Oxford eagle., 1883-08-16
The wheat crop this year will
be over 50,000,000 bushels less
than that of 1882.

llcs IN new 1Ork C1ty tnan any
other city in the world.
| Eighteen COWS were killed in
one day on the line Of the Ohio
Railroad, 100 miles long.
The whisper of q beautiful
woman can be heard farther
than the loudest call of duty.
The area of Russia in Europe
is nearly thirty-nve times that
Of the State of Pennsylvania.
A Grand.Jury at Pittsfield,
Mass, has indicted a lot of men
for tarring and feathering wo-
man.
Ninety nine thousand shad
were caught in the Deleware
during the season closed re-
Gently.
Dairymen will find tho cream
or much more convenient than
the old fashioned system Offset
ting milk in pans.
A man failed in trying to CON-
NIT suicide, at Mansfield, Mass /,
and next day a railroad train ran
over him accidentally.
A gentleman in Washington
County, Texas, raised twelve
pounds Of fcocoons this year and
shipped them to silk factory.
A solid and substantial great
ness of soul looks down with
neglect ON the censures and ap.
plauses of the multitudes.
The Massachusetts Legisla-
ture adjourned on the 9th af-
ter the longest session on re.
cord-two hundred and six days.
Colonel ]. N. King recently
sold a mammoth ranch near San
Antonio, Tex, to an association
of British capitalists for "a, ,000,-
900.
A Michigan woman describes
her missing husband as poses
sing a ''fried pork complexion"
Perhaps he is the original 'ham
Men who can swlm eao"J o.-~
where are often drowned in the
lakes Of Wyoming, where a high
attitude reduces the buoyancy
of the water.
A recent cablegram announc-
es the death in battle OF Cete,
wayo. the Zulu King. All OF
his wives and many OF his chiels
| were also killed.
The Louisiana lottery is said TO
be eyading the Postmaster-Gen'
erals recent order by having
it's remittance sent to a New Or
leans national bank.
Three Irish informers, on
reaching Melbourne, Australia,
the other day were prohibited
from landing, it was alleged be
cause plot to murder them hao
been discovered.
The trial of the Jews in Hun
gary for the murder ofa CHRIS
tian girl, whose blood it was al
legged they intended to use II
their religious ceremonies, ma
. ended in an acquittal.
young sweds, said to b
! = an illegitimate son of the KIN
n n of Sweden, committed sulcid
G. in the Lutheran Church 9
y Englewood, a suburb Of Chic'
go, H., a few days ago.
y Another Blind Tom has CON
to astonish and plague IL
American public. A colore
boy, nine years old, at Rom
Ga, is said 20 play the pial
like an educated performer.
: The grain crop of PennsylV
VI MIA this year is estimated by
number of grain merchants
Y be the largest that has been hi
vested for years. This is
specially true of corn and oats
his The Georgia House of Rep
sentatlves on the 25th unseat
nc' nc, ID. P. Proctor, white, from "a
RI den County, and seated 4
thony Wilson, colored' IN
ma place. Wilson had been In I
lrt, previous Legislatures. Ih'
are two other negroes In u
" body. -
lho Sixteen completely petrlh
r human bodies are said to ma
.es been recently discovered
Pine Mountain, Campbell 20
ty, Tenn, in a solid limest'
al. rock with fragments ofpetrll
,tel. wood. Near by is also a ca
are, the walls of which are deco
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