Oxford eagle. (Oxford, Lafayette Co., Miss.) 1876-current, 1898-02-03
THE WORLD AT LARGE.
Summary OF the Daily News.



PosrNAsrHR GENERAL GARY sent tn
congress request for an appropria-
ton Of si6S. 900 to meet a probable de-
ieiency in the free delivery service for
the current fiscal year.
Il Z. Preston. director of the mint.
has resigned and George 4. Robinson.
Of Fort Dodge. la. has been nomi-
mated 10 succeed him.
JUSTICE Bsoys,p 81 the United States
supreme court il I'm danger Of losing
his cyesigkt. Several weeks ago The
justice was attacked with an affectloa
Of the optic nerve. II has become %
Serioss that he has been obliged TO pns
himself under the care Of specialist
on diseases Of the eye.
AssfsrASr SEcRKrAKN Davis. of the
Interior department.. has decided. that
there IS noiaw providing n pension for
the widows of soldiers who die Of dis
ease contracted in the service in time
OF peace prior 20 March Z. 1861.
SECRETARY BLISS, in statement sent
20 congress of the disbursements to
agricultural colleges. showed that Mis-
souri,. Kansas. Arkansas. Mississippi.
Texas and Oklahoma each received
$4,000 during the past year and will
he entitled to sa3, 900 the coming year.
JosErH MckESSA took his seat on
the bench Of the supreme court OF the
United States on the 26th as an asso-
eiate justice. The official ceremony
indueting him into Office consumed
less than four minutes and was very
simple.
STATEMENT is being prepared for
congress at the state department in
which the necessity for an appropria-
tion of $1,000, 900 for n proper repre-
seniation of the United States at the
Paris exposition in 1900 will be urged.
SECRETARY OF WAR ALGER was re-
ported as being dangerously sick at
Washington on the a6th. lie had
typhoid fever and the conditions were
alarming.
In recent letter to the state depart
ment ut Washington Consul General
Lee expressed his conviction in an un-
reserved manner of the hopelessness of
the Spanish cause in Cuba and showed
that peace and good government can
only be restored in the island by some
outside power
STATEHOOD legislation at this session
has been killed by the house commit
tee on territories rejecting the Ari-
zoua. New Mexico and Oklahoma bills
by vote of eight to three.
SECRETARY Bliss told Gov. Barnes.
of Oklahoma, that the department of
the interior will not remove the land
Office from Perry to Guthrie. aud con
solidate them.
The senate committee on pensions
recently adopted set of rules to gov
ern its consideration of pension mat
ters which are of great interest to
people concerned in pensions
The gold reserve in the federal treas
nry on the 31th reached si63. 6.O. Go,
the highest point in about seven years
TnE department of agriculture at
Washington has recently issued two
farmers bulletins, one on forestry and
another on the value of common crops
for forage. The latter bulletin also
treats on stock. melons, starch and po-
tatoes, crimson clover. geese for profit,
cross pollination aud a germ fertilizer.
The senate recently passed resoiu-
tion calling on the commissioner of
pensions for information as to his au-
thority for ordering that no rejected
application for increase will be recon
sidered within year. The statement
of the commissioner has satisfied the
senate committee that his order is
sound and lawful.