Oxford eagle., 1888-11-22
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.


IHE Treasury officials have diserssrei
wholesale robbery % silver dollars.
perpetreted while IN transit from the
Hllrs az New Orleans to the Government
Nnaits in Washington.
LORD SAcKvIILx has deslgra,. {as
invitation Ot Lord Stanley To visit him
IN Canada and will sail direct f,r
Paris from New York.
The first branch OF the CITY Council a,
Baltimore. Nd, Is in a deai- lock AMI -an
not organize. Ths recent election rsl
suited in seating ten Rerrblieats, eleven
Democrats and one ndependent-who Il
voting with the Republicans, making a
! tie.
WALTER GrBBs. the keerc- o. general
store IN Moutre-i. San-. Is missing. His
debts amount to sel,o09. II he does not
feturn soon, his estate will be sold out to
satisfy his creditors.
The London police secured -lsv. on
the 18th, to the identity ct the White
chapel msrdsrsr, which they hope will
lead 70 his arrest.
The Democratic city convention OF
Boston. on the 18th, unanimously renoni.
mated Hugh OBrien for mayor.
Ma JoHS BRIsHr the English Political
| economist had a serious relapse. on the
18Th, and his seas were summoned 20 his
bedside
liz quarrel on rnovir. ;s..sn. at wes.
superior wis. er the 18Th, pistols were
Drawn aud promiscuOus fusHade fol-
10" 81, IN which four non-combataats
were wounded. but none fatally.
The house Of Mrs. Frances Euschtt ~
fIymouth, Pa, was burned oa the itth.
Her two children persisted in the a,sas
Urrr 10 a ru 7rsrr 81 L..
mother became y maniac.
JAMES II. DoUGHERrY. n, axtv,.1-
looking countrym IN from the vicinity Of
Salem, ". Y, was arrested IN New yort
City, on the 18th, for annoying Mi~s Mar
Anderson by pers-trr attentions. Ua
was under tie delusion that tho fair
ectrcss was equally enamoured Of him.
lie was held for trial for insanity.
ALI. departments OF the steel mill ~
the Bethlehem (Pa) Iron COMPANY.
Wn'5n had been idle forsaveral weeks.
/ resumed work on the ilth.
UNITED STATES MINISTER Phelps was
enthusiastically cheered ut the sariiri i
given IN his honor ~ the Glasgow (Scot-
laudf corporation, on the 1ih. In re-
sronse 10 the toast to ''The Guest OF the
Evening" he said that so long as Scotland
sent to America the kind OF men sh. had
hitherto sent the doors OF the country
would swing on tboir hinges to receive
them from Maine to California
The houses OF the Peoples Ice Com
pauy OF Dsdham. Mass. fell TO the
ground, on the li.h. turying nearly a
dozen men In the ruins, all Of whom sus-
tsinsd Serious, and some perhaps Fatal
injuries.
The frst meeting OF the wornan's Con-
gress. in its sixth annual Convention OF
the Association fer the Advancement Of
Women. Convened in Detroit. Mich, on
the Hth- The president, Mrs. Julia
Ward Howe, delivered an address, in
which she called attention to the progress
made IN recent years in woman's sphere
and the enlargement OF her work.
A BAD accident occurred, on the 18th,
on the Baltimore & Ohio road ten miles
west of Grafton, W. Va, n freight train
being derailed and passenger train run
ming into the wreck on account OF no fay
being displayed.
The strike OF the Louisville New AL
bany & Chicago brakeman at Lafayette.
Ind, assumed serious aspect on the
lith- The strikers uncoupled cars,
creased the track and otherwise thwart-
ed the trainmaster in his efforts to get
out freight trains. Three strikers were
arrested, and several engineers, who re-
fused to take out trains without brake
men, were Immediately discharged.
THE semi-aunual meeting OF the Board
OF Bishops o; the Methodist Epis copaI
Church, which had been in session in
Boston for nearly a week, adjourned, on
the 18th, to meet next May III Delaware.
Ohio.
DoUGHERrY, the crazy admirer OF Mss
Mary Anderson, the actress. was COM
mitted to the care Of the New York Com
missIoners OF Charities and Correction,
! on the 18th, and will be confined until Il
medical commission decides upon his
case.
TEE Pasteur Institute in Paris was
formally opened, on ths fttE. in the pres
enee Of President Carnot several govern
ment ministers. the foreign ambassadors
and the Russian Grand Dukes, who are
visiting the city. u. Pasteur received an
ovation from the people present
king CHRISTIAN celebrate tbs twenty
fifth anniversary OF his accession to the
throne OF Denmark, at Copenhagen, on
the 18th
IT is emphaticaily denied in Russian
Government circles that the recent
I
Western Russia have a wariiks intent
The only object sought is 10 preserve a
military balances as compared with the
forces maintained by neis lborins pow
ers.
The Comptroller Of the Currency, on
the 18th, auth 1rized the American Ma
tionaI Bank OF Sioux City, In, to begin
business with capital OF Slj0, 90
Tuw Rritish C,ovaruuanf On the 18th
asked for a vote OF Ej.O00, 900 for the pur-
pose OF extending the Ashbourae act
ID. W. VAUGHS, blacksmith Of Dem
yer, Col, who acted as peace maker in
saloon fight, on the morning OF the l4th-
was followed by one OF the eombatants
and shot dead
the Nassau IN. " Hotel, was burned to
death, on the night OF tbs Iith by the ex-
plcsion OF kerosene lamp.
The Londoa TTAss' Zanzibar corre-
spondent, on the 18th, says the southern
mail brings news that the ports ars filed
with insurgents, and that tbs auti-Ger-
man feeling is unabatsL Tue burning
OF Minengaui Tunghi is confirmed The
Governor OF Mozambique is prevented
from returning 10 his capital by hostile
chief on the Zambesi
AFTER sixty years Os married life, Peter
shibIey, a welI-kuOwn farmer living
near LOrIstown. o, on ihe 18th. dsltber-
ateIy shot AMI killed his aged wife
THE Irish Bishops have received an
other papal rescript which orders them
to aetivslT execute the instructions con-
tanned in the former resc-ipt
DUKE MACMILLAN Of Bavaria died In
"a Nawar