The Magnolia gazette. [volume] (Magnolia, Miss.) 1872-current, 1885-09-18
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

REsoL5TreNs on the death Of General
Graht were adopted by the Society Of the |
Army of the Tennessee at Chicago.
SECRETARY BAYARB was informed by |
cable on the 30th that cholera was preva-
lent at Shanghai, China.
GENERAL MILES, just returned from
the Indian Territory, reports the CATTLE
men on the move, and all will be or the
Cheyenne Reservation in a month.
The river coal miners strike in Penn
sylvania is spre ding.
Mr.. JOHN X. CRos J. Member of Rarlia-
ment for Bolton, started for the United
States on ths 10th to inquire into indus
trial questions in connection with the
present depression in Great Britain. He is
accompanied by his son.
Rev. ALBERT S. HuDsoN, Congrega CATION
al clergyman of Aver, Mass, has been sent
to the insane asylum. The cause is over
work, he being engaged, in addition to
his pastoral labors. in writing the history
of the town of nd bury.
A GAS well was struck at Cameron, N.
Y, on the 10th, ut a depth of fifty feet,
while one of the residents was boring for
water The gas is flowing with consider
able force and oil speculators are already
| leasing land.
| The statue Of commodore Perry was
unveiled at Newport, r. l., on the 1st,
with imposing ceremonies.
| A FREETHtNKG,S' convention began it's
sessions at Albany, N. Y, on the 11th.
TIE health of Lord Randolph Churchill,
| Secretary of State for India, has given
| away under the strain of his official du-
| ties and the part he has taken in the par
lamentary cam paign. All of his political
| engagements have besn Cancelled In ac-
cordance with the imperative demands of
his physicians
COLONEL WILLIAM SIRwELL, who COM
manded the Seventy aeighth Pennsylvania
Regiment during the late war, died on
the 9th nt his residence In Kittanning,
Fa., from cancer of the throat, his symp-
toms being an exact counterpart of those
of General Grant.
A RELIEF fund for cholera suff erers has
been started by the Lord Mayor of Lon
don.
THE Commission ,r os Internal Rev enue
reports that the amount of distill ed spirits
gone into consumption in the United
States during the fiscal year ended June
80, 1885, is e3,1569o2 gallons and the
amount of malt liquors on which tax was
paid during the same period is 10, 1856, 953
barrels. The amount of wins consumed
in this county during the year 1884 is es-
timated 2o,50S, 345 gallons.
MoLLIE MAGUIRIsM is rampant again
in Pennsylvania.
The imports of dry goods for the week
at the port of New York amounted Il
80 502. .s27
NEWS concerning the Caroline Islands
affair is again decidedly warlike in tone
THE Swatara took $40, 100000 in silver
from the New Orleans Mint to be CON
veyed North.
THE American steamer Nederland, a
Antwerp, had eight feet of water in heI
engine rooms on the 11th.
THE vessel wrecked off Two Rivers
Wis, was the scow Milton. Her entir,
crew were 1s5.
THERE was small revolution among
, the soldiers in Madrid on the 11th, but /
was soon suppressed.
The international yacht race was again
postponed on the 18th, the wind proving
insufficient to carry the vessels over tn
course within the limit of seven hours
Another start was TO be made on the 18th
THERE has been no personal correspond
, ence between King Alfonso and Empero
, Williamson the Carolines affair.
| THREE ladies wer, drowned in LAX
. Traverse, near Browns Valley, Minn
on the 11th by the oyerturning Of row
boat.
a MINISTER Cox had an interview on th
: 11th with Said Pasha Grand Viz,er {
T Turkey, regarding the tar fl laws.
: CONGRESSMAN LITTLE, of Ohio, has is
sued ali appeal for help for the Washing
9 ton Court House cyclone sufferers.
THE reported sgnin of the protocol b
Russia and Germany deIimitins th
Russo Afghan frontier is confirmed
THREE warehouses of the Milwaukl
:, Cement Company, together with the
;" contents, were destroyed by fire on I'll
I 11th. ga
JOHN G. DURAND. silk manufacture
of Hoboken, N. j., was shot and prob'
ID bly, mortaly woundsd on the 1lth /
81 Claude Stuvale.
le MISS CLARA BARTON, of the Red Gro!
is Society, New York. proposes to vo
al this fall, even if she has to take Il
s voters oath.
at FRED PoFF, German, arrested for d
orderly conduct at st. Paul, Mimi, on Il
11th, committed suicide in the muuicip
courtroom by blowing his brains o
az with a revolver.
:, BIG BEAR was tried at Regina on t
l., 18th, on charge of treason-felony, al
of found guilty. Sentence deferred
~ M. G. ROCKWELL, the ex- banker
Union, N. Y, and his clerk, D. j. Palm
were arrested on the 11th, charged wi
as larceny in the first degree in misappr
ut priating $4,000. The complaint is ma
G. by Mrs. Livingston, depositor
n SECRETARY BAYARD was informed
wv cable on the 11th that cholera is increa
Nv ing in Palermo and Sicily generally.
m 1T is understood that General Sherid
will return to Washington about Octob
1st, and that the new members of his ST
r. will be arranged at once.
DIS INSPECTOR GENERAL NELSON ID. DAv
"a, will be placsd on the retired list the p
W. inst. His successor, it is understoc
1er will either be General Roger Jones
ed General A. Baird. The former is
'm senior officer, bit the latter is said
of have the more brilliant record 6
stronger Endorsement
In the Holman murder case, at Norge
'ed field, Ind, on the 11th, after trial o
me week, during which over 2S5 wltnes
ng were examined, the jury after being
y. six hours, returned a verdict OF IN
o4' slaughter, and fixed Holman's puni
per ment at ten years in the Penitentiary
os9 hard labor.
iau Two cases of small -pox were detee
at the depot at Troy, N Y, on the