Oxford eagle. (Oxford, Lafayette Co., Miss.) 1876-current, 1888-10-04
PERSONAL AND GENERAL

THE New York Lyceum Theater bene-
ut OF Lord Chumley." with Sothern,
Eetted 81 O.23. on the Goth, which Mana
ger Frohman sent to Mayor Hewitt for
the Jacksonville sufferers.
EPHRAIM s. WELLS, OF New York
manufacturer and original introducer Of
Rough on Rats" suspended on the 25 tn,
owing TO losses through inJudicious ex.
penses in advertising.
THE Marine Hospital Bureau received q
telegram from Governor Perry of Florida,
on the 18th, reques ting that nurses be
sent to Fernandina.
LIVE OAK. Fla, reported two deaths
from yellow fever on the 26th.
Rev. ]. s. HUGHES, Prohibition candi-
date for Governor OF Indiana, addressed a
large audience a. Valparaiso, on the
night ae the 2Jth, on a street corner as
no hall was to be had. Some of the
audience hootst him. Rotten eggs had
been threatened.
NATHANIEL LIBBE1, pensioner OF the
war Of 1872, died at Warren, N. H., on
the 25th, aged ninety-three years and six
months.
In rowing match at Sydney, n. s. W.,
on the 26th, for GOO a side, Matterson
beat Milssn by five boat lengths.
THE madman who tried to kill the King
OF Roumania four months ago. proves to
have been a detective who had been en-
ployed to protect the King He confessed,
that he carried a dagger and revolver
about for a year with which to kill the
King.
THE Egyptian corn crop is reported to
be large in quantity an d superior in quail
ity.
nvsrpt,Crrvv cou a gra t;or, viaitad tha
town Of Canton, Oak, on the night OF the
a5th. One OF the principal blocks of the
town was totally destroyed.
A MONUMENT erected to the memory of
the revolution OF 1886 was unvailed at
Brussels, Belgium, on the 26th.
OVER two thousand people attended the
reunion of the Forty-seventh Indiana
regiment at Upton on the 26th.
PORTIONS Of Dakota have been devas-
tated by prairie fires. many farmers los
ing all their perishable possessions.
CARLOAD Of live hogs were burned
in the fire following . serious wreck on
the Chicago & Northwestern railroad,
sss- I::sse!a.. T.. &C. :he as.s
OWING to fears OF a military emeute in
Spain, precautionary measures have
been taken in the barracks at Saragossa,
Seville and other places.
Mr. JOHN E REDMOND. Member OF Par
lament for Wexford, was, on the a6th,
sentenced to five weeks Imprisonment
without hard labor for offenses under the
Grimes act
TEE British ship ResperidAgera coal
laden, from Newcastle, N. s. w.. for
San Francisco. went ashore OF Point
Fermin, Cal, on the 9th, and would, IL
WAS thought be q total wreck.
EIGHT members Of the Jacksonvflle
(FIa) police force were, on the 9th, re-
ported OF duty suffering from ATTACKS OF
the yellow fever.
TIE intelligence from Kingwood, N. j.,
to the 9Th, represen s Mr.. Garretps con-
dition as more favorable and his appetite
good
WIrHrN a few minutes after the close
of the investig alton into Representative
StahlneckeI's connection with contracts
for materials for the Congressional Lii
brary building, on the 9th, the commit
tee voted unanimously 10 report COM
plete vindioation, generating Mr.. Stahl.
necker from all charges.
FRox errors OF fact and date in the
published extracts from the late En-
peror Frsderisk's diary Prince Bis
asrSs is led 70 iuubt t5sir suthenucity.