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Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1879-12-16

the woods, choppng, when the AK glanced
and struck the side Of his toes If the boot
sole had not prevented he would have sew
cred several toes.
There were twenty-four couples at the
dancing school, Friday n ght The number
will be Increased hereafter. cnsuring a
good. successful term. Mr. l. b. Weeks
is master.
\. 5. Bowkcr, young man of this vii
lagc, was quite badly injured at South
Paris, last Saturday, by being thrown
from his wagon lie had his horse
''sharpcnedr by Mr.. \. Loycjoy, and then
drove with the blacksmith toward the de-
pot in order to sec il the work was properly
done. After turning at the depot one Of
the wagon wheels came off and threw boil.
Bowkcr and Loycioy 20 the ground. Bow
kcr was dragged some distance, and su,-
tanned "a severe shock of the nerve OF his
leg. though no bones were broken Mr.
Loycioy was injured about the back. Bot.
patients were comfortable at last accounts
We understand that the horse went but 90
short distance with the broken wagon. and
then stopped as soon as spoken TO, having
suffered no injury
\ business meeting OF the Unity Club
will be held next Wednesday evening. "
is very desirable that there should Doe %
good attendance, as IL g., the time for Che
annual election of officers.
The Uuiyersalist sabbath School win
have Christmas tree. with appropriate
music aud other exercises, ou "Wednesday
evening Dec. oath. \ cordial invitation
j., extended To- all who may wish. 90 bring
in presents with which to load Che tree
$40.
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1879-12-16

PARIs.-The Selectmen have called a
town meeting for Thursday, Dec. Is. At
the March meeting the town officers were
instructed not to eXpend any sums of
money for other objects than those for
which they were appropriated and not TO
exceed appropriation in any particular 1t
has been the custom for our town TO appro-
pirate sums Of money for specific objects,
and if one appropriation did not hold out,
the selcctmen borrowed money from an
other appropriation, and used that Last
March s., 10000 were appropriated for the
support of poor and other town charges.
As several new roads have been builded
and other unusual demands were made on
the Treasury, all this money has been eX-
pended Now we are obliged TO hold Il
town meeting to furnish the Selectmen
with means to run the town government,
This seems to us to be needless expense
and trouble-a technically correct method,
perhaps, but none the less absurd for all
that. We should elect officers who can be
trusted and avoid binding and restricting
them too closely
Mr. A. A. Andrews cut his foot quite
badly, with an AK, last week. He was in
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any informality can make return fatal
" defective" it seems the error of not
stating the name of any town in the doc
ument would be such an informality. As
such ruling would elect the entire board
of Republican County officers, we have
no idea that it will be given.
We learn, Monday morning, that Mr..
Pillsbury has notified the Democrats of
Buckfeld that their returns for County
officers win be counted, Notwithstanding
the return does not designate the town
from which it came.
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1879-12-16

man, and we are sure that all business I'M
der his direction will prosper. Considera-
BILE interest Is taken in II and we can only
hope that il will be built. S.
At the town meeting IL was voted 10
erect a building l25 feet long by ~ feet
and two stories high, for the use of Capt.
Dearborn, as a spool mill. Capt. d., on
his part, agreed TO bring his spool works
to Bryant's Pond, and occupy the building
erected by the town. This will prove q
great advantage to both town and village
as Capt Dearborn is a man of great bust
ness capacity
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1879-12-16
A REPLY
NORWAY, Dec. 10, 1879.

NORWAY, Dec. ~, 1919.
Editor oxford Democrat:
SIR.-You charge me editorially in your
last issue with responsibility for the pub
LEGATION Of That Letter" in tho Ns0 Re
ligi0a. Allow me to say, that have no
connection either financially or editorially
with that paper, and never have had at any
time.
You also charge me with trying to sell
ont to my political opponents just before
election. The statement is false, aud you
will please either make the correction, or
give NE the name of the party making the
charge. Yours truly,
o. \. BRADBURY.
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1879-12-16
Newspaper Decisions.

