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Oxford eagle. (Oxford, Lafayette Co., Miss.) 1876-current, 1883-09-13
Who Should Not be a Wife.

Has that woman call to be 9
wife who thinks more of heI
silk'dress than her children an d
visits her nursery;no otter than
once . day? Has that woman q
call to be a wife who cries for
n cashmere shawl when her hus.
bands notes are protested !
Has that woman a call to be q
wife who sits reading the last
novel while the husband stands
before the glass vainly trying
to pin together q buttonless
shirt bosomY Has that woman
q call to be q wife who expects
her husband to swallow diluted
coffee, soggy bread, smoked tsa
and watery potatoes six days in
sevenf Has she a call to be o
wife who fiirts with every man
she meets and reserve her frown
for her. home fireside 7 Has abe
a call to bs a wife who comes
down to break fast in abominable
curl papers, a soilsd dressing
gown and shoes down at the
heel? Has she . call to bo a
wife whose husbands love
weighed naught in the balance
with her next door neighbours
damask curtain or velvet car.
pst7 Has she q call to be o wife
who would take advantage of q
moment Of conjugal weakness
to extert money or exact q prom
Use ? Has shs q call to bs wife
who takes a journey for pleasure
leaving her husband to toll in q
close Office, .and have an eye
when at homo, to servants and
children 7 Has she call to
be wife to whom a good hus-
bands society 10 not the great
eat Of earthly blessings, and a
houss fall Of rosy children its
best furnishing and prettisst
adornment
Oxford eagle. (Oxford, Lafayette Co., Miss.) 1876-current, 1883-09-13

A writer describes the peon
system Of Mexico. The Mexi-
cans, he aays, especially the less
favored classes, are invoterate
gamblers, who risk nearly every
cent they can get in games of
chance. This falling results in
many Of them becoming ssrfs.
A man borrows y small sum
say SO or $4-with which to try
his luck at tho gaming table.
He loses and is unable 10 pay
the money. He is arraigned,
the debt is proved, and ho is
sentenced to WORK for the lend
er till the amount of his obliga-
tion is paid. BY the time he has
liquidated the original debt he
has contracted three or four
others, and he belongs to his
creditor almost as much as the
creditors horse or COW. His
death does not cancel his debts;
his wife or children must labor
till the money is returned.
This ia said to be the reason
why the peonsido not run away
after contracting debts.
Oxford eagle. (Oxford, Lafayette Co., Miss.) 1876-current, 1883-09-13

Fathers and sons are not usu.
ally as intimate as mothers and
daughters are. Each seems TO
so his way, regardless OF the
tastes Of the other. If the son
starts for a walk in one direc-
ton, the father starts in anoth-
or, 1t is the mother who goes
with her son to the thsater, it 10
the daughter who goes with the
father. Yet when father and son
are good fellows together-hant-
in G, sailing, walking, smoking
and gossiping without the com.
pany ofa third psrty--a sight of
them is = very cheering one.
A father was asked what were
his sons opinion in politics, and
he replied i: "Charley's? How
should l know? / never got
acquainted with him."
Oxford eagle. (Oxford, Lafayette Co., Miss.) 1876-current, 1883-09-13

A freight train on the Mobile
and Ohio railroad four miles
south of Meridian was lately
thrown from the track and bad.
ly wrecked. The disaster oc.
CURED from tho removal Of the
spikes and fishbar fastning at
the joints Of the rail by parties
who desired to plunder the train
aud who succeeded in carrying
Off portion of the goods in the
cars. No person on the train
was injured.
Oxford eagle. (Oxford, Lafayette Co., Miss.) 1876-current, 1883-09-13

All ceremonies are in them.
selves very silly things, but yet
. man Of the world should know
them. They are the eutworks
OF manners and. deccney, which
would too often be broken in
upon were it not for the defence
which keeps the enemy at q dis.
tancc. 1t 10 for that reason thst
| always treat fools and COX.
combs with great ceremony,
true good breeding not being .
sufficient barrier against them.
-Chesterhsld.
Oxford eagle. (Oxford, Lafayette Co., Miss.) 1876-current, 1883-09-13
Cremation in the Far East.

