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Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1875-07-13
PARIS MAINE, TUESDAY. JULY l3. 1875.

too dntitnl daughter, will not become
my wife without your consent"
(which she shall never have,n said
Mrs. Dewsiord, emphalically.
Very well, ma'am Gee up. Whitley"
and he shook the reins.
you're not going to leave me here P"
shrieked Mrs. Dewstord iu a panic OF
terror.
"Unless You comply with my condition
ma'am, | most certainly shall"
And your condition is"
Your consent to my marriage with
your daughter"
Elizabeth ~ cried Mrs. Dewsford,
"Will you be witness to this-this
atrocious conduct. anu not interfere ?"
Charley wont let me have a word to
say in the matter, mamma, at ALL" said
Lizzy, demurely.
Mrs. Dewslord gave n hollow groan.
Mr.. Everett touched his horse slightly
with the whip.
"Siop!" cried Mrs. Dowsford. IL
c'nsent--but it is under protest"
You can protest all you like" said
MIR. Everett, driving closer TO the rock
aud S.auding up to assist his molhel-in-
law elect into the phaeion.
Silently Mrs DewsTord entered the
vehiclc-siienty she rode home-siIently
she crossed the threshold of her house, as
became conquered party.
40 think" she said, in hollow voice
rs She "a. down to dinner. THAT after all
my precepts aud examples. Elizabeth
should end her career by getting mar.
li,d~
Mamma said Lizzy timidly, Il don't
thina lis so very terrible after nj :"
To shink, sighed Mrs. Dewsford.
paying no attention to her daughters
reply "Jhat she sho.,d meet the late Of
an oidiu.uy woman"
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1875-07-13

Recently the local paper at Grass
Valley said: The prettest girl in
Grass Valley does not carry herself
straight enough when promenading."
For a week after all the Grass Valley
girls stalked about like so many ramrods;
aud every girl said, THAT horrid paper
Ma, don't | walk straight"
"A keen witted servant girl told the
milkman the other day. that he gave his
cows too much salt. "How do you
know that?" said the lactealist. Sure l
Kin tell by the milk, they drink too much
water intirely!" The milkman drove off
in hurry.
The profession of dentistry is called
chronological. because in the practice OF
it the patron, as soon as the operator be-
gins to bore cold iron down into his jaws
calls out, "Oh, don't" This is the be-
ginning of the term, and the rest OF 1t is
illogical sequence.
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1875-07-13
MemOrdbte Letter from Daniel
Web ster.

To Me Editor OF tie Christian Union:
Ia my researches into the history OF
Maine came across pamphlet upon tho
Centennial Celebration OF Winthrop,
which contained. in q note appended to
an address by my friend and classmate,
Hon. S. p. Benson. the following leu uer
from Daniel Webster. 1t struck me AS a
letter of extraordinary interest. | won
dered that had never seen it before. IL
seemed to me just one of those letters
which would 90 the rounds OF the news
papers and never be forgotten. Where
it has been buried for SO long time |
cannot imagine. Neither do | know
where Mr. Benson obtained 1t. Mr.. Ben
son. who was for some years 10 Congress
with Mr.. Webster, is very reliable man,
and the letter itself bears internal evi
dence of authenticity. L. has occurred
u me that. Just at this time, it is perculi
arly adapted to the columns OF the Chris
tian Union, and that it will do more
good there than elsewhere therefore
submit il to your discretion.
JOHN S. G. ABBOTT.
FAIRHAvEN, CT, May 2. 1875.
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1875-07-13
FAIRHAvES, CT, May 2. 1875.
Letter from Daniel Webster.
MARsaFIELD, June 15. 1876

