Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1895-12-24
TALK OF THE STATE.

Biileford once more has hotel, not
with. handing the rum scare.
Thu proprietors of the Biddeford
Timei have sued the Record for libel.
Sa,p thinks she leads other Maine
cities lin the number OF good whist
playfs.
ThS butcher found in Gardiner cows
stomI ch gold dollar, two lead bullets
and 81 dozen a0-penny nails.
Thu farm buildings Of Charles WEIGH
In Wdlls we're burned Thursday morn
ing, ,Ind Moses WEIGH, aged 50, persisted
in thd flames.
A cbuple OF Eastport fishermen showed
hardy grit one day recently fishing IN
the thrbor with hand lines when the
merc1ry was six degrees below zero.
A sight worth seeing was on the line
OF thd Bangor & Aroostook Railroad the
otheriday when ten deer and two moose
were hung up at Gerrish's camp ut North
Twinland photographed.
A Dkonster petition has been present
ed 10 khe governor and council for the
pardoh OF Calvin Graves, now serving
life s,jntcnce in state prison for the game
warden murder In Washington County.
Thd game commissioners think 1000
deer lave been slaughtered In the Maine
woodk this season. But the best part OF
II all i that there seems TO be every rea-
son 81 expect as good crop another
year.
Mr,i Nancy Mcintyre OF West Bristol
was bhrned TO death in her house, and a
murd}r was suspected, but the coroner
investigated and deemed an inquest un-
necessary. She was 80 years OF age.
aud liEed entirely alone.
Bari Harborites are determined TO have
Edent there winters II not summers.
They he driven the saloon keepers out OF
town E'tis said-and now they are en-
forcisI the Sunday closing laws against
every store and stall keeper.
Thi Maine Pedagogical Society will
hold Its sixteenth annual meeting at
Bangtr, Thursday, December 10th, clos
ing tlle 18th. The day sessions will be
held Sc the high school building, and the
evening sessions ut Y. NJ. c. A. Hall. An
attrad live program Is announced.
Milford Adams, who was committed to
rriIlgewock Jail last August for rape,
escapid Thursday night from his cell on
the u3per floor by saving the window
bars Jnd lowering himself TO the ground.
His Wife had been visiting him, and IL Is
suppdsed she brought him the tools with
which he effected his escape.
The dwelling houses OF 4. b. Cush-
man. /. l.. Cushm1n, John Miller and
W. WI Stetson at Auburn were entered
Sundlly night, the 18th. by prying open
Windows. The burglars took a good
suppl Of provisions from each place
An o,frcoat, gold watch, small sums OF
monet and some articles are also miss
Ing.
Thd Bath Independent thinks that
philadthropists might invest In shoe
factork stock To afford people chance
to Ike, b out OF the poor house. as well as
10 givk TO some charities that aid the
peoplJ after they are poor. Ii might be
suggekted that II the shoe factory should
proveh success there'd be money In that
kind philanthropy.
TheI following statement concerning
the arrival and receiving OF the new
presit tnt Of Colby was given out Friday
"PresH dent Butler will arrive In Water
willie Oh Friday, Dec. %, and will assume
the dut les OF president of the university
Jan. II The formal Inauguration OF Mr.
Butled as president OF the college viii
not octur until next commencement"
Kenlebec Journal The issue OF the
Bath Enterprise for Dec. 81 will be WORK
OF pupils in the Bath schools. This !:
anotht novelty of the same piece as
having an issue edited by the women oil
by me&bers OF some order. We wait
with Expectancy for the enterprising
publisher who will turn his paper over
TO tho5e In town who know more about
running a newspaper than he does him
self.
IL Will be remembered that In May,
1894, j A. Sawyer, an old farmer living
alone " Monmouth, was murdered, and
the myttery OF the murder has ever since
remaiDtd dense. Now James Albert
ThomTkon and Edward his brother, both
natiyeJ OF Monmouth, have been ARE t.
ed for The murder, and will be given a
hearind this week. Both men have been
before Inspected, but the evidence has not
seemed sufficient to warrant their arrest.
Both MEN emphatically protest their in
nocencf.