Oxford eagle. (Oxford, Lafayette Co., Miss.) 1876-current, 1888-08-23
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FD- EAGLE--A few months
vas in Oxford wheui
learned that The people ola
Fsyette couuty wcrc called 70
On 70 vote "a su5seu tom % t&
Memphis. Cxsord s. Columbus
railroad. L. VAS a ucE cues
ton % RE and f0uld me -aias
10 hear argument on the sl9
ject- Seen after reached EoEE
town I vas beset bv Some meF
chants there EhO we're oIlE
around Eith pencil ami PAPER
ia hand making iguEca ias ne.
untii my head swan. To con
vince me that the people Of cur
comfy would save s ~. 20 eve
y year on fTeights. i We hac an
other road 70 compete wita tne
Illinois Central. Ana they told
me that with the & roaG
IN operation tha. BOt only the
county would grow rich GA &C
count OF the great saving on
freights, but Oxford would
build up and would in a short
while be one OF the most Imp0r-
tant resident CITIES in the south.
/ was 50 Thoroughly convinced
by their arguments that return
I'd home. il tie south east, and
and urged my neighbOrs 10 vote
the AK As time passed j got
more anxious 20 see the road
built. that thc farmers might get
relief from the high freights they
have been paying 20 long. Some
few weeks ago : visited Oxford
again and ghle there saw some
offs citizens going around with
paper and pencil soliciting sub
scripti0as to aisi in srrveyin-
q railroad route from Hcleaa via
oxford ~ some place IA Ala
bzGa. and they we're piCtUuEg
What fine town they would
have II they could get this -0Sd
also. | went home elateG and
1.-THE next meeting of orr Ali
anee told the boys that old Ia
Fayette was bound 10 come TO
the front. that the citizens OF
Oxford, especially some Of the
merchants. we're using every
honest effort in behalf OF the
county. Nov, 5Tr. Editor, yCu
cs.n hardly imagine ms surprise
last week. when in your town.
while a disc lssIOn was going On
between some Of your citizens
as 20 the proPriety OF voting 3
tax o. the town for the VI % G
road. for Me 20 hea- some of
those men who iguTed with
me 50 heavily = few months ago
say that the proposed road
would TIil the town. That
they would lose al the trade
ia the northeast AMI southeast
parts of the c0glty that If the
read was bull. we w1ald have.
depats near Our farms and.
wOu.d nos haul cur cotton 20.
Oxford E0r trade there, and !.
went heme feeling that the reo-
pie 81 TIE town, ought. rather
t5an let the town he gUlGCd. 10.
notify the company that they
should not Ju,.i the raad near
THEIR t1wu. IL .gev would
tear Il up If til did. Aler 1
got hole, / beelm. aeEII5reG
said 70 myself How Is tI6iS ?.
N3t long ago believed The.
read would bE.ll MP TIE town..
bat the way I see 10 now Il 8.
sure to rum l. vas "a 3 d.
lena. I could net reconcile
matters : the more I thought.
about L lie confused I became
uatil Fly perPlexity vas ac;aal
y distressing. aud I wOaiI 10
doubt have been In the same
condition yet, bat .Cr the lct
that L occurred 10 me thai 7
had heard some OF my a~cighDcrs
say, that some OF them town.
fellow always waateri TO. aud
tried t0"rnn the county, Tmag-
Inc my relief whcu reached
the conclusion. thai some Of.
those "t0wn fsllsws were try
ny 10 ~ruB the town f0o-that
they were trying the ,smuggIers
trick Aow you see IL TO-
You don't see it, must asI-
nit that We have 10 right to ask
the people Ct 0zs0TG te E2y Oat.
money 70 help EiEe "a railroad
facilities. why should they 10
50 No, let as go on uueom
plaiaiagiy and haEl our produce
10 Oxford, divide up Cur trade
am0nE the taereh2uts- Twill
bring this lettcr 20 a close bv.
saying that some Of ans neigh
50Ts asked me 20 say. that al
there are any merchants in Ok
ford who DON'T believe that the
proposed road viii ruin the
town ID please scad Us their
names as they wan. % propose
II cur next Alliance mset,ngtc
have some of their photographs
distributed as cuFi0sisIes From
one Who lives
SOUTHEAST OF OXFORD.
Aurva& Is 1855