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Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1877-09-04

Voted Committee OF three be ap-
pointed by the Chair to nominate Town
Committee, ~ follows: j. +. Clark,
". Dunham. A. T. &. King. Reported
as l3llows: J. ). Wright, F. A. Thever.
l.. ID. Stacy, who we've duly OIL oil
81 RETARY
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1877-09-04

Be not deceived; evil COM
munications corrupt good man
ners.
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1877-09-04

rotary. Proceeded TO ballot. al
Whole No. votes III
Necessary to choice, 80
III. n. Bolster had
Gao. A. WILSON, - 49,
p. c. Pickett -
Peter G.. Pickett
d. n. True %
SECOND BALLrT
Whole No. votes. 1872
Necessary to choice, ~
II n. Bolster had
Geo. A Wilson 80
p. G. Fickett 30
ID. n. True -
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1877-09-04

CLARKEs ToorH ACHE DROPS cure instantly
Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1877-07-10

The venerable DR.. McCosh has no little
trouble at Princeton. He does not get on
with American boys, About fifty left in a
body few days ago. Some time since there
was similar excitement and exodus. Theo-
retically, there are twenty chnces to one that
the big Drained Scotchman is right. Practi-
cally, it is equally probable he is lacking in
tact. The transplanting of a man beyond
fifty from one country to another is always
hazardous. A man may not lose his strength
after reaching that age, but he does his Aexi-
bility. Transplanting large trees only succeeds
when you take along large quantity of the
soil. If DR.. McCosh could have brought old
Scotland with him, he would have done mag
at Princeton.
Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1877-07-10

All accounts 20 to show that the Turkish
soldier has not degenerated from his ances-
tors, who were the terror of Europe in the
fifteenth century. For dash in charge, and
for obstinacy of resistance behind intrench-
men:s, the Turks of to-day are probably
not surpassed, But, like all Oriental war
riors, when repulsed or confused by the
loss of a commander, they soon become panic
stricken.
Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1877-07-10

"THE Folly OF REsUMISG SPECIE PAY
MEsTs" is the title of pamphlet OF % pages,
purporting to be an interview between a
merchant and banker, in which the views
of each are given on the vexed question of
our national currency, The argument is to
show that it is not only absolutely impossible
but disastrously impolitic to try to resume
specie payment in this country; and further
that uniform currency of paper is the true
solution of this irritating problem. The
greenback party will find in its reasoning
strong support for their position.
Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1877-07-10

Mr. RooKER's TRIP TO FLORIDA The n
Y. Sunday Courier says that Tom Rocker,
foreman of the n. Y. Tribune, "has gone to
Florida for his health. He had stood at his
post the best part of his life, but when it
came to cutting off the "fst'' of his subordi-
mates, his heart broke, and he reluctantly
went into exile. The old foreman could
stand the reduction Of the wages of his sub
ordinates, but he was indisposed to look on
complacently and see them deprived of all
their old priyileges-hence his departure"
Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1877-07-10

OF the Tupperian element in politics, the
n. Y. Sun has the following: Before the
poet Upper left this country he expressed on
several occasions his unqualified admiration
for the moral and intellectual character of
Mr.. Hayes. 1t is natural and proper that
Upper should admire Hayes, just as it is
proper and natural that Hayes should read
and admire Upper. Hayes habits of thought
are essentially Tupperian. His speeches,
whenever he ventures upon subjects more
speculative than his family genealogy or rem
iniscences of the Burchard branch, read like
prose pataphases OF Tupper's immortal
thoughts. There is mental bond of union
between the two men which makes their
mutual admiration a matter of course"
Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1877-07-10

A telegram from Springfield, Ills, reports
the voluntary bankruptcy OF st. Patrick's Ro-
man Catholic Church, East st. Louis. The
petition is by Michael Higgins, Secretary of
the Board of Trustees. Its liabilities are set
down at about 81, 900, and its nominal assets
at $4,000
Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1877-07-10

A woman in Montgomery county, Texas,
is said to have been fatally poisoned by q
quack nostrum put up by Connecticut firm
and recommended as cure of the opium
habit.
Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1877-07-10

