Oxford eagle. (Oxford, Lafayette Co., Miss.) 1876-current, 1888-02-09
SOUTHERN GlEANiNGS.

= bill author zmg the issuance Of $50, /.
~ of bonds by the Lower Leves district
ass rssseI the Mississippi Senate.
Car tain John F. Dougias, q weil-known
steaml'oatiran between New Orleans and
s. Louis. hut later on the Unite~i States
steamer Newton. died recently at New
Orleans.
The motion to pass the Mississippi C
stituticua. Convention bill over Govern.
Lowry, veto failed in the Senate, th-
vote stand ny 10 20 Is. not the necessary
two-thirds.
John lseslie. a welt-kuowu business man
| Il Birmingham. Ala. WAS shot through
the head n few days since bv man named
Ben Smith. while he was asleep on 9
lounge in the house II his mistress
In Goff - County. Ca. a few ights ago.
Wiley Bird, wealthy planter. while in
one os his outhousss, was held a prisoner
s.y a masked man. during which time five
| confeisra'es took from the house an old
chest containing $3.50 in money, besides
valuable papers.
At Mckenzie. Tenn. a few days since,
Jasper Pope and =. c. Pate. two wslI-to-
do farmers, met and renewed an old
Eruige. Both drew pistols. Pate firing
/ first. hitting Pore in the breast and par
a wing him. Pate then fired three more
shots. killing Pore, after which he mount.
ed bis horse aud rode deliberately out Of
town.
y prominent young man named Wm-
Rovster, reared in Memphis. Tenn. has
gone to the West Indies in company with
Nora Fitzgerald, hHndsoms young
woman. who went TO Memphis from Chi-
caso wear ago and claimed q bss the
wife OF grain dealer in that city. Roy-
star left wife and one child. withou,
money, 10 mourn his departure. lie bad
sa,20 as his total capital
Three New Orleans letter carriers are
| uni arrest for entering into = con nsriracy
tn systematically rob the boxes on other
| routes than their own and appropriate
and divide the valuable proceeds. The
] poSta authorities have been a. fault for
I some time 70 account for che disappear
ance of letters. bat the systematic efforts
o. tie secret service officers have been at
last rewarded by the capture Of the
| offenders.
Thomas Moore. colored. sentenced TO be
hanged n Georgetown, Ga. has been res
pi,ei.
\ young man ia Louisville who smoked
| fcFty garrett a lay has been pronounced
Il ansound ;nInl BY the physicians.
A. result Of prohibition discussion.
| Andrew ! ukins was killed a Few days
| ago ty James Warren near jackson,
Miss
Bloun' McAlister. the ten-yesr-Old son
% Judge " X. McAlister. while playing
on raft in ths river AZ Nashville, Tenn.
| few evenings since, fell in and was
| drowned.
Charles Acserman, a switchmaa IN the
| Louisville & Nashville ra lroad yards, at
Birmingham. Ala. fsil from a moving
train few nights agp AMI was crushed
10 DEATH He was tweuty-sight years
| old and unmarried.
Mrs. John z. Cining Of Daviess ,untv,
XIV. wa b irne1 TO death a few days ago
she was standing near CRATE when her
| dress caught fire aud she was fatally
burned before assistance could reach her,
| George Heath. b-I-c builder on the
yick burg, shreveport & Psc fic railroad,
fell from the hrid % At Lake One" il
Madison Parish. nsar Taiiglah. La. a
| few davs since. and broke his neck. His
rsmainz were ,akea 70 Vicksbars for in
| termsnt.
h. death of CAPTAIN Tiiford Critt.n-
den Ed dAards. one Of tine oldest citix
| Of Paducah. Ev., occurred a few days
since. in the seventy-second year II his
age. afte- an illness Of i've days, u
/ pneumonia
The Birmingham (AIa-l Board of Alder
men have passed an ordinances prohibit.
ing the buyin and selling ot pools, or in
any other manner betting on the game OF
| baseball. Tha ordinances was passed at
| the request of the ,fficsrs of the baseball
| association
| Governor Gordon Of Georgia commufed
the sentence OF Eliza Randall. who wa-
| TO have bsen hanged in CLAY County. 20
| impris anmsat for lie E n hal mar-
| tered her father, killing ann with "a
axe. All the details were % the bloo9s-st
| description. and no: one word os exrsaus-
tion was urged in her behatf.
| VIM. Galloway wsS married 70. : Sal
/ lie HubbargI. NJ Ovensl-sTo. ky a few
| davs ago. While the ceremony was belne
| performed an ofic r stepped isto the
| room. ard wssu Il was coacludst he
| ri sced GALLOWAY under Arrest for robbin !,
a man named SIttoa o. n largo sum OF
money. at Clovenpart-
The Arassian Water Company Of Menu
/ phie, = r. IA. ssss.eE hs<ss op><at:sas six
months % wsth a capita stock Of 500. :
| 90. has purchased the plant Of the old
water company, which supplied the city
/ from Wolf creek-
Robert SmsiIs, who was the last OF the
colored race n retire from membership OF
/ the National House OF Representatives. is
| pushing his claim for pension on Ac-
/ count of bis Capture q the Confederate
| steamboat Planter. IA Charleston harbor.
/ and It, delivery to Ua5o1 ef'icers-
| The anausi conferences u the Methods
| Ep.scopa. Church (Africanl met last week
At Grenada. Mss. ex- x-Senator Rsvels pre-
siding a Bishop pro tenn There were
about four hundred preachers and lay
dele ates in attendance. This IS the
mother church that was organized in
Philadelphia in i7s7.
Z the < .atuckv Gensral Assembly the
81 nate sulut ion protesting aga nst the
uas a - b. Congress of the Blair bill
cha ace -izins It a an in qaitoas measure.
anne ~ few DAYS 40, aud after a
number of -iTorts 20 make IL n srecial
| order FOR ifersnt davs. IL was, on a call
4 ssaS and nays, adopted By vote Of
- e. ..
Z Short, th- railroad agent at Knox
viiie station. IN the Louisville. New Or
leans & Texas railroad was assassinated
y A"e A-4N1 aa.sAHsAl hE-AA
through n window. Short at the time
Wa engaged in making out his monthly
reports. His daughter, the teleg aph
operator and his wife were IN the room
with him. his wife was shot in the back
short was concerned in shooting sffrav
a. Knoxville not long ago. and the
tragedy l. supposed to Le its seqaent.
Are you going to the carnival
y delegation, consisting OF Mayor Bur-
bridg ge Of Jacksonville President Krea-
n.ar % III. Snh- Trnricnl Exnrzffin,l and