The Magnolia gazette. [volume] (Magnolia, Miss.) 1872-current, 1885-03-26

VOLUME VIII.
\ NEWS AND NOTES.
n A Summary Of Important Events.
n IT is said that the Admin istration will
give the Oklahoma question early and
thorough investigation
ID THE Chamber of Commerce of Limeri ok,
~ Ireland, decided to present an address of
welcome to the Primo, of Wales.
n THE British troops commenced forward
movement from Suakim the 10Th, and
fighting was expected any moment
l0 u -s
DoRMAN B. EATON, OF the Civil Service
q Commission, is pleased with the way the
OF new administration has commenced
THE Connecticut Senate, on the 10th, by
4 a vote of - to s, rejected the House bill
of giving women suffrage in school districts.
7 n THE Mahdi's adherents declare that be-
fore the summer is far advanced General
5. a Wolseley's army will be cut off from Cairo.
THE aboomers" got mad over the Presi :
n ID dents proclamation and fired back reso-
III
ecutive.
:. IT is semi-oflcially announced at Paris
e. that Bismarck offered to arbitrate for the
settlement of the dispute between Russia
and England.
IT is said that while in Ireland the
Prince of Wales will announce that the
y Duke of Connaught will succeed Earl
rs Spencer as Lord Lieutenant
= THE New York Board of Health has di-
rected a house, to- house inspection of the
a city forthwith, in view of the probable ap-
pearance of cholera this summer.
I SPECIAL editions of the London papers
announce the fall of Kassala and the mas
sacre of the garrison. The report, how
ever, is not credited in official circles.
JUDGE p. H. EMERSON, United States
. Judge of the First District of Utah, has
resigned, having completed three full
terms of four years each on the Utah
: bench.
4 THE accounts of the Navy Department
are being thoroughly examined, and the
books of every bureau will be looked ovel
and q detailed report be made to Secretary
Whitney. -
% GENERAL forward movement of Rus
e sian troops is reported behind the line Of
c. outposts. General Kamaroff is said to bt
encamped opposite the Afghan outposts
at Aktepeh.
GENERAL GRANT was better on the 10th
e and asked for and relished roast mutton
,r During the afternoon he was engaged IL
I. revising the sheets of his two books, soor
to be published.
= The Canadian Pacific Railway Company
" is agitating scheme to secure the lant
grant of the Winnipeg & Southwes tern
81 10 build branch to the Turtle Mountain
!, country in Dakota.
3 SECRETARY BAYARD has informed tn,
n turbulent elements in Central America
! that If any injury is done to the interests
Z of the United States, the citizens of Gen.
+ tral America will be held responsible.
ONE of the contestants in the recent sil
day roller skating contest in New Yorl
Il has died from the iniamm alton of tn
brain, cold and exhaustion, supposed +
Z q have been the results of his exertion in tn
u contest.
Two hundred ladies, attending tn
IN session of the Woman's Christian Temper
ance Union in Washington, called upol
Miss Cleveland at the White House, on tn
10th, and afterward were introducsd t
the President.
JOSEPH ScHENcK, a Swede, who wa
placed in jail at Steele, Oak, on tae 10th
charged with the murder of Anton Lei
powski, was found dead in his cell on tn
18th. Doctors pronounced it case o
death from fright.
IT ia understood that General Foster
to be retained as Minister to Spain for tn
present, with view of conducting nego
tiations for a more favorable treaty, ant
that he will probably return to Madrid i
the course Of fortnight.
SECRETARY WHITNEY has declined t
take action upon the report ortrecommendin
the acceptance of the new dispatch-boa
Dolphin until he has had an opportunit
to examine the contract and all the detail
of the vessels construction.
MALCOLM HAY, of Pennsylvania, wa
nomina ted on the 18th as first assistan
Postmaster General; Martin v. Montgom
cry, of Michigan, Commissioner of Pat
ents, and B. H. Hill, Jr., Attorney for th
United States, Northern District of Geor
gia
TELEGRAM to the War Departmer
from General Hatch, at Arkansas Cit,
says: sThe Couch Colony, about 500
number, continue in camp, and say the
do not intend to disband l do not b.
lisye they will attempt to enter the Terr
tory.o
j. w. SMITH, confidential clerk of tt
St Helena Mine Las Delicias, Sonora, al
seconded with gold bar valued at $500
which he was conveying to Hermosill
The company offer $4,000 reward for th
capture of the thief and the reco very
the bullion.
Ex-PREsIDENT ARTHUR made a soci
call on President Cleveland on the 16tl
He was driven to the White Houss in I'll
carriage of Mr.. Frelinghuysen, who's
guest he is, and was at once ushered int
the presence of the President, who gay
him cordial greeting.
GENERAL W. B. FRANKLIN, Presider