Oxford eagle. (Oxford, Lafayette Co., Miss.) 1876-current, 1888-08-09

sonE Of the party leaders are becoming
anxious over the delay Of tho President In
Issuing his letter Of acceptance, bat the
latter, on the ID, intimated that he did hot
think there was any hurry about the mat
ter.
A DrsPArcH from Ottawa, Ont, on the
3D. says: Terrible forest nrcs are raging
IN the country about this city, which IL Is
impossible to check. owing 10 the dryne IS
OF every thing combustible. Villages
and farm property In the vicinity are In
imminent danger OF destruction
MATHEW BYRSxs. aged twenty-one. Of
Port Richmond. Staten Island. Jumped
from Brooklyn bridge into East river. on
The ID, sustaining shock and internal in
iurtes which may prove fatal He was
picked up by passing vessel and taken
to Long Island College Hospital
THx National Plumbers' convention, In
session in Boston, adjourned. on the I'll,
after electing John n. Hugot. Of Boston,
A. National district W. F.; Richard
VBrien, Of Washington, secretary and
treasurer, and John w. Dougherty dis
trict n. W.
GAsELL, the contractor who was award
ed the job Of erecting the new Brooklyn
post-office building. has failed to sign his
contract the time for the execution of
which has expired His bid was the low
est made by nearly quarter Of million
dollars.
PRoy. r. A. PARKER. principal Of the
high school OF Dubuque. Ia, one OF the
party OF teachers visiting the Yosemite
valley, shot himself at Stockton, Cal, on
the DID, while suffering from an attack Of
intermittent fever. His remains were
sent East
The last day OF the Goodwood (En-
glandl race meeting occurred on the 81.
The feature OF the programme was the
race for the Goodwood stakes, a handi-
cap OF twenty sovereigns each, with f5O0
added, which was won by Stour tead,
Clancuttan second. Fealty third.
SuMBxR Of men working in the Du-
luth- South Shore &c Atlantic railway
shops at Marquette, Mich, and on the
line OF the road. were laid of. on the s,I,
preliminary to turning over the line to
the Canadian Pacific. which has secured
control OF it.
MILLIONS OF cut worms are devastat-
ing the wheat fields southeast Of Grand
Forks, Oak.
IS the Criminal Court in Chicago. on
the 81, before Judge Hawes, the cases
against the alleged dynamiters, Sevic.
Hrouek, Chapck and ChIeboun, were con-
tinued, by agreement Of counsel, until the
| September term
ARRANGEMENTS for a wedding between
George Blair aud q young lady OF Berlin,
| Wis. were all knocked in the head. on
the ID by the prospective bridegroom,
who at the last moment decided in favor
\ OF morphine rather than matrimony.
Latest reports say he may recover.
CAPTAIN RrcKABY, his son aud two
sailors OF the schooner-yacht Rambler,
which was capsized in a storm about if
teen miles out from Chicago, on the I'd,
were picked up and saved next morning
| after clinging to the wreck, which was
| most OF the time under water, all night.
A MEETING Of workingmen at Indian
| apolis, on the 81, called gor the purpose
| OF urging Ex-Governor Porter to run foi
Governor on the Republican ticket, was
| captured by anti-Harrison men, who de-
nounced the Republican platform, and
| requested Porter, as a friend of working
| men, not to be a candidate.
| A wISDsroRN on the I'd IN the town
| OF Lake, near Chicago, did consider
| able damage to buildings in course Of
erection Six cottages, just nearing COM
pletion, were wrecked, entaiIing a
loss Of $4,000, and many sheds, fences,
| small barns and trees were blown down.
PRoy. ELISHA GRAY, of Highland Park.
ILL.,, on the Sd, obtained letters patent,
dated July 81, 1Sss, for a combustion of
| instruments called a telautograph, con.
| sisting OF q transmitter aud q receiver,
and designed for transmitting messages
| by wire between distant points by the
sender in his own handwriting; thus d
ing away with skilled operators.