Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1869-04-09
r1i,orio, ond selected Items.

We shall go to press day earlier
next week, on account Of FaStday.
The roads in town are getting to be
almost impossible, and some of them
dangerous. The highway Surveyors can
not do better service in any season of the
year. than just now.
The snow is settling very gradually
and the ground appearing in some places
tits very favorable. so far as freshets are
concerned. that the vast body of snow on
the ground is going slowly. The sun In
midday is warm, but the atmosphere
continues cold.
Both Houses Of Congress have voted
TO adjourn on Saturday of this week,
%. G.. Curtis has sold his farm in
Paris 10 :. X. Ellis and Edwin Stearns.
and has bought the VIM. Morse farm.
near South Paris.
Several families ofcoloredpeople are
about coming to this city from Peters
burg, Va, where there is much suffering
from poverty, SAYS the Lewiston Journal.
-Jabez True, Esq, examiner in the
Portland Custom House, and formerly OF
Bangor, died in Portland on the 5th inst,
of typhoid fever.
The press of Madrid charges John 7.
Hale. American Minister. with smuggling,
"A singular case is reported in one of
our exchanges. FortyyearS ago bloom
inc young girl ofsixteen married an old
man of sixty for his money, expecting
that he would soon die and leave her
wealthy Young widow Hope deferred
maketh the heart sick" and last week the
lady died at the respectable age of S.
leaving a husband aged 100, and four
children to mourn her loss.
The British government are 10 sell in
Canada. in MAY next. 594 Artillery horses
They are advertised as trained and IN
good eondition-amongs them some inn
ported English mares valuable for breed
ing.
There is living in Paris Mr.. Henry
MeKenney. aged 80 years, his wife aged
IS wears, with their entire family ofeleven
children (six sons and five daughters Jail
living. This is thought to be remark
able case Of an unbroken family.
We learn that John 4. Bragdon,
whose arrest at South Paris, was men
toned last week. was discharged upon
examination, he proving an abb on the
night of the robbery.
Hon. Hiram Ruggles of Carmel has
been appointed by the President Assessor
of Internal Revenue for the 4th District
of Maine, vice Geo p Sewall of Oldtown.
Rev. j. w. Hanson, for several years
editor Of the Gospel Banner, and Rev.
Selden Gilbert, formerly pastor of the
Universalist church in Norway, have
purchased the Ne,r CoreRdHt. religious
paper in New York.
The general Conference of the Con-
gregational churches in this State meets
at Bangor. June 22d.
The snow at the White Mountains Is
very deep. In Tuckerman's rayine, the
snow is estimated 10 be thousand feet
deep. and some grand snow arches are
expected, which viii last all through the
coming season.
At the town election a, Perry, on
Monday of last week. Mary NJ. Boydcu
was elected one of the ;. ). Committee.
This is the third lady who has been elect
ed TO such position in the State.
Secular newspapers do sometimes
blunder in their religious paragraphs.
The New York Herald last week spoke
of the Passover rs 'fesstin commemora-
ton of the passage Of the children of lsra-
el over the Nile
IL. F. Morton, West Sumner, has
obtained Patent for his Drag Rake.
The Senate, in executive session,
confirmed FranklinJ Rollins. as Collector
of Revenue. for the first District of Maine.
in place Of y. J. Miller, resigned. Mr.
Rollins has been first Assistant in the
Office
A man in New Bedford. in order 10
be entirely safe. put his barrel Of ashes
on the back door step. Nevertheless, II
took fire and destroyed the house.
The Maine Central Railroad has
resolved to extend their track into Port
land. instead OF RAINING over the Grand
Trunk.
An individual of Quincy, H., lately
found an express package addressed to
Adam Sell, Chicago He opened it,
and To-, it was one.
The girls Of northampton have been
sending a bachelor editor boquet Of
tansy and wormwood. lie says he don't
care-he'd rather smell that than matri-
monv
The colored Lieutenant Governor Of
Louisiana was recently expelled from an
omnibus in Louisville on account of his
color, his white fellow passengers threat
ening to throw him out Of the window.
A locomotive engine on the Grand
Trunk was exploded at Danville Junction
on Wednesday, delaying the up train