Oxford eagle. (Oxford, Lafayette Co., Miss.) 1876-current, 1888-03-08

Tn Mills rsriR bin cont fuuss 20 fur
nish the chief topic eftconv~rsationa n among
statesman Of all parties at the National
capital As rule. thsy are 9th 70 conr-
NIT themselves. desiring more time in
which TO study its provisions IN com.
partson with existing duties
THK Senate COMMITTEES on military AZ.
fairs On the I'll agreed to report favora-
bly, the bills sppropriating si00. .o00 TO er-
tend the quarters at Forts Niobrnra and
Robinson, in Nebraska. and giving teie-
graph operators who served three nouths
IN the military service during the late
war an honorable discharge v ith a slrnu-
lated rank. The House COMMITTEES on mil
itsry affairs has also agreed upon favors-
be reports on similar bills
A coNcuRREyT resolution was adopted
in the Legislature OF New York. on the
81, appotn ting q COMMITTEES to attend ths
obsequy Of removal Of the remains OF the
late sx-Presidsnt Antonio Dssz, Of Ven
ezuela, from New York TO the Pantheon
~ Caracas.
KsIeHr or LABoR cooperative stores
have proved . failure In the Schuy Kill
Valley,
TWO men were fatally and two other.
severely injured by fall Of rock IN the
Quincy mine &C Hancock. Mich-, on the
Ist.
CHARLES DEWITT CLINTON WILKINSON
widely know n comedian and mana Ter,
died in Worcester, Mass. on the ed, from
heart disease. He was hfty-sishs years
old
GARRETT Roach. q son of tbs late John
Roach. the sh p-buildsr. died Of pneu-
monia at his resi- dencs in New York on the
I'd.
Or the ID. Judge Patterson. OF New
York. granted DR.. MEG ynu a permanent
injunction restraining Henry George and
his followers from Incorporating an Anti
Poverty Society.
The Blount bin, increasing the salary
OF the general superintendent u the
railway mail service $50; creating the
Office Of assistant general supsrirtsndeus
at a salary Of S1900: increasing the
salaries OF chief clerks sIo0a year. and
reducing their travelling expenses from
four to three dollars a dsy, will be favor
ably reported by the House COMMITTEES on
post offices and post-roads.
AcrISa LAND COMMISSIONER SrocK-
sLAGER, during tbs month Of February,
held for cancellation ssventy-fivs land
entries and cancelled outright As entries
upon the ground OF fraud, restoring to the
public domain sixteen thousand acres OF
land During the same period he recon-
mended the Grimm al prosecution Of sixty
one timber trespasssrs, and forty civil
suits to recover $1,000 as damages for
timber depredations.
MIcHIGAS's new Liquor law ~ a., on the
I'd, held by the State supreme Court 70 be
constitutional in the main. though con-
tanning some minor provisions Of an IN
co1 stitutional character.
: DELEGATION OF thirty Chippewa In
dian chiefs from Wisconsin and Michi gan
called at the White House or the 81, and
had an audience with the President. in
which they urged tho payment Of Sis. 600
due to them under old treaties. The Presi-
dent promised to aid them In every way ia
his power to see that they received their
just dues. The matter Will bs called to the
attention Of Congress.
RI. HoS. Jos. CHAMBERLAIN wss dIned
by the Canadian Club OF New York on
the 2d.
The Iowa State Democratic convention
will at Dubuque. Nav 2
EFFORTS made At Ch icago on the 81 20
end the Western freight rate war failed
Ir i rumored that two trains on the
Panhandle came into collisionnear Bur
gettstown, Pa. on the 81. killing twenty
nine persons, including the crews Of both
engines, and wounding seven The acci-
dent was caused BY the failure OF a teIe-
graph operator to deliver train order.
A BILL to abolish slavery is TO bs intro
duced in the Brazilian Legislature next
MAY.
KING JoHS Of AbyssInia is holding .
conferences with tribal chiefs on he Italian
var situation