Among the Hindoos, ~ every
ono knows, the process Of ere.
nation is common, and at Ben.
ares lts practice may be obssrv.
cd at any hour, alike beneath
the burning rays ofnoonday sun
and by the light Of the pale
moon. Many . posr sufferer
sfrains his last efforts TO reach
the shore Of the Gangcs, there
to die on hallowed ground.
The expenses Of wood for the
funeral pyre being too great to
secure the bnrning Of the whole
body, it 10 partly charrod and
thon sent to hoat down the holy
stream into eternity of the sea.
The weather. Hindoos arc moro
formal in the disposal Of their
dead. After bathing the body
in tho river it 10 swathed in q
shroud Of white, scarlet OF saff-
ron colored material sometimes
even covered with cloth ofgold
for silver, some vermillion paint
symbolizing the blood Of sprink.
ling, 10 then thrown over 1t, and
the body 10 laid upon the pyre.
After adding sweet grass, pre-
cious oil and more wood, the
chief mourner bears . lighted
torch three or nine times round
the body touches the dead lips
with the holy flame and lights
the pyre. Then it 10 kindled in
several other places, and in .
very short time the body 10 con.
sumed by the flame, the ashes
are gathered up, and the Ganges
bears them away. In Japan
cremation 10 not SO publicly per.
formed. A plain-looking house
in the corner ofthe country
cemetery, with mud walls and
earthen floor, inside Of which
are seven or eight low stone in
closures, serves AZ . crematory.
The body, in a sitting attitude,
is placed on heap Of dry fagots
in one Of the Enclosures, and
whom after six or eight hours
the fire 10 burned out, nothing
il left but a few white sshes,
those are put into An earthon-
ware urn and buried with or
without religious rites. Tho
burning of bodies is not com
pulsory in Japan, but Buddhists
of the Monte sect are nearly
without exception cremated.
The town crematories differ on
ly from those in the country by
their tall chimneys, by Which
unpleasant odors are kept from
becoming troublesome to the
neighborhood. There is also q
ANAL room kept seperate for
the wealthier people in which
they have their dead burned
apart. For the use Of this .pri-
vate apartment they pay twenty
shillings, while those who pre-.
fer to be burned in company
pay about tho fifth part of this
sum. The fuel only costs about
one shilling. From s p. M. to
o. A. NJ. the fires burn on the
granite supports which are laid
on the earthen floor, and from
each of these hearths the ashes
are gathered and put separately
into an urn. There is no smoll
to annoy any one, and no nuis-
ance. Terrible az cremation
may appear to some, the procesn
is far less hidious in its details
than that which has its slow
course in the deep, narrow bed
into which the fower.covered
coffin is lowered from our sight.
Review.
Oxford eagle. (Oxford, Lafayette Co., Miss.) 1876-current, 1883-09-13

A new method Of catching fish
called jug fishlng' has been in
vented in tha south. A corksd
jug is attached to tho fishing
line, both are then cast into the
water, and the fun ia supposed
to begin when the fish bite and
cause the jug to bob up and
down. If the south thinks it
has done in inventins! this kind
ofamusemsnt, it is much mista-
ken. Up here in the north hum
dreds of men 60 lug fishing"
every day. But the method is
slightly different from that of
the south. The fisherman, and
not the line, ia attached to the
jug, and the fisherman, and not
jug, begins to bob up and down.
and doesn't wait for the fish to
bite either. Manifsstly the
South has many things to learn
abolt lug fishing.''-N. Y. TT
br,e
Oxford eagle. (Oxford, Lafayette Co., Miss.) 1876-current, 1883-09-13
CandOr.

