Oxford eagle. (Oxford, Lafayette Co., Miss.) 1876-current, 1888-08-23
PERSONAL AND GENERAL

The commission appointed to investf-
gate the charges against Mr.. Parneu and
other members OF Parliament. Will meet
on October Is.
NINE ADAM. OF Paris, in q published
note. on the 18Th stigmAfiz=J Bismarck As
the most inpudent liar in the world".
4 CRISIS occurred in Turkish Cabinet
circles on the 18th.
THE House and Senate conference COM
r1tree on the Naval Appropriation bill
reached an agreement on the 18th
The Senate accepts the heaEy zrnOred
guahoat provided for BY the House. and
the House accepts the Ssnasess thre {
cruisers provision
A RIGID enforcement OF quarantine
regulations against Florida points was
ordered By the municipal authorities OF
Charleston 5. C., on the 18th
HE Pullman company has taken tts
cars OF al lines south os savannah. and
al sleeping cars which had been in Flor
ida In the past twenty days have been
sent to the shops for tamigation.
H0S. JOIN J. HExPHrLL was reuomi-
mated for Congress from the Fifth South
Carolina dtstric. on the 18th
The Minnesota Democratic State Con-
vention met in Sc. Paul, on the jth. and
nominated Hon E u Wilson for
Governor
Hon. JAMES G. BLAINE was rendered q
reception at Portland. Me-, on the 18th
The total amount appropriated for the
increase OF the navy by the House appro-
priatiOn bill Is :. 80. COO.
A RESOLUTION was offered in the House.
on the 18th, for another investigation
into the affairs OF Public Printer Bene-
diet.
THE Clyde steamer Seminole. from
Jacksonville. Fla, FOR New York. which
was detained at Quarantine for over
thirty hours. was released. on the 18th.
and allowed TO proceed to her dock The
health officer reported no symptoms %
fever on board.
WHAr appeared 70 be dynamite bomb
os the Chicago Anarchist pattern WAS
picked up in front Of the Cincinnati Fr-fs
Prssss on the 18th
The State Central committee ot tns
Union Labor party ~ Iowa met AZ Des
Aotnes in private session on the ttth.
1t Is understood that the purpose OF the
meeting was TO MAKE overturss to the
Democrats for fusion on the electoral
ticket No decisive results were reached.
and the committee adjourned to meet
again september L
IHE Republicans % the Twentieth Ohio
Congressional distriSt, in session NJ
ctSvSi11lsl. oa chs r5th. asiioarzo1 without
making nomination after taxing I3a
ballots
TEE annual meeting oe the Western As
soctated Press WAS held in Detroit. Mieh-,
on the 16th. An entirely satisfactory
condition OF business Was reported
A STAY Of execution in the case OF
Daniel Lyons, the murderer Of AthIets
Quinn Was refused by Judge Patterson.
Of the New YORK City Supreme Court on
the 18th
IN toast AZ the dinner which followed
the unvailiag OF the monument 10 the
Red Prince" At Frankfort. on the 18th.
Emperor William said. There are as,
Ooo,0 90 Germans who would die rather
than deliver a single stone Of Alsace-
Lorraine to France"
SECRETARY BaTARD returned TO Wash
i1gtou from Middletown. Del, where he
went TO attend the funeral OF friend, on
the 10Th
EMPEROR WILLIAM VIII visit King
Humbert ut Rome, on October 18th, and
remain until the 18th
II was reported, on the 18th. that the
steamship Geiser, Of the Scandinavian
line, had been sunk of Sable Island. on
the I4tn. by collision with the ThingvalIa,
OF the same line, and II9 OF her passen-
gers and crew were lost
Mr. BLAINE viii make his next speech
at Bangor, Ne, on tie ed
ASDREw GARRETT, the last survivor OF
the original manufacturers of reapers and
mowers. died at his home in Shelby, O.,
on the 18th. aged sevenfy-six-
The Pennsylvania Railroad Company
issued q notice, on the 18th. announcing
an advance On its Western lines In
dressed beef aud livestock rates to the
East
II vas reported, on the 17th. that tbs
French employers had determined ID Of
Ter Al advance IN wages in oEdas - end
the great striks In Paris.