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Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1873-10-28
STATE or MAINE.

OXFORD, S,.--At Couu of Probate, held AZ
raris within and for tie Comfy OF ONiOid
uu the third tuesday OF October, y D. les,
Certain iz-tyumrut purpoINuE to be- 8 copy
~ Of thc l1~t Wtll and Testament ot William
Iuompruu late OF Boston ln the County OF suhOlk
and the STATE of assachu-ctts. aud OF the Probate
thereof M said stale Of Massachusetts, duly au.
lhtulcatei having been presented 10 Tie Judge oi
H. sbatu Tor saiJ OOunty Tor tie purpose OF benz
allowed, fled and recorded IN the Probate Court
los oar s.iid County:
Ordered That Ihy said Petitioner give notice to
Ill ptr-uu- interested by causing copy Of this
order 10 b. published three weeks successfully In the
oxford Democrat printed ~ Paris that they may
appear Il Probate Court 10 be held AT Paris
ia sald County on the third Tuesday OF Dec. next
al . O'Clock IN the forenoon md slew cause II any
they have why the same should not DC allowed Is
The last will and testament OF said deceased
All. WALhER, Judge.
100 t---..-LL.f. Il L. ILAAI-- IL. i.frr
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1873-10-28
0XFoRDss:-Ata cour, OF Probate he'd a

OXFORD IS AT Il Court OF Probate held at
Paris within aud Tor the County OF oxford
on the third Tuesday of october, ID. 1873,
I'm the petition OF hAkGAEEI Bki AMI
~ widow OF David Bryant iAie OF llarilor
in said County deceased, praying fer an appoint
ncui Of an Administrator on thu estataie vi her
late husband:
Ordered, That the said Petitioner give notice
10 all person. interested by causing copy OF this
order to Be published three weeks successNely in the
Oxford Democrat printed AZ Paris. that they may
appear a. u Probate Court To De held ~ PUriS
in said County on ihe tlTd Tuesday OF NOV. next
at . O'Clock IN the forenoon and shew cause II any
they have why the same should not be granted.
A. II. NALhER, Judge.
4 true copI-attest: II. G. DAVIS, Register.
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1873-10-28
. Increase Pensions :"

ACT March :. 1873, grants q higher Fcu-i1n TO
certain SOLDIERS now drawing i,sa t.aH $500
per month. All who deem the r'ic They unN draw
loo small FOR the disability Incurred Boo r.c ARMY,
II they will state what the DO ability b. which
they are now pen,iouci, aal irhfH au.. Ir..rc II
was incurred. can receive ga application iHr m
crease 10y applying 10 person on hy l."". with
stamp enclosed 20
GEO. e.. WEEKS.
USfrED STATES CLAIM AoESr.
maI2j-ti AU q US'I.A. II y.
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1873-10-28

We quote from chap. 30 Il. S. 1871, the title Of
said capter being "lnspection and sale of Manu-
featured Articles"
SEcr. 81. Every person and corporation engaged
in manufacturing petroleum, coal oil or burning
fiuid shall cause every cBsk other vessel there
of 10 be 30 Inspected and marked, by . sworn In
specior. And II any person manufacture or sells
such oil or burning Auid not inspected and
marked IA This State, or that has not been 80 IN
spected and marked a. unsafe for llumnali ing pur
poses, he shall pGy fHe not etcceding gtchuHdred
dollars OF be imprisoned six months IN the County
Jail, uIon Indictment therefor.
Portland, Nc April n, ISIS. mt -iGm
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1873-10-28
\ Iruc cJpJ-ullcst: u. {. DAVIS, Eegister.

OXFORD. ss:-At a court OF Probate held ~
Pari- within and for The county ol pNioru
on the third Tue day OF October, 4. -. 1918.
TANE> CURTIS n4incd Executor ia certain
81 Instrument purpOrting 10 bc The last WI and
Testament OF George I;riH-hAm late OF Paris IA
said County deceased, having presented the same
los Probate:
Ordered, That the said Executor give notice
10 all per,ons interested by cau.ing copy u this
ord, IL be- pub.h he'd three weeks SUGGEST, ely ia te
ONiOrd Ucnhnc rat printed NJ fafis, that tue. may
appear al a Probate Court TO be held n PaIIs
Ia said C0uIty on the third Tuesday OF NOV. next
al O'Clock in the forenoon UId sleW cause LGny
the, have why the should not be proved APP
proved aud allow ed a, the last VIII and Testament
OF said dcceused. \. II. WAi.kEi;, Judge.
4 true cupy-Attvst: il. {. DAVIS, Rt -ister.
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1873-10-28

