The Magnolia gazette. [volume] (Magnolia, Miss.) 1872-current, 1885-05-22

THE rival false prophets in the Soudan
are massing their forces for great battle
at Khartoum
POSTMASTER GENERAL Villas is filling
the small Post offices at the rate of 100 a
day.
GLADsToNE's promised important pa
pers on Afghan affairs have been laid be-
fore Parliament. They contain nothing
new.
MINISTER FOSTER is about to reopen me-
gotlations at Madrid for commercial
treaty between the United States and
Spain.
IT is feared that First Assistant POST
MASTER General Hay will be compelled by
ill-health to resign.
FRENCH radicals are demanding the i'm
peachment Of President Ferry and his
Cabinet.
ISAAC BRADBEcK, Texan, was fleeced
out of $3.50 on the pier at Jersey City ON
the 10Th by confidence men.
COMMODORE JONATHAN YOUNG, U. s. NJ,
died on the 17th at New London, Conn.
A HOME for aged Germans was dedi-
Gated in Baltimore, Nd, on the 18th.
SPANISH interests in the Gulf of Guinea
are threatened by the French.
GENERAL LEW WALLACE was offered ia
| high position in the Turkish service" but
| declined it.
PETER KNALBAUcK killed Julia Kramer
at Locust Gap, Pa, on the 17th. She had
refused to marry him.
A MEDICAL commission Is to be sent to
Spain by England to test incubation as q
cholera preventive.
| AFTER the usual Sunday consultation,
General GRANTS physicians reported his
condition not improved.
GENERAL WoLsELEY announces in a
farewell address the withdrawal of the
British troops from the Soudan.
AN emigrant family named Scott were
caught in Nebraska water-spout on the
18th and two children were drowned.
The sixty-first anniversary of the
American Sunday school Union was ap-
propria tely observed at Newark, N. j..
on the 18th.
IRISH Nationalists are bitter in their de.
nuncation Of the British Government fol
the renewal of the crimes act.
W. r. MORSE, clerk of the National Sus
pender Company of New York, is short
$4,000 in his accounts.
WHEN Prince Louis of Battenberg mar
ries Princess Beatrice he will be made
Knight of the Garter, with the It'll
"Royal Highness."
JUDGE FRENCH, at Muscatine, Ia, ha
rendered decision on pro hibition .whicl
is regarded as victory for the salool
men.
HEAVY rains have extinguished the for
est fires in Wisconsin.
AN imperial ukase has been issued or
dering the Russian language taught an
used exclusively in the German province
of Russia on the Baltic.
A FAMILY of eight persons of Masor
Mich, partook of diseased pork. One
dead, and the other seven are beyond re
covery.
THE protests of Iowa Democrats agains
Williams, the recently appointed Mar
shal, have caused his commission to
: withheld.
ENGLISH workingmen are concentratin
their forces, and propose to support the
own candidates in the coming campaig
> for seats in Parliament.
A COAT of tar and feathers was apple
to Hugh Riley, Boston man who marie
, a girl of Oneida County, New York, an
, treated her cruelty.
HOFFMAN HOOD, United States sailo
drew his pay, 800, at New York on Il
/. 10th, met a confidence man shortly after
ward, and was swindled out of every cen
j. 7. KENNER dropped dead in his barr
yard near Belle Plaine, Ia, on the lit
q and before his family discovered 1t he w
n horribly mutilated by hogs.