Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1898-11-15
ABOUT TIE STATE
The Maine artillerists are enjoying the
halmy hreezeA of the South.


The Maine artillerists are epjoying the
balmy breezcs OF the South.
Several Of the Portland men dlscharK'
ed from the First Maine have enlisted Ia
the regular army.
The language Of the city papers Il
gradually changing. Football lingo Is
giving place to polo.
The October returns would indicate
that the moose are Increasing. Score
one for the game laws.
Treasurer Eveleth OF Auburn has
squared all the premiums awarded "a
competitors at the Maine State fair, and
the total sum was over $1,000.
Edwin Walsh, proprietor OF store
and news stand In Thomsston, commit
ted suicide Thursday by inhsllng chloro-
form. He leaves WIDOW and son.
The resignation Of Rev. Henry r.
Rose of the Elm Street Universslist So
ciety OF Auburn, was read at the church
Sunday. He has accepted call to the
Church Of the Rsdeemer at Newark,
Nj.
Leslie Small made his escape from the
Kuox County jill Wednesday night by
breaking out an iron bar Ia the window.
Small, who IL charged with theft, was
lodged Ia j Ill to await the action OF the
grand Jury. This 10 the second time that
he has escaped from this Ill.
Lieut.. Col. Morton Of the First Maine
Volunteer Infantry will. as soon as he is
mustered out. take command OF his COM
pany, Co |, Sixth United States Infan-
try, stationed at San Antonio, Tex, and
the Coburn Cadets aud the Maine Nation
nj Guard will know him no more.
william Black OF Boston, aged IS,
stabbed himself fatally with a jsckknife,
in the Queen City Hotel at Bangor
Thursday. la letter which be wrote
shortly before his death, he admitted
having obtained money fraudulently,
and IL Is thought that had something TO
do with the act. He leaves widow,
one son and five daughters.
John Gibson, who ran or with about
$22 900 belonging to the Rigby pool box
during the New England fair, was ar
rested helpleesly drunk on the Bowery In
New York, Saturday night, the 9Th. He
had on his person about 2,500 10 money
and Jewels Of about the same value. The
city marshall Of Portland was notified,
but replied that he had no warrant for
Gibson's arrest, so he will not be brought
to Maine.
Yale aud Princeton needn't make so
much loud talk about each having a par
son on its football team. There are 9TH
ers. For instance, the captain and left
end OF the IISllowell eleven Is Rev. I. r.
Eddy, the Universslist clergyman OF the
city. He WAS Tufts College player
four wears, and Ia q firm believer In
wholesome, muscular Christian
ity. His team plays football In way
that Is a credit To the game.
Colonel Wood, the present military
governor Of the province Of Santiago de
Cubs. received his early education In n
small district school, presided over by
Miss Jessie Haskell Of Hsllowell. Miss
was then teaching In Massachu-
sets. The colonel Is in authority over
an important station, aud Is closely con-
fined 10 official duties, but he finds time
to write an occasional letter TO his former
school mistress who derives much pleas
ure from the interesting missives.
Bath il proud Of It's boom, but fears il
has been overadyertised, judging from
the number Of lsborers and tramps, mer-
chants and professional men, book
agents, peddlers, foreigners and Ameri-
cans. who are rushing there, all In eager
haste for the cart wheel dollars which
are rolling from the tills OF Baths big
industries at the present time. But the
saws ''the more the mer-
rier," and tells all to take of their coats
and hustle.
Belfast had q distinguished guest this
week, In Colonel Henry +. Noycs OF the
81 L. s. Cavalry. He was born there
and passed his bovhood there, bat had
not visited his native town 10 - years.
He graduated from West Point in 1861.
and served through the Civil War and
since then In the regular army. He
served through the Santiago campaign
with honor, and expects 10 return TO
Cuba soon With his regiment. II Is now
at Huntsville, Alabama.
A Fort Fairfield correspondent tells a
singular story Of n desth In that town.
A Young girl in Fort Fairfield, fe~
weeks ago, got the seed end OF aspesr
OF hsy 10 her throat Efforts were made
70 remove II but without avail, " worked
down into her lungs, causing great dis
tress. Later she was taken with pneu-
monis and Ia q violent coughing spell
the piece OF hsy WAS elected. 1t Was
about one and a hslf inches long. Her
lungs were mass OF putrefsction. She
suffered terribly and died last week.
Thomss Bouleux, Frenchmsn, was
buried alive Thursday In Simpsons
gravel pit, near P-j-pscot. Several
Frenchmen were loading cars with
gravel. using q steam shovel. Bouleux
was In the act of bringing down fall
when one started behind him without
any warning, burying him under six
feet OF rocks and gravel. IL took over
ten minutes for his friends to reach his
head, but life WAS then extinct. He was
about 10 years old and had been 10 the
employ OF the Maine Central for some
time on the gravel train and lived 10