Oxford eagle. (Oxford, Lafayette Co., Miss.) 1876-current, 1883-07-26
The Northern Pacific Rail
road has 31O,937 spare miles of

The Mississippi Baptist State
Convention will meet at Kosci.
usko next year.
The revenue law passed by
the last Alabama legislature has
been declared unconstitutional
The British troops at Cair o,
Egypt, are already to leave In
the event of an outbreak ol
cholera.
A Georgia paper says that a
ruby found in Rabun county,
that state, is worth over $4,000,
and is the largest ever found on
this continent.
The last Alabama legislature
passed q law appropriating $l5,-
600 for the relief of soldiers who
had lost an arm or leg or were
manned in the late war.
Rumor states that ex-Minister
Washburne, Of Illinois, is er.
"ageL in writing a book, the
urpose of which will be to
make himself prominent for the
vice.presidential nomination in
1884.
The eight telegraph cables be.
tween the United States and
Europe Are capitalized at &64,'
100000. They cost about S2,-
100000 each, or s2o,90O,C0O fol
all.
Gen. Toombs 10 somewhat i'm.
proved in health, and has chang
ed his mind about Immediately
abandoning the practice of law,
as he recently declared he in
tended to do.
Certain property owners in
Louisville have gouged Hunt
ington at such rate that he il
tired of the extortlon and the
Post says he is likely to run hil
road directly from Lexington tc
Elizabethtown without coming
within forty miles of Louisville
Secretary Teller says the
question of the transfer of the
Texas Pacific land grant to the
Southern Pacific Railroad Com
pany, will not be decided until
September LIST, and that he pro
poses to settle the matter him
self, without referring it to the
attorney general for an opinion.
President Arthur has four
sisters, who are Baptists. The
editor of the Richmond. (Va.)
Religious Herald says: We
had a very pleasant talk with
one of them a short time since.
Nothing worries that one more
than to be alluded to az "the
presidents sister,"
The Denver News causually
remarks: "It would have done
some of the gaudy subalterns
of our militia companies a world
of good if they could have seen
Gen. Crook at the Union Depot
yesterday, clad in q linen ulster a
pair of baggy, checked trousers,
and q slouch hat. Real soldiers
don't swagger around much in
blue and BRASS"
The Needles, on the Colorado
river; in Arizona, has the repu-
tation of being the hottest:place
on the coast. Last week the
mercury registered 13d degrees
in the shade. 1t is SO warm
there that it Is almost impossible
to handle metallic articles or i'm
plements without gloves, and
even pick-handles become SO
hot as To become very uncom-
Portable.
The Boston Herald remarks
that the Chicago gamblers in
provisions have discovered that,
though they can buy enough
pork to corner the market, they
cannot compel people to buy it
at speculative prices. The con-
sumption in the southern states
has not been much more than
half what it was last year. A
change from a hog meat diet in
hot weather will do the people
of that section good, and teach
gam lesrs a lesson.
Annie Gsandter, fifteen, be-
gan several years ago to help
her father, a switch tender on
the Chicago, Milwaukee and st.
Paul railroad, and for some
time has had charge, at $40
per month, of seven important
switches. She and her father
live a Box and Cox life, she
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