The Magnolia gazette. [volume] (Magnolia, Miss.) 1872-current, 1885-02-05

The opinion is expressed by General
Slocum that the bill for the retirement Of
General Grant can be passed il broughtup
IN the regular form, but it viii be diffi-
cult matter to have the rules suspended
and for that reason the bill may not be
! reached this session.
PRESIDENT ARTHUR gave his annual
state dinner to the members Of the diplo-
matte corps at the White House the even
ing OF the 2Sth. or the forty guests pres
ent fifteen were ENJOYS and seven
charge d affaires, representing altogether
twenty-five friendly powers,
JAY L. ToRREY has been appointed n
delegate from the st. Louis Merchants,
Exchange TO 90 to Washington in connec-
tion with this Lowell bankruptcy bill.
EMPEROR WILLIAM Of Germany, BY ad-
vice Of his physician, will not attend tie
court ball.
BARRTsTER ADAMS, Of London, Eng, has
brought a direct action for libel against
Lord Chief Justice Coleridge.
ELIJAH Nj, HINES was elected perma
nent Speaker Of the Illinois House Of Rep
resentatives on the 29sh. The wheels will
now move.
A TELEGRAM from Secretary Teller to
the Silver Convention at Denver Col, on
the Goth, was the cause for loud and long
cheering.
REV. STEPHEN GLADSTONE, son of the
English Prime Minister, was married OH
the 10th to Miss Mary Wilson, daughter Of
retired physician.
IN speech at Birmingham, Eng, on the
evening Of the 20th, Mr.. Chamberlain, Nj.
r. called on Parnell to separate himself
from the dynamiters, not by silence but
by speech.
The President, in message on the goth,
furnished the House of Representatives in
formation called for respecting the United
States in the Congo Conference.
GENERAL WoLsELEY telegraphed from
Korti on the 20th that he had reports from
General Stewart, whowas doing well. The
bullet entered the thigh, and Is now lodged
in the groin.
SECRETARY CHANDLER has ordered the
Pacific squadron to proceed to Ecuador, to
protect an American who il imprisoned
there for completely in the rebellion, and
whose speedy execution is apprehended.
GRIMES AND CASUALTIES.
On the 24th Geo. scott, who was arrest-
ed at Prairie Creek, Ind, on January ID
for misplacing a switch at that place on
the night of December 31st, 1884, and caus-
ing Wabash train to be dtched, was
tried at Fort Wayne, Ind. He pleaded
guilty, and was sentenced to the Peniten-
tiary for thirteen years.
On the oath VIM. Helfner, an inmate of
Cincinnati asylum for the insane, died
from the effects of bath in scalding wa
ter. The Coroner found that death result
ed from culpable carelessness of an at
tendant.
A sNow-sLIpE on the 26th killed thirteen
persons at Inrea, Italy.
THE Assistant Treasurer Of Detroit, Mich,
hanged himself on the 26th on the eve Of
his appointed marriage.
A FIRE was discovered under the roof of
the House of Representatives at Washing
ton on the 26th, but was promptly extin-
euished. Damage trihing.
TONG SING. the Chinese steward in the
Greeley relief expedition, who was ar
rested at Newark N. j., for gagging and
robbing fellow Chinaman, pleaded guilty
on the Goth to atrocious assault and bat
terry, and was sentenced to seven years.,
imprisonment,
FIRE totally destroyed the morocco fac
tory of G.. II. Lembardt, in Brooklyn, N. II,
on the eth.
THE cavity made in the White Tower,
London, by the recent dynamite explosion
is ten feet long by five feet wide.
On the 2Sth Con Murphy, the most no.
torious desperate in Montana for many
years, was hanged by members Of the
"3-7-77"
FIRE partially destroyed the Indiana
Insane Asylum at indianapolis on the
27th. Loss, $4,000 to $4,000, with no in
surance. No casualties.
AN enterprising clerk in store at Wa
hoo, Neb., has been loaning out the firms
money for two years. He has made
confession and turned over $500 in money
and mortgages.
THE famous outlaw, Nicholas Aragon, at
one time member Of the "Billy the Kid
gang, was captured near Choita, N. NJ, on
the 9th. In taking him one of the officers
was shot dead by the desperate. The
populace were liable to lynch him.
On the 2sth Mrs. Dooley, Of Winterset,
Ia, who was deserted by her husband,
gave her son and daughter opium and took
a dose herself. The girl recovered; the
others died.
A COAL mine at Plummer Hill, o., was
fired on the Goth, supposedly by inceadi-
aries
THE Erenii,g Star building at Washing
ton, D. c., was partially destroyed by fire
on the 29th.
THE crew OF the British bark Wellington
mutunied Off Cornwall, and the Captain
was killed and the mate wounded. The
vessel was towed into Plymouth and the
crew arrested.
MIsCELLANEOUS.
ON the 9th an imaginary internal ma
chine was found in the hall in front of the
British Consul Generals office, New York
1t was harmless, and was simply hoax.
A SEVERE storm held high carnival at
Montreal on the 2Sth.
ACTIVE preparations for the Turkish ex
nedition to Suakim continue.