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Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1876-09-05
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OXFORD, SAT a Court of Probate held NJ
Paris, within aud for the County Of Oxford on
the third Tuesday of August A. ID. 1915
nN the Petition OF SARAH A RYERSON. Wild.
" NV Of George W. Ryer-on, late OF NewTy,
in said County, deceased, praying for an allow
ance out OF the Personal Estate Of her late hus.
band:
Ordered, That the said Petitioner give notice
to all persons interested by causing a copy ofthis
order 10 be published three weeks suceessively Ia
the Oxford Democrat printed at Paris, that they
may apt ear at Probate Court to be held 81 Paris
in said County on the third Tuesday Of Sept. next
at O'Clock In the forenoon and shew cause ia ans
they have why the same should not be granted
All WALKER, Judge.
A true copy-attest: II. c. DAVIS, Register.
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1876-09-05
horticultural.
-
TUrnips for Stock.

II is generally conceded thar farm stock
require some green sucoulcnt food IN
Winter ia addition to dry forage. IN order
70 keep them healthy Carrots and beetS
are usually considered more nutritious
than turnips, bu, they cost much more to
raise. and do not succeed in all kinds Of
soils or over so wide a range OF country
as the several varieties Of tUruipS. The
section or group of sorts known under
the general head OF ru,abagas are perhaps
a little richer than the late or flat tur-
nips, as they are usually called still the
latter grows 50 freely and mature 50
quickly, that farmers usually prefer them
TO any other variety, and they can also
he >own upon land from which some early
crop has been gathered.
Wheat, rye, or ont siubblc may be
turned under soon after harvest, and 1t
the land Is no; rich "a slight top-drcssing
OF manure Is advisable after which ;ur-
nips may be >own broadcast and good
crop Secuyci. Ii Is now time 10 prepare
a,;il y,n,,r. ~ ~, .g.-, i ro. 81. fame,
IN The c,,,r,.y VIII, b,.ro,.., ,bi. moment
nIeptr urar which a ,rrp1v ny These val
n.bls roots u.4v be- --oVn hstor, the
grerri fr,ele. IN m. r., We w,i. also
Tsr-.rc =, ..v tl..,l.> .....ucxf Winter
viii. be ma3, mo-e consaIt.sle and come
out in the Sprin, In better condition II,
ciyen an the turairs .h,v viii eat. taaa 81,
they had few OF none. The expense o..
raising Che late sorts +, ueye nothing
bevo,5 ,b, ,.,,t o.. ....vs,,;rg and ,f1-,r.,
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1876-09-05

THE subscriber hereby gives public notice .nai
ha has been duly appointed by the Hon. judge on
Probate for the County Of Oxford and assuin'a tue
trust of Administrator on the estate OF .,
CAROLINE II. CHAPMAN, late Q, b s,he law
in aid County deceased by giving bond ne the Va"
di,scis he therefore requests all persons WHO hIe
;ndebted 10 the estate OF said deceased TO max IN
mediate payment aud those who have any ueniAHus
thereon TO exhibit che same 10 .p,pUrp
Aug. Is, 1876. JUN - -
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1876-09-05

Geese having feathers to shed should
not prepare TO shed them now.
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1876-09-05

OXFORD, as AT a Court Of Probate held at
Paris, within and Or the County Of Oxford
on the third Tuesday Of August A. ID. 1875.
IN the petition OF SALLY VIRGIN, widow of
~ Ebenezer Virgin. late of Rumford, In said
County, deceased, praying for an allowance out
OF the personal estate OF her late husband:
Ordered, That the said Petitioner give notice
TO an persons Interested by causing copy OF this
order,o be published three weeks in the
Oxford Democrat printed Of Paris, that they may
appear at Probate Court 10 be held at Paris
IN SAID County on the third Tuesday Of Sept, next
AT O'Clock In the forenoon and shew cause II and
they have why the same should not be granted.
a. ii. WALKER, Judge.
true copy-Attest: II. C. DAVIS, Register.
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1876-09-05

\. has bcen duly appointed BY the Hon. Judge oil
Probate for the County of oxford anu assumed tue
trust of Administrator on The estate Oi
ABIATHER TUELl. late 81 eumhe!s -.
in said Caunty deceased by giving bond as INC law
directs he therefore requests all persons inde0ted
10 the estate of said deceased 70 make lmheulAle
naymcnt. and those who have any demands lhefe'
on 10 exhibit the same 10 ~ =. ,r,,pt,
Aug. d. lslO. BENJ. =. ~ 80,
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1876-09-05
A true eopy-Attc.i' II. C. DAVIS. Register.