The Chicago Public Library contains 81 ,408
volumes, and is valued at $4,000 The ex-
penses of the year just closed were S25, $50
There are 40, 059 names on the list of borrow
ers, and the number of visitors to the library
and reading room during the year was 75O,-
600
Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1877-07-10

A Pittsburg Court has decided that city
ordinance prohibiting the employment of
"waiter girls in saloons is too general in its
terms, and illegal for the reason that Coun-
ellis have no right to restrict the employment
of women
Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1877-07-10

Inquiries at the State Department fail to
elicit positive confirmation of the rumor that
Bayard Taylor has been offered an appoint
ment as Minister to Russia Or Belgium, but
there seems to be sufficient ground for believ-
ing that he is authorized to make a choice of
either of those positions.
Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1877-07-10

A boulder about four feet in diameter has
been placed to mark the grave of Mrs David
A. Wells in Norwich, Connecticut One side
of it is faced, and bears the inscription, "And
they rolled stone to the mouth of the sep
ulchre
Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1877-07-10

The wife of General Sherman, who has
been Jealous in the service of the Roman
Catholic church, is to receive from the Pope
in consideration of that zeal the Golden
Rose" which has hitherto been bestowed
only upon very great persons, The Empress
of Austria has it-so has the Queen of Ma
pies and the Empress Eugenie
Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1877-07-10

The other day, June 80, the men of Eng
land celebrated on small scale the four hun
dredth anniversary of the introduction OF
printing into England
Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1877-07-10

The widow Of one of the Mollie Mcguire
victims begged of the Sheriff the privilege of
pulling the bolt that would send her hus-
bands murderers into eternity
Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1877-07-10

Ex-Governor Israel Washburn has been
lecturing to good acceptance in Portland,
Me-, on the "Scotch Poets"
Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1877-07-10

The i'll health of the Pope is aggravated.
Dropsy has set in. An operation was at
tempted but his weakness prevented its sue
cess.
Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1877-07-10

William Parker OF Hamblen county, Tenn.
slapped his step-dsughter in the face She
returned the blow with poker and killed
him. She is II years old and he is %.
Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1877-07-10

A Southern correspondent Of the Cincin-
natl Gazette, discussing the topic of the
future of the blacks says ''Here is an omin-
Gus fact, From 1850 to 1860 their increase in
Carolina was 90 per cent; from 1860 to 1870 it
was per cent; since then there has been
no increase In four of the Southern States
there has been decrease since 1860, and
nowhere has the increase been so great as
before The statistics in all the cities show
their mortality to be greater than that of the
whites; and, strangest of all, in certain local
tiles where they are in an overwhelming ma
jority their death-rate is 90 per cent greater.
In other words, the American negro, in a
favorable cline, on fertile soil, in his nat
ural habitat, is dying faster than the poor in
the alleys of New York-faster than the unac-
chmated Englishman dies amid the fever
breeding jungles of Hindostan, or on the hot
mud banks Of Guiana. The reasons are sum-
med up in two words -improvidence and I'M
chastity"
Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1877-07-10

The Rev DR.. Howard Crosby, discussing
the vexed question of co-education, apropos
of the opening of the University of New York
to women, incidentally drops the following
valuable remarks
''Women have had no more difficulty than
men in mastering linguistic, mathematical,
scientific and philosophic truth; and, if the
opinion has prevailed that such learned
women made poor wives, it is because, under
the pressure of society hitherto, only pushing
women could attain these high ends But
let society be such that modest and retiring
women can equally achieve and excel in high
studies, and we shall lose this false opinion
about blue stockings We shall find that
the truest examples of domestic happiness
are when both husband and wife have reached,
by careful study. thehigherrealms of thought,
and have thus enlarged the field OF their
common pursuits We shall find that the
color of the stockings is not altered by any
amount OF thorough culture, and that
femenine delicacy is but promoted by the
sharpening of the perceptive and discriminate
ing faculties
Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1877-07-10

