Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1866-07-27
VOLUME 33, NO. 81.

Rev. G. H. Sturgeon Is about 10 have
ms choiee ssyings served up under the
head OF +" AneodOtss and Stories.-
The Chicago Lake tunnel will Be com.
Pie'ed BY the first Of October this year.
-Four millions Oftons Of bitun.ipOus eo.I
were made into gas in the U. 5. last year.
". Alexander Dumas has left Par. for
Italy, where he goes 20 Join GaribsIdi and
become the historiogrspher Of the cam
paign.
The Pope's own sister recently died a
Rome an great poverty and misery. She
was Anii-Ca'holie, and the Pope wouldn't
do much for her.
Oaribaldi has requested his friends 10
give up ferizg him. The time for ae-
tion' he says, has come. and We mus,
postpone festivals till the Italian far
noats IN triumph from the towers Of San
Marco
a curious invention Is going to be tried
IN faris. An iron tube i 20 be run up
the side Of those trees in the public rnr-
cens which require constant watering in
summer. Up this tube water Is 10 Be
forced, 80 as TO produce an artificial show
er when neo'!ed
There are over seventy telegraph Offices
m New York city, with force Of BIS
persons there are now thirty wires be-
tween Washington and New York. and
nearly one hundred wires leave the city
OF View York. The American ana West
ern Union companies have about 2.OOO
ofhoes. with 5000 employees.
\ correspondent informs the London
Ifr7es that IN Switzerland ,he tele-raph
y the property Of the state. an of5ee i
established In almost every villsge- and
the charge II uniform.-one franc for
lSeniy ave words. irrespective Of distance.
lAe dispatches are printed. and the estab-
lishnent yields a large revenue.
A 81 Paul (Ninesota) paper pubIishes
facts which indicate that the cattle di-ease
- raging among the buffalo on the north
western prairie. numbers Of these AM.
mas have been found dead, with no narks
70 account Tor the cause Of death. Many
cattle have also been attacked and died
~ Pernbina, in the same state, with what
Is supposed 20 be disease Identical with
that now spreading through Europe.
The L. 5 monitor Miantonomah has
arrived az Queenstown, ireland. The
passage was made IN 10 DAYS and IL hs
The average run was los mile. per dav.
While the other vessels lurched about a5d
their progress was checked BY heavy seas.
she moved along apparently unchecked ia
speed, and without rolling.
A German savant. ". Haussner. states
that the European wars from 1918 70
lst'+ cost the lives Of ? 1872 600 men
and this figure does not include those wbo
died from epidomics created by war. The
CrImean war destroyed over half nil
llon Of men. The total loss Of lifs IN
EaroPe OF the wars from 1872 to isis
was 5.3jO.O0O The Crineaa war eo.t
6.500.O0O.0OO Francs.
Tho New York University has oorrr-,5
on Mr.. Erastus W. Smith the 2 --se r
Doctor IN Physical Science, as roc..,ai-
ton Of his abilities a. an engineer. Th.s
j. new degree, and Mr.. smith Is the frst
% receive u. The University has estab-
ished u 20 place Itself in connection
with mechanical engineering. one of the
most important and growing professional
Interests Of our city and ooantrv"
Mrs Eli Walker. Of Hartford O. who
has become heiress 20 fortune of s85.-
OOu,OuO IN Europe, l. the wife Of a ma
ehinist. The Emily arr soon % leave for
Engiand. 70 assume possession Of the
property.
A letter from ~ Petersburg savs that
the Gar - IN such fear Of his life SINCE
ihe discovery OF the conspiracy Of which
horokozot was a member. that be has
noW shut himself up in the fortress OF
Croustadi. The whole Of the present sys-
TEN Of government l. % BE- changed. and
Az the men who. under the name Of The
Mhutyn party, propagate1 socialist prin-
cpies IN the country. are o. BE- removed
from The administration.
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