Oxford eagle. (Oxford, Lafayette Co., Miss.) 1876-current, 1889-05-16

Sorrcxs we're posted. On N. 10Th. %
resiuctton Of ten per csuG In the w.--s OF
all employees of the Dickson Maunus.~.-
urinc Company Of Scranton. Pa. to tax.
Effect May Il. The reduction assr..
about nine hundred men.
UNITED srsrxs SxxsroR BRDwv- %
SeorsiA who has been lying Al the point
N death from malignant dysentery for
several days. has rallied somewhat. and
his physicians think he will recover.
MEMORIAL lay was observed at Charles
ton. :. C.. with the usual c~rsmoui~. a.
Magnolia Cemetery. where the Confe,:sr-
ate dead are buried The ATTENDANCE. v,s
very large. The ceremonies fnclusi-d re-
ligious exercises and the decoration os
the graves By the young ladies' Of the
Confederate Home.
ITALY declines 20 surrender vitsfie and
Bovino, the murder-rs OF Paynast.r Me-
Ciurr. near wflkesbarre. Pa. but will trv
them IN that country IL evidence IL For
warded
IT Is reported that Sir Charles R1ss.ir,s
Zee Tor acting as counsel for the Paru.ll-
ites before the special commission was
ff0.0oe
-os the 10th three miners we're killed
aud several wounded in conflict with
soldiers ut Bracket Germany. The strik-
ers nad gathered in n large body aud re-
FUSED 70 disp-rss vhsn ordered The soI-
dIers thereupou fired on them.
DfsFsTca from Zenztbar states that
an officer and two seamen belonging 70
tne Iernan cruiser SchwaIbe were killed
at BagamoEo, on the East coast Of Afri-
ca
JsPsyEsE papers express tn. fear that
- fs.f . Ia.
left Tien-Tsin for Shee- Foo early in the
spring. aud has not been heard OF since.
has been lost
srpDEy wind and rain storm. reser,-
bling cyclone. swept over the Potomac
valley near Point Of Rocks. seventy
miles above Washington. on the 10Th
Twenty-Five men working on railroad
trestle spanning the river were blown oH
INTO the water, sixty feet below
A GENERAL strike OF the Nottingham
(EngIandl lsee-workers IL imminent.
JoHv P SALISBURY. Secretary OF State
Of Delaware. son Of Willard Saulsbury,
Chancellor Of State aad ex-UnIted States
Senator, and the nephew OF ex-senator
Eli Salisbury. died AZ his homo in Dover.
Dell on the 10Th, OF heart disease, aged
thirty years.
The funeral Of Count Tolstot. late r US
sian Minister o. the Interior, took place
on the 10Th The Gar, who was present.
has donated the sum OF s1D.c)0 roahles TO
COUNTESS Tolstol, and In addition a yearly
pension OF 0o0 roubles.
The retirement o. Miss Kate R. Drexsl,
OF Philadslphis, 10 a convent Is said TO bs
only temporary. She intends TO devote
her lie to the education Of Indian and
colored children.
GENERAL CLINTON B. Frsxx denies th.
statement that he had said that he wouli
not be q third-party man next fall. He
says he Is still carrying the Prohibition
flag on the highest summit he can reach.
THx first prosecutions in Cincinnati IN :
der the recently-passed law against
bucket-shops began on the 10Th
The strike Of the ear-drivers at Prague,
Austria, Is ended the tramway company
having. on the 10th. yielded to the de-
mands OF their employees
The site Of Fort Sisson, formerly Fort
Wadswor-h. Minn-. has been transferred
To the Interior Department. and will be
disposed OF under the provisions Of the
act Of ISL The tract comprises four
townships adjoining the Sisson Indian
reservation IL will not be offered until
surveyed and appraised BY the commis-
sion
IT Is believed that Captain Wissmann's
victory over the natives at Bogomayo
marks the collapse ot the emeute on the
East coast OF Africa
DISPATCH from BochuuI, Westphalia,
says that the firing by the military, on the
night Of the 9th, was the result os blum
der on the part OF the officer commanding
the troops, who mistook a number Of
passengers coming out OF n railway sta
tiou for rioters The strikers made no
dem m1nStration-