Oxford eagle. (Oxford, Lafayette Co., Miss.) 1876-current, 1881-05-19
PERSONAL AND PoLIrIcAL.


Garfield was seriously III with bilious inter.
mitient fever.
MR. GEo. G. HARDING, n wcll-known
journalist, editor of the Satuday Reriess.
dscd al indianapolis on the sth.
The Senate Judiciary Committee
voted 10 report adversely on The nomlnation
Il stanley Matthews A. Associate Justice oi
the Supreme Court.
PRESIDENT GARFIELD i said to have
clearly intimated that he should consider the
votes u Senators upon the question of
Hobcrtson's confirmation TO DE a test Of per.
soma! nnd political fricndliness. The Presi-
dent, II i said, serupuiausly absiaincd from
threats, but IL was very evident that he
would regard avote against Robertson as an
unfriendly act toward his Administration
and toward himself.
The President has withdrawn the
nomination Of W. \. NJ. Griar, Of Pennsyl-
sania, 10 be Third Assistant Postmaster
General. GEler having deelined the position.
OSE Of the developments of the star
route contract investigation now In progress
Is the fact that a contract was let for river
service from -. Louis 20 st. Paul, going in
10 effect July I, lSs0. on June %. the day
preceding that date, Mr.. James T.. White,
Mail Superintendent At Chicago, notified the
Department At Washington that the route
was an entirely supcrfluous one, being COW
cred by existing service at every point north
OF keohak. Iowa. far better than. il could be
ty the river ~-rvlr~s sod
the route be discontinued. No notice being
taken Of this, again on July Superintendent
White wrote the Department letter OF
similar import, adding the Information
that the only service performed over the
route Was the carrying OF an empty mail
pouch each way, and saying in conclssion--
at Il j. the intention Of the Department TO
have the exchange Of empty pouches be-
tween ST. Paul and 81. Louis continued,
please 80 advise" This communication was
likewise sheiyed in Washington. and the SER
vice was continued until March 81, lSsi, at
an expense Of 80, ,aS1. Postmaster General
James has now sent special thanks 10 Super
inicndent White for his earnest protests
against this fraud, and he Is instructed 10 In
vestirate another river route in the same VI
elniiy.
In 1879 Joseph Funk aud J. Black
man, Of Philadelphia, made bids aud were
awarded contracts for three siar-rotte mail
..anfraets in Texas, giving as bondsman w.
Il. Casen. The contractors never attempted
20 perform their contracts and they were ae-
cordlnsly given over to the next highest
bidders at a largely increased compensation
sf-ile ss.ssse authorities have now caused
the arrest of the three parties named, on
charge Of conspiring TO deiraud the United
states by the execution Of worthless bonds,
IL being e.!Ae.t that both the bidders
and bondsman were mere ''siraw" men,
and acted in coIlusion with other parties
Neither Funk, Blackman nor Casen Il OF the
least pceuniary responsibility They are all
three, however, In some way connected with
Joseph r. Black, q coal operator and con-
tractor, whose arrest has also probably been
effected ere this. Funk Is his broiher-in-
law, Biarkman Is his cosehman and Casen
sor. OF general dependent The prisoners
were lodged in Jail in default cf 5000 bail
each.
As a result of the conference between
President Garfield, the Secretary Of War,
and Generals sherman and sheridan, an or
der has been promulgated restoring the mil
ftary divisions 10 the same status az before
the order Of December 8, 1850, which created
the Division of the Cult By the new order
Gen. schodeld IL placed on waiting orders
until further orders Of the President. with
full pay. The territory formerly embraced
I'm the Division Of the Gulf Is restored 10 the
Division of the Missouri, which will remain
under command Of Lieut. Gen sheridan.
The Divisions Of the Atlantic and Pacidc wiz
remain unchanged, under command re-
spertIveiy of Gen Hancock and Gen. Nc
Doweli.
The marriage Of the Crown Primes
Ruarinh ef Austria and the Princess Ste
phanle of Belgium was most imposingis
sosemnixsd Al the Church Of Augustine a
Vienna oa the 10Th. An immense muitituds
collected In the streets through which tn
rs.sl rxese=sIen drove 70 the Church. Al
hour before the eemmeneenenf Of the cere
mony the church was densely crowded By
brilliant and striking assembly. a fanfar'
of trumpels sixnsled the arrival Of the cor
tere al the church door, where Il was received
BY the Cardinal Won sehwartzenberg a thl
head of bis clergy, and their mA1esties tooi
seats under ii5 EzzzsFy ers- shseae. n.
hrsa=! pair proceeded % their places befor'
the sanctuary rails, where they offered sher
prayers. Affer = brief address from tn
Cardinal The mzFTfzSs ceremony was Pso
eeeded with At the moment the rings wer'
exchanged peals broke forth from the bell
Of the city and saiutes of artillery were fired
AT the conclusion of the ceremony The Il
Dcum was sung, after which the Honburl
sbSss sszsssss..s Sc 80 -. t.=saaAn march III
newly married pair, accompanied by ofhei
royal perso1sges, then returned 70 ihe cit
palace Of Hofburg.
SENATOR GesszasAa made a langthl
speech before he Republican senafoFiz
Caucus held on the Oh, in which he pre-.
sented with great force and peFspicuity hi
reasons for opposing the confirmation d
Judge Robertson as Collector Of the Port Q.
New York He showed that Robertson haf
been, and stiil continued 70 be, zn akgres.
sive foe 70 him and hts friends, and declared
that be bad worked the disruption OF ii.
party a home a. ne was dividing Ii national
T. He lConkiinzl was uncompromisinxl,