Oxford eagle. (Oxford, Lafayette Co., Miss.) 1876-current, 1883-05-17

TOPICS OF THE DAY.
News from Everywhere.
TEwFIK PAsHA, the new Turkish Min.
lister, presented his credentials on the 1ith
at Washington.
The May reports on crop prospects
indicate falling Oft Of 77,000,000 bushels
in the winter wheat yield.
MORE than 3,4OO emigrants sailed
from Queenstown for America during the
week ended on the 10th inst.
The death of Sir Thomas Bernard,
grandson of the last British Governor Of
Massachusetts,, has been announced.
The Parnelite members Of the Brit.
ish Parliament have organized sub-com'
mittees on local, foreign and financial af
fairs.
In the fisheries exhibition at London,
Eng, it is said the exhibits from America
will exceed those of all the European coun'
tries.
The Liverpool (Eng.) dynamite de-
PENDANTS were remanded for another week
on the 11th. The London defendants were
committed for trial.
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The business failures for the seven
days ended on the 11th numbered 1855, as
compared with 152 last week. The Western
States had forty five.
A CONVENTION Of Free-thinkers oi
the United States and Canada is to be held
at Rochester, N. ", beginning August 20
and continuing five days.
A BILL has been introduced in the
British House Of Commons providing that
at the expiration of leases tenants shall bt
compensated for improvements.
The Prince of Wales, Duke of Rich
mond and Archbishop of Canterbury will
otficiate at the opening of the international
Fisheries Exhibition at London, Eng.
The second trial of the Malloy dam
age suit against the New York Herald has
resulted in verdict for plaintiff for 81, 800
In the first trial the verdict was for $4,000
The bishops of the Methodist Episco
pal Church were in conference at Pitts
burgh, Pa, recently, arranging the di
vision of work for the ensuing six months
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The Prince Of Wales formally opened
the School of Music at Kensingson, Eng.
on the 7th. The Duke and Duchess o
Edinburgh and Gladstone were present a
the ceremony.
LORD CARLINGFoRp has again re
fused to urge additional Legislation agains
the importation of foreign cattle into Eng
land, but he says strict inspection will b
enforced to keep out infection.
N
A BRANCH of O'Donavan Rossa'
Irish Revolutionary League was organize'
in New York few days ago, with mem
bership of one hundred. Dynamite was tn
rock upon which the. society was built.
CHIEF-JUsTICE BECK, of the Colorado
Supreme Court, has decided the act inop
erative under which Packer, the San Juai
ghoul, and seven other murderers wer,
convicted. All would be Immediately re
leased.
The Florida Ship Canal Company
effected an organization on the 9th. Ex
Governor Brown, of Tennessee, was electet
nal m
900 had been subscribed to the capital stocl
of the company.
A DISPATCH from Hermosillo on tn,
18th indicated that the Mexican troops hat
a fight with the Apaches in mountain
stronghold, killing eleven and putting th'
savages to flight. Five soldiers were killed
and eight wounded.
INreply to a resolution censurng thu
British Governments course in regard t.
the Cubans taken by the Spanish authori
ties at Gibraltar, Sir Charles Dixie denies
that England had right to demand a re
turn of the prisoners.
THE New York World has been sole
by jaw Gould to Joseph Pulitzer, Of st
Louis, Mo-, for 100000. The World viii
continue to be Democratic in politics. Th'
new proprietor assumed control OF tn
newspaper on the 10th.
The United States Treasury balance
on the 18th amounted to nearly Sl3o,Oo0,oOO
showing steady increase since the 3t
inst, when the balance was S122,OoO,OoO
The increase was due to the large receipts
from internal revenue since the list.
AT Dublin, Ireland, on the 9th thu
third trial of Timothy Kelly, charged witt
participation in the murder Of Cavendisl
and Burke, was concluded. The jury foun'
a verdict of guilty against the prisoner an'
he was sentenced to be hangedJuly o.
COMPTROLLER KNOX reports the mum
ber of National Bap'.s which have been OF
ganized during the six months ended Ma.
i to be 1872, with u capital of Sl4 ,9Ss5Oo. .
these banks seventy, having capital
$3.50, 900, were located in the Westerl
States
IT is estimated at the Post-offiee DE
partment that under the recent change Il
computing the commission of fourth-clas
postmasters an expenditure of 100000 NOR
than REQUIRED under the old law will b
.s..,- ~, +,, cattle accounts of fourth elias