Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1869-11-19
THE OXFORD DEMOCRAT,
FOR 1870

upon subscribers to pay ga adrGRce, we
make the following liberal offers.
For the sum of two dollars. we will
send our paper one year, and the AMERI-
CAN SrocK JOURNAL, or THE WESTERN
HloME, both dollar Magazines. The STocS
JOURNAL is a first class Monthly Journal,
devoted to Farming and Stock Breeding.
illustrated with numerous fine Engravings
and bound in handsomely tinted covers.
Farmers will find this monthly a very
efficient aid in all the departments OF farm
inc and Stock Breeding Ii has = Veter-
mary Department under the charge of one
of the Oldest Professors in the United
States. who answers through the Journal,
free of charge, all questions relating to
sick. injured or diseased horses, Cattle,
Sheep, Swine or Poultry. Thus every
subscriber has horse and cattle doctor
free.
Or, we will send the Stock Journal to
every one who will procure us t'co new
advance paving subscribers.
The WESTERN Hons is Monthly first
class Literary Periodical of 81 columns,
containing contributions from the ableSt
writers in America. Each number con-
tains Discourse ofthe Ret Henry Ward
Bcccher, worth alone the price of the pa
per We will send one copy of this gratis,
should it be preferred Ia the Stock Jour
nal, ON the same conditions.
We have expended thousand dollars
the past year, in improving our paper.
We are DESTROYS OF doing more-but our
great object i TO get on the GdrdHcc pay
mtIa system, principally because 1t Sc
cures our pay for the paper, and not be-
cause We SO much desire the money in adj
vance. Farmers would think il strange
To sell their produce and wait one, two
or three years for their pay-Why should
they expect the printer to do il? The sys-
tenn OF protracted payment for newspapers
results in much loss to the proprietors and
tends to dishonesty 1.-THE delinquent-for
many are tempted to repudiate bill
which has amounted to a number or dol
lars. which they never would have thought
of doing while it was being contracted.
We have proposition for subscribers in
arrears, which holds good To the lSt of
January, 1870, viz that we will take
$50 year, from them, if they will pay
"a adrduce rs many years As they arc in
arrears.
We are printing. now, nearly eighteen
AuRdrci papers. weekly. The list has
been siited pretty thoroughly, nearly all
being good paving subscribers. We have
brought it nearly up 70 our maximum Of
1000 With little more effort on the
part OF Gun friends We shall accomplishit it.
We shall then be able Ia give addition
Al attractions for the qualification of all.
II should be borne in mind that our
terms of subscription ale tsco dollars \
year. from which discount OF tlity cts. is
made, for adcaHce payment. To live up
TO our terms h0nora5ly, IS we desire TO
do, aud give advance paying subscribers
the benefit of their cash advance, We must
StrictlV adhere 20 oar terms. Since our
paper has been enlarged. il Is the size of
the two dollar papers, but we will still
send il tor 81 80 per year, IN adrdHcc.
The raw material of paper costs us one
cent copy, and all the expenses of
printing are cash.
We cannot afford 10 send the paperto any
one who cannot pay for il We have
stricken from our list several hundred
who were deficient over two years-tak-
inc it for granted that after such lapse
OF time, without payment, they has either
not the inclination or ability 10 pay. We
have a hundred more or So. in the same
category, and we would thank them 10
either pay up, or refuse to take the paper
from the office that We may lose no more
by them.
We also offer 10 our subscribers the CLIO
rates advertised by the most valuable
magazines and Journals in the land. a list
ofwhich. with the prices. ARRAYS ia al
rance, we append; showing the price of
the Democrat, added To the various peri
odicals named:
sSo,-IittelI'- Liyin, Age
s. jb-Eclcct,c Magazine, The Nation Round
Table
s5tU---kyrry saturday"
sis5-fraak Leshe'> illustrated News, or the
Chimney Corner
stJ--F Their Atlantic Monthly, Waverly Maya
yiUe. Boston semi Weekly journal, Boston semi
Nrrklt Advertiser, y. ! semi " ecAy Tribune
Fla- ~ cur [ mon .or Putnam Monthly, HarpeT'S
M0uilly, Harper's Weekly, or Harper> Bazaar,
Hearth and Home Galaxy. AppletOn's Journal
Si0i-Godey's Lsdy's Book, New York semi
Weekly World, New York Ledger, American Nat
uraiirt scientific American, or COngrvSatlou1h~t
SS Either Hours nj Home or American
Journal OF Horticulture. or Rural New Yorker
a. l8-NeW England Farmer, True Flag, AmeT
can mon. Gleason'S Literary Companion. ur Les.
lies BOYS ami Girls Weekly or Home Journal.
S8eo-EithsT cur Young Folks Peterson, Arthur
5-tln Weekly spectator Boston Journal, Boston
Traveller. New ork Tribune, New ork Weekly
World. Lady'- Friend, piiSer optics Magazine,
The American obi Fellow, sabbath - Home,
Home Circle 80
S2F-Ballou's Monthly.
S25O-Either American Agriculturist, or student
and >ehoolmlte. or Maine Normal
Just Is we are going 10 press. we
learn OF the sad news that a brakeman,
by the name OF Needham, fell from a