T. ANY person who takes paper regularly
fronl the Of6ce-Whether directed 70 MS name OF
another's. or whether he has suoscrioed OF nos-
h responsible for the payment.
p III a person orders his paper di.conNnOel
he must paw AT arrearagcs, or the puousner NAY
continue 10 send It until payment 10 made and
collect ne, whole amount. whether the paper Il
taken rom the ONCE or not.
8. The Courts have decided that refusing to AXE
or rer,oyipg and leaving them Uncalled for, Il
urtaa 6acie evidence OF fraud.
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BYRON, Dec. l2.-Miss Lillian Abbott OF
East Rumford is teaching in the Houghton
District; Miss Hannah X. Harrington OF
Andoyer is TO teach in No. Mr.. e.. w.
Roberts Of Mexico, in No. >.
Printers errors in my last |. S. for 81.
5" Mitchell, Merchant for "Marchant.'
The what-iS-it is terrible animal who
chaseS many but catches none. The vic
tins are too numerous to mention.
Parties who have visited the Black Brook
logging camps report that they are fitted
up in good shape for comfort Of man and
beast.
hear that Glib" Hodsdon has lately
taken a partner-not in logging, but in do
nestle operations
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BRYANr's PoND.-Next Saturday, Dec.
18th, decides the questionwhether the town
OF Woodstock wants any manufacturing
carried on within her limits. A town
meeting mas been called TO see if the town
will build a building 42xl50 feet, to be used
as a spool mill by Mr.. Dearborn of Locke's
Mills. Mr.. Dearborn is buSiness-lik
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late by Norton & Davis. He has repaired
it in tasty manner and allied it with new
and choice goods, such as fancy articles
groceries, furnishing goods for ladies and
gents, which he is selling at very low
prices.
The boys and young men in this vicinity
seem TO have much i'll luck in cutting them
selves with axes while chopping wood and
timber Five cut themselves quite badly
last week.
The price Of sheep is on the riSe-now
from $500 to $1,000 per head.
Another rain storm Wednesday night
and Thursday-no snow Weather mild
aud spring like. Ground frozen but very
little.
Many of our farmers are marketing their
produce in Portland, drawing it with their
own teams. They think 1t pays to do so.
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MENiCo, Dec. 81 am informed that il
is a mistake about Mr.. H. W. Park taking
his son \. ID. Park into business with him
I'm his new store. | am informed that \.
ID. Park, esq, has gone into business at
Sumner, where he will undoubtedly do
better than here at Mexico. It's said that
he intends to start on small scale in the
dry and fancy goods business, and so in
crease his stock rs he trades, and il il
thought that he will fast increase his stock
as he is very good salesman.
Mary Loycjoy is teaching in District No.
!, Mr. Merton Austin in District No ., and
Gerry Harlow in District No. ,.
4 W )
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NEwEY, Dec. 6.-Mr. lannon's of Bethel
has logging camp away up ON the noun
tain ON the east side Of Sandy River, where
tho land f., so broken wecould not find level
ground enough to set the camp; but spruce
trees grow well. We have cut several that
scaled from four % seven hundred, and
last Saturday Capt. Mayo cut and hauled q
spruce tree that sealed nine hundred aud
tlirty-ninc feet How is that for mountain
spruce? y.
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1879-12-16

KEzAR FAGLs.-The school house on the
Parsonsfleld side of the river at this place
was burned last Tuesday night together
with all the books and a good supply of
wood for the winter school, The books
were estimated TO be worth more than
500. Cause of the fire unknown.
Mr. G. |. Bickforl has bought the G. NJ.
Randall store, which has been occupied Of
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1t will be seen by au advertisement
elsewhere, that Mr. Brown will give a
five dollar gold piece to every purchaser
of a New Home sewing machine, on
Christmas, or the day previous.
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1879-12-16

