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Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1895-01-08
THE OXFORD BEARS.
THs DOlN6S or THs WEEK IN AL
SECTIONS Of THE COUNTY.
sucKElELD.

pr. \. f.. Cole has returned from
Winthrop and will open dental rooms at
the office recently occupied BY T.. ID.
Bistee. Esq
Mr.. I. ". shaw i visiting her
brother, family 10 Melrose, Mass.
six men and fifteen horses from 70
land spring passed through the village
wedne sday bound up the railroad line
20 haul wood.
There were twenty-six deaths IN town
during 1894 as against q in " and 80
iu -.
The week of PRAYER Will De observed
AZ the Baptist church commencing Tues
dav evening. the Sth inst.
The follow ing list of contributors 70
the L Mon Chapel fund has been sent the
Democrat with a request for lis puoliea-
ton:
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1895-01-08

The parish meeting Of the First Bsp-
list Church was held last Thursday. II
Was understood that the resignation OF
Rev. \. +. Wedge a. pastor MAS held m
allowance, pending the completion oi
arrangements with the parish 10 Rock
VILE. Conn. which had given him a call
The parish here unanimously aud ear
nestlv requested that he should remain
and he now has the matter under con-
.ila.rlfinn
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1895-01-08

The funeral Of Mrs. A. u. CrockeI
took place in Methuen, Mass, her "a
tive town, Thursday, January Sd
from the house Of her late brother
John Davis. The services were con-
Quoted bv the Rev. DIR. Estes aud The
Rev. Mr.. Bailey Of the Methuen Baptist
church.
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1895-01-08
NORWAY LAKE.

Or. Rounds Of South Paris WAS In the
place Tuesday to see l.. ID. Hobbs and
Mrs. Webster kilgore in consultation
With DR.. Hazeltou.
l.. II. Hobbs. who Ia very critically ILL.,
L reported little more comfortable.
Mrs. Webster kilgore died about !
O'Clock Thursday morning. She has
been a great sufferer for week.
David Flood and wife visited Nat
Frost aud wife AT Oxford last week.
Jacob Hobbs of Arlington, Mass
WAS here the first Of last week to see ms
brother, L.. II. Hobbs.
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1895-01-08
c0tIrn RtluEORO.

NJ. l.. and W. A. wyman lost one Oh
their best cows by sickness last week.
Lee Abbott Is doing chores for Add
son Lufkin az Rumford Centre.
Willard wyman and wife ATTENDED,
the New Years ball at sumner Anox >
10 Peru.
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1895-01-08

somebody celebrated the coming In OF
the new year BY firing revolver salute
soon after the clock struck twelve last
Monday night The salute destroyed
sleep TO a greater or less extent Tor
number OF people, and left with the DIV
ing away Of its echoes several wonder
ing men aud few trembling women.
4 succession OF pistol shots in the mid
die Of the night has come TO mean more
on Paris Hill than il does in some
PLACES.
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1895-01-08
The Oxfocd pemoorat.
ION THE HILL. y
DIRECTORY.

First Baptist Church Rev. A.f. Wedge. Pas-
tor. Preaching every sunday at N A. n. sunday
school az Il NJ. sabbath Evening Service az
Pm Prayer Meetings Thursday Evenings al
80 Pm
Universalist Church: sunday school every
sunday St II A. N.
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1895-01-08
DlxFlELO CENTRE.

Rev. T.. V. whe, Ter of Weld will hold
services at this place during the year
lS95.
Mr.. and Mrs. VIM. White and grand
son. Willie Porter, have returned home
from Massachusetts,, where they have
been visiting relatives.
Irving {. kidder has returned from
Reading. Mass, where he has been visit
ing "A few weeks past.
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1895-01-08

Re sure YOU fiud the Smiley shoe store
az in this paper. Yours truly, Z. y.
SWEET, Manager.
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1895-01-08

The Shakespeare Club will hold IT'S
next meeting Monday evening OF next
week with Mr.. and Mrs. Wood At snow ;
Falls, provided the weather and travel
ing are psssable-Snd the prospect Tor
travelling is good Just now.
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1895-01-08

This is the week Of prayer, aud meet
iugs will be held at the Baptist vestry,
beginning Tuesday evening.
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1895-01-08

Now If this snow will only lie still.
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1895-01-08
A Great Mark Down
WE quote prices I!