OXFORD, sat- Conrt OF Probate held ai
Paris within and for the Coanty OF oxford,
on tie third Tuesday Of October. u. 1873,
ON the petition Of ABBiES - PAINE, of Mason
" praying for the appointment of Ashley %.
Paiuc Guardian Of Mary r., Annie Il and Asbie
'. Ws-cott minors and heirs oi Frederick Wescoi
late of Albany:
Ordered, Ihatthe said Petitioner give noilc,
10 All persons tnteresedby causing an abstract OF
SAID petition VITA this order thereon 10 be published
three weeks successfully IN the oxford Democrat
printed at Pals. thstthey may appear at Probate
Court 10 be held at Paris Ia sand County ON the
third rucsduy Of Nov next at y O'Clock In
the forenoon and show cause u any they have why
the same shOuld not De granted.
A. II. WALKER, Judge.
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1873-10-28
Freedom Notice.

rTHIS il To certify that | have this day given my
/ san, William Warren, his time to trade AMI
act r1l4hin,sel( the remainder OF his minority. |
shall claim none vi lis wages nor pay any debts
OF bis contracting after tLis date
H.. WARREN.
WHness-F. ". iIDLON-
Porter October 18th, 1873.
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1873-10-28
A. II. WALKER, Judge.
Atrut copy -sttrst: u. G DAVIS, Register

OXFORD, - AT Court of PROBATE held az
Paris within and for the County of oxford
On the third tuesday OF October, A. ID. 1913,
I'm the petition of AMOS g.. BEAN u creditor
~ Of the estate ct Frederick \. Wescsu pray
lnS That administration may bs granted "A George
III. Brown OF Mason in said County:
ordered rhut the said petitioner give notice Ia
all persons Interested by causing abstract OF said
petition with tai, order thereon 70 bee published
three weeks ,ucce-siyely In the ON.orl Democrat
printed at Paris, that they NAV appear at Probate
Court 10 be held At Paris "A mid County on lhe
third Tuesday OF Nov. next ~ O'Clock ia the
forenoon aud ,hcE cause 10 any they have why the
same should not be granted.
A. II. WALKER, Judge.
4 lImn rnnN = AIfr.i I. IL :. q IANIe. Ent,isfnF.
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1873-10-28
THE PORTLAND
Kerosene Oil Company
Would inform the public that they continucto
Manufacture
Portland kerosene oil.

The prevalence of large quantity OF inferior
and dangerous oils IN the market, at - cheap price
many OF which are little better than Naptha Itself
and the existence Of false reports IN regard to
the PORTLAND KEROSENE OIL render Y a matter
OF justice 10 ourselves well as safety - our Gus
toners, that some notice should be taken of these
facts. Therefore We again present m advertise
Incnt and would call attention % the high stand
ard nf our Oils. THE REFINED PETROLEUM, the
lire test Of which is ~; THE PORTLAND hERO-
sINE the fire test Of which is l25 degree Fahren-
heI, ana often reaches considerably higher; also,
We would say that we arc determined 20 maintain
their long establishcd reputation.
PORTLAND KEROSENE OIL COMPANY.
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Probate Court Record.

Reported for the OXFORD Democrat by II. {
Dpis, E7q.
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1873-10-28

OXFORD, - AT Court of Probate held Ut
Paris within aud for thc County Of oxford
on the third Tuesday Of October, a y. i,7.l
hAEll> L. LEWIS Guardian of Clara q
- Mansd ld minor child and heir ut " lillian
Mansfield late OF Erpwuhcld Boa sIid County, hav-
ing p,c-cn,ed his srrouut % guardianship ot -uii
Ward Tor allowance.
Ordered, That tue said Guardian give notice
10 all persons interested by causing copy OF this
order to De- published three weeks successfully IN the
ONi1ul Democrat printed al Paris. that they may
sppear al q Probate Court 90 b, held At frycbUtg
iu -a County on the ~ eut second day 0fh as next
AZ o'clprs IN the forenoon sad sh,w cansc r any
they have why the same should not Do allowed.
An. NALkER Judge.
4 TIN. .luN-nl.r.l. IL 4. DIVE. Etgl.trr.
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1873-10-28

