The Magnolia gazette. [volume] (Magnolia, Miss.) 1872-current, 1885-04-10
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

"a MUNSTER ldDOT u6IuO0bUTablOu 1ooh
place at Shenandoah, Pa, on the a1st.
The Anamese are reported to have risen
against French authority.
CHAs. w. Buck, the new Minister to
Peru, never held office before.
FRENCH reinforcements started for Tom
quin on the 31st.
The interior of the Eureka theater at
Columbus, O., was burned on the evening
of the S1st.
THE Baltimore g. Ohio telegraph line is.
to be extended to st. Paul and Minneap-
oils.
GOODWIN defeated Bubear in sculling
race at Putney, England, on the 31st
Mr.. ROBERTS, the new Minister to Chilli,
Is m ex-Congressman of New York city.
The French troops at Fornfosa will
evacuate the island and go to Hanoi.
CLEVELAND (O.) negroes threatened to
mob Hoyt, who shot Stanley while prowl-
ing in his yard.
GENERAL GRANT spent a quiet day on
the 3lst and his condition was reported
slightly improved.
TIE London Times calls Jules Ferry the
ablest Republican statesman of France.
MGR. CAPEL delivered lecture on the
31st in the Exposition main building at
New Orleans, on education.
]. c. GoFF, merchant, was killed at
Mont Calm, La, on the 3lst, by r. M.
Jones. 1t was the result of an old feud.
IT is reported that osman Digna has
evacuated Tamai and Hasheen.
| GERMANY has made further annexations
along the west coast of Africa.
HIRAM II. KIMPToN, formerly worth a
/ LII fr,t hn
poor-house at New York on the 31st.
L. DEMARcHI, a grocer from Memphis,
Tenn, is reported to have eloped with the
| young and buxom niece of his wife.
| RIEL, the leader of the Northwest re-
bellion, is said to have 1000 well -armed
followers, and means to fight.
| THE Central Pacific Road and bran ches
north of Goshen have been leased to the
Southern Pacific for ninety mine years.
THE excitement over the Winnipeg re-
bellion continues unabated at Toronto.
DUN's agency reports the failures fol-
the first quarter of the year, 3,65S-an in
crease of 1852 over the same period of last
year.
The troops of the Mudir of Dongola had
fight recently with hostile Arabs in the
Hamak mountains.
THE seventieth anniversary of Bis.
marck's birthday was celebrated at Ber'
lin on the 31st. 1t was a grand affair.
CANADIAN troops are being conveyed tc
the scene of the rebellion via the Canadian
Pacific. 1t is long trip, and much mis-
chief may occur before they get there.
WITHOUT reason or provocaton you'll
boarded freight train on the Norfolk 6
Western Road in Virginia on the 31st, an'
seriously stabbed the conductor.
The French Chamber of Deputies votet
$40, 900 900 of the $40, 900, 900 Tonquin credi
asked for by Ferry, pending the forma
tion of a new Cabinet.
THE President sent to the Senate mum
ber of nominations on the 31st, including
foreign Ministers, Consuls, United State
Marshals and Postmasters.
No news of the French army in Tonquir
had been received for thirty six hours u
to the evening of the 31st, and much un
easiness was felt at Paris.
OREGON had the most remarkable weath
er during March. Vegetation is far ad
vanced, and the earth'5 surface present
the appearance of the middle of May.
COMMISSIONER BLACK issued an import
ant circular to pension agents on the 1st.
GENERAL NEGRIER, the French office
, wounded at Lang Son, is recovering.
, The Emery candle factory at Cincinnati
!. o., was partially destroyed by fire on tf
: 1st.
SCOUTS from General Graham's force
found the rebels congrsgated in lare
. numbers at Tamai. Osman Digna had nj
:, retreated.
Two more polygamsts were arrested {
Q the 1st at Salt Lake and released on bal
BISMARCK was formally presented wit
the title deeds of the great Schoenhouse
9 estate on the 1st.
|. A LEO KNOTT, of Maryland, was nor
q mated on the 1st as Second Assista
t Postmaster General.
"a IT is thought that Baron DeCourcel W
succeed Ferry as the French Minister
Foreign Affairs.
. TRACK laying on the Marshall & Mort
II western Road in Texas was begun on t
y 1st.
20 THE French had another encounter wi
D the Chinese in Tonquin and continued t
y retreat.
EASTERN trunk-line managers were
@ session at Chicago on the 1st, looking
: the restoration of rates.
la THE rebels at Battleford, Manitoba, 9
A. reported to have destroyed houses of sc
n tiers and killed several persons. The s
ia uation daily grows more serious. M
THE Senate Committee on the 1st ,
ported favorably the nomination of Hen
y G. Pearson to be Postmaster of New Yo
:. city.
A DISPATCH received at Paris from Har
- reports the situation of the French ari
=. in Tonquin as exceedingly critical.
THERE was an uproar in the Him
House of Representatives on the
es caused by the Speaker dismissing all
on the employees.
i BIG BEAR with 800 warriors has joi1
1t Riel, the Manitoba rebel, and the lattel
I'D now said to have 1900 armed men.
OF AT an early hour on the I'd Gene
Grant was reported weak and restlt
f- with little hope for change for the b
"a. ter; In fact, his death was looked upon
on but little way off.
~ r, P. HUGHES, the defaulter to
,es United States as Marshal at Richmo
'or Va, who was caught in Texas, has b
ay returned East.
AT banquet at Odessa on the 1st, R
sian officers drank and responded to
'sk toast: siThe Coming War with Englan
A DISPATCH received at Washington
as the 1st, stated that Aspinwall was
y ashes, the insurgents having burned 1t
sn escape capture by the Government.
~ THE Pail Mall Gazette thinks that r
~, sia's reply is an acceptance of EnglaI
proposals, but some other papers tax