The Magnolia gazette. [volume] (Magnolia, Miss.) 1872-current, 1885-04-03
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

va ph0 Stbii. IAulOub oUuct po4uoooo 10 oho
of $4,000 to Miss Kate Sanborn, who was
to have been his wife.
ATTORNEY GENERAL GARLAND will
shortly dispens. with the services of q
number of Assistant District Attorneys.
He thinks there are more than the service
has any use for.
AT the furnace stock yards of tho Ed
gar Thompson Steel Works at Braddocks,
Pa, on the oath, a mass of iron ore
weighing many tons, fell from an elevator
twenty five feet, crushing and instantly
killing Nicholas Schurmiski and seriously
injuring John Ornand.
THREE HUNDRED AND FIFTY stevedores
struck at Phladel phias Pa, on the 9th,
against a reduction of wages. The steam
ships British Crown and Switzerland, only
partially loaded, were delayed in sailing.
d. RUTTLE & Co.'s pork house in Cow
ington, KY, was damaged 900 by fire
the night of the oath. Adjoining dwell
ings burned also, causing a loss OF $40, 900.
GENERAL JAMES McQUADE died at Uti-
ca, N. Y, on the 25th
THE British Cabinet held a special ses-
sion on the 25th to discuss the Afghan
difficulty.
GENERAL GRANT was much better on the
25th and went out driving.
GENERAL SPARKS was confirmed on the
25th as Commissioner of the General Land
Office.
Hon. S. S. Cox, of New York, has been
appointed and confirmed as Minister to
Turkey.
THE Arabs lost 400 men in the skirmish
on the oath near Suakim.
ENGLISH estimates still place the Arab
losses in the battle on the 22d at 5000.
JAY GOULD declined reelection as a di :
rector of the Union Pacific Railway.
Two Soudon shieks have gone to Con-
stantnople to enter the service of the
| Sultan.
MAUD s., queen of the turf, started on
the 25th for Philadelphia in charge of her
| trainer.
| A DUAL tragedy occurred at Stewards :
vile, Ind, on the 25th, in which two farm
ers killed each other.
AMONG the Arabs killed near Suakim re-
Gently were thirty-four WON en- who were
armed as soldiers.
| MILTON BUcKNER, q colored desperate
and murderer of Kentucky, was arrested
in Louisville on the 25th.
THE British, according to latest returns,
had $50 men killed and wounded and 1000
camels in the battle near Suakim on the
25th.
THE Connellsvills (Pa.) Coke Syndicate
has decided to advance the price of coke.
| CHAS. FRANCIS ADAMS, JR., was re-
elected President of the Union Pacific Rail-
way Company.
IT is announced in London that the
cause for calling out militia is that Russia
has rejected the English proposals.
THERON BROWN, colored, cut his wife's
throat at Newark, N. j., on the 25th, and
then blew out his own brains.
VIM. HAINEs, of Muncie, Ind, went to
the henhouse of Bish op Scott on the night
of the oath to play a practical joke, and
was killed by the latter.
1t is reported that the Porte has asked
the advice of Bismarck in regard to a
Turko- Russian alliance against England.
THE Western Nail Association met al
Pittsburgh, Pa, on the 25th, and reaf-
firmed the card rate. Trade is fair and
stocks small.
MAYOR O'CoNNoR of Dublin says that
the flag will be hoisted when the Prince OF
Wales arrives, and that thousands OF
stalwart hands will be ready to guard it if
necessary.
For sixty miles south of the Straits Of
Mackinaw the ice in Lake Michigan wa.
solid entirely across on the 25th, of an av-
erage thickness of thirty inches 1t il
thought that vessels will not be able to ge
through to Buffalo before June 1st.
THE New South Wales Legislative Coun-
Gil by unanimous vote, and the Legislativ,
Assembly, So to "a, approved the dis
patch of the colonial contingent to tn,
Soudan. The announcement of the votes
were received with loud cheers for tn,
Queen.
THE British ambassador at st. Peters
burg has been instructed to press the Rus
sian Government for a reply to Gran
ville's proposal regarding the outposts OIL
the Afghan frontier.
THE Music Hall at Buffalo was destroyet
by fire the night of the Goth, to gether will
the wardrobes aud other property of tn
McCaull Opera Company.
The Interior Department was closed OF
the 26th out of respect to the memory o
the late Jacob Thompson, of Kentucky
Secretary of the Interior under Presiden
Buchanan.
Ex-CoSGREssMAN CASEY Yorca, c
Tennessee, is in Washington, sufferin,
from paralysis of his right arm and lel
He says that he has felt the paralyti
symptoms in his system for long time.
1T is commented on as a notable coinci
dence that three Of the new appointees
viz: First Comptroller Durham, India
Commissioner tAtkins and Land Commits
sioner Sparks, all served together on tn
House Committee on Appropriations.
Mr.. Low ELL thinks that Mr.. Phelps, hi
successor as the American Representative
at the court of st. James, is an estimabl
and cultured gentleman, and he regard
the selection wise one.
THE trouble in the Northwest Territor
is becoming quite serious
REBELS in the Soudan are cutting th
telegraph wires.
GENERAL GRANT passed quiet day o
the Goth, and did not complain of pain.
ENGLISH soldiers in the Soudan are sui
| fering from sunstrokes.
| THE testimony of General Grant in th
J case of James d. Fish in connection wit
the Marine Bank failure, was taken be
fore a notary.
THE arms factories at Birmingham, En-
gland, are working night and day.
? The Queen of Great Britain has calle
out the reserves and militia for permaner
service.
, THE New York Assembly committt
will report adversely on the bill to perm