The Cortland
News, Friday, November 6, 1885.
A PROCLAMATION.
WASHINGTON,
Nov. 2.—The following was issued to-day:
By the President of
the United States of America—A Proclamation.
The American people have always abundant
cause to be thankful to Almighty God whose watchful
care and guiding hand has been manifested in every stage of national life,
guarding and protecting them in time of peril and safely leading them in the
hour of darkness and danger. It is fitting and proper that a nation thus
favored, should one day in every year for that purpose especially appointed, publicly
acknowledge the goodness of God, and return thanks to him for all his gracious
gifts.
Therefore, I, Grover Cleveland, President of
the United States of America, do hereby designate and set apart Thursday, the 26th
day of November instant, as a day of public thanksgiving and prayer and do
invoke the observance of the same by all the people of the land.
On that day let all secular business be suspended,
and let the people assemble in their usual place of worship and with prayer and
songs of praise, devoutly testify their gratitude to the Giver of every good
and perfect gift for all that He has done for us in the year past; for our preservation
as a united nation and for our deliverance from the shock and danger of political
convulsions; for the blessings of peace and for our safety and quiet while wars
and rumors of wars have agitated and afflicted other nations of the earth; for
our security against the scourge of pestilence which in other lands has claimed
its dead by thousands and filled the streets with mourners; for plenteous crops
which reward the labor of the husbandman and increase the nation's wealth and for
the contentment throughout our borders which follows in the train of prosperity
and abundance.
And let there also be on the day thus set
apart, a reunion of families, sanctified and chastened by tender memories and associations;
and let the social intercourse of friends with pleasant reminiscences renew the
ties of affection and strengthen the bands of kindly feeling.
And let us by no means forget while we give
thanks and enjoy the comforts which crowned our lives, that truly grateful hearts
are inclined to deeds of charity, and that a kind, thoughtful remembrance of
the poor will double the pleasure of our condition, and render our praise and
thanksgiving more acceptable in the sight of the Lord.
Done in the city of
Washington the second day of November one thousand eight hundred and eighty
five and of the independence of the United States the one hundred and tenth.
GROVER CLEVELAND.
By the President,
T. F. BAYARD, Secretary of State.
TOWN CORRESPONDENCE.
McGrawville, Nov. 4, 1885.
Henry C. Higgins, of
this place, has a collection of 2,017 foreign and United States postage stamps,
from 157 counties, no two being alike, which are worth by Scott's postage stamp
catalogue, $129.69. He also has large collections of geological specimens, old
coins, Indian and mound builders' relics etc., and a large collection of
insects, alcoholic specimens and birds' eggs from all parts of the United
States as well as from many foreign countries. [Higgins was a branch manager
for the Cortland County Sentinel from1896 to1900.]
Scott, Nov. 4, 1885.
Mrs. E. H. P. Potter spent last week in Homer
with her son, Dr. L. W. Potter.
Mrs. Florence Eddy, of Borodino, spent last
week with her mother, Mrs. Shubal Alvord.
Several gentlemen from Cortland and others
from Sempronius were in town last Saturday evening and
the result is that Post Scott starts
off, full officered, with twenty members. Commander, James B. Spencer; Senior
Vice Commander, Edwin Benschoten; Junior Vice Commander, E. D. Crosley;
Chaplain, Rev. F. O. Burdick; Surgeon, Geo. H, Maxson; Officer of the day, W.
H. Morgan.
Marathon, Nov. 4, 1885.
Lyman Hinman, one of the oldest Republicans,
was 73 years old yesterday and has voted every year except twice since he was
old enough. He is one that cannot be bought off or traded, but we have some that
nothing short of a cyclone of reformation could straighten them out.
Preble, Nov. 4,
1885.
Elliott Severson and Eunice Hollenbeck were married
at the home of the bride last week. This is his third wife. He is about thirty
years of age. We wish them happiness and a prosperous voyage o'er life's ocean.
If a
certain man in town intends to keep a cider stand for customers he had better
get a license at once.
The
farmers have their crops nearly all secured and are now getting their winter wood
and sawlogs.
Feed
the turkeys liberally and we will come and help pick them Nov. 25th, if you
would like to have us.
Mr. Crofoot
and Mr. Outt have started their cider mill, and also are making the finest buckwheat
flour in the county. If you doubt it, buy a few sacks of them. They are having a
large run of custom.
Election
passed off quietly although nearly every voter was at the polls.
CORTLAND AND VICINITY.
The
United Sates Express company have put on a new delivery wagon for use in this
town.
We
wish to return our thanks to B. A. Benedict, Esq., for several slices of
venison a portion of the game brought with him from his recent hunting trip to
Michigan.
Ah, there!
Have you noticed the way Cortland girls chew gum lately? They go along the
streets as nonchalant as a camel and work their jaws like sheep in a clover patch.
Oh, yes, it’s nice, and it also looks well.
Last
week we had an item about a monstrous pumpkin raised by Solomon Bemis, of Truxton,
weighing 74 pounds, and now the Cincinnatus Register reports one in Taylor that weighs 77 1/2 pounds. The man who tells the
first story never did have a chance, anyway.
Wm.
S. Brown, the engineer who was killed on the E . C. & N. road a week ago
last Saturday had just taken out a policy in the Equitable Accident Insurance
company of $2,000. The application was sent in on Tuesday before his death, and
the policy arrived the day of the funeral.
Death Overtook Him.
Last
Friday evening Deputy-Sheriff Burgess arrested Eugene Bennett, of Homer, for
larceny in stealing a quantity of poultry, and while taking him to jail Bennett
slid out of his coat and escaped in the darkness. Sometime near 12 o'clock as Ed.
[Bhan] and L. C. Adams were returning from Cortland to Homer by way of the
railroad track and nearly in the rear of the gashouse they came across a man's body,
fearfully mangled, and carried it into the gashouse, where it was recognized as
what was left of Bennett.
As life
was not extinct a physician was sent for, but nothing could be done for the unfortunate
man, so an opiate was administered to relieve his sufferings, and in less than
half an hour he was dead. After being taken into the gashouse Bennett became
conscious and begged those present to kill him to relieve his sufferings.
It is
supposed that Bennett attempted to board a north bound coal train but missed
his footing and fell beneath the cars, as his body had been carried nearly
twenty rods. The body of the dead man was taken to the house of his mother on
Spring street, Homer, from which place the funeral was held on Monday.
RUN OVER BY THE CARS.
An Unknown Tramp’s Sudden Death.
Wednesday
evening last, about 10 o'clock, near the Venette street [one block north of R. R. Depot--CC editor] crossing of the S.
& B. railroad in this village, an unknown tramp was struck by a south bound
coal train and instantly killed. As a north bound train was taking water near
the depot at the time, the supposition is that the man, who was coming towards
the depot, had stepped upon the other
track when he was struck by the south bound train as above stated. The body was
horribly mangled and parts of it were strewn along the track from the place
where he was struck to the depot. The head and one arm were completely severed
from the trunk and the face so mutilated that recognition would have been
impossible even if he had not been a stranger in these parts.
The
man was a cripple, having one wooden leg. and used a pair of crutches to enable
him to get along with more ease. The remains were picked up and placed in the
express room at the depot and the coroner notified, who decided that an inquest
was unnecessary inasmuch as the accident had been witnessed by a number of trainmen
and loungers around the depot.
A man
answering the description of the one killed was seen in Great Bend, Pa., on
Monday and one of the workmen in Hitchcock's shop saw him before dark, Wednesday
afternoon, but had never seen him before and did not know him.
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