Oxford eagle. (Oxford, Lafayette Co., Miss.) 1876-current, 1883-06-28
STATE NEWS.

Il cost e16S to hang q man
in Yalobushs county.
A Military company hes been
organised in vicksburg.
vicksburg will have grand
Fourth Of July celebration.
Corn il selling in Winston
county at 40 cents per bushel.
The only occupant of the Pom.
totoc jail is q crazy negro wo'
man.
There IL one hundred and
seventeen newspapers In mis-
sissippi.
The woodville Republican
hes been purchased by Capt. j.
s. Lewis.
There are now coninedi 10 the
Yasoo CITY Jail eleven insane
persons.
In Union county forty-five
candidates for Office are an
nounced.
West jackson has organised
o FIRE company and started .
brass band.
A cotton picker has been in.
vented by Mrs. r. v. D. Miller
Of vicksburg.
Recently, near Goodman, a
coiored eiri wasohrown from .
mule and instantly killed.
The citixens Of Ripley are
making an effort to establish .
Female College ct that place.
Nj. A. H. Jayne hes been
elected Professor OF Matne-
mates in the A. = \. College.
They have in Holmes county
anerro woman preacher and her
sermons are nix hours IN length.
The young people OF Aber-
deem are making an e6ort to es.
tablish . Literary and musical
club.
Several mules have lately
died In Leak county from eating
oats which had cotton lice on
them.
There is said to be more can.
didates announced for office in
Alfalfa than any other in the
State.
The editor of the Meridian
Observer received on the 18th
inst. o cotton boil which was
about one fourth grown.
Mai X. Walpole formerly of
the Yazoo City Herald, has To-
Gated at Sumpterville Fla,
where he will engage In the
orange culture.
The icksburg News has
suspended publication. This 10
said to be the seventeenth paper
that has "winked out' at Vlcks-
burg since the war.
A residence in McComb City
occupied by Mrs. We'll as q
boarding house, was recently
fred BY an incendary and burn
ed up. There has been no ar
rest made.
Tho Democracy OF the 9th
judicial District will hold a
Convention at Macon on the
9th day Of August for the pur-
pose Of nominating . candidate
for District Attorney.
Hon. W. A. Boyd, an ante
bellum graduate Of our State
University, 10 q candidate for
State Senator for the District
composed Of the counties Of
Union, Tppah and Benton.
Mrs. Blessing, wife Of Capt.
Blessing, died near V~icksburg
on the Tzth inst, from the effect
Of q dose Of poison known %
trough on rats" which, II 10 IN
derstood she voluntarily took.
w. H. Harvey, (colored
formerly Sheriff of Kinds coun.
ty, and Mail Agent on the vicks.
burg end Meridian Railroad,
has been arrested on . charge
Of using the mails for fraudulent
purposes.
A young lady, Miss Laura
Reynolds, committed suicide in
her room ct Wiuona on the 18th
inst, financial troubles, 1t 10 sup
posed, induced her to commit
this rash act. She was highly
esteemed and respected.
On the 18th inst, in Meridian,
q difficulty occurred between
Capt. w. w. George, and Prof.
B. Hodge, which resulted IN the
latter receiving > painful,
though not dangerous wound,
from q pistol shot in the thigh.
Mss Ellen Rice Of Water
Valley whilst riding . horse
over a bridge on the 18th, wss
thrown off and two or three
bones near the wrist Of the
right arm was broken and her
shoulder was bruised severely.
The Brandon Republican staets
that 70 school teacher named 8.