Oxford Democrat

Editorial and Selected Items.

-The weather is thawy.
-Sleighing still holds on.
-The "ides of March" are upon us.
-Judge Barrows will hold the March Court, S. J. C.
-The printer made us say them lodges, last week, in our Editorial Notes.
-Rev. Dr. Estes is to lecture at Bowdoinham next Wednesday evening.
-Hannah C. Proctor has been appointed Postmistress at North Bridgton.
-We are busily engaged getting out Town Reports, and are obliged to cut our reading matter short this week.
-In Lawrence, Mass., Albert Holt, employed at the soap works, lost his life instantly by falling into a vat of boiling soap.
-A good deal of oak and ash timber has been hauled to the Sled Factors, the Hill, this winter, from below South Paris.
-See call for Republican Town Caucus. It is well to come together and express preferences, and secure a concert of action, if possible.
-We are under acknowledgments to Senators Martin and Foster and the Oxford delegation in the House for repeated favors in the way of public documents.
-The first steel rails ever laid in Maine were laid on the Grand Trunk railroad Thursday, one half mile of rails being put down. The track from Danville Junction to Portland is to be relaid with steel immediately.
-A solution of pearl ash in water thrown upon a fire extinguishes it instantly; the proportion is four ounces, dissolved in hot water, and then poured into a bucket of common water.
-Hon. William Deering has offered $7000 toward a new Church building for the Pine Street Society in Portland. A building costing about $50,000 will be put up on a lot a little way above the present one, on the same street.
-The Press says that Dr. W. W. Greene of Portland, was thrown out backwards from his sleigh Wednesday evening, in front of his residence, the horse suddenly starting. He struck on the back of his head, receiving painful injuries.
-According to Mr. Beecher, the cheapest thing on earth is a mean man. A faithful dog dies and is missed; a good stately horse dies and is missed; the emigration of the birds in the autumn is a source of endless sadness to us; but mean men die and few tears fall.
-The lovers of music in Norway and vicinity are to have a treat in the Concert of the famous Temple Quartet of Boston, which sang at Oxford this winter. It will be at the Universalist church, on Monday evening, March 9th. Tickets for sale by Freeland Howe and H. J. Rowe.
-A Robin, with its "tuneful" and "melodious" "notes," roused the junior editor from his innocent slumbers, last Sunday morning, February 22nd. He arose, gently opened the window and pensively remarked: "Dear little birdie, you have come too early."
-The pulp mill at Jackson Mills, Paris, are at work only seven hours per day and the same at night. They are getting in a large lot of poplar staves. This winter the help is all stopping at the mill, so as to be ready for a start when they begin on full time, which will be before long, it is thought. The mills at Snow's Falls are getting ready to start making paper, this spring.