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The Republican journal., 1879-07-03

The types play queer pranks some
times. by typographical error in Il
poster for Free Baptist picnic at Houl-
ton on the 4th, dalce was announced
10y Mrs. Rev. +. II. Peckham. Mrs. Peck
hams part of the programme was simply
to read the Declaration of Independence
Congress adjourned sue die at ) p. N.
on Tuesday, 1t went out like a tallow
candle leaving only bad odor behind it.
The Republican journal., 1879-07-03
The Greenback Side Show

Governor Garcclon was re- nominated
by the Democratic State Convention held
at Bangor on Tuesday last. No other
name was presented and the nomination
was made by reclamation. This was a
defeat for the ring who manipulated the
Portland convention, and who wanted to
shelye Garcelon and nominate Joseph L.
Smith. There were two obstacles in
their way, which proved iMsurmountabc
Coy. Garceon would not consent to be
shelved, and the men selected to defeat
him in the convention would not permit
their names to be used.
The rum question came up in the con
Vention and caused a good deal Of noise
and excitement, but the attempt to add
to the platform a resolution favoring the
repeal Of the prohibitory liquor law, ana
the substitution Of a local option law,
failed
Financially the convention was decid-
esy soft Resumption Mas denounced,
ana no voice was raised in behalf of the
time liohored Democratic doctrine 0fhard
money. In the platform adopted gold is
given the secondary place and the "free
ana unlimited coinage Of silver is called
for. The Greenbackers did better than
this. The Portland platform SAYS.
We favor the unlimited coinage OF gold and sill
rer. T. be supplemented by free legal tender paper
money sufficient to transact the business Of me
country
The Bangor resolution is as follows
Resolved. That are in favor of a currency of
gold and silver and paper to Ice kept at par with
com At all times, ana III favor II the free and ILL
lmned coinage Of silver
The controlling spirits Of the two con
ventions are believed to have been iden
teal and their work at Portland is GER
talnly more creditablc than their work at
Bangor, So far Us the financial question is
concerned. This is susceptible Of tut
one explanation. They have placed GOV.
Garcelon on a platform which advocates
fraud upon the people, and which is an
Insult to the honest and intelligent voters
OF the State, with a view to making votes
for Smith, the Greenback nominee That
is the object in view, no doubt Tie
free and unlimited cottage of silver
means simply this II means that the
owners of the great silver mines can take
= cents worth OF silver to the nted
The Republican journal., 1879-07-03

The special train from Portland to the
Democratic State Convention was run at
500 for the round trip-a discount Of
$50 from regular fare. The State COM
mittee's pocket book had to sweat to the
extent of 500 for each conveyed patriot.
The Republican journal., 1879-07-03

Secretary Sherman is expected to open
the campaign in this State on behalf of
the Republicans, and among the Repub-
lican speakers from outside the State,
who are to take part in the campaign in
Maine, will be Gen. Hawley and Messrs
Brown and Curry of Indiana, who are
among the ablest speakers in the country.
A large number of those delegates who applaud
ed the prohibitory resolution were much pleased
with our Bangor lager. Bangor Commercial
Much better than with the quality of
Bass ale served out by the Commercial
bar tender
The Republican journal., 1879-07-03

The Democratic Convention at Bangor
is said to have been very large one.
The gatherings ought to be large, when
the Democratic Greenback alliance mu-
tually and reciprocally attends each
others conventions. But if the delegates
limit themselves to a vote each at the
polls, the party won't be any bigger than
ever.
The Republican journal., 1879-07-03
1875 was equally emphatic on this point,


