Oxford eagle. (Oxford, Lafayette Co., Miss.) 1876-current, 1898-08-04

The camp meeting will he
conducted by Revs. Morekead,
Burton. Ramsey. Savage. Rob.
ber;son and Lsnglcy.
The ice cream supper, for the
benefit Of Friendship church. al
home Of Mr.. and Mrs. Freeman.
north of the city ON Thursday
evening, wa a success in ever
respect.
DR.. VI. +. Rodgers. of New
Miss, candidate for
congress, will address the eiti.
ems OF Oxford and vicinity al
the County Court House Satur-
day.
DOM leave your teams stand
ing HRhitehed on the street. II
they should take fright and
run away, you endanger the
lives and property of others.
The County school Board
was Ia session last Friday aud
Saturday and among other i'm
poTtant business transacted.
SIX months school was ordered
for 1895 ~.
Large and substantial tele
phone poles are being put ~
up ali over our town, giving
quite a citified air To our streets
as wei as being substantial.
Mrs Annie L. Sh;ve. wife o
Mr.. {. Z. Shive formerly ot on
county, died in Vernon, Texas
on the Goth ult. The decease,
had many friends in LaFayett,
who will learn this sad new
With regret
Nr. w. L. Hampton In
opened a life insurance agencl
representing the Mutual Lii
Insurance Company, Of Ne
York, in the Office Mr.. Be
Gray, at the County Coul
House.
The County Board. will be
session all this week, tt
August meeting is the most /
borious upon the members
any during the year and keel
them busy every hour. II &c
have any complaints TO lay b
fore the Board this week
your opportunity.
-Four wagon loads of who;
raised in lafayette count
passed through Oxford a fe
days ago, ON the way to CIR
hams Mill, near Abbevill
This is only one of the man
possibilities of Lafayette CouI
ty soil, and lines OF industl
open to its progressive citizen
DIR. A NJ. Croxton and famil
left Oxford Wednesday afte
noon for South Carolina, ID
Croxton's boyhood home. Aft'
a months visit to his mOth'
he will decide upon one of Il
many pastorates already iel
dered him. We regret the los
of this scholarly and devoI
man from our community.
The outlook for the next Sc
sion of the State University
most promising. The fifty big
schools affiliated with the Tn
versity will each furnish fro
one TO five new students. Ii
a well known fact that student
now enter the University wit
much better preparation tina
ever before.
Plans have been made for in
proving and extending th
water system at the Uniyersit,
and TOR putting IN a sewer sy'
ten. This work will be con
pIeted during the summer. Tn
University has already a mo:
charming situation and thes
improvements will leave notl
ing to be desired in the way {
sanitation.
'Saulres Harris and Burne
disposed OF the following case
the past week: Ben Thompson
petit larceny, fine and cost 81
Andy Hatfield, assault and ba
terry. $3.50; Turner Price, di,
turbing the peace, fine an
cost. $50; VIII Sanders, carry
ing concealed weapons, s25 an
cost: John Sinclair, assaul
aud battery, tine and cost 50.
The sixth Of next Noyembe
will mark the fiftieth anniverss
~ OF the opening ofthe Cnivel
sIty to students Very few {
those who witnessed the opel
ing exercises now survive III
authorities of the CnIve' sit
Will celebrate the semi-cenfer
nial of the institution IN a wOl
thy manner with exercises e.
tending through the 9Th 4
aud Sth of November. III
Chancellor of the University