Young MI. Tremble, who is
quito bright, was at party one
night and he was quite well look
ed at by the girls before was in
troduoed. After the introduo-
ton he soon caught on, and was
making himself very popular.
"Oh, la, Mr.. Tremble," laugh
ed Miss Nollie at one of his wit
ty remarks, "you remind me so
much of a friend of mine."
"Indeed, Miss," said Tremble,
sin what way 7"
ooh, he looked just like he
hadn't a bit Of sense, but whom
one knew him. he was just too
awfully cute for any use."-
Merchant t-Traveler.
Oxford eagle. (Oxford, Lafayette Co., Miss.) 1876-current, 1883-09-13
The Now York Express SAYS

The Now York Express says:
A novel suit will be brought
againt the State Of New Jersey,
it 10 said, by the five Chinese
convicts whose queues were cut
off recently when they were re-
eeived into the the prison at
Trenton. The ground for the
action 10 that clause of Tho con-
stitution which prohibits the re
striction of religious freedom, it
being held that the religion OF
China makes tho queues of its
adheronts sacred, to DO cut on
only at the peril Of eternal woe.
Oxford eagle. (Oxford, Lafayette Co., Miss.) 1876-current, 1883-09-13


Atlanta young mon are sworn
not to act up ice cream and soda
water for girls who bang their
hair. This is good scheme,
but it will not work, The New
Orleans boys invented tho story
that ice cream was poisonous,
but the girls said lemonade and
beer would do jast as well. It's
a very snowy day when the
summer girls get left, and this
year the weather has not boon
altOge ther arctic.
Oxford eagle. (Oxford, Lafayette Co., Miss.) 1876-current, 1883-09-13

According to the Philadelphia
correspondent of the New York
World, short time before his
death, Judge Jere Black was
questioned in regard to his
opinion of the presidential out
look for 1884. He said he hop
ed the old ticket would not be
nominated unless it were revsrs
ed--Hsndricks and Tilden. He
believed that Tilden might fill
the Office of Vics-Prssident,
creditably, and Hendricks would
make an admorable President,
but his choice was Hancock, he
was Hancock inside and out
right and left, and under all
circumstances.
Oxford eagle. (Oxford, Lafayette Co., Miss.) 1876-current, 1883-09-13

Il. H. Libby, writing to the
New York Tribune, states that
from his investigations he has
been convinced that seed corn
cannot be exchanged to sdvan-
tage between tho Northern aud
Southern States. ~ the large
cared varieties can only be cul-
tivatsd successfully south Of
latitude 40. Each section, in
his opinion, should produce its
own seed.
Oxford eagle. (Oxford, Lafayette Co., Miss.) 1876-current, 1883-09-13

What would you do if you
were l and / were yous tender
ly inquired a young swell Of his
lady friend, as he escorted her
home from church. "Well, II |
were you, would throw away
that vile cigarette, cut up my
cane for are.wood, wear my
watch. chain under my coat, and
stay at homo at nights and pray
for brains."
Oxford eagle. (Oxford, Lafayette Co., Miss.) 1876-current, 1883-09-13

The new town Of Naples, in
Idaho, on the Oregon Short
Line railroad, maintains = Jail
that is at once cheap and secure.
1t is nothing more nor less than
deep hole in the ground, into
which the prisoners are drop
ped with grim.swarning that the
guards will put a bullet through
every head which appears
above the edge.
Oxford eagle. (Oxford, Lafayette Co., Miss.) 1876-current, 1883-09-13

An incendiary's contrivsnce
for setting FIRE to a carriage
factory in Wallingford, Conn.,,
consisted Of a shoe box filed
with combustlble material cover
ed with turpentine and topped
OF with a lighted candle.
Oxford eagle. (Oxford, Lafayette Co., Miss.) 1876-current, 1883-09-13

A matter. of.fact witness: "Did
the prisoner knock Mr.. Smith
down in retaliation 2" asked the
lawyer of the witness. ..'No sir,
he knocked hin down in the
boardysrd."--Oil City Derrick !,
Oxford eagle. (Oxford, Lafayette Co., Miss.) 1876-current, 1883-09-13


