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Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1876-07-04

The record OF Hon. William A.
Wheeler on the so-cslled salary grab" is
entirely unique. He voted against the
measure at every stage and on its final
passage. After it passed he drew his
bsck pay. converted it into United States
bonds and turned the bonds into the
treasury with the request that they be
cancelled. saying he would ''stop the in
terest on that much OF the national debt,
a. least "-LelciSt0n IOltr1lnl.
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1876-07-04

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Milton Plantations, 4. "a. Thornton.
Agent, VIII deduct their commission bcioTt
sending moneys 60 thIs UilCC.
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1876-07-04

The Maine Genealogist and Biog-
rapher Tor June opens with 4 comple e
account Of the Shurileff family records.
There are numerous descendants OF the
family in Oxford County, and the article
contains much that would interest them.
Write to DR. w. b. Laphsm, Augusta,
for = copy.
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1876-07-04
Local .Igcnt>.

The following persons are au'I ar..-l Agents
for the OXFORD DEMOCRAT. They Viii rvcelp
for cash aud attend ,o orders Tor job Work. Al
verti-ine and 90 ..us other matters which sub-cJ.
nlr. ma. LL-L-.
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1876-07-04

be made unanimous. Carried.
On motion OF o. II. Mason, Esq. OF
Bethel, committee OF i've was raised 10
nominate a County Committee for the
ensuing year: Mason OF Bethel, Bradley
of Fryeburg. Colby of Rumlord, Briggs
OF Paris and Stanley OF Dixfeld
On motion OF Mr.. Douglass, Of Upton,
"a committee Of five was raised as follows,
10 receive, sort and count votes for can
didate for County Attorney: Douglass OF
Upton, Bolster of Norway, Hersey of
Buckfeld. Abbott OF Sumner and Far
mum OF Rnmlord.
Port Royal standard and commercial. [volume] (Beaufort, S.C.) 1874-1876, 1876-06-15
Names of Counties.

OF the 1,141 counties in the United
States, more are named after Washing
ton than any other President of the
United States, the number being twenty
nine. The names of the other Presi-
dents represented by counties occur as
follows: Jefferson, twenty three; Jack
son, twenty one Madison, nineteen
Monroe, eighteen; Lincoln, seventeen;
Grant and Polk, twelve each; johnson,
eleven; Harrison, nine; Adams, eight;
Taylor, seven; Van Buren, four; Pierce,
four; Buchanan, three; and Fillmore and
Tyler, two each. In many cases, bow.
ever, in the above list counties were not
named after the Presidents, but the Sc
lection of q name was influenced by local
considerations. There are twenty-five
counties named after Franklin, twenty
after Colfax, seventeen after Marion,
two after Fremont, three after Greeley,
one after Hendricks, eight after Benton
and Boone, nine after Cass, Marshall
and Putnam, fourteen after Carroll,
eleven after Douglas, and eighteen after
Montgomery. The names of almost all
of the Revolutionary heroes except Ar
mold are represented in the list.
Port Royal standard and commercial. [volume] (Beaufort, S.C.) 1874-1876, 1876-06-15
His Teaching.

A student who went to Agassiz at
Penikese has published an account OF
his experience with this teacher. He ex-
pected lecture or formal lesson, but
got nothing of the kind. The professor
gave him fish, and told him to look at
It. He looked long time, reported
progress, and was told to keep on look
ing, and so from time to time. He looked
till he got heartily tired of the fish, but
was astonished when he found what a
number of things he had learned about
it that he had not dreamed Of when he
began, and that books would never have
told him. Most of all, he learned how
to study the next object that should fall
under his eyes. The point OF the lesson,
the central idea of the teaching OF
Agassiz, was that the object of instruc-
ton was to teach him to observe. What
was to be observed was q matter OF In
ferior importance. The humblest OBJ
ject, with proper study, would yield a
rich reward in knowledge.
Port Royal standard and commercial. [volume] (Beaufort, S.C.) 1874-1876, 1876-06-15
English Aquariums.

