The Magnolia gazette. [volume] (Magnolia, Miss.) 1872-current, 1885-11-13
S,ERsoNAL AND GENERAL.

ClOSeu.
PRINCE ALExANDER's name has been
stricken from the Russian army list.
The German Government will prosecute
the Berlin Volks Zeitung for libeling the
Gear of Russia.
RIGHT REV. DAVID ANDERSON, formerly
Bishop of Rupert's Land, and later Chan
cellor Of st. Paul's Cathedral, London, is
dead. He was seventy zone years of age.
MRS, MARY SLOWER, q blind woman at
Benton Ridge, Hancock County, o., was
burned to death on the 9th, her clothing
taking fire while she was working about a
stove. Her husband, also blind, was Sc
verely burned while trying to save his
wife.
BY an explosion Of natural gas at Pitts
burgh, Pa, on the 9th, Peter Mccarthy
was fatally injured and Michael Wood
quite seriously burned. The men were
digging trench and had just lit a lamp
! to work by when the accident occurred.
The explosion was caused by the light
coming in contact with gas leak from
the pipes along the street..
Ex-JUDeE ALBERT CARDozo died at New
York on the 9th.
GENERAL DE CoURcEY telegraphs from
Tonquin that cholera kills six men daily.
PRINCE ALEXANDER is concentrating
feet to make an attack on Belgrade.
JAMES DANA, brother of Charles A.
Dana, of the Now York Sun, was out hunt
ing on the 5th on North Fork, near Thorpe,
Wis.,, with E. Vantrot, a prominent mer-
chant of Durant. The hunters separated
for time and Dana mistook Vantrot for a
deer and shot him in the back, the ball
coming out in front. He will recover.
THE Register of tire Treasury, in his an
nual report to the Secretary, suggests
the construction of flre-proof file-rooins,
covering the whole interior courts of the
Treasury building, now grass covered
areas, by which means, he says, the de-
partment will have about 100000 cubic feet
Of additional file space.
MRS. WALKUP was acquitted of the MUIR
der of her husband at Emporia, Kas., on
the 9th.
THE Cabinet meeting OH the 9th was at
tended by all the members, except Secre-
taries Manning and Whitney. Arrange
ments were made for special conferences
between the President and the individual
members of his Cabinet in regard to the
treatment of topics to be considered in the
Presidents message to Congress.
THERE were 1856 failures in the United
States during the seven days ended the
9th.
JUDGE EBoN NEWTON, the oldest MEM
ber of the Ohio bar, died on the 9th.
A FIRE in the Farwell building, Chicago,
on the 9Th, caused a loss of 100000.
IT is said in Paris that China is about to
sign a commercial treaty with France.
The Grant monumental fund at New
York now amounts to 1900.
ROBBERS boarded train between Naples
and Benvento on the 9Th, shot the guard
and secured II 900 francs in money.
DIR. j. A.. A.NoNAMAKER and his wife com
mitted suicide together at Salido, Col, on
the night of the 9TH.
| CONNECTICUT farmers are donating their
surplus apples to the charitable institu-
tions of New York.
conspiracy for the overthrow of Prince
Alexander of Bulgaria has been discov-
| cred.
PHILIP CALLAN, in a letter, protests
| against Mr.. Parnell's treatment of him,
and asks his old constituents to support
him.
| COLONEL SwITzLER is to make sn official
| visit to South Carolina and Georgia to
| gather statistics.
| THE Governor of Indiana has been pei-
| toned to quarantine against Kentucky
| cattle disease.
| j. r.. HoGLE has been arrested ut Chicago
| on charge of robbing d. G. Sterling on q
| Lake Shore train.
| !. ADVERSE reports are current concerning
Mr.. Gladstone's health, the threatened
breakdown of which is depressing the Lib
erals.
| M. DE FREycINEr, French Minister o.
| Foreign Affairs, expresses sympathy will
the Bulgarians, but says he cannot suppor
them.
JOHN KNELL and his whole family a
| Baltimore, Md, came near losing theil
lives by escaping gas. One child died:
MARY GLANFERT, formerly one of Bar
NUNS midget curiosities, being very small
was found dead in bed at Newton, L. L
on the 9th.
A PARIS newspaper says the triple alli
ance has been ruptured, and that Austri
and Germany have Joined England, Franc
and Italy against Russia.
A SENSATION occurred at Plymouth, Eng
land, on the evening of the 9th, when
lecturer In church was denounced as hav
eloped with another mans wife. The lee
turer came near being mobbed, and wa
subsequently arrested.
A COLLISION on the New York, Pennsyl
vania g. Ohio Road at Akron, o., on tn
9Th, caused by an operator falling ASLEEP
demolished $4,000 worth of property.
THE steamer Mountain Girl was sunk i
collision with the James w. Gaff on th
Ohio River below Lawrenceburg, Ind
lot of circus property was destroyed an
two lives we're lost.
THE property of several members of th
original telephone syndicate has been at
tached at Lowell, Mass, at the suit of th
Erie Telephone Company.
IT is stated that the Canadian Ministe
of Justice has recommended to the Cour
Gil that Riel should not be hung, b,
should be incarcerated in lunatic asy
lum.
THE celebrated English thoroughbred s
Blais, owned by Mr.. August Belmont, al
rived in New York on the steamer Hollan
on the 9Th.
A MEETING of citizens was held at Il
Mayors office in Philadelphia, Pa, on I'll
7th, to take measures to secure the Efunt
necessary to complete the memorial
: General Grant in Fairmount Park.
LENT, LILLY & CoMPANY's collieries ne,
: Delano, Pa, have resumed work, the Of
, orators acceding to all the demands of tb
i striking miners. The men have been on
strike all summer. The number employe