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

Aupuru and ClintDu-
IHx centennial anniversary Of wash
ingtoa's Inauguration is to Be e,uameru.
GRATED oy the erection OF marble arch
20 cost sl0@) over FIsth avenue AZ
" Washington Square. New York CITY.
AN OIL veil recently sunk Just east Of
" arlington Pa, IN territory thought
% have been exhausted. increased ia
ro~ until on the 5th. IT was running sew
enty-ave barrels per hour.
I'VE equalization % Wages IN Mr.. Car
nezfc's mills at Pittsburgh. Pa. l. said 10
ee made necessary by the fact that while
machinery and methods have changed In
late years. the old system Of payment ha,
been retained and IL Is claimed the men
~no work BY the ton have been receiving
enormous wages, some earning as high as
thirsy to ffty dollars per day.
THB foundation stone Of the new hos-
eital for women. in the Easton Road,
London was formally laid, ON the Trh, by
the Princess Of Wales, in the presence OF
. brilliant sssembIage- The Princess
was received with enthusiasm by the
spectators. and an illuminated address,
inclosed In n silver casket was presented
to her at the conclusion Of the ceremony.
THK car drivers % Prague. Austria. en-
eourased By the success OF their brethren
IN Vienna. have gone out on strike. Tha
authorities fear that the riotous scenes OF
the latter city will be repeated in Prague.
aud are taxing precautions against possi-
bic disorder.
5osx RIvA GsLsAy, SpaniarI, died at
Dorueaux- France, on the eth, at the age
OK one hundred and eighteen years.
THH lower house Of the Hungarian Diet
passed the budget on the 1th.
NEWS was received. on the sth. OF a
powder explosion on board the whaling
brig Sea Fox. on the West coast OF Africa.
March -, by which five men-S.nors
Pima and Barrinhas and Captain John
" Holmes, Third Mate Domingo Barbasa
and Steward Jose Fernandex-were
Killed; and John Peters. boat-steerer:
Jose Laurence, cook; Dewart Garro,
Cnaries LsSeaa AMI Severino Gonzales,
we're injured. The Sea Fox BELONGED at
New Haven Mass.
CHArycxY n DKPxw and other proui.
nsns railroad men were before the Senate
committee tn tnvesttgating the workings oe
the Interstate Commerce law. In New
YORK City, on the Ith. Discrimination In
favor Of Canadian railroads was the prin-
ctpl feature complained Of.
TEE steamship City OF Paris, which ar
rived OF Sandy Hook. on the ssh, broke
all records from Queenstown, her COR
rsctsd time being 5 days, g hours and
minutes The best previous time on
record which was made by the Etruria.
was days, hour and SO minutes. The
City OF Paris, best daily record was made
On the ,th- when her log showed 5lI miles.
THx fund which Is being raiset ir Lon
don as testimonial to Captain Murrell
of the steamship Missouri, who rescued
the passengers OF the sinking ship DAN
mark, had. on the sth- reached EDO.
TaE COMMITTEES, consisting OF members
of the United States Senate. appointed to
investigate the commercial relations be-
tween Canada and the United States. ar
rived at San Francisco on the sth.
Two persons were killed and eight in
iured by q wreck on the Valley road in
the suburbs Of Cleveland, o., on the sth.
SECRETARY WINDOW and Assistant
Secretary Ticheuor heard arguments, on
the ssh. in favor Of the continuance OF
the custom oc nou-assessment Of duty on
railway cars coming from Canada to the
United States, which, until recently. had
been in force for the past twenty years.
IMxEysx deposits OF rich copper orc
have been discovered in the cliff forma-
ton Of the State OF Chiapas, Mexico, aud
n company has been formed In London
to work the mine.
A CONFLICT took place at Essen. Ger
many, on the sth, between the striking
miners and the military. Three strikers
were killed and five wounded
GOVERNOR FRANCIS OF Missouri on the
sth, refused to interfere with the sentence
L n
ed Bald Knobbers.
FIRE at Danville, Mont, on the 9th. de-
stroyed tweuty-three buildings, leaving
only the bank and hotel standing IN the
business portion OF the village
MISS HELES TRENHOLM. niece OF ex-
Comptroller Trenholm, Of South Carolina,
eloped, on the 9th, with Wilson w. Brenne-
man, clerk in . real estate Office in WASH
ington- The couple went to Philadelphia
Miss Trenholm Is eighteen years OF age,
and WAS one Of the bellies OF West Wash
tneton-
The persons arrested for participating
in the Gweedore (IreIandl riot. in which
Police Inspector Martin was killed. have
been charged with completely in his rur-
der by special jury
THERE Is a shortage OF over 5000 in the
afCpuuL< OE E<EAlDE1 mDOfrs Into PostAA--s'-
ter at Trenton, y. j.. which Is UNDER
stood to have been the cause Of his sum
mary removal
ABour forty survivors OF the Tippeca-
noe Veterans who voted for General
william Henry Harrison, in 1870, called at
the Executive Mansion. on the 9th- and
paid their respects To the President
Ovrxs to the strong anti-Semitie feel
ing In Vienna, Hungarian merchants re-
fuse to buy grain in the markets OF that
city.
TIE Pennsylvania Lsgislature ad-
iourned sine die on the 9th-
ox the Och Special City Tax Collector
Michael J. Burke, Of Brooklyn. confessed
TO a shortage OF 5000 IN his accounts
with the city His bondsnen are respon-
sfble for the deficit
THx daily average attendance st the
Paris Exposition Is in the neighoorhood
Of 1000.
CoLoxrI FRED d. GRANT, the new Min
lister to Austria, arrived in Vienna on
the sth-
TEE trial OF Howard o. Spencer for
numbering Sergeant Pike in Salt Lake
City, Utah. over thirty years ago, Is IN
progress in the District Court N that
city.
Asa MATHEWS, Of Illinois. has been
appointed First Comptroller Of the Treas
ury.
PRocroa KSorr was beaten ut the
Louisville (Ky.l Derby by Spokane by =
s-rose.n
TKS miners were killed By a falling ear
IN the william colliery, near MIddlepert,
Pa, on the 9th
THx Jury In the Kemmler murder trial.
at Buffalo. " V, after being out eighteen
horrx refurued n verdict on the 10th,