Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1877-12-18


people OF said town with Town Hall, If the
buildings are located there They therefore re-
. spectiuly ask your Honorable body % authorize
the removal. from Paris 10 Buckleld, OF all the
Courts now held at Paris and all the County Build
iugs, except the Jail, which they humby pray
may be located at Bethel.
The VALUE OF TRUTH.
"If measure cannot be sustained by
truth is it worth sustsining?" Such is
the text from which Norway" read us a
long sermon and iucuicated some high
toned moral lessons few weeks since,
and we were then led TO believe that
whatever might be the condition of the
ply steal surroundings Of the village OF
doctors, its moral atmo' phere was pare
aud unde6led. Bat alas for poor de-
PRAYED human nstOre, we lind there Is
need of publication iu this department
also.
do not propose 10 this communication
to enter into a discussion OF the merits or
demer.l7 Of the subject IL controversy in
The County OF Oxford, bu. wish to ca.
attention % certain statements that have
been promulgated ~ citizens Of Norway
/ through The puoIic press as well as b, the
personal efforts ot some OF the leading
citizens Of Norway, that a desperate
c5use can hardly palliate or excuse
First, wish to call attention to the
/ following ilem in the Norway -4dUerttser
Of Dec 9Th.
/ PARIS HILL as A HEALTHY PLACE The
/ iail Ou Pari, Hill is built OF granite blocks
one foot thick, aud yet the Morgan wo
man who was incarcerated there tor some
months, and last Spring sent from there
io The States Prison-s few days since
gave birth to a very healthy child.
Several OF the citizens OF Norway have
taken especial pains to give publicity to
the above scandsous report, and have
even gone so far as to fix the paternity OF
the child upon highly respectable citi
zen of Paris Hi. rs an argument Why
the County Buildings should be removed
10 tuS HO'e 'CHp-Stao'o '''"S0 vi
Norway.
at once wrote to the warden CT the
State Prison 10 ascertain the Truth OF the
above reports, and have received The fol
lowing reply:
Dear Sr:-lu reply IL your inquiries as
to the reports in circulation 10 the effect
II
birth TO a child here, &c" have to say
that so lar As know and believe there.i-
no foundation whatever for said reports
Certainly there is and has been no appear
ance that any such misfortune was likely
TO happen, and your letter was the first
iutimation that had heard that anybody
suspected anything OF the kind. the
sisters have both behaved we'll while
here, and have apparently improved in
character very much. and il seems 10 me-
that Mrs Libby should be pardoned, aud
allowed to 60 home and take care OF her
children"
Now it cost just six cents 10 get the
above information. Our Norway agita
tors might bave obtain, it at the same
price bat preferred to circulate foul
SANDER against the character OF an limo
cent and respectable man as we'll as
against he unfortunate Miss Morgan
rather than ipYest even this small sum in
buy iny tina truth. They would doubtless
haze chosen the lie rather than the truth
at the same price, rs in their estimation
it would better promote the objec. they
had in view.
Agajo. il the same issue OF the same
paper, we find the following item:
II the county buildisgs are N the RICH,
pltce aud suitable tor ina accommodation
of he business OF the county, az asserted
Dy some OF the interested writer's Tor he
Democrat why was it that the Grand Jury,
coming from ali parts OF The county, n
the last Sept. Term of Court at Paris
when asked what sum they would ask the
County Commissioners to raise TO repair
those buildings, nearly every one "a d
not one dollar 10 repair those buildings?
Will some one tell Us why that answer
@as given? The fact is. there are great
many OF the Voters OF Oxford County
outside OF Norway that are not satisfied,
either with the location, or with the build.
ings.
la answer TO this, have before me the
following from the foreman OF the said
Grand Jury which is fully corroborated
by another member OF the same Jury
with whom have recently conversed:
"In reply to the item in the Norway
advertiser in relation to Grand Jurors
not desiring one dollar to repair the
County buildings. would say that what
expressions | heard from the Jurors were
to the effect that the County buildings
were in good repair. | heard not one
expression in opposition TO their present
location
In view of these facts, which are but a
sample of many that could name of the
same character, wouldn't it DO well for
our Norway friends to heed the advice to
"buy the truth and sell it not" aud es-
pecially 10 remember that measure that
cannot be sustained by truth is not worth
sustaining at all.
Again, in the last issue af the same
paper we ind what purports TO be a state
ment OF the mortality of Paris Hill, in
which the writer seems as hard pressed
tor material as in his other items. l find
included in his list eighteen who died in