Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1869-05-07
Editorinl and Selected Items.


an officer in one of our Maine Batteries
during the late rebellion.
We have no doubt that the Lecture will
be highly entertaining one.
The rate of tax this year for our town
is tlco cents and one NAH; last year 10
mills. The State tax is about $1,000 more
this wear than last. There were $1,000
more voted to pay the Bounty debt than
las, year The appropriation Tor schools
is also about S70O moIe, to comply with
the act Of Legislature.
MIR. Perham's family are detained in
Portland, by the sickness of his children.
Ii will be- three or four weeks before the
sick ones can be moved, even if they DO
well.
Hon. Washington Gilbert one Of the
Leading lawyers of the State is about to
close up his practice and remove from the
State
VIM. H. Wheeler, formerly of the
Bangor Hh'g l. now managing editor oi
the New England Farmer.
Fowler Is lecturing in Missouri on
free schools, and paper in Detroi, SAYS
that he Is thus doubly free knowledgeiSt.
The regular republican candidate
for Congress in the Alexandria district of
Virginia is General WhittleSy, formerly
of Maine, and Mr. Wal,ack, late Of the
Washington Evening Star, is running rs
an independent republican.
VIM W Virgin, Esq, of Norway.
Reporter of Decisions. is said to bee a
candidate Tor position rs one ofthc com
mi>sioncrs to revise the statutes OF Maine,
saws the Portland Press We have the
authority of Mr.. Virgin TO deny the re-
port
-(5overuo Chamberlain has made the
following nominations Cyrus + Bracket
Professor in Bowdoin College, State
AsSayer, in place of Geo. l., Goodalc
George \. Frost. Of Sanford. Trustee of
the Insane Hospital; David Fernald, OF
Camden. Inspector General Of Fish.
The Portland Press saws that Adju
tant General Caldwell will tender his re-
siguation in June To assume the duties OF
his consulate at Valparaiso The candi.
dates for his place arc said to be- Gen.
MURRAY of Pembroke. Gen. Charles W.
Tilden Of Castine, aud Gen. George L.
Beal of Norway.
Prank Swift, Of skating celebriiy,and
James BOYLE, rode on velocipedes from
Syracuse TO \. York, a distance of ninety
miles. in fifteen hours They left SYRIA
cuse one evening and arrived about
o'clock the next evening. aud exhibited
at the rink. The time given is the riding
time
The DEMOCRATIC CANDIDATE The Ban
gor Wing lies in wait for Col. Smart. try
ING 20 catch him in his words and 70 con
Wet him out Of MS own mouth. In this
it displays considerable ingenuity. But
when it sees the letter that is being pre-
pared. signed by M,rcclu> Emery, Eben
F. Pinsbury, Robert Elliott and Paul ;.
Merrill. assuring Col Smart thai he i
the only candidate they can think of sup
porting. it will cease It's indecent attacks.
says the Portland Press.
The Village OF You Bet, in Cali
foruia has been DESTROYED by fire The
name ,mack> otthr gamblers vernaeular,
and i, not IN accordance with good taste.
If buiit up again. We suggest a change.
1t is To be hoped that ire will purge ii OF
every bad name and nature.
The Portland Daily Advertiser oflast
Friday. was printed on paper m ade of
wild Rice. /, resembles paper made OF
straw
-Julias \. King, Of this town, win
tered 30 sheep, and has this Spring -
lambs The lambs last year were worth
500 piece, showing that sheep raising
pays well.
The residence of Mr. Howard Hough-
ton was burned at Waterford. Thursday
forenoon. April 29,h, together with the
stable. which with part Of the hou Sc wac
new last season. All his provisions and
part OF the furniture were consumed. ~
rapid wa, the combustion. The barn
was SAVED by strenuous efforts, although
several times on fire Mr. Houghton has
small insurance in the Waterford
Mutual The loss falls heavily upon an
industrious and worthy citizen.
The Prohibi,ory law has been reenact-
ed in the Massachusetts, House by vote
ct 1876 10 80; a members absent, or not
voting. II has been modified in the pro-
cess OF reenactueut, by amendments al
lowing cider to be sold not to be drunk
on the primi>es, and allowing apothecarieS
20 ill the written prescriptions of physi-
clans An sttempt TO exempt lager beer
failed.
The New York H,raid calls Sprague
man of letters"
An exchange calls the sending ofne-
groes on foreign missions an expectation
Of wool.
An Old lady. being in a store at Water
bury, Conn. recently. deliberately sat
down aud reached out her halffrozen feet
TO the iron safe, remarking that she " al