SUMNER.-The fine weather afford, am
excellent opportunity for cutting years
stock Of fire wood, which many are avail
ing themselves Of
The heavy rain on Saturday night cause,
some damage to roads in yariou, places in
Sumner, but nothing compared with the
fre~het about one year ago.
Hon. James Irish aud y l. Marshall
esq. are doing quite an extensive business
i'm getting out poplar and birch for pulp
and slaves, thus giving employment &c.
quite a number OF men, and also adding ~
the traffic of the excellent railroad with
which they are intimately connected as
directors This road has been put in huc
condition, the engines received % coat OF
paint and varuish, and everything indicates
business and prosperity, which 10 Justly
merits.
The Lightning Saw SwinllcrS have
found two or three victims In sumner and
Hartford. It certainly pays 10 read q good
live paper. but it pays better to learn Wis
dom from the frequent exposure, Of these
scamps given in our local papers. Two
dollars invested in good state newspaper.
with careful reading thereof may save hun
dreds Of dollars, and delight an intelligent
family every week. In our experience with
the schools it is easy to discern a marked
advancement in those pupils that have fire.
quent access to good, well conducted news
papers. But care should be exercised in
the selection.
Our winter schools have generally COM
menced with good prospect of profitable
terms. c. II. StetSon, a native Of sum
ner. and a Bowdoin student. teaches in,
F.. Sumner; Geo. L. Durham Of Paris, q
Colby student is teaching ON Sumner Hill.
Roth are teachers Of some experience. and
are efficient and successful i'm their calling
Roswell Briggs, our new postmaster, is
erecting building to be used for the post
office.
Rev. Mr.. Gould Of Livcrmorc is supply
ing the Baptist church at sumner, on alter
nate Sabbaths Mr.. Rice regularly sup
plies the Congregational pulpit, on the
Hill.
Cannon Bros have started up the rake
factory, and propose to do an increased
business in the manufacture Of hand-rakeS-
Christmas festivals are being talked up
Business prospects are hopeful.
SLOCUM.
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SoUrH HRAM.-LaSt Tuesday afternoon
a mana stranger-came To this village on
horseback He drove to David Stcarnss
store, called for some grain for his horse,
fed him, took his whip in his hand, got
over the fence and travelled up the mill
brook on the east bank. This is the last
seen or heard of him, up TO Wednesday
night. There appears to be something
very singular about the affair. NJ.
4 day or two since, wrote to you in re-
lation to a man that came to this place, and
mysteriously disappeared. He was missed
Tuesday afternoon and on Thursday morn
ing, about a. m, he came to the house of
Rev. John Stanley and proved 10 be Geo.
Durgiu of Limerick, Me. He was the
most pitilul looking object that human
eyes ever behcld. He had been out in the
cold storm al the while without the least
shelter from the cold raw winds He is a
man "a years old and has been more or less
subject 10 fits for the last fifteen years.
Being entirely insane is why he left as he
did. His clothing was completely drenched,
and when he came to Mr.. Standley's, he
was bare-headed, having his cap and boots
under his arm, one foot bare. His feet and
hands were badly frozen, and during the
time he was out he had cut aud mangled
his feet, legs and one wrist in most
shocking and sickening manner. There
were 2s gashes in his feet and legs, some
of them long and deep, leaving the bone
exposed. One of his wrists was cut across
to the bone, just grazing the main artery
of the arm. These cuts he no doubt in
flcted with his jack-knife. He is in very
critical condition. NJ.
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nestle operations.
BUcKrIELp.-Thc first Of a series of lect
urcs TO be given at Buckfcld, for the benc-
No OF the Methodist society recently organ
lied there. was delivered on Wednesday
evening. by Rev. J. Benson Hamilton of
Hammond 81. VI. T.. church, Lewiston
Subject, Every Day Heroism' The fire.
Qucnt applause OF the large audience, show
eel their appreciation of his able handling
of the subject. made unusually interesting
by illustrations The following Lewiston
and Auburn clergyman have also consent
eel 10 lecture in the same course Rev Mr..
Tinker, Congrcgatioualist Dec 18th. Rev.
Mr. Green. Methodist, Dec. 3lSt; Rev. Mr..
Brakeman, Baptist, Jan. 18th; Rev. Mr..
Haskell, UniyerSaliSt, Jan. 2sth.-LGristoH
journal.
BrcKrIELp.-A donation party assem-
blcd at the residence Of Rev. Mr.. Freeman
one evening last week and lefl a liberal
supply OF the >ub>tautials of living.
\ citizens levcc is proposed-procccdS
TO buy hcar>c.
The Methodist Society are having a
course OF popular lectures every other
Wednesday evening.
Mr.. James II DcCoster has made a
business engagement with J.A.Bucknam &
Co. of'Mcchanic Falls, upon which he en-
tcrs this week.
Mr.. H. W Waldron, Of the Methodist
church, Is conducting a hourishius Sab
d
The Universal Backing Box Holders,
manufactured by Mcs,rS. Atwood * Grc--,
seem 10 bee taking remarkably well, or
dcrs having been received for nearly q
thousand dozen within week. They are
now finishing about my dozen % lay
\ SON OF benjamin Irish of East Back
field, recently fen from hay NOW ON to
the handle of fork standing upright in a
bunch Of hay below The handle went
through the clothing AMI into the body
several inches, causing "a very severe
wound. Under the skiIlml treatment OF
Dr. {. b. BRIGHAM, the wound /, said 70
be doing well
The chief excitement of the past week
was caused 10y the discovery of the har-
uc>,cs stolen from Ira Amcs shop ON the
night OF Nov 10Th, and the capture of The
thieves. The stolen property was diNcoy-
cred ON Tuesday. the 9th inst. by Sheriff
Keen. at Mechanic Falls, buried ina wood
pile. sheriff Keen arrested the man in
whose shed the harnesses were found, and
tclcgraphrd 10 Sheriff j. W Written 10
arrest certain parties NJ Buckh,id one
Of the parties was arrested; the other
"gcttng wind ot thc arrest 40 Mechanic
Falls. he'd 20 parts unknown and has
not yet been found. An examination OF
the arrested parties was called before Jus
tice Barrett ON Wednesday p. M, but as
the partie, waived examination, they were
placed under bonds for appearance at the
March term of Court. one ofthe arrested,
unable to obtain bond>mcn, was carried 70
Paris jail, Thursday The above l., not the
first instance Of thieyiug that has oc-
CURED ut BuGkicld within the past year,
and now that the guilty parties are dis
covered, it seems binding upon those
concerned 70 show no lack Of Justice, in
order that protection Of the community
may be assured.
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RoNErA, Dec. I'm nav last W-ot.
j. c. instead of -. VI Taylor
school has closed 100 No that I'm No.
+, % ommcucc-somctimc.
Plenty of rough wheeling with some very
lean bits of slc.ghng
Thrc,her, report very light crop Oh.
wheat, only about half fair yield
Uncle Russ Andrews boast, that be
has driven the first team over the nev
county road located thi, fall I hear tha'
the bridges have been built aud the road
way graded by a voluntary subscription on
the part lying in RoXbury.
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HEBRON, Dec. s.-John 7. Clifford is
blowing today and finds no frost in the
ground.
The funeral services OF Mrs. Buchanan
were held at the church yesterday. Sermon
by Rev S. D. Richardson.
The patron of husbandry. (Columbus, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1879-11-08
VALUE OF COTTON SEED.

