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Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1874-02-24

OXFORr.-A petition is about 10 be pre- {.
scented to Mr.. Brydges, managing director
{ the 6. r Railwa~. asking for better
freight accommodations at Oxioid station.
-N'urteyants shoe peg establishment
has been sold to Whitney & Clark. who
are soon to iii II up for manufacturing
slaves Whitney & Clark have also re-
Gently made a large purchase OF OAK in
OHsiied. which is 10 be sawed into slaves
in their uew mill.--Rawson 4 Chapman
are receiving larger quantities OF ash than
for many winters past hc store OF
Frauci, Holden. Esq. In Oxford. caught
fire around the chimney. one day last
week aud was eXtinguished by the prompt
use OF one OF Whtman's Portable Pumps
AID Fire EX,iugui>hrr,.
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1874-02-24
Postal Change. I'm Oxford County.

Postmas,ers appointed-E. I Stesrns,
Centre Lowell; Levi B. Morrill,. Hebron.
vice Mrs. Miranda Glover, resigned !;
East Peru, j Howard
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1874-02-24

-If,iie town clerks will send list OF
the officers elected at the March meetings,
We VIII be obliged to them.
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1874-02-24

strange.
Thirty copic, OF The Duly Argus. con
tanning the biography OF ' squire lcrhcl.'
were disposed Of here, and then the public
Ike Oliver Twist. asked for more
Dcco>tcr & Moore sIilI keep the cele
bratrd stall on King Hiram"
-Regisicr.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1874-07-02
FACTS AND FIGURES.


.-Ninety-seven carloads of strawber
TleS were recently shipped North from
delaware in single day.
One day recently over 10000 cases
OF strawberries were received in Chicago
from Michigan-160000 boxes.
There are only twenty-six counties
ana 245 towns in this country named
aI'er the Father of His Country
a. frm in Reading, Pa, employing
nifty hands, makes $4,000 wool hats a
year, consuming 100000 pounds of wool,
Of coal. ''-
-otatlstcS show a remarkable decline
IN matrmony of late years. Formerly
o!ieIe was one marriage year to every
eIshIy-tWo OF population. Now it is one
marriage to llo of the population.
PROBABLY the fastest train in the
world Is the express train on the Great
western Railroad, which leaves London
(faoulngton StatiOn) at II 40 a. m, and
arrives at Swindon junction, IS miles, at
liz p. NJ, at an average rate of 53t miles
per houf Few of our American light
nlnS express" trains keep up a speed OF
thirty miles an hour.
The total yield of precious metals on
the racine coast since the discovery OF
gold IN California in 1S4S has been very
nearly S1,6OO000,000 Of this sum Cali.
1ornla has produced about S1,094, 919,09S:
Nevada, 1921 400, 412; Utah, $1S,527, 527;
Montana, Sl19,30S 147; Idaho, S57, 249, 1877
Colorado, S30000,000; Oregon and Wash
lngtOn, S25,501, $50; British Columbia
$9,OOOOO0, and Arizona, S5,000,0OO
The fastest railway train in America
is the one carrying newspapers from
New York to Philadelphia. 1t starts
from Jersey City at 4:10 a. m. and ar
rlves at West Philadelphia at 6:57. The
section between New Brunswick and
Trenton Is run at the rate of a mile g
minute. The train has been running
about year now, with but one accident
and one passenger coach has lately beer
added to it.
An Irish mile is 2,240 yards a Scotch
mile is 1884 yards; an English or stat
ute mile, 1,760 yards; German, 1906
Turkish, 1926. An acre is 4,040 square
yards, or SO yards foot 81 inches eacl
way. A box - by 121 inches square
and inches deep will contain half
bushel. A box s by 81 inches square anC
s inches deep will contain one peck.
boXS by s inches square and 4! inches deel
will contain one gallon. A box by
inches square and Al inches deep vii
contain half gallon. A box by
inches square and a inches deep vii
contain one quart.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1874-07-02
POLITICAL.