MARsHFIELD, June 15. 1852.
Professor PedSe Dear Sir: | have
received your very able and interesting
annual report of the condition of the New
York Sabbath School Association, and
read it with with great pleasure and in
struction. 1t is gratifying, very gratify-
ing, to learn that in city, where vice
aud immortality run riot with impunity, q
few humble Christians have devoted their
time and energies to the cause OF religion
and ferventiy pray that your labors may
be crowned with success.
The Sabbath School is one OF the grea,
institutions of the day. II leads our
youth in the path of truth and morality
and makes them good and useful citizens
As a school of religious instruction it is
OF inestimable value. As civil institu
ton it is priceless. IL has done more tC
preserve our libreties than grave states
men and armed soldiers. Let it then be
fostered and preserved until tine end oi
time.
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1875-07-13
Qoetrp.
VI D y s..
BIZ EDGAR rAwcFrr.

Bf EDGAR FAwcErr.
strange tapestry. by naiur, spun.
y" Niewiess looms. aloor from sun.
Ana spread through lonely hooks and grots
"here shadows reign, and leafy rest
moss OF all your dwelling spots,
In which one are you loyeliests
i u when near grim roots that coil
'"'H snSky black through humid soils
VI when YOU wrap in woodland glooms.
The great prone pine trunks, ro,te.l redg
W when you dim, on Sombre tombs,
The requiesoats Of the deads
Or Is it wheu YOUR lot (, cast
IN some quaint garden OF the pas;.
o. some sray, cIumb,iug basins brim
with couchs that milleved T,itons blov
Nhiie yonder, through The poplars priul.
Looms up The lurretel chatcaus
nav io'iiest "e you when time wcaves
Tour emerald films on low, dark caves.
Above where pink Porch.roses peer.
AM woOdbiaes break in fra-raut foam
Aad caildrcn laugh, e.. and Won can hear
The tcaiinss Of the heart Of home.
-4tGRfic W1ntLfy.
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1875-07-13

AN ARITHMETICAL CURIOSITY. The
London Athen@um contains the follow
ing curious arrangement of figures:
The daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1873-1877, 1875-10-26
- Trains with Through
n Cars
TO NEW YORK.

THIS is THE ONLY LINE THAT RUNS THE
celebra ed PULLMAN PALACE CARS from Chicago 10
Baltimore, Washington City, philadelphia and
New York, without change, Ask for tickets via
Fort Wayne and Pennsylvania Line
Through tickets for sale at all principal ticket
Offices, at the lowest current rates. =
F. II. MYERS, G, P & T. A.
The daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1873-1877, 1875-10-26
Gh,e,' % alFiillgl! A,rtens,

The Ohio election Is imagined by some
t. strengthen the chances of President
Grant for third term as the hard money
candidate, and the New York San wants
to know what the Ohio Republicans think
of him. Suppose, says the San, hard
money convention should be called next
winter for the purpose of nominating
Grant would it not succeed2 Suppose
it should be successful in point of num-
bers and weight and that it should nomin-
ate Grant, would the Republicans accept
him? Suppose they should accept and
vote for him, would he be elected? To
these questions the Cincinnati Commercial
thus replies:
But suppose hard-money convention
should nominate Grant, would the Repub-
llcan party adopt him as its candidate !?
Certainly not. Grantism has been almost
the death of the Republican party. Sup
pose, however, the Republicans should be
guilty of the utter madness of nominating
or accepting the nomination of Grant for a
third term-what would become of those
who are now so jealous in their declara-
tons against third term? We presume
they wonld make good their declarations
Speaking for ourselves, we would make
good our resolution never, under any cir
cumstanceS, to support, candidate for a
third term of the presidency. Would we
support such candidate as Bayard,
Thurman or Klden as against Grant for a
third term. Certainly. We would do it
without one moments hesitation.
would Grant be elected if he ran for a
third term against Democrat? He would
not. Any decent Democratic candidate
would distance him."
The daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1873-1877, 1875-10-26
From the ". ?. Tribune,

