Oxford eagle. (Oxford, Lafayette Co., Miss.) 1876-current, 1888-05-03
PERSONAL AND GENERAL

PERSONAL AND GENERAL
G.. HALL a brakeman. obtained a ver-
dict for 5000 damages at Mobile. Ala,
on the 18th, against the Louisville & Nash
vile Railroad Company for the loss OF n
foot by being knocked off of freight
train by a low bridge.
Mrs. JULIA RsYNoR, OF Brooklyn, was
thrown from her carriage, and run over and
killed by train on the Atlantic Avenue
railroad on the 26th.
LYScHBURGH, VA, was visited by heavy
trosts on the nights of the 2ith and a5th,
and it Is feared that fruit in that vicinity
is badly damaged.
GENERAL ABRAHAM MERRITT, OF Nyack,
n. V, committed suicide by swallowing
dose Of laudanum at the Fifth Avenue
Hotel, shortly after midnight on the morn
ing OF the 26th.
The Standard, Henry Georges paper.
on the 26th, advocated as the Democratic
ticket, Grover Cleveland for President.
and Roger .. Mills for Vice. President.
b. 5. ROBBINS, Assistant United States
district attorney for Colorado, cut his
throat at Denver, on the 2Gth, but will
probably recover. He was despondent
over private troubles. Mr.. Robbins was
formerly prominent politician in Ken
lucky.
JAKE KILRAIS wired from London. on
the 26th, an acceptance Of John l.. Sulli-
vans $4,000 challenge.
The American Tin-Plate Association
reports that the block-tin output OF this
country is now almost exclusively con-
troled by n French syndicate working in
harmony with the copper syndicate.
A PIECE of slate weighing ten tons fell
ON miner at DAYTON, Tenn, on the 26th,
crushing his body into a jelly.
THE steamship Maine, from Bremen,
with LOO passengers, was quarantined at
Baltimore on the 26th, having a case OF
smallpox on board.
The Crosby High License bill was
passed by the New York Senate on the
26th.
TWENTY persons were injured by the
collapse OF . platform, while President
Carnot was laying the cornerstone of a
new lyceum at Agen. on the a6th.
n. b. WELLS, the Seneca Falls On. "
bank defaulter, was jailed, on the 25th, in
default of 5000 bail.
An immi grafton association has been
formed, with headquarters in New York,
the object Of which is to populate the
South with Roman Catholic immigrants.
Mr.. MASLEY, of Bangor, Me-, says that
Mr.. Shaw is mistaken about Mr.. Blaine's
being i'll. Mr.. Manley shows letters from
Mr.. Blaine as late as April l., stating that
he is in excellent health.
DR.. CLEMENcE SOPHIA LozIER died Mt
her home in New York on the a6th. She
graduated from the Syracuse Medical
College in ls53 with high honors.
ONE man was killed and five persons
were seriously injured by the derailing OF
a sleeping ear, near Orleans, Neb., on the
9th.
JASPER DAVIS was hanged at Anderson,
5. c., on the 3Ith. for the murder of his
wife. He was undoubtedly insane before,
If not at the time Of committing the deed.
CLAUS SPREcKELs will soon move his
family to Philadelphia, which city he de-
signs To make his future home.
HARRY COOKE, the young man who re-
eentlY disappeared on the eve OF his mar
riage, in New York. to Miss Jeanette
Minor, was found by his father on the
27th, wandering aimlessly about the
streets in n demented condition.
IN overruling the motion for new
trial in the Billings murder case, at
Waverly, Ia, on the 37th, Judge Rudick
said: Il think the jury made a mistake
in the verdict; II should have been mur-
der in the first instead OF the second de-
gree" He then sentenced the prisoner to
the penitentiary for life At hard labor
SERIOUS riot occurred in Lyons,
France, on the 27th, in consequence OF
strikers trying TO intimidate those OF their
number trying to resume work. The lat
ter were attacked with stones, and many
severely wounded. The police inter
fered. and several of these, too. were
hurt, but the rioters were finally subdued,
and six of the ringleaders arrested.
JACK PRArER, colored, was hanged at
OraIgeburgh, :. c., on the a7th, for the
murder of Andrew Jackson, also oolored.
OK the Goth the Indiana Democratic
State convention at Indianapolis nomi-
mated Courtland c. Mats0n for Governor
and W. R. Myers for Lieutenant-Governor,
and full State ticket.
on the 26th the Maine Republicans met
in State convention at Bangor, elected
presidential electors at-large and dele
gates t-large to the Chicago convention,
and in their resolutions heartily indorsed
Mr.. Blaine.
FUNERAL services over tho remains cf
the late Ex-Governor Hoffman were held
in Grace Church, New York, on the 2Tth,
after which the body was taken to Sing
Sing for intermen..
CONFEDERATE Memorial Day (April en-
was observed at Atlanta, Ga, and other
points by a general suspension OF busi-
ness, parades, addresses and decorations.
At Washington, Ga, a beautiful monu-
ment OF General Robert Toombs was dedi-
Gated.
JOHN DILLON, addressing large meet
ing at Herbertstown, Ireland on the 27th,
maintained the justice Of the "plan OF
campaign" notwithstanding tho inhibi-
ricR OF the Pope.