The Missouri State Temperance Convention
at st. Louis, on the 18th, adopted resolutions
declaring it the imperative duty of every citi-
zen to use his political influence so as to pro-
mote the best interests of the community in
which he lives; in the present crisis he should
exert his influence in behalf of Temperance, and
vote only for men of pure habits, correct
principles and opposed to the liquor traffic.
Among the bills before Congress which 90
over till the next session are the following:
For the relief of owners and purchasers of land
sold for direct taxes IN insurrectionarv States
Amending the section of the act approved Ju1y
ID concerning deposits in savings banks
Granting to railways in the Territories the
right of way through public lands of the United
States
To enable the Central branch of the Union
Pacific Railway Company to submit its claim
against the United States under the existing laws
TO decision of the Supreme Court.
To establish and maintain a national SAVINGS
depository as branch Of the Postofice
To incorporate the Southern Trans Continental
Railway Company.
To provide for the more efficient administration
of laws relating to public land
Amendatory of the Civil Rights law.
To authorize the organization of national banks
without circulation.
To establish the Territory of Pembina, and pro.
vide government therefor.
Providing for the resumption OF specie payment
and for free banking.
Amendatory of the Tariff and Internal Revenue
| laws.
For admission of New Mexico and Colorado as
States,
Repeating the Presumption and amendatory Of
the Homestead laws.
| TO protect the navigable waters OF Inc UnlteC
| States from injury and obstruction.
| House bill for the reorganization OF the army.
| House bill to eeualize bounties.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1874-07-02
Other Interesting Domestic, Personal and
Political Intelligence.
FOR EIGN.

The strike in Yorkshire, in which 10000
miners were engaged was ended on the 2Oth
by the acceptance of the ultimatum proposed
by the masters, which was reduction OF IA
per cent in the rate of wages
The meeting of the Diplomatic Congress on
International Rights at Brussels has been
postponed from July Is to July q.
A terrible disaster occurred in the Sea of
Marmora on the 10TH A Turkish vessel was
run into by an Egyptian vessel, and Of the
$40 persons or board 800 were drowned.
The crisis in the French Assembly was
ended on the 10Th by the Ministry agreeing to
extend for two years the operation of the
present Municipal law, amended so as to pro
vide that the nomination of Mayors should
be made by the Government.
The Brazilian cable was successfully laid
on the 22d, and London is in Geographic COM
mumcation with PernambucO.
The committee of the Agricultural Union
of bennington, England have voted an APP
preparation of $1,000 to take a party of the
Iocked-ou farm hands of that district to Can
ada and the United States
London dispatch of the 22d says the Porte
had prohibited the circulation of the Bible in
Turkey.
The American pilgrims presented an album
and collection of valuable diamonds to the
Pope, on the 22d.
Marshal Concha has decided to build a
series Of Notifications extending across Spain,
so located as to cOnfine the Carlists within a
small area destitute of the means of susie
nance.
A Paris dispatch of the oath says the French
Government had issued an order prohibiting
the distribution Of photographs of the Prince
Imperial Three of the Partisan newspapers
had been fined for reprnting Rochefort's
speech.
Madrid dispatches of the 9th say the
Carlists captured BelImount on the preceding
day. The Carlists had established three in
trenchcd lines before Estela. The Radicals
were disposed to create Il Consulate for five
years, to be conferred upon Serrano.
The postal convention between France and
the United States was ratified by the French
Assembly on the 25th, without debate
There was considerable excitement in Rome
on the evening of the 24th in consequence OF
anti-papal demonstrations. Several of the
ringleaders were arrested.
Calcutta kilograms of the 25th say that the
distress consequent on the famine in India was
decreasing everywhere.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1874-07-02
A Summary Punishment.