A Northern letter writer to a Southern
journal, in alluding to the great value of
cotton seed meal and the high price it
commands in Northern markets, says:
In your paper you speak of cotton seed
being worth $32. 50 per ton in England as
a fertilizer while it is worth only So to 81
at your mills Are you aware that cotton
seed meal is worth $50 to SIS per ton
wholesale in New York? and we cannot
get anything like as much as we want of
it at that price have to pay 3 to 81
cents per pound for it by retail by the bar
rel, which is higher than linseed oil meal
is usually sold at; and yet we prefer the
cotton seed meal at this enhanced price,
as it has been proved by trial the most
profitable to feed to our live stock; and
the manure coming from this feed is more
valuable than that from linseed oil. Is not
this great difference of price between the
North and South worthy of the conside-
ration of the Grangers, and ought they
not to take up the subject and see that the
cotton planters get a more equitable price
for their seed? At So to 81 per ton, l sup
pose, means the seed in a raw state; but
what is the waste in it and the cost of
making it into'meal suitable for the North
ern market? / know nothing of this, but
suppose the seed when made into meal
| would not cost over half what it is sold for
| in the Northern markets, leaving 100 per
cent profit to the mllers, perhaps, when
they ought to be satisfied with profit, in
these hard times for the planter, of 2 pei
cent at most. If | am wrong in my sup
position above, | beg to be corrected, and
/ / only write as now do to get at the facts
of the case, as | wish both millers anc
planters to be fairly remunerated for al
their labor and enterprise.
The patron of husbandry. (Columbus, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1879-11-08