in the following words
sound currency, coin or its equivalent, essen
tial to stability in business and restoration OF
prosperity steps toward specie payment and no
steps backward
In 1876 the Maine Democracy tersely
recorded its declarations upon the none
tary question as follows
Resolved that we are opposed to an initiation of
our national currency, and that gold and silver form
the only safe basis of our monetary system
In 1877 the Democrats of Maine re-
affirmed the st. Louis platform, whatever
that may mean. In 1878 a weak and
wishy washy resolution was adopted one
intended to mean any thing, and every
thing. In that year the proud and iecid-
ed old Democratic party was tempted of
Satan, and fell. The exact manner and
place of the event is not recorded. But
it is supposed that, following the Script
racy were taken up into high place and
shown innumerable presses printing in
tlated currency, and that they fell down
and worshipped. At the election they
were found in the closest alliance with
those whose soft money decisions they
had so repeatedly, vigorously and recently
denounced 1t is more than a matter of
deluslon it is a record of disgrace and
shame
The Democracy of Maine excluding
the trade and dicker leaders is quite large
ly made up of honest and honorable men
Can they interrogate their consciences
and Justify themselves, in view of their
duties as citizens and honorable men, in
following the file leaders who face any
way and every way that holds out the
least hope OF success, at any peril to the
country
For year past we have looked with
more than distruSt upon the course Of
Democratic party leaders waiting in the
hope that better counsels would prevail.
Our views OF duty have at length diverged
50 widely that it is vain to hope for any
thing like reconcilement. The financial
principles in which we believe, and from
a declaration in favor OF which the Demo
cracy SO suddenly fell away, still live in
their visor With an adherence to the
demonstrated ability Of the country to
make good its pledges belief in its fu-
ture, commercial, industrial, moral and
political with the Republican party as
their best exponent and eXemplar We
place ourselt with those whom we believe
to be right, and pledge our best efforts to
labor for its advancement and success
The Republican journal., 1879-07-03

The Hew editor OF the Bangor Com
mercial is winning place among the
masters of original and striking compost
ton. Thus, speaking Of Mr.. Davis, the
Republican candidate for Governor, he
says
such candidate to draw Democratic and trreeL-
back votes 1t were as easy to draw mix from
the Wild boar OF the mountain.
The reader who in the future shall al !
mre this passage, will wonder whether
the striking slnile results from an expert
mental knowledge Oh the part OF the
writer.
The Republican journal., 1879-07-03

Alas, when the party that represents all the
brains, intelligence and honesty in this State is
charged with double voting and trickery what are
coming to! Bangor Commercial
Can't say what YOU are coming to.
Hanging is played out, and Gov. Garce-
Ion is much inclined to pardons. Ask an
easier one.
The Republican journal., 1879-07-03
The Menhaden Fishery.

Congress has taken no action with re
gard to the menhaden fishery, but the
question will come up At the ueAt session,
when i il predicted that legislation VIII
be enacted regulating It. The subject
was partially investigated by the House
judiciary Committee during the last SEES
sion, as heretofore noted, and TIVE reports
from a sub -committec, to whom the mat
ter WAS referred, are now in print. 'rhc
sub committee consists Of Messrs Bcale
of Virginia, Acklin Of Louisiana, and
Wait Of Connecticut The main dues
ton to be decided is whether the State O,
Maine has the right, assumed w IDS l.eg-
islature in the law enacted last winter. to
regulate the catch along the coast inside
Of the two mile line Tile tWo Southern
members disagreed on the State rights
ISSUE MI. AckIin siding With Mr. Waite
in favor Of the power Of the general GOV
eminent alone to regulate the fisheries,
and, incidentally, Of the power To- sub
stltute other regulations for those bE
which the State Of Maine has eudcaNorcd
to protect its fisheries aud interests Mr.
Brulc has prepared Il Short ana interest
ins report in which hc ably >u~tlna thc
position he takes IN tdyogoi 4 state u-ht
MIR Ackin prepared the report embody
The Republican journal., 1879-07-03
The boiling Ohio Groenbackers held

The boiling Ohio Greenbackers held
their convention at Toledo, June ;!lth.
The attendance was small, and no action
vas taken with regard to Il state ticket
The platform adopted is about the craljest
thing out. 1t denounces resumption as
"a fraud and a swindle," ana puts forth
the following absurdity
We demand cheap capital ana dear labor It'll
the place OF dear capital and cheap labor.
This is substantially the "stand and
deliver" Of the highway man, though
practically it must be as imperative IS
the Popes bull against the comet, Or
King Canutes command to the sea To stand
still. The prices Of capital and labor
have never Yet been regulated save by
the laws OF demand and supply, and it Is
not probable that they ever viii be other
wise regulated, The words quoted MAX e
a catch penny phrase to deIudc the *
norant, but it can only deceive the yery
ignorant.
The Republican journal., 1879-07-03

Summer visitors and salmon are report
ed as plentiful down east
The Republican journal., 1879-07-03

\ reader Of the Rockland opinion would
not imagine that its editor had ever been
anything but full grown GreenbAcker
And yet the searcher of the records viii
discover that in 1876 Oliver OTIS vas a
member Of the committee on resolutions ol
the Democratic State Convention, which
reported as follows
OF our national currency, and that gold and silver
form the only safe basis OF our monetary system.
oliver seems then to have been IN
league with the graspins avarIce Of the
bond holder.
The Republican journal., 1879-07-03
Clippings.

