Oxford eagle. (Oxford, Lafayette Co., Miss.) 1876-current, 1892-07-14
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

The largest crowd of people that
ever visited Blufftou. O., witnessed.
on the evening of the 18th. the para
chute leap of Miss Dcssa Garrett. OF
Cincinnati She made the ascension OF
1900 feet. and was carried by the wind
half mile from where she started.
The descent was one of the most horri-
bic ever witnessed. as she fell in stone
quarry in about twenty feet OF water
and was dead when taken out.
THE village of Churchill. Queen Anne
county. Md, was struck bv a cloud
burst. on the night of the Sd. and many
aged No one was seriously hurt, but
the loss tn property was heavy
OPERATOR HAYES. Engineer Kelly
and Fireman Brown, who are charged
with being the cause Of the recent rail-
road accident in Harrisburg. Pa. gave
bail, on the sth. for their appearance At
the September term of court in Harris
burg
GEN- JAMES s. CLARKSos says that
Mr. Carnegie's vast fortune has been
made BY his men, and he has written
much about the responsibilities of
wealth. and should put some of his
beautiful theories into practice in deal
ing with the worlSmen at Homestead.
Pa. as there has been no convulsion in
business requiring such a course as has
been taken there
A POSSE of deputy sheriffs sent TO
Carnegie's Homestead pa works TO
guard what was in no danger were es-
ccrted out of town by the locked-out
employees, on the 5th, not being allowed
to enter the works.
A GALLERY that has been dubbed the
.sObservation Bureau has been erected
in the New York post office, from which,
through the Slated blinds, the eyes of
keen-eyed inspectors can view the oper-
ations of employees, some of whom have
been, of late, very careless, to use mod
crate term
FRESH deaths from cholera have oc-
Cured in the suburbs of Paris. Dr.
German Zee describes the condition of
the barracks of Paris as scandalous. He
saws they are perfect hotbeds OF infec-
ton. and that some of them have not
been cleaned, whitewashed or repaired
in q century.
The st. Petersburg correspondent OF
the London Times says: Cholera ap-
pears to be advancing towards Moscow.
Ii is privately reported that the disease
has appeared on the other side of the
volga in Samara. The mortality Is IN
creasinr in BalSu and the suburbs
The sundry civil appropriations bill.
reported TO the senate, on the 9Th, from
the committee on appropriations, car
ries items aggregating ss6, 6,T91,T TBS, an
increase of sII.51is16 over the house
bill Included in the increase Is an ap-
propriation of IS, lO3. 600 in aid of the
Worlds fair
A NEGRO named Jones, charged with
the murder of NJ Tierney, was taken
from the Jail at Weston w. Va, on the
9Th. and hanged by a mob.
CARS SPREcKEIs sailed from San Fran
cisco for Honolulu. on the steamer Aus
tralia. on the Sth. II is stated that ne
will erect a sugar refinery there
DOZEN houses were burglarized at
LAFAYETTE. Ind. on the Sth, during the
nGrlOrI0AQCE
show. The work is supposed 10 nave
been done By professionals who follow
the circus
TIE British steam schooner Eliza Ed
wards, charged with smuggling OPIUM
into the United States, was captured AZ
San Diego, Cal, on the 9TH, after sew
eral days' chase down the coast from
Vancouver.
PREsrpEsr HARRISON promptly MADE
arrangements to keep himself posted on
events transpiring at Homestead, pa
during the disgraceful rio, OF the eth-
MRS ANNE BRopEEIcK and her three
children were suffocated in the burn
;rer ~ their home in New York city at
s-t5 n M. of the eth
OK the evening of the sth Nerhausei ;
drv-yoo.is store, one of the oldest and
I..g.st establishments of its kind IN
Taieio. o.. was completely destroyed oy
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