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

hte neral b. p. Cheathani, who proceed.
ed her as postmaster in Nashville. Tenn,
died at her residence few dsvs ago.
Nichols having beaten McEnery in the
preliminary csmpsi. in Louisiana. the
adherents OF the latter are demanding
that Nichols retire and allow some third
man TO be nominated for Governor.
Richard Dent. an old man sixty years
OF age. who lived few miles from Chat
tanooga, Tenn, has been miss ing for sew
eral days, was found dead half mile
from his home. He got lost In the dark
ness and was frozen 70 death.
j. II. Whiting, Of Boston. Mass, said &c
be stan correspondent ot newspaper
in that city, was run over by train at
Sorrento, Fla, few davs since, and in
stantly killed, both legs being cut of and
his body otherwise horribly mangied.
Leroy Tucker died few days ago in
the McMinn County Aims House at
Athens, Tenn, at the advanced age of
one hundred and thres years. He was
born in North Carolina and lived sixty
ore years in McMinn County. He was
very well to do financially at one time.
and only went in the poor house three
years ago. About two years ago he mar
risd an inmate Of the poor.house, who
survives him ut the age OF eighty-oue
c. Dubose, the oldest merchant I'm No
bile. Ala, died a few davs ago, aged
seventy-eigs at. His drug house Is the old.
est in the United States doing business
under the .riginal name. The business
was established in 1894.
Seven hundred thousand boxes Of
Florida oranges are expected TO be this
seasons crop.
There Is a woman in watkins sville, Ca,
who, within the last eleven months, has
given birth to five children. Her husband
Is about discouraged.
The bodies of boy and girl about
twelve and thirteen years of age, sup
posed to be brother and sister were foand
floating in the river near Huntington.
Miss, few days ago. II is thought they
were murdered.
The most profitable piece OF fruit land
Tor its size In the United States is said TO
be the Speer & CHM grove, near Sanford,
Fla. II comprises four and one-baIf acres,
and this years yield of lines sold for
$4,000.
Evans Sherry, who was held to answer
without bail for the murder OF Mrs. Steve
Moore. al Bandana, KY, last October, has
been released on a writ OF habsas corpus
by Judge Ransle. OF the Circuit Court at
Paducah. His bail was fixed at 5000.
Eugene Couch, a well-known young
man Of Atlanta, Ga, recently swallowed
one and half ounces OF laudanum. 1t de
veloped that Couch was bridegroom Of
but day aud half
The Circuit Court at Mt Vernon, XIV,
has adjourned. With all the murders com.
mitted in the county within the past two
months, not case has come to trial and
m N dtsnOsftiOt, has haa 10 krip
important matters to n focus.
The police authorities Of Atlanta, Ca,
have information that Ben Burton, the
| Young man who had married five women
eioped with two more, and escaped from
! the courtroom where he was ON trial for
bigamy, picking up fresh chsrmer on
the way to bear him company, Is in
Birmingham, Ala.
The famous case of Holcombe Va. Strick-
land was on trial last week in the SUI
perior Court at Cartersville, Ga This
case originated in the Justice court for
| Altoona district in 1885, over the possess
sion of a heifer not worth ten dollars II
now carries with IL a long transcript and
pleadings. and costs amounting to 500,
and no end in sight.
Simon Higion and Frank Martin got
| into quarrel over young lady at the
home OF Mrs. Wardburger, in South Pitts
burg, Tenn. a few nights ago. when the
former was shot in the stomach. Higdon
only lived few hours. Martin made hi 3
escape.
The latest results at the Government
diffusion experiment station at ex-Gov-
ernor Warmouth's Magnolia plantation in
Louisiana. show that the diffusion proc
ess is great success, producing thirty
pounds more sugar per ton OF cane than
is produced by the most advanced milling
process.
The telegraph line between TitusvilIe
and Jupiter Inlet. on the east coast OF
Florida, is now open for business II il
about one hundred and fifty miles in
length, is owned and controlled by the
United States Government. and is in
charge OF Lieutenant b. NJ. Purcell.
Walter Mendenhall. who was recently
tried for Arson at Memphis, Tenn, was
acquitted. Msndenhall was charged with
setting fire to the cotton compresses
which were destroyed on the night of
November II last, entailing a loss Of
/ $4,000.
Frank Irion, the clerk and register Of
tho City Court at Birmingham. Ala. is
short in his accounts sl0,0 900 or more. He
left TIE city. ostensiby for Atlanta, three
weeks ago, since which time he has not
been seen or heard OF. Real estate spec
ulation Is supposed to have led MN into
this trouble. He was a very prominent
citizen.
Mr.. Henry Hicks, Of the Providence
Steam and Gas-Pipe Company, at Green
willie, :. C., while at work in the Hugue-
not Cotton Mills a few days ago, was
standing near a shaft with his back 20 the
coupling. Leaning too far back, his
clothes were caught in the coupling,
winding him around the shaft five or six
times. His ankle was badly sprained and
back and legs painfully bruised. His
clothing was completely torn from his
body. His injuries, though not danger
Gus. were very painful.
The report OF the Comm missioners Of
Agriculture OF Georgia for 1857 shows a
decrease from 1886 in the amount of farm
supplies purchased by the farmers as
well as in the indebtedness Of the farm
ing classes The report shows that
farmers who have bought bacon and corn
on time havs paid thirty per cent. ad-
vance on cash prices FOR bacon for four
months, equivalent TO ninety per cent.
per annum. or seven and one-half per
cant. per mouth. and ihirty-six per cent.
Tor eorn, equal TO los per cent per annum.
or Eiae per cent. per month. The farm
ers are giving more attention to diversi-
fed crops The credit system keeps them
poor.
The frost reached Baton Rouge, La.
Warden Pearcy Of the Tennessee State
penitentiary at Nashville, recently dis
covered q desperate plot among the con-
victs TO murder the guards and escape.
Bob Mckinley, who has headed two other
such schemas. was the rlnrleadar Nc