Senator Conkling's speech at Albany
will hardy regain for him the Influential
position in national politics which he oc-
cupied when he appeared in the New York
canvass as the mouthpiece of an apparent
ly securely seated administration; nor wi |
it add strength 20 his party in the pending
campaign. There is little in this speech
which partisans of less note have not be-
fore said quite as forcibly and with no per-
ceptible effect upon the great mass of
voters who have their faces set in the direc-
ton of reform, and are not to be turned
from it by sneering criticism of steps al
ready taken with that object, much less by
faint praise of this reformer or disparage
ment Of that one. For once Mr.. Conkling
evidently has little faith in his own efforts;
he merely talks to fill his appointments
There must be better work than this for
the Republican ticket in this state, or its
cause will be lost before the battle is
fought.
Mr. Roscoe Conkling says it would be
unsafe to trust the Democrats now. be-
cause they opposed emancipation before
the war, opposed the employment of
slaves in our army during the war. and OPP
posed the Constitutional Amendments
afterward; they have not changed their
opinions, and it they ever get a chance
they will return to the old policy. With
out stopping to inquire how Mr.. CoakliDg
supposes they will set about the restora-
ton of slavery and the enforcement of the
military orders excluding contrabands
from the lines of our army, we may recall
one fact which Republican orators seem to
have lost sight Of The Democrats OF
1875 are not only dealing with a different
set of questions from the Democrats OF
1855 and 1865, but they are in large
measure different men. With the passing
away of old issues the old politicians and
voters have been passing away too, and
the control of both parties has gradual.
ly fallen into the hands of new genera
ton, educated in the new ideas. Mr.
Conkling forgets what an enormous pro
portion of the voters of to-day have come
into public life since the issues of Slavery
and secession were finally closed.
The daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1873-1877, 1875-10-26
Attachment Notice.
STATE OF ILLINOIS. l.

STATE OF ILLINOIS, lss
COUNTY OF Rock ISLAND.
To the November term, A. D. 1875 of Tie County
Court.
John Henderer and Thomas Fisher, late partners in
business under the style and firm name of Hen
derer & Fisher, VS.. Michael Grace. Attachment.
Notice is hereby gwen to the said Michael Grace
that writ of attachment, issued out of the Office
of the Cler. of the County Court of Rock Island
County, dated the 2Sth day of April, A. D. 1875 at
the suit of John Henderer and Thomas Fisher late
partne erc., against the estate of the said Michael
Grace for the sum Of sixty-eight dollars and fifty
cents. aud delivered to the Sheriff Of Rock Island
County 10 execute. Now therefore unless you, the
said Michael Grace, shall personally be and appear
before the said County Conrt on or before the first
day of the next term thereof to be begun and holden
at the Court House in the city and County
of Rock Island on the second Monday Of
November A. d. 1875, give bail and plead
to said plaintiffs action, Judgment will be
entered against you and in favor of the said John
Henderer and Thomas Fisher and so much of the
estate attached may be sufficient to satisfy the
said judgment and costs will b. sold to satisfy the
same, JOHN V. COOK, Clk Co. Court.
T.. A NELL, Atty for Plfs'
Rock Island, ILL.,, Oct. II, 1875. 10-lSd3w
The daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1873-1877, 1875-10-26
SOUTH H "a ~
Oh e T..
ST. LOUIS,
Fronting on Walnut. 4th and 9th SITS,
LAVEILLE, WARNER & GO ,
PROPRIETORs.

During the past year this Hotel has been
thoroughly overhauled, re painted, re-fres-
coed, re-carpeted and re-furnished from
top to bottom, and is frst-class in all re-
spects.
The SOUTHERN is located near the
center of business. the theaters, and all
places of amusements. Its tables are sup
plied with the best the markets afford, and
there is in the Hotel building the neatest
RESTAURANT in the city for Ladies and
Gentlemen.
There have been added twenty i've bath
rooms and closets also. fourteen large
sample rooms on the office floor, especially
suited to travelling men who have goods to
show.
The proprietors are determined that the
SOUTHERN HOTEL" shall be among the
best hotels of the country, and hope to
greet their old friends, as we'll as many
new ones, promising every attention that
will add to their comfort, and make them
feel at home.
There is an improved elevator leading
from the first floor. Railroad and steam
boat ticket Offices, news stand, and West.
ern Union Telegraph Office in rotunda o.
Hotel.
The daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1873-1877, 1875-10-26
RAILROADS

