Knights of Labor Boycott Cortland Manufacturers

The Cortland News, Friday, February 5, 1886.

CORTLAND AND VICINITY.

   The Cortland Wagon Company started up their works on Monday [24 hours].

   On Wednesday of last week the Senate confirmed the nomination of postmaster Maybury in this place.

   All Prohibitionists of the town of Cortland are requested to meet in mass convention at Good Templars' Hall Monday, Feb1, at 2 p. m.

   Cortland is sure to have a dose of Salvation Army, as they have leased the Pioneer Rink and will commence operations next Sunday evening.

   The Knights of Labor ordered a boycott on W. N. Brockway, Gage, Hitchcock & Co., and the Homer Wagon Co., which went into effect Wednesday.

   A. E. Perry, of Cincinnatus, has leased the Dexter House, in this village, for a term of five years, and will take possession the first of April. Stearns Williams, the present proprietor, will move on to his farm west of the village and turn his attention to agricultural pursuits.

   C. M. Turner, Manager of Agencies of the Equitable Accident Insurance company, of Binghamton, on Tuesday paid to Mrs. W. S. Brown [killed in E. C. & N. train accident] the amount of the policy held by her deceased husband $2,000.

   A brass band has been organized at Virgil. There is considerable musical talent in that place, and no doubt with a necessary amount of practice they will be able to make good music. We pity the rest of the Virgilites, however, for the next few weeks.

   Drs. Clark Brothers, the only regular visiting opticians, extend their visit, and can be consulted at the Arnold House until Saturday night, February 13th. They need no introduction to our citizens as their reputation has been established for many years.

   “Mugg's Landing” at the Cortland Opera House next Monday evening will certainly be one of the best entertainments that will visit Cortland this season. Frances Bishop, in the character of "Little Muggs," shows off her abilities to the best possible advantage. The other characters of the play are carefully selected, and, all told, give an