Oxford eagle. (Oxford, Lafayette Co., Miss.) 1876-current, 1883-02-01
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Sheep-killing dogs are doing
much damage in st. Landry
parish.
Chas. Brusle, Esq, has re-
tired from the Iberville South
and w A. Bryan is both editor
and publisher.
The gin on the Home Place,
in Concordia parish, 30 miles
below Vidalia, was destroyed
by fire on Tuesday morning OF
last week.
The notable event of last
week in Alexandria was the
marriage of Rev. III. G.. Duncan,
rector of ST. James Episcopal
Church, to Miss Maria + Cooke,
of st. Landry parish.
Willie p. Lawless, son of Mrs.
II. G. Hoskyns, of Morgan City,
fell from the bridge at Winches-
ter, across the Kentucky river,
Clark county, KY, on the 10th
inst, CAST Tuesday week., and
was instantly killed.
Mr.. J. III. Hnlse has purchas-
ed the entire interest Of Mr.. D..
b. Harrison in the Claiborne
Guardian and is now the sole
editor and proprietor. Mr.. Hulsc
has been the editor of the Guar
dian for several months.
Thos. Neal, ESQ.,, gathered
from one acre of hill land, with
out the aid of commercial ferti'
lizers in the cultivation of same,
this season past, 2802 pounds of
seed cotton.-Sparta Times.
The recent bad weather and
consequent bad roads have
caused wagoners to Ego up" in
their charges for hauling
freights from Trenton. We
learn that 81 per 100 is the price
now charged.-Vienna Sentinel.
The Natchez, Red River and
Texas Railroad is now complet-
ed and in running order to
Cross Bayou, a distance of II
miles from Vidalia. The work
of track laying will probably
stop at this point for a brief
time, until the bridge over that
stream can be built,
The Mayor and Board of al.
dermen of Clinton at theiI
meeting on Thursday evening
last, resolved to submit to the
people the question of imposing
a tax of five mills per annum fol
ten years, as an inducement t,
the Mississippi Valley Railroad
to extend their line throug'
that town.
Sheriff Brusle made his Sc
Element with the State on Wee
nesday last of all moneys CO
1ected for the State for la
2 quarter, amounting to $685.,
pa1U IN Unfteu- 6tates aIIlcn WI
n This was the largest amour
6 paid into the treasury from al
parish, and speaks well for Il
taxpayers of Iberville. many
whom suffered heavily by I'll
, last overflow.
fl A most dastardly and brut
murder was committed on Il
Conlon plantation of e. j Ga
about one mile from Thibudau,
I on last Friday night. "A nalla
to named Victor Butler sht
and instantly killed a colore
man named Ben Corbin, for n
reason whatever. The shootn
appears to have been done sin
ply for the fun of the .*hinl
Butler bears the reputation {
being a bad man. Corbin wa
u peaceable, quiet, industriou
laborer.-Thibodaux Sentinel.
An item is going the ROM
of the State press to the ri
that there never has u
Baptist church in this cffy
This is a mistake. The frs
church built here, after thexjtl
drawal of the Spanish al lrI
ties, belonged to the Baptis
denomination. 1t was located
so we are informed, in the low
or part of town, near the 500
where the university 0 v
stands Gen. Philemon Thomas
the hero of the Florida parish
es, was an active and jealous
member of the church, and was
associated with many of thAear
ly settlers, whose decent hats
are yet in the parish.-Baton
Rouge Truth.