are receiving hundreds of letters of inqui
ry, and many visitors, all of whom, as fa
as can find out, came away under deer
conviction.
There sre already six mills using the
Clement Attachment in successful opera
ton, as follows:
Westminster, S. C.-Westminster Man.
ntacturing Company, proprietors.
Andersonville, S. C.--Harrison estate
proprietors.
Windsor, n. C.-Harden, proprietor.
Newbern, n. &C. Allen, proprietor
Matthews Depot, n. C.-Grier & Son,
proprietors.
Corinth, Miss.--F. E. Whitfield, ST.,
proprietor.
Any one wishing to know further, |
would refer them to !. V. Stribling, at
Westminster, S. G., who is agent for the
sale of the Clement Attachment for North
and South Carolina and Georgia, and who
is also protector and builder of "new pro-
cess" cotton mills.
will again mention some of the advan-
tages of this new industry:
I. 1t will do away with the expense 'of
so many gin houses, dangerous lint rooms,
cotton presses, and the tedious work con-
nected herewith.
?. 1t greatly lessons the risk of fire,
from the fact of the small quantity of lint
exposed.
3. 1t will save the expense of bagging
and ties and much handling.
4. 1t makes a smoother and better warn
than the compressed cotton, and finds a
ready sale at the mills to Northern buyers.
5. 1t dispenses with the endless clip
pings of middlemen, spectators, weigh
ing, marking, freights to market, storage,
stealage, sampling, commissions, insur
ance, COMPRISING, wharfage, etc.
6. 1t will employ a large number of
women and children, whose labor other
wise is almost valueless.
7. 1t will save to the country, to be
spent at home, the large margin between
the raw material and the yarn.
5. 1t will increase our population and the
money circulation and afford better edu-
cational and church privileges.
9. 1t will enhance the value of real estate
and increase the demand for products from
the farms
10 1t will attract capital from the north.
and draw the machinery to the material.
To sum up, it is the true key to the
wealth of the South. 1t will give life and
lHIlit generally throughout TINS SeCtlOn OF
country 1t points to our financial saliva
ton, and can by its workings make this
the most desirable country on the globe.
D. u. SLOAN
P. S-Capacity of Westminster mill
$50 to 500 pounds seed cotton per day;
yield $50 to rs pounds yarn. $4,000 will
cover the cost of machinery for mill Of
5000 pounds seed capacity and the more
extensive machinery can be run more pro-
fitably. D. L. S.
The patron of husbandry. (Columbus, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1879-11-08
THE COTTON EXCHANGE.

E0ff0r Edtr'01. Will you, in IHE PA
TRoN tell us cotton producers something
about the Cotton Exchange? Who crea-
ted the Cotton Exchange? Who are the
members amenable to? What benefit is
it to the cotton grower? Can't we do
without it? Jas. D. ROBERTS.
Liberty, Miss, Oct. 80.
The Cotton Exchange, composed of all
who deal in cotton in towns and cities,
was established for the simple purpose of
enabling these classes to secure and en-
JOY the profits arising from the production
of cotton in this country. BY the rules
and regulations adopted by the Exchange,
set of charges, perquisites and stealages
have been fixed and enforced which have
enabled its members to become rich and
powerful at the expense of the producers
Most of these charges and perquisites are
as unnecessary in the handling of the
crop as they are unjust and oppressive.
The cotton Exchange may be said to be
"a law unto itself" 1t fixes and controls
the mode of handling and disposing of
the farmers produce, and is responsible
only to its members. The farmer has no
voice in its deliberations, no vote in its
actions, and has no alternative but to ac-
cept and act under its rules and regula-
tons. And those rules and regulations
affect the farmers cotton as we'll at his gin
house as when it reaches the city The
Cotton Exchange is about as great ben
eft to the farmers as the merchants buSi-
ness system of England was to the poor
weavers of Rochdale, who were compell-
ed in self-defense to adopt system of
purchasing their supplies that has attain
ed world wide fame and is rapidly su-
peceding the old system. The same prin-
ciple of cooperation is being successfully
applied to the sale of cotton and purchase
of supplies in New Orleans by the South
western Cooperative Association, and
which will gradually supplant the Cotton
Exchange system: that is the abuses and
stealages under the latter system will be
abolished, and the profits attending the
handling and sale of cotton will be re-
turned to the producers.
We believe that the cooperative sys-
tenn as is being adopted in New Orleans,
Galveston, Memphis and other cities, will
fully meet the requirements of farmers
and enable them to do without the Cotton
Exchange altogether. When this is done,
the cotton growers will save millions of
dollars annually.
The patron of husbandry. (Columbus, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1879-11-08
WHY DID WE NOT USE THE
CIR RANGF9


The Pennsylvania Farmers's Friend
very pertinently says that if we had but
used our Oranges, there is not doubt but
that we could have united upon a farmer
and placed him at the head of the agricul-
tural department at Washington. A del
egation of Patrons, representing the wish
es of the millions of the United States
would have had its effect, provided the
choice on our part would have been a
wise one. The plan of selecting man
outside of all the place hunters, within or
outside the Grange, would have made it
practical to unite in our selection.
But here is the difficulty. We do not
use the means at our hand. We do not
present the wishes of our class, and back
them, as we should, by the influence of
the Grange, which is power when unit
upon any appeal. The President is sur
rounded by appeals and representatives of
a constant horde of politicians. They seek
him by every art and avenue. Could not
access be more readily gained by agricul
turists and representatives ofthe thousands
of Patrons of each State, especially on a
matter of agricultural interest? Why do
we not promptly use the Grange in such
emergencies? Whenever we thus fail to
use it, its enemies cite such failures to its
ineficiency.