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Oxford eagle. (Oxford, Lafayette Co., Miss.) 1876-current, 1900-08-02

Col Willcocks. the commander of the
British relief column in Ashanti de-
serIbes his entrance into kumassi as
rrrssnt.ng n scene of horror and desc
lation. burned houses and putrid bodies
teins visible on all sides He adds that
native soldiers were too weak to stand.
EHd that the British officers thanked
God fer the relief, as few more days.
they declared. would have seen the
end.
Oxford eagle. (Oxford, Lafayette Co., Miss.) 1876-current, 1900-08-02

Iii Hung Chang replied to this e,is-s
asking - be allowed o. retire IN ae-
count Il his age.
~>heng aovv admits that be has hal
telegram since July 18th announcing
that every foreigner IN Pas Ting Fu
was murdered. incluIiag forty British.
French and Ansrtrau missionaries. AMI
announcing also that t'vo French Je~uits
aEd thoasand converts have h-ea
nassaervsi a. Kwang Ping Fu. On the
borders of >hantusx and Chi Il A
majority % the e',nsals favor strong
urasur~s against >hsugs duplicisy.
"T.acai aficiaIs assert thss the italian
priests murdered IN Human Wen we're
wrapped ia e'ltton whieh had been
SOAKED with krr,seue. ani ser. slow y
roasted - death. Il j. believed that
a. fore xuerS "a Chs l. have by this
time heva massserri, and the wave q
massacre = spreading toward Nang Po
and Hang Chow. from which point
thirty English anil American mission
aries are eudeaxorinx - escape ia huats
down the risvr - kianr NJ Ottiriais
herr anticipate a xvuerai rising aloag
the Nangtse kiang about August tst-
~An astouuding American iatrixae
has been revealed - the esnsuis here
in the shap.. af sltillfal attempt e. gea
she maritime CUSTOMS plaerd n the
hansis of an American missionary named
Ferxusson. wha. although he was an
Il f.eF
Oxford eagle. (Oxford, Lafayette Co., Miss.) 1876-current, 1900-08-02

Peru has adopted the single gold
standard. and has issued geld coin.
Known as the libra, or Peruvian
pound. being indentieal in weight and
fpen~sx with the English pound srer-
Ing The libra and the silver sol are
row received on equal terms BY banks
of the country anil circulate concur
rrntiy- The coinage Of The former a
free and silver Is used only in n sub
sidiary capacity
Oxford eagle. (Oxford, Lafayette Co., Miss.) 1876-current, 1900-08-02

On the 9sth President Castro Of Ven
eznela declared the country enjoying
eonplefe peace The official deelara-
tion was delayed for some tiHae IN
order to promulsate ii on the anniver>
szry Of the birth Of Cen Simon Boz
var. tha -LSbWnto1."
Oxford eagle. (Oxford, Lafayette Co., Miss.) 1876-current, 1900-08-02

Commissioners ifttmaa. for the
nit~sl States. and King. FIR CauaslI.
have completed tn loratiau af tle
PROVISIONAL boundary line on White
fzss summit. and gone 10 thu Chiisnot
summit 10 perform the sam~ <erVi,-e
thrr~- No change IN existing eou.ii-
iiuns will result on White Pass. a. the
line was Clearly delfHstI tAerp-
Oxford eagle. (Oxford, Lafayette Co., Miss.) 1876-current, 1900-08-02

The sensational reports alleging the
trnminsner of a massacre of Chinese Ia
borvrs AT Rock springs, Wyo-- seem u
hlvs had m foundation in fact Tn.
sdjutant g~n-ral wirr,t from RocS
Springs on the stsh- No trouble ana
No eauss for alarm Citizrns indie-
nant an account % SENSATIONAL and
misehi-voas Newspaper reports
Oxford eagle. (Oxford, Lafayette Co., Miss.) 1876-current, 1900-08-02

