Oxford eagle. (Oxford, Lafayette Co., Miss.) 1876-current, 1891-04-09
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PERSONAL AND GENERAL


AN Italian gentleman of prominence.
now in London, who is conversant with
the feeling of bitter hostility toward
the United States entertained by his
countrymen because of the New Or
leans massacre. warns Americans
against touring in Italy during the pres
ent year.
HARRY A. GARrrELp. eldest son of the
late President Garfield, was defeated
for nomination to the city council of
Cleveland. o., on the LIST. by John Hintze,
saioon-keeper in the Third district.
Garfield ran for the board of education
year ago. and was defeated then.
Mosr Rev. DR. WALSH. archbishop of
Dublin, fresh from a long audience
with the pope, In which Irish affairs
were fully discussed. says that Parnell
will soon be overwhelmingly con-
demned by the people of Ireland at
the polls
EXCISE COMMISSIONERS MEAKrx, Frrz-
PATRICK AND KOCH. of New York,
whose trial for neglect of duty ended
before Recorder Smyth in the general
sessions, on the LIST. were acquitted on
account of material flaw in the in
dictment
The treasury departments monthly
debt statement. issued on the ist, show 5
slight increase in the public debt dur
ing March amounting to $40. l25. The
total debt of the government, less cash
in the treasury, was $3.50, ,029, e2o.
DURING a dispute in n Hazleton (Pa- }
saloon among a number of Italians over
the New Orleans lynching, Anthony
Torrello received n number of wounds
about the body, from the result of
which he died ON the 3lst.
The second story of W. A. Haveland's s
storage warehouse, corner Thirteenth
and Pike streets Pittsburgh. Pa, coll
lapsed, on the ist, instantly killing John
Herman and fatally injuring John
Burns.
IN Brooklyn there has been marked
falling off in the attendance of chill
'lren at school owing to the grip. The
teachers and policemen are likewise af-
fected.
The bill appropriating $40. 200 for
representation at the Worlds fair was
passed by the New Hampshire legisla-
ture on the lst-
The Delaware & Hudson canal opened
for the season on the lst
THgRE are 200 New York policemen
laid up with the grip.
The stockholders of the Standard Oil
trust held their regular annual meet
ing in New York.on the ist. and elected
John ID. Rockefeller. VIM Rockefeller
and II. H. Rogers directors for the next
three years
THE president, on the ist. refused to
grant pardon to Bood Crumpton, n
half-breed. convicted of killing a man
named Morgan in Arkansas.
Mrs. GRIxwooD. wife of the British
political agent at Manipur, the scene of
the recent massacre of the British ma
tive troops. has arrived in safety at
Laxipur, under the escort of Can't.
Boileau. and Messrs- Guryion, Putcher.
Woods, Lugard and Calvert, attached
to the forces of the commission. Cow
ley's detachment has also arrived safely
1t the same place.
The middle building of the three
brick structures comprising the great
wire screen manufacturing works of E.
L. Burrows & Co., at Portland, Me-,
was burned on the lst The building
was full of valuable machinery. Loss,
estimated at $50. 600. One hundred and
thirty men are thrown out of work.
THE Nicely brothers, who were exc
cuted at Grecnsburg, Pa, on the I'd, for
the murder of Herman Umberger. a
rich farmer. February %. 1859, were sec
ond cousins of the notorious James
brothers of Missouri.
AFTER an interview with the Vene-
zuelan and Chilian ministers, on the
I'd. in regard to the carrying out of the
postal subsidy act, Postmaster-General
wanamaker expressed the belief that
new lines of steamers will not only
start from northern ports for those OF
South America. but also from the gull
ports. The result is expected to be q
great increase in ocean-carrying facili-
ties, and consequently a great increase
of trade between the United States and
South America
ABOUT forty American and Irish
quarrymen, employed by the Wheeling
Mining & Manufacturing Co, at Wheel
ing, W. Va, -,.struck, on the I'd. agains,
the employment of two Italians, be
cause they would not work with eiti.
zens of a country which was threaten
ing war against the United States.
The men in the ropewalk of the
Charlestown Mass. navy yard. except
ing six employed in the wire-rope de-
partment, were discharged, on the I'd, the
reason assigned being q want of stock.
As this was the only department run
ming at the yard, the place is now in q
practically dead condition.
The treasury statement issued on the
LIST, shows decrease in national bank
hote circulation during March of ST.
$50, 900. and decrease during the past
twelve months of SIS. E03. sos.
THE pope has caused Archbishop Ire
land of st. Paul to be informed that q
visit TO Rome will be favorably re
ceived by the holy father, who desires
to consult him on the affairs of the
church in America
The agents of Baron Hirsch have
purchased 400, 900 acres of land neal
Santiago del Estro, Argentine republic
upon which to place colonies of Jews
The Austro-6erman commercial con
ference resumed it's sittings in Vienns
on the I'd.
The president has decided to start or
his trip to the Pacific coast on the 18th
ELLEN. daughter of Hon Thos- r.
Bayard, was married on the I'd TO z
A. Lewenhaupt, Swedish count, a
present employed in Wilmington. Del,
| as a draughtsman