Oxford eagle. (Oxford, Lafayette Co., Miss.) 1876-current, 1888-05-31
IMMENSE swarms Of iocusts ar. dcva..

IMMENSE swarms OF locusts are dcvns.
tating portions OF Algeria. The insects
extend in q semi-circle, the diameter OF
which Is calculated at fifteen kilometers.
JAMEs c. FLoop. accompanied by Mrs.
Flood and Miss Jennie Flood, left San
Francisco, on the sith, en- route for Eu-
rope for the benefit of his health.
THE Massachusetts, Senate, on the s5th,
by a vote of - TO 8, defeated the bill pro-
viding for conduits for telegraph and
other electric wires.
Mrs. CLEVELAND went from Philadel-
phia TO Princeton, N. j.. where she is the
guest of Prof. Marquand, on the 25th.
BUSINESS failures reported by X. q.
Dun & Co. for the week ending on the
18th, were: For the United States, 21e;
for Canada, -; total, 2a5. The failures
| for last week were 1S9; and for the corre-
spending week of 1887, 175.
COLONEL ELLIS made an argument, on
the 25th, upon the merits of Russian
torpedo, before the subcommittee Of the
House committee on appropriations, en-
| gagged in the preparation of the Fortifica-
ton Appropriation bill.
POLICEMAN GooDELL, OF Leavenworth,
Kas., shot three times and killed wife,
| bcater named Ben Black on the 25th.
Black had first fred at the officer, iufict-
| ing flesh wound.
BISHOP O'DwYER OF Limerick wrote a
letter to the mayor of that city, warning
Roman Catholics against attending n
| meeting of the National League to be held
on the 2Ith, and declaring that those who
attended the meeting would be guilty
/ OF a grievous sin.
THE Prince OF Wales inspected the
Bluchcr Hussars, of which he is honorary
1 (-nln0a1 Mt StnLs
PROVINCIAL banks are refusing To re-
| ceive 5OO-franc notes of the Bank OF
| France, owing to the counterfeits in cir
culation. The notes are to be withdrawn
from circulation by the bank. II is stated
that counterfeit f,000-franc and i00-franc
notes have also made their appearance.
| PRESIDENT JOHN FITZGERALD OF tho
Irish National League has called meet
ing of the council of the State executives
of the League, to be held aa Cleveland o.,
June II. The meeting will probably call
a National convention to take action on
the papal rescript.
| Mrs. L. DAVIS, OF Salt Lake City,
learned, on the 23d, that her husband, to
whom she had been married twenty years,
had married a second wife. The shock
unbalanced her mind, and, onthe 2ith, she
cut her throat with razor.
| CHARLES CLENDENNISG, ono OF !the
| pioneers of Allegheny County, Pa, cele-
brated his one -hundredth birthday on the
oath. Mr.. Clendenning is in good health
and personally superintends the work on
his large farm in West Deer township.
| THE collections OF internal revenue for
| the first ten months of the fiscal year end
ing June 20, 1sSs, amounted to SlOO, ,406, :
452, being an increase of S5,1J3 3S5 over
| the collections during the corresponding
period of the previous fiscal year.
JOHN SwINToS, of New York has pub
lished card stating that he will not be q
candidate for President on the Socialist
ticket as had been reported.
THE body of Adelbert Kreigcr, of Day
ton, o., who died suddenly, on the 2ith, al
Chicago, was cremated at Cincinnati in
the unfinished crematory on Clifton
heights, on the 18th.
LORD LANsDowNE sailed from Canada
for England on the 23d. His successor
as Governor General, Lord Stanley, sails
from England for Canada on the 3Oth.
THE appeal of ex-Alderman Henry NJ
Jaehne, the convicted boodler of New
York City, for writ OF habeas corpus
set for argument on the 25th, was post
poned for week.
SIR CHARLES TUPPER, Canadian High
Commissioner to England, sailed from
New York to Liverpool on the Goth.
THE Peak murder trial was resumed a,
Mt Holly, N. j., on the 25th. Judge Gar.
rison excluded the so-calied dying dccla-
ration of Kate Anderson. This decision
Is regarded as the turning point in tho
trial, and it is not unlikely that Peak will
escape conviction.