Oxford eagle. (Oxford, Lafayette Co., Miss.) 1876-current, 1883-10-25
A Norway dinner costs bu.
twenty-five cents.

with $4,000 in cash.
James @. Godfrey, a whole
sale merchant Of Brooklyn, hal
died from smoking cigarettes
The death is announced o.
Rear Admiral Joshua Sands, OF
the retired list of the United
States navy, eighty nine years
of age.
The French are experimenting
with q new rifle, designed fol
infantry use, which is said TO dis
charge three prcjectiles at q
time.
Mrs Edison, the wife of the
inventor, is the originator OF
what promises to be a popular
arrangement OF the: electric light
in chandeliers.
An insane woman in the In.
dianapolis aims house bas been
muzzled with u base ball mask
to prevent her biting her fellow
prisoners.
The capture is announced OF
Clabe Young, one of the notori
GUS Young brothers, despera-
does who have for a long time
terrorized Southwestern Texas,
The historian, George Ban
croft, celebrated his eighty-thlrd
birth day at Newport, Is L., on
the Sd, giving a dinner party in
the evening.
The German carp sent to
Florida by the Fish Commission
are frightened by the alIigators
and eaten by the turtles, and
consequently do not prosper.
Nineteen thousand persons,
including SIX hundred avowed
infdels, were converted within
eight years by Major Penn. the
Texas evangelist.
The twenty-five bells just re
ceived from Belgium for Holy
Trinity Church, Philadelphia
are described as the finest ever
sent TO this country. The heavi
est weighs q ton and a half.
The latest form of the Pacific
coast cry "The Chinese na!af.
-, 49, ---5.., ,sA-.~.A ~uy s tnIt
many Chinese cooks are affiict.
ed with leprosy.
Assemblyman Sessi o n's--t
New York was placed on trial
on the Sth charged with at
tempting to bribe a member du
ring the Senatorial election
which was held after Conkllne
and Platt resigned.
Asregards paying clerks then
salaries when absent longer
than thirty days vacation al
lowed by law, the Treasury De
| partment has decided that al
long as the name of a clerk is OF
tho rolls he must be paid.
Resolutions were adopted o.
the Free Trade Conference, Il
session at st. Louis on the 80
declaring that protection was
uinous measure, and that a
possible means should be take
to abolish it Immediately.
Col. James Tnllis, special go'
ernment land agent, who hs
been investigating land frauc
in the Territories, says he hs
discovered more crookedne'
and rascality in land entire
than the most imaginative NH
, could conceive of.
A boy in Des Moines, low
while playing with the works
a clock, applied his tongue
. the clogs after he had start
the wheels The tongue W
IS drawn in, and boy and clio
i were inseprable until a Jewel
n took the wheels apart
" The Boston Transcript sa.
) "Mr. Blaine has nearly compl
sd his history, "From Lincf
tn Garfield, He will then
gin on a history of the war
is12. From a personal irie II
II is learned that he was onel
u 500. 600 in cash for From /
coin to Garfield" in two '
l. nmos. He decided not to
cent this, but, by the advice
a friend, will insist on a roya
of so per cent.
We find the following in
Meridian Mercury: About
& wears ago a negro named Z
Felt murdered another anu q
made good his escape
ok murderer never fled the coun
for good but stopped withln
ty miles of the scene OIL
crime. He has been constai
coming to this city all the WI
A reward was offered, put
!. the devil takes care OF ms {
he happened never to be
by any one who knew ne w
fneitiye from justice les
- day he came to town ana
recognized by Mr.. }. U; Mc'
mick. of Elson's stere, VINO p'
ed him out to the oilieels
D secured his arrest. Mr. Nc NC
f. mick knew the negro WEI, !,
p was well acquainted Win al