OXFORD, ss;-At Court OF Probate held at
Paris within and Tor the County OF oxford
on the third TUESDAY OF August A. ID. 1876.
VAMES II. DECOSTER. Administrator on the
- estate OF james y. Bryant, late Of Buckleld
Ia said COuaty, deceased, having presente, his
deceased Tor allowance:
Ordered lhatthe said Administrator give notice
10 all persons interested by causing q copy ofthis
order 20 be published three the
Oxford Democrat printed At Paris that they may
appear AZ Probate Court 10 be held at Paris
In said County on the third Tuesday of sept next
at 9 O'Clock Ia the forenoon and shew cause IL any
they have why the same should not be allowed.
A. II. WALKER, Judge.
true copy-attest: II. c. DAVIS. Register.
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1876-09-05

THE subscriber hereby gives puoiie nou0S ~
Probate for the County Of Oxford aud assumed ''ie
trust of Executor Of the estate oi
LEVI A. MO0kE, late OF Bethel,
in said County deceased by giving bono as .he ~
i,r..,s Inc therefore requests ali persons no are
Indebted 10 the estate of said deceased 10 max IN
mediate payment and those who have any denAnus
thereon to exhibit the same to Made
Aug Is, 1876. DOhOho ID noO
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1876-09-05

OXFORD. ss:-At a Court OF Probate, held a.
Paris within aud for the County OF Oxford,
on the third Tuesday Of August A. ID. 1873.
MARY ABBOTT, named ENecu,riN Ia GER
Ifl tain Instrument purpOrting e. be- The last
VIII and Testament Of Farnham Abbott, late OF
Andoyer, in said County, deceased, having pre-
sented the same for Probate:
Ordered, That the said ESccutriN. give notice TO
all persons Interested By causing a copy Of this
order 20 be published three weeks successfully In the
oxford Democrat printed 10 Paris, that they may
appear NJ Probate Court 20 be held II Paris
In said County on the third Tuesday Of Sept. next,
az o'clock In the forenoon and shcw cause II any
they have why the said Instrument should not D..
proved, approved and allowed as the last VIII
and Testament Of said deceased
A. II. WALKER, Judge.
A true copy-Attcst; II. G. DAVIS, Register.
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1876-09-05
Non-Rcsidcnt Taxes

Canton. August 81, 1879. sgsw
The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1876-09-08
The Representative English Woman.

If Death had aimed to remove the
representative woman of England-as
lately in France, in the person of George
Sand-Harriet Martineau would doubt
less have been selected. She was,
though forced by i'll health into COM
parative retirement of late years,
strictly a cotempOrary of the more
brilliant, more Imaginative French
woman, being only two years her
senior; and they stand in rather strik-
ing contrast to each other when it is re-
membered that Miss Martineau's an
cestors were Huguenot refugees who set
tied at Norwich, England, after the
Revocation of the Edict of Nantes.
Nine. Sands irregular and passionate
pedigree, ending in the single life of
grass widOw-if we may be allowed the
term-finds its very opposite in the de-
scent of Miss Martineau. The Huguenot
severity of morals, transplanted to the
congenial soil of England, produced a
family whose regularity Is proved by
the fact that the profession of surgeon,
beginning with the founder, was handed
down in it for every generation to Miss
Martineau's, her uncle, who gave her
her education, attaining a provincial
eminence. At the time 0S3l) when
Nine. Dudevaut was arranging a sepa-
ration from her husband, Miss Mar
tineau, who had already made her mark
as a writer of religious and practical
works having distinct social bearing,
began her popular series of tales illus
trative of political economy. In 1884
she visited the United States, staying
long enough to master fully the pOlit-
icaI situation. In Washington and
elsewhere she received the most grati-
flying attentions, but her views on the
question of slavery led her to seek the
society of the Abolition leaders, and
the friendships thus formed were
among the strongest and most cher
ished to her dying day. To her most
intimate friend on this side, Mrs. Maria
Weston Chapman, she entrusted, We
believe, her autobiography, which will
doubtless soon be given to the world.
Already an Orbituary notice, prepared
by herself some twenty years ago, has
appeared in the London Daily NeIUS, q
journal to which she was a frequent ed
! itorial contributor. One looks in vain,
| indeed, for a parallel to this remarkable
woman as a moulder of public opinion
through the press and through printed
works. A sister of the Rev. James
Martineau, and, like him, at one time
! Unitarian, she afterwards experienced
such a change of views as to undertake
an abridgment of COmte's positive
| Philosophy" She also wrote a "His-
tory of England during the Thirty
Years Peace" eastern Life" (the re-
suit of Eastern travel in 1S46), and nu-
merous works of fiction. She died June
! 27th.-NeLU York Nation.
The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1876-09-08
a Natural Mistake.