In response to the suggestion OF the
AississipDi railroad commissioner. the
commissioners Of all the Southern States
VIII have conference on Lookout
Nocntain- August -. The wonder Is
that such conference has not been
held heretofore.
Oxford eagle. (Oxford, Lafayette Co., Miss.) 1876-current, 1900-08-02

Yazoo City's loss is TehnIa's gain
The latter place will be the district
terminal ot the Y. Il " " Railroad,
and the shops viii be located there.
superintendent Dunn explains that the
construction Of some additional lines
in the delta makes Il necessary 70 place
the shops at a point north Of Yaxoo
City
Oxford eagle. (Oxford, Lafayette Co., Miss.) 1876-current, 1900-08-02

M H. A in CofeeviIle Courier. pro-
poses the erection, BY popular suhscrip-
tion, of n monument to General Edward
Cary WalthalI. No NissiSsippian has
more deserved sueh an expression Of
love aud gratitude. But were be con
suited he woaid say, Let il CON mem
crate my comrades Of FrankIin and
Chiclanauxa
Oxford eagle. (Oxford, Lafayette Co., Miss.) 1876-current, 1900-08-02

Jackson is now in direct telegraphie
communication with Gulfport by the
Gulf & Ship Island wires
Oxford eagle. (Oxford, Lafayette Co., Miss.) 1876-current, 1900-08-02

eiov Lpugina in giving a number -
very excellent reasons why thu pro-
psssd Dcmorraftc state convention
shogld net be held n September. eua-
elu.l~d thus, I therefore agrrr with
those gentlemen. and that portion -
th- press. who deem the prup.asss sep
,~nber convention inexp~iisnt Re
sides. a combination - favorable cir
cumstanr~s sesm - have broarhs tn
the state a new ant progressive busi-
ness splrit that promises much IN the
Nay of industrial Development ansi reai
sabstantial progress lad it is my
earnest desire that MissiSsippi shall At
this anspicisas time have aa era in
xhi'.h hstsines. growth and sutsrpriss.
shall have prvcrsienss above politics.
lnd 'vhen the pcople. - u hltever class
of politieal flith. can unite in giving en-
eoHra cement snd all thereto. uasn-
'iurnerd and ansstrangvd toward each
either b bitter factional p.,lities.~
Oxford eagle. (Oxford, Lafayette Co., Miss.) 1876-current, 1900-08-02
TO BE HELD As HOSTAGES.
t"re~-sst Nasi-t sspfsfsass p-s~aftss -
th~ wtat-tsr.- assses- sf rsr~i4x
fr-sp@ o ~ Resisted

LoSsoy July ~ The Shsnxhal c,lr~
rr>uouss~us of the Daily Exprv.-. tels,-
graphing Yesterday. s4y,.
a new imperial s,fic, prunnl xstrsi
this evening urgently or,i--s all vis~rav.
and provincial governor. - ensi~avos
- negotiate pace With the pss~er~.
whose ministers are hsid a. hosfaxrs
psrssiag the rcsait of the ever,ures f,r
the ahandoameat u has,iiisies against
China
Tue sir~ruys arc also Commanded %
guard their serrisoriss vixiiantIv a-aiass
attack sna to prevsut. b. all msaas "a
their power. the advance ~ the tsrrtsu
irc"ps. especially along the Yangts-
kanx- The d~errr says that the -
hcfaiS will answer with their live. Zoe
any failure ~ execute these orders.
'Nomnansis arr also given that no, a
single foreigssr shall b. allowe,g -
escape frum the interior. wherr there
are ssill saoa Europeans csunev,ei
with Missionary work in Isolated sita-
atious.
When the governor - shanghai
eosnsaasscased 70 the eonsaIs the I'M
Psrtal decree q July etsh. be omitted
the following impartaat passages al.
arwsssd - T. Hung chang
lit T. admittedly inadvisahIe - kiII
ali the ministers. but is = equally m
wise - -~nl them "a Tisa Tsiu. n
would es mneh wiser - k-~P the sur
Oxford eagle. (Oxford, Lafayette Co., Miss.) 1876-current, 1900-08-02

