Oxford eagle. (Oxford, Lafayette Co., Miss.) 1876-current, 1883-08-30
STATE NEWS.

brass band.
sardis has an organized mill
tary company.
There are 457 inmates at the
State lunatie asylum.
they have q county singing
convention in Natchez-
From one potatoe a Vicksburg
man raised one hundred and
FIVE.
1t costs n boy three dollars to
throw rocks in the streets of
Nxtchez.
A cotton harvester has been
invented by the editor of the
vicksburg Herald.
w. Fl. Hardy has withdrawn
from the field ~ a candidate for
Senator in the Goth district.
The Boarl of Supervisors Of
Chickasaw county raised the as
sesments of that county $4,000.
l.. H. Southworth has been
appointed Superintendent of
Education for Carroll county.
The Board of Supervisors of
Bolivar county increased the as
sesment Of tina, county fifty per
cent.
The New Orleans and North
Eastern road have laid one hun
dred and twenty FIVE miles of
track.
Hazlehurst received her first
bale of new cotton on the 18th
inst, and it brought IA cents q
pound.
Harry Jackson (coD was le-
Gently drowned whilst driving
his wagon and two mules into
YazUo river.
Five hundred dollars is offer
ad as o prize by the Meridian
Fair for the best military drill
by a State company.
The house Of j. O. Redus
near Hazlehurst was recently
destroyed by 6re ; there was no
insurance on the property.
The Bulletin states that q cot
ton factory is the very thing
above all others that Lexington
needs to build mp the town.
1t is expected by the end of
the month that ITO miles of the
track of the New Orleans and
Memphis road will have been
laid.
A branch road, ~ miles long,
is to be built from Liberty, the
county seat Of Amite county to
the New Orleans and Memphis
road.
: Mr.. w. II. Dudly has become
the political editor of the CaM-
.+tne7Htaresr1 ~ tie Independent
party.
Forty two indictments we're
found by the grand jury at the,
late term of the Circuit Court
OF the Raymond district OF
Kinds county.
The Canton Picket says the.
Independents in Madison are
now buying up negro votes
with dogs, giving q dog for each
vote promised.
Mr. o. S. johnson. has retired
rom the Copiah, Signal and is
succeeded by Mr.. Js Ii Meade
success to the incoming and
outgoing editors.
The Water Valley Central
says: Lafayette county saws
sne rants her. ID sections back
II tne two districts are abolish
90. Who can blame herr
The resi- dence, kitchen and
smoke house, with the contents
OF each building, of j. w. Coop
er six miles west of Pontotoc
we're recently destroyed by fire.
The Mayersville Spectator
states that at no one time in the
history of our town was there
such q large sick list 40 there
was on Monday. Nearly every
house had a person sick within
it.
The question of fence or no
fonce has been discussed in Tate
county Of late but at a recent
meeting at Senatoba resolutions
were adopted deprscating any
farther agitation of the question,
1T present.
The Durant News says: We
learn just as we were finishing
up our forms, that Emmett Coch,
ran, son of Mr.. A. Cochran, fell
from an apple tree and broke
lis leg, between the ankle and
knee.
The Kosciusko Star has been
that the county con
7icts at work on the Canton,
and Nashville rail
Dad are most cruelty and inhu.
namely treated. by those who
AVE thsm in charge.
On the 21st inst. near Vicks.
'urg o locomotive and two cars
N the Vicksburg and Meridian
DAD. were thrown from the