Oxford eagle. (Oxford, Lafayette Co., Miss.) 1876-current, 1888-12-20

Ir Is proposed to reduce the pension 20
south Carolina ex-Confedernte soldiers
from five dollars month 10 thirty dollars
year.
A SEARCH of the cells and persons ss
the prisoners in the Tennessee state
prison at Nashville, on the 18th. revealed
whole arsenal of small arms and other
appliances, which it is believed. would
soon have been used against the guard, in
general break for liberty.
PERSIA has waived her objections IN IN.
appointment of a Russian Consul AZ
Neshed, and the Car will send Consul
there at once.
The American Protestant Rpt=copal
Church Of the Holy Ghost a. Nice. sar
dinia- was eunsscrated. on the l3th. by
Bishop Lyman. Two hundred and ffty
Americans and Englishmen attended the
services.
A NEW Extraordinary Congress has
been convoked at Lima, Peru. FOR January
l. lSS'', - consider and arrange the exter-
nal debt OF the country and to consider
aIso modification which will be propc@.,i
by the Minister OF Hacienda respectful,
the internal debt.
REPRESENTATIVE MARTIN, OF Texas. was
nned i've dollars and costs, on the 18th.
Tor an assault committed upon a newspa-
per reporter.
The NermilliOn & Grand Marais Iron
company, with a capital Of Sj,eo0.Goa. has
Deen Organized at Duluth. Minn. 1t IS
consolidation ~ the interests 81 large
number of owners Of iron lands on tn
Nermillton & Iesaba range, and will con-
troll from 1000 to i5.1.0 acres.
HE foundry and engine house of the
Mo"rehead Manufacturing Company. on
Second avenue. Pittsburgh. Pa, was de-
etroyed by IRE on the morning of the 18th
Loss, St,ooo; fully insured The fire is
supposed 10 have been caused by a
natural gas leak
y LATE dispatch from Sydney. ". s. w.
reports that copious and mueh-aeetIesl
rains have fallen in the colonies og Vie
toria and New South Wales.
d. \. STEWART, one y the most prou,i-
Eent business men of Pittsb burgh. Pa.
died suddenly at his residence, on tk..
18th.
Mas HALL Of Rockp0rt. Y. T. was
sut1ocated b. SMOKE On the night Of the
ltth- from a FIRE which originated in a sa-
loon IN the building in which she was a
tenant.
An overland train was wrecked near
Encinitas, thirty miles north OF san Diego,
Cal, on the night Of the 18th. By the
spreading Of the rails. Every car brrt the
sleeper left the track and rolled down n
steep embankmeat. All hands escaped
injury except Express Messenger White
head, who had one OF his ribs broken.
Mr. EDWARD STANHoPE. British Secre-
tary Of State for the War Department. re-
plying to question by Mr.. John Dillon.
on the iith, said that the cost Of the army
of in sFo ,--,--...-.
year would be EII0,ea. This expense
would be borne by Egypt
GEORGE RoUTLEDGE. founder Of the
well-known London publishing firm %
George Routledge & Sons, died in that
city, on the 18th, at the age OF seventy
six. He retired as an active me mber OF
the firm last year.
W. II. H. (ADIRoSDAcxs) MURRAY SAYS
that Canada is ripe for annexation q the
United States.
THE trestle work on the inside % the
stand-pipe being erected in connection
with the water works At Stevens Point
Wis, fell. on the itLl. killing four men
and severely wounding two others.
IT was stated in Berlin. on the 18th. that
General Van Hahnke, chief of the German
military cabinet, has been appointed Min
lister of War.
THE Jury in the case % James Stone. the
negro jockey. on trial in Brooklyn. on the
18th, for the murder u a C0ney Island
bartender, named Henry Miller, in a
bar-room fight last summer, failed u
agree upon a verdict
EMPEROR WILLIAM visited the new
Reiehstag building in Berlin. on the 18th.
and expressed satisfaction with the prog
ress Of the work