The New Era announces that Murch is opposed
to tue Greeuback platform.
Peter cooper recommends the dIsgruuted Ohio
GfecnDackers 10 vote Tor Gen Ewing
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1879-09-09
RESCUED BY A TROUT.
\ rHUNPING FISH STORY FROM THE FAR
WEST

\ THUNPING FISH STORY PROM THE FAR
WEST.
Estimated by their game qualities and
the difficulty sometimes experienced in
safely landing them, the larger specimens
of our mountain trout weigh like a stur-
geon. This fact Is established whenever
the trout hooked in a pool with sufficient
depth and spread of water can bring to
bear in MS native element the full resist
INC force Of his remarkably strong and
active tail. Illustrative of this, story is
told Of the experience Of two professional
fishers who recently went out from Hele-
na TO the Big Blackfoot, one doctor and
the other LAWYER In very brief time
they had a basket Of beauties for their
pains, but the fascination of the sport
kept them tossing their flies into the clear
waters Of the magnificent stream. Finally
one man hooked "bOuncer,' one on
which he had most yearned to Try his
skill The pool was deep and broad, and,
work and 6nesSe as the doctor might, the
trout held TO the water The lawyer,
resting his companion, tried his strength
and tact, but with no better luck. The
trout seemed quite master of the situation,
nor could he be towed or tuckered out.
The contest finally eliminated in a most
exciting scene. Determined to secure the
prize. and forgetting he could not swim,
the valiant doctor, throwing aside coat
and boots. jumped into the depths of the
stream.
Ii was a rash act, and 10 save him the
lawyer was forced TO plunge in after him.
A fair swimmer, he reached his struggl-
ing companion, and holding on to the
pole and tackle with one hand, lifted with
the other his companions head above
water. But the lawyer found he could
not bring his burden to shore, and only
by superhuman effort conld he keep him.
self and companion from sinking. On
the very point of drowning the trout
came TO the rescue, Strengthened out the
line, and after a few Sportive pranks
hauled the two men out of the pool TO
shallow water. Grateful for the service
thus obigingly rendered, the FISH was
permitted to disappear over the rifle down
stream. This story IS confirmed by the
testimony Of both the gentlemen and OF
the trout itself. which has since been seen
towing the tackle up and down the waters
of the Blackfoot.-Helena (Noatand)
Herald.
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1879-09-09
HASTE AND HEALTH.

II is not at all wholesome to be in a
hurry. Locomotives have been reported
TO move mile minute for short dis
tances. Our locomotives have often come
to grief by such great rapidity. Multi
tudes in their haste TO get rich are ruined
every year. The men who do things ma
turely, slowly, deliberately, are the men
who oftenest succeed IN life; people who
are habitually in a hurry generally have
to do things twice over. The tortoise
beat the hare at last. Slow men seldom
knock their brains out against a post.
Foot-races are injurious to health, as are
all forms of competitive exercise; steady
labor in the field is the best gymnasium
in the world. Either labor or exercise
carried TO exhaustion or prostration, OF
even great tiredness, expressed by flag
eed out" always does one more harm
than the previous exercise has done good.
All running up stairs or TO catch up with
a vehicle or ferry-boat, is extremely IN
iudicious to every age, sex, and condition
Of life. 1t ought to be most pressing
necessity which should induce person
overfify to run over twelve or fifteen yards.
Those live longest who are deliberate,
whose actions are measured, who never
embark in any enterprise without "sleep-
inc over it." and who perform all the
everyday acts with calmness. Quakers
are proyerbially calm, quiet people; and
they are thrifty folk, the world over.
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1879-09-09
Written for the Oxford Democrat.
FRUIT CULTURE.
Number 1.
ITS PLEASURES.

