The Magnolia gazette. [volume] (Magnolia, Miss.) 1872-current, 1885-03-26
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

Auuicbou : bHBnU Wounu. Inc IuHn SupSe-
quently died in the hospital. He had prom
ised to marry the girl, who afterward
learned that he was married already.
The President reviewed st. Patrick's
parade as it passed the Executive Mansion
on the 17th.
CHAs. BRIGGS, the wife murderer, ex-
plated his crime on the scaffold at Phila-
delphia, Pa, on the 18th.
FIVE hundred coal miners struck on the
18th at the Ellsworth mines near Danville,
Ill.
A QUANTITY of dynamite was found con-
cealed in Irish quarters in Liverpool on
the 17th.
THE National Association of General
Passenger and Ticket Agents met at New
Orleans, La; on the 18th.
MRS. SARToRIs, daughter Of General
Grant, was expected to arrive in the
steamer Baltic from Europe. f4l
The British Government has provided
f25, 900 for extra mail facilities with Amer
lea.
DICK BRANNAN, who robbed the South
wick (Tex.) Post-office, received life
sentence.
THE Supreme Court of Iowa affirms the
constitutionality of the prohibition law of
the State.
THE Postmaster at Edinburgh, Pa, COM
mitted suicide on the 18th because he was
short in his accounts. tr-l tt.i4t 2+.
| CoMMANDEa KANE telegraphed to WASH
ington on the 18th that revolution existed
| at Panama and AspinwalL
JACOB MARoUITH beat out the brains of
Mary Kunkel in the insane asylum in
| Dearborn County, Indiana.
| THE Russian troops will make no fur
| ther advances toward Afghan territory
| provided the Afghans keep within bounds.
THE President gave his first state re-
| ception the evening of the 18th, and it was
one of the most brilliant affairs ever held
in the White House.
| The weather was intensely cold
throughout Canada on the 17th, the tenn
perature ranging from to SO degrees be-
low zero.
The United States will cooperate with
Mexico in preventing threatened anarchy
in the Central American States.
MISSISSIPPI Day and the opening of the
Mexican department caused large at
tendance at the New Orleans Exposition
on the 18th.
PARNELL presided at banquet at Lon
don in honor of st. Patrick's Day. He
predicted that better times were coming.
A BARREL of gasoline exploded in the
cellar of saloon at Braddock, Pa, on the
17th fatally burning one man and serious
ly scorching others.
NATIVE spies who reached Suakim on
the 17th reported that messengers from
Osman Digna's camp brought the news of
the fall of Kassala.
EDWARD d. CLARKE, of Mississippi, who
was confirmed Assistant Secretary of the
Interior, on the 18th was lying dangerous
ly i'll with pneumonia.
THE vil-Service Reform Association
of Maryland protests againsts the appoint :
ment of Higgins, of that State, for APP
pointment Clerk of the Treasury.
THE Secretary of the Navy has secured
the services of professional accountant
in order to have thorough examination
of the accounts of the Department..
AT a social entertainment in New York
on the 18th one woman stabbed another
with q knife and then tried to cut her
throat with a corset steel and butt her
brains out.
VERMONT had its inning at the New Or
leans Exposition on the 18th.
LIEUTENANT JOHN w. RICHARDS, of the
Salvation Army, was arrested at North
Adams, Mass, on the 17th and indicted,
with three others, on the charge of OBJ
tainining $30,0'O worth of goods from
merchants in different cities and disposine
of the goods for their own benefit.
TWELVE inches of snow fell at Spartans.
burgh, s. c., on the 18th. The storm wa.
general throughout the South Atlantic
States
THE Prince of Wales and his son lef
London for Berlin on the 18th.
SUSAN WARNER, the novelist, died a
Newburgh, N. Y, on the 18th.
FRANCE will renew the negotiation
with China looking to peaceful termina
tian of their troubles.
MRS. GENERAL Tom THUMB and Coun
Rosebud will be married on Easter Mon
day.
A DISTINCT shock of earthquake was fel
at Contocook, N. H., on the 18th.
! A TERRIBLE fire damp explosion nea
Saarbrucken, Rhenish Prussia, on the 18th
imprisoned over 200 men. Thirty wer
rescued alive.
WIN. 81. VANDERBILT had short inter
view with the President on the 18th.
! THERE came near being a free fight Il
the Austrian Chamber of Representative
: on the 18th.
!, SPIES say that the Amarai tribe @
Arabs will desert the Mahdi at the frs
favorable opportunity and join the British
A NUMBER of the Pennsylv ania strikin
miners were arrested on the 18th.
The Holstein Cattle Breeders Associa
tion of America met at Chicago on th
18th. nlis Il
IT is denied that Senator Stanford, {
California, is in bad health, as was re
ported.
J. L. WEED, prominent citizen of Bine
l hamton, N. Y, was arrested on the 1St
on a charge of forgery.
q THE Arkansas Senate, on the 18th, passe
, the bill to enlarge the powers and priv
, leges of married women.
Q PRESIDENT CLEVELAND was forty -eigt
. years old on the 18Th, and received I'll
congratulations of numerous callers.
JAY GouLD's steam yacht arrived {
: Charleston, s. c., on the 18th, with I'll
railroad owner and family on board.
WIN. MULcAHY was murdered in th
Essex County IN. J.) Insane Asylum, c
the 18th, by Hermann Fuchs, anoth,
patient.
TIE grain sections of California al
4 said to be suffering for the want of rain.
: AN immense crowd In Louisville, KY
!. on the 18th listened to infiammator