The greataquarium, which was opened
at Brighton, England, three years ago,
is low edifce, 715 feet long by 100
wide, of italian architecture, and cost
with it's ground s75O,O0O in gold. The
revenue from admissions and annual
subscriptions for 1875 amounted to more
than s106, 600 in gold. he next most
popular aquarium in England is the one
at the Crystal Palace, and another large
one is nearly finished adjoining the Par
lament buildings on the banks OF the
Thames in Westminster. Three acres
of ground have been purchased at a cost
of $4OO, 900, and the building will cost
$4,000. 1t will include concert hall
and reading room beside the aquarial
department. Manchester has an aqua
rum building $50 feet in length and
seventy-two feet in width, which con-
tains sixty-eight tanks, including the
deep sea. tidal and fresh water groups,
containing 100000 gallons of water.
Here and at the Crystal Palace the sea
water is not constantly renewed as at
Brighten, but is kept pure by circula-
ton, and only as much distilled water is
added as is lost by evaporation. In
deed, the water in both these aquariums
is said to be far cleaner and the fish to
be decidedly healthier than at Brighton.
Port Royal standard and commercial. [volume] (Beaufort, S.C.) 1874-1876, 1876-06-15
How She Felt.
THE MAIN BUILDING.

When told that she evinced perfect
self possession when she made her first
appearance on the stage in Boston as an
actress, Anna Dickinson replied:
"Oh, yes, but did not feel it. I had
nothing like stage fright, and my audi
ence did not trouble me. I am too well
used to them. But my surroundings
were so strange, my clothes were so new,
and I had such sense Of them; then
when I lecture 1 have everything my
own way, the platform is clear, and I
go where I will. But here it is differ
ent. I would start on some quick i'm
pulse and suddenly find a human op-
posing my way, or I would becomepain-
fully aware of a chair or table, and it
was such shock to my enthusiasm. like
a cold water page. When get ac-
customed to other, presence and to the
stage accessories shall be much more
free in action.
Port Royal standard and commercial. [volume] (Beaufort, S.C.) 1874-1876, 1876-06-15
Irving Two Professions.

There was once a skillful doctor in
New York, says the Sun, who spent his
leisure hours in learning to paint pic
lures. He became so expert as an artist
that his works attracted notice, and his
name got into the newspapers. But his
patients begun to drop off soon after it
became known that he was painter.
They seemed to lose confidence in the
medical skill of a practitioner who gave
his mind to pictures. In a year or two
his Office was totally deserted by pa
tients, and he found himself high and
dry as a doctor. Fortunately, he was
by that period able to make his living at
his easel, for which he now had all his
time; and when he died, not long ago,
he was one of the most celebrated and
successful artists in the country. He
used to say that nothing was so ruinous
to the practice of physician as repu-
tation in any line of activity outside OF
his profession; and he always advised
his medical friends to take warning by
his experience, and conceal from their
patients any talents that did not strictly
belong to their business. There is q
rumpus in one of the churches of New
York that had its origin in the attempt
of the clergyman to carry on two pro-
fessions. Mr.. Campbell had studied
medicine as well as theology; he had
"Rev." before his namo, and "M. D."
after it. Some of his people found out
that he not only preached Seligion, but
practiced doctoring around, and that
he not only drew the salary of his pu'-
pit, but the fees of his patients. They
begun to fly from his church; those who
remained fell into dissension, and some
time ago they reduced his salary to q
merely nominal sum-which incidents
have brought his case before the courts
of his denomination. He will have to
give up one Of his two professions, as
the artist whom we have mentioned had
Tn do
Port Royal standard and commercial. [volume] (Beaufort, S.C.) 1874-1876, 1876-06-15
The Western GreaSer.

The greaser is the most striking an-
omsly one meets h his Western tour.
To look at him, says writer, you must
conclude that he was evolved, like the
mule, by tho exigencies of border life.
My theory of his genesis is simple. He
is modification of the Indian. Civil
zation has never been able to utilize the
redskin. A benefcent government has
offered him every induce ent to mingle
himself with the Anglo-Saxon stock in a
proper American manner. 1t has pro-
vided him with improved arms and ask
ed him to give up his warlike games and
till the soil. It sends him absolute alco-
hol and missionaries, it pays him money
and lets him take his choice, and he re-
mains Indian to the last man of q van
quished tribe, dying in the county Jail,
drunk to his toe nails, but Indian still.
The greaser is Indian minus everything
that makes the Indian admirable. He
is utilized barbarian. He drives an
army wagon with stolid fidelity. He
rides mule with the stony Indifference,
and much more of the grace, OF an av-
erage Washington statue. If you look
narrowly under his long, matted, black
hair into his little Mexican eyes, you
will not be able to detect his pedigree,
but you will see the dull, low cunning
of the primitive man, the high carnivor-
GUS jaw of the brute, and that vacuity of
mind which marks the absence of will
and the domination of an unconscious
nervous system. He is the same animal
that he vas when the Santa Fe trail was
laid out in 1922. With the ultimate
abandonment of the army wagon he will
probably disappear-at least from Colo
RADIO
Port Royal standard and commercial. [volume] (Beaufort, S.C.) 1874-1876, 1876-06-15
Where Is the American Sailor?

