Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1879-05-13
IN GENERAL.

! go gas burners in the post Office in New
York. The innovation pleaScS most every
! body and looked upon rs Il positive proof
that the light is u success.
! Martial law in Russia is being vigor-
ouSly enforced \ reign of terror prevails.
/ Arrests are made on the slightest suspic-
| ion. and the supposed offenders thrown in
10 prison without trial or examination.
A memorial window To Bishop IIcber,
/ the famous author of the hymn beginning,
/ Prom Greenand's icy mountains" is soon
TO be set up in the church at MalpaS, Che
/ shire being the parish in which he was
! born.
Mr.. Pigg and Mr.. Gait were members
| of the late grand jury of Licking county,
/ Ohio. Nathaniel Bacon Hogg was former
| " a citizen there but he removed To Pitts
burg several years ago, and engaged in the
pork and lard oil business.
The important announcement Is made
that JEFF Davis has become the grand
father of little girl" He couldn't have
become a grandmother very well, unless he
/ had kept on those clothes in which the
/ Michigan cavalry found him.
Il am not, wrote Mr. Ralph Waldo
/ Emerson the other day, lin condition TO
make visits or TO take any part in CONVEX
/ Sation Old age has rushed upon me In
the last year and tied my tongue, and hid
my memory, and THUS made IT duty 10
/ stay At home.
Work has been resumed on the great
suspension bridge between New York and
Brooklyn The wire cables. each as big
L - hn.l,s nnuanlpfa AMI
! 1000 men will soon be employed in pushing
the work upon the suspended roadway.
| II will still require two years at least, 10
bring the bridge 70 point of opening TO
the public
At the last session of the Georgia
| Legislature the death penalty for murder
was abolished and Imprisonment for life
substituted. Mr. Aston, who was mainly
| instrumental in the passage of the act, was
murdered not long since 10y man named
| Cox. who has been found guilty and sen
fenced 10 Imprisonment for life-the first
| case under the new law.
Horace Greeley loaned $1,000 to Cor
ncluS j. Vanderbilt many years ago, and
on Mr. Grcclcy'S death the debt was con-
,idered worthless. ON Saturday, April
ith. Mr William Vanderbilt met the two
daughters of Mr. Greeley by appointment
and paid the amount with interest, in all
about SOL. 900. an act that Mr.. GrceleyS
old friends will regard with great salts
/ faction.
Concerning the allegation that Cali
| f1ruiau> "loathc The Chinese" William
} Ll1yJ Garrison write, 10 a friend that If
| that i- 50, IL Is very odd that they insist
upon employing 10000 OF them, and using
/ them I'M occupations where loathcSOmcneSS
| +, particularly not desirable. Is those of
cooks and chambcrm1idS, aud paying them
/ from soto Sioa mouth-morc than whites
would get for doing the same work. Tally
another for the venerable advocate of
/ human rights
/ The Rev. Dr Cans. formerly pastor
| of the Reformed Church, was recently re-
cciycd into the Roman Catholic Church, at
/ Baltimore. II was most impressive GER
emory. After mass in the Church of 81.
/ IguaiiuS Loyola, DR.. Cans, four members
I of his family and two OF Dali, former parish
| toner's knclt In front of the altar and made
| confession OF faith. Father Clark recitcd
| the Kyric ElciSou and psalm in Latin,
and then pronounced the form of ab>olu-
tiuu and reception into the Church.
At the funeral of Mrs. Ngcu Ngoh
| LAing. wife of one of the Chinese Com
miSSioncrs OF Hartford Conn, there were
solemn services i'm the Chinese language,
i'm which the family OF the Commissioner
and the Chinese pupils participated, and
there were formal obSeryanCeS peculiar TO
/ the Chinese. The body was enclosed in an
iron coffin of rich rosewood finish, and
near IL were displayed flowers and fruits.
Ii will be taken 10 China when Mr.. Ngeu
returns there about three months hence.
The conviction of Conductor Hartwell.
whose neglect of duty caused the railroad
disaster al WOllaSton, Mass, was for man
slaughter. and the punishment may be any
where from 81 fine 10 twenty years inn
priSonment. The evidence was that he
| switched his freight train across the track
on which fast excursion train was APP
preaching. and did not send out danger
signal, a. the printed rule of the company
| directed His only defence was that the
excursion train was so far behind its time
that he supposed it had gone past.
Miss Susan b. Anthony is the one on
" person who answers 10 EpeS Sargeant's
problem of The Woman Who Dared
She i the one woman eXtant who is not
afraid She told the New York Legisla-
ture in 4 speech at Albany the other night,
that marriage was simply 4 woman'S bind
ing herself out 10 man for board,
lodging and clothes. She also told them
that She had made her first appearance
before that body more than thirty years
, ago. when most of those who now heard
her were at school. Can female heroism
go one step further than this:
-Kinglake aScribeS to printers error
the iii" assumed and worn by the late
Napoleon. The French home office, in
preparing public sentiment for the empire,
wished To give what we call keynote
and what is called in France, L. mot II
orlre So the minister wrote the direc-
ton, "Que L. mot GOr,ire soft Vire NapO-
IeoR!!! The printer or the clerk who
made copy" took the three notes of adj
lmiration for GIL" and issued accordingly,
and in Il short time all the COmmunes
were raising the cry for Napoleon III.
once i'm the air il could not be recalled,
and the Government adopted the title.
The Rome CORES pondent OF the Phil
adelphia Press quietly takes all the romance
ont of Italy by saying, "Out of the window
lust opposite mine, and only few feet from
it, all day long there Tolls an Italian girl,
beautiful, dirty, lazy, badly dressed, and
always eating something. Priest and sol
dier and beggar and donkey and tourist and
! sailor flow on beneath I'm Il steady stream
10 slow music She gaZes liStleSsly on the
human current forever, but takes no hui
man interest i'm il, and shows signs of in
. tglligeut life but about once every half
hOur when She rrtirc~ To a cupboard To I'LL