The Magnolia gazette. [volume] (Magnolia, Miss.) 1872-current, 1885-10-23
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

OF hve per cent.
COLONEL SwIrzLER, Chief of the Bureau
OF s atistics, has returned to Washington
and resumed his official duties.
Fo3TMASTER-GENERAL Villas says he
has seventy-fve cases of Post.office
changes now waiting the Presidents ac-
tion.
LATEST reports from the Ohio election
indicated that returns were Icing held
back and doctored in Hamilton County,
and a citizens committee had be IN formed
to unearth all Irregularities, one Of its
members volunteering 10 stand al the ex-
pense if nece isary.
The Elizabeth coal mines, in Pennsyl-
vania, are 10 be started up at the three
cent rate demanded by the strikers.
OWING 10 Misunderstanding between
King Thebaw of Burmah and the chief
Commissioner for British Burniah, the
latter has asked reinforcements before
sending an ultimaium to the King.
THE New York Board of Trade and
Trans portatIon, at a meeting on the 14th,
adopted mem orial to President Cleve-
land reciting the nece sity for a National
bankrupt law and urging him to recon-
mend such measure to Congress in his
next message.
NEARLY tho entire business portion of
the town of Sandbank, Oswego County,
N. Y, was burned on the night of the
18th. Two churches were destroyed.
H. w. SHAW, better known as "Josh
Billings, the humorist, died at the Del
monte Hotel, Monterey, CAL, on the 14th,
of apoplexy.
GREAT activity prevails in Turkish mil
itary circles Large bodies Of troops are
being concentrated on the frontier, and
the Sultan has determined to fight against
further dismemberment of Turkey.
THE barges BEAUFORT and Adventure
were reported sunk in the st. Lawrence
River on the IA h, and it was feared that
the crew of the Adventure had been lost.
| THE tenth annual Congress of the Pro-
| testant Episcopal Church of the United
| States will be held in New Haven, Conn.,,
| October Goth to 23d. Archdeacons Farrar
and vesey, of England,w will attend the ses-
| sions.
| MISS FOLSOM, whom the gossips have
been saying President Cleveland was to
marry, has sailed for Europe. -
| THE Rockford stock farm, near Cedar
Rapids, Ia, had a closing out sale on the
14th, previous to changing hands. The
amount realized was $4,000.
| LEWIS WEBSTER, for the murder of Per-
ry Harrington at Geneva, o., in December
last, has been sentenced to hang February
9th, 1886.
INFLUENCE is being brought to bear on
the Creek Indians, by the Cherokees, ad
verse to the selling to the Government oi
their interests in Oklahoma.
THE meeting held in Rome to adjust the
1 CuroliY.a TcIop1c opa Iicp tr
admit Spain's sovereignty, while deemine
the German occupancy cxcusable, owing
to misapprehensions which existed.
ADv,oEs received at the Post-ofi ,e De
partment ON the IA b indicated general
washout of railroads in Georgia, and in
terruption Of mails, through heavy rains
Florida AMI Cuban mails were delayed
but it was hoped that arrangements coult
be made to get the mails through with ou
serious delay.
ANOTHER high tide swept over Rock
away Beach, N. Y, ON the night OF til,
18th, doing much damage. A portion o
the iron pier was carried away.
MARY ALLEN, the colored woman VIII,
put poison in oatmeal and fed it to a chile
of Emanuel Deroy, at Pittsburgh, Pa.
has been convicted Of murder in tn
second decree.
A NATURAL gas well was struck by
party boring for water in Kossush Coun
ty, Iowa, at depsh of forty y-eight feet
The gas took fire from a lantern and sen
up six-foot flame with q roaring nois
and emitting an odor like gasoline.
]. N. WALTON, of Arkansas, has beel
appointed a special agent to take charg
of the Indians on Tongue River in Mon
tana.
GREAT damage has zen caus ID to far
mers near Battleford, N. w. T., by prairi
fires.
The Porte, in circular to the powers
says the armament of Greece is menac
to peace.
ANNIE MCKUMP, fourteen-year- oil
school girl, was brutally assaulted by tw
white boys and one colored at Oakdale
Pa. Lyrching looked probable.
THE Land Office has received com
munication ating that DR.. Powers, VIII
was Government witness in the prosecr
tion of a fraudulent land case IN Califor
nia has been slain by t. F. Pruest, one
the defendants.
ROCKFORD FARM, near Cedar Rapid,
Ia, was bought by VIM. Roxbury, of Gla'
gov, Scot and, for $780, 900.
THE Post-office Department has bee il
formed that the Post-ofiics at Waverly
o., was broken open by burglars the nigf
of the IA and robbed OF 1900 in pos,
funds.
Mrs. HANNAH REMLEY, for aiding h,
son to mu der her hus and, has been sci
{, need at Dodgeville, Wis, to mprisol
ment for lie.
UNION men surrounded the boardiu
house ef the Kirby Carpenter Compan
at Menominee, Mich, on the 18Th, and DR.
, vented the nom Union men from going
work.
! PRESIDENT GREvY announces 's thai
will enter the contest for the French pre-
idency.
, EIGHT corpses have been taken from IL
! ruins OF one house at Palermo, which W,
9 thrown down by an earthquake.
1T has been decided that the pres sure
their public duties will not permit Il
, President and the members of the Cabin
to attend the Virginia State Fair.
THERE are indicat ions that the Burme!
trouble will be settled by the annexatic
: to India of King Theebaw's dominion
i In a speech at Trowbridge, Eng, on t
18th, Mr.. Chamberlain declared thai N
q G. Goshen was to the Liberal party VIII
!. deaths head was to an Egyptian feas
a A NEW ind 'ctment havin, been foul
A against Fer linand Ward, on which he