A CORRESPONDENT of the Manchester
Eng) Examiner gives an account of the
summary punishment at Haywood of a
married man who had been counting a
girl on the pretense of being a bachelor,
and was found out. When the deception
he had practiced became known he went
to the house of the girls mother to apOl-
ogize for his misconduct and to pay the
costs of an attorneys letter threatening
legal proceedings. What followed is
thus described by the correspondent:
"On coming out Of the house into the
street. to his great surprise, he was met
bv several hundred of the people, and
haIf a dozen stalwart fellows at once laid
hands on him. He was conducted with
due ceremony to the center of the street,
and here ordered to stand erect, while
two men of the same band were told off
tn f1oc him with a stout hempen rope.
which they laid on his back with IN
merciful thwacks. The man yelled pain
f1IIv while this was going on. He was
of Intervals also ordered to stand at ease
and seves right After the f1ogging he
was tarred all over with coal tar, and then
the tar was sprinkled with -four. amid
the iibes and iests of the by-standers. It
was then proposed that he should be
drapged through an adjoining mill-pond.
which was. however, not carried out
owing to the interference of several by-
SANDERS He was paraded I'D and down
q short time longer, and then allowed to
march ND Bury street to the house of q
relative. where he found shelter from the
furv of the crowd. The man has three
children and pretty wife,
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1874-07-02
DOMESTIC.

A few weeks ago a German family named
Elless, in Toledo, Ohio ate of partially-cooked
sausage, and since then the mother and one
child have died and another child was in a
precarious condition. A microscopic eXami-
nation of portions of flesh taken from the
lungs, limbs and other parts of Mrs. Eiless'
body revealed the fact that the whole system
swarmed with trichina. In Jumps of flesh no
larger than pin-head were found from fifteen
to twenty of the encysted parasites. 1t is sup
posed that Mr.. Eiless' life was saved by the
violent purging and vomiting which he I'M
derwent the next day after eating of the
sausage.
Early on the morning of the 21st, as the last
forms of the New Orleans Bulletin were being
conveyed to the press-room, they were seized
by the Metropolitan police and locked up in a
police station. The paper subsequently APP
peared with six printed and two blank pages.
Much excitement was created by this proceed
ing on the part Of the authorities. The editor
OF the Bulletin says the seizure was made
without warrant or legal process, and for the
purpose of suppressing the paper for having
opposed the alleged robberies and infamies of
the Kellogg-Duren administration.
The bill for the distribution of the Geneva
award provides for the appointment of a
court of five Commissioners, to be APP
pointed by the President, with the advice
of the Senate, and the sessions of the court
to be held in Washington. The President may
designate counselor-at law to represent the
interests of the Government in all suits and
claims for indemnity for losses. The court
shall exist for one year from the time OF con
yening, but if the business is not completed
within that time the President may by proc
lamation extend the term not more than si1
months.
BY the provisions of the Postoffice Appropria
ton bill passed by Congress the prepayment
OF postage on newspapers shall commence Jan
i, 1919, and the rate of postage on newspaper:
shall be two cents per pound on weekly anC
daily newspapers, and three cents per pound
on all publications less frequent than weekly
The postage on public documents is fixed a
ten cents per volume.
At Syracuse, n Y, on the evening of tn,
23d, a strawberry festival was being held a
the parlors Of the Central Baptist Church
when, without any premonition, the foo
gave way, precipitating the room-fun into tn
story below The parlor was on the secon
floor and the room underneath was also ful
of people. Thirteen or fourteen wereskilled an
about one hundred injured, many of ther
dangerously.
A few evenings ago Mr.. Largen, VIII
resided near Monroeville, Ind, attempted
fill kerosene lamp while it was burning
when the oil in the can ignited, and terrif
explosion followed, severely burning MI
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1874-07-02