No. 2. No. 4. No. 4.
Day Elk. Pack Milk.
Ex.Sun. Daily. iEX, Sat.
& Sun,
The daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1873-1877, 1875-10-26
1000 Agents Wanted.
Footprints of the Ages Our Gov
eminent and the Nations
Centennial of History.

800 Octave pages. fully Illustrated Every citizen
says:-"It's Just the Book want" Extra terms.
Outfit free. Address
WORLD BOOK CO, CHICAGO
The daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1873-1877, 1875-10-26

Printing and binding executed neat
quick and cheap at THE ARGUS OFFICE
Blank Books of every variety and
style ruled and hound to order at The
ARGUS OFFICE.
The daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1873-1877, 1875-10-26
RAILROADS..
T II T.
ROUTE.
COMPOSED OF TIL

indianapolis, CHM. & Lafayette r. R,
ped Route between all pc ints west of the Missis.
sippi River and PEORIA, LAFAYETTE, INDIANAPOLIS
CINCINNATI, LOUISVILLE and all Cities of the East.
South East and North.
The following is the time of the CINCINNATI
LIGHTNING EXPRESS TRAIN:
Leave Rock Island 600 a. m. via P s. R. 1 Ry
Peoria 1910 a. m, Sheldon p m; Lafayette 30
p. m; Indianapolis 6 AS p. M; Cincinnati 10 55 p
m; Louisville II 100 p.
Close connections for Baltimore. Washington,
New York. and Southern points.
Leave Rock Island 80 p. m. via P. s. R. 1. Ry :;
Peoria I 100 p. M; Lafayette 100 a. M Indianap-
oils 4 200 a. M arrive Cincinnati S:45 a. m. Louis
Vile $50 a. M; Dayton 2:45 p. m; Columbus II /:
IS a. m. Pittsburgh zoe p. m. Immediate connec
tons through to Philadelphia, New York & Boston
CHICAGO & LOGANSPORT FAST EXPRESS.
Leave Rock Island 80 m Peoria II 100 p. m.
Gilman $50 o. M; chicago 7:3G a. m. State
Line 4:l0 a. m; Logansport 7:35 m; Columbus
8 :55 p. m; Pittsburgh 203 a. m; Toledo 80 p m
Cleveland 10:10pm IN.
| Close connection at Chicago, Pittsburgh and
Cleveland for all Eastern and Northern Cities.
| BY this route passengers avoid delays, and ON
| nibuses transfer through large cities which rem
ders it very desirable particularly for ladies.
| Ask for ii kets reading from Peoria via T. P. &
W. R'y. Baggage Checked Through.
a. L. HOPKINS, Receiver Peoria
II. c TOWNSEND. Gen'l Tic't Agt, Peoria
For Information address
w. r. CRUMPTON.
Gen. West'n Ag't, Burlington, Iowa.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1875-03-05
The Arkansas Question--An Able
Speech by Mr.. Poland.

The House reasSemhled at 80, when
the Arkansas debate was resumed.
Judge Poland had the closing hour.
His speech was Il surprise to the House,
and very evidently Influenced many
votes against the Ward resolution.
which provided for the recognition of
Brooks. His speech was plain, forcible
and logical. and commanded the entire
attention of the House.
Judge Poland in conclusion said that
the United States has no more right to
interfere with Arkansas than has Eng
land and France. He declared that he
was ii party man. but he could never
follow party so far as to undertake to
overthrow State constitution. He
said that especially he would not do so
for the individuals in this case. refer
ring to Senators Clayton and Dorsey.
whom he characterized us ghosts stalk
ing about the Capitol. He stated that
he was at the probable end of his po-
ltical career. and had as great stake
i'll this country rs anybody, but he had
never been called upon to combat so
monStrous IL doctrine as the proposed
recognition of Brooks.-D Dispatch to
Boston ,jOuindl. Wednesday,.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1875-03-05

