The Magnolia gazette. [volume] (Magnolia, Miss.) 1872-current, 1885-05-15

AN unknown person attempted to assas-
sinate Deputy United States Marshal At
kinson at Charleston, w. Va, on the 8th.
The shot was fred through window OF
his office
THE publishers Of General Gordon's
diaries have refused $50, 900 for the copy
right.
| E. B. EWING, of Mis- souri,, is to be Con-
| sul-General to Mexico.
A. NJ. KUHN is to be Surveyor of Gus
toms for the port of Indianapolis.
The harbor of Cronstadt is now open to
shipping.
JOHN H. OBERLY, of Illinois, has been
nominated for Superintendent of Indian
schools.
IT is estimated that about one-half of
the vote of credit asked for by the gov
ernment has already been absorbed in En-
| glish,war preparations.
| THE Russian war ship Strelok and the
British ship Canada remain in New York
harbor. The Garnet has gone.
THE aggressive policy of France is said
to be on the wane.
A BUFFALO lady who was injured by a
cable car at Chicago was awarded $6500
damages.
| A SETTLEMENT of the Russo English
trouble is apparently as far off as ever.
Hoe cholera cost the people of New Jer.
sey 5000, 900 in 1884, and has cost them $780,
900 SO far this year.
The London Times thinks Canada has a
long and bloody war in prospect in the
Northwest.
IRON manufacturers were in session at
Pittsburgh, Pa, on the 9th, considering
the Amalgamated Associations scale of
wages.
| A BASIS Of settlement of all differences
has been arrived at by the managers of
| Western and Northwestern roads in ses-
sion at Chicago.
| A POLICY of conscription In India is un-
der consideration to meet the aggression
of Russia.
ALEXANDER STEEL, an attendant in the
Pennsylvania Insane Asylum, whose bru-
tality caused the death of patient, is
charged with murder.
ORDERS for the transportation of 1900
British troops to India have been ordered
| Cancelled.
A COMMISSION Of Russian men of letters
are preparing the correspondence of Peter
the Great for publication.
THERE is disagreement In the English
Cabinet on the subject of abandoning the
Soudan.
A TEMPERANCE wave is sweeping over
Pittsburgh, Pa.
GENERAL GRANT increases tho length of
his walk each day.
PROFESSOR J. w. SANBoRN, of the Mis- j.
souri, Agricultural College, is laboring
with Governor Oglesby of Illinois with a
fair prospect of having the quarantine
raised.
FIVE masked men took Jim Green out to
hang him at Vinitia, !. t., on the 9th.
After the rope was around his neck he
begged for mercy and was released on q
promise to leave town.
ALL developments favor a successful is
sue to the Franco Chinese peace negotia-
tions.
Two men were killed and two slightly
hurt by powder explosion at Tarrytown,
N. Y, on the 10th.
AN unknown man was found dead in a
field near Toledo, o., on the 10th, evident
ly murdered. His socks were marked sc.
u. Loomis."
Two masked men entered the house Of
F. S. Thrall at Oswego, N. Y, and cut O
fourteen-year-ol girls hair Off "to be re.
venged on her father"
THE colored sexton of fashionable
church at Washington has just confessed
that for twenty years he has been stealing
church funds.
RIEL's rebellion seems to have developed
into real war. Latest reports from the
front show serious fighting between Mid.
dleton's men and the Indians.