At a meeting of the New York board
of aldermen to discuss the question of
the East river bridge, a ship captain
stated that it would cost $3.50 and require
whole days work to send down the
topgallant masts of bis ship, so that she
could pass under the bridge. Vessel
captains agree in asserting that the ser
vices of professional riggers would be
required in order to perform that intri-
cate feat, and allege that only on board
naval vessels would it be possible to find
crews that could manage so abstruse an
affair without external aid. Comment
ing on the above the Times says: Va
rious persons have been in the habit of
daily remarking during the last twenty
years that the sailor is becoming ex-
tinct. The remark has thus lost some
of its novelty, but that the sailor has
finally and totally vanished has been
made suddenly apparent by the evidence
given before the aldermen. Not only
do captains of clipper ships confess their
inability to perform simple task which
every able seaman ought to thoroughly
understand, but they actually refer to
the superior seamanship of the navy as
an admitted and notorious fact. 1t is
enough to make "Bully Waterman
turn in his grave, and to wiring, even
without the aid of a spiritual medium,
indignant protests from the ancient
"shell l-backs and wild "packetarians"
who sleep in the Potter's Field. When
the Young America made her firstvoyage
was it twenty-five or twenty-three
years ago 9-there was, perhaps, lib
eral minded mariner in the forecastle
who would have admitted thatA sporadic
"sailor-man might occasionally be
found in the navy, but the idea that the
average crew of California clipper or
Black Ball "slaughter-house " was not
superior in practical seamanship to the
entire United States navy would have
been resented as a crazy insult. Yet
here come the captains of our surviving
merchant marine and unblushingly an
nounce that only in the navy can be
found sailors who can send down top
gallant mast. There is now no room for
doubt as to the extinction Of the sailor.
He is absolutely and completely gone,
and it is pity that Mr.. Sterne is now
in situation where he cannot " drop the
tear of sensibility" over the grave OF
the last sailor man.
Port Royal standard and commercial. [volume] (Beaufort, S.C.) 1874-1876, 1876-06-15

by one who shot past, and darted up
the blazing stairway with the speed of
ON arrow.
Tie daring act filed the crowd with
amazement, which had not time to abate
before the intrepid stranger reappeared
on the burning steps, now crumbling
under his feet, bearing in his arms the
insensible form of Mabel Gray, care
fully wrapped from head to foot. His
hat pulled over his face, partly shielded
it from the sheet of fame through which,
amid encouraging shouts, he once more
forced his way, and wild cry of e1ul-
tation rose when Mabel was safely
placed in her fathers arms. Then came
three times three of the widest cheers
for Allen Ward, when the stranger raised
his hat and revealed his scared and blis-
tered face.
"Who is the coward now 2" he ex-
claimed, as he sunk exhausted to the
ground.
No one ever called him that name
again; and Mabel, we are sure, never
thought mis- face less handsome for the
scars it bore on her account.-Ledger.
Port Royal standard and commercial. [volume] (Beaufort, S.C.) 1874-1876, 1876-06-15
The Bad Boy.

