Oxford eagle. (Oxford, Lafayette Co., Miss.) 1876-current, 1888-04-05


ed in Cincinnati, on the 30th, having
been surrendered by his bondsmen.
storm that was general all over the
State OF Nebraska on the 25th, and con-
tinued for twenty-four hours, injured
winter grains and impaired the prospects
for fruit
LASD CowxrssIoxER SrocxsLAGER, on
the 10Th, refused patents 20 redwood tim
berland in Humboldt County, Cal, valued
at Ss,0c0,00a, fraudulently entered by the
Redwood Land Company.
BY decision Of the Land Commission
er, rendered on the 18th, the Burlington &
4 Missouri Railroad Company are deprived
of 26o,3i acres OF valuable lands, selected
contrary to the terms OF the grant.
THE Arkwright Club OF Boston. on the
Goth. sent a protest to the Congressional
committee on ways and means against the
clause in the Mills Tariff bill, substituting
the ad valorem principle for the specific
system OF duties.
THE testimony of VIM. S. Bartle of st.
Louis, before the House committee on
agriculture on the 2ith, created great ex-
citement among lard and pork men of the
entire country. His startling statements
are generally discredited.
THE suit of f. p. Tenny against the
Boston CoRgregdtioRdiist for 100000 dam
ages for alleged libelous references to Mr..
Tenny's removal from the presidency of
Colorado College was decided in favor of
the defendant on the s7th.
THE House committee on the Judiciary,
on the 2Ith, agreed TO report favorably
bill providing for the erection of q United
States prison, to cost not exceeding $780,
COO, at place convenient for the confne-
ment of long-terin prisoners.
DISPATCHES from China on the 2sth say
that the Honan floods are over, leaving
two million people destitute. The starv-
ing hOrdes are invading the surrounding
towns and devourIng everything like To-
Gusts, causing great distress to the poor
: inhabitants.
AT the meeting OF the New York Nine
\ teerth Century Club, on the s7th, Miss
4 Lydia Bell and DR.. Louise Fisk spoke in
support Of the efficacy OF the Mind
Cure". DIR. A. W. Hammond replied, Of
fering to give $4,000 for any proof OF the
statements made.
JAMES GrLHooLY, member of Parlia-
ment for West Cork, who was recently
but released on bail pending his appeal,
was, on the 30th, sentenced to two weeks
additional imprisonment for assaulting a
police inspector.
RECORDER SNYrHE of New York re-
ceived the following note, marked 'Per-
sonal," on the Goth: @Dsdr Sir: When a
dered, $4,000 in $1,000 bills will be left
at your residence" II was ev IDENTIFY the
work Of some wag.
REV. FATHER J. c. DRuMGooI. known nj.
over the world through the paper The
Homeless Chiid, whose subscriptions built
the Mission of the Immaculate Virgin in
Lafayette Place, New York City, at a cost
ofSlj0, 600, died at the Home. of pneumonia,
on the 18th, aged seventy years.
A SENSATION was caused at the trial OF
ex-custom-house officials in San Francis
co, on the 18th One of the defendants
eonfessedto aconspiracy by which large
number OF return n-certifcates were fraud
ulently secured and taken to China and
sold to would-be immigrants.
GENERAL MASTER WORKMAN PowpzRLy
on the 18th issued a lengthy circular, call
ing upon the Knights of Labor for au-
thority and means to inaugurate a system
OF education within the order, and prom.
ising to do a work for the order such as
had never been done before.
ISreply to the offer OF the Detroit Eren-
4 ing Journal to pay 500 to General Greedy or
any other person who would send il a cor
: rect guess as TO the three hottest days in
Detroit during the coming summer, GEN
erai Greedy, on the 3th, telegraphed that
they should be July "A, Is and Il6.
IRE International Range Association,
In session at Denver, Col, on the 18th,
adopted u resolution amending their con-
sutution so AS to give individual member
snip, after which a recess was taken to al
low the members 10 qualify themselves
under the changed constitution.
n THE New York Board Of Aldermen
y PASSED an ordinance, on the 2Sth. taking
away from she mayor the absolute power
&of controlling the flags on the City Hall
&nnd placing it IN a majority Of the Board
Nj Aldermen. Mayor Hewitt expresses
hims:f wen pleased with the change.
TIE mass Of cartilage recently removed
N Pom the Emperor Frederick's throat is
neld to furnish incontroyertible evidence
the correctness OF DR.. Mackenxie's per-
nstent contention that the disease Is not
sancer. Its voluntary expulsion Is be-
neved to indicate that nature is making n
curative effort.
THE death Of Bargarsch Ben saAld. the
q 5ultan Of Zanzibar, 1t Is feared will jesp-
nrdize all the monuments Of progress
Feared by that enlightened ruler, and
plunge the country again into senni-sav-
egcry, from which il was rescued By Sir
Bartle Frere and the British representa-
yves who sollowed him
lr trsrspired on the asth that the i'm
Provement OF Emperor Frederick,s condi-
non Is due TO the removal from his throat
q a large piece OF diseased cartilage OF
9ueh nature as has never been known In
cancerous disease. The cartilage re-
moved will be microscopicalIy examined
Prof. Waldemeyer.
The arguments in the suit brought bv
pc Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Rail-
Dad Company against the Rock Island
hilroad Company, which were to have
pen made before Judge Gresham. in the
United States Court at Chicago, on the a6th.
ere indefinitely postponed on account of
&C Judges absence in Milwaukee
1HE President transmitted a message To
congress, on the s5th, recommending Leg
Adation to exclude hogs and hog products
nom France and Germany. in conse-
q1ence OF authentic reports OF the spread
n frfrhiu0afx IN, eha N.e@a-