Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1877-06-26
The preepbsckers are making frantic

The greenbsckers are making frantic
appeals for soft money. with which to
carry on their campaign.
The CHIEF JusrIcE's VISIT SOUTH
A Washington special says the refusal OF
the reconstructed element of the South to
notice Chief Justice Waite socially while
there attending TO his court duties, occa-
sions a great deal of comment. The Pres
ident and the members of the Cabinet,
who have been informed Of the fact, ex-
press much establishment. The query is,
is this the outgrowth of the Presidents
Southern policy?
The Chief Justice is said to have ex-
pressed the opinion privately to his friends
since his return, that the evidence in the
trial Of the Ellenton rioters was conclu-
siye as to the guilt of some Of the prison
ers. The recent trip to South Carolina
has convinced the Chief Justice that the
old slavery spirit has not died out, and
that no person will be tolerated there who
differs with the rebel element politically.
The Indians in Washington territory
are devastating the settlements and Mass
acring the inhabitants. The Salmon riv-
er Indians and Joseph's band attacked
the settlers on Comos prairie, killing sew
eral, and threatened the town Of Mt
Idaho, sixty miles from Lewiston. Sew
eral persons have been killed at Salmon
river. One hundred United States troops
and one hundred aud fifty citizens went
10 pursuit of the Indians and encountered
them at the head of White Bird Canon.
The troops were surrounded and Col.
Perry and half Of the command were
said to have been killed, and the rest
were fighting against superior numbers
Gen. Howard telegraphed Gen. Sherman
that 1.-The Indians are very active aud
gradually increasing in strength, drawing
from other tribes. The movement lndl-
Gates combination, uniting all disatfected
indians. They will probably number
1000 or 1900 when united. About thirty
citizens have been murdered thus far. |
shall not feed the enemy on dribletS, but
had to start the two companies TO stop
the murder Of men aud women and keep
the attention Of Joseph'S band while |
concentrated my troops
The Rev, John ). e. Abbot who
died at his residence in Fair Haven Conn,
Saturday at the age of seyenty-one was
born in Brunswick in this state, in 1905.
Tie graduated from Bowdoin College when
he was twenty years old, and after COM
ple;ing his theological course at Andover
Seminary, settled as a pastor at Worces-
ter, and subsequently at ROxbury and
Nantucket lie devoted himself to lit
erature, and in 1888 published The
Mother at Home, which was followed by
The Child at Home" These were very
popular, and were translated into fifteen
or twenty Of the languages Of Europe,
Asia and Africa. From 1874 he relin-
pushed the paStorate and engaged him.
self entirely in authorship. Among his
most widely known works, are series Of
SIX volumes Of biographical histories, Of
Marie Antoinette, Josephine, etc. his
tory Of Napoleon BOnaparte in two large
volumes, remarkable for its indiscrimin-
ate eulogy of all his acts a History
Of the French Revolution. "A History
Of Austria" a History of the Civil
War in America" two vols. History
of Napoleon Ill, Emperor of the French, ="
equally eulogistic with that Of his pre-
decessor, and many books for children,
etc.