would show that in place of getting
Mrs. Woodruff to suppress the scandal
he did all he could to get her to publish
it that he brought Mrs. Woodruff on
three or four occasions to Mr.. Moulton's
house, and that when he found what Il
storm had been raised against him for
publishing that Woodruff biography he
and Mr.. Moulton entered into the des-
perate scheme of getting MIR. Beecher
to preside at the Woodruff lecture in
Steinway Hall. which Mr.. Beccher de
clined to do. Tilton himself presided
at that meeting and introduced Mrs.
WOodhull To the meeting. But If he
had been able to get Mr.. Beechcr to
preside he could have said: ''See. MIR.
Beecher. the great preacher of the
country. indOrses this woman But
Mr.. Beecher did nothing of the kind.
Beecher'S refusal to do so brought down
on him from that time forward all the
bitterness and hostility of Tilton and
Moulton. which had never since ceased.
Mr.. Beecher had declared that he could
not. for the sake of saving Tilion, in
dorSe the principles of Victoria Wood
hull.
Tiltou went West on IL lecturing tour
the Golden Age was not prospecting +;
Tilton was out of money. Something
must he done, and 1'ilton wrote that
letter to Mr.. Bcecher. stating the ac-
cu>ationS that Bowen had made against
Beechrr. Tilt"n always had an eye to
business no matter whether the queS-
ton involved his wife'S honor or his
own relations with Bowen. he subjected
La,
He took Il press copy of Il letter he i'll
tended to publish against Bccchcr and
showed it to Samuel WilkcSon, IL mem
her of the firm of Ford \ Co. Mr..
BccchcI'S publishers. and Tilton said
he would publish that letter If Henry
Ward Brcchcr did not do him Justice.
Mr.. WilkcSou saw at il glance that if
the scandal was published it would
;lstound ChriStendom and ruin the work
the Life OF Christ" on which Mr..
Brcchcr was then engaged. Iilton did
not 90 to Mr.. Bowen to show him the
letter. He said To Mr.. WilkcSon that
when Bowen did him injustice Bcecher
did not take his p TT that he passed
over on the other side. But why did
he show that letter To Mr.. Wilke>nn. Il
friend of Mr.. BeccherSP Counsel con-
tended that this WAS done for the pur-
pose of hlackmail, especially as Triton
only got Il few copies of tn" letter struck
off and then had the type distributed.
He showed the letter i'll type to some
friends: bat Tiltou never intended to
publish the letter. The 5000 which
Bowen owed Tilt"n had not been paid
for fifteen months but in Il few days
after Tiltnn had been showing the
threatening letter to Bnwrn'S and Beech
rr> friends. that - 900 came int" Til
toms hands
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1875-03-05

ments of brothelS ought not to find a
public audience in il civilized comnu-
nifty, under any specious abuse of the
name OF Reform" Assaults upon the
institution of marriage. which forms
the basis of all the domestic virtues and
the sacred influences of home, deserve.
and in fact receive, the reprobation of
all decent people, and how they can he
tolerated by sufficient number of per
SONS to form IL convention is il marvel
This reform" is one that is sure to die
of the very rottenness which it engcn-
ders within itself.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1875-03-05

Both political parties in New Hamp-
shire, and particularly the Republicans,
have gone int" the campaigning bust
ness. full tilt. and mass meetings are
being held in all the principal towns.
The Republicans have Il strong point
against the Democrats in the gerry
Wandering that has been done in several
cities since the Democrats came into
power, and they are not slow To use it .
Fred Douglass is one of the most con-
Spicuous of the speakers others on the
list are Gen. Hartman. and Senators
CIagin and Wadleigh, while Congress
men Hawley and Frye are said to have
been engaged.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1875-03-05
A Startling Admission.

