Oxford eagle. (Oxford, Lafayette Co., Miss.) 1876-current, 1888-09-13
PERSONAL AND GENERAL

The bark JaeObini, from Colon. is de-
tanned at quarantine at New Orleans
with her captain and all her crew down
with chagres fever. Her second mate
| died on the voyage
An American bank il to be established
in the City OF Mexico.
COLONEL WM F. Villas. Secretary o.
the Interior, opened the Democratic cam
paign in Wisconsin by a speech at Nil
waukee on the 5th-
The Duke OF Sparta Is very popular in
Berlin, and his betrothal to the Princess
Sophie has given unfeigned pleasure.
The Vienna papers regard the event as OF
political Importance.
TWELVE persons were killed aud a
large number injured, many OF them IA
tally, in collision between two express
trains between MarseiIIes and Turin.
France, on the 5th.
ASSISTANT SURGEON CHAs. T. WEBSTER
died OF apoplexy on board the United
States steamer Vermont at the Brooklyn
Navy Yard, on the 5th.
PLowISG for fall wheat in BIacktor,i
County, Ind, has almost ceased on ae-
count of continued dry weather, but indi-
cations are good for large yield Of buck
wheat
AUGUST BELMONT offered Bryant. owner
OF Proctor Knott. $4,000 FOR the now Ia
nous colt. with a contingent OF SO O00
additional IL he won the Futurity stake.
GENERAL WILLIAM TERRY, an eminent
lawyer OF Wythevi-le, Va, and the COM
mander % the famous StOnewall brigade
at the close OF the late war. was drowned.
on the night OF the 5th. while attempting
TO ford a creek in q buggy. The creek
~ aWNTfs-- h.
the horse from his feet
LORD CLASRICARDE is completing the
work OF eviction on his estates by level
ing to the ground the houses OF tenants
who have been evicted.
The ParneII defense fund in Ireland
amounted 10 f1 sal on the 9Th
THE announcement was made. on the
6th, that James Redpath. OF Abolition
fame. and now editor OF the Worth AHger-
ieda Rerietc, was married. on the 1st. to
Mrs Chorpenning. the widow OF Major
Chorpenning, OF New York Tie lady Is
well known in Washington society.
FoR the twenty-four hours ending AZ
six O'Clock, on the 9Th, the number OF new
cases OF yellow fever reported at Jackson
Vile, Fla, was forty six. with ten deaths.
An entire family was found dead in a
house at Bayard, Fla, small hamlet on
the Jacksonville & St Augustine railroad.
on the 9Th II is not known what caused
their deaths.
ARCHBISHOP WALSH forwarded to the
National League, on the 9th, the sum OF
e. 81 sent from Amehea, Australia and
New Zealand, to be applied 10 the relief
OF evicted tenants.
THERE were 14j patients at Camp Perry,
near Jacksonville, Fla. on the eth- Five
had been returned to Jacksonville for in
subordination-
SPEAKER CARLISLE changed his plans
and did not attend the great Democratic
meeting in New York on the 6tl.
SCRGEox-GExERAL HAMILroT returned
to Washington from his visit to Atlanta
and Camp Perry, Fla, On .hs sth-
A GENERAL frost prevailed or low lands
throughout Cheshire County, y. H., Oh
the night OF 5th
A ATHREsHISG-MAcHTSE boiler exploded
on the farm OF VIM Bennett. in Jackson
County, Ind, on the 5th. causing the
death OF three men and the serious injury
ot i've others
LISTER WALLACE. the theatrical man
2ger, died at Stamford, Conn, on the 9Th
THE Dewey StAEe Comp any's factory.
at HOyt's Corners. O.. the largest concern
OF its kind in the West. was totally de-
stroyed oy FIRE on the night OF the 5th-
Seventy i've men wers thrown cut % en-
ploymsnE
srh. formally awarded the contract for
the erection OF the Brooklyn Post-oeics %
Bernard Gallagher for Ss6o. .0oa