The Magnolia gazette. [volume] (Magnolia, Miss.) 1872-current, 1885-05-29

OEChhTAh1 hdo Cuiiott ASi tho
resignation of S. Willard Saxton, a divi-
sion chief in the First Comptroller's Office
Saxton, refuses to resign, insisting that
there are no charges asNinst him. either of
incompetency or offensive partisanship
THE British House of Commons has ad-
journed until the 4th of June.
PROF. SAMUEL JONES, professor emeritus
of physics and chemistry in Washington
and jefferson College, Washington. d. c.,
died on the 22d.
| COLONEL HUNTER BROOKE, of Ohio, a
clerk in the Adjutant- Generals office,
died in Washing ton, D. c., on the 22d, of
pneumonia, after brief illness. Colonel
Brooke served as staff officer during the
war with Generals Robert L. McCook,
Roserrans and George Fl. Thomas.
GENERAL GRANTS condition on the Oath
| was reported as favorable. ~
A TERRIFIC explosion took place under
train near Denver on the 24th.
The remains of Victor Hugo were laid
in state in the Arc de Triomphe, Paris.
Hon. L. B. EWING, newly appointed
| Consul General to Mexico, is at Washing
| ton.
FRENcHY, noted cracksman, has been
captured at New York.
THE night express the Pan Handle
Road was wrecked on the Gath near Mount
Vernon, 0.
COMMITS sIoNER CoLMAN is investigating
dairy products, butter limitations, etc.
MATTERS are assuming violent shape
in the railroad strike at Denver
AT Cincinnati the United States treas
ure has been removed from the old quar-
ters to the new building.
The sanitary conference at Rome has
declared land quarantine useless.
A RECEIVER has been appointed for the
| Havana, Rantoul g. Eastern division OF
the Wabash sytem.
CAPTAIN INNE, owner of the steamer
John Greenaway, on Lake Onondaga, N.
Y, was killed on the oath by the explosion
of boiler.
THERE was a serious communistic riot in
Paris on the oath.
Two hundred thousand dollars have beer
voted by the people of Pine County, Ari-
zona, in aid of railroad.
M. III. PHELAN, of ST. Louis, has been ap.
pointed Consul at Halifax, Nova Scotia.
FIRE destroyed the principal busines:
block at Lansing, Mich, on the 23d.
VICTOR HUGO bequeathed $4,000 to tn,
poor.
AL FRANKS killed an italian scissors
grinder at Cedar Rapids, Ia, on the 23d
THIRTY THOUSAND Russian Poles arr
being expelled from Germany.
PRESIDENT CLEvELAND's French cool
has been superseded by an Irishman.
RECEIVERS have been appointed at New
York for the Postal Telegraph Company
d. w. WEAR, of Missouri is appointe
superintendent of the Yellowstone Park
FRANCE gave $4,000 to defray the ex
penses of Victor Hugo's funeral.
AN order abolishing Chandler's Nava
Board of Detail has been issued by Secre
tary Whitney.
JOHN ScoTT, general manager of tn
Cincinnati, New Orleans g. Pacific Rail
road Company, has resigned.
SIX Of the victims of the Sullivan fir
at Cincinnatti were buried on the 23d. Al
six of the collins were in the church at tn
same time.
FROM Boston comes denial of the re
port that the Union Pacific had to borro'
a $500, 600 to pay its May interest
r THE efforts of Honduras to settle th
quarrel between Guatemala and San Sal
/ vador have failed.
= TEN THOUSAND DOLLARS worth of dia
monds were stolen on the 23d from Alex
s onder Bros, diamond merchants of Lor
n don, Eng.
GEORGE WHITE, of the st. Louis firm
/ George White &c Co., has been arrested
4 New York ON charges of fraud made by
q B. Claflin g. Co.