The Louisville Comier-JoUnat at
fects to know all about it, us thus :
When the war comes, as coming 1t Is, 1t
shall be civil war. The North must be
the scene of the conflict, not the
South" -BOstOn Journal.
Assuming that the above question is
not qualified by the context, it Is Il
pretty bold prophecy. The editor OF
Courier Journal Is an eX-rebcl officer
he has lately been in Washington not
particularly discreet, he is Il Southerner
in all his hopes and feelings. Is this Il
mere etfusion of the fancy evolved by
and ..between the sherry and the cham
pagne,r or is it IL premature utterance
of the secrets of the Southern Demo-
Gratis ? The next House of Represen-
tatives will be Democratic. The Senate
will he uncertain, because the balance
of power will he held 10y il few mem
hers not recognized us III strict adicr-
ence to either party. Suppose, then.
the Democrats should elect their PrcSi-
dent, the courts, the army and navy,
the popular suffrage would soon he III
the hands of that part. The Southern
State Constitutions could readily he
changed BECAUSE lllt va
the United States could he changed.
The status of the negro could he hNed
in real <erfdOm; the Southern war debt
could he paid by Congress, and the tax
upon property would be collected 10y
United States officials. The resistance,
either ut the polls or otherwise, would
come from the North. Does the Cou-
rier-.Journal see the prospect of Demo
cratic success throughout the country,
and. also, in that success the future
which will drive the North to bank
ruptcy or secession With all his rod
omontade, the editor of the Courier
Journal usually has an idea at the
bottom of his talk. How is civil wal
to he brought about ? What Is to slim
ulate it Who are to he the aggIeSSors
and why If the fact is 50 certain.
there must be somebody who knows
how it is going to he wrought out.
PrOridencc Journdi.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1875-03-05
Henry c. Bowen Speaks.

The statements made 10y Mr.. b. F..
Tracy in his opening address Ia the
court and jury in the BROOKLYN Scandal
case, 50 far as said statements refer to
me ;i> having been engaged in any con
SpiracN whatever, are malignant fahri-
cations from beginning to end. desti-
tute of even one particle of truth. as
a> said Tracy can learn if he viii call
me To the witness stand. in which
event he will find ont that don't he
lieve in the doctrine said to he taught
10y him. that living is iuStifiabIe under
certain circumstances.
HENRY {. BOwEN.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1875-03-05

Agent, \ Martin. Supt c \ Bunker.
Town grand jurors, j Il KinerS"m. III
Rowell. VI VI Boynton. Court Jurors, |
L McClary, Asa Hoyt, VIM Sanborn.
Voted to raise 5000 to pay indebted
ness of town and buy Il new hearse.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1875-03-05

same? Forward those 1000 barrels and
the others held back, doubtless. all over
rural New England. and we don't thmt
there will he any reason for blaming m.
weather for any singular change of an
petite. Boston Journal.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1875-03-05

Judge Thomas Waterman of johnson,
who has just died at the age of ~, was
a native of Norwich. CT. but went to
Johnson in 1901. He held many offices
i'll the gift of the town, county and state
during his life, and often represented
Johnson in the Legislature. In 1872.
he was captain of Il company at the
battle of Flatt>hurg, and, when GOV.
Chittendcm recalled the Vermont Off
GERS from the United States service. in
1913. he refused to obey him. He lived
with his wife 90 years, and they had II
children. six of whom are still living.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1875-03-05
The Growth" of Rutland.

1t may he interesting, at this time
to see how the Indebtedness of m.
town of Rutland has grown with grovrb
and increased with its strength. and NJ.
therefore give Il statement thereof from
1861 to 1875, both years inclusive:
IS6I Am't of indie htelnrsS = lr.I -