"This said boy" began Bijah, as he
led out youth of thirteen, "did, to
wit, viz: Throw a stone and smash a
pane of glass on Howard street, all of
which he says he will never do again. "
Smashing glass, eha" queried the
court. "Well, the law will have to
smash him, I'm afraid"
"I haven't got any dad!' whispered
the prisoner, while his chin quivered
and his teeth knocked together.
"That's nothing to do with breaking
glass, my son. You have no more right
to throw stones and smash glass than q
boy with three or four fathers and a
schoolhouse full of aunts and uncles."
"She sipped!" continued the lad,
while big tear gathered in his left eye.
"Why do you and other boys prowl
ground the world throwing stones9" de-
manded his honor. "Why is it that a
boy can heave a club or throw stone
when he's 80 mortal tired that he can't
walk half block to do an errand."
81 was only throwing at a yaller
Bird" protested the prisoner, his light
eye also filing up.
"That makes the offense ten times
worse" shouted the court. "What do
you want to hurt yaller bird, or red
bird, or any other kind of bird for2
You ought to be tied up in square
package, labeled "A bad boy and
placed on shelf in the workhouse for
six months"
"I can't go there-I have to take care
of horse |" was the boys very solemn
answer.
Looking over the warrant again, his
honor continued:
"Boy, be careful II you smash any
more glass in this town you'll miss half
a dozen. circuses and all the ferry boat
excursions. You'll sigh for home when
the sun rises, and you'll weep and
lament when the sun goes down. Go
home to your mother, and 60 and feed
that horse, and for the next year you
want to walk around Detroit as if there
were eggs under your feet"
Bijah let the lad out by the private
door, gave him lot of orange peel to
stay his stomach until he could get home
to breakfast, and patting him on the
head remarked
"Don't heave any more stuns at the
gentle yaller birds. Birds has rights,
or the Lord would have made geese of
them Detroit Free Press.
Port Royal standard and commercial. [volume] (Beaufort, S.C.) 1874-1876, 1876-06-15
A Remarkable Den of Snakes.

The Appleton (Mo.) Democrat has
the following: We learn from MIR. A.
J. Hoffman, who lives in the north part
of the county, that recently, as one OF
his hired men was going down small
gulch, he came upon perfect nest OF
squirming reptiles, the ground being
covered with little and big coils OF black,
shining bodies that were basking.
Knowing the habits of these reptiles,
the man went back to the farm and re-
ported to Mr.. Hoffman what he had
seen, when it was decided to wait until
evening, after the snakes had retired to
their hole, and endeavor to kill them of.
Just after sundown both men repaired
to the place, to find not vestige or
tail of q snake to be seen, but we'll
beaten trails leading to hole in the
ground about the size of q bucket, which
went down slantingly under the earth.
The ground was beaten down as solid as
though it had been pounded with NAL
let or used as croquet ground for q
whole season. Mr.. Hoffman is some
what acquainted with the habits of these
animals, 80 he stationed the hired man
at the mouth of the hole with an iron
bar, having sharp hook on the end,
and begun hauling out the ugly "crit-
ters." The firstto respond to his thrust
was one which measured eight feet eight
inches in length, and was one OF the
blacksnake species. After working for
an hour and half or 80, and having
drawn out 183 snakes, they quit for
the day. Next morning before the sun
was up, they begun again and drew forth
PAT more of the reptiles, when the mine
seemed to give ont. The rock and soil
on top of the nest was then removed
and an excavation about the size OF a
barrel was found. It is supposed that
this family of snakes had held possession
of the prairies for years, as many meas
ured from nine to twelve feet in length,
and were as large round as mans leg.
Port Royal standard and commercial. [volume] (Beaufort, S.C.) 1874-1876, 1876-06-15
Willie's Prayer.

A little four-yesr-cld boy. Willie by
name, enjoyed the luxury of sleeping
with his mother during short illness.
After hissentire recovery his mother
told him one night that he was to 60
again to his own little room. He made
no objections, but after being undressed
said to his mother: Mother, I want to
say my prayers alone tonight: "But
why do you want to, Williea" I" Be
cause want to, mamma" Mother hu.
mored him, and, standing outside the
door, heard Willie pray as follows: Oh,
God, make Willie sick; make him real
sick; make him wommis; but don't dead
him." How much that boy wanted 70
sleep with his mother.
Port Royal standard and commercial. [volume] (Beaufort, S.C.) 1874-1876, 1876-06-15
Keeping q Secret.

The late Judge Dowling, of New
York, had the rare qualification OF retl-
cence, and he was never known to be-
tray secret, or let drop hint of off,
ciai purposes. He had more confidence
placed in him by superiors and friends
than any man of his age in the city.
Merchants who were in doubt abouttheir
clerks, but did not feel warranted in
charging them with dishonesty, almost
invariably went to Judge Bowling for
advice. A merchant prominent to-day
in New York owes his salvation to Judge
Dowling's kindness and sympathy. His
employer some fifteen years ago was led
to believe that he WAS in the habit OF
gambling. He confded his suspicious
to Dowling, and told him that if he
found his fears correct he should dis
charge the young man at once. Dowl-
ing went quietly at work, and in a few
days confronted the clerk at the supper
table of one of the fashionable faro
banks in the city. Meantime he had
informed himself as to the young mans
domestic surroundings, and knew that
his discharge from fhe merchants en-
ploy meant ruin to him and destitution
to his widowed mother, wife and child.
Bowling managed an introduction, took
him aside, showed him the folly of look
ing for fair treatment in professional
gambling hell, told him of the peril that
awaited him if he persisted in bis
course, and finally secured from the
conscience stricken youth apromise that
he would never enter the doors OF faro
bank again. That done, he successfully
managed the employer, and to-day the
cle.k of fifteen years ago chants the
praises of the man who snatched him
from the very claws of the tiger, and the
edge of precipice in which ne would
seen have fallen.
Port Royal standard and commercial. [volume] (Beaufort, S.C.) 1874-1876, 1876-06-15
In the Garden.

