The Magnolia gazette. [volume] (Magnolia, Miss.) 1872-current, 1885-07-03
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

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| said to aspire to the Governorship of New
| York.
A FAMILY named burst was accidentally
poisoned at Plymouth, Wis, on the 25th,
| by the accidental use of arsenic for baking
| powder. One death resulted, and others
were in precarious condition.
| THE Commercial Travellers Protec tive
| Association began its annual convention
at Buffalo on the 25th.
| THE contest for territorial officers seems
to be the topic of chief interest now at
| Washington.
THE differences betw cen Turkey and
| Russia have been amicably settled.
TREASURER ANDERSON of West Hobok-
| en-, N. j., is charged with being $4,000 be-
hind in his accounts.
A MAN named Carpenter, on trial at
New York for wife murder, tried to COM
init suicide on the 25th, but failed.
| FIFTY Irish detectives who have been
| doing duty in London have been ordered
| back to Dublin.
JUDGE O'CoNNoR, of Cincinnati, O., has
| brought suit for damages against Judge
| Fitzgerald for language used in court.
Ell MAHDI has ordered all foreigners. to
be killed unless they become MussuImans.
| JAMES d. FISH, ex- President of the
Marine National Bank, New York, has
been denied new trial.
A TEMPORARY agreement has been en-
tered into between the Amer can and En-
| glish governments as to the fishery ques-
| tons.
SIR NATHANIEL RoTHscHILD, Sir Evelyn
| Barring and Mr.. John Morley are to be
raised to the peerage in England.
JAMES L. STANTON, general agent of the
| Department of Justice, has rendered his
resignation. to take effect June 30th.
IMPORTANT cable and telegraph privi-
| leges have been granted American parties
| in the Argentine Republic
| THE Bell telephone Company at Boston
| declared an extra dividend of two per
cent. on the 25th. This is in addition to the
regular dividend of three per cent.
GENERAL GRANT is growing weaker
and losing flesh. His difficulty in breath
| ing increases, and he gets no sleep except
by the use OF morphine.
WALKER BLAINE, son of Hon. James @.
Blaine, is to be married this summer to
| Miss Ettie, daughter of Ex-Governor d.
| d. 7. Farnsworth, Of Buckannon, W. Va.
| A COURT MARTIAL has been detailed by
| the Secretary of the Navy to try Pay
MASTER General Smith on charges of
| scandalous conduct and ineffic ency.
THERE is serious talk Of revolution in
| Spain.
No Confederates will be appointed
on any of the pension examining boards.
Hon. s. 81. BUoK, the Director q ener al
of the North Central and South Amer
ican Exposition, has established at Wash
| ington a bureau Of Information for the
press, the publ ic and foreign legations, in
regard to the plans, purposes and progress
| of the New Worlds Fair, to be opened at
| New Orleans in the fall.
| THE Controller of the Currency has ex-
tended the corporate existence of the fol-
lowing named banks for period of twen-
! ty years: The First National Bank of
Portland, Ore. the National Branch Bank
of Madison, Ind; the Harrison National
Bank of Cadiz, o.; the Peoples National
Bank of jackson, Mich.
FRANCE has raised the Chinese blockade
and trade is now free.
| SECRETARY WHITNEY has asked for
plans and specifications for four new
naval vessels.
GENERAL GRANT pronounced thu Goth
the best day he had experienced since
leaving New York.
| DONATIONS to the Pusey fund at OK
ford, Eng, amount to 100000.
e. t. JOHNSON was acquitted at Green
vile, Tenn, of murder in the killing of
Major Henry.
ashore near Yokohama, Japan, will be a
| total loss.
UNDER an invitation from Secretary
/ A 4. =
new steel crui ser.
AN explosion Of boiler at Bairds town,
KY, on the 26th, killed three negroes and
seriously injured another.
The Marquis of Salisbury gave an off,
cial reception on the 26th to diplomates
accredited to the British court.
A BARK from Cienfuegos brought two
cases of yellow fever to Lewes, DEL,
| where one patient died.
JAMES ARcINE and VIM. Parchmeal,
full -blooded Cherokee Indians, were hang
ed at Fort Smith, Ark, on the 26th, for
murder.
AN audience was granted the B shop of
San Francisco by the Pope at Rome on
the 26th.
JNo. McKEENER, a colored murderer,
was hanged in Memphis, Tenn, and Jor-
dan Tayo at Hopkinsvilie, KY.
PRESIDENT CLEVELAND says he knows
of no agreement" to let the offensive
partisans in ST. Louis hold the offices
TALMADGE, the Milwaukee statistician,
in his crop report, estimates the shortage
in winter wheat of the country at 100000
bushels
FRENCH Canadians at Quebec have
banded together and subscribed funds to
defend the half-breeds in the coming
trials.
The persons arrested during the recent
cholera riots in Madrid have been re-
leased in Difference to the popular feeling.
THE Spanish Minister of Marine has
decided to permit the inocul ation of the
officers and men of the Spanish navy on
DR.. Ferran's system.
LIEUTENANT SCHUETzE will sail, July
9th, for the Lena Della, to carry the re-
wards of the Government to the natives
who aided the survivors of the Jeanette
expedition.
WILLIAM HAYES, sixteen years old, was
found hanged with his hands and feet
tied on the 26th, in Harrison County,
Iowa, supposedly the work of tramps. He
was harmless lad and left home on the
ed to go to church.
A,JURY has been obtained to try the five
Italians, charged with the murder of Ca
russo, fellow countryman, in Chicago.
MILO JUMP, porter at the Whitmore
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