The Magnolia gazette. [volume] (Magnolia, Miss.) 1872-current, 1885-06-19
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

a SCHEME Is on loot to abolish the United
States sub-treasuries, and put the Gov
ernment funds in first-class banks in
cities where sub-treasuries are now To-
Gated.
PRINCE ALBERT VIcToR of England has
been admitted q bencher of the Middle
Temple.
JUDGE BROWN of the United States Cir
cult Court at Detroit, Mich was awakened
on the night of the 18th by burglar in
his bedroom. An exchange of shots fol-
lowed, but nobody was hurt
1T is now intimated that the Gladstone
Ministry brought about their own defeat
In order to cover up their dissensions.
THE Russian press insist on the correct
ness of the report that the Ameer of Af-
ghanistan is dead.
The fall of the staircase of Court
house at Theirs, France, killed twenty
four persons and wounded 1853, fourteen
very seriously.
THE Senate Interstate Commerce Com
mittee was in session at Chicago on the
18th.
JAMES HAGGERTY, who fooled the police
to give Odlum a chance to make his fatal
leap from the Brooklyn Bridge, was sem
fenced on the 11th to eight months in the
Penitentary. He was allowed to appeal
and released on bail.
RUSSIA has given an order for 1900
eleven-inch Krupp shells.
RECENT reports of pleuro- pneumonia in
Ohio are contradicted.
w. A. ROBERTS, American Minister to
Chilli, has arrived at Callao.
The Treasury Department on the 11th
purchased 21O,0 900 ounces of silver for de-
livery at the New Orle ms Mint.
THERE were sixteen cases of fever at
Sugar Notch, Pa, on the 11th, and two
deaths had occurred since last report An
outbreak of the epidemic has taken place
at Warrior Run, a short distance from
Nanticoke, and eight cases of fever were
reported there. The situation at Plym-
outh is improving, and the epidemic is
disappearing from there as rapidly as
possible.
Hon. G. v. N. LoTHRoP, the newly ap
pointed Minister to Russia, had an inter-
view with the President on the 11th, and
then called upon the Russian Minister
He also called to see Mrs. Hunt, widow of
the late American Minister to Russia
The Secretary of the Navy has decide
to order court-martial for the trial of
Paymaster- General Smith, u. S. N.
GREAT damage is being done to wheat
by the Hessian fly in the vicinity of Kala-
mazoo, Mich.
THE sittings of the Suez Canal Commits
sion in Paris have concluded.
FIVE men were killed in construction
train wreck on the Cincinnati Southern
Railway on the 18th.
THE Liberty Bell started on a special
train from New Orleans for Philadelphia
on the 18th.
THREE days. quarantine has been de-
creed by France on the Spanish border as
a prevention against cholera.
W. H. BARE and Miss Mary Ann Hines
eloped from Huntington, Pa, on the 18th,
and went West. The woman is an ad-
venturess.
j. 81. RUTTER, President of the New
FORK Central Railway, died at Irvington
on the Hudson, N. Y.,on the 10Th.
A RECENT shock of an earthquake COM
pletely swallowed up the town of Sikuch,
Eastern Caucasus.
THE estima ted wheat crop, according to
the National Miller's Association, is $780,
164, 800 bushels.
EFFORTS to enforce the Prohibitory
Liquor Law have resulted in mob violence
at Springvale, Me.
SAMUEL L. GRAHAM is the new United
States Marshal for the Western District
of Virginia.
The Marquis of Salisbury has consent-
ed to form new ministry, with Sir Staf-
ford North cote as Chancellor of the Ex-
chequer.
EXPORTS of breadstuffs from the United
States for the month of May amounted to
$11, ,34S986.
THE latest test of the Dolphin has been
pronounced utterly valueless. Another
trial will be made.
FIRE in the building in London on the
18th used by the International Inventions
Exhibition, did great damage to the In
dian museum and several departments.
A CONFERENCE was arranged to take
place on the 18th between the manufact-
urers and IRON workers at Pittsburgh.
DE alma, who had row with Commits
sioner Sparks, has lost his position as
special timber agent.
THE Supreme Court of South Carolina
has affirmed the death sentence against
Thomas Gee, Thomas McNeill and Joseph
Howard, all colored, for murder. They
will be executed at Fayetteville June
25th.
DETECTIVE WILEY, of Chicago, who
permitted Calvert, the forger, to escape on
the way from New York, has resigned. He
had been fifteen years in service.
ALBERT M. CHANDLER and Henry Ros-
ener have been appointed receivers for
the Postal Telegraph and Cable Company
in Ohio.
EXPENSES of the Agricultural Depart-
ment at Washington were reduced $1,000
for May, and for June reduction of ~, 500
is promised.
THE next convention of the American
Bankers Association will be held at Chi
cago on the 23d and oath of September
next.
COMMISSIONER SPARKS, of the Land
Office at Washington, makes lengthy re-
port on the Maxwell land grant, showing
how illegal patents were issued.
MATTE PALMER sues for divorce at
Louisville, KY, from her husband, VIM.
E. Montgomery on the ground sthat the
latter has negro blood in his veins.
A CYCLONE passed over Council Bluffs,
Ia, the evening of the 18th, doing con-
siderable damage. The fourth and fifth
stories of the State Deaf and Dumb Asy-
lum were blown off. Damage, $4,000. No
lives lost.
DURING an altercation on the 18th be-
tween Henry Neirte and Peter Gudinger :,
farmers residing about twelve miles north
of Milwaukee, Wis, the former was shot
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