This morning a gentleman entered a
house on Fifth street, and asked the
clerk:
"What is the price of knit under
shirts with breast pockets ?' and then
added:
81 travel a good deal, and carry a
large amount of money, and l think
that idea of pockets an excellent one,
and 1 am surprised that some one has
never thought of it before"
"Really, sir" replied the clerk, "I
think myself it would be a good plan,
but I am sorry to say we have none,
and did not know that there were any
made"
"You did not ?" said the customer.
"Well, that's singular. They are ex-
hibited in your own show window, and
caught my eye as l was passing"
"YOu must be mistaken" said the
clerk. al know every article in the
stOre,n
''But am not" persisted the gen.
tleman. "Step around and see for
yourself"
The wondering shop-keeper did as re-
quested. He stepped briskly to the
front of the window, looked in, then
looked at the gentleman, then coughed
and acted as though lie had just felt
sudden pain in the stomach, and theu
rammed handkerchief into his mouth,
and stepped behind the counter.
"Well," exclaimed the gentleman,
triumphantly, "ain't they there ?"
"Ye-yes," said the clerk, appearing
as though he had a fish bone in his
throat, "they are there, sure enough
But, sir, those undershirts are not fol
men, and those pockets are" and al
this point he dived behind the counter
and disappeared, while a young lady
clerk standing near smothered con
vulsive giggle in a cambria handker
chief, and started off with a very rec
face on important business in the real
part of the store.
A sudden light seemed to break il
upon the stranger, and he departed
hurriedly, muttering, "How in thundel
could 1 tell? 1 amt a married man
and can't be expected to know every
thing."- Cincinnati Commercial.
The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1876-09-08

men and women, who are not ashamed
to give reason for the hope that is in
them. Long may she wave with her
fine country town and highly-endowed
college. OF the latter they may indeed
be proud.
Leaving Roseburg with promise to
return, met my second appointment
at Albany, the most thrifty business
town on this line of road. found the
NJ. E. Conference in session, and the
town full of preachers. seemed an
unwelcome visitor among my former
friends, the clergy, but not to the Lib
erals of Albany, who are host whose
hearts are in the right place.
I had engaged the Courthouse to
speak in, and had posters struck off,
when 1 learned that my ministerial
brethren, through the forgetfulness of
the Sheriff, had crowded me out of the
Courthouse; so L changed bills, and
took the Opera House.
I have no unkindly word for the
Sheriff, nor yet for my Methodist
friends; but thought, as did many 9TH
ers, with so many beautiful churches
dedicated to God at their command, they
might have spared my feelings, and al
lowed me the use of the peoples house
dedicated to human uses. 1 was forcibly
reminded, by the conduct of these Chris
tians, of pullet straining to cover a
nestful of goose eggs.
close my lectures here tomorrow
night. Have had large audiences, and
with many assurances of good will and
acceptance from the people.
On Sunday we organized a Liberal
Union with sixty good and true MEM
bers, with G. F. Crawford as President.
On Sunday next hope to be in Port
land on my way to WalIa Walla, Pen
dleton, Dayton and The Dalles, from
thence to Astoria and HillsbOro, and
then to turn my face toward the dear
ones at home.
Albany, August 2S, 1876.
The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1876-09-08