Double daily passenger trains win be
running on regular schedule this week
on the Gulf & ship Island Railroad be
tween Guifport and Jackson Now for
the Mobile. Jackson & Kansas city
Railroad.
Oxford eagle. (Oxford, Lafayette Co., Miss.) 1876-current, 1900-08-02

The Patrons Union will hold its four
teenth annual meeting at the camp
grounds near Lakes. commencing July
80. with an interesting program for four
days The A and VI. College facuItv
will hold farmers institute. and there
will be addresses on industrial aud
educational lines
Oxford eagle. (Oxford, Lafayette Co., Miss.) 1876-current, 1900-08-02

~ u .
Rpitsl sat no. 80 4tsss r4s -
iasdishiasl aspasafs sHhi-ck to
sasek O. sas a5s as
hslnE a. Ansrsas~ Of s. ~ - over ls1s
eafrtHs aasiis isisss rrle . ume eer-
uaatirss 4tiis ahfr etc = - 80 e
af the cash aa hand Iuae D. 1900. 81
banks reported s~parately the kinds ~
money n haad anI show gold On hand.
> -. -. ~. silver on hand. $50 5,ga -
Eieht hani,a did not separate the cash
On htnd. 3, baalss rvportet -divi,i-nsls
pasd a. h~sa var and the average
pad va tifs=iau per cent. = banisz
gave M report - dividends paidL
Marty twelve million dollars IN
baaa- subject u check Is very good
show tng tor Mississippi. but Il world
hs a uueh better showing IL oue-half
the sum was invested in cotton and
Vvp.,lcn mills, and other industries that
would EMPLOY labor and maze goo,i
divid~usls Zoe the stockholderS
Oxford eagle. (Oxford, Lafayette Co., Miss.) 1876-current, 1900-08-02

The state board of examiners win
meet tE Jackson Angus. 30 for the pur-
pose Of grading the papers sent from
the normals. There are large num-
ber OF applications for license
Oxford eagle. (Oxford, Lafayette Co., Miss.) 1876-current, 1900-08-02

Washington county reports Ig.sft
educable children Is2 white, I7.sss
black.
Oxford eagle. (Oxford, Lafayette Co., Miss.) 1876-current, 1900-08-02

\ recent issHe % The Baptist Argus.
of Louisville, eoatains an excrli-nt por-
trait and biographical sketch of Rev.
General Mark p Lawrey. "who died at
the age of 81. having been a soldier in
two wars. state evangelist for ten
years. for seven years editor Of the Mis-
sissipPi department. of The Baptist. for
tea years president os the Mississippi
Baptist state convention. founded and
presided for twelve years over BIu.
Mountain Female College. declined
many high honOrs, among which we're
the seeretaryship Of the Foreign Mis-
sion Board and the governorship Of
Mississippi The last sentence in ten
eral Lo~rey's will expressed the spirit
of his life; Il subscribe myself the
friend of all humanity, and the humble
servant Of the Lord Jesus christ
Oxford eagle. (Oxford, Lafayette Co., Miss.) 1876-current, 1900-08-02

The organized military strength ot
the United States is Ios. 3a9. IN which
Mississippi figures at t,F.I The uuar-
ganized. but usavailable for military duty,
for the United States, II io,3s3. Iss. OF
this number Mississippi Is charged with
r. so The military age Is i to Is.
regardless Of race, color or previous
condition Of servituder
Oxford eagle. (Oxford, Lafayette Co., Miss.) 1876-current, 1900-08-02

Lieut.. Ira 6 welboru was among the
wounded of the Ninth United states
infantry az the battle Of Tien Tsin.
China. July l.. The lieutenant IL .
gallant son Of Jones county
Oxford eagle. (Oxford, Lafayette Co., Miss.) 1876-current, 1900-08-02

