The Magnolia gazette. [volume] (Magnolia, Miss.) 1872-current, 1885-08-28


committed at Shawneetown.
IT is rumored that the President in
tends to reorganize the Soldiers Home at
Hampton. Va, Dayton and Milwaukee,
because of msmanagement. General
Pleasa nton is spoken of for commander
at Hampton.
THE firm who purchased the stock of
Smith, the Omaha absconder, discovered,
concealed about the store, -valuabies
amounting to from $40, 900 to $4,000.
A PIFsr at Cairo, Egypt, is positive
that Olivier Pain died of fever.
AN oil well yielding twenty five barrels
an hour has been struck Inear Washing
ton, Pa.
BISHOP KEANE, of Richmond, Va, has
written q letter of coincidence to Minister
Kelly.
The Mudir of Dongola says the Mahdist'
movement is killed.
The tobacco crop in portions of Penn.
sylvania has been seriously damaged by
recent hail-storms.
CHINA has contracted with an English
firm for the building of 100 miles of rail-
way.
ANTONIO DARING was suffocated in a
burning house at Cincinnati, O., on the
| 23d.a 9q
A YACHT, the Kalaflsh, was run down
| off the Coast of Scotland on the 22d, and
| all the crew but two lest.
| In a quarrel alb out dog, near Xenia,
| O., on the 23d, George Holverstatt shot
and k lied Joseph Wolf.
DoNaoLA has been captured by 1000
| dervishes.
ACCORDING to the st. Petersburg Herald.
| L. da%a -, ~ Z,,I :
| fikar Pass.
SHIELDS, the receiver of stolen horses
at Des Moines, Ia, had 81, 100 on his person
when arrested.
| HATMAKERs and finishers are endeavor-
ing to prepare union label to be placed
on all manufactured goods.
THE International Telegraph Confer
ence at Berlin has confirmed the modified
tariff proposition.
FRED. BERKELEY, in drunken frenzy,
at Salem, Ind, on the 20 l, shot a number
of persons and then killed himself.
IT is estimated that France will be re-
quired to import 100000 hectolitrss of
wheat to make up for the shortage in this
years. crop.
THE Burlington & Missouri Railway at
Omaha had big force at work on the 23d
laying track, supposedly making point
against the Union Pacific.
SINCE the 1st of June $12, 500 900 In golt
has been trans ferred from San FRANCHISES
to the New York sub-treasury.
Il A LOVE feast at Ocean Grove, N. j., OF
the 23d, was participa in by 4,00l per
sons. One hundred and fifty minister
4 took part in the services
A. p. GopoYKooNTz and #. II. Cass
citizens of Vinita, /. t., were found mur
dered near the Sac and Fox agency o.
the,23d No clew.
CHAs. JOHNSON, brakeman, was scalde
to death and several cars were wrecked
collision on the Fort Wayne Road a
Lucas, O., on the 23d
DEPUTY POSTMASTER HEATH, of Kear
, ney, Neb., is charged with having ru
away with something like s., 900 of regis
tered letters.
A RAILROAD disaster is reported to hav
occurred on the Atlantic &c Pacific Rail
road on the 23d near Powell Station
Ar e., in which two white persons and a
Indian were killed.
THERE was fatal fire on the 23d at Hox
ton, poor and crowded quarter of Lon
don. Owing to the lack of room it wa
impossible for the firemen to work effect
lively. There was terrible scene whe
. a lodging house full of people took FIR
, and in spite of gallant efforts to rescu
the inmates a man and two children wei
burned to death.