Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1879-01-07
Editorial and Selected Items.

The time OF holding the mex sess. n
OF Union Farmora' Club has beon
changed from Thursday, Jtnuaiy9 10
Tuesday, January 7sh This is doac 10
avoid conflict with ether meetings
Texas mas 100 conviets, OF whom
some 500 are kept in prison, and the rest
are hired out to work on railroads and
farms. One, undergoing life sentence,
is hired by his wife, and lives comfortably
at home.
Another severe storm Of cold, ~iad,
and snow visited The Middle and Ncg
EoglaDd States. last week. Trains were
abandoned buried in snow, while ct one
point the temperature fell to 60 degrees
below zero.
Subscribers to the DEMOCRAT whl
teel an interest in the Republican Party,
are requested to pass their Cipher Dis.
patch Extras 10 some Dcighbo VII, 80
Mt regular subscriber b. sure h. Ioad
them carefully, first, however.
Toe FarmiYgfH Chronicle is one e
our pet exchanges. les last issue CONES
10 an enlarged form, with an entire ue~
dress. This is combination bir;h-lay
and new years present from the publs-
er, On beginning the S4ib volume Of his
journal.
The Lewiston Journal is Of the opin-
ion that Gov Common when he vetoed a
proposition to reduce the contested tax Of
4 railroad corporation one-half, is more
consistent advocate of equal taxation than
is the leading Greenback paper of tho
State, which urged the abatement Of a
Iarge part or the whole Of such tax
Some newspapers 10 two or three no.
toriously lswleSs Southern States are in
the habit OF excusing the murderers and
desperadoes who infest them by instancing
the bloody deeds of the Molly Maguirel
in Pennsylvania. But sixteen leaders
among the murderous miners have been
hung since i876.-Boston Journal.
MIR. Geo. F. Hammond gave tho
County ,iGoess dinner a. tho Hubbard
House, NrH Years day. Mr.. Hubbard
pax % one O bis hnest spreads. (hc c.l-
not b. ueAl'n in that line) and all the
,IieLd- nj y,d themselves as men ero
.oit 90 n such occasions. sir. Ii vas
heartily tA-nkod Tor bis holiday gen
ero,i'y.
We A." pet,ed to learn that DR..
Lspb.'a hes deed, dlorcmain ia August.
he has accepted position upon the
Name Farmsr, made vacun; by zoe with.
drawal Il Mr. BosrGmau. We believe
DR.. L4pbam would have N, Sc good
paper ia Aroos ooE tho Couaty be hes
done so much to develop-,ut ii is
very hltd tim iyr ro"st apars, and par
ica.ar.7 su. for new ones. We are glad
tasj De- Is 70 remain ncarer the centre Of
civilization.
The deliberate shooting of a witness
in the Court House at Indianapolis, be-
cause he had testified 10 something which
one OF the parties 70 the suit didn't APP
prove Of was improved by the Rev.
Congressman Deam.tyr, who preached
the victims funeral sermon. He plainly
and polntedIy declared that "too little
hanging was the chiei cause Of too much
murder" After all that has been said
and done, pro and con, on this matter, the
witty Freuchman's remark sums it up
about right abolish capital punish
mcut?' be said most certainly; but let
Messierrs the murderers set us the ex-
ample"
The Postofice Department, Satur-
day, issued circular calling the attention
Of postmasters, mail contractors and all
concerned, to the careless and reckless
handling Of mails on the so.called star
routes between points not united by steam
communication The circular complains
that the mail bags are often exposed to
the weather, used by passengers in stages
for seats and carried on horseback. when
they can be properly transported only in
wheeled vehicles, ami that by reason OF
such carelessness and neglect their con-
tents are frequently reduced to a pulpy
mass. Tho department warns contractors
that repetitions Of these offences in future
will be punished by the highest penalties
known to the law, and notified postmasters
that failure to report such dclinqucncics
Of contractors will subject them to censurc
or dismissal.