Here - hasv thr valuations ssara
afser four y-ars q war ant ~ vears -
r-constrartlou
Oxford eagle. (Oxford, Lafayette Co., Miss.) 1876-current, 1900-08-02

The capitol boad issue may b.. delay
ed year. The governor aud auditor
have about figured il out that the pres
ent balance in the treasury, say ss7s
coo and the estimated revenue from all
sources for the NEXT twelve months.
will be ample To run the government
and meet all demands for capitol con
strustion during that time. This would
save the state good sum IN the way OF
interest.
Oxford eagle. (Oxford, Lafayette Co., Miss.) 1876-current, 1900-08-02

Aaditar Code has prepared &c ths
comptroller - the carrrusv a. " ash-
ingtnu an elaborate comparative state
meat - baaAiag IA Mlss.s.i ppi. shass-
ing the cunsiltiiu - STATE banks "a
June -. i-ua ant Ian- Ia. iaog We
have spaer only fsr some u the tota.s.
Isssi r-.s'sf--s. t-fs ps~-s-s "
The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1900-12-12
MARKED.

| Edith-There are other things in this
world besides money, you know.
Ethel-Oh, lots-if one only has mon
ey.-Judge.
| In sections of Europe President Kru-
ger has noticed that the frozen hand is
| closely connected with the cold shout
der.-Philadelphia Times.
''The cook book says good celery
should be beached," said the new wife.
| "Yes'm," assented the grocer. How
| is it dene-with peroxide?"-Ph iladel-
phia Press.
Yesterday 1 tried some of those
Simple Dishes for Luncheon
How did they come out?''
II got them done in time for dinner"
Chicago Record
A. fashion writer says: "a woman
should always dress to suit her figure"
According to that, if a lady is hump
shouldered she should wear a camels-
hair shawl.-Atchison Globe.
Market called the street car con-
ductor.
It's marked" yelled back the absent
minded clerk, fumbling with a pencil
and a pad.-Philadelphia Record.
What ten books would you take If
you had to pass the rest of your life on
desert island?"
"Oh, I wouldn't take books at all; I'd
take things to eat. "-Indanapolis Jour
nal.
'Twombley says he thinks he'll go in
for yachting. He's more than half
equipped already
Has yacht eh?"
mo; ,the clothes. '-Indianapolis
Press
''Yesm, 1 wuz drove away from home
when a mere child by the heartless
cruelty of me stepmother.'
Poor fellow What did she do?"
"She insisted on giving me bath
every Saturday night!'-New York
Journal.
when 1 was boy" said the self
made man pompously, Il worked in
lumber mill for almost nothing"
YES but you were always sure of
your board" remarked the solemn
young man who reads the comic papers.
Chicago Tribune.
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HIS THE HILL Room sT4RTEDq

1t is sometimes a little difficult to tell
just where David 3. Hill stands and it
is little difficult now to tell just how
much of a candidate for the presidency
he will be in 1904 But his political lieu
tenant, James x. Mcclure, has made a
statement in Chicago which will cause
not little talk, Elk Senator Hill
is situated very much as Grover Cleve-
land was politically in 1892" said Mr..
MCGUIRE. SHOULD the Republican pol
icy of colonization prove a failure and
the nation four years hence require a
conservative, clear-headed, able man,
whose Democracy never has been ques-
toned, then the choice of the next Dem
ocratic National Convention doubtless
will be Mr.. Hill.'
-Four years hence the nation will re-
quire a conservative, clear-headed able
man, but present indications are that
the man required wont be a man who
has been a conspicuous and consistent,
or inconsistent, Democrat.
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TRIO UBLE IN IRELAND.

