The Magnolia gazette. [volume] (Magnolia, Miss.) 1872-current, 1885-10-16
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

THE Roman Catholic Bishops of Ireland |
have passed a resolution condemning
violence.
THE funeral of the Earl of Shaftesbury |
occurred on the 8tb, in London. His re- |
mains were deposited in Westminster |
Abbey.
On the 23d inst the gauge on the Vicks- |
burg and Meridian Railway will be |
changed to the standard width.
MRS. O'CoNNELL, of LIMERICK, has come
to an amicable understanding with her.
tenants and the boycotting of her has
ceased.
In Spain, on the 8th, there were 211 new
cases of cholera and 100 deaths reported.
In Palermo, Italy. there were 11s new
cases and fifty eight deaths.
E. s. HAWKINS, of Frankfort, Ind, re-
covered 81, 500 damages for personal in.
juries against the Evansville &c Terre
Haute and Evansville & indianapolis
roads.
THREE HUNDRED man employed by the
Muskegon (Mich.) Boom Company struck
on the 9th against being docked in their
wages for time lost by rainy or stormy
weather.
IA. 8. CRoCKER g. Co., wholesale sta
tionery and printing, San Francisco, CAL,
were burned out on the 8th; loss, 10000.
AN important tax suit has been decided
against the st. Paul g. Sioux City Railroad
by the Supreme Court of Minnesota.
A REWARD of $3.50 each has been offered
in Arizona for Apache scalps, and many
of the old pioneers are on the trail.
THE Supreme Court of Virginia has
granted writ of error in the Cluverius-
Fanny Madison murder case.
FIVE white men and two Indians, who
made murderous attack on Chinese hop
| pickers in Squak Valley, Wy. T., recently,
and killed two of their number, were in
dicted by the Grand Jury on the sth for
murder in the first degree.
THE Dominion Government has sent a
steamer loaded with supplies to the Lab
rador coast to alleviate the distress among
the starving fishermen.
THE vicinity of Ringtown, Pa, was Wis
tied on the Sth by binding snow storm.
Ice quarter of an inch thick formed in
many places.
| CARDINAL MoCLosKEY died a little
after one o'clock the morning of the 10th.
THE reward for Indian scalps in Ari-
zona has been increased to 500 each.
In fight between the Fl ench and Hovas
in Madagascar, recently, the French lost
twenty. one killed and wounded, and the
Hovas 200.
AN investigation is in progress of
charges pre- erred against the Omaha
Postmaster.
LIMA advices state that the Government
troops are still pursuing General Caceres,
of whose movements very little is known.
THE Attorney General of Indiana gives
it as his opinion that teachers salaries
can not be garnished.
The Canadian Pacific Railroad will be
opened from Montreal to Kicking Horse
Pass, distance of 1891 miles, on Novem
ber I'd.
Two men were drowned by the capsiz-
ing of a fishing smack off Frankfort,
Mich, on the Sth, during gale.
GENERAL STEVENSON, First Assistant
Postmaster General, was rendered a pub
lie reception at Bloomington, Ill.
ALL incoming trains are boarded al
Quebec by physician, and all persons
refusing to be vaccinated or who can not
show vaccination marks are quarantined.
GEORGE PAXTON was struck ON cross
ing by a Cleveland & Pittsburgh traiu
near Steubenville, o., on the 9th, and in
stantly killed.
II. TATTENHAM, who left Meadtord, Ol-
tario, in yacht, was pursued by tug t.
Lake Huron, where he was captured an
taken back ON charge of forgery.
FUPILs in the public and provincial
schools at Buffalo, N. Y, are to be vac
cinated and other precautions are being
taken against the spread of smallpox.
AT conference of glass manufacturer.
| hoct n
i, agreement has been arrived at and worl
in the factories will be resumed.
CORRESPONDENCE between the Attorney
General, the President and the Solicitor
General has resulted in the dismissal O
suits brought by the Government agains
the Bell Telephone Company.
l MRS. CLARENCE CLARK, once promi
nent society belle of Wilkesbarre, Pa, bu
/. latterly a confirmed opium eater an
drunkard committed suicide at Williams
} port, Pa, on the 9th.
THE Treasury Department ON the OF
purchased 100000 ounces Of siver for d.
s livery at the Philadelphia mint for coinag
Q into silver dollars.
S LIEUTENANT COLONEL CALEB B. LA,
/, TON, Twentieth Infantry, and Captai
n VIM. e. Kingsbury, Eleventh Infantr,
S have been placed on the retired list.
|. THERE were 207 failures in the Unite
States and Canada during the seven day
ended the 9th, against 1856 the week befoI
e and 1856 the week previous.
l. The American box and shook factor
7, and planning mill, owned by Thomas v
y Thompson, of Williamsport, Pa, burne
It on the OH, together with a large amour
e of stock. Loss, nearly $4,000; insuranc
1T $2S,500.
le Two warehouses containing $4,000 sacl
of wheat were burned at Durham's st
tion, near Chico, CAL, on the 10th. Los
a $l25,0)O; partially insured.
= A ROW BOAT was capsized in Boston ha
t. bor on the 9th. Two men were picked ,
is by the crew of tug-boat, but both di'
n in short time. There is said to have be,
RS @ third man in the boat named M. s. Gov
of whose body was not recovered. One
re the dead men is named H. B. Carrier.
re A CLEVELAND & PITTSBURGH passeng
is train, going East, struck team OF hors
ig and a wagon at Alkana crossing, ne
al S,eubenville, o., on the 9th, killing bo
s. horses, completely demolishing the wag
and fatally injuring George Paxton, t
is driver of the team.
h. AT the Luke Fiddler breaker at Sham
NJ kin, Pa, on the 9th, Polish boy, emplo
of ed as a slate picker, missed his footing a
On fell headlong into box in which we
Is swiftly revolving pair of "monke
nd rollers used in preparing the smaller si1