Oxford eagle. (Oxford, Lafayette Co., Miss.) 1876-current, 1894-04-05
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

H. l. >roUT, the Dubuque Ia mil
iiouairs- has mate a gift % his prop
erty on the CORNER Of Ninth and Iowa
streets 10 the Young Mems Christian
association OF Dubugue. IL j. valued
at 80 ESQ
SrEFHES r. GAsE Mrs Leland stan
faTf's representative in the Cen.r7i Pa
eiie Railway Co has resigned. the III
innate object being the withdrawal II
the Stanford estate FROM the Central
Pacific
Ar the Sait Of Russell T. Harrison
e~x-Prcsiden. ifarrisaus law partaer.
Howard Cole. was IN the s7th. ap-
pointed reviewer Of the Queen city
Electric Railway Ca. Of Marion. Ind
WExTss RKDS. Of Boston. manuf4e-
tarerS Of furniture. made an assign
ment ga - 9Th A recent balance
sheet shosse,i assets Of about sieo. eoa.
anu n surplus g nearly 50. 0o0
Co.. 10y p, for many years .
resident Of Battle Creek Mich. died.
0n the 18th aged 9 2. lie was AZ one
time a member OF a. Massachusetts
legislature
RKPzESENTNTTvE BaEN. % Mime
sofa. has intru-iucrsi a bill for the re-
duetiou Of compensation of persons in
the government Scrvic- The bill re-
cites hat the unit value % money i
decreasing and That private wages are
falling. while public salaries are kept
up 70 their odd figures
A PLOT was discovered on the szth
BY which three notorious murierer
expected TO free themselves from the
county Jail in >an Francisco Already
the tanneling through the Jail wall
had done this work were hurriediy
transferred TO the county Jail at san
Jose They are Thomas ~ Clair, Her
man spark and John Hanson
THE European MON Of Astronomers
hare announced the discovery Of a
faint comet BY W. r D~nning. of Bris-
toI. England Its position Is: March
-. se5 Gresawich mean time. right a.
cension . hours and s. minutes; deeli-
nation north s. degrees ard l. min
ute> The daily motion of the object
is south following degree
TIE anniversary OF the birthday of
Gen. 4. - Grant which occurs April
-. will be eommemorated by the Ham
ilton Republican club Of New York
city. which will give a dinner on that
night Among the invited guests are
Cen Horace Porter. John ;. Wise. Cor
neIius y. Bliss. John A CockerilI. ID.
Il. St John Rosa. Roswell c. Horr and
Congressman Lemuel Z. ouigg-
JOSEPH LEcH. an extensive mill own
er. who employed ., 0o0 hands when his
plant was in full operation, died at his
home in BRIDGEPORT. Pa. on the 3Ith. OF
blood poisoning. He was IS years OF
ge-
THE secretary of the interior, on the
2Tth. issued a requisition on the secre-
tary Of the treasury for SO. saI. coo. TO
be used in the quarterly payment OF
pensions on April = The amount will
be distributed among agencies As fol
lows: Chicago. s.. 650. 900. Des Noines.
Ia, $1,000. 000s Milwaukee,. 81. roo 900;
Buffalo. 81, 500. 600. Pittsburgh, s.45o,,
900. Concord. " H., $500, coo, Boston,
s3a5. 900. and Detroit 500. 900.
ASsoS NoRTHUr, one of the best
known pioneers in the northwest. died
in St Paul. MINI, on the 3-th, oil
consumption. aged - years He went
to the northwest with his bride In
1889, driving the first herd OF cattle
across Wisconsin TO St Croix Falls
He was n member Of the territorial
senate in 1857
LUTHER HARsHBERGER. a young mar
of Newmarket, O.. accidentally shot
and killed his wife, on the 2sth, e
whom he had been married but a year.
He was trying 10 kill eats, and fell
down. d~ischarging his gun In the fall