Oxford eagle. (Oxford, Lafayette Co., Miss.) 1876-current, 1883-06-14

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out hunting and one Of them
playfully pointed his gun at an
other when it accidently went
off and killed him instantly. 4
The Washington Star says
that .an unprecedented number
of the Representatives in Con-
gress are planning to keep
house in that city during the
next session, and that many of
these prefer buying to hiring
houses.
At New Liberia, .IIa., on the
25th, two negroes attacked an
other colored man and beat him
to death. Not satisfied with
that, they broke a Winchester
rife over his dead body. Be tn
the men have been arrested and
placed in Jail.
The Florida parishes of Lou.
isiana have filed a protest with
the Secretary of the Interior
against his decision giving the
New Orleans Pacific Railroad
Company 1000, 900 acres of land
in those parishes embraced in
what is known as the backbone
land grant.
The Czar of Russia, after many
delays and postponements, has
at last been crowned and that
too without having been blown
up with dynamite. His prede-
cessor was assassinated by the
Nihilists over twelve months
ago and ever since that time he
has been in dread of the same
fate and this fear led him to
postpone his coronation from
time to time.
The Texas treasury is certain
lv in a very healthful condition.
A recent inventory showed the
following condition: Cash 1915.
900, school fund bonds, $4,000
ssISsasIsS lSs eaa s1S14a isaa a%s
This makes a grand total IN
Treasury of s12,OOO,OOoin in actual
cash and valuable securities.
| Charleston, s. G., is taxed Il
per cent. of the whole taxa'loi
of the State, and an indignah
citizen asks if any honest maj
believes that nearly one-fifth 0
the whole property value o
South Carolina is on the sma'
!, end of the peninsula betwee
e the Ashley and Cooper rlver'
1 The city has 8 per cent. OF IN
). population Of the State. AS I'll
s how said when he had to nun
hle .the.peg, "this must be- a mi
j. take"
W In an address read before u
" Kansas Editorial Associate
te the other day, Mr.. F. G- Adam
at it's Historical Secretary, Sd
that that State has more new
in paper to the population IN
as any State east of the Mississ'
at pi river, but not as many as so
de States west of that river. 1
'er while Kansas has a newspal
to every 5000 persons, Neor
,ri. kas one to every 1000; Cole
Ihe do one to every 1900; Oak
md one to every 1900, and Ariz
in one to every 1900.
Ike Some of the Louisiana par
admit sthat should the railro
the take charge of the levees,
ced yasses will become thing
A the past, and our lands Wi
d at eagerly sought after by me
,ton capital from all parts OF
J. country. There is no re
teen why q plantation yielding
| is 600 annually should not be "
Il in $500, 600, except it he that
than nal fear of being creva
here which has taken hold OF
cess people, but particularly OF
gers"
from Tho government OF IL
emily, lis an absolute despotisn
bark power being vested IN the
from whilst the people have no
eel, OH which the ruler is bound
we're spect. A large proporti
sne educated and intel
u.o,ss, classes have long deplore
II dol condition of affairs, and el
nment ored to induce the Gar
la for tablish a representative Il
river. government in which the
q have and privileges OF the
Amos could be placed upon a s
whose sis aud not be easily tn
ion is upon by the Executive l