Oxford eagle. (Oxford, Lafayette Co., Miss.) 1876-current, 1883-05-31
PERSONAL AND GENERAL


The Secretary Of the Interior has sp
pointed commission toappraise the Kick
apoo Indian lands In Kansas. ~ ,af,.ss.
ARRANGEMENTS have been, made Il
place bust Of Longfellow in Westminster
Abbey, between the sombs Of Chaucer and
lDryden. ~
THE Macon (Ga.) Volunteers, mill
tary organisation founded In 1874, vii
make q tour OF the Western eities shortly
TnE New Jersey Prnhibition Stat
! Cehvsntion, in session at Trenton on th'
Nd, dominated Dr.. Isaacs N. tQuinbys %
inr.ev City, for Governor. II II 3}< !
j lHE prison ~ is.-s.- s-ter County. Pa
has been qusrantined ON account o. an out
break Of smallpox.
Two savings bank directors e Cron
steds, fuuAia, tsvo bssn sentelrrsd 70 trans
Y portAtion for fraud.
CATLErrsBURG, KY, was shaken By
an earthquake a few nights ago. The
weather WIS agaish. .5stff
THIRTY-FoUR members Of new SO.
cret society in Spain have been arrested a,
Acres. s
A NIuLIsT emissary from Russia has
been arrested In South Bavaria
The President Of the Mexican Re
public has declared forfeited the contract
Of Washington company for the drainage
of the city and valley of Mexico for failure
to deposit guarantee funds.
AT Madrid, Spain, fourteen thousand
troops were reviewed the other day in hon.
or OF the King Of Portugal.
THERE was great excitement in
Waynesboro, Ga, the other day over an at
tempt to indict prominent citizens for ex.
polling Chinese from the place.
SOME Bolivian customs officials have
caused a sensation by conflscating stock Of
Bibles because they did not bear the proper
pontifical stamp
A. d. GERMAN, Of Albany. N. Y, has
given Williams College $4,000 to found .
professorship.
THE dwelling Of Henry w. Moody. in
Lyme, N. H., was burned the other day and
Lumsn Moody, aged eighty years, was
burned to death. ffs~ NNsaisfss
ISRAEL WEINsTEIN, injured In q rail-
road accident on the Pennsylvania line,
failed to recover damages because he was
travelling on n free pass. =. s.i|..,.....
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A RECENT Clifton (Ariz.) special
says that three masked mon entered the
store of L. Fraissinet with drawn revolvers
and ordered the clerk to open the safe.
They took 500 In cash and 81 900 in checks.
ARTHUR s. SULLIVAN. George Alex
ander McFarren and George Grove, COM
posers, were formally decorated In Windsor
Palace the other day, by the Queen, with
the order of knighthood.
AT the new tunnel OF the ClevelandY
Youngstown & Pittsburg Railroad, about
ten miles south Of Alliance, o., the other
another perhaps faF1rIy IhJufssu ~ 'ra1nng
slate.
A RICH discovery of horn silver was
reported from Turkey Creek, thirty-three
miles southwest of Prescott, Ariz., a few
days ago. Two prospectors discovered a
hind lead, and had taken out $50, 900 within
five days.
The Royal Society of Canada has
appointed DR.. s. Hunt, Major Powell and
w. Gossip as delegates to the meeting of
the National Academy of Science at WASH
ington, ID. c.
WEH slight notifications, the French
Chamber of Deputies has adopted the
American postal-service regulations.
The explosion which occurred in the
Cars dressing-room at st. Petersburg the
other day is said to have been caused by
escaping gas.
The death of General Sabatier,
Governor of Paris, France, has been an
nounced.
MICHAEL COHEN, n notorious bank
robber, better known as "Sheeney Nike"
has disclosed to the police of Pittsburgh,
Pa, the plans Of the gang of which he was
member for burglarizing banks in several
of the principal cities of the Union.
TIE Chief of Police of Memphis.
Tenn, the other day arrested General
James X. Chalmers, of Mississippi, and
Colonel galloway, of the Memphis appeal,
who were suspected Of duelistic intentions.
and they were each put under II 900 bonds
to keep the peace.
AN electrical inventor at New York
has applied for patent upona contrivance
for executing criminals without pain and
without Disagreement. He offers to assign
the patent to the Government.
PRESIDENT Arthur, accompanied by
most of the members Of his Cabinet, ar
rived at New York on the ed, where he
would witness the ceremonies attending
the opening of the Brooklyn bridge. Hewill
not return to Washington until after Deco
ration Day.
A BAND of Cree Indians, captured by
United States troops near Musseil Shell, on
the Missouri River, have been sent back
across the line.
PATRICK CASEY, an ex-police officer,
who shot and killed Sergeant Comisky at
New York some time since, has been SEN
fenced to be hanged July 13.
AN unknown horse thief was lynched
at Overton, Nebr., a few days ago by cow
boys.
A MESSENGER of the United States
Express Company was robbed of $4,000 in
Cleveland, o., the other day. He placed
several packages of money in his buggy
and turned to answer a call, and when he
arrived at the company's Office he found his
packages filed with sand and the money
gone.
The Ohio Grand Lodge of the Knights
of Pythias concluded its session at Cincin-
natl on the 24th. The next meeting will be
held at Canton in May, 1884.
The miners strike in St. Clair Coup
ty, ILL.,, assumed a more serious aspect on
the 24th. The strikers to the number of
several hundred marched to the Collins
vile mines and compelled a cessation of
work.
The two ships officers on trial in
Philadelphia, Pa, the other day for viola
ton of the neutrality laws by carrying
arms into Hayti were convicted. 81
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