Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1878-07-16

4th. Oxford is dissatisfied With me
award of prize.
Garner d Bsgnaii, OF Hanover wool
en- Mill. are prepared 10 make cloths, card
aud spin wool, dress cIotn, or do any
kind OF mill work, at the lowest rates.
Wool bought, or taken in exchange for
goods.
The BackiieId reporter is the name
OF Il new paper at Buckfeid, the first
nun Der of which we have just received
It Is EDITED oy Geo. NJ Atwood, and pub
li-hed monthly at % cents per year. IL
is = neat little sheet.-MechaHtc Falls
ChIseH.
When that eminent oarpei-bagger,
tx Governor Walker OF Virginia, sat
down In TammAny Hail, alter rejoicing
that Tho army could NO longer be used
10 supuress r:r.q. The band very apprC-
priate.y played "DHle.'
JEFF Davis says: Ill l was not the
first TO pIuuce luto the conflict, | am
among the last 10 withdraw from it,
According 10 jeff The conflict sill goes
on, end his friends insist that complete
reconciliation will not be secured until
be IS seated in bis old place in the United
States Senate. The yielding policy has
no know limits.
Tho tide OF sentiment appears TO DO
turning against the Greenback iallacy,
no. only in this region bot in the west.
AT the late Republican State convention
OF Illinois, General Logan declared that.
although he, up TO q short time ago, had
favored soft money, the extreme views
of its advocates had led him 10 favor re-
sumption.
SHOOTING Al BALDWIN. - The two
days shooting of the Maine Ride Club
commenced with good attendance. In
the first contest for one aud Two hundred
yards. Hersey made SO out OF possible
100. winning The prize, telescope.
Daniels made the lowest score, % out OF
100. IN the 800 yards contest Davis
mado IS out Of possible 90. The 600
yards contest Sss not completed, owing
20 the rsiu Press.
Deaths llCm sun-strOkO have been
quite fequen, during the present upusu-
oily hot weather. Tho papers report two
doeths in tho baying heids in this state
on Tuesday from his cause, and third
case not .atDl 4 maa named Wilkins
cppcd dead vale raGinI hay ia Ihicl-
field. aud George kiCh, whne has my ~
the Bangor poor farm. suit sTed suosiroke
and died within an hour. John +. Lsury
81 kiIery Point was sunslruck and
suffered severely.
OF The tour statues OF Morality, Law.
Education and Liberty. on toe Pilgrim
Monument a. Plymouth, the nrst has
been completed o, ms Halloweii graUlte
works aud j. now Oh exhibition there. 10
was cot from Z single BLOCK OF Stanito,
weighing over e,gnty toas. and represents
female figure ho.''Cg tho g cI.Cgue ID
her let ana Bnc saUil OF roTeiauOn IN
her riyht hand. lu inches or csCq side
o. her thIo-o ale cut figures Of TIC
prophet NJ ses and II tee Evangelist D.
Luae.
We nave received copy Of Brack-
el.'s Bul.stin. q leH eiaht p-Sc monthly
printed Z good style on inD paper which
contains q department devoted 10 Tom
porance sad especially Good Tcmplary
10 Malnc. AS ,Ae p4OAsEcc Is secretary
o! the Grand Lodge oi Good Iempla's
OF The Stale he has facilities for giving
information which can nowhere else Do
o,iansd. ard which would seem q most
Indispensable to every Good Temp!ar
and especially 10 officers Of Lodges.
Terms - cents year. Address Brack-
elI'i Bull.lin, Belfast, Aaine.
Rev. DR.. Shsiler OF Portland received
q dispatch "Wednesday, bringing tho cad
Intelligence OF bis brothers dee,o 10 Had
dam, Ccnnecticut. Mr. Smaller was on
visit Co. the Old homestead IN Haddam,
and on luesday, seeing 81 shower coming
W, wesj cur Ia assist unloading hay
in the barn. While thus e. Gagged be was
struck by lightning aud the nay taking
G-r his body was consumed with the
building and it, contents. Dir. Smaller
was the Youngest brother OF DE-. Shsller.
lie w4s a member OF the large book pub
lishipg house OF Sheldon " Co. New
York, until within year, when be re-
tired, having accumulated a competency.
On account OF partial change IN
the % neIehlp oi tho Farmer, made in
April last. Dr. Wm Is. LspAam, who has
been connected ~ilh ,be paper since
Ap,i!, 1872. Terminated hie service with
tue !s,. i.sue. Nhcn .h0 Doctor assumed
his editorial dulles be had had but slight
Journal site experience but being dill
CONT student aud q vigorous and earnest
thinker, he ~ once became writer OF
acknowledged merit. During the years
that ho has been with she pape, lie has
labored with zeal and warmth Tor It's sue
cess and while The Farmer, will no long
er have his services, wc hope some news
paper 10 the State, will gain what we
have lost. Mr.. ). l.. Bosrdman, who has
been associated win the Farmer for
eighteen years, and lis agricultural cdr
lor since the desth at DIR. Holmes in 1863,
will remain as the agricultural aud gen
erai editor end he will be assisted in his
labors og tho junior publisher EaIHe
Farmer.
Late returns, which are quite AS re-
liable as those OF au official character,
show conclusively that the Republican
negroes. By an overwhelming majority,
carried .Lo recent local elections IN Sum
norgillc County, South Carolina, but AS
Is nov becoming usual ia such cases,
their candidates were not allowed 70 Itke
tseir seats. They were prevented iron
doing so by the Democratic Council
which, upon the simple ground that 1T
would no. do for the Radicals 10 CARY
the drst election o. the year refused TO
declare the result OF the contest. Ger.
Wade Hampton has frequently expressed