| around the arms and breast, and three of his
| children, aged eight, six, and four years, who
were standing near, were so severely burned
that they all have since died.
Another Wisconsin railroad agent, VI. Kane
of the Chicago s. Northwestern Railroad, at
the Insane Hospital station, has been tried,
convicted and fined fifty dollars and costs for
illegal charges.
The cornerstone of the new Government
Custom House and Postoffice building in Chi
cago was laid on the oath [St. Johns Day.,
amid impressive ceremonies, under the au-
spices Of the Masonic fraternity. A large
number Of strangers were in the city, and
many different organizations were present
and Joined in the proceedings.
a convention called by the Oshkosh CWis)
Board of Trade to consider the necessity of
prompt action on the part of Congress in the
improvement of the Fox and Wisconsin Riv-
ers met in that place on the oath, and was
well attended. Col. G.. D. Robinson, Of Green
Bay, was chosen President, with A J. Turner,
OF Portage, and Curtis Reed, of Menasha, as
Secretaries. A series of resolutions was
adopted urging the importance and necessity
OF the proposed improvement of said rivers.
A letter was read from Gov Taylor, stating
that the objects of the convention had his
hearty approval.
1t has been recently stated that the West
Wisconsin Railroad Company has issued orders
for trains not to stop at Hammond, Wis, be-
cause the agent of the company there had
been fined for selling tickets at a greater rate
than allowed by the Potter law
At Lincoln, Neb., few evenings ago, Ell
vina Blazier, young woman nineteen years
of age, attempted to light fire with the aid
of oil. The can burst, throwing the con-
tents over her, the flames enveloping her body.
Her mother ran to the rescue and was severely
burned on the hands and arms. The young
woman was fearfuIly burned, and died the
next morning.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1874-07-02

ton it shall be returned to the association or as
sociatiOns whose bonds shall have been sold; and
il shall be the duty of the Treasurer, Assistant
Treasures. designated repositories and National
Bank repositories of the United States who
shall be kept informed by the Comptroller OF the
Currency of such associations as shall fail TO re-
turn circulation as required TO assert and return
to the Treasurer for redemption the notes of such
associations as shall come into their hands until
the amount required shall be redeemed. and in
like manner TO assert and return TO the Treasury
for redemption the notes of such National Banks
as nave Jailed or gone into voluntary liquidation.
for the purpose of winding up the affairs of such
as shall hereafter fail or 20 into liquidation.
SEC 8. That from and after the passage of this
act ii shall be lawful for the COMPTROLLER of the
Currency, and he Is hereby ordered TO issue cir
culatIng notes without DELAY as applications
therefor made. not TO exceed the sum of
S5ouOO,eu TO associations organized. or 10 be
ganlZed. In those States and Territories having
less than their proportion of circulation under an
appOrtionment made on the basis of population
and OF wealth as shown by the returns of the cen
of 1870 and every association hereafter organ
lied shall be subject to and be governed BY the
rules, restrictions and limitations and possess
the rights. privileges and franchises now or
hereafter TO be prescribed by law to national
banking associations. with the same mower 10
National Bank act: Provided, That the
whole amount of circulation withdrawn and re-
deemed from the banks transacting business
shall not exceed S55.000O00, and that such Circu-
lation shall be withdrawn and redeemed as shall
be necessary to supply the circulation previously
issued to the banks in those States having less
than sheir apportionment: And prOUided, further
That not more than $50 100000 shall be withdrawn
and redeemed, as herein contemplated, during the
fiscal year ending June 30, 1875.
The title of the bill is amended to read
as follows:
IAN act to fix the amount of United States
notes, provide for the redistribution of the Ma
tional Bank currency, and for other purposes"
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1874-07-02

A, YOUNG japanese, who was sent to
America to study, receiving from his
Government an allowance of $1,000 per
annum, embraced Christianity and be-
came a Methodist. According to Japan
csc law he was punishable by death.
Considering he was bound to notify the
fact to his Government, he wrote home
and renowned all further claims to his
allowance. The Government of Yeddo
thereupon instituted inquiries in America
into the manner in which the young man
was following his studies; the result Of
these being in his favor, all the reply that
he obtained from the japanese Govern
ment in answer to his notification was an
increase of his annual allowance to 81 800
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1874-07-02
Insanity Under the Microscope.