1t 10 estimated that over 800
Americans are studying art in
Paris.
Abost $26,0O0,0OO has been
paid out on account ofpensions
during August.
Among the legaciss left by
Count de Chambord was q large
one to the Pope.
Ajudge over in Canada de-
cided the other day that man
had a right to whip his wife il
she needed it.
The French are experiment
ing witk = new rifle for infantry
use, which is said to discharge
three projectilss at time.
When it is remembered how
hard it is for women to keep
their powder dry this weather,
it seems almost like saorilege to
growl at tho heat.
A California widow will take
In 100000 from her wheat rarm
this year. We are ready to be
harvested as soon AS the returns
are all in.-Drummsr.
DR.. Garnett, of Washington,
who performed the final surgi.
cal operation on Judge Black,
was JEFF. Davis family physician
during the civil war.
Ex-Presidsnt Wright, Of the
Northern Pacific Railroad, has
given 100000 for tho establish
ment Of a boys and girls col
loge at Trenton, w. 7.
F, V. Greene is the youngest
Captain Of Engineers in the
United States army. He is
known in literxture by his clever
writings on military subjects.
Josh Billings was born in
Lanesboro', N. b., and he has
directed his children to bury
him there and mark his grave
with a rough stone from a quar-
ry hard by.
There is a girl reported down
in Kentucky whose teeth aehe
upon the least touch of any
thing cold. She is very popu-
lar with the young men during
the ics.cream season.
The success of the co-opsra-
tive company formed by the
five pianoforts key makers, af-
ter strike OF six months, shows
that skillfu! workmen who tan
fall back on their own savings
for capita eau easily become in.
dependent
Oxford eagle. (Oxford, Lafayette Co., Miss.) 1876-current, 1883-09-13

Tho managers Of the Kansas
State Fair have offered $4,000
in premiums, Of which $4,000
goes to the live stock exhibi-
tors, $4,000 to tho horticultu-
lists, and $1,000 to tho poultry
mon.
Oxford eagle. (Oxford, Lafayette Co., Miss.) 1876-current, 1883-09-13

''It was pitched without" said
. clergyman, having Noah's ark
for his thems, an old baseball
player who had been calmly
slunbering, awoke with start,
and ysllad "foul." Tho first
base from tho choir came down
and PM him out.--N. Y. Inde-
pendent.
Oxford eagle. (Oxford, Lafayette Co., Miss.) 1876-current, 1883-09-13
Girls on Foot.
lAmerican Queen.l

The frst comment an English
traveller makes upon American
women a. class 10 that they
are not az strong and healthy as
English girls. This Is mainly
due to tho indoor life our young
girls lead throughout the year.
or course there are exceptions,
but with the majority Of young
women walking and riding regu-
larly every day 10 out Of tho
question; habit, custom, and the
convenience Of horse oars have
made walking q dead practice.
True, the English climate 10
less severe; but still thero are
few days in the year whom tho
weather 10 either too bitterly
cold or too intensely hot to ad.
nit Of q comfortable, brisk walk
Of q few miles. The narrow
shouldsred, fiat.chestsd, and
shapelsss looking girls, with
pinched, oolorloss faces, would
fill out by the best exercies the
human frame can enjoy. A
vigorous youth brings about .
hale and hearty age; and with
women physical health is by far
more to the advantage Of the
race than a figure squeezed in
to shape by tortuous corsets
and lacing.
Mothers and fathers should
insist upon outdoor exercise
The musoels demand il quite as
much as the stomach food or the
lungs pure air. A young girl
confined for hours in q room
heated by poisonous blast from
the Internal machine known AZ q
furnace, should be sent out
regularly to walk with q free,
untrammeled step. We say un-'
trammeled, having In mind those
ridiculous dresses which were,
so fashionable four years ago,
and which bound . woman's
limbs 90 there could be no free
movements.
We hear on all sides Of nerv-
GUS prostration. What is this
diseaseP 1t is simply the result
Of bad education. tits the di.
rect outgrowth Of the folly Of
parents who have had their
daughters educated, at the ex.
penso OF their health. Young
girls are made to study and to
spend hours over O piano, to get
accomplished, and their muscels
grow soft and useless. At 20,
if it were not for the corset,
they could not sit up half the
day the back needs artificial
support. Half Of the reputable
physicians in this city will con.
firm this statement, and also will
agree with us when we say that
nine girls out of ten are prema-
turely permitted to wear the
corset to the detriment Of the
muscles of the back.
Young girls loll about, sink
into seats with soft backs, and,
in midsummer, should it grow
cold, clamor for a fire and flock
about it. The result of it all is'
that girl on her marriage be.
comes o useless doll, without
any strength to sit up, much less
to show off those tremendous
accomplishments of which We
hear SO much, and Of which so
few husbands ever experience
tho pleasure of, after the knot
had been firmly tied. Girls, for
their own sweet sakes, had bet
ter enjoy good health, and moth
ers should soc that their daugh-
ters take plenty Of exercise.
We hear of American girls walk.
ing in Switzerland; suppose
they commence to walk at home.
Oxford eagle. (Oxford, Lafayette Co., Miss.) 1876-current, 1883-09-13

