Oxford eagle. (Oxford, Lafayette Co., Miss.) 1876-current, 1889-01-24
SOUTHERN oLEANiNoS.

murder oc his brother, Rev. benjamin.
Rains.
The body af sam GRAY. fireman II the
steamer Paris c. Bruwu. va found. \ few
DAYS since. coating IN the river near Baton
Rnug-. In.
tsham q. Harris will sur-~~-f himself -
United States senator from Tennessee.
Roy Falleuwii-r r-r-ntiv swer- out .
warrant against his wife. NJ Chaffano"ga.
Team, charging her with administering
patsan in cnffe~ to his mother. WIN died IN
consequence The alleged murViercss Was
srr~stcst and Jailed
cagc Rowsey, shot recently By young
Blsckrrhy, az Stanford. Ey.. - dr.d-
Vita hts death the malls portion af ths
Rnwsey family has passed awsY. Tiers
were stS ot the boys. and every one Of
them ~tlied in hnrry--
The n-gra -xoslns frun rswr-nc- Ccun-
". Ala. IL explained BY the s.rt that the
movers believed that the ghost of Calvin
Mnody. lvnched by people af has own rare
tor murder. hmuntz hts old cabin home
and that his curse hangs OVER all cnn-
cerussi in his taking-of. A. a result .
stampede has takea place. hessl-d by
men implicated in the hanging.
\ bold attempt was mnsi. to break Jail
at Kosciuskn, Miss. a tsw nights aSp. By
Ed. Wells, Lijc Gdicc and Gen. Jennings.
three negroes recently committed for the
robbery ot the Harry brothers. rhrr
worked a hole in the foor of the tail. and
with TIN cups were digging tunnel
through the rock and dirt. AMI we're about
to reach free air when Taller Harper.
hearing a commotion. locked them all in
thr IRON cage.
Charles digger wa= cnnvictesl of murder
in the first degree at Louisville. KY. tof
the killing OF Officers Rasenbury and
Jones, few months ago. and his punish.
meut was fixed at death
II is estimated hy meu and officers who
ougnt tn know that the recrnt Hawes nur-
der riot IN birmingham. Ala. will cost the
STATE about S5.ga. The bulls that hare
been sent IN so far. audited and psId foot
up =, GS1..9
William Lindsay was arrested at Port
Gibson. Miss. n few days since, charged
with the murder Of the drummer found
dead near Y0kena last Juns. He made n
desperate rrsistancn, but was overpow-
cred and jailed.
J C. Barnes. a weil-to-do farmer.
walked into the shcrfff's offics at Pine
Blum. Ark. few days since. and surrrn-
dered himself for the murder of Mort M.
son. which occurred in Bolivar township
about seven weeks alsp.
Mrs. Courtney, living near Hals's
Springs, Tenn. went "a church a Few
nights ago, first locking up her two chill
dren IN the house. Upon her return she
found the little ones dead. their clothes
having ignit-d from tho Fireplace and
being communicated one IN the other.
In quarrel near Orchard Knob. a sub
urb OF Chattanooga. Tenn. u few days
since, about n woman. Wilson Crawford
struck John Blair with u pair of brass
SnucSles, inhirting probably fatal iniu-
ries. In return Blair stabbed Crawford
and he died in u few moments from the
wound.
A man who viii give no account Of hfrn-
self was captured running wild neai
jamestown. Ky. recently He was living
on roots. nuts and berries. and could not
tell his name. Hs Is fully sixty years old
and much weakened by exposure. His
case is being investigated.
Newton II elm. charged with the killing
OF soriegarSt Ssarketf. a colorett despera-
do, at Garretsbury. KY. recently, had his
examination trial at Hopkinsyille. and
was released on the ground that the kill
ing was done in self-defense. Different
witnesses testified shat Starkett hao
thrcated TO kill Helm.
Martha Waylnnd. a colarsi woman en-
played a. a cook IN the camps OF a con-
tractor ON the Knoxville Southern rail-
road. WIS burned tn death a few nights
ngo. She had gone out and picked up an
aprOntuH Of chips, which she threw IN
the rre. Her apron caught from the
flames and she was burned To death.
James Lee, Sr., a veteran steamboat
man on the Western waters. died re-
Gently at his sons Captain James Lee,
Jr.l residence in Memphis, Tenn. in the
eighty-irst year Of his age. The deceased
was the founder 0t the Lee Line Of pack.
cts. now running from Memphis He has
been solely connected with river inter.
ests for the past sixty years.
0ld Georgia farmer named Dickey
has fallen into an unexpected fortune.
The wretched soil on which he and his
ancestors toiled without success has been
found tn cover the best marble in Ameri-
en- Consequently he has leased il tn a
company ot Northern capitalists for IN
years at SIa.O00 a year sure guaranty and
spectators be realized.
The farmers around Elberton, Ca.
know the worth ot persimmons, and tor
years have made il a point never to cut
down u persimmOn tree. In places so
many trees have been left standing that
the fields look like orchards: and indeed
they are. persimmou orchards, the trees
Of which bear fine crops Of fruit almost a.
RI.
farmers say that the persimmon tree
draws but little strength or moisture from
the soil, aud that excellent crops are
grown even beneath the ir shade.
A mob Of men from Burnt swamp, near
Red Bank, ". g., on the Clrolina Central
railroad. supposed Ia be what are COM
monty called "Scufs.r hail manifested
some feeling against Mr.. Harp, who lives
two miles from Red Bank, and invaded
ai4s resltienee, a few nights azo, win guns
and pistols. His wife was killed aud sew
eral parties at the house were wounded
in the fray. Mr.. Harp is sixty five years
old and highly respected No reason IL
known for the action Of the mob.
John Wri ght and Frank King. sawyers
in Stewart a Butts shingie mill, AZ Mo-
bile. Ala. were working at shingIe ma
chine, a few days ago, when a block of
cypress fell from a carrier-belt, struck a
circular saw at work, was cut in two parts
and thrown forward Wright ar King,
being in the path Of the flying wood. wers
struck. each by q separate piece and both
IN the face. receiving fatal injuries.
Kentucky contains 5000 square miles.
The crew employed on the Government
works AZ Greenyille, Miss, recently Inst
Que OF their best hands, n young white
man named Frank Bunnck, about twenty
dive years OF age. who, while carelessly.
waIk-as on one OF the quarterboafs. f.ls