Oxford eagle. (Oxford, Lafayette Co., Miss.) 1876-current, 1888-06-07
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

MIR. BLAINE's last letter, published in
the New York Tribune, of the 3Oth, is gen.
orally accepted by the newspapers Of the
country as a final and unequivocal with
drawal from the presidential race.
THE settlers along Spring creek, in
Pennington County, Oak, fed. with their
families, to Rapid City and other towns,
on the 10Th, seeking safety from an an
ticipated Indian attack.
THE bed of wagon containing farmer
named Album and his family fioated from
the truck while fording Sappa creek, in
Furnas County, Neb., on the 2sth, and
capsized. A four-year- -old daughter OF
the farmer, and Bertha Burger, an orphan
child, were drowned.
THE Pope gave audience to the Bishop
of Green Bay, Wis.,, on the 10Th.
THE cabinet of New South Wales re-
fuses to modify its anti Chinese policy.
The President on the 29th, vetoed the
bill providing for a.public building at Co.
lumbus, Ca
The eviction campaign at Loughrea,
Ireland. has come to an end. All the
tenants have paid tho amount due, less
the abatement offered.
SENATORS PALMER and Henderson de-
livered Decoration Day orations at Ar
lington, Va.
MR.. CHAMBERLAIN has been elected
president of the Birmingham (England)
Liberal Unionist Society.
The committee to invite the President
and Mrs. Cleveland to be present at the
opening of the Centennial Exposition at
Cincinnati left for Washington on the Goth.
The California Democratic excursion to
the st. Louis convention, including the
alternates, arrived at Omaha, Neb., over
Tx..@ kn@I.
were three carloads in the party.
MR.. PARNELL has returned to London
in order to be present at the opening of
Parliament. His health has improved.
AN attachment was placed on the prop
erty of the Security Mining Company, at
West Cliff, Col, on the 3lst, and the
sheriff Of Custer County is in charge.
The meeting of Ireland's Bishops, on
the 30th. and the resolutions and address
to the faithful which they adopted, seem
to have produced a feeling of the deepest
satisfaction throughout Ireland, and to
convey assurances of n comforting nature
to those who were dismayed at the pros
pect of opposing both the government and
their church.
A NEW police regulation in Berlin pro-
hibits the throwing of flowers and petit
tions into the Emperor's carriage.
JOHN BRIGHT suffered relapse on the
3lst.
IT is announced in Rome that the Pope
will send friendly and comforting letter
to the Irish Bishops, expressive of his
constant purpose to abstain from any
thing which could in the least check the
true interest OF the Irish National move
ment.
A YOUNG man named Spicer was shot
and killed at Ralston, Tenn, on the 30th,
by two men named Arnau and Coving-
ton.
The Brewers convention at st. Paul
adjourned sine die on the 3lst- Newark,
N. j., was selected as the next place of
meeting.
JOHN NJ. RANDALL, a well-known capi-
talist and retired merchant OF st. Louis,
died at the residence of his daughter,
Mrs. C. K. Garrison, in New York, on the
30th.
Ar the meeting OF the Archbishops and
Bishops OF Ireland. held at Dublin. on the
3lst, resolutions were adopted declaring
that the papal rescript recently published
regarding Ireland, was intended to effect
the domain of morals alone, and in no
way interfere with politics.
SAMUEL CLARK, of Sharon, Pa, in a fit
of drunken frenzy, on the 3Oth, fired into
a room containing three ladies, shooting
his sister-in-law, Mrs. James Clark, in
the side. She was found, some time after,
in>her own room. dead
FRANCE. which is hardly over the
Boulanger scare, Is now having a hard
time over the coming exhibition. England
refuses official recognition, Germany and
Austria decline to take part, and nov
Hungary withdraws. The Ministry, how
ever, hail with delight trouble which
assails them from without, as serving to
draw attention away from internal
alarms
The nomination OF Mr.. Fuller TO the
Chief-Justiceship was again before the
Senate committee on the judiciary, ON
the LIST, but no conclusion was reached.
LATEST reports speak discouragingly OF
John Bright's chances of recovery.
THREE seats were sold in the New York
Exchange on the 1st. The prices obtained
were 1910, 500 and Sa55. A few years ago
memberships in the Exchange were worth
5000,