The Magnolia gazette. [volume] (Magnolia, Miss.) 1872-current, 1885-04-24
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

| SENATOR SrANFoRD's stables In Cali |
fornia were fred by tramps on the 10Th,
and 112 horses and mules perished,
WALTER Won GOETHE, the last descend-
ant of the great German poet, died at
Leipsc, on the 10th.
| PROFESSOR WISE made a balloon as
censon at Philadelphia, Pa, on the 10th,
| and landed in Gloucester County, New
York.
THE fifth annual meeting of the Wom-
ans Silk Culture Association of the
United States began at Philadelphia, Pa,
on the 10th.
THE Citizens Prohibition League of Du-
buque, Ia., met on the 10th and took
action against nine saloon-keepers of that
city.
REV. THOMAS SPENCER, colored, was
convicted of housebreaking at Norfolk,
Va, on the 10th. He was given five
years.
HUGH MoCANN, blind man over eighty
years of age, was indicted at Newburg,
N. Y, on the 10Th for the murder of his
wife. Ry9
THE Armenians are becoming excited
over the prospect of an Anglo Russian in
vasion. K
: 1T is understood that President Cleve-
land will put colored Democrats in the
fplace of colored Republicans in the
South. u
THE employes.of the Bankers and Mer-
chants Telegraph Company at Buffalo,
N. Y, struck on the 10th because they
have not been paid their wages.
THE National Roller Skating Congress
of America was organized at New York on
the 10th. A National contest will be held
70,
prizes, and open to all comers.
THE colored people of Washington cele-
brated Emancipation Day on the 10th.
, Register Bruce presided aud Fred Doug
las was the orator.
The Interstate Base Ball League, COM
posed of Pennsylvania, Ohio and Ken
lucky clubs, completed schedule on the
: 10th and signed the National agreement.
} THE st. Louis Southern Hotel horror is
an absorbing sensation in New York.
A NUMBER of business houses were
burned at Bristol, Ind, on the 18th.
JOHN A. O'NEIL, of Hoboken, N. j., has
been appointed Superintendent of Engrav.
ing in the Treasury Department.
OFFICIAL organs at Paris state that the
: Government will take energetic measures
' to force the Egyptian Government to make
: reparation for the suppression of the
b French newspaper at Cairo.
THE doctors have reached the conclusion
that General Grant is not afflicted with
!, cancer. 1t is now thought that he has ,
good chance of recovery.
IT is the impression at Vienna that Rus
. sia is seeking to gain time in which to pre-
pare for war.
Il IT is feared that fresh trouble will aris
Ii between the French and Chinese Govern
q ments.
4 PosTMAsTER-G GENERAL Villas has is
o sued rules governing the appointment @
Post-office inspectors.
THE strike of the railroad miners Il
10 Penns ylvania is virtually beaten.
: THE will of the late General Anso
. Stager, of Chicago, was probated on tn
! 18th. The estate is valued at $3.50, 600.
L Two children of Mr. Kemp, near r Full
lerton, Neb., set fire to a straw stack o
!. the 18th and were burned to death.
Il CHAs. w. WAGNER, of Missouri, ha
n been appointed Consul-General of tn
n United States at Toronto Canada.
!, THE court-martial' in the Hazen cas-
sentenced him to be reprimanded. Th
President approved the findings and car
10 ried out the sentence.
le AIRPORT from Panama, via Galveston
i Tex, on the 18th, stated that Popoya
Mt had again fallen into the hands of tt
a. rebels.
II MILE. NEVADA scored another great tr
umph in Chicago on the evening of I'll
,o 17th, much to the disgust of Arditi ar
m | the entire Patti following.
/. GENERAL GRANT passed the evening
a the 18th in the library with his famil.
4. He went to sleep promptly after retirin
;s and was sleeping well at midnight
GENERAL KoMARoFF reports that Il
Afghans evacuated all the frontier post
lg and the Russian outposts occupy the
"a, former positions. "a
a. Ex- CONGRESSMAN JOHN f. McKINNE
re of Ohio, was convicted on the 18th of ha
" ing received excessive fees for coliectiI
e. pensions.
w. H. BRINKER, of Warrensburg, M,
has received the appointment of Associa
% Jus tice of the Supreme Court of Ne
Mexico
100 Hon. J. @. CHENowITH, of Dallas, TIE,
ps has been appointed Auditor of the Unit
ny States Treasury. The place was not s
''' licted.
CANNON and other relics of the disa
tb tiers of the English feet which occurr
n nearly 200 years ago, wererecently wash
h.. up at Point Aux Anglais, on the Canadi
ar coast.
q. THE Attorney General rendered q de-
he sion in reference to the last appropriate
made by Congress in aid of the New Q
leans Exposition. Il
I'd A DOG fight for $1,000 took place ne
-lv Hunters Point, l. l., on the 18th. One
[a- the dogs was killed, andt the fight last
tba but fourteen minutes.
,ed / DELEGATES to the African Method
I'VE Conference at Washington called on t
ay. President on the 18th. An address W
read by Bishop Day, and Mr.. Cievela
ry responded.
ew PRESIDENT CLEVELAND has issued
ad proclamation declaring that the Winn
ace bago reservation is not open to settlemei
ON and notifying all settlers to vacate with
ur- sixty days.
nd. TELEGRAMs to Bradstreet's from pri
cipal distributing points report that
the mands from country merchants have th
las far been disappointing. Spring trade
The a'fortnight late, even where the dema
,ed is most active. Failures for the sew
his days ended the 18th, 1876; previous wee
hat ia; corresponding week, 1884, 155.
hus Two ballots were cast for United Stat
Senator at Springfield, ILL.,, on the II
Logan received 100 votes. The Den
the Gratis did not vote.
his NEAR Paducah, KY, on the 18th, Luc