The Panola weekly star. (Sardis, Miss.) 1882-18??, 1885-04-11
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FfnaUsAG ANu FOfaTfDAf-
res President ,eat ~ The 8snsss nun.
~ n no alhai ons on The sist Including
t,slfp Ministers, consais, United States
uu.bais sad PestmastaA
peises IifaaARcx was formally pre-.
,.n,Ml with the tltIe dseis of tils great
| Ea,ocbi0asan estate % tbs fst.
Tas pffsldgnt nonlnaiett A. Leo Knott,
| o, Maryland, on the III a. ssessduk kssist.
| AL .OensraI.
Tns senhts Committee on tho lat 70.
tortsi fnvorabiv tho nomination " Henry
4. rsafson 20 b, Postmaster OF New York
dly.
EAnlf on The morning OF The ~ General
Grant was reported weak and restless,
with little hope for change for the bot.
ter; Ia fact. bis dsati was looked upon as
Bat alIttio way on.
H. 4. HuuHKs, the defaulter 10 the
United States as Marshal at Richmond,
Va, who was caught In Texas, has been
returned Eust
Iris thought that Baron DeCourcel will
succeed Ferry an tho French Minister Of
Foreign Affairs
!. Mus. GARFiEI.D's friends deny tho pub.
lshcd reports that she is to marry Rev.
Mr. Tay.or. Of Pennsylvania. She Is liv-
ing quietly In Cleveland, and Is educating
h,r ilirsn for careers OF usefulness.
Oy tho 1st Queen Victoria and her
daaghter, Princess Beatrice, arrived at
Aiz.es. B1ins. The depot was handsome
ly decorated 10 their honor. As had been
arranged by NJ. Ferry, guard OF honor,
coip1sei OF dragons and the Parislan
Cards Mobile, met Her Majesty at th Q
stat oa and acted as csc irt for the royal
party
EARL CAIRNS died suddenly ut Bourne.
mouth, Eng, on the I'd.
BGss DAVIS, London solicitor, failed
on the I'd with 81 ,00O, 900 liabilities.
The Senate confirmed Hon. Norman J,
Conan, Of st. LOUIS, as Commissioner oI
Agriculture
Tue Amoer 6f Afghanstan Is much in.
censed at Sir Peter Lumsden over his do.
clson on the frontier question.
0S the I'd the President withdrew the
domination Of Alex. X. 1a~ton, tdbe Min
ister TO Russia.
Tnr nomination Of Henry b. Pearson t.
be Postmaster at New York, was confirmed
By the Senate.
ATTORNEY GENERAL GARLAND decide,
that the Crow reservation Ia. Dakota i.
not open TO sett ement.
The exile OF tho Orleans Princes, 10 Il
thought. will be feature OF Dc Freycinep,
programme at Paris.
TlE Ohio Legislature passed bills to re.
organize Cincinnati and Cleveland. Re-
puDlicans arc not in good humor over th,
measures.
US the I'd General Grant was resting
easier at night, but he was very weak
and his doctors thought the end near. Ill
has great difficulty In breathing, and tn,
cancer is extending down the throat ant
behind the moss.
JOSEPH PALMER was again convicted oI
murder in the first degree at Cincinnati OF
the 2d. He was tho accomplice of Bcrnei
In the Kirk murder, out Of which grow th,
Cincinnati riot Of 1891.
Moody and Snnkey begin series OF re-
viyal meetings at Pittsburgh, Pa, on the
glh.
PRESIDENT CLEVELAND sent l73 nomlna.
tons 10 the Senate and 159 were, con,
ftmsd.
GENERAL GRANT has requested tha
when he dies his remains shall be taken K
Washington for burial
Jous K GARRISON, OF Virginia, has beer
appointed deputy FIRST Comptroller Of the
Currency.
MRs. CYRUS II. MCCORMICK, OF Chicago
has made q further donation OF 500 900 "
the Presbyterian Theological Seminary Il
that city, making total OF Sj00,O -givel
by the family tothc institution.
GENERAL GRAHAM advanced on Tama
on the "a, and occupied tho place with bu
little resistance. Later in the day th
place was fired and Graham's forces re
tired to the zercba. Tho causes for th
latter action were mott stated. Losse
light
HIEL has telegraph operator with hin
and has been tapping the wires in order b
keep post,d.
MtssRs PHELPS and Kiely, the ne,
American Ministers 10 England and ltal.
respectively, qualified on the 81 and re
eeiyed their credentials.
GENERAL GRANT was up, walking abou
MS room the evening of the 81, and wa
Pbls TO sign an important document. A
Midnight be was sleeping In bis easy
chair, an nnodyne haviag been admins
Iris now said that Riel, the rebel, ha
1870 armed men In tho Northwest Terri
ioty' including IOj Indians.
Jupoz CHARLES CHEsLKY, OF Ne,
Hampshire, Solicitor Of Internal Revenue
has, at the request Of Attorney -Genors
uarland, rendered his resignation, 10 tax
eusct on tho appointment and qualifca
uon Of his successor. Judge CheAley en-
Tered the Treasury Department as 81 "a
Clerk In June, 1885, and was promoted fror
lime TO time since.
COMMANDER KANE OF the Galena hold
Two OF the most prominent insurgents VII
assisted 10 fir ng AspinwalL
II Is said that the Governor Of Texa
VIII veto the land bill.
sfcaErARY OF raE NAVY WHITNEY ha
given Admiral Joi.,s instructions for hi
20 dance at AspinwalL.
utsERAL GRANT IL much touched by u
IMPRESSIONS Of sympathy from quarter
Were he least expected It.
n. HEsaI BRissos has accepted the tas
diorming new French ministry.
ApvicKs to the morning Of the 9Th frol
Tue sick room reported General Grant Z
resting comfortably, but the cancer
''owly undermining his strength, aud u
God may como at any hour.
os the 4th and 9th wholesale arrests I
anarchists, ehif2y Germans and Aul
'ians, were made at Berne, swi,xerian'
GEsKaAL BApkAu IL authority for u
Hatement that General Grant Is clearl
ware Of the .hopelessness Of his case an
essires to die.
w the 9TH the Comte de Paris arrived
lsplss 10 meet the Due de Chartres - tai
.ser The prospect Of the re-establishmel
va monarchy In France.
u b Busrrxa, late chief Of artillery ,
'uatemsla, and now IN New York, do
st believe the report that General Barri'
fs ben killed.
vs the ish the mother Of Hon. z. n Co
''nister 10 Turkey. died al GAINESVILLE,
kx-srcRx5Aqr PaxLrxeHuvsKx- is n
ported quite Ill ~ Newark, N. J.
I'M Primes and Princess Of Wales Il
hasd 10 leave for ireland on The 1th.
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