It's an i'll wind that blows no good,
and it's a good wind that blows no i'll,
but 1t Is rather surprising to learn that
| the introduction of '.creameries" into
the south of Ireland has been attended
! by very serious consequences. The
| farmers who contribute new milk to
rated milk. This is given to calves and
pigs. and among the poorer farmers Is
consumed by members of the house
hold. The food value of this waste
product is almost nil, and 1t compares
very unfavorably with the "butter-
milk" formerly given to calves and
pigs. Since the change of system a
very fatal disease has broken out
among calves fed on separated milk
Not only has the mortality been heavy,
but the growing animals remain
stunted in size and inferior in quality.
The Irish Cattle Traders Association
recently estimated that the deprecia-
ton in the value of the marketable
animal from this cause is at least G1
per head, representing an annual loss
of one million sterling to Irish cattle
breeders Further. this deterioration
affects breeding stock. Already Eng
lish graziers are crying out against the
threatened ruin of an important trade
in Irish stock sent to England. The
Department of Agriculture is at pres
emit inquiring into the best means Of
supplementing separated milk, so as to
restore the nutritive constituents of
whole milk, and how to diminish the
mortality among calves. Another Sc
rious aspect of the question is the
spread of infection among the people.
In some districts there have been cpl
denies of enteric fever. This is not
due to any lack of sanitary precau-
lions at the creameries, but to the con-
cealment by the farmers Of any cases
of the disease occurring among them
until they have infected all their neigh
bors.
If any such consequences have fol-
lowed the setting-up of creameries in
this country they have escaped public
notice. Perhaps people in this country
know some things that the people of
the south Of Ireland don't.
The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1900-12-12

THE ART OF LOCK PICKING.

Ordinary Locks Yield at Once, and the
Others Are Easily Persuaded.
When the householder gets ready to
turn out the gas for the night. pre-
paratory to turning in he makes the
rounds of the house, turns all the keys
to assure himself the outer doors are
locked, and goes to bed confident that
no burglar can get in unless he saws a
hole in the door. But the householder
| is mistaken. Nothing, unless it be an
outer door, gives an expert burglar less
| trouble than the average lock. Pick
| ing lock has come to be such a fine
art that there are only few locks,
| and those specially made to order
which cannot be picked by a man who
knows his business. Some people think
they can fool the lock picker by leaving
the key in the lock on the inside, SO the
burglar cannot insert a Skeleton key.
This only makes things easier. The man
who knows how and has the proper
tools can turn a key just as easily from
the outer side of a door as though he
We're on the side where the handle of
the key projects. A slender strong
pair of steel pliers properly applied will
clutch the little key which extends be-
low the notches and turns it easily and
silently
But that is not lock picking. That is
childs play To open a door which has
been locked and from which the key
has been removed is different propo-
sition, but old policemen declare they
are very few if any doors on ordinary
dwellings and fiat buildings which are
secured by locks able to resist the ad-
vances of the burglar. What are known
as skeleton keys are made like ordi-
nary door keys, only the guards, which
in regular keys contain several notch
es of different depths, are very thin and
delicate. In a bunch of these keys each
one has a guard just a shade wider or
longer than the next one, and the bur-
glar tries them one by one until he US
ually strikes one which will do the bus
mess, raise the proper tumblers in the
lock and shoot the bolt back Where
the old-fashioned rim locks are used,
The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1900-12-12

We are told experience teaches,
50 at least the proverb breaches;
He'll be clever who discovers
What experience teaches lovers ,
Love that laughs ut every rule
Shows the wisest man fool.
We are told by all the sages
Magic has been dead for ages,
Yet blue eye shyly CHANGING,
Sudden sets your pulses dancing;
Whatsoever you were before
You're lover-nothing more.
We are told all nature changes
Valleys once were mountain ranges,
Yet there's one thing constant ever,
Love, | VOW, has altered never
Loves the same, | do believe,
AS when Adam courted Eve.
Westminster Gazette
The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1900-12-12
F4RMERS WANT PROTECTION