OXFORD, r.:-At = Court OF Probate hsld a.
Parts within and Tor the County Of oxford
on the Third TUESDAY VI October, a. -, ls.J,
4 LBlON J. BONNEI Executor on the estate
~ 81 LlewSiyn Robert, laic ~ Buckncli. m
.aId County deceased, hlNiu. plcsCuted his huuI
account cot lImlui-u4tIou ut tuc estate OF said
drccJ al luI allowance.
Ordered ihat ti.y .ait EN,...ur siv,z0dcs
90 AL prtsOa- iAttrrstt1 by cfU-4.- COPS % thi,
order 10 De- puJ.isht Dire, 'tA. .-tt-s-.t. 90 the
ON.Vgd democrat prince a. Eti.., tu-' lacy may
appear at q Probate tpuTi ;u i. trl1 a. .-Ari~
Ia said County On the tHtih t....s, - Nov next
Al O'Clock la the iHituuyr ... .h, cause u auy
they have Why thc same .ls..d not be allowed.
a. "a. WALKER Judge.
The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1873-10-09
WOmanlY Dignity.

There are various kinds of dignity, and if
some are more exasperated than Others, some
are very lovely, aud among the greatest charms
of womanhood. There is in particular that
soft dignity that belongs to women who are
ahectionate by nature and timid by tempera-
ment, but who have reserve of self respect
that defends them against themselves as we'll
as against others. These have quiet dignity,
tempered by such sweetness of speech and
manner, that is the loveiest kind Of all, and
the most subtle as well as the most beautiful.
They seem to cast the spell of respect Oh all
with whom they are associated. No man, save
of the coarsest fibre, and such as only physical
strength can control, could be rude to them in
word or brutal in deed for there is something
about them very indefinite but very strong
withal, which seems to give them special pro-
lection from insolence and loving woman
of soft manners, whose mind is pure, and who
respects herself, is armed with power which
none but the vilest can despise. This is the
woman who gets precise obedience from her
servants without exacting it, and whose chill
dren do not dream of disputing her wishes !;
who, though so gentle and afable stops short
of that kind of familiarity which breeds con-
tempt, and with whom no one takes liberty.
For this, one can scarcely give a reason. She
would not romp or rave if she was displeased,
she would not scold, she could not strike; but
there is a certain quality in her which we may
not be able to formularize, yet which would
make us ashamed to pass beyond the boundaries
of the strictest respect, and which restrains
others less consciously critical than ourselves
as certainly as fear. It is the respect we pay
to those who respect themselves the considera-
tion and honor which all real purity of nature
demands and obtains.
This is womanly dignity in its loveliest as
pect, and the kind we all desire to see in wo-
men, whom it would not harden, nor render
less than loving.
The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1873-10-09

The SLANDERoUs ToNGUE.-The tongue of
sander is never tired. In one way or another
it manages to keep itself in constant employ
ment. someSmes it drips honey and some
times gall. 1t is bitter now and then sweet.
It insinuates or assails directly, according to
the circumstance. 1t will hide curse under a
smooth word, and administer poison in the
phrase of love. Like death, it cloves shining
mark" And it is never so available and elo-
quent as when it can blight the hopes of the
noble minded, soil the reputation of the pure,
break down the character Of the brave and the
strong.
What pleasure man or woman can find in
such work, we have never been able to see.
And yet there is pleasure of some sort in it
to multitudes, or they would not betake them
selves to it. Some passion of the soul or body
must be gratifed by it. But no soul in high
estate can take delight in it. They often serve
to polish the slanderous tongue, increase its
tact, and give it suppleness and strategy to do
its death work
The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1873-10-09
The PHILADELPHIA Tragedy.

Mr.. Thomas Parker, who shot his wife in
Philadelphia on Wednesday morning, and then
blew his own brains out, killing himself in
stantly, was enjoying an income of 0,0OO.
Thomas Brown Parker was the son of the late
Isaac Brown Parker, who left an estate fully
worth S3000,000, to be divided among two
sons and three daughters. This estate COM
prises some of the most valuable property in
Philadelphia, owning the ground upon which
the Continental hotel and the Grand Central
theatre stands.
About eight years ago Parker married Miss
Helen McGregor, he then being about thirty
four years, and she twenty years old. They
have had but one child, boy, now about two
years old. They resided in elegant style in an
ornamental brown stone villa in the western
portion of West Philadelphia, the house being
surrounded by beautiful grounds, conserva-
tories, etc., and furnished within with most of
the luxuries and comforts of a refined and
wealthy family. Mr.. Parker's habits have not
been such as to make his relations with his wife
of the happiest and for long time past they
have occupied separate rooms, the child occupy
ing cot in its mothers apartment
On Tuesday afternoon Mr.. Parker was riding
in phaeton driven by his coachman, and on
his return his demeanor was noticed as being
remarkably sullen and morose. He retired
early in the evening and went at once to his
room, and nothing more was heard of him un-
til the dreadful deed of the nigh was done. 1t
seems from the testimony, that Parker went to
MS wife's room with the pistol, and shot her
while she was in bed. She arose and fled from
the room to that of the servants, where she lay
down, beseeching the domestics to save her
baby, which was still in the crib in the room
with its father. The female domestics were
afraid to venture into the room, and called out
of the window for the coachman, who slept in
room in the stable building. He came to
the house as soon as he could but none of the
female servants would come down stairs to let
him in, and he gained an entrance by means of
plank by which he entered the second story
window. When advised Of the condition of
affairs, he started for the police and a physi-
clan, and on returning the party entered Mrs.
Parker's room, where they found Parker lying
across the foot of his wifo's bed dead, with the
pistol in his hand, having shot himself behind
the right ear, the ball passing forward and to
the left, and lodging at the root of the nose.
The child was lying in the crib unharmed
The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1873-10-09

