,
THE morocco factory of Nicholas Web
ber at Lynn, Mass, was destroyed by fire
on the 81.
LIEUTENANT-G GENERAL JOHN H NELL
WILLIE DARLINGTON, Of the British army,
was accidentally killed while grouse-
hunting on the Sd.
THE Daviess County (Ind.) township
trustees are charged with tampering
| with the funds.
| THE Frenc1 Embassy at Constanti-
| nople has assumed an aggressive atti-
tude towards Sir Henry Drummond
| Wolff.
Ex- SENATOR GwYNN, Of California,
who had been seriously i'll at New York
for several days, died on the 81
LIEUTENANT scHUErz has reached
Tomsk on his way to Yakoutsk with the
presents for the natives who aided the
Jeanette survivors.
| Hon. WIN. WARNER, Of Missouri, was
elected President of the Waterways Con-
| vention at st. Paul, Mimi.
1 AN order has been received by the Elk
| Rapids (Mich.) Iron Company for 400
tons of charcoal iron, to b, shipped to En-
gland. tas-
/ Mr. STAED, editor of the Pail Null Ga
| sette, telegraphs from Switzerland that he
i alone is responsible for the abduction of
the Armstrong girl.
THE health of the rebel leaders Riel and
Dumont was proposed and enthusiastical-
| ly drank at a banquet at Papineau vile,
Province of Quebec. on the 3D..
JUDGE g. w. McILvANE, of the Ohio
Supreme Court, has declined the Republic
can nomination for recollection, owing te
i'll health.
Patrick HARrNETT, the Ohio wife mur-
derer, who was to have been executed OF
the 4th, has been respited by Governor
Hoadly until September 30th.
Mr.. E. L, WAKEMAN, former proprietor
of ths Chicago Current, who disappeared
some time since, has been found in q
monastery in Wisconsin
Ex-CoNGREssMAN JAS. G. FREEMAN, o.
Atlanta, Ga, who appointed the cele'
brated negro "Flipper" to West Point,
died in that city on the 81 aged sixty.
He was a wealthy ciiizsn and one of the
leading business men of Atlanta.
MAJoR CHERMsIDE telegraphs that tn
!, garrison at Kassala has not surrendered.
A GENERAL advertisement will be Is
sued on the 15th instant by the Postmas
ter General calling for proposals for rem
dering steamboab mail service in all parts
of the United States.
LIEUTENANT WEIssMAN, the German
explorer, has discovered that the Rivei
Kassai, heretofore believed to join the
Congo above the equator, curves and fall
into Lake Leopold IL
ALEX. McLEoD, Anthony Ginness an,
Michael Ginness were fatally burned BY
an explosion of gas at No. 8 colliery
operated by the Lehieh Valley Coal Com