Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1877-11-20

not be possible TO visit Name. regret
that he cannot spend portion of the
winter in your State.
Fraternally yours,
Thomas X. Cree.
MIR. Winslow Haywood died at his
residence in Bethel Oct. 10Th, ult., aged
eighty-fve years. He was by occupation
a farmer, aud honorable and upright In
all his dealings with mankind. He had
been u professor Of religion for more than
three score years and permitted his relig-
ion TO influence him in all that he did.
he was kind aud indulgent father, a
faithful friend, good citizen and true
Christian. A long acquaintance with
him enables us to speak from personal
knowledge. and we never knew man, all
things considered, who seemed to possess
more Of the elements OF true manhood
lie leaves a widow, and three children by
former marriage, the youngest of which
is the wife of Prof. Fernald of the State
Colege.-Farmer.
1t is strange that the laboring man
cannot see the injury done him by the re-
monetizatiOn of the silver dollar. The
effort of the resumptionists is to make the
grccnback dollar worth one hundred cents !;
the effort of the silver inhationistS is to
reduce Its value to ninety-three cents, the
worth Of the silver dollar, for the green
back of course will be no more valuable
than the metal in which it is to be redeemed.
To buy a dollars worth Of food the pur-
chaser must pay in silver dollar and sew
en- cents, and as wages will not advance,
he will have to work more hours than now
O. earn the necessary money. 1t will
take more labor, should the silver bill be-
come Jaw, to earn a real dollar than 1t
does now Il is easy to see why the Bon
ANA meu should favor silver, for they
mud a profit in 1t, but it is not easy to see
why the labOrer should be eager to deiraud
himself OF to assist the silver owners in
swindling him.
France vii be ready 10 resume Spe-
cie payments in the course of year, and
with as great a debt as the United States
10 begin with. Its treasury Is now over
flowing with gold, and all this has been
brought about by a course Of finances d.
rocty opposed 10 the American idea
Camden Herald.
Ii cur cotemporary had inquired into
the facts, instead Of accepting the careless
statements Of some of the soft money lead
crs, he would have seen that France
which by the way did not issue any gov
erument paper money, hut simply made
legal tender of the notes Of the bank OF
France took almost precisely the course
to bring the French paper currency TO par
that the United States government has 10y
the resumption act; and that more than
a month since the bank of France success
fully resumed specie gold payments
without any difficulty so that today all
the paper currency in France Is Of equal
value with, and convertible into gold at
the pleasure Of the holder.-Lewiston
Journal
Some of the MexicanS not satisfied
with having al uproar at home nearly all
the time, seem desirious TO have 4 brush
with the United States The friends of
ex-President Lerdo are trying to provoke
war with the United States, TO enable them
In the general disturbances following, to
displace Diaz, and install Lerdo An
AIMED band OF Mexicans recently crossed
into Texas On the preteuSe OF capturing
nI.t-dOzen Indians, who had stolen cattle
ia Mexico, but really to provoke war.
There are two thousand Texas troops un-
der Brighten. Jones, anxious TO march
across The Rio Grande, and prscipitste
the conflict The small force OF United
States troops in that quarter has Its hands
tull TO keep of the raiding Mexicans on
cue hand aud restrain the pugnaclous
Texans on the other, and besides these the
Indians are full Of tight aud have TO be
.ooked after. Lieut. Bulls with small
io1ce was recently attacted by Eve hundred
Indians and compelled to retreat
The American press has never mark
q Itself lower down, on a standard Of
b..A-,oned and just judgment, than in It's
treatment Of Gen. Howard in the recent
I-l,-a campaign. Here Is an officer, who
BIAS woU, ~ honorable service, the rank
IL MAJOR General in the regular army
who peri eli Ms life on fifty battle-helds,
with d combined bravery and judgment
,a., gou arm the approval Of every COM
u4uder under whom he served, aui Of
.hc men ,shom he led and who. when
ten Mcpherson fell, was selected for the
command by Gen. Shermap,-a man not
noted Tor his Partially for goOd-tor.noth-
ny soldiers In important positions. lie
Is d good man, a brave man, Christian
AMI Tor this reason alone, so far as the
public understands, he has been made the
subject OF ridicule, and the target Of
cheap wit. for nearly every machine para
graphist between Chicago aud New York
Gen Sherman, who ought to know some
thing about il, commends his campaign
against Chief Joseph and Gen. Miles
o whom Howard, with the chivalrous
generosity Of a true soldier, accorded all
the honors of the surrender,-says with
an answering true-knightliness, that Gen.
Howard gave him the information which
made his success possible. Cannot a man
love the Bible, aud serve his God, with
out losing caste in the army Is it nee
eSSary that he should swear like trooper
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