DIR. KEMPsTER, of the Oshkosh wis
Insane Asylum, has been examining the
brains OF insane persons under the micro
scope and taking photo-micrographs OF
cerebral scenery. To make his inquest
as thorough and conscientious as posi-
Die ne learned photography, SO that he
conducts the whole investigation, from
the post-mortem examination to the
mounting of his views.
1t is certainly an interesting question
whether the brain or any portion of our
bodies shows a trace of the fact of insan-
ity, which we call and miscan perhaps a
mental disease. DR.. Kempster has never
found in medical works but single case
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1874-07-02

A NOVEL case has just been decided by
the Supreme Court of the District of
Columbia. 1t appears that one of the
carriers of the Washington Chronicle, who
was discharged last summer for refusing
to comply with the conditions imposed
upon him by the company, brought suit
in the sum of $4,000 as the value of the
route on which he had for years delivered
the paper, and which he claimed was his
property by contract The Court, how
ever, decided, first, that there was a want
of mutually in the contract, and, second,
that the pretended contract came under
the fourth section OF the statute of fraud,
requiring contracts not to be performed
within year to be in writing The de-
cisiOn is an important one, as it does away
with the claim by carriers that they own
the routes over which they travel, unless
there is a special contract with the pub
fishers comforting the property upon
them
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1874-07-02

A MARRIAGE was recently solemnized
by telegraph, and now the news of a
wedding ceremony performed in barn
yard comes from New Hampshire. A
young lady living at Flatbrookville, in
that State, fell in love with one of her
nelghbors, young man, and he recipro-
Gated the passion. Desiring to get mar
ried, they notified the Squire, and he con-
sented to "splice" them. Shortly after
the arrival of the Squire the mother of
the eXpectant bride, who had been absent
from home, returned and discovered the
situation. She objected with a piece Of
board, and proceeded to belabor the
parties concerned. The groom went one
way, the Squire escaped in another di-
rection, and the blushing bride fed to the
garrett Later in the day the lovers were
seen together, and the result of the stolen
interview was that early the next morning
they presented themselves before the
Squire in his barn-yard He asked them
to go to the house, but they declined, stat
ing that the brides mother was on the
war-path and in hot pursuit of the flying
pair. Without further delay the twain
were made one, the only witnesses to the
ceremony being the wondering cattle that
surrounded them, silently chewing their.
cuds.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1874-07-02

reported of an investigation OF this CHAR
acter. He has in the past six years made
microscopic examinations OF the brains
of forty-nine lunatics and he discovers
decided differences between sane and IN
sane brains and between different classes
of insane, acute mania presenting quite
a different aspect from dementia and
from other descriptions of lunacy. What
the phenomena are which he discovered
we need not detail in the precise and
technical language of science. It is i'm
possible to determine whether these
marks indicate the cause or consequence
of the disease. The usual course of in
sanity, however, we take TO be thiS-hrst,
the soul-disturbance, as by a great grief,
then the physical lesion. But dose OF
morphine or blow may produce the
same physical lesion and, inverting the
order, occasion insanity backward.
DR.. hempSter advances no theory or eX
PLANTATION of his work, and declares him
sell simply anxious to bring out the facts
IN each case and let them stand for what
they will. Indeed, we call attention to
MS work not so much for what it amounts
to IN itself, but as an encouraging eX-
ample OF patient, laborious and consci-
entlous investigation. Moreover, it is
not merely fancy question in science.
Like so many of these investigations
which seem purely speculative, it will
probably prove to have its practical value.
If the law could be laid down with pre-
cision that the remains of a person will
indicate sanity or insanity, it would have
an important bearing upon many life in
surance trials and will cases. The in
sanity dodge" in murder trials seems to
be as yet safe from exposure from this
source, since the brain of living person
cannot be submitted to the microscope
without personal inconvenience not less
embarrassing than hanging itself
Springfield glass; Republican,
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1874-07-02

THE NEWS.
End of the Crisis in the French
Assembly.
A Compromise Currency Bill Passed
by Congress.
And the Measure Is Endorsed by
the President.
Resignation of Postmaster-General
Creswell-His Successor.
Adjournment Of Congess.,-List Of Important Bills
Going Over TO Next Session.
More State Political Conventions and
Nominations.
Cases of Trichina Spirais Caused by
Eating Sausage Meat.
Terrible Accident at Syracuse Thir-
teen Persons Killed.
Other Interesting Domestic, Personal and
Political Intelligence.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1874-07-02

STEAL engraying-Never.