Still is the gsrden-still and sweet;
The flowers are dreaming at my feet:
Heart, who calleth me?
Some voice that sighs for very bliss,
Some Joy I fain would run to kiss
Heart, who calleth me?
There is no sound Of bird or bees,
No low wind stirring in the trees:
Heart, who calleth me?
The changing river, as it flows,
Scarce breaks the deeply lulled repose:
Heart, who calleth me?
What wandering spirit sweetly sways
And rules my dreams, but never says,
Heart, who calleth me?
! blush, tremble to its spell,
know it not wilt thou not tell,
Heart, who calleth me7
Then, voice, reveal thyself, I pray;
Give fancy form, and fondly say,
"Sweet, love cslleth thee.
Oh, rose Oh, sea! Oh, sky above!
Echo these long-sought tones Of love:
"Sweet, love calleth thee |!
Port Royal standard and commercial. [volume] (Beaufort, S.C.) 1874-1876, 1876-06-15
REPEATING A LEGEND.
The Story Of the Babes In tho Woed Nearly
Verified in Buffalo.


One Sunday, says the Buffalo En-
press, little boy and girl, named Helt'
rich, aged respectively seven and nine
wears, left their home in the city to 60
to Sabbath-school. The hours wore on
until late in the evening, and the chill
dren failed to return home. The parents
grew alarmed and inaugurated search
for them. They made every effort to
ascertain their whereabouts, but with
out avail. 1t was simply known that
they started homeward from Sabbath
school, but no further trace OF them
could be obtained. The night settled
down dark, and the sgonized parents
became wild with grief. The neighbors
were appealed to and did all In their
power to find some clew to the missing
children, but in vain.
The little ones had mistaken the
streets leading to their home, and hand
in hand wandered out from the city.
Soon they passed the suburbs, and met
but few pedestrians. It began to grow
dismal and lonesome along the way.
Soon the sun went down, and the chill
dren, footsore and weary, began to cry.
They struggled on bravely through the
darkness, but strsying of into the woods
they grew frightened and could 60 no
further. They huddled close together
at the foot Of q tree, and in that cold
and cheerless place cried themselves to
sleep.
Monday morning dawned at last, and
with the bright daylight to encourage
them the children got up and resumed
their weary walk. They had not tasted
a morsel of food since Sunday noon, and
were both chilled and hungry. At last
they came out upon q little brook at
the edge of the woods, and sat down
to drink and rest. Here they were
found by farmer living near by, who
took them home and kindly cared for
them.
In the meantime the agonies OF the
parents were such as We will not attempt
to describe. All Sunday night and all
day Monday passed away without any
tidings from the lost children. After
trying every possible means to obtain
some traces of them, the matter was
finally put in the hands of detectives,
two old and experienced police officers.
They traced the children from the Sab
bath-school far out into the country,
and finally found them at the house OF
the farmer above mentioned, five miles
northeast of Lancaster. The children
had walked ever fifteen miles in all from
their homo in Buffalo. They were taken
back to their parents, whose manifesto
tions of JOY were something touching to
behold.
Port Royal standard and commercial. [volume] (Beaufort, S.C.) 1874-1876, 1876-06-15

A CHANaE.-A young lady, in class
studying physiology, made answer to a
question put, that in seven years a hu-
man body became quite changed, so
that not particle which was in it at the
commencement of the period would re-
main at the close of it. "Then, Miss
L." said the young tutor, "in seven
years you will cease to be Miss L."
"Why, yes, sir, I suppose SC" said she,
very modestly, looking at the floor.
Port Royal standard and commercial. [volume] (Beaufort, S.C.) 1874-1876, 1876-06-15

The demeanor of Dom Pedro is so
modest that few shoddy snobs desire
to ape the Brazilian, and to call them
Brazilian apes would be unjust in this
one instance.