Oxford eagle. (Oxford, Lafayette Co., Miss.) 1876-current, 1889-06-13
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plant at Jackson. Tcnn-. was burned .
Few days ago. Loss, sl4eo; insaranes.
ssoea. IL will be rebuilt.
John Csllsghan. for twenty-five years
. prominent distiller or Loaisvills. KY.
died recently.
Uaited States Judges Parssee and Bill
Tags at New Orleans have decided
drainage warrant case Involving sI.sDo.-
0Q0 In favor Of the city.
A bitter religious war IL raging among
the eoiored Battists aud Methcdists Of
Charleston. \. G.. over the question q. To
the correct mode of baptism. immersion
or spriukling.
Miss Maud HALL q weii-krown society
lady % New Orleans. and the leading lady
OF the Shakespeare Dramatic Club Of that
city. is In Nsw York. and vtil probably
adopt the professional stage next season
Alien Copeland. Who has been on trial
at Princeton, NY. on n charge Of attempt
ing TO crtminaIly assault lissie stx-year-
old gtrl at Frcdonia, vas foaad guilty and
sentenced to . term Of ave years in the
pcnitentisry.
Mrs. Elizabeth W. Gwinn. one of ths
oldest and most prominent ladies os Hop
kinsville. Ky, died few days ago alters
lingering illness, in the eighty-fourth
year OF her age. she had been a resident
of that city over SIXTY years.
Zade Thomas, a section foremsn on tbs
Chesapeake & Ohio railroad. All rrsid-
ing at Hopkinsvill>, Ky. was ruH over by
freight train and instantly killed ss hs
vas returning home from Dawson IN an
intoxicated condition Few nights ago
DR.. Oswald Owen, ot Anderson County,
2. c. was shot and instantly killed re-
Gently By hts young step-son- Owen.
while in AZ ot drunkenness. uatertook
TO whip his wife, aud upon being remon-
strated with by his stsp-sOu, tnrnsd upon
hini with an uplifted knife. The lad re-
treated few steps, and then drew = Pts
tol and shot his drunken step-father
through the heart
W. A. Compton. . druggist OF Holly
Springs, Mtss-, was drowned resently
vhils bathing In . mill-pond near that
town
Jams near Mount Lookout La. o few
days ago. Williams acted in ssN-ds-
fense.
The Tennessee Midland is constructing
. bridge over the Tennessee river, Loo
feet long. The structure is to be erected
in seven spans. each 30 feet long.
Tom Smith, n coloTed rouster Of 81. Louis
on the steamer City OF Baton Rouge. was
accidentally caught by the elevator At
New Orleans, few days ago, and crush
ed to death
A slight but very perceptibls shock ot
earthquake was felt in Nashville. Tenn,
few evenings ago. No damage was done,
but quite q scare was created
George {. Eaten. OF Cincinnati, .
nephew OF President Harrison, died at
Ashevtlle. n. c. recently, OF consumption,
aged thirty-hvs. The remains were
taken 10 Cincinnati for interment
Two negro women were sold at pubs
lie auction a. Paducah, KY. a few days
since. The women are worthless Migrants.
and. being duly convicted by the Jury In
the court, they were sentenced to be sold
into servitude to the highest bidde for
the period Of twelve months each
Lem Morris, accused of being an ac-
complice in the shooting OF Cush Hender-
sou, at the Henderson distiIiery, Hop
kinsvills, KY. was arrested near Pilot
Rock. fs~ days ago, taken TO Hopkins
vile and placed In Jail in default Of bail
W. r. Johnson, q book-keeper with
wife and several children. disappeared
from his home in Memphis. Tenn. about
. month ago. A few days ago a negro
boy discovered adecomposed human body
in field, two miles from the city. TWAS
buried in the potters' feld- |; was ex-
humed- however. and examined. and
proved to be the body os the missing book
keeper. IL Is thought he committed sui
eide.
The friends OF Senator Joseph E. Brown.
OF Georgia, who know any thing about his
real condition, have little hope that he
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nearest to him are impressed with the
conviction that the Senator Is undoubtedly
Ia . most critical condition. and that the
sick man himself believes that his days
are numbered
J. b. Benjamin, editor OF the Delani
tFlal News. shot and instantly killed
Captain J. W. Douglass at New Smyrna.
Fla. q few nights ago. Douglass was a
prominent citizen OF Daytoua, and WE'LL
known Democratic politician. The shoot
ing was the result OF an old feud renewed
by recent attacks by Benjamin in the COL
umns of his newspaper
As Erastus Moseby, who has for years
been night watchman at the coal-yards,
near the depot. at Hopkinsville, Ky, at
tempted tn cross the railroad at the inter-
section Of Twelfth street n few mornings
ago, the north bound passenger train
suddenly came upon him, and ere he could
get out Of the way it threw him from tbs
track, hurting him forty feet down a steep
embankmenL killing him almost Instant
ly. He was sixty Ave years OF age, and
left q family.
Franklin MeSucan, an aged and re-
spected citizen OF Crittendsn County.
KY. committed suicide at the residences
OF c. w. Arrax. his s0n-in-law, By blow
ing his brains out with a shotgun. a fes
days ago. The report OF the weapon
reused the household from slumber, and
when the family reached McNuean'. room
he va lying in pol st sLae.t a---l- us
vas seventy-six years old. and vas sup
posed to be temporarily insane when hs
committed the deed
Henry Mitchell. Of Blount County, Ala.
vas lodged in Jail at Birmingham, a fes
days ago, on a charge Of coanterfeiting.
For several years Mitchell has lived aIons
in little cabin IN the mountains remote
from any settlement, snd IL was for \
long time q mystery how be earned a
livelihood A large amount OF COUNTER
felt money was recently circulated in
Biount County, and Deputy United States
Marshal Byars, who was sent to fnvesti-
gate, spotted Mitchell The Marshal
rztded Mitchell's cabin and captured the
mountaineer In possession Of a eompIe:e
outft for making counterfeit dollars.
halves and quarters. Mitchell made .
desperate resistance
Ten boys, whose ages range from thir-
teen TO ninstssn years, we're held for tho