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

IN his address to the electors Of Mid
lothian. Nr. Gladstone refers to
the fact that he is in the sixtieth
year Of his public life. and saws:
Il necessarily feel that this i
the last general election at which
/ can expect To solicit your suffrageS.~
II has fallen to the lot Of few statesmen
In any age tn remain on the political
stage for - great length of time. and
whatever may be the rank assigned To
Mr. Gladstone by the historians Of th..
future, it will be unanimously agreed
that he was in more than one resp..e. a
truly remarkable man
The cause OF good roads xo.,s march
ing on There = no politics in IL. con
sequently when people get tired of dis
eu>sing the presidential canvass in all
of the sharp DISBURSEMENTS which tha,
exercise implies they can get together
and relieve the strain. republicans.
democrats and the rest. on the good
rad issue.
nESvER dishwssher calling himself
Herbert sullivan. out Of work and iui-
peenniouS. eSsayed the role of hank
rObt,er. oa the ..sth. and took a drop on
Paying Teller Barton oi the hank Of
Commerce. demanding 5000 Barton
had what the would-be rOhhsr lacked
nerve. and the result was that the hank
lost nothing and sullivan Is in Jail
The Townsend prize Of Yale univer-
sity for the best oratjon was awarded.
on the ssth. ~ l. K. Milfev. Of Mexico.
Mo II was pronounced by competent
judges to be the best ever delivered for
the Townsend prize
j. EBw ARD STONE. who claims to have
started To walk from san Francisco on
February -. last, Ia make a transcOn-
tinental tosr on foot, arrived in New
York city on the sstn and reported at
the Police Gazette Office at noon. He
was not due until July I. Mr.. Stone
looked as fresh and elean-limbed as il
he had jus; taken a constitutional
Mas. JANE BENNETT died at Big
Mou nd. Ia. on the 2Sth, at the adj
vanced age of 1lO years She was ma
tive Of West Virginia, and was one of
Iowa's earliest pioneers.
MKs. ESTHER MCCULLoU6H, of Chat
tanooxa. Tenn, will soon be ia years
of age She was born in Hancock coun-
". ia. in I752. and has nursed the
wounded in three great wars. in addi-
fion TO those of Indian fights Mrs Me
Cullough lives with her daughter. Mrs
Robertson. herself an oetogenarian-
The mother wears glasses and i some
wha. deaf. otherwise she IS very well
preserved
Tux grand jury Of Orange county. y
v. failed to find an indictment against
the Ivnchers of Bob Lewis, but found
true bill against the village officials of
Port Jervis for criminal negligence IN
permitting the lynehiny.
NELSON WHTTEwORTH. n stonemason.
was killed while working on a bridge IN
Leavenworth. HAS, on the 2sth- lie
was engaged in placing rock when
one that was about to be lowered BY
derrick fell upon him. striking him on
the side and hips He was terribly
crushed, and died few moments after
being struck
JAMES ACKMAS was struck by n ran
handle train and instantly killed at
Frankton, Ind, on the 2sth- The tram
was a special. and was going sixty miles
an hour. when Ackman. who was cross
ing the track, was struck and hurried
eighty feet through the air lie was
horribly mangled-
TWELVE workmen were buried be-
meath a falling brick wall while re
pairing the Winston building at Lynch
burg. Va, on the 29th Mr.. j. {. H.
Winston. a prominent business man.
was caught in the ruins and Killed
Three men were taken out dead, four
BADLY and two slightly hurt. while
three others were said TO be in the ruins
WILLIAM GoRNAS, who suddenly dis-
appeared from his home in Pittsburgh
Pa. forty-three years ago and was sup
ro<ed to have been murdered by rival,
has turned up in Montana as man of
wealth. He has invited his two oro,h-
ers. who are workingmen in Pitts
h,roh IN his western home to share MS
fortune
JAMES WILDER, superintendent OF all
the United States railway mail business
vest of the Rocky mountains, died sud
5enIv AT his home in West Algoma,
wis ON the s9th. of dropsy. aged 6s.
All the glass factories At Bellaire'
n have been permanently shut down.
the manufacturers claiming that tney
could not compete with the factories
heated in natural gas towns About
40 men arc out Of employment