Oxford eagle. (Oxford, Lafayette Co., Miss.) 1876-current, 1888-05-10

NEWS IN BRIEF.
Complied from Various Searccs.
# THr net cash in the United States Treas
IN, on May !. vas SIi0. 81. .9sia-an increase
"a ss,ela, ios during the month Of April
# TUE Indiana Democratic Association of
rashington, on the 81. determined to
ender Senator Voorhees, public reccp-
hcu-
NATIONAL. bank repositories held. on
be ist Of May, Ssi, ,saf .s3t Of Government
binds, an increase Of about $.,'so,0 900 for
April.
THE gold-fund balance in the United
hates Treasury decreased, during April,
bout Ss.5oo,0o0, and was, on May Ist
eia. .sSe,sot
THE Qnadriennial conference OF the
Methodist Episcopal Church began in the
metropolitan Opera House, New York,
zen the lst.
q DEFAULT was made in the payment OF
Interest on the first mortgage bonds OF
NE International & Great Northern rail-
1oad on the {.
The reduction ot the public debt during
April amounted to y, ,s5s. no; and for the
drst nine months os the current fiscal
year to S97, .ssi.
ALLEN q. MEYER, the absconding wit
ncss in the Ohio tally-sheet forgery cases,
was, on tine al, sentenced to ninety days
IN Jail and to pay a fine of 500.
DR. CHARLES f. SIMMONS. who attended
NE late Samuel J. Tildcn during his ILL.,
ness, has brought suit against the Tilden
estate for $4,000 for professional scrv.
g GENERAL PoPHoFF. commander of the
Bofia (Bulysria) garrison. claims to have
Been offered, and to have refused, Rus
Asian bribe Of 10000 roubles to betray his
country.
Il MARBLE bust OF GaribaIdi, presented
zto the Senate by the Garibaldi Monument
KAssociation of Washington, was placed in
srosition in one Of the Senate corridors
/ on the ith-
THE Empress of Germany. accompanied
& by Princess Victoria, started on a tour OF
4 the Elbe provinces on the 81. The royal
party met with a very hearty reception at
J " Nittenberg.
THE London Standard. Of the 81. has a
dispatch from Berlin which says that clear
proofs have been received of the exist
Sence of French and Russian intrigues
against Italy.
The trial of VIM. O'Brien, NJ. p. for a
speech made at Loughrea on the sth OF
April. was concluded on the Sd. Mr..
AO'Brien was sentenced to three months
Imprisonment.
DURING an executive session of the Sem
ate, on the 81. Senator Sherman submit
ted favorable report from the foreign
&relations committee on the Chinese I'm
Emigration treaty.
THE committee on education and labor
agreed. on the 4th, to submit a favorable
REPORT on the bill to prohibit the employ
*ment Of aliens on public buildings and
*other public works.
II JoHx DLLox. in speech at Killmurry,
County Limerick. on the 18th, advised the
people to continue TO adopt the plan Of
campaign, and to boycott every one who
took an eyicted farm.
THE recent announcement Of the en-
Egagement between Hon. Joseph Chamber
lain, OF England. and Mary. the daughter
*nf Secretary Endicott. was denied by the
fanily of the latter on the nth-
the Interstate commerce committee
Finished its consideration OF series of
proposed amendments to the Interstate
Commerce act, on the ID and authorized
fr (-rslF-,rr, -,
DR. NoRyIS GREEN, president OF the
Western Union Telegraph Company, adj
3siressed the House committee ON post
Zoftices and post-roads. on the sd, in oppo-
sition to Government ownership of telc-
grsphs-
N. GOBLET. French Mirister OF Foreign
/ Affairs, has instructed N. waddington
Minister at London, to inform Lord Sails
bury OF the agitation now going on in
France for the repeal OF the Favored
nation law.
GOVERNMENT receipts, during April, ag-
#gresated Sa9,s5I. 80, about $4,000 less
than for April, 1887, while Government
Expenditures amounted TO 81. so, $40. or
- i-sa.oso less than for the corresponding
*Elonth last year.
Il GENERAL SHERMAN presided at the an
&nual banquet OF the Loyal Ie-ion at Gin
#einnaa on the III Among the notables
present Were Governor Foraker, General
Rea- ex-President Hayes and General
Lueius Fairehild-
THE FARMERS Trust convention at To-
feka, kas, adjourned, on the I'd, without
neting on the plan proposed for Gen.
fral sale agencies, referring the matter to
the Farmers National convention at To-
peka in November.
SENATOR EDxuSDs' adverse report on
he Fisheries treaty takes the broad
ground that under the provisions of the
1ns,rnment the United States secures
noshins of value 10 which they have not
klready natural right.
DrREsc the progress OF the trial OF VIM.
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Pred the sessions Office and stole the
dispositions aud warrants relative to the
fase- making Il necessary TO reopen the
rial from the beginning.
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The Indiana Republican State conveu-
Eon- held N indianapolis, on the ad. elected
-6overnor A. g. Porter, Richard w.
hompson- j. y. Huston and Glenn C.
btudebaker delegates-af-large 10 Chicago.
sad instructed them for Harrison.
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