Oxford eagle. (Oxford, Lafayette Co., Miss.) 1876-current, 1888-04-12
PERSONAL AND GENERAL

The bi-mctalic conference assembled
at Manchester, England, on the Ith.
A PROJECT is on foot to bring one OF the
New York exboodlers back from Canada
to testify against Jake Sharp.
THREE families of pauper immigrants
arrived at New York from Europe on the
I'd.
PRINCE GHrKA has declined to form n
cabinet for Roumania.
AN explosion OF gas in the Nelson shaft.
by which two men were horribly burned
and otherwise injured; the premature ex-
plosion of blast at the Garfield colliery.
by which one man was fatally injured, and
an explosion of boilers, without casual
ties, at the Cameron colliery, were the
days incidents at Shamokin, Pa, on the
4th.
WITH the single exception Of La Justice,
the newspapers of Paris join in the attack
upon the new Ministry. The appointments
of the hot-headed NJ. Gobelet, as Foreign
Secretary, is regarded as especially weak
The French Chamber of Deputies ad-
journcd on the 4th to the 18th.
THE business manager Of the New York
Star denies that the paper has changed
hands.
THE California State Prohibition con-
vention met at San Francisco, on the 4th,
with about four hundred delegates at the
opening session.
On the 4th, at Philadelphia, Benjamin
Harris Brewster, Attorney-General of the
United States under President Arthur,
died from the effects of kidney disease.
AvALANcHEs in various parts of Tyrol,
Austria, have done much damage to prop
erty within the last few days. house
was buried ut Weissenbach, on the 4th.
and the occupants, four women, were
killed.
THE accounts OF A. l.. Fawcett, treasurer
of Marion township, Morgan County, o.,
who had been absent some weeks, were
examined on the ith, and found to be
81 800 short.
The project of erecting statue of Gem
eral Gordon, in Trafalgar Square, London,
was considered in the House of Commons,
on the 4th, and will be carried out during
the latter part Of the year.
SIR RICHARD SUTTON, owner of the
yacht Genesta, was married at st. Peters
Church, Eaton Square, London, on the
9Th, to Miss Constance Carbet.
The Senate, in secret session, on the jth,
removed the injunction Of secresy from
the Chinese treaty, heretofore published,
and from the report of the committee on
foreign relations on the British Extradi-
tion treaty.
SIX new eases of smallpox were re-
ported to the health board of New York on
the 9TH.
The signla corps observer at Southport,
N. c., on the 5th, reported the American
schooner Douglas Hoover, with a cargo of
railroad iron, five days from New York.
on Frying pan shoals. The vessel and
cargo are a total loss.
The police Of Ridgewood, L. l., recently
found "a box containing knight Templsr
jewels, valued at y 90, on the spot where
was found in 1879.
FRANK PIrTMAN, of New York, was
found guilty of murder in the second de-
daughter Rachael.
The Democrats of the District of Column
bia, on the 5th, elected VIM. Dickson and
Lawrence Gardner as delegates to the st.
Louis convention. Both are unpledged.
The rolling mills OF the Blair Iron Com
pany and the Portage Iron Company at
Hollidaysburg and Duncanville, Pa,
closed down on the 5th, and a thousand
men were thrown out of employment.
SEVEN men were fatally or severely
scalded by molten iron, with which they
were running a casting in the Delaware
Iron Works, New York, on the Jth.
The executive committee Of the trunk
lines, on the 5th, considered the matter OF
export rates, but adjourned without arriv-
ing at a decision. Differential rates and
emigrant rates were also considered, but
were finally referred TO the meeting OF
the trunk line presidents.
Ir Is predicted that Prince Alexander
OF Battenberg will shortly return, as the
affianced husband of Princess Victoria, TO
reign as King over Bulgaria, backed up
by the powers Of England, Germany and
Austria.
PRINCE BISMARCK, on the 9TH, asked
permission of the Emperor TO resign the
Chancelorship, alleging ill-health as his
reason.
The Ho1ss COMMITTEES on ost-ofice
completed the consideration of the Post
ONCE Appropriation bill, on the 9Th.
RoscoE CoSKLISG has recently been un-
der the care OF physicians, suffering from
an sbscess in his right ear.
MORMON missionaries are reported as
doing very successful work il the upper
counties Of the State of Georgia Fifteen
persons left Oconee County for Utah with
in few days, recently.
IN his reply 10 Governor Wise, Senator
Mahone, OF Virginia, says, sarcastically,
that las our leaders have diminished by
desertion aud rsssit our rank and file has
grown.