MARRIAGE OF MUTEs.-The marriage of
Mr.. Haynes, of Raleigh, N. G., deaf mute, to
Miss Bunker, of Mt. Airy, also deaf aud dumb,
took place few days ago in the latter town.
Mr.. Dudley, teacher in the Deaf and Dumb
Institute, accompanied Mr.. Haynes on his trip
for his bride The minister read the usual
marriage ceremony, which was interpreted by
Mr.. Dudley to the candidates. The responses
were promptly made by signs and everything
was done in order On the journey to Raleigh
the bridal party came very near being drowned
while crossing swollen stream. The bride
groom, who never swan before, rescued his
bride by swimming and carrying her in his
arms distance of several yards to the shore.
Miss Bunker is the daughter Of Eng, one of
the Siamesc twins.
The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1873-10-09

THE FIRST RAILWAY IN PERsIA.-The re-
markable work of turning the first sod of the
first railway in Persia has been accomplished
at Reshd, town, the capital of the province of
Ghilan, on the shore of the Caspian. Few ma
tions have experienced so many remarkable
changes as Persia, but the event which we re-
cord to-day is the most significant and hopeful
of any which is told of in the history of her
national career from its very first point of in
ception to the time of Cyrus the Great, and
thence to the occasion of the Shah's visit to
the outside nations.
The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1873-10-09
All Sorts Of Paragraphs.

From report just issued, it appears that
the American Bible Society consists Of 2,125
life directors and $4,000 life mem bers. The
receipts of the last fiscal year were S737 $751; of
which $1S,789 remain unexpended. During
the fifty-one years of its existence it has pub
lished 29,9S2,212 volumes in IS dialects and
languages
- The majority, if not all, of the bankers
and brokers who have been ruined by the crash
we're we'll known as earnest friends and con-
tributors to the success of the Republican par
ty Their ruin, then, is their country's good.
They have ruthlessly despoiled the Government
at every opportunity, and they deserve their
fate.
- An uneasy boy whose mother tried to
quiet him, on Boston and Maine train, the
other day, by telling him the conductor some
times swallowed naughty boys, astonished her
a few moments after, as the portly form of the
conductor appeared at the door, by creeping
behind her and exclaiming, in a whisper, Ma,
I guess he has swallowed one already"
Amongst the candidates who have sue
cessfully passed this years examination at the
Naval Academy is another colored boy, AlonZo
McClernan, of South Carolina. The colored
cadet Conyers, who failed to pass last June, is
to be given another chance, and if he can get
throug h this time the two will be company for
one another.
- There is droll story of how man lost a
wager in Pueblo, Colorado Stepping into a
large liquor shop he offered to bet ten to one
that he could, blindfolded, tell the name of
any liquor or wine in the house, or any mixture
of liquors, by the taste or smell. All went
we'll with him at first. He named all the cele-
brated brands correctly. Then they handed
him a glass of water He tasted, he smelt he
tasted and smelt again, and at last, completely
nonplussed, he gave it up so. "Well, boys, >
he said, "you have got me. It seems to me e as Is
if, years ago, I struck something OF that kind
in the States, but it was SC long ago | have
entirely forgotten it."
The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1873-10-09