5000 yds indigo print at lie.
Ginghams 12c, Toe, SC. and &c, now Be-
&c. Shaker flannel now DC.
Best quality dark outing at &c.
Baby flannel, former price l2c and lOc., now &C.
The few fur capes that we have left at cost These cpes
we bought in July at the very lowest market prices.
Shaws ladies' jackets and childens outside garments at
cost.
These prices only made to reduce our large stock be-
fore taking account of stock.
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1895-01-08

Agriculture.
When We consider that there are stxty-nve
thousand farms in NJ iine, containing 6,oo,3Ic
acres and o. al estimated cash value OF slU',
557 .6i5. producing farm products in 1873 OF the
value of more than twenty two million dollars
we can fully appreciate that this great interes,
should never have secondary place in our eli
forts to advance she prosperity OF the Com
monwealth.
and endowed for the purpose Of holding far
mers institutes, has been unusually successfui
In it, work, and its meetings have been NOR
fully attended during the past two years, anc
greater interest has been manifested than evei
before. We have two State Agricultural Socie-
ties, one State Pathological Society, and over
fifty county and town agricultural societies
paving out annually more than s13,OD In pre-
miums. Throughout the state, organization
OF the Grange are quickening the public mind
and inaugurating advanced and improved
methods in agriculture, which will surely ieas
to higher prosperity, and more productive re
suits to the husbandman.
The Secretary of the State Board informs me
that at no time since he became familiar WIFI
our agriculture, has it shown such unmisfalt
able signs of progress rs are now apparent
While during the past year many branches o
business have been depressed, in agriculture
has been year Of more than usual productive
ness.
A good market, easy OF access by rail Of
convenient roads. Is one Of the important ele
ments in the advancement OF the farming in
terests of the State ; and continued harmonious
combination OF effort on the part OF our indus
trial agricultural and other interests, viii b
beneficial to all
The investment OF capital In the develop
ment of our vast waterways, the erection o
new mills and manufactures, the creation o
new Industries, opening mp wider field 10
the employment Of labor, will create new
homes. build mp communities, and establish
permanent home market for the products o
the farm. Diversified industry Will encouras
our agricultural progress and make q
ltseqssr slaatnf ~ nRlA laEsfeN =
The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1895-02-28
THE LENTEN sFAsoN.
Some Practical suggess ions from
Bishop c. II. Nelson.


From the Atlanta constitutional
reasonable, be prudent, be cheer
full. A grudging, involuntary service
will profit no one, but to do that
which is onerous or disagreeable
may be very beneficial. DO not
NOPE; don't be sour Or morbid
Adopt no Alterations. Be real. Try
to find aud to feel the sins that are
yours, not TO show them to Others,
but to know them and To repent of
them. Do not faul5 others. Do not
Judge them. Labor to get out of old
ruts of evil habits by running across
then. Be not content with past
achievements, but make some new
ventures OF faith.
Lent is time of religious oppo-
sites.
Ifyou are much given to society
life, a little more home-quiet or
charity work. would be helpful. If,
on the contrary, you are a stay-at-
home to cultivate the amenities of
social lie would be best, not in clubs
or a balls and shows but in pleasant
and kindly intercourse. The scanty
board is proper aid to the luxuri-
Oue, bilc IOf Uc vi Uue PoOE WOulu UcI'
ter take some other shape.
This is a good season TO brush the
dust of your Bibles and change the
book-maIks, using the pattern-life of
Christ's humanity as your looking
glass. Time can be secured for this
and many other holy occupations, if
you will put away your cards and let
the play houses go empty. Whether
you think it or not, the worlds
critics are near you and know per-
fectly we'll the difference between a
consistent Christian, a hypocrite and
those who are content to be profess
sors of religion without practicing
religion.
No one can profit much from Lent
without rules. Let them be such as
you sincerely propose to keep, not
some fancied piety which you know
is out of reach. But whatever rules
you adopt of prayer, of fasting, OF
almsgiving, keep them for the benefit
you know to be in them, and with a
cordial readiness which will trans
form the season into one of holy
refreshment for yourself and of low
ing sympathy for others.
The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1895-02-28
THE OUTRAGE.
Virginia Resentment of the Douglass
Episode.


