Oxford eagle. (Oxford, Lafayette Co., Miss.) 1876-current, 1883-10-25
STATE NEWS.

ty that has two heads.
The bank at Tupclo has failed
and made an assignment.
A stock breeders association
has been formed in Madison
county.
The Carroll county jail has
Ave boarders, four white and
one negro.
The jackson and Yazoo Ciyt
railroad will have three depots
in The latter city.
The Herald claims that Yazoo
City will double her population
ia twelve months.
There was another case OF
yellow fever at Ocean Spr ngs
OH the 18th lust.
The summer residence of MI.
T. e. Suternor, Biloxi was re-
Gently destroyed 10y fire.
Vim. McCaIey has been aP~
pointed Post. master at Natchez
in place Of Fitzhugb, deceased.
Mississippi received from the
Peabody educational fund dur
irg the past year the sum OF
$4,000.
A house near Osyka was re-
Gently destroyed by fire and
three negro children were burn
cd to death in it.
Trains on the Jackson and
Yazoo City railroad are running
to Bentonia, a point ten miles
from Yazoo City.
There is a great deal of sick
ness in Oakland, Yallobusha
county, and some of the cases
have proven fatal.
The pemium fer the best bale
of cotton raised in Mississippi
was awarded to George Oliver
Of Baldwin, Prentiss county.
Tho post Office at Brandon
has been raised to a third class
office and tie salary is eleven
huLdred dollars per annum.
Tho Ripley Sentinel states
that Mr.. John Heard seriously
cut his arm with a hand axe last
week. His arm is doing very
well now.
The business manager of the
Vicksburg Post, Nil. Ellis b.
Davidson, is dead. He had been
connected with tho V%icksburg
Press for over twenty years.
The telegraph line from Kos
ciusko to Aberdeen has been
completed; it runs along the
line of the Canton, Aberdeen
and Nashville railroad.
Tom Hamton shot and killed
John Wiley a short time since
in Lefore county. Hampton
fled and has not yet been ar
orcd men.
John Shupcrt, whilst diving
a wagon near Carrolton on the
18th INST fell out and, his feet
catching in the swingletree, he
was dragged about 200 yards.
HE was so badly injured that
he died in about three hours.
The Aberdeen Examiner says:
The new Telephone line, con.
Meeting Aberdeen, Columbus
and West Point, will be in ac-
tive operation early next month.
The charge will be twenty-five
cents for five minute converse
ton.
The Aberdeen Examiner says:
We understand that a telegram
was received at West Point
Thursday announcing the az
rest at Pine Bluff Ark, ofJohn
/. NimmOrs, who is accused of
killing Hamlin, the photographer,
+ in Clay county last year.
;. The Meridian Observer says :
A negro named Pete, at Newton
last Saturday night, took a drink
of whisky and n minute Oh so
remarked that it had a very bit
ter taste, and that the town APP
peared to him upside down.
He walked off fifty yards or so
behind one Of the stores and in
five minutes was dead. We get
this information from Capt. Il.
L. Pettus, of Newton, who fur
Their states that the case is
shrouded in MYSTERY.
The Summit Sentinel saws
hQuite a serious accident occur
red at Purves, a small station on
the Northeastern Railroad, a
few miles from Poplarville, last
Wednesday night. A number
of parties were riding on "a flat
car loaded with lumber, when
their support gave way and they
tumbled off the car, the lumber
falling on top of them. Three
negro hands were killed, two
wounded, and a young man
named Tate, of Osyka, repre-
senting a tobacco house, had
his leg injured. The wounded
parties are all ON a fair road to-
recovery.
The Carrolton Conservative
says: On Tuesday morning,