The Magnolia gazette. [volume] (Magnolia, Miss.) 1872-current, 1885-11-06
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

IHE horse Brookwood fell and was kill
ed at Jerome Park on the Goth, and Jockey
Potter was dangerously injured.
III is officially announced that the At.
lantic & Pacific Railway will complete its
connection with the Southern Pacific
within a few days.
THE German Missionary Conference at
Bremen resolved to appeal to the Govern,
ment to stop the sale of liquor to natives
in German colonies.
DR.. O'CoNNELL, rector of the American
College at Rome, sailed for New York on
the 31st with the acts and DEGREES of the
Baltimore Council as revised by the Pope.
ANTON PFANs, of Peninsula, o., took
morphine for quinine ON the Goth, and to
save him from dying the people used him
SO vigorously that he sailed in and tried
to .clean out" the crowd.
THE Riverside worsted factory at Que
bee has been obliged to dispose of the bal
ance of It's stock by auction and close its
doors, owing to the lack of market for
its goods in Canada. Two hundred opera.
tives are thrown out of work and there is
an apparent loss of $3.50, 900 in the private
capital.
AN Ottawa (Ont.) dispatch of the Goth
stated that a boat containing a whole fam.
ily-father, mother and child-was cap.
sized in the st. Lawrence, opposite Isle de
Grace, and all were drowned.
The felection on the Goth for delegates
to choose members Of the Prussian Diet
was strongly in favor of the new German
Liberal party. OF the 1900 delegates
chosen 800 reiConservatives, ITO National
Liberals and the remainder new German
Liberals.
EIGHT buildings were destroyed by fire
at New Hartford, Conn, ON the Goth. The
loss is estimated at $50, 900, partly insured.
AN express train on the railway from
Lisbon to Madrid left the rails on the
zSh, while on a bridge over a river
near the boundary between Spain and
Portugal. The train fell into the river,
and several persons were killed and many
injured.
HoLMAN's senatorial committee arrived
at Fort Reno, l. t., on the 3Oth.
Ex JUDGE VINCENT, of New Mexico,
called on the President on the aOth and
presented his case.
MAJoR-GENERAL GEO. B. MCCLELLAN
died suddenly of heart disease at his resi-
dence at Orange Mountain, N. j., on the
29sh.
The Earl of Buckingham died in En-
gland on the 30th.
IT was showing hard in the Champlain
Valley, New York, on the 30th. 1t showed
also in Chicago on the same day.
KING ALFONSO has been ordered by his
physician to take complete rest for a
month.
VERNON YOUNG shot his divorced wife
dead In boarding-hou at Wausau,
Wis, on the Both.
THE steamer George s. Dana was burned
near Cincinnati, o., on the 30th.
JOHN 'MCCULLoUGH's wardrobes and
stage belongings were sold at New York
on the 30th. There was good attendance
of bidders.
In Bulgaria the opinion prevails that
the Balkan conference will prove failure.
THE schooner George B. Sloan was
wrecked in a gale on Lake Ontario on the
Both and the cook was drowned.
The Servian Government is endeavoring
to cancel its orders for uniforms for the
troops. A peaceful sign.
AN engine on the Richmond & ALLIE
gheny Railway went through trestle on
the 31tb, killing the engineer and fireman.
WILLIAM b. GILES, alias William Geoch,
the British forger, has been sent back to
England, sailing from New York on the
31st.
A NUMBER of young women were badly
scalded by the explosion of steam drum
in Roberts laundry, New York, on the
30th.
THE Marquis of Harrington, in an cleo
toral address, says it is imperative that
the union of Great Britain and Ireland be
maintained at any price.
THE eleventh annual convention of the
National Woman's Christian Temperance
Union began at Philadelphia, Pa, on the
Both.
The examination of VIM. s. Warner,
charged with conspiring with Ward to
defraud the Marine Bank, was resumed in
New York on the 30;h.
The German War Department is en-
gagged in improving the military estab-
lishment, and is arranging to furnish the
army with the latest improved rifles.
In the Walkup case at Emporia, Kas.,
on the Both, the defense closed their case
and the State began evidence in rebuttal.
The arguments were expected TO begin on
the 3fst.
LODI SMITH, who killed his father at
Morristown, N. j., in defending his mother
and sister from the fathers brutality,
was acquitted on tho Both, on the ground
of justifiable homicide.
AN effort is being made by river pilots
and engineers to recover from the Govern
ment money alleged to have been wrong
fully collected from them in the shape of
tax.
DIR. KMBALL, Director of ths Mint,
has reduced the estimate of appropria-
tion for the mint service for the next
fiscal year over $210, 900 as compared with
the estimates for the present year, and
over $4,000 as compared with the actual
expenditures of the last year.
SECRETARY MANNING has rendered a de-
cision in regard to the duty on rice,
which, it is thought, will settle the differ
ences between producers and importers.
THE Commissioner of Eiuca- ion has in
formed the Secretary of the Interior that
he has Eeen diligently endeavoring to per-
feet the arrangements for the education OF
ofschool a @ in the Territory OF
Alaska, without reference to race. Two
schools have been established, one at Sit
ka and one at Juveau, and the reports
received Indicate favorable progress.
UNITED STATES CONSUL WINaATE at
Foo Chow reports to the Secretary Of
State, in reply to instru c.ions from the
latter. that after careful inquiry, be is un-
able TO ascertain chat any adulterated tea
is sold to foreigner, there being stringent
rules against its manufacture and sale.
SIXTY-ONE new cases of small-nox vUara