The Lancet calls attention to the impor-
lance, safeguard TO the public health, of
securing the early detection of cases of scar
let fever, it being of incalculable consequence
not only to the patient but also to the COM
munity, in order that timely measures may
be taken for preventing the spread of the dis
ease. The Lancet says that the throat symp-
toms are the most trustworthy for the pur
pose of diagnosis in the initial stage of scarlet
fever; the soft part of the palate is extensively
Redeemed, and not merely the tonsils, as is
the case i'll the first instance in ordinary sore
throat When this condition is met with, &C
companied by very hot skin and a very
quick pulse, attending or preceded by sick
ness, with thickly furred tongue, red Dor
ders and prominent papill@, case of scarlet
fever may be prepared for. In most cases,
adds this journal, sickness occurs within
twenty four hours after the commencement
Of the attack-indeed, it is we'll known to all
observers that, in the large proportion Of
cases, sickness occurs within twenty-on or
eighteen hours.
Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1877-07-10
SIXTY EIGHT DAYS AROUND THE
WORLD.

The Omaha (Nebraska) Republican prints a
letter from DR.. F. S. DeHass, American con-
sui at Jerusalem, in which he gives an account
of tour he has lately made around the world
in SO days of actual travelling time. The let
ter is dated at Jerusalem, May 10, 1877.
The outline of the journey we quote, greatly
condensed in the following:
Having safely returned to my post, I take
pleasure in furnishing your readers, agreeable
to promise, with brief notice of my quick
and successful tour around the world. Not
counting the time lay over at different points,
as these breaks in the journey could have all
been avoided, l made the entire circuit of the
globe in exactly 69 days, and but for heavy
weather on the Pacific would have made it III
62 days The journey from Alexandria, via
Brindisi and Paris to Loudoh, and from
thence to New York and San Francisco, was
accomplished in 20 days, and we were just
the same number Of days going from San
Francisco to Yokohama, Japan. Crossing
over from there to Canton, in China took six
days. A sail of 10 days over the China Sea
and through the Strait of Malacca, touching
at several points we have not time to notice,
brought us to Ceylon OF the Southern coast
of Hindostan and one of the richest of the
East India Islands Thence we sailed directly
to Suez, in Egypt, which took II days, and
from thence, in few hours, by rail to Alex
andria, our starting point, making the entire
distance of %, 900 miles-16, 900 by water and
9 900 by land-in 67 days, without any
accident or detention of any kind"
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1877-07-16

which this railway can be constructed and
the already encountered Danube bridge and
railway from Russia will thus be addition
ally burdcned with the necessary rails, sleep
ers and so forth, for the new line.
Meantime we cannot suppose that the
Turks will remain idle. The army discn-
gagged from its late operations in Monte
negro is hurrying to meet the head OF the
Russian column. while troops from Widdin
and varna threaten its flank from either
side
The possession Of the fortress and the port
Of Varna Is of the utmost importance to
Russia. At this point the Turks will prob
ably land an army drawn partly from such
troops as can be spared from Asia Minor,
reinforced by contingcnts which arrive
from time to time from Egypt and other
parts of the Sultan's dominions, and still
further increased by contributions from the
garrison of the quadrlateral fortrcsses. If.
with this army, they can crush the COM
parativcly small Russian force now occupy
ing tho Dobrudscha there is nothing to
prevent them from falling upon the flank of
the Russians and cutting up their line Of
communication while the main body of the
Turkish army is engaging the Russian front.
With their single line of communication
severed, the Russian position would become
desperate. It's great Weakness indeed. lies
in this one fact, that there is such a long
aud difficult line of communication to keep
up from the Pruth 10 the Balkans, and that
there is moro TO he conveyed over il than
any army Of equal size ever required before
under the same conditions.
When the Germans were operating in
France. they were campaigning in a rich,
fertile. and highly civilized country, inter-
sectcd i'm every direction with good roads
and railroads: and even then, though their
Quartcrmastcr-G Generals department was
unsurpassed in the perfection of its arrange
mcnts, the task Of keeping the army prop
crly supplied was one Of extreme difficulty
and anxiety. The Russians, with the most
corrupt and imperfect cOmmissariat system
in Europe, are operating in country de-
void of railroads, almost destitute of or
binary roads devastated and partially de-
populated. and in parts very unhealthy;
and they have TO adapt these conditions to
arms constructed for war in civilized coun-
tries. and involving the greatest facilities Of
communication.
Taking all these circumstances into con-
sidcratiun, we are not surprised at the APP
parent slownc-S Of the Russian advance
nor do We anticipate those rapid and
overwhelming Successes which we have
been promised by 40 many military
critics. That the Russians may succeed
in crossing the Balkans, We are free
to admit but that they will find tho
task even more difficult than they did on
the last occasion We think they would
themselves be ready to acknowledge; while
those who have read VoS MoLrRE's account
Of DIErEIcHs's campaign will find that We
have underestimate the difficulties with
which the invading armies have to contend
rather than otherwise. and will cease fol
the future TO receive news Of their reverses
! with amazement and ncrcdulity.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1877-07-16
MASSACHUSETTS, POLTTTCs.
Rice's denomination Probable. and q Demo-
cratic Victory Possible.

