Oxford eagle. (Oxford, Lafayette Co., Miss.) 1876-current, 1889-04-04

| hhfEhpR WILLIAM mas donated $50 q
the new City Hospital at Baltimore. MI,
which will be used to furnish a room u
be named in his honor.
KAISER WILLIAM has ordered that the
inaugural OF the late Emperor Frederick
mausoleum at POtsdam be celebrated on
the 18th OF next October, Frederick's
birthday.
II was reported. on the ae,h, tina. the
position Of Consul-Geuera, at Liverpool
had been given to Thomas sherman. o.
Maine. 1t is one OF the best Offices in the
consular service.
| By the recent election in Melbourne,
I Australia. sixty-ive government sup
! porters and thirty-two members % the
Opposition were returned To the Victoria
Legislative Assembly.
THE father OF Harrie, Beecher Stowe.
Rev. Lyman Beecher, passed the closin !,
/ years OF his life with cloud resting over
his mind. His symptoms we're very sim
iiar to those which now affect Mrs Stowe.
THE council OF san Reno, Italy, will
shortly erect two marble pillars in menu
ory OF the late Emperor Frederick ir
front OF the villa Zirio, at san Reno,
where the lamented ruler lay i'll 50 long
NrKrrA has scored great succc,s in
Moscow. Russia, as Zerlina in "D0a Go
vianui-" Scenes ot indescribable ea-
thusiasm attended the performance. aud
the prima donna was the sensation % the
hour.
CuAs- II. SMITH, Republican candidate
| Tor Congress in the Parkersburg wv. Val
district, has served notice OF a contest on
J. NJ. Jackson, who holds the Governors
certificate. Smith makes out q strong
case.
TEE Cologne Gazette, commenting on
the Samoan question says that owing t.
the attitude Of America 1t is natural that
Germany should seek full agreement
with England before the samoan confer
l ence meets.
QUEEN VICTORIA expressed great sor-
row that owing - the bad roads she wss
| nnable, during her stay at San Sebastian.
70 visit the graves ot the British soldiers
who fell in Wellinstoa's successful siege
,f the fortress in lsI3
IL the British House of Commons. on
the 26th, n resolution was adopted that the
i government should ascertain whether the
European Powers were willing 10 meet in
| conference to discuss measures FOR the
| suppression o. the slave trade.
THE Gar aud Czsriaa. with many mem-
bers OF the Imperial family and n large
| number OF government officials and dip
lomats, attended the funeral OF Count
Paul Schouyalof, the late Russian Am
bassador to Germany, on the 18th
The President has appointed Judge
Wilson, Of Arkansas; J. II. otis, OF Illi-
nois, and Ex-Governor Robinson, OF
Massachusetts, commissioners to as
sess the value OF the Oklahoma lands
which will revert to the United States.
JOHN FIELD, a member OF the notion
firm OF Young. Smith, Field & Co.. has
been asked by Postmns' -GeaeraI Wana-
maker to accept the POSI- y- pos mas
ter OF PHILADELPHIA Mr.. Field was u
member OF the Committee OF oae Hun
dred.
The Navy-Yard Commission. on the
10Th, visited the Mount Vernon Reserva-
ton near Mobile, Ala, aud examined the
Mobile river as to its suitability for a
navy-yard site. A reception was given
the commission by the AthelstOne Club
in the evening.
A DISPATCH from Vienna, on the a6ih.
says: The rivers in Hungary are rapidly
rising. and great damage is threatened.
The town OF Szedenz Is entirely under
water, aud it is feared the recent disas-
trous experience OF this unfortunate place
will be repeated
NJ. GEIsESDoRF, the son OF the Swiss
Consul at Cannes, France, was found
murdered near the railroad track at
Monte Carlo, Italy. His valise. which was
lying near by, had been rihed. He had
recently won large sums Of money at the
Casino gambling tables
AN agent. with force Of emergency
men. evieted twelve families from their
holdings at ClOngOrey, Ireland, on the
Goth, and subsequently burned all but one
Of the twelve buildings. The house spared
was reserved to furnish quarters for the
police aiding the evictors.
THE arrangements for transporting the
Russian army to any quarter OF the coun-
try, in the event OF war, have been COM
pleted- The entire country has been
divided into specified districts. with Off
GERS designated TO control the military
movements in each district.
THE pilot-boat Webb, which reached
New York from Southern waters. on the
26th. reported that when fourteen miles
of Fenwick Light-ship she picked up
life-boat which bore the name OF the Con-
serya. The boat was slightly damaged,
but her lines were intact. This is the
third life picked up in the same To-
cality.
AMONG the nominations made by the
President on the eth were the following:
Robert T. Lincoln. Minister to England;
Murat Halstead, Minister to Germany;
Alien Thorndyke Rice, Minister to Rus
sia; Patrick Egan. Minister to Chilli;
Thomas Ryan, OF Kansas, Minister to
Mexico; John Hicks, OF Wisconsin, Min
lister to Peru
The American ship Reaper. which left
San Francisco recently for Sydney, y. s
W.. carried 1000 bushels OF wheat. This
was the first OF a number OF large ship
ments which will be made TO the British
colonies this year TO supply the demand
caused by the partial failure Of Australian
crops