sentation is tyranny" and resistance
to tyrants is obedience to God" rang
the loudest and clearest.
"Do men gather grapes of thorns or
figs of thistles" any better now than
1876 years ago? Is it reasonable to ex-
pect that the mothers of the nation,
while they believe themselves uDjustly
Disseminated against, will rear sons
ready and eager to devote "their lives,
| their fortunes, and their sacred honor''
to support that injustice? Does history
afford us no hint whittier we are tend
ing when continuing injustice to wom-
en-? In particular, the laws which bear
uDjustly against widows as compared
with widowers are transmitted to US
! from the civil laws of Rome, modified.
Originally an article of barter, bought
by the husband, the Roman mother
was rated in law as one of her own chill
dren, or the slaves and cattle of her hus-
band, over which his control was abso-
lutte, but the time came when the Ro-
man nation aspired to the common ben
efits of free and opulent republic; and
we are told that their wishes to some
extent were ''gratified by the indul-
gence of fathers and lovers" Cato, the
censor, endeaved to hold them to the
old condition of slavish obedience, but
"they declined the solemnities of the
old nuptails," and without losing their
name or independence subscribed the
liberal and definite terms of a marriage
contract. This spirit of liberality, OF
equal rights, never became the law OF
Rome; and the student of her history
will find that about the time the votes
of men were publicly bought and sold
in the streets, lovely women of the first
families so frequently sought refuge
from despair in suicide that a law was
passed to expose the nude bodies after
death to the public gaze, in order that
natural modesty might be called in to
prevent self-destructiOn. Did republi-
can Rome flourish long after that? Or
was the "decline" then begun, when
men who might proudly glory in theiI
citizens privileges denied the same
rights to their mothers, wives and
daughters.
I don't pretend to believe that all the
evils of society will be removed by the
most just and equal system of laws, and
it remains to be proven whether the ex-
ercise of the right of suffrage and par.
ticipation in public affairs will exert
the same beneficial influence upon
women that it does upon men, and thus
place the interests of home and country
more Immediately in their care; but ]
recognize the fact that every woman
born of woman received as many right
from her Maker as I did, and the inal
ienability of those rights and the righ
to giUe her consent to the laws which
secure them is freely accorded, by vot.
ing or not voting, as seems best. The
rights l claim as q citizen freely ac
cord to others. This is the Golden Rule
Carried into law, it secures the inheren
right of suffrage to all citizens, to vOtt
at every election from the School Dis
trict to the Presidential election, will
no State authority allowed to interven,
between the citizen and the chief depos
itory of his or her rights-a gOvernmen
of the people, for the people, and a
strong as the people.
The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1876-09-08

A PAIR OF WITS.-Chesterfie and
Voltaire, born in the same year Q694),
were warm and lifelong friends.
Whatever may have been the erratic
Frenchman's Vagaries and miff5, (for
be never had friend whom he did not
at some time abuse), Lord Chesterfield
was too much of gentleman to take Of
fense, or even notice.
On certain occasion the two friends
were in company at a grand ball in
Paris, given by the kings favorite.
Chesterfield stood by a marble pillar,
gazing upon the brilliant blage of
ladies, when VOltaire accOsted him:
"My lord, you should be a judge in
such matters. Now, seriously, do you
not think our French ladies the most
beautiful you ever saw ?n
"Upon my word" replied Chester
field, with a nod and smile, 81 am not
judge of paintings"
Not long afterwards Voltaire crossed
over to England, and was present one
evening at party given by an English
nObleman in London. A lady in the
company, sparkling in jewels and
highly rouged, was particularly at
tentive to the noted Frenchman, en-
crossing most of his discourse. Ches-
terfield, observing, came up and tapped
his friend on the shoulder.
"Be wary, monsieur, or you will be
captivated.
i'No fear, my lord" quickly retorted
Voltaire. 81 am not to be captured by
an English craft sailing under French
colorsm
The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1876-09-08

That Norwich man who courted his
wife fifty years before he married her,
was prudent fellow. Fifty years takes
the strength out of most any arm, and
makes it convenient for a woman to get
down on her knees and urge the head OF
the house to come out from under the
bed and talk the matter over.-Bridge-
port Standard.
The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1876-09-08

"What would you like ?" said Jones
the other night to Miss Smith, as he
led her into the refreshment room.
"Pop," was the blushing response.
Jones didn't see 1t.
The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1876-09-08

A put-up jOb-Building chimney.
The Cairo bulletin. [volume] (Cairo, Ill.) 1872-1878, 1876-06-24
The Great lssues.

tFrom the New York Sun, Independent
On one side are the administration,
the senate, the rings, and the ofiice-hold-
ers, crying out for more money and OIL
the other are the people, suffering in all
their industries, impoverished by extray-
agance and taxation, and demanding re-
liet. Every jobber, contractor, and
Spectator, and plunderer, and politician,
shouts for large appropriations and huge
expenditures. Every farmer, every me.
chanic, every laborer, and every good cit
iZen, asks tor economy, simple 20 yern.
ment and old-fashioned honesty.
The people look to the house with trust
and hope, that these reforms will be ad-
hered 10 at any cost. There can be no
concession consistent with duty and good
faith. Retrenchment is indispensable not
only because it Is right and needed to
stop the decentralization bred from prod
igality, but because it is imperitiyeiy re.
quired by the diminished revenues. II
the Republican party is prepared to go
before the country on this test, their op-
ponents should welcome the issue.
But in no event should the house grant
one dime more than il actually needed
tor an economical administration OF the
government. The way to real reform is
through strict economy. Platforms. res
olutions, and professions may mean moth.
ing. Let us have substantial remedy
and begin change Tor the better by
good works.
The Cairo bulletin. [volume] (Cairo, Ill.) 1872-1878, 1876-06-24
Cold calculation

