Oxford eagle. (Oxford, Lafayette Co., Miss.) 1876-current, 1888-04-12
OXFORD, MISS, THURSDAY APRIL H. 1885,

Polish WOMAN named Volvovitch
whose husband was hanged at wilkes
barre, Pa. on the III. cloped with butch
er TO whom she had been engaged since
her husbands conviction, on the evening
of the 6th.
GEoRGE ALLEN, Of Aiken, =. C., for
some time sufferer from disease Of
the stomach, which caused every thing he
ate to give him terrible pain. determined
to "cast physic to the dogs" and siarve
out the malady by refusing all food. The
pain entirely ceased after thirty-ninc
dsys. lie wss buried twu days later.
The Prohibitionists OF Woodbury.
County. Ia, were surprised. ON ths 9th.
by the granting of a license by the County
Court. TO the Seller Brewing Company, 10
manufacture beer for one year.
CALL for a National conference OF the
singie-tax advocates, to be held in Chi
eago. July .. f-s-. has been issued
farLADGIxwfA jury. on the sth. award
ed damages 10 Adam Forepsugh. the
Snowman. fer delay in getting his show
train to Nashville. Pa. in time TO give an
ssternoen performance.
ME FsKxxLL's Arrears bill provides
that AL proceedings for the removal OF a
tenant for nSu-payment OF rent shall bs
stayed upon the tenants application FOR
n revision Of rent, until a decision upon
such application is given. aud that no cx-
ira rent shall be exacted for improve
ments made by the tenant.
KENNEDY PORTER, son Of Ex-Governor
Porter of Tennessee. was probably fatally
shot at Nashville, on the night OF the 5th,
by Will Edmunds. The origin of the dif-
ficulty is supposed to have been the at.
tention of young Porter to Einll1ds' sis
ter.
Mr. T. W. RUSSELL. Unionis, rlember
for South Tyrone, on the 9Th int;mated his
intention to move the postpon.mcnt Of
Mr.. Balfour's land bill for sis months.
The Boston Herald OF the 6th!states that
Frank l.. Wilson, q freight clerk of the
Boston & Providence railroad. in that
city, has absconded. and is 5000 or $4,000
short in his accounts.
The California State Prohibition con-
vention adjourned on the 9Th.
The executive committee of the trunk
lines took action, on the 9th, in the matter
of lake and rail tariffs, which were finally
settled for the season.
FIGHTING was reported, on the 9Th, be-
tween the Spanish garrison at Zooloo and
the natives of the Zooloo islands, in which
the Spaniards lost ten killed and seventy
wounded, and the natives two hundred
killed.
In a sparring match, under Queensberry
rules, at Rome, n. V, On the 9Th. Con
Tobin, of Troy, knocked ont Bob Rey-
nolds, of Syracuse, in three rounds.
THE President. on the 9Th, approved the
Logan and Blair pension bills.
THE President has nominated Brigadier-
General Crook to be Major General.
The Treasury Department reports net
decrease in the monetary circulation dur
ing March of -, 1891.
The bill, which has passed the Iowa
Senate, providing that all executions in
that State should take place at the peni-
tentiary, by either electricity or hanging,
as the judge might decree, was defeated
in the House of Representatives on the
9Th.
BUSINESS failures for the week ending
April q were as follows: For the United
States, 1a9; for Canada, -; total, 22T.
For the corresponding week last year the
total failures numbered 223.
THE Pope. on the 9Th, summoned Cardi-
nal Lavigerie, Archbishop of Algiers and
Tunis, to consult upon the policy of
France toward the church
WHITE and Cross, the Raleigh, IN. c.
bank forgers, offered, ON the 9th, To return
to Raleigh on the charge of forgery. with
out extraiition, but not on the charge OF
carrying stolen money into Canada.
Counsel for the Norfolk Bank refused b.
withdraw this charge.
The London Standard believes that tn,
government intends to drop Mr.. Balfour's
Land bill, and substitute therefor "A bill
for the prolongation of the term of tn.
land commission. Also appointing
additional sub commissioner