Boston, July f3.-This Is the season when
Massachusetts slate makers begin to write out
names to see how they look OF the renomina-
ton Of Coy. Rice at the coming Republican
State Convention there seems now TO he little
doubt Tho project Of bringing forward George
T. Boutwell, rs candidate for Governor was Sc
riously entertained by one wing of the Repub-
lican party managers. and is perhaps. secretly
cherished now under the mask Of an assumed
acquicsccncc in the will Of the majority. The
friends Of the author of the hole in the sky -
seem to have realized as long ago as last fall that
the Scnatorship was rapidly slipping away from
his grasp. There were one or two tentative
efforts to bring him before tho peoph, as II can
didatc for Governor. but the people were de-
cdcdy cold. and the scheme. which it is almost
needless to say. originated in the Custom House.
has apparently fallen through.
Gov. Rice is popular and seems to have Of
Tended none Of the elements OF his party worth
counting. The temperance men were disaf-
fccted by his veto Of the Local option bill. but
that action was perfectly consistent with his
record, and thc people 81 IA. Sla w. gcneraily
Alliance has to say AT its monthly meetings.
Gov Rice also has the advantage Of social pop
ularity. In the character of host he il unex-
ccptiOnahlc. az WIS shown by the skill with
which he made tho reception Of President
Hayes pass on to the satisfaction 81 the visitor.
riding together in the siN-hor-o harouchc on
reception day took the smiling. aifable cOnsr-
qucntial Governor for the President. None Of
the local papers told the truth about the rcccp-
ton of Hayes. He says II was very agreeable
hut il would have chilled any other, man to IN"
marrow. and to any one who cOtHd remember
the receptions of johnson and Grant was
actually lrr"zing This popular GOODNESS means
something and the Democrats. VINO are quietly
waiting their chances. know il.
Now that GOV. Talbot has Withdrawn his name
from the contest. the Hon. John ID. Long Is the
only person likely To hc put forward in opposi-
tion Ia GOV. Rice in Convention. MIR. Long is Il
young lawyer Of ability. aud has been twice
Speaker of the House of representatives.
The attitude Of the Democrats IL watched with
much interest. If they run either Charles
Francis Adams or Gov. GHstOn they will stand II
good chance II carrying the state. Much may
be reckoned on the Republican disaifcctiOn and
general depression throughout the ranks OF IN,
party but nevertheless the Democrats must II
they expect to succeed. nominate some such
man as Custom or Adams. and not one OF
| the political milcstoncs recently prominently
mentioned"
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1877-07-16

