Oxford eagle. (Oxford, Lafayette Co., Miss.) 1876-current, 1888-08-09

VOL. XII.
NEWS IN BRIEF.
cnV,sl nrsa varsso ssurssL
yrr National debt less cash in the
treasury, amounted, on the 1st to 81, ISL, .
447tss2
Krxs MILAN OF Servia, on the 3ist
asked the Consistory to grant him q legal
separation from Queen Natalie.
TEE governments OF Austria and Hun
rary decided. on the ID, to suspend the
trial BIZ jury OF Anarchists for one year.
GAupAua and Mckay won the double
scull race against Teemer and Hamm at
Saratoga. ". Y, on the ID, By four lengths.
Time. ls:A
The Cologne Gasetfs, OF the I'd, con-
Arms the statement that Emperor WILL
lam will meet Queen Victoria at Baden
September 90.
CHoLERA in Annoy. China, seems for the
present to be held in check, but at Chang
Chow il is reported that 3000 deaths have
occurred in the last sixty days.
SENATOR PLAT, OF Connecticut, in an
interview, on the Sd, said that the Repub-
iican party would certainly submit and
consider a tariff bill at this session
O
AN explosion in an English fire. works
manufacturing establishment at wands-
worth, on the Sd. partly destroyed the
structure, and killed several female en-
ployes.
A PILLAR OF the cathedral at Seville,
Spain, fell, on the I'd. causing the collapse
of portion Of the nave and the destruc-
ton Of the organ, besides doing other
damage.
For the half year ending June 30 the
gross earnings OF the Canadian Pacific
railway were s.. Sc, 800. and working ex-
penses 81, i,Il9,52O, leaving net profit OF
Sl,Il3,s70.
THE post-ofice at Atlantic City, ". j.,
was entered by burglars on the night Of
the 5ist, the safe blown open, and 81, 900
in two-cent stamps and 500 in cash were
stolen therefrom-
SoxE grim wag sent a wicked looking
section Of gas-pipe, two feet long and
plugged at both ends, to Inspector Bon
field. Of Chicago, over the Nickel Plate
railroad on the ID.
THE paper mill owned by Geo. Friend,
located at Locklaud. o., was totally de
stroyed by fire at an early hour on the
morning Of the 3D. Loss, $4,000. The
origin of the fire is unknown
The last wish expressed by the late
BARLEY Campbell, the playwright, was
honored when he was laid to rest by the
side OF his mother in st. Mary's Ceme-
tary, at Pittsburgh, Pa, on the I'd.
CAPTAIN WAGNER and crew Of the ship
Don Leon. which foundered in the South
Pacific last May, arrived at San Fran
cisco from Tahiti on the ID All hands
escaped. but endured great hardships.
S
The annual examinations Of the class
Of naval officers under instruction at the
torpedo station, at Newport, R. l., begun
on the 31st The examination covered all
modern and improved torpedo practice.
THE London ChroRicle's Rome dispatch,
Of the 3oth- says that Emperor William
viii not only visit King Humbert at
Rome, but will sojourn at the QuirinaI
and hold receptions at the German en-
bassy.
REPRESENTATIVE FoRAS Dem-), of
Ohio, said, on the 50th, that the next
House viii be Repub blican by about ten to
fifteen majority. He expects that his
own district and Mr.. Campbell's, in Ohio,
win be lost to the Democrats
COUPLE Of boys named Golden, aged
ten and twelve years, living in East Des
Aoines. Ia, went out on the Rock Island
track, about seven miles west of that
place, on the I'd, and tried % wreck q
train by placing distractions on the
track.
SECRETARY Villas was before the Sem
ate committee on Indian affairs, on the
ID, and spoke in advocacy of the bill es-
tablishing court for the adjudication Of
Indian depreciation claims to be known
as the Indian Depredati on Court of
Claims.
The full text Of the Italian Premier
Crspi's dispatches concerning the Mas
sowah dispute was published on the
ist- The dispatches assert that the de-
hberate and habitual unfriendliness of
France toward Italy is due to national
Jealousy.
THIRTY machine molders went out on
strike at ]. W. Foley's machine works, in
cincinnati, on the 3oth- The proprietor
discharged the shop committeeman,
Robert Schoor. because he had told the
men they could not work under SIS week.
Hence the strike.
DR. WIssLow s. PIERCE died at his res
idence In Brooklyn, on the 3Oth. aged
SIXTY nine. DIR. Pierce was q brother
ih-iaw OF the late Vice. President Hem
afieks. He was a cousin of President
Franklin Pierce, and related, on his
mothers side, to the Preseotts and BAN
srotts
bR- ScHwEISyuRrH, OF London, be-
hses that Stanley may have reached the
e'hern part OF the extensive and i'll
enned district OF Bahr- Gael, from which
mere are two available routes to w adeiai.
stanley, he thinks, Is safe unless his
supply OF ammunition has become ex-
halsted-
~ her speech on temperance in wash
ing.on, on the 18th, Mrs. Clara Hoffman
sAia mat money and party were the god 8
s american people; that Congress
aia ne bought, and that the courts
ere SenaL She also condemned the at
11ade OF the Protestant church on the
question Of temperance.