Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1879-01-21
E,,,tori,,l ana Selected Items.

The editor is absent, this "eek. o. a
short vacation. Tbi, Ni.i account TOR
any apparent neglect 70 subscribers or
patrons.
In our list OF Legislative committees,
published last week, the name Of Savage
Was substituted for j Il Llyei'y VI
Albany, in the committee on claims.
An old army friend says orr article,
last week, making i've points aziins tbs
hybrid Legislature sounds too maea lbs
New York. lie suggests tuht 40 m.ae
it i've forks, and thus have the enemy
completely routed.
Ina, "blotied monopoly kno@l as
The T-rders' National Bank. OF Baux.r.
has gone out OF business. Isn't its.rs S5
hat corporation which j. cJini
money out Of the blood OF The p0lr
5hould Voluntarily desist?
--Aready the Chaplain OF the Refo-n
House IN VI ,ine mas iolt It his duty o. in-
1lors divine AID IN bshaif OF such m ID
Ders who continue ito talk after Tho, e.
Trough" CAB was reform. th"ro
would be euou. ! :. aud to spare:
Rev. II. S. Burrage. editor OF INNS
.ldUOcate, read paper before the Blclos
Historical Society 10 Boston. a le@ Gafs
ago, on The Ausbaptists OF S~iiZeriaod,
-howing their rise aud growth and .as
character oil their leaders. The ErUgl-
iner IL Chronicle says il was the most ia-
.eresting paper presented.
-Unelsy lies The head that wears tho
Governor ha,. The kennebec Journal
-ays-GOvernor Garcolon is be;et day
md mig. h. Oflice-seeEers, who camp
ipon his track, besel him whenever 10
ppears in public. and il they tail 10 OBJ
rude upon his presence personally, they
.iood him with petitions.
1T seems that information about the
cipher dispatches casually reached VIII
IAN Shake 'peare AS OF 3 future event.
TIE Tribune quotes this passage from
Titus Andronicus
i,N-Grammercy, lovely Ii
'iu-. what's the news?
Boy-That Yon are both dscipherd.
hats the news.
1t will be- seen by advertiseme1. in
another column, that Ava Sburtlef. Esq,
has purchased M interest in 'hr Iuslr-
ance busjHo1s OF W. j.. Wheeler. NJ.
Wheeler has done iargl bu-iaess II
yeArs past. aud the associatiHg win him
self OF 70 prominent y business nan IS
Mr. ShuriI,E. gives promise OF oven ost-
Ter thin , for he future
The firm oil Garner d BalnAiI pro
p.e'ors &C H.nover Wooden Mil. has
ocen 4 solved Accounts are % be SET
I'D 10y Isaac Bagnsl OF the lake .irm.
We have rot be, u informed J.. rex ard 10
Tue c1r,inuance Of the business. This
irm hs- been remarkably p.ompt snd en-
terpr.s.rg It's affairs. AL So are sorry
70 learn OF rs dissolution.
-Srmc interesting figures bearing
upon the subject OF capital punishment,
nj win spccia. reference 70 The irequer-
't ti tug 'lliut Vi m4lutl III tut NhutNl
30 Eubourg. switzerland. before anl
,i0ce the abolition OF ihe death pena Is.
nave Just been published In this Canton.
gnich has 10 600 inhabitants. there
Fe,e only seven cases OF murder in the
ten years between 1864 and 1874 IN
he latter year tn % shment OF death
Fis abolished t5Jork5au. The ConloGer-
ASTON DWng be 20 oo years Immedi-
.lely 20 sing nat event no fewer than
Is murders were con nit.ed 10 the Can
Ion, Wl..e. this year .iore lbero have
been hse oascs OF homie de. making al
together 20 ID iou years Thus. when
capital p.1ishm, nt prevailed the mur-
iers @,Io st iLc ratio II less than one a
year; auV tuty occur ~ The rae OF t7e
"a year.