'sThey shall SIT every man under his own vine me
and under his own ng-treei and none shall
make them afraid"
There is no employment associated with
rural life more productive OF healthiul
pleasure or more remuneratiye for the care
and labor bestowed upon it, than the cnl-
tiyation of the fruits of the earth. He
who plants tree makes an investment,
that affords him constant pleasure IN Its
progressive development. Ii Is an invest
ment that Yields him daily interest dur
ing his life, and becomes a thing of JOY
to pOstelty. Ancestral trees are PRIDE
and glory to a country, and among the
most venerated objects Of an inheritance.
The grand old elms and naples that shade
our Yards and the orchards that grace our
fields and hillsides, planted by the hands
Of our fathers, are living links in the
golden chain Of kindred associations con-
Meeting the past with the present.
These blessings are not IN the patri-
mony of the rich alone; they come into
the heritage of the poor as well. The
wealthy landholder contemplates his broad
acres of fruit-trees with a genuine pleas
ure; the care-worn merchant feels CRATE
full sense of rest in his walks about his
orchard; and the tired mechanic, after
his days work is over, finds refreshing
recreation among the trees Of his garden,
all houriShiag under his care and teemlng
with the wealth Of the seasons. What a
pleasing contrast his yard presents to
that of his neighbor, which is never Shad-
owed by a tree nor enriched with native
fruit. With what real pleasure he
watches for the first fruits Of the season;
and the earliest strawberry, blushing un-
der its green leaves, or first cluster Of
bright cherries, is made the subject OF
pleasant conversation in his family. He
calculates upon the varieties and quanti-
ties he shall raise. and his well-kept trees
furnish an index to the happiness Of his
home. True happiness and prosperity
are seldom associated with neglected or
chards, in which the soil has been starved
and the trees have become unSightly with
scubby growth and dead branches.
Trees and their products have ever been
associated with the rare and beautiful
things Of earth, and are the companions
of genius and refinement The Hebrew
bards made them typical Of the highest
nobility and goodness in manhood, and
connected them with the ideal Of patri-
archal independence and stability; and to
Us. in these modern days, they are evan
gels Of peace and plenty, and insPirers of
Thrift and contentment. Their freshness
and fragrance in spring, their deeper foil
age in summer and rich fruitage in autumn
subtly Intervene their practical features
with the simple eSthetics Of nature, IN
ever varied forms Of poetic freshness and
mellowneSs. c.
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1879-09-09
A SENATOR INTERVIEWED.

A Forum. reporter was detailed to IN
terview Hon. John Jones, He proceeded
at once to his residence, and running up
the marble steps, rang the bell. 4 lady
appeared at the summons Of the servant,
whom the reporter supposed to be Mrs.
Jones, the wife of the distinguished gen
tleman. Bowling and removing his hat,
the reporter said:
lis Mr.. Jones at home
mo" was the response.
.'He is not in the house, them:
NO, sir
"Ah! In that case he must be out;
He is"
Hum, When will he be in;'
Il don't know"
"Ah-h, No objections to publishing
this interview in the Daily Forum, | sup
pose
Not at all.
Thank YOU" and the reporter bowed
and left. He returned again, however,
about eleven o'clock at night, in hopes of
finding the gentleman at home. At any
rate. a man raised the upper window
when the bell rang, and asked who was
there. The reporter explained his bust
meas. and asked if it was the Hon. Mr.
Jones who spoke. The man said it was,
and if the reporter didn't leave he'd throw
a pitcher Of water out. The reporter
hoisted his umbrella, and asked what Mr..
Jones had to say on the subject of inter
national finance and commercial reciprOc-
ity. Jones threw the water, but the UNI
brella would have protected the reporter
had not Jones thoughtleSsly dropped the
pitcher. That ended the umbrella and
interview, and nearly smashed the report
er, but he feels sweet revenge in the fact
that Mr.. Jones water-pitcher is no more.
IL struck his cheek.
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1879-09-09
A NERNn1-S pFOpIE

Excellent medical authority asserts
that the constant strain Of business, adj
ded to the dryneSS of our climate, has
50 changed the constitution that It IS I'M
possible for US 70 do what our fathers did
before Us safely. Eve are, says DR..
Beard, 'ten degrees more sensitive to
cold than they were, as the cases of sun
stroke and heat prostration bear evidence.
There Is an immense increase in neural
gia, sick headache, hay fever, nervous
exhaustion, and especially in dyspepsia,
IN itself the potent source Of a host Of
physical and mental irritants and distress
es. Now with such systems as we have,
high strung, nervous and irritable, the
use Of stimulants cannot be otherwise
than injurious. II Is impossible TO use
them as they were used in the days gone
by. There is hardly a man Of middle
age who does not remember that hoSpi-
tally and a sidebOard Of wines and hq-
DOrs were synonymous terms. Both men
and women drank freely, and profession
al men and the clergy INDUCED ID the
same habit Il would be folly TO say that
what Is q vice now was a virtue then, but
1t can be safely asserted that people did
indulge then without the same inJuri-
Gus effects that follow the practice now.
The predominant nervousness Of the pres
ent time had not been developed. Our an
cestors could drink freely, smoke extray-
agantly, indulge 70 excess in tea and cof-
fee, and yet live 10 a serene old age; now
at Is simply impossible. True, the traf-
DC in ardent spirits has enormously in
creased, but so has the population; true,
people yet drink TO excess, but they do
not do it with impunity. Circumstances
alter cases, and two-thirds of the present
terrible effects flowing from intemperance
are due 20 the changed physiological con-
ditions Of the hnman race, and especially
In this country, where people are strung
up 10 a tension that viii no more allow a
free use of strong drinks than barn
filed with straw viii permit the intro
duction Of fre.-Netcqrk AdrstiSer
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1879-09-09
The london correspondent of

