Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1893-12-26
TALK OF the STATE.

The WING SAYS the prospect on the
Penobscot doesn't Indicate big cut OF
Ice this winter.
The Maine Interienominational Com.
mission held It's fourth annual meeting
at Bangor last week.
Elmer smith Of Belgrade was struck
By freight train while walking on the
track Thursday. Both legs and one hip
were broken.
The track of the Bangor & AroOstook
Railroad was completed to the station
In lIoultOn SATURDAY,, the event being
celebrated with the booming OF cannon
and ringing OF bells.
Mr.. Charles VI. Bailey, the millionaire
manufactured Of oil cloths ut winthrop,
has run his factory without missing =
day save SUNDAYS for I5 years and 81,
h. would rather lose $4,000 than shut
down.
A syndicate Of Montreal capitalists
have been at old Orchard prospecting
with view To purchasing site for a
large hotel. tn be- butt this winter. An
offer has been made for the site Of Hotel
Belmont, recently burned.
a newspaper correspondent from wes-
ley writes: "lIunters are still staying
the deer right aud left. Load after load
Of from one To ak are being hauled by
Wesley Corner almost daily. We fear
some may be going a leetle beyond the
,,,n,har A, if..h tha l.S. allaxs than "
A Kickapoo advertising agent was
pelted OF gun clubs grounds at Bel
last with the very advertising paper he
had been distributing. Some say that
sarsaparilla stockholders entered Into
the good nstured pelting OF the kicka.
poo vendor with great deal Of rest.
Fox fever surpasses buck fever II We
may Judge of an attack which veteran
fox hunter In Denim ,rk had of 10. The
other d,y hls dog ran fox close TO him,
when the hunter looked at hlm ill he
had passed, then criei hang and threw
his gun at the fox. Ills next expression
can be imagined.
The horse railroad war In Lewiston
results In sn injunction issued by Judge
whitehouse restraining the cities OF
Lewiston and Auburn from covering the
railroad tracks, provided the horse rail-
road plow leaves the streets In safe con-
dliion for travel, the expense Of remoy-
ing the snow To be shared by the rail.
road corporation and the cities.
The big gasometer OF the York Llgl
and Power Company at Biddeford, hold
ing 5000 cubic feet of gas, blew up
sunday night, the l7th. Michael Me-
Carly, workman employed by the
company, was seriously burned. IL Is
supposed that Il was hls lantern that
caused the explosion. No one else Was
injured. The total loss Ia over si00, 900.
No Insurance.
Mr.. ID. NJ. Palmer, the veteran village
blacksmith Of Athens, probably has con-
Quoted as many funerals as any other
man Ia Maine, not professional under
taker. lie began when he Was "a years
old and he Il now 20. lie has conduct
ed $50 different funerals In the towns Of
Athens, Solon. Harmony, Brighton and
Coruville. The deceased persons have
been Of all ages from Infants to l07
years.
The tragedies Of the Maine woods II
written would I'LL y volume. A wood
chopper near Greenville Il missing aud
IL supposed to have perished In the cold.
A Haynesville man was found In the
woods the other day dead from Q bullet
wound behind his ear. Being taken for
deer and sho, al Il bad enough but get
ting lost In the great forest at this sea-
son OF the year IL worse. The Haynes-
Vile man IL thought to have accidentally
shot himself but the location Of the
wound conveys bad Impression.
Mrs. Meyer, the victim Of the Var
mouth, lille shooting affair, died Sunday.
An luque-t Was called, and met Friday,
the proceedings belng secret In accord
ancc with the recently established prec-
edeut In Cumberland County. There
IL little doubt that after the Inquest, for
whIeh large lumber of wltnesses have
been summoned, rrswds, Mrs. Meysr's
sou-ln-lzw, will Be arrested on the
charge Of murder. Possibly hrs. Praw-
Ia may also be arrested. Pravda has
been under su.piclun TO some extent
ever slncs thc shooting aud for some
time has be~n closely wstshed 70 80
that hc made no attempt 70 gss awsy.