Oxford eagle. (Oxford, Lafayette Co., Miss.) 1876-current, 1883-07-12
STATE NEWS.

The measles are prevailing in
Hazlehurst.
Corn is selling in Neshoba
county at fifty cents per bushel.
Hazlehurst has a Fruit and
Vegetable Shipping Associa-
ton.
The Starkville Citizen wants
a cheese factory started in that
place.
They are speaking Of having
a county fair at Holly Springs
this fall.
The Baptist State Convention
met yesterday at Crystal
Springs.
A mill has been started In
Winston county to grind sassa-
fras root.
A dog, supposed to be mad,
lately bit two little girls at
Boonyille.
Flux is prevailing to some ex-
tent among the citizens of De-
Soto county.
The papers throughout the
State report the crop prospects
as very fine.
The first watermelon of the
season has made it's appearance
in Crystal Springs.
A citizen of Pascagou la made
twenty barrels Of onions on half
an acre Of ground.
There is a lady living in
Oktibbeha county who is one
hundred years old.
Meridian claims that in a few
years she will be the largest
town in Mississippi.
The Progress claims that
West Point has the best military
company in the State.
A movement is on foot to es-
tablish a cotton seed oil mill at.
Nesbitt in DeSotO county.
Eighteen tho usand boxes Of
tomatoes have been shipped
this season up to July 9th.
The Sardis Star says that
there is no le gislative aspirants
announced in that county.
An insane woman recently
fred and burn ed a church and
school house near Brookhaven.
DR.. VIM. Weatherby, who was
recently shot by Rollin in Lin
coin county, it is supposed can
not recover.
The Ponto toe Democrat re-.
ports the crop prospects
throughout the entire county as
most flattering.
The Progress wants a COM
press, a cotton factory, and q
spoke and handle factory estab-
lished at West Point.
Mr.. p. B. French has taken
charge of the editorial columns
| of the West Point Progress.
We wish him great success.
MI. j. g. Braham, an old and
highly respected citizen, died
on the 10th ult. at his residence
near Como, in Pamela county.
The Greenbackers of Pamela
county will hold a Convention
on the 18th of August for the
purpose of nominating a county
ticket.
The hydrophobia is prevailing
among the cattle at Crystal
Springs to an alarming extent
and the citizens are afraid to
eat beef.
The Carrolton Conservative
states that crops were never
more promising in that county
in the memory of that 'sold in.
inhabitant."
Eighty-five boxes of plums
were shipped from Raymond to
Chicago and the result was a
loss to the owner.
Reid Brown, aged about three
years, feR from a horse, in the
town Of Eazlehurst recently
and broke his arm.
We see it stated that one
couple in Pamela county has
been married for 63 years and
another for Sc years.
Mrs. Holland aged about ~
years, committed suicide in
Brookhaven ON the Sd inst, by
taking 4 grains of strychnine.
She was supposed to be insane.
The Clarion Gays: The Tou-
galoo teachers have repudiated
the phrase ~"colored," to desig-
nate the negro race. They
teach their pupils to say "negro."
George Evans, (colored), shot.
and slightly wounded on the
18th ult. Mr.. Woodson Watkins
near Muldoon, in Monroe coun-
". Evans fled and has not
been arrested.
The editor of the Crystal
Springs Meteor has been shown
II a o o. -nlQnf TINT waiohad fonr