12 Jul 1888
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Newspaper
Oxford Eagle
Location
Oxford, Mississippi, United States of America
Date
Jul 12, 1888
Page
1
News in brief reports varied tidbits: Fweeeon Witusast set to land at St Petersburg on August 3 as the Czarina’s fetedar. a Calcutta tea loan of £1,000,000 drew twice its target. officials discuss Emperor Frederick’s illness and church state encyclical plans. Rhode Island liquor taxes cited. political maneuverings across Europe and America noted.
The Senate devoted most of the day to amendments to the River and Harbor Appropriation bill and debated tariff provisions. The conference report on the Diplomatic and Consular bill was approved and thirty pension bills passed. In the House, Fourth of July claims payment was considered, executive session occurred on the Tariff bill, and tariff provisions on seed oils and enamel were adjusted while river and harbor progress continued. Adjournments followed extended sessions and votes on steel duties, iron schedules, and land grant issues.
The bulletin covers a range of items from Bulgarian railway acquisition to a Philadelphia medical visit, New York court cases, Franco English submarine cable talks, a Saratoga tragedy, and a flood and storm news. It notes the Varna-Raustelck railway purchase, a burning incident near Lonia Michigan, and multiple international and domestic updates.
A broad United States and European roundup notes Philadelphia letter carrier Howard H. Warren surrendering to a New York policeman after escaping a deputy marshal amid an indictment for stealing letters. Other items include a shooting conviction in Massachusetts, a Winnebago Reservation sale approval, a Brooklyn lager beer boycott renewal, a ladder accident in Ohio, German reviews of Life Guards, Irish parliamentary results, Star Prairie raids, athletic match discipline in the U K, a Toronto counterfeiter arrest, a Vienna mourning lodge, a murder scene in Allegheny Pennsylvania, a Pennsylvania railroad collision, a Wells Fargo money theft, and political forgery denials in Berun papers.
A compilation of brief items notes railroad clerks at Louisville and Nashville dismissed and replaced by Democrats, pension office disputes over Mexican Civil War deserters, Mississippi governors pardoning murder convicts, Sam Pace’s capture in Roan County with a revolver, aluminum introduced via Newport details, and land trades involving Warrior coal near Birmingham. Also mentions Court of Claims denial in Lauderdale County and a rising tense shooting in Texarkana and a deadly Yazoo County store confrontation with fatalities and wounds.
Aurora engineer Jobo A. Bauer eisen, chief of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers Aurora division, is arrested for complicity in a dynamite plot to damage Burlington property. Union officials and company statements detail arrests, letters, and alleged plans to disrupt trains, with a July trial set and more arrests expected. A circular from the Brotherhood urged engineers to apply for Q line jobs and to quit work in a coordinated strike.
In a satirical critique, the piece riffs on “first families” as a social standard across cities like Boston and Springfield. It lampoons how lineage, birthplace, and even misfits create a shifting aristocracy, while ordinary citizens weigh ancestry against real worth and daily integrity.
A mid article fragment discusses the need for leaders in education and culture, calling for influential patrons to support teaching as a grand art. It cites Greek teachers like Plato and Socrates and notes a humorous origin of the phrase All my eye and Betty Martin from a Jack Tar in a foreign church.
An article argues closet cleanliness reflects character and offers practical tips. Keep doors shut by day, air at night, separate summer and winter garments, store off-season items in trunks, use shoe bags, hang items by attached loops, and limit bottles on shelves. Emphasizes purposeful storage and organized spaces.
A New Hampshire shoe-peg firm uses second growth birch and white maple with sapwood only, discarding heartwood. The wood is cut green and seasoned during manufacture, with eighteen processing steps and labor accounting for 75 percent of cost. Ten factories employ about 400 hands with 175000 capital, exporting to Britain and most European countries as demand grows. Prices range from 35 to 95 cents per bushel.
The article notes the first pair of rubber shoes in the U S were brought in 1 and described as gilt and painted like Chinese mandarins. It adds that in 1833 a larger import of 1 pairs occurred, priced eagerly, leading to a regular annual importation of Indian rubber shoes from South America totaling 5 000 pairs per year per the Shu and Leather Review.
A Youth's Companion tale recalls a Vassar freshman who paid her tuition and board by earning small sums. She posted prices for gloves and shoes mending, hair brushing, and beds made, earning a hundred fifty dollars in her first year to cover expenses.
A new coal mining company with a patent for electric mining plans to open a plant at Phillipsburg Pennsylvania to mine a ten mile area. The system centers on a dynamo, wires, coal cutting machine, lamps and motor attachments for hanging cars. Inventors claim a single machine will weigh under five hundred pounds and tests suggest substantially reduced mining costs versus steam power methods.
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