The Magnolia gazette. [volume] (Magnolia, Miss.) 1872-current, 1885-07-31
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

otAihhN uouS6S were COuSuIl9u duQ
several persons burned to death near AK
la-Chapelle, Francs, on the 23d.
The English Government was defeated
In the House of Commons on the 23d--1S)
to 130-on clause of the medical rell of
bill
MICHAEL DAviTr writes Mr.. Chamber
lain offering to accompany him on his
Irish tour. The letter indicates that the
Irish party Is broken into two sections.
EDWARD HANLAN easily beat George
Hosmer in rowing race at Syracuse N.
Y, on the 23d, guessed at three miles,
with three turns. Time, 1S:4S. 1t was an
exhibition for purse offered by the rail-
road company.
SHIPMENTS of anthr acite Goals to West
ern markets have commenced in earnest.
The rate this year is but a trife over three
mills per ton per mile.
The Directors Of the Northern Pacific
Company have approved the proposed
T lease of the Oregon Railway and Naviga-
tion Company by the Union Pacific and
Northern Pacific Company.
The Oakland tannery at Louisville, KY,
was destroyed by fire on the 24th.
The news of the death of General Grant,
although not unexpected created pro-
found feeling of sorrow throughout the
country, in every portion of which out
ward manifestations were made in the
way of draping buildings, displaying
flags at half-mast, etc. These were not
confined to our own country, the people
of the English cities showing the SYM
pathy by similar displays.
GENERAL GRANT will be buried in Gen.
trail Park, New York, August Sth.
THE President has given the cattlemen
forty days in which to vacate the Indian
Territory, declaring their leases void.
Mr.. GLADSTONE is i'll with catarrh OF
the larynx.
THE President proposes to adhere to his
policy in regard to Oklahoma.
VIoE-PREsDENT HENDRICKS has ap-
pointed delegation of the Senate to at
tend the Grant obsequies
A DEMENTED man was arrested at Lon
don, on the oath, having made threats
against the Princess Beatrice.
COVER, the missing French aeronaut,
has been found.
BABCocK & ANDREWS, brokers, of Syra-
cuse, N. Y, have failed. They were
short 100000 barrels of oil.
IT is stated that Bismarck has suggested
that the zulfkar pass be made neutral
territory.
THE petition of Mrs. Jennie E. Martin,
the speculative grass widow, for alimony
against her husband, Edward Martin, at
New York, was denied.
THERE is consternatio among the rail-
way postal clerks at Washington who
have been summoned for examination on
short notice.
ABE JACKSON and his sister were bound
over for murder and incest at Red Oak,
la.
A LADY giving her name as Mrs. Shaw
(maiden name Twombley) was found in a
demented condition, at Buffalo on the
oath. She said she had friends in st.
Louis.
A MILITARY organ in st. Petersburg,
Russia, reports the offer from Texas of
the services of hundred cowboys in the
event of war.
ALL the public buildings in Washing
ton are elaborately draped in mourning
in severely simple but most tasteful
manner. The mourning was put on in
bands, without any streamers, and the
effect is described as strikingly effective.
DRIVER JOHN SPLAN was fined $40 and
costs at Pittsburgh, Pa, on the oath, for
using spur whip on the trotting horse
Onward in a race on the 23d.
AMERICANS met at the legation In Paris,
France on the Oath and passed resolu-
tions of sympathy and respect on account
of General Grants death.
j. G. PUsEY, who is wanted in Leawen-
worth, Kas., for forgery and embe1zle-
ment while clerk at the Penitentiary, was
arrested at Cincinnati on the Oath and
sent home.
MRS. CRAMER, sister of General u. s
Grant, accompanied by her husband, late.
ly United States Minister to Berne, Swift
zerland, returned on the oath on the steam.
er Wieland from Hamburg.
THE loss from the recent fire in Carde
mas, Cuba, by which seven sugar houses
were destroyed, is 100000 The insur.
ance amounts to $4,000.
1T is rumored that the Apach es hav,
surrounded the mining camps in the Can
onea Mountains, Arizona. The miners
are standing guard night and day. Indiar
signs have also been seen within foul
| miles Of Nogales.
The Mexican editors visited Mount Yer
non on the oath, and upon their return
which speeches were made and odes reae
expressive of the affectionate regard en-
tertained by the Mexican people for Gen
eral Grant.
Hon. JAS. WALKER, a member of tn,
Ohio Legislature, and for thirty years tn
law partner Of Judge W. II. West, dice
on the Oath at Bellefontaine.
| MISS MOORE, an American lady, ha.
taken the first prize for singing at tn
Paris Conservatoire
MAUD s. trotted a practice mile a
Cleveland on the 25th in 2:11.
TIE Indian trouble in Montana is SAID
to have been greatly exaggerated.
| MRS. BERTHA WoLFEHsrEIN, wife O
| DR.. s. Wolfenstein, Superintendent of th,
Jewish Orphan Asylum at Cleveland o.
| and one of the leading Hebrews in tn
| West, died on the oath, aged forty -one.
| Two houses at Cologne, Germany, ten
anted by sixteen families, collapsed o.
| the oath. Three dead bodies and seven
teen persons more or less seriously in
| jured, were recovered from the ruins
| Fifty more remained beneath the debris
THE business failures occurring through
out the country during the seve
days ended the oath, number for the Unit
ed States 1872, and for Canada %, or a to
tai of 2l5, as against total of 227 las
week, and 1856 the week previous to th
last.
WALT WHITMAN, the poet, who wa
overcome by the heat on the 23d, is recov
ering.
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