Oxford eagle. (Oxford, Lafayette Co., Miss.) 1876-current, 1888-01-26

VOL. MI.
NEWS IN BRIEF.
Compiled from Various Sources.
TIE American Pol and China Swine Rec
I'd Association held its annual meeting
- Cedar Rapids, Ia, on the 18th.
TEE italian Governments has contract
- with Philadelphia firm for a number
- dynamite guns TO use in its Ably yssinian
war.
TuE Secretary of State has received the
rusignation of Mr., Frederick Ellison, of
lndiana, as United States Consul at st.
Uslena
A BILL has been introduced in the Ken
0cky Legislature practically prohibiting
Marriage with any man whose morals are
Dt of the purest
81 SECRETARY Was has relieved Assis-
1Ant Secretary Nnldrow of the care of
land decisions, ard has taken this class
ef work under his own supervision.
IT il rumored that Austria IL to stand
VI FerdinaL4 as Prince Of Bulgaria. and
HAT in such event Russia will make
fight, II secesssry. TO keep him OF the
throne
Mr. WILLIAM O'BRrEs, editor OF United
Ireland. was released from Tullamore
. H. A ts.,- - N&h
similar offenders we're sent TO jail during
the day.
THE Government. Of Portugal has noti-
6ed the Secretary OF State that il has re-
aounced the protectorate over Dahomey,
which il assumed by treaty concluded
IN 1885.
The So. james G1zetts announces the
resignation of Lord Charles Beresford, a
5unior lord Of the British Admiralty, and
eavs that other changes in the Admiralty
Office are probable.
u Mr. W. J. LANE, member of Parliam ment
FOR the Eastes-n division Of Cork County,
! ireland. has been sentenced to a months
Imprisonment without labor for melting
tenants to resist bailiffs.
q THE charges made by Irish leaders
against Mr.. Balfour, that he wanted half
q . dozen of the most prominent and
physically weakest to die in prison, is to
be brought to the attention of Parliament.
EDWARD E. LEWIS and Wm. Fl. Hunt,
of Pittsfeld. Mass, have succeeded in
producing copper by treating iron with
certain acids. Lewis was badly burned
by an explosion in their laboratory on the
nth.
SIMULTANEOUSLY with the order Of the
Serv an Government for ths-Fnanufact-
sure and delivery of 1Go, 100 rifles comes
the verified report that $4,000 similar
weapons have been contracted for by the
Hungarians.
Al POLISH land owners are in despair over
s the rapid depreciation in the value OF
] their estates. They complain that the
government avoids buying army supplies
In Poland, preferring to buy elsewhere at
**enhanced prices.
TIE Mexican Government has for
awarded to Washington papers requesting
the extradition of Mayer, alias Bou-ton,
the Patti concert ticket swindler. There
! Is great anxiety to have Bourton brought
to answer for his stupendous fraud.
tNeEhEoENlAllbE W DONNEL4I. OF M1Cnt-
gan, has prepared for introduction in the
House bill providing that, after July /,
{ the postage on city letters, where the
zsystem Of free delivery is establis he'd.
zshall be fixed at one cent per ounce or
&fraction thereof.
Fort KEoeH, Mont, has the honor Of
baving the widest range of temperature
*of any place on earth. During q recent
storm the thermometer marked 65 deg.
*below. while last summer it ranged from
10 TO l5O degrees above, total range for
y year of 1a5 degrees.
4 hR. HOWARD DOUGLASS, supreme
&chancellor of the world, Knights of
fythias, states that the necessary funds
pave been secured for the entertainment
4of the members Of the grand lodge OF the
UNITED States. and that their next meet
eans viii be held in Cincinnati.
n The President, on behalf OF himself and
Mrs. Cleveland, has accepted ex-Govern-
Tor Cornelps invitation to attend the
*twelfth annual commencement OF Cornell
university at Ithica, n. Y, next June.
conditioned upon the possible emergen-
cles OF official duties "a. .Lat time.
JACOB SHARP swore on the 18th that he
expects to die soon, and that he wants to
settle up all his earthly affairs without
delay, in order that he may die in peace.
Ihe suit in which he made this mechanically
affidavit is one brought against him to re-
cover an unpaid bill for wire fence.
CONVOY of prisoners. while being
taken from South Russia to the Caucasus.
mutinied and attacked the engine driver.
The train was stopped and a desperate
hight ensued, in which eight soldiers, two
gendarmes and thirty-one prisoners were
Killed. Twenty-one prisoners escaped.
The full Corean legation called at the
Estate Department at Washington on the
&lIth, and then proceeded to the White
house, accompanied by Secretary Bayard
and Chief Clerk Brown They were in.
produced individually to the President.
"ho welcomed them to the United States.
iHk general Passenger agents OF the
runk lines decided, at a meeting in New
ofK' on the 18TH that on and after
,ahuary % all the free passenger bag
gage-lo0 pounds to each passenger-wilI
cnecked through to Pacific coast
points. All excess baggage will have TO
Pc rechecked at the Missouri river.
AMONG the petitions presented in the
enate, on the 1eth, was one asking for a
hanse in the postal laws so that sspaper-
PACK novels, blood -and-thu stories,,
*shah not be sent through the mails as
second-ciass matter, paying one cent per
pound, while school, law, scientific and
Fehgious books have to pay eight cents
per pound.