Although tho king snake and
black runner Of Florida are
harmless to mankind, they are
the enemy Of the rattlesnake,
and never permit him to get
away alive when they meet.
The king SEXES tho rsttler by the
throat, thon coils sbout him and
suueezss him to death.
Oxford eagle. (Oxford, Lafayette Co., Miss.) 1876-current, 1883-09-13

The dredging of South Caro-.
lima rivers for phosphates is q
new industry Of considerable
Importance to the territory sur
rounding Charleston. Some of
the crude rock 10 shipped to
Europe, but most oft is ground
at home before it goes to mar
ket. At the present time the
demand is great and all the com.
panies are working on full time.
Oxford eagle. (Oxford, Lafayette Co., Miss.) 1876-current, 1883-09-13

The Supreme Court Of Indi-
ana has decided, in reviewing
the proceedings in a murder
case, that the nero fact Of n man
having read newspaper accounts
of crime, and having an opin-
ion therefrom, but ono which
could be removed by tho owl
dence, does not necessarily rem
der him incompetent to serve
ON juries.--Indisnapolis Journal.
Oxford eagle. (Oxford, Lafayette Co., Miss.) 1876-current, 1883-09-13

Josiah Hinman, founder Of
Montana, the frat town built in
Colorado, died recently at his
homo in Vorgens, Vt. He wss
the loader of tho first party that
left Lawrence, Kan. for Pixies
Peak in May, 1855. In Feb
ruary, 1859, the new town Of
Montana was incorporated by
the State Of Kansas. Not even
a log cabin now marks the
towns location.
Oxford eagle. (Oxford, Lafayette Co., Miss.) 1876-current, 1883-09-13

In several female colleges in
Iowa the girls are taught to
cook. 1t win como quite handy
for them, if after marriage, they
get anything to cook. Yonkers
Gazette.
Oxford eagle. (Oxford, Lafayette Co., Miss.) 1876-current, 1883-09-13

Cattle and sheep should al
ways have plenty Of shade in
the pasture. They like when
thcy havo eaten enough to lie
down in the cool shade and take
their comfort, and if they can
do 80 they will thrive much bet
ter. A few shade trees for this
purpose will pay for any drain
they may MAKE upon the fertili'
ty' of the soil
Oxford eagle. (Oxford, Lafayette Co., Miss.) 1876-current, 1883-09-13
he CAME T0'PAY.
(AFTER THE AGED STRANGER =
ny BRETE HARTE.)