The CURSE OF DR1NK.-The appetite for
strong drink in men has spoiled the life of
more women-ruined more hopes for them,
scattered more fortunes for them, brought to
them more sorrow, shame and hardship-than
any other evil that lives. The country numbers
ten nay, hundred of thousands of women who
are widows to-day, and sit in hopeless weeds,
because their husbands have been slain by
strong drink. There are hundreds of thou
sands of homes scattered over the land in
which women live lives of torture, going
through all the changes Of suffering that lie
between the extremes of fear and despair be-
cause those whom they love, love wine better
than they do the women they have sworn to
love.
There are women by thousands who dread to
hear at the door the step that once filled them
with pleasure, because that step has learned to
reel under the influence of the seductive poison
There are women groaning with pain while we
write these words, from bruises and brutalities
inflicted by husbands made mad by drink.
There can be no exaggeration in any state
ment in regard to this matter; because no hu-
man imagination can create anything worse
than the truth.
The sorrows and horrors of q wife with a
drunken husband are as near the realization OF
hell as can be reached in this world at least.
The shame, the indignation, the sorrow, and
the sense of disgrace for herself and children,
the poverty and not unfrequently the beggary;
the fear and the fact of violence the lingering,
lifelong struggle and despair of countless wo-
men with drunken husbands, are enough to
make all women curse wine, and engage
unitedly to oppose it everywhere as the worst
enemy of their sex.-GT. Holland.
The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1873-10-09

Gen. G. T. Beauregard was thrown from his
horse while passing over the field of the Bull
Run battle, near Manassas, recently, and so in
jured that he was compelled to take up quar-
ters III the ncighborhood Gen. Beauregard
ncighborhood.
The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1873-10-09
Deleyan for herself, and losing him to Maude

Deleyan for herself, and losing him to Maude
Leicester.
II am perfectly aware how distasteful the
allusion must be to you, Miss Verener, but /
can hardly forbear to ask you if you really
think Miss Leicester died West?'
He was such a strange lover; and Alma
Verener began to wonder whether, after all
he would not break off the engagement from
sheer queerness. He was forever talking about
Maude, since one unlucky day when she had
casually mentioned she saw her in the West
But if there were lios endless in number to be
told, Alma Verener could and would tell them
to further her ends
"Dead, I'm quite sure, Mr.. Delevan else
why is it / never hear from her, as she
promised to write to me?"
"And when you saw her last she was we'll
and happy?"
$50 I should judge, from her gayety and
good looks. The landlady said she was about
to be married"
"And you've never seen her since that
time ~
He did not make it question, but rather an
assertion. His ears were tinkling with that
news-"marriedp
And Miss Verener looked quietly up, with
never blanch Of the eyelids.
"I have never seen her SINCE"
There followed a silence, and then she said {:
"Oh, by the by, I've lovely bunch of ferns
to show you, that were given me this morn
ing"
She glided across the room, and from agass
saucer removed bouquet of exquisitely dried
ferns, and handed them to Mr.. Delevan.
"Heavens where did it come from ?''
For they were tied with piece Of pink
budded blue ribbon, and Mr. Delevan arose
trembling at the sight of it.
"The ferns? Senator LovelPs wife"
''No, the ribbon. Where did it come from :"
She looked up in surprise at his passionate
tones.
'I suppose when the parlor maid placed
them here she had done it. Why7"
He laid down the ferns and walked over to
the window.
Then he turned around and walked back.
"Will you De so kind as to send the parlor
maid here? ?''
His tones were still full of excitement, and
Miss Verener wondered in dumb silence what
allied the man, as she rung for Jenette.
"This gentleman wishes to see you, she said
frigidly to the girl
"Yes-who gave you this 2"
he held the ribbon up.
"Sure and there's no harm done sir? It's
WA
give me this mornin'-"
Archer Delevan interrupted her almost
6ercely.
"What Miss Maude? Where is Miss
Maude?"
While Alma Verener clenched her hands in
impotent rage; her case was hopeless she
plainly saw.
"And she's up the stairs in the sewin'
room"
$50 tell her come down."
"Miss Verener," and he turned to face her,
eff as I suspect my lost love is an inmate of
your house, I will only punish you for your
duplicity by assuring you that Maude I.eices-
ter shall be my wife before the sun SETS"
Then, all unconscious of the glorious news
awaiting her, Maude entered the room, worn,
pale, but as pretty as in those old days.
She started, and felt the scarlet bushes On
her face.
Archer Delevan sprang to meet her.
"Oh, Maude !-you'll not freiuse me again
when I ask you to be mine? Maude my own,
my own forever!'
The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1873-10-09
STEAM ENGINES /!

A Ill persons wishing Steam Engines, will
IN. find it to their interest to call on tho un-
dcrsigned, who are now the recognized agents
for the best Steam Engines built in the Unir
ted States-Engncs that are uncqnalled for
strength DURABILITY; and beauty of finish.
OSBORNE IL McCULLE.
April TO- 1873 10 tnl