Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1877-07-03

Commodore John >. Golds0orough |
died at his home in Philadelphia Penn,
Monday morning. He retired July y.
1870, having received an appointment as
midshipman in 1924. he was 69 years
old.
"A triple murder occurred near Gore,
Logan county, Ohio, Saturday morning
John Weldon was found in field with his
head split open, his sister and daughter
in the house with their heads smashed
1t is supposed the murders we're commit
ted for money. There is no clue to the
perpetrators.
-Marblehead now takes her turn at
devastation by FIRE. A conAagration on
Monday morning, burned over fifteen
acres in the heart of the town, destroying
seyeuty-two buildings, among them shoe
factories, stores, hotels, residences &e.-
1t is fearful catastrophe for the place.
OF the work Of Francis Murphy, the
temperance retormer, Pittsburgh paper
says: "His work in Pittsburgh and Phil
adelphia speaks for itself There are
hundreds of families, now happy homes,
which three months ago, were bedlams
thousands of poor men released from a
bondage worse than human slavery, all
of whom can thank God and Francis Muir
ply for the change that has come over
them.
Mrs. Mary Livermore thus speaks
Of sign of the times; In Iowa | saw
law sign, "Foster 4 Foster ltmeant
Mr.. and Mrs. Foster. They attended the
same law school became attached, be-
came partners for life. The man looked
up the cases; the woman pleaded them
before the court and jury. In certain
difficult case where woman was con-
eerned he doubted his ability to do it just
ice and carried it to his wife, and she
proved it to be case of insanity
"A trusted correspondent of the Jack
son Miss Times writes that after Judge
Chisolm was MORALLY wounded by the
Kemper County mob he called Mrs. CHS
Ohm to his bedside and said: "My prec-
ious wife, | am innocent Of any crime,
and when | am dead want you to tell
my children so, and train them up to
know that thci. father never did an act
for which they need to blush or feel ash
AIMED. have been murdered because
am Republican and would live a free
man.
Mr.. Samuel J. Tiden may as well
hang up his fiddle as a candidate for 1850.
His late whining speech has done the bust
ness for him. Comparisons between him
and Hendricks are freely made in the
democratic organs all Of which so far rs
We have been able to observe agree with
the Augusta Georgia. COnstitutionaIist
when it declares that the Southern States
/ in the next national democratic conven-
ton will certainly prefer Hendricks "to
+ that Northern man whom Senator Beck
describes as being as cold as id clam,
and who sat sucking his fingers in Gram
mercy Park while the radical leaders
were juggling the democratic party out OF
their constitutional rights
The actual number Of participators
in the greenback convention at Skowhe-
gan was but i small part Of the number
present-hardly enough for small change.
Curiosity probably drew the most who
were there. The Somerset Reporter says ;
1T Is impossible TO tell the real size OF
the convention as it was mass affair and
no credentials were required or present
cd. We should presume that the vote for
/ Governor would be the iaircst test. \
gentleman who counted while the vote
was being taken-it was taken by rising
made but twcnty-six. There was a
good attendance throughout the day, but
the actual participants 10 the convention
probably numbered less than forty
Gov. Packard of Louisiana having
arrived in Cincinnati on his way north,
reports were started shat he was on a
mission against the administration Of
President HAYES. These reports having
been brought TO GOV. Packard's notice he
declared them fasehoods, and said that
his travels in the nothern States had no
political significance whatever. In rela-
\ ton to affairs in Louisiana, Mr.. Packard
said everything was quiet, the people hay-
Ing settled down and gone to work. As
to his own case, he remarked that it was
all summed up in the simple statement
that Packard was out and Nichols was
in. He declined to say anything what
ever in relation to President Hayes or his
policy.
CROP REPORTS. The June report Of
the Department Of Agriculture indicates
better prospect than usual for wheat
The average for winter and spring wheat
together is 100, winter wheat being above
that figure and spring wheat below 1t.
The State averages are as follows Maine
lOl, New Hampshire l02, Vermont 100,
Massachusetts 100, Rhode Island 100,
Connecticut l03, New York los, New
Jersey 100, Pennsylvania 90, Delaware
81, Maryland lO3, Virginia 100, North
Carolina 100, South Carolina 81, GeOr-
gia los, Florida 100, Alabama 90, Mis-.
sissippi lO7. Louisiana l03. Texas 10,
Arkansas 1O6, Tennessee 81, West Vir-
ginia 10Y, Kentucky los, Ohio lis,
Michigan 100, Indiana ll2, Illinois l05,
Wisconsin l07, Minnesota 80, Iowa l02,
Missouri 10. Kansas 80, Nebraska l03,