The editor sat with his head in his hand,
Aud his elbows at rest on his knees.
He was tired OF tho ever increasing de-
mands
On his time, aud he painted for ease,
Tn olsmor for copy was scsrned with
anesr,
And he sighed in the lowest Of tonss;
won't somebody come with dollar tc
The heart Of Mmanusl JsnssP"
just then on tho stairway footstsP
was heard.
And a rap-a>tap loud At the door,
And ficksring hope thai had long
been deferred
Blazsd up Ikea beacon once mere.
And there catered = usn with = cynical
smile,
That was fringsd with q stsbbls OF rcd
Who rsmarEsd as he tilted sorry old
tile
To she back of an average head,
"fvs cor. here to pay"-IIsro tho edi-
tor cried,
You're ~ welcome as flowers in spring
Sit down in this easy sru-chiar by my
side, ll
And excuse me ill bring
A lemonade dashed with . little old
Anda dozen cigars Of the best
ALL Here we are, this assare you is
nns,
Help yourself. most desirable guest"
The visitor drank with = relish, and
smoked
TIL his face wore . satisfied glow,
And the editor. bsaming with msrri>
msnt,
In a Joyous, spontaneous row.
And then when the stock Of sefrssh>
meAts was gene.
His guest took occasion 70 say,
In accents distorted somewhat by q
"My- srrand up here ia to pay"
But The generous scribe, with a wave OF
the hand
Pat a stop to thssPeech Of his guest.
And brought in mslsn, the finest the
lsAd
Ever bore on its generous breast.
And the visitor wearing a singular grin
Seized the heaviest half Of the frsit
And the jsics az it ran in stream from
his chin,
Washed the mud Of the pike from his
boot.
Thor. mopping his face on a fivorits
ssest,
Which the scribe had laid carefully by
Tns visitor lszily rose to his feat,
With the drearisst kind OF sigh.
And he said as ths editor sought HIS
address
In his books 20 discover his due;
al osae hors t. pay my sddre" TO the
press,
And TO borrow dollar OF you"
Oxford eagle. (Oxford, Lafayette Co., Miss.) 1876-current, 1883-09-13

According to a Kentucky
newspaper, several towns in
that State are using 'hsme-
made ice Of superior quality"
and there is a prospect that this
use Of water as = raw material
will result in bettcr approcia-
ton Of that liquid.
Oxford eagle. (Oxford, Lafayette Co., Miss.) 1876-current, 1883-09-13

When you come to Oxford, al
ways enquire for the City Hotel.
large rooms, clean beds, good fare,
olite and attentive servants and
best Sample Rooms infN orth
!, Mississippi
Oxford eagle. (Oxford, Lafayette Co., Miss.) 1876-current, 1883-09-13
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Monuments. i.
THE
UNIVERSITY
Mississippi, at Oxford.
n ~ cIrDTI, nj

Next Session opens ~, DEL IL VI
BER, 1888.
TUITION FREE TO EYERKBoDY
BUT
Open to both Sexes alike.
The cheapest University in this
country.
All the Departments are in sue
sful operation-Law, Literary,
ntifc, and Preparat ory Depart
ats conducted as he retofore,
For Catalogues free and informA-
ton apply to Gen. A. P. Stewart,
chancellor.
Special inducements here to
young men and women-poor and
rich alike.
II. NJ. SULLIVAN.
Secretary Board Of Trustees
July g 1888.
Oxford eagle. (Oxford, Lafayette Co., Miss.) 1876-current, 1883-09-13

Pigs luxariate on clover, and
will do better on it than any
other feed. II cut and thrown
into the pen fresh twice . day,
they will do better than to let
them run in tue patch, and they.
will not destroy near 30 much.
II they run in the patch they.
will tramp down and root up
more than they eat. When fed
in the pen, what they do not eat
makes an excellent manure, and
that In where the economy OF
the. plan comes in.-Toledo
J Blade.
Oxford eagle. (Oxford, Lafayette Co., Miss.) 1876-current, 1883-09-13
Oxford Eagle.
THURSDAY SEPT. 1a, 1888.

MISSISSIPPI 4 TENNESSEE RAILROAD
NORTH.
Ma lleave Grenada. a. m'
"arrive At Memphis. is...........9 40 An
gard;. lcs'dn leave Sacdis.. ......6 500 a. M.
SOUTH.
Nail leaves Memphis..........l2.45 20 p m'
arrive at Grenade. 10 pm.
ssrdis Acc'd leave Memphis. $40 Pm
ssrdis Accop going North ar
rives at Memphis 8.55. Goins SOUTH
arrives at Sardis TAO p. IN.
North mail will wait at irenads Tor
DELAYED train NO. 4 on c. st Il d N. ..
R.R. n. BURKE, GENERAL SUIT.