Oxford eagle., 1888-04-19
SOUTHERN oLeANINos.

stock perished in the resulting fire.
Judge Howell f. Jackson, OF Louisville
| KY, Is mentioned as the possible sue
cessor Of the late Chief Justice Waite.
DIR. VI. \. Craft, one of the most emincn,
surgeons and physicians OF Mississippi,
died few nights ago, after lingering
illness.
A citizen ~ 0reenville. s. C., found an
old edition Of Shakespeare at n Charles
ton book-stall a few months ago. He
bought IL for 81, day or two afterwatd
sold it TO q book k-dealer for S2sO, and the
dealer has just sold 1t in London for 500.
Mrs. Margaret rosse, Of New Orleans,
| recently celebrated her one hundredth
birthday by cooking her breakfast and
walking 10 church. She IL the widow Of
Louis Fosse, who served under Napoleon
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jefferson Davis" says the Chronicle OF
Augusta, Ga, ais at work on his new book
about the war, and hopes to have IL ready
for publication by next fall. His infirmi-
ties, he says, compel him to write slowly,
deliberately and uncertainty"
At Csmpbelisville, KY, few days ago,
after n few moments quarreliing, Charles
Ramsey killed Rodeford Jetcr, Jr. Jeter
leaves n wife and four children.
| Mrs. :. d. Langley. wife Of DIR. W. &.
Langley, superintendent Of the Missis.
sippi Blind Institute, n most worthy lady,
died a few nights ago.
Captain Anthony l.. Bargamin, book
keeper for f. u. Taylor, dealer in crock
cry, china and glassware at Richmond.
Va, Is defaultcr. There are all sorts Of
rumors in regard to the amount of short
age, which is reported from 5000 to so,
o1. Bargamin is In Canada.
The Kentucky Legislature has passed an
act making petit larceny, by-uhosoever
committed, punishable with lashes on
the bare back"
In Union County, s. c., a girl OF eleven
and boy of nine quarreled a few days
ago, and the boy plunged the blade Of his
| pbcket-knife into the girls heart, killing
her instantly.
| There Is, in the vicinity OF vaughsville,
y. C., an infant two months old whose
mother is eighteen, grandmother thirty
two, grandfather thirty seven, and great
grandmother fifty-one.
Nero Fielder, colored, who stabbed and
killed Cap Mathews, colored, in Mont
gomery, Ala, last fall, was convicted of
manslaughter and sentenced to five years
in the penitentiary.
I
brokers representing foreign houses to
enjoin collection OF the Taxing District,
or Memphis City, merchants tax, Chan
celor Estes decided that the collection OF
such tax is illegal.
Mrs. John Guess, of Muhlenberg Coun
| ty, KY, who has been in bad health for
some time, attempted TO take her own life
n few days ago while under tho influence
OF morphine, by cutting her throat with a
! razor. She made two efforts, cutting a
cash from ear TO ear, and can not possibly
| recover.
st. Louis, New Orleans, ST. Paul, and
many other cities, are represented in the
entries for the grand Inter State cncamp.
mcnt and competitive drill, to be held al
Nashville, Tenn, in May. Great interest
Is manifested, and arrangements are be.
Ing made for the accommodation of thou.
sands OF visitors.
The Georgia Railroad Commission at q
recent meeting refused the request Of the
colored people that n first and second
class passenger rate be established, and
held that the railroads must furnish the
colored people accommodations in every
way equal to those furnished the white
people.
State Treasurer Bamberg OF South Caro-
lima has issued call for purchasers for
S3lI ,517 of new South Carolina four and
one-half per cent. bonds and stock GER
tificates, which will be issued to refund
deficiency bonds and stocks maturing
July next. The new bonds and stock
certificates will run forty years, maturing
in July, 1923.
Moses Murphy, thirteen years old, and
Moses Brown, aged sixteen, of Orange
L n
Brown did not want TO fight, and finally
started to run, whereupon Murphy threw
large pocket-knife at him. The blade
sank into Browns back up to the handle
and penetrated one Iof his lungs, causing
death in an hour. The young murderer was
locked up.
| A heavy electrical storm swept over Ma
con County, \. C., n few nights ago. A
bolt Of lightning struck the house Of Jesse
saunders, on Skeenah mountain. Saunders
was absent. His wife and baby, as well
as his daughter, aged eighteen, were all
struck. Their condition is reported to be
critical. A remarkable feature Of the
stroke was that half the house was de-
stroyed and the remainder left standing.
The baby lies in u stupor, as If dead.
Revenue Agent Chapman and Deputies
Clay, Mitchell and Colquit, and United
States Deputy Marshal J. B. Young, re-
Gently made a big raid in Lauderdale
| County, Ala, and captured five moonshine
distilleries and about a dozen prisoners.
They destroyed and confiscated about
$1,000 or II 800 OF wildcat distillery prop
erty.
Perhaps the largest pension ever p aid
| by the Government to any one for services
as a private soldier has just been awarded
20 John Vice, who lives short distance
east OF Owingsville, KY. The pension, 81
a month, is for total blindness, and dating
back to the beginning of Vices appli, a
tion in the first year OF the war of the re-
belion, now foots up something over Sli,-
900. Vice was abjectly poor and has a
helpless family.
| Bessemer, a new manufacturing tow
twelve miles from Birmingham, Ala, cell
ebrsted its first birthday few days ago
in royal style. The town has 1900 inhsb-
itants, four large blast furnaces, a rolling
mill Of large capacity and many smaller
industries. The celebration consisted Of
speeches by prominent men, big bar
becue, q prize military drill and ether
amusements. One thousand people wero
present from New Orleans and five hun
dred from Charleston, s. c., citizens of
those places being largely interested in
Bessemer. II is estimated that twenty
thousand people visited the town during
the day.
Cotton planting is somewha. backward.
The fine old country house of H. u
Kyle. at Walnut Hill, near Rogersville,
Tenn, was destroyed by fire few night,
ago with all the barns, outhouses and ten
| ants cabins. The occupants were left
| without shelter OF any kind. The fire is
supposed to have been the work of an in.