The London correspondent of the
Nation says: "In politics, in finance, in
journalism, in society, the Jews are play
ing the principal parts. A Jew is Prime
Minister; a Jewish house controls in a
great degree the political finance of the
country a family of Jews are the pro-
pretors and managers of the most large
ly circulated, and, for its own purposes,
the most skillfully conducted newspaper
in England, or perhaps in the world; a
Jewish girl, the daughter of public bal
lad singer, became a sort of mistress OF
society, rebuhng or admitting to hei
favor some of the haughtiest and most
squeamish members of our old nobility"
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1879-09-09
AGRICULTURAL FAIRS.

Windham Far, Oct. !.
York, Berwick. Sept. 1926.
Knox, ThOmastOn, Oct. 1926.
PenobScOt, Patten, Sept. l7-ls.
Franklin, Pennington, Oct. 10.
SagadahOc, Topsham, Oct. l4-l6.
Androscoggin, Lewiston, Oct. 10
West Oxford, Fryeburg, Oct. l4-l6.
East Piscataquis, Milo, Sept 30-Oct.l /.
Piscataquis Central, Foxcroft, Oct. IL.
Maine State Fair, Portland, Sept. 1917.
West Penobscot, Exeter Sept 30-Oct I.
Ossipee Valley, Cornish, Sept. IT,.
East Somerset Fair, Hartland, Sept.
9-I0.
West Somerset Fair, North Arson, Oct.
l-2.
PenObscOt County Fair, Hampden, Oct
l-2.
Somerset Central, Skowhegan, sept
1926.
Lincoln County, Damariscotta, Sept.
1925.
Aroostook County Fair, Houlton, Sept.
1926.
Maine Dairyman's Fair, Portland, Sept
1919.
Cumberland Co. Fair, Cumberland. Sept
24-25.
North Knox Fair, Union Common, Sept
30-Oct. 9.
New England Fair, Worcester, Mass.
Sept. 2-5.
Oxford County, South Paris and Nor
way, Sept. 3O-Oct. l-2.
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1879-09-09
Notice Of Foreclosure.

UvHEREAS, William \. TTcadwCli, formerly
w Of Porter. in the county OF oxford and
state OF Maine, now OF Freedom, Ia the county Of
Carroll and State OF New Hampshire. by his mort
gage deed dated the first day of December, 4 D..
1877 recorded In NiOrd Registry Western District,
Book ~ Page ~, conveyed IN mortgage 20 me,
the subscriber the following described real estate
viz: certain lot OF land with the buildings there
on situated IN said Porter. and bounded as fol
lows 10 wit: northcrly And easterly by land OF
samuel Ridlon. ir. soulhcrly by road leading by
Charles Davis TO south Hiram, and westerly by
land OF Sewell fitzpatrick and IN which mortgage
decd IL was agreed that there should be only one
wears redemption after commencement OF fore
closure by any lawful method. and whereas, the
conditions OF said mortgage have been broken,
hereby claim a foreclosure % the same sgreeably
10 the statutes in such case made and provided.
JORDAN STACY.
Porter Aug u 1873. l13w
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1879-09-09
Nonresident Taxes,

In the town of StonenAm in The County Of oxford,
for the year ISIS.
The following list OF taxes on real estate oil
nonresident owners 10 the town OF Stoneham LOT
the year ISIS, in bills committed 10 JoNAIhAN
~ t,TI E1-r Collector of said town on the 18th
dAy of June, 1916 has been returned 10y him
10 me as remaining unpaid on the 6th day oil
June 1873 by his certificate Of that date and now
remain unpaid and notice is hereby given that II
the said taxes interest and charges are not paid
INTO the Treasury OF said town within eighteen
months from the date OF the commitment OF said
bills, so much Of the real estate taxed as wlli DC
sngSrient 10 nav the amount due therefor includ-
inc interest and charges will without further
notice be sold AZ public auction at l. r Evans
store in said town, on the 9Th day oil Dec. lHs,
at O'Clock, D.. m.