tNHlcARU
In the opinion of Hon. John Ii. Oberly,
of Cairo, who is among the early birds at
Springfield. the Tildcn business is mere
cold calculation. without blood or enthu.
'siasm.' The remark, doubtless. cor
rectly describes the situation. Neverthe-
less. the noisest of the first arrivals at the
State capital were certainly for ridden
and it is possible that these "blowers and
strikers" will succeed in sending as OBJ
Stinate pack Of Tilden men to st. Louis
as that which represented the Illinois Re-
publcans and howled for Blaine at Gin.
cinnati. There were many earnest and
resOlute champions of Davis alco on
hand yesterday, and their numbers were
greatly strengthened by the later arri-
walls. The more cautious among Tilden's
opponents were inclined to calculate the
effect Of his responsibility for the fatal
national platform of 1874, and the in
fiuence Of that Renaissance may prove
strong enough to prevent the passage of
instructing resolutions, and leave the del.
egation to st. Louis free to be guided by
the light THY may yet receive from
manifestations of public opinion.
The Cairo bulletin. [volume] (Cairo, Ill.) 1872-1878, 1876-06-24

AT meeting OF the Democratic edi.
tors held at the Leland house in SPRING
held prior to the meeting of the conven-
ton, the following resolutions were in
rroduced. by. Merritt OF the: Springfield
Rseister.
WHEREAS, The causes which induced
the adoption OF the two-thirds rule in
Democratic National Conventions having
passed away,
Resolred. That in the opinion of the
Democratic editors OF the state OF ILL.,
nois, the said two-thirds rule should be
40 longer observed in future National
Democratic Conventions, believing it TO
be nndemocratic and unnecessary.
Rssoipsd, That our delegates TO the
next National Democratic Convention be
requested to vote against the re-adoption
Of the two-.hrds rule.
The resolutions We're adopted by a vote
al eight to six. Messrs. Dowdall. Sniyely
and Oberly of the Peoria Democrat,
Macoupin Enquirer and Cairo BULLETIN
respectively, voted against the resolu-
lions.
The Cairo bulletin. [volume] (Cairo, Ill.) 1872-1878, 1876-06-24

politics in conducting their own busine 2
and expending their own money, instead
Of the appropriations being $40. 900, 900
under the appropriations made last year,
100000, 600 or $40 000, 600 would be saved
to the people Of this country. and no
harm done to any interest or any branch
Of the government"
The senate has disagreed to the Mill
tary Academy bill. the consular and dip
lomatic bill, the legislative, executive and
judicial bill, and The postofilce bill,
which have been cut down in the aggre-
gate over $A ,OO0, 900 IRON the estimates.
There is apparently no prospect OF an
agreement upon the bills disagreed to by
the senate. where the fault will evidently
lie il. by the lst of July, there is no
money to carry on the several depart
ments of the government.
The Cairo bulletin. [volume] (Cairo, Ill.) 1872-1878, 1876-06-24
fnE SITUATION AT SPRINGFIELD.

we gather, IRON the Chicago Times
springfield correspondence, that the
STATE convention Oh Thusrday was one
oi the largest Democratic gatherings held
III tins state for years. Many Democrats
VINO have held alooi from politics Tor
years past. encouraged by something
IN The present aspect of political
anairs TO pull of their coats
and take hand in the COM
ing campaign were present. Among
these politicians, who have been thus
seeihding themselves from the unprofit-
able occupation Of politics, are such men
a. WI. Coolbaugh, W. c. Cloudy, $.
corning Judd, Of Chicago; DR.. Rogers,
"i Lincoln; DIR. Miller OF Bloomington !;
dohn NJ. Crebs, Of Carmi T; W. q. Ewing
anu Lien singleton, Of Quincy, and
others. There are. now gathered at the
Leland and other hotels in this city not
less than two thousand Democrats of the
hard-headed, rock-rooted sort. Among
these are some who have not cast a vote
or iiited finger in politics for
len years. Animated by the
hope OF success, they have now come To
the front. hopin. TO be able, by united
and intelligent action, TO accomplish
something for the party" Some diversity
OF opinion existed among the delegate
as to the proper man for president. Tn,
delegates from the Northern and Eastern
borders of the State were all for Davis
those from the Southern and Western
portion were for Tilden, Hendricks OF
Hancock. There were good many del
egates who wished TO 20 for Tilden, bu
the publication OF his ''peaee resolution
had shaken their faith in his availability
Among these was Lieutenat Governor
ailsnn while all Of the delegate
had their fayorites, none objected I,
Judge Davis. Those among the dele
gates who desired 10 abrogate the two
thirds rule, We're mostly Tiiden men
With much diversity OF opinion, the lndi