Oxford eagle. (Oxford, Lafayette Co., Miss.) 1876-current, 1888-08-02
PERSONAL AND GENERAL

Four sons OF Mr.. Vandevill. OF Boston,
aged SIX, eight ten aud twelve years, re-
spectively, We're drowned at Montreal,
Can, on the 9th while playing on some
logs in the LAssomption river Their
bodies were recovered and buried on the
26th.
Tue Senate passed the Army Appro-
priation bill on the 90 th. 1t includes
Senator Hawley's amendment appro-
priating S15o,0 ,010 for a gun factory at
Watervliet N. Y, and an appropriation
of S50o0,0O) for the purchase OF steel
guns.
Foa some months past large number
OF young French Canadians have met
twice week in u large hall in Montreal,
Can, to drill, play cards and drink.
They profess to be forming a corps to
fight for Boulanger.
THE strike at Brunn, Austria, was ended
on the Goth, an advance having been con-
ceded by the masters.
TIE delegates of the German Wagner
societies agreed, on the 26th. to have
their headquarters in Berlin instead of
in Munich.
The New York Tribune. of the 10Th, says:
"Jay Gould has been impro wing steadily,
and intends to go to Saratoga tomorrow
with his family"
NJ. ANTOINE, Deputy for Mertz. in the
German Reichstag, is to be expelled per-
manently from Germany.
CoSLEY, the Ithaca IN. W giant, on
the 26th accepted Jem Smiths challenge
10 fight in England, France or Spain for
5000 q side, London prize ring rules.
THE Secretary of the Treasury accepted
$4,000 Az per cent. coupon bonds at 12T-
2-5 on the 26th.
GENERAL JOSEPH z. JACKSON, Grand
Marshal of the coming Blaine parade, is
sue1 n circular, on the 10Th, requesting
all organizations desiring to take part to
notify him at his headquarters, No. IS
West Twenty street, New York City.
GENERAL LABAsrE, General OF division
on the French retir ed list died on the
a6th.
RorHBLUM & Co.'s beef-packing house,
near Presidio. Cal, was burned on the
26th, the large building and plant being
entirely destroyed, and causing q loss Of
$40, 600.
ONE MILLION or one hundred thousand
dozen is the estimated number of cans OF
peaches that will be packed at Baltimore,
Nd, this year.
HoS. A. G. PORTER, OF Indiana, has
consented TO accept the Republican NOM
ination for Governor, provided he is the
unanimous choice OF tbs State conven-
ton
Ar a conference OF the glass bottle
blowerS and manufacturers in Pittsburgh,
Pa, on the Goth, the wage scale for the
ensuing year was amicably arranged,
and the 900 workers in the West will re-
sumo operations when the fires are start
ed in the furnaces September l. The
scale slightly advances wages on novel;
ties, but otherwise it is the same as last
year.
The Secretary OF the Treasury accepted
500 coupon and 500 registered AZ per
cents at 107'1 on the 27th.
ROBERT BARNETT and w. L. Penny, Jr.,
charged with swindling VIM. Mertz, OF
Pittsburgh, Pa, out of so 900 in a bunko
game, were acquitted on the 2Tth.
The Democrats OF the Seventh Virginia
district renominated Charles T. O'Ferrall
for Congress on the 26th- Tbs sonven-
ton Endorsed the administration Of Pres-
ident Cleveland and also the action Of
Congress on the Mills bill.
GOVERNOR HILL of New York, on the
9th, committed the sentence OF Chira
Cignarale to Imprisonment for life.
The suit in New York OF the Webster
Loom Company VS.. <. $. Higgins & Co.,
for Infringement or a patent process OF
carpet weaving, which had been pending
fourteen years, was decided. on the s7th,
in favor Of the plaintiff. but only six
cents damages were awarded instead OF
S30, ,0o9, ,ooo.