The Magnolia gazette. [volume] (Magnolia, Miss.) 1872-current, 1885-04-03
NEWS AND NOTES.

NEWS AND NOTES.
A Summary Of Important Events.
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THE German Rechstag adopted the bill
for subsidizing steamship companies.
THE Chinese losses at Thu Yen Quau, on
the ID inst, are said to have been enorm-
GUS.
SENATOR WADE HAMPTON is reported to
be recovering from his recent lness, and
will return home in few days.
THE propeller Michigan, after being ice
bound in Lake Michigan for four weeks,
sank. She was valued at $165,000.
THE deaths in the recent battle near
Suakim were caused mostly by spear
thrusts received in hand to hand engage
ments.
UNITED STATES troops are on a sharp
lookout for "boomers" said to have crossed
over into Oklahoma from Arkansas and
Texas.
VERMONT Democrats called on the Pres
ident on the 23d, aud thanked him for ap-
pointing Mr. Phelps Minister to Great
Britain.
IT is semi-officially announced at Paris
that Bismarck offered to arbitrate for the
settlement Of the dispute between Russia
and England.
E. d. CLARKE, who was recently ap-
pointed Assistant Secretary of the In
terror, died of pneumonia at Washington,
d. c., on the 23d.
On the second ballot for United States
Senator in the Illinois Legislature on the
25th, Logan received 100 votes. None but
Republicans voted.
IT is a GROWN impression in New York
that many of the European war reports
circulated on the Stock Exchange are
nufac1ured in that city.
THE British War Department has or
dered 1000 900 pounds of canned beef from
one go firm, and 100000 pounds
from another house of that city.
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JUDGE GRESHAM granted a writ Of error
in the cases of Mackin and Gallagher, the
Chicago politicians convicted of election
frauds, and they were admitted to bail.
GENERAL, GRAHAM expected on the 23d
to reach Tamai within few hours, and
proposed to give Osman Digna battle as
soon as possible. The latter had $4,000
men.
THE eighty y-eighth anniversary of the
birth of the Emperor of Germany was OBJ
served on the 22d with enthusiasm and re-
ioicings at Berlin and other places in the
empire.
A REPORT was ahoat the night OF the
22d that General Grant was dead. II
proved untrue. His condition, however,
was not quite so favorable as on the previ-
GUS day.
In the case of the United States vs. the
San Jacinto Tin Company, involving
nearly Il 100000 a decision was rendered
at San Francisco on the 23d in favor Of
defendant.
A COMMITTEE from the Civil Service As
sociation of Baltimore, Nd, on the 24ti
presented Secretary Manning the resolu-
tions protesting against the appointment
of Eugene Higgins.
ARABS suddenly attacked the British
near Suakim on the 22d. The latter's loss
was two officers and twenty two mel
killed and thirty three men wounded, with
some of the reports not yet in. The Arabs
lost very heavily.
NoMATrINoNs and combinations: Ed
ward j. Phelps, of Vermont, Minister t,
Great Britain; Robt. M. McLane, OF Mary.
land, to France; Geo. Fl. Pendleton, o
Ohio, to Germany, and Henry R. Jackson
of Georgia, to Mexico.
The Commits sioner of Internal Revenu
has recommended changes in several elec
tion districts, and it wae expected tn
President would nominate number o
collectors of internal revenue before ad
journment of the Senate.
A. A. KENDALL, Postmaster at st. Paul
Neb., has been arrested by Inspector Steer
on the charge of defalcation, amounti nj
to between ST., 900 and 5000. Kendall is 6
brother of the ex- Commissioner of Public
Lands and Buildings of Nebraska
THE artillery, mounted police and vol
unteers of Winnipeg, Man., are being hur
ried forward to Prince Albert and Carl tol
to suppress the Saskatchewan half breed:
and Indian uprising. The situation ther
is critical. Serious trouble is imminent.
GOVERNOR SToNEMAN of California ha
refused to sign the bill amending the Con
stitution, whereby the railroads would
taxed two and half per cent. of thei
gross earnings, instead of being taxed OF
their property in the ordinary manner.
The Commissioner of Pensions has is
sued an order directing that for the pres
ent until the mass of business before th
board of review is disposed of, members o
that division of the Pension Office sha
begin work at $3.50 a. m. and finish at
p. m.
THE Secretary of the Treasury has pre-
pared circular letter to collectors of Gus
toms requesting information as to tn
practicability of reducing the expense {
collecting the revenue from customs b
curtailing the present force of clerks an
other employees.
THE Senators who are SO much oppose
to the publication of what transpires
executive session took extra precautior