Oxford eagle. (Oxford, Lafayette Co., Miss.) 1876-current, 1888-08-23
SOUTHERN GIEANiSGs.

days ago, entailiRg a loss % $40 900.
Citizens who were removing goods we're
eauShs by q falling wall aud fourteen
we're killed
Jennie Brown. the eleven-Year- -Old
daughter 0f wuh Brown. = well known
carpenter AZ Lexinxten. No, fell into the
we'll or her Aunt's farm on the George
town road tsw days since. and was
drowned
The wife ot Jacob ~ourtocto. Of r ich-
mona Va. has eIe5 Information eharg-
Ing her husband with shscouding. He
ran away with - 80 IN cash and - DO IN
notes OF her property. She offers a re-
ward Tor his appreheasiou-
Nrs. Mildred Mcfarland died at Owens
boro. ky a few day. since, aged one
sundrsd and three. She led remark
ably active liza antIl I've or SIX years ago.
st1se which tina she has beeu as viva
cfous "a 81 ordinary woman OF sixty.
One hundred and six million feet ot
lumber, valued at Il. .sal o)0 has been
shipped from Fernandins. Fla, in the
current Year. I. strtIag out end to end it
would make 4000 miles Over it00a cars
were required tor the transportation OF it.
As Miss Fannie Thompson. young
lady living in Caldwell Couaty. KY, was
returning home from a visit to a neigh
Dor. n few days ago, shs sscidsatally
stepped upon s thorn. which run into her
foot, producing such intense suffering
that iock-lAw set in soon ssterward The
pain she endured was very great until
relieved by death
z n Smith. a ctvil-snxiue@r OF New
IBERIA. La. was killed Few days ago. at
Freesown by citizens OF the place for
stirring up trouble smoag the negroes
Miss Nolli- Hixhsower. % NErfress
horo, Tenn, l-aped from q bu Sgy drawn
ey a frightened horse AZ Manchester.
Tenn, a few days siRee. and sustained
probably fatal injuries.
VIM. Howard, prominent Young farm
er Of Webster County. Ky, who was
stabbed by Wm- Simpson. his tather-iu-
Law. at Blacktord, iE that county, several
days sgo, died OF his wounds.
6sueral rains have recently extended
ali over the Memphis district, and were
OF material benedt to the cotton crop. In
some sections IL VA. beginning to suffer
from a threatened drought.
Mrs. =. NJ Allemlnle. aged sorty-two,
formerly Of Sc. Louis, bat who with her
daughter and son-iu-law. Charles Van
Overlook. had lived in Louisville. KY, .
short time, committed suicide few days
ago by shooting herself through the head.
She was in il-health and suffering from
the shock caused by her husbands death
last March.
At Hull's station, Ala, few days ago,
Gid Blackburn. aged six, ani Lewis Davis,
aged four, were playing with Al old rusty
shotgun. which was supposed 10 be un-
loaded. Blackburn applied IIghted
match to the tube os the gun. AMI It was
discharged. blowing Davis head nearly
OF. hiIltng him tns tantlY. The two little
boys were cousins.
In the Criminal Court o. Mecklenburg
County, n. C.. recently, two eolored
women were arraigned on presentments
by the grand jury charging them with
murder. Que OF these Is Jane Morrison,
who, IN January. lss-. killed her husband
with skillet. The other, Ann WalIace.
cut the throat % Millie Robinson.
Charles McAtee and Gus Page. two OF
the murderers OF Joseph Williams. who
WAS so horribly butchsred in Chattaaoo-
ga. Tenn few days ago, were captured
At Graysville. Ga, and were returned to
Chattanooga The third man implicated
WAS being pursued by posss o. mea with
hloodhounds.
In Kershaw County. 3. c.. few even
ings since. Henry Shropshire and hts
wife went to church. about two miles from
their house, taking their baby with them.
but Leaving at home their two other chill
dreu. aged respectively six and eight
years. When they rst1rusd, three hours
later. they found their house burned To
tbs ground and IN the smoking ruins the
charred remains os the two children.
John E starucs, who killed William
Phelps. near Nashville. Tenn, by strtk-
ing him with a stone, fracturIng his skull.
was arrested recently, at EIston. and
taken back to Nashville For trial Sta-nes
and Phelps guarreIsd ahoas . rumor that
there was smallpox ss Phelps house.
Staru-s t-d and made his way to ElktoH.
Niles Erwin. who some days ago in
9Ieted . deally blow with q stone on tn.
heal os John Sanders, az Chattanooga.
Team. was arrested zs Boycs by police
ce1csrs, who were after q trio OF es capped
mzrderers Erwin was seen In q crowd OF
bvstxud-rs and broke aad ran for the
woods. but WIS run down He was taken
back to Chattanooga, where he will be
tried s0r murder.
The city OF Decatur, Ala. has made q
contract for So 900 worth OF street i'm
provsmeat Th. report of the tax asses
sor Just h1ished Tor ISIS shows a tax val
uasiou OF over SO. 900 0oa. an increase OF
over s, ,001, 900 IN the last year. This does
not include New D.casur. Work has
been commenced on city hall and mar
ket-hoase, TO cost SIS 600, and franchise
has been grantsd .or the building u q
gas plant to cost SJl,o00
The yearly meeting OF Friends, or
Quak-rs, held at High Point, y. c.. Just
closed. had no less than 1900 people pres
ent, every State in the Tnion being rep
resented in the great congregation The
Friends have established a college and
given IL an endowment OF Sl0l001 The
meeting decided % extend educational
work among tas three thousand Cherokee
Indians who reside on their great reser-
tisE in Western North Carolina
There was = severe electric storm At
Southport, Y. C., few days ago. Light
rfng struck two tsnemsat houses 0c-
eupied by eoIorsd people The buildings
we're badly damaged aud the occupants
stunned AT one house. where twenty in
mates where IN bed asleep. the lightning
playeI wild pranks. tearing out the entire
front OF the house, knocking down the
chimney, scattering glass and plaster
over the sleepers. and firing double
barrel shotgun leaning in 4 corner The
stock Of the gun was torn OF and can not
BE found
Yellow Jack Is abroad
Ground n2s oeen broken for a railroad
TO be built from Kingston, Tenn. 10 con-
meet with the Cincinnati Southern at
Emery Gap. This viii make very i'm
port2at feeder for the Queen & Crescent
system and will open up some % the
anezt cal AID Irr,haz. r.r.anerr- in tha