This country has a large interest in a
contest which is beginning in Germany.
1t appears that the farmers of Ger
MANY want the tariff laws altered in
their favor AT the close of 1908 a
number of commercial treaties will ex-
pire. They were negotiated, say the
1andholders, in the interest chiefly of
the manufacturing and commercial
Glasses. The wealth of these classes
has been greatly augmented and IT is
now the turn of agriculture to be fav-
ored. If the treaties are to be renewed,
saws the Agrarian party they must be
so modified as to exclude agricultural
nroducts that compete with German
products. Also in the general over
bauIinp of the tariff--Which is immi-
nent-the rates must be radically alter
ed. say the farmers, to save German
agriculture from utter ruin, 1t is i'm
possible, they affirm, to compete on
equal terms with countries favored with
cheaper and more fertile land. 1t is,
therefore, but right that the industrial
and mercantile classes should now take
The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1900-12-12

| their turn in making sacrifices for the
common good.
i But the industrial and mercantile
classes don't seem to be eager to make
sacrifices for the common good. They
have organized to fight the Agrarians
at every point, and money is collected
in large quantities to protect ''protec-
ton" The value Of the lands in Ger
many suited to the growth of cereals,
| it is argued, is but IS, 000,0 600, or but
! 16 per cent of the total wealth of Ger
many 1t is, therefore, absurd to form
the policy of the whole country in the
interest of so small a proportion of its
assets. The agricultural population is
important, but the larger interest, say
the industrialists, ought to prevail. A
large foreign commerce has been built
up in recent years. Shipping interests
have become very considerable in con-
nection with the industrial expansion
fostered by the existing tariff The
German people take much pride in the
rapid growth of Germanys foreign
trade, but all this is threatened, says
the manufacturers and traders, by the
Agrarian proposal to provoke retalia-
tory tariffs by excluding foreign agri-
cultural products that compete with
German farm rrodIin+s
Perhaps the protectionists and the
free traders of this country can learn
something from the struggle in Ger
many.
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ADVERTISING RATES.

Situations Wants, Rents, and other small
Rdv4rtiseinelts, one Cent a Word ench Ii-
Eert!on. Five Cents Word for fuii "'eA
tsecon tines a.,
Display advertisements, per lnch. oile 20 20
sc7liou, $i20; each subsequent incer,ion. ~
cents: ore week, 1920; one month, slu' o"e
year. $40. ~
obituary Notices. In prose OF. verse. 10
cents Eer line. Notices OF Births, aialli'
uees, Deaths. and Funerals, SO cents each'
local Notices. 10 cents per line
Yearly advertisers ale limited to their
own Immediate business (all matter 70 Dc
nnobjectlonablel, ard their contracts 90 h's
Include Wants, TO Let, For Sale, etc
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The Russian naval authorities are
building what seems to be intended Tor
a destroyer of the craft known as tor
pedo destroyers AT all events, she is
to be a destroyer Of quite abnormal
PROPORTIONS. She is in course of con-
struction at Elbing, is called the Movie,
and is to have a displacement of about
2 600 tons and a speed of twenty-five
knots. In a seaway she will be able to
overhaul a f1otila of destroyers, each
a tenth of her size and much more fra
gile. She will have turtle-back deck
or two inches of Krupp armor rising
from below her water-line, and COM
pletely protecting her vitals from injury
by any light gun fire. Whereas an or
binary destroyer carries only a few
twelve and three FOUNDERS, this Russian
shin has six Az weapons, besides eight
three-puunders and a couple of Maxims,
and she is fitted with no less than six
torpedo-tubes, all of them, however,
above water. She will be able to dis
charge torpedoes ahead or astern, and
can use four tubes on broadside, Even
the Elswick constructors have never
given a man-of-war, twice or three
times her size, more than five tubes.
The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1900-12-12

bolt of the spring look, the bevel side
out. The burglar has a thin blade of
steel like a case knife. but not so
springy, which he inserts between the
strip of wood and the casing immed-
lately opposite the keyhole. Pressing
against the bevel edge of the bolt caus-
es it to slide back almost as easily as
the pressure of the key, and the door
is opened.--Chicago Chronicle.