Oxford eagle., 1883-10-18
STATE NEWS.

4 The Meridian Fair will opon
on the Goth insi.
They speak of organizing a
dancing club at Sardis.
The Aberdeen Fair will epen
on the 22nd and continue Ave
days.
| From August Goth to October
9th there was no rain at Louis.
vile, Winston county.
| The Courier states that New
Albany is improving and that
new citizens are coming in.
There will be reunion of the
end Mississippi Regiment on
the Goth Of October at Jackson.
The Summit Sentinel com
plains of too much pistol and
gun practice of night in that
town.
Sheriff Wilmington who re.
Gently was badly cut in a diff.
Guilty with Eugene az Liberty is
recovering.
John Ro ly, pedler, was re-
Gently murdered and robbed
near Americus in jackson cuun
ty.
, The Nesboba Democrat after
a temporary suspension has
been revived with Mr.. Stanton
rs editor.
Near Duck Hill recently
houfe aecidently caught fire and
= two little negro boys were burn.
ed up in it.
1t is stated that w. B. Mont
gomerv of Starkville has made
100000 in ten years by raising
/ Jersey cattle.
1t is claimed that colored
+ man who died recently in Pike
county was one hundted and
twenty years old.
The city authorities of Meri-
q dian have invited the State
: Grange to hold IFS annual meet.
ing next December at that place.
Some person recently fred at
Balfour Klein in Vicksbufg but
he bullet lodged in blank
! book in his pocket and did no
!. kaIm
2 parties were imprisoned in
i the county for escaping from
a county jail. Jesse Stevens SER
fenced to be hung on the 2nd
of November. for murder.
The New Orleans and North
Eastern railroad will be COM
pleted and trains running be.
tween New Orleans and Meri-
dian by the first day of Novem.
Der,
: The Winona Advance learns
8 from reliable Carroll county
# man that five hundred hawks
. were seer! in one drove on Judge
Whiteheads place some weeks
. since.
The Starkville Citizen saws:
= The following is the result of
:, the criminal court just closed..in
l. West Point. 3parties were each
Y fined $50 and cost for carving
concealed Weapons
The Water Valley Progress
states that last week the Water
r. Valley car shop turned out in
a five days thirty cotton coal cars.
: We doubt if any other shops in
9 the South can show up a better
n record than this.
u AT The late term of the Cir
o cult Court of Alfalfa county
Q Thomas Gillum was tried for the
@ murder of Matt Suggs in Octo
a Der 1882 and was convicted and
sentenced to thepenitentiary for
u life. An appeal to the Supreme
Is Court will probably be taken.
The Holly Spring Reporter
says: We regret to have to
a chronicle painful accident to
n MI. Charles Powell which oc-
1t Cured few days ago While
% returning home Saturday last
= from Holly Springs his mule
10 threw him, breaking his leg near
II the ankle. We are glad to hear
IS he is doing we'll
D. The Meridian Observer saws:
a Last Saturday night two negroes
If had a difficulty, in which one
was hit with a brick ard has
since died. The report is that
Levi Redding and Leroy Smith,
4 the parties in the affray, had a
% quarrel during the night, but
e were separated and each went
Il his way.
G The Chester Record saws:
a. There are 1877 newspapers pub
:, lishedin Mississippi. The Coun-
, ties which have no newspapers
d are Covington, Frank lin;
Greene, Hancock. Lawrence.
Perry, Qnitman, Smith, Sun
@ flower, and Wayne. The Wood.
n vile Republican is tho oldest
v paper in the State, which was
i established in 1926 next Oldest
. is The Clarion, established in
Z 1887.
The Louisville Sional o;vas