The Magnolia gazette. [volume] (Magnolia, Miss.) 1872-current, 1885-03-12
MAGNOLIA, MISSISSIPPI, THURSDAY. MARCH ~ 1885.

at Wichita, Kas., on the 9th, in the GUS
tody of officers.
DIR. A. g. F. GoERsEN was hanged at
Philadelphia on the 9TH for poisoning his
wife five years ago. He protested his in
nocence to the last.
The Illinois Legislature had stormy
time on the 9th over the Senatorial ques-
tion. No election.
AUSTRIA will probably retaliate agelnst
France on account of the duties placed
upon cereals.
ALTHOUGH the progress of the disease is
not checked, General Grant is reported
feeling much better.
THE repairs to the House of Commons
and Westminster Hall, made necessary by
the recent dynamite explosions, cost $$43,-
900.
Ex-PREsIDETr ARTHUR was elected an
honorary member of the New York Cham
ber of Commerce.
The Russian ambassador at London
had a conference with Mr.. Gladstone on
the 9th regarding the Russo Afghan from
tier question.
THE President received. a great many
organizations on the 9th prior to their de-
parture for home, and a number of prom
inent citizens were among the callers at
the White Hopss.
A DEPUTY SHERIFF was fatally shot at
Marquette, Mich, on the 9th, while at
tempting the arrest of hard character.
AN attempt was made on the 9th to as
sassinate Prof. A. j. Esch, Superintendent
of German in the public schools of Cleve-
land.
SENATOR GARLAND's selection for At
torney- General brings out q number of
candidates for the Senatorship from Ar
kansas.
THE men employed in the Texas Pacific
and Missouri Pacific shops at Fort Worth,
Tex, quit work on the 9th. Fires in en-
gines were killed, and freight trains side
tracked.
FIVE hundred Oklahoma boomers were
reported in camp at Arkansas City, Kas. !,
on the 9Th, and the number rapidly In :.
creasing. They expected to start on their
raid on the 9th. Troops were awaiting their
arrival.
THE Denver Chamber of Commerce
adopted resolutions requesting the new
Secretary of the Treasury to pay out the
silver coin now boarded in the vaults in
order to stop the contraction of the cur
rency. Ge8 f
THE bill passed in the French Chamber
of Deputies on the 9th raising the duties
on cereals. s
THE expense of the Soudan campaign to
the end of March will amount to e., $50 900.
GERMAN newspapers are considerably
worked up over the statements in the LON
don papers regarding the charges in CON
nection with the Bismarck Gladstone com :
plications.
A BERLIN correspondents of a London
paper charges Bismarck with deliberate
deceit and falsehood in his dealings with
England in reference to Germany's course
in South Africa.
THE Cincinnati Price Current figures
that twelve states that produced sixty
seven per cent. of the wheat crop Of 1884
now have stocks amounting to ITO, 900 900
bushels, exclusive of the visible supply.
THE President has retained the services
of QaL Pruden at the White House as
the Bearer of executive communications
to Congress. Pruden has acted in this
capacity during many administrations.
ONE of the last acts Of Secretary Teller
was to issue patents for lands in Lou isl ana,
granted in aid of the construction Of th {
New Orleans & Pacific Railroad. These
lands, embracing about 100, 900 acres, are
comprised in what is commonly known as
"the backbone grant,
The total outstanding debt of the United
States on March 1st was 81, ,405, ,923, $50, of
which amount 81, 1,196, ,O5O is interest
bearing debt. y