08 Mar 1883
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Newspaper
Oxford Eagle
Location
Oxford, Mississippi, United States of America
Date
Mar 08, 1883
Page
1
A roundup from The Eagle of Oxford Kosciusko lists movements and events: deaths of Samuel J. Wood and Eugenia Hanson, reappointment of Col J B Denson as Brookhaven postmaster, marriages including E T Swickland and Mattie Irby and J T Harris with Mollie Reed, and J R Goode with A P Turner. Also reports from Sardis Starkville Jackson Grenada and more on law practice, relocations, vacancies, and a saloon count in Oxford Kosciusko area.
The piece ridicules Republican opponents for demanding extra clerk hours while praising Democrats for economy. It argues the current clerical system is burdensome and wasteful, condemns graft and favoritism by party patrons, and highlights a tale of Theophilus Wiggleton dodging debts to a tailor as a parallel to public accountability.
In Austin the whisky-loving Colonel Bill McCracken discovers his son Tom home from military school in Kentucky. The anecdote centers on the barroom exchange about drink sizes as the elder McCracken spots his son in the billiard room. Nearby notes mention Dr. A Nanter as a potential county treasurer candidate and a state school fund payment of 3909.34 to Panola county. Bettie Smith of Oxford visited Senatobia.
A passenger uses a mustard plaster to ease a fellow traveler’s pain after a bull in the corner of a fence injures him. The improvised treatment calms the man, while the car fills with startled exclamations and a flurry of curses.
The Grenada Sentinel lauds two young female apprentices Miss Miller and Misa Eubanks for rapid progress in typesetting. In four and three weeks they set near two long galleys daily, distribute cases, use 2 inch sticks, and correct proofs, challenging any state to beat their speed.
In Batesville Julius Porter returns to practice law as a shopkeeper jokes about prices. A Detroit Free Press quip describes a faltering bargaining scene where overcoats are offered at eight six to seven dollars. The exchange ends with a humorous offer to ship the difference.
The fragment depicts a comic scene in a legislative session where dialect heavy remarks clash with arrivals from Arkansan and Irish figures. Mike Ortigas confronts the English speaker and questions privilege while debates drift into immigrant references and flood relief.
A Denver Tribune joke features a thermometer claiming it cannot perform as it stands forty degrees above zero while a policeman declines a drink in the window. The Lexington Advertiser notes Ida Howell of Oxford has secured a drawing class and will teach in the college building.
A woman, unable to overpower the armed intruder, yanks off her hoop skirt and flings it in his path. The prisoner crashes down stairs, becoming entangled and choking until the jailor arrives and frees him with a hatchet. The scene draws onlookers as the fight ends with medical aid.
A Northern college educated Austin young lady urges her grandmother at the deathbed to choose formal phrasing. The old woman, in a feeble voice, says I am gwine ter peg out, provoking her granddaughter to insist on phrases like expire or approaching dissolution for a more dignified tone.
The Star notes that the Mississippi and Tennessee railroad pays a yearly privilege tax of 1002.36 dollars to Panola County. The Arkansas humor inset recalls an Irish friend remarking on a dead man, reflecting a newspaper oddity in the same issue.
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