teal service during the preceding five years.
Tho House voted as follows:
ocency % ca ys na & of and ns for Gc en ne
million Of dollars"
Add this million TO the S5,750,000 in the
regular bill of the first session, and it will
be seen that half million more for pay was
granted than at any time between 1871 and
1876 But this Is not all. Mr.. WHIrTHoRNE
added n clause which reads as follows in the
Deficiency bill:
That the accounting officers Of the Treasury hc and
settle the accounts The officers Of the navy on the acuNe
list whose pay ha. been Effected by ~ gcneral order 81
The scercay Of The s"Ny ngmssd I've hundred en me- ,
na.g. ~, ~. and such sn,n rs may lie
necc .snry to make up the difference between The qr
appropriated ior that PURPOSE q any money in the
Treasury not otherwise appropriated
This appropriation was necessarily in
definite and the amount Of money required
for it could only be ascertained after the
accounts had been settled at the Treasury.
They are nearly all closed now, but the
official information is withheld from the
public. Enough is known, however to state
positively that at least half a million of dol
lars will bc applied to this object, which
actually covers all the deficiency that ex-
listed between activc-lst pay aud furlough
pay for the officers who fell under RoBEsoN's
ban. The account therefore, may be summed
up thus
Pay IN regular navy bill - 5000
ncinitc dcnricnrN .sss..........sss...ss iptt'
Nhfrh"HNhs clause. say ''b
For fiscal year ending June 80 is77..... 81 15oocl
These are figures which do not lic and
they prove incontcstably that n million
more for pay Of the navy was voted for the
last fiscal year than for the preceding one.
The cry, therefore. Of scrimping is not only
| false. but it was fabricated in order to get
money from the Treasury which should
never have been voted. and TO enable SECoR
ROBEsoN, while holding over n Secretary,
to make away with million of dollars for
contractors and in open defiance of law
| The abstraction of this money compelled
| Mr. THOMPSON to put officers ON half pay
who had been more than literally provided
for. The facts cannot be long concealed, and
when Congress comes together robson
will again be shown up IA n corruptionist
who ought to bc cracking stone at Albany.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1877-07-16
Sccor Robson and the NAVY Pay.

II is perfectly well known, from the Off
cial estimates and the appropriations, that
for the five years preceding the last Con-
grcss, SECoR ROBEsON regularly estimated
the pay for the officers and $500 seamcn OF
the navy at SO. SOC, 600, and that the Republic
can Congresses regularly voted S6,25O,O~
annually. No complaint was ever made OF
the nsuflicicncy of the money thus granted.
and everybody who had investigated the
subject knew il TO be more than ample for
the object.
These estimates were made during the era
Of reckless expenditure, when Congress and
the departments were in perfect accord. But
when Democratic House was elected,
with the certainty Of rctrcnchmcnt RoRE-
son Immediately changed his figures, and
increased his estimates for precisely the
same service and the same number OF men
to the extent of SsO0,OOO- lie added this
large sum so rs to have a margin and in
the hope that the House would vote him the
usual amount. In other words, he asked
s7,aOO,OO0, instead of s6,5Oo,ooo.
The House reduced the number Of scamcn
from eight thousand five hundred 10 seven
thousand five hundred. This difference OF a
| thousand men Is estimated Ia save between
$4,000 and 100000 in the item OF pay. ac-
curdiug as the cost per man ia rated. The
allowance for travelling expenses war alrc
regulated largely in the interest Of ccono
my Toy fixing eight cents per mile, instead o
"A discretionary sum at the caprice on par
tiality OF the Secretary. These and Other
changes made up Il total of at least hall {
million, and perhaps much more.
t.4tf .l h..
voted 81, 1904 600 forpayo the navy, instead O
5000 900 which the Republicans of thc prcvl
Gus Congress had voted. Substantially The
appropriations were the same in both cases
Congress had hardly adjourned, however
before robson raised an cutlery through
the Administration organs, charging tia
the Democrats had refused To vote none,
enough to pay the navy; and he put ON fur
Tough every officer who had appear"
against him in the investigation, or VIII
was suspected of opposition To his IobberN
This movement had two objects in view
| one was to discrcdit the reforms which tn
Democratic House had passed, against tn
hostility Of the Senate and the Admlnlstra
ton The other was 10 enable HoBEsoN
divert the money for the benefit of IavoriI
contractors, which was thus withheld froI
the pay Of the navy. The country soon vi
derstood the trick, and placed it by the slc
Of others from the same source
A clamor of injustice to the navy induce
the House at the last session to revise son
, Of the figures. 1t will be remembered tia
RoBEsuN had asked 1890, 900 for the lisc
. year which closed on the 30th Of June,
a SSoO, 900 moro than he had required for idc