Oxford eagle. (Oxford, Lafayette Co., Miss.) 1876-current, 1883-09-06
sIAIE NEWs.


Two inches Tong vas lately kill
ed in Corinth.
Col. G. G. Porter an old and
highly esteemed citizen of Kinds
county is dead.
Sharkey county is reported
as having the best crop that she
has raised since 1871.
The crops Of corn and cotton
in T~allahatchie county are as
good this year as last.
Hon. L. A. Magee is the Dem
ocratic nominee for the Legis-
ture in Franklin county.
Mr.. A. Turner the Democrat
ie nominee for sheriff in Mont
gomery county died last week.
Walker Mason who resides in
Issaquena county is said to be
one hundred aud twenty six
years old.
The assessment OF property
in Monroe county shows an IN
crease this year ofs35l,000 over
that of last year.
The Macon Sun says Noxubee
county will raise more than
enough hogs this year to supply
the home market.
Two negroes, charged with
the recent assassination ofJohn
". Pierson III Rankin county
are under arrest.
The Tate county Democracy
hold their Convention on Mon
day Sept 10th to dominate can.
didates for county Offices.
The corn crop in Oktibbeha
county has been almost entirely
destroyed by the drouth and the
cotton crop has been greatly ill.,
jured.
Col. j. d. Stewart withdraws
from the field as a candidate for
the Democratic nomination for
Senator from the county of
Hiuds.
DR. VIM Wednesday, who was
shot in Lincoln county in June
last by Dewitt Rollins, died re-
Gently from the effects of his
wounds.
Mr.. Amos Gibson was struck
by lightning in Attala county on
the goth ult, and severely
wounded in the right leg and
left ankle.
The Yazoo Herald says:
This year Mr.. Dave Stubblefeld
has sold at Benton, sugar Of an
eAoSnohl uuaitt.y made from
cane grown by tfur.-yerfTy, VIC
ara making advances.
The Senatobia Record says:
Tate county, once notorious for
it's murders, has been unusually
quiet for tho last six months,
and the lawyers complain of a
scarcity of criminal business.
The Aberdeen Examiner s6ys
We understand that all Of the
earth work on the Canton, Aber-
deem and Nashville Rail Road,
between Starkville and this city,
will be completed by the goth
of September.
A livery stable Of Chiles and
Mallory in Starkville was recent
ly destroyed by fire. Nine
horses and one mule persisted in
the flames and eleven Others
were injured. Ten carriages
and buggies were burned.
Gen. J. L. Finley has been I'M
animously nominated as the
Democratic candidate for Dis
trict Attorney of the district
fcomposed of the counties of Al.
corn, Tishomlngo, Prentiss, Lee,
Itawamba, Chickasaw and Mon
roe.
Katie, the little daughter Of
DR.. j.. o.. Southers of Carrolton,
fell from a table last week and
her head struck against the
small end of a handsaw file
which entered her head quite a
depth and caused her death in %
few hours.
The Holly Springs South says:
Mr.. l.. | s %hrinsher, living two
miles east of town has shown US
a twin stalk of corn, or one stalk
with one body and two branch
es containing a good six inch
ear of corn each. 1t is the first
of the description we ever saw.
The Aberdeen Examiner says:
1t will be rem embered by our
readers that "a negro named
John Nelson, brutally murdered
his wife on Col. Troup's planta.
ton in this county in 1879, and
managed to elude the most ac-
tive pursuit Nelson was ar
rested in luka on Tuesday, by
Sheriff Woodall of 1ishomiHgo
county where he Las been at
work for several months, undeL
the name Of John Cannon
Chancery Notice.