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


IT is said that General JohnStsa. ar-d
eighty-tSo. is g. be retained ~ Comras.-
I si0ner % Railroads.
/ The Uaitcd States steamer Adxuas. -e-
Gently returned from Samoa. has been
I put out = commission. and VIII zu.s~r<o
thorough repairs at the Mare Isl&4a Navy
I Yard
{ IL his eulo,y On John Bright Ia ne r.
F lish House % Peers. on the ~sta. Lord
{ Salisbury sail. "Hs w.s ths greatest
master % English oratory % the ere<eat
geucratioa- He possessed stn<zlar
f rectitude % character. aa4 in@pir~d his
+ followers % pure pafriosism--
A LEGfsLArfvE COMMITTEES ssns TO tav-S-
Z tigate stories % cruel treatnawns os pa-
E tients IN the insane asylum at PoutiNe.
Mica have already discoveries that az
I least three patients have net p1in.ui
[ death - the resait = cruel ana violsn.
treatment al the hands os th~sr attend
ants.
T The managers % the proposed banquet
I to Mr.. IarnelI emphAticallv sE>ny that
I they have the slisht,gt iu.enfiors % xiT-
I ing mp n aTar. They ar. stfsf4 loskiay
+ FOR hall large euourh for tie arrasiun.
MR- GLADSTONE returned er,n S-ot-
and where a- bad been % AfteEs TIE "a
aaeral - his broth -. on tbs eSsh. Ga
the 18th H. pronounced the ~aIo<y oa
john Bright in the House q Corsrons.
SESEcA " TATLoa. % 81. Loxfs: ss--
phsn White. " Los angeles Cal. Geo. <.
Graham. % Philadei phsa. ansI :. F.whsfs.
u Duluth. IiGa-. Eere slmiftedto prsc-
tice in the supreme Court q Tia Unised
States on the 18Th.
THE nomination - Marat HafSt-ad a.
tar IN a ~.
Senate. on the ssth. Mr. Sherman. who
voted in the Affirmative. changed his vote
10 the negative, 81 as "a be IN q position
to move a decentralization
GENERSL BoULkYsER has bse1 com
peeled To resort to the use % morphine To-
deaden the pain caused By the reOpening
OF an old woaaI.
The Cologne Gazette SAYS that IL the
United States does not send a Minister tn
Germany until after the samoan CONFER
ence, the Minister and Amba ssador who
represent the other two powers will out
-ank the American delegates, which will
embarre = the coaferrees.
The Scc1-i mission t. Germany from
Morocco will arrive in Berlin in May for
tue purpose of buying machinery To send
to Morocco for the manufacture OF arms.
A NUMBER OF French societies and csti-
gems OF New York are arranging to cels-
brate in fitting manner, on July I, the
centennial OF the French Revolution
There will be a parade, banquet and
speeches.
LIEUTENANT HARVEY BArEMAy. Of the
United States infantry, whose home Is ut
FOstoria. o., wss found lying on the Bee
Line railroad track two miles west OF
Muncie, Ind, on the aS:h. with his head
entirely severed from his body and both
legs cut OF. There are suspicious OF foul
play.
GEORGE POWELL. alias G. barnett
Young, who. attired in priestly garb, was
arrested at Toronto, Ont. charged with
swindling jewellers in Ottawa aud roron-
to out of watches and diamonds. and who
confessed many other such crimes. was
sent by police magistrate to the King
ston penitentiary for five years.
ALEX. GRAVES. employed by James
Ferguson, near Terre Haute, In1, was
sentenced to the penitentiary for two
years, on tire aSth, for stealing Sf90 from
his employer. Graves was engaged to be
married to Ferguson's pretty daughtar.
IT is said in Washington that President
Harrison will probably send colored
man as Consul-Gsncral To the Hawaiian
Islands.
THERE is a sensation at Ft Wayne, Ind,
caused by the marriage OF a man thirty
FIVE years OF age to a school girl Of four
teen.
HUNGARIANs near Wilkesbarre, Pa, have
organized White Cap societies, and have
begun to regulate" those OF their race
who become obnoxious.
The Indiana Scottish Rite MasOns
closed very successful session at In
sF
didates received the Thirty-second de-
gree. They are from al! sections OF the
State. and embrace number OF we'll
known divines, judges, doctors and other
professional and business men,
THOMAS KEEGAS. OF Hollidaysburg, Pa,
was buried on the 2sth, aged one hundred
and eight years He carried pike in the
Irish rebellion OF 1873, and came to this
country seventy-fve years ago. His arst
vote was tor Andrew Jackson and his last
for Cleveland.
SEcRErARY TRACY, on the 39th, Endorsed
the report against the extension OF time
for the completion OF the gun-boa- Petrol.
submitted By board consistin; &C Chief
Constructor Wilson, Ensineer-ia-Chiet
Melville and Captain Harrison. OF the
Steel Inspection Board
EIGHT Democratic inspectors were re-
moved, on the e9th. from the special Gus
toms agents department OF the New York
Custom House.
THERE was great excitement at the New
York Coffee Exchange, on the 29ta. and at
oae time the situation verSed on panic.
Before noon, prices declined about fifty
points. Tho market was unsettled owing
q a d, cline OF two francs at HayTs