Episode.
From the Norfolk Virginian.
Is it a wonder that thegood people
of the State of CASTOR and Macon,
of Iredell and Graham, of Fender
and Vance. OF Hill and Fisher, and a
host of other Industrious sons, whose
lives and deeds and tame so brilliant
ly illume the history of that grand
old Commonwe alth, are sore at heart
and indignant over the outrage SO
brutally perpetrated Is It'll wonder
that her sons and her women teel the
modification of the disgrace that
has so suddenly come upon them at
the dictation of negro owner OF a
negro GROCERY, who, robed- with
legislative functions by the grace
and votes of a moDgrel party,
cracked his whip and lashed to SER
vile obedience the white renegades,
who by their action are not fit to
black his boots?
Carolnians! The people of Vir-
ginia, the State of Washington and
Lee, whose soil is red with the blood
who barred their breasts and gave
home and country, mourn with you
over the stigma and the outrage
that has been perpetrated on your
honor and your Commonwealth The
whole Southland feels the kennses of
the iDdignity, and they feel confident
that the great wrong will be righted.
| They are sure that you will not be
slow to avenge the crime-that from
your ocean-washed shores to your
great mountain peaks, in lowland
and in highland, the beacon fires will
burn brightly TO arouse to action
every true Carolinian, SO that the
overthrow of the mongrel party
responsible for the dastardly deed
shall be accomplished and the mark
of renegade may be indelibly stamped
upon the white members OF the Leg
islature who voted to pass the reso-
| Iutinu
The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1895-02-28
SENATOR KANsOM's CAREER.
He Will Not Qualify as Minister
Until After March 18th.

Senator Ransom who was appoint
ed Minister TO Mexico, by the Presi-
dent Saturday, has been a member
of the Senate continuously for the
past % years, being first chosen in
1872. He was first chosen to fill
this office to which Hon. y. b. Vance
had been elected. but which he was
not allowed to fill because his war
disa bilities had not been removed,
and the fact ia now pleasantly re-
called by Mr.. Vance's friends that
Senator Ransom devoted himself
zealously during the early part OF
his senatorial career to secure the
removal OF the bar which had been
created against Mr.. Vance. 1t is
also recalled by some that he divided
his first year 8 salary with Mr.. VaEce.
During his career in che senate,
Mr. Ransom has kept well abreast OF
public affairs. He has from the first
held high committee places, and is
now chairman OF the committee on
commerce, one of the most import
ant of the senate committees.
Notwithstanding he served through
the war on the Confederate side, Mr..
Ransom first made himself promi-
nent as a peace advocate in ante
bellum days, and he attended the
Montgomery Peace convention in
| 1861 as delegate from-Eorth Caro-
lima He was in those days a whig,
but since the war has affiliated with
| the Democratic party.
During the war he tilled<in success
sion the grades of lieutenant colonel,
colonel, brigadier gen raj and major
general, which latter rank he held
when he surrendered with Lee at
| Appomattox. He participated in
many important engagements, in
some of which he was in command
ii. was especially noted for the care
| he took of his men,
| Senator Ransom is SO years of age
/ but is well preserved and does not
show his age. He is man of pol
ished manners and of much tact, and
his colleagues unite in the opinion
that he will make an ideal diplomat
The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1895-02-28
THE DOUGLASS DISGRACE.

THE DOUGLASS DISC RACE.
Comments of Papers Outside the
State.
Danville Register.
Ii this does not defeat the Popu-
lists in North Carolina, then the peo-
Pile of that state need missionaries
worse than China or Japan or Africa.
Richmond Dispatch.
This action. SO repulsive to the
feelings of all true North Carolihians,
shows that the negro vote is a great
power in the politics of that State.
He was the instrument of whom the
Populists and white Republicans
made use in overthrowing the Demo
Gratis of North Carolina. And yet
we are told that the negro is no
longer a power in Southern politics !!
But the North Carolinians
are not going to stand this sort of
thing long. Soon they will rise in
their might and clear the political
field of these intruders. how they
will do it we do not know-but they
are going to do it, and do it thor
oughly and we'll.
Richmond Times
We deeply sympathize with every
noble and truehearted North Caro-
linian in the modification and shame
he must feel by reason of the
amazing action the Legislature at
Raleigh took on Thursday, in prefer
ring to honor Fred. Douglass above
| George Washington and Robert E.
Lee. The action was SO monstrous
that it would be thought absurd if it
did not touch deeply the very heart
| of our civilization.
The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1895-02-28
ELKIN ECHOFS.
Local and Persensis Gossip-Town
..ssal - Election.

Local and Persens,s Gosstp-Town
,.sz.szs.-1~ - Election.
Csrrsspandenr-, 81 the sentinel.
EI.KIS. Feb. 26 : Rev JIG. Kinzer,
of-V,rsin mia, deliverei lecture ut the
Baptist church last light on What
and How 10 Do lie will deliver
another lecture at the same place
next Wednesday night on the UPS
and Downs of Life Prot j. c..
Carper, a noted vocalist OF Virginia,
assists in the lecture by singing
Mr. Paul Chatham left yesterday
evening on business trip Sonih.
Since the snow has melted off our
town has changed its name to mud.
Rev. W. a. Lntz, OF Whist on,
occupied the pulpits of the Presbv
terrain and Methodist churches Sun
day morning ard night. Large
crowds greeted him at each services.
Mr. D. l.. Lomax and ia uily, of
Wilkes county, boarded the~ train
this evening for Rnberdel where they
will live in the future.
Although the election of town
officers does not occur until May the
names OF several gentlemen are being
spoken of for Mayor and commits
sioners Among those We hear men
toned for Mayor are DIR j. W. Ring.
the pi eeent incumbent. Capt. j. F.
Hpndten. Col A. B. Gallowa and n.
w. FoSirr. Esq.
E'kin is almost certain TO have a
telephone exchange before the year
Ia out Subscribers are now being
solicited for it, L. is to To local
affair managed by oar own people.
How would it do to connect Winston
and Elkin ny telephone? It. .ouid be
a great convenience. kETLAw.
The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1895-02-28
A Bid for Cheating.

From the Wilmington Messenger
The more the election law OF the
infamous ICON Dine" is examined the
more it's bid for cheating and bull
DOING appears. The Democrats are
shooting big shot through it, rend-
ing and exposing it to the Disguised
public gaze. 1t ought to be entitled
"a Bill to Rob Democratic Electors
and Promote Frauds, Colonization
and Bulldozing." It is disgrace to
to all engaged in the connecting. No
fair-minded man who really desired
fair and honest elections would think
of giving two thires of the judges in
elections and poll holders to one
party and but one-third to the other
party, and that the party containing
the wealth, intelligence and charac-
ter of the State.
The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1895-02-28

show that he has been q resident or
the State twelve months, of Che
county ninety days and of tie city
and ward thirty days preceding the
election. 1t will not be incumbent
upon him to show chat be intends to
live here, that he has present work
or prospects for future work. he
can vote on the first Monday in May
aad thus have a voice in saying who
shall control our city affairs for two
wears and the next morning he can
pack his grip, if he has one, and
leave for his country home, from
which he had been imported thirty
days tefo.e for the special purpose
of naming the men into whose hands
the important interests of our city
shall be placed.
Why are these changes proposed,
if not for the purpose of legafizing
fraud? Can any of the self-consti-
tuted committee manufacture a
reason with the slightest shadow OF
plausibility
And yet the editor of the Union
Republican has the effrontery to re-
fer to these changes as "conserva-
tive action" and to say that he
thinks that every reasonable man
should commend them.
We think that the manipulators OF
such changes should be branded as
enemies to the best interests of our
people; and WE think, further, wheth,
er it would be effective or not, that
the citizens of Winston should not
silently submit to this nefarious
scheme, but that they should most
emphatically protest against it.
The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1895-02-28
LEaALIzING FRAUD.

Under our present city charter, a
voter in municipal elections must be
a resident of North Carolina for
twelve months, of the county for
ninety days, and of the city and
ward for thirty days and q resi-
dence ssshall be construed to be per-
manent citizenship thereof and not a
temporary residence" This is fair
and reasonable and tends to prevent
fraudulent voting.
Now what changes in the definition
of citizenship are proposed by the
apostles of "refawm" of Centerville
and Salem and w inston and the sur
rounding country, and why?
They say the charter must be
changed SO q voter must be a resi-
dent of the county (not of the city,
mind you,) for ninety DAYS and a
resident of the city and ward only
thirty days and that the clause de-
fining residence to be permanent
citizenship and not a temporary
residence shall be stricken out.
This will open wide the door to
fraud and viii enable the Radical
tricksters to import from the sur
rounding country just as many
negro voters as may be required to
carry the election and thus place the
balance of power in our city affairs
in the hands Of ignorant negro
eouatters, under the direction Of their
white allies.
The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1895-02-28
JYRO SHOPS.
Death Of Mrs A. NJ. Sheeks-A Mar
riage-A Welcome Visitor.

riage-A Welcome Visitor.
Correspondence of the Sentinel
TYRo Shops. Feb 1S-On the 10th
inst. Mrs. A NJ. sheets, of this place.
died suddenly, leaving a husband
and three small children. She was
buried at Pine Church. The funeral
was preached by the Rev. j. NJ. Ben
net on the following Monday.
Married, at the residence of r. b.
Thompson, Esq, on the Goth inst,
Mr.. r. L. Bopir, of Denton, N. c., to
Miss Cynthia Barnes, of Tyro, R. b.
Thompson, E O., officiating. After
the marriage the happy couple de-
parted for the home of the groom a t
Denton. They have the bert wishes
OF the people of this community, and
still we listen for the sound of the
wedding bells
We had the pleasure of having our
old friend, j. F. Hannah OF Winston,
with us this week. We ere always
glad to welcome Pink in our village
as we have always felt that We lost
one of our best men when he left, but
what was our loss was Winston's
gain.
The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1895-02-28
800 Reward. cSlO0,

The reader OF this paper will be pleased to
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n the mucuous surfaces of the system, thereby
estroy tn foundation of the disease, and giving
he patent strength by building up the consti-
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The proprieto-s have SO much faith in its cura-
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The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1895-02-28

IF soldiers of the late war are en-
titled to $12 per month as pension.
surely the soldiers of the Mexican
war are entitled to as much. The
House did an act of delayed justice
in deciding to equalize these matters.
If there is time, it is said, the Senate
will endorse the action of the House,
when Mexican pensions will be in
creased from SO to $12 per month.
This is a matter of peculiar interest
to the South as most of the Mexican
veterans live in this section.
The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1895-02-28

TIE Sunday School mass meeting
here on the 9Th of March should at
tract very large attendance. Ad-
dresses will be delivered by Mr.. VIM.
Reynolds, of Peoria, Illinois, of in
ternational reputation as a Sunday
School worker. and Mr.. N. B.
Broughton, of Raleigh, President OF
the State Association, and, perhaps,
others. The occasion will be of in
terest and profit.
The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1895-02-28
Rural Hall Items.
.esnondence of the Sentinel ]

RURAL HAIL, Feb. 25 Phillip
Westmoland left here this evening
with Louise Crommer for Morganton
where he will place Mrs. Crommer in
the State Hospital.
C. Prittard, who has been at this
place for several weeks moved his
wife and child here last week from
some point in Virginia.
Mr.. Tom Woodlief moved from
Donnaha to this place today. Mr..
Woodlief will take charge of the sec
ton on the Southern Railroad.
Capt. JEFF Folkes, who has had
charge of this section, will take
charge of the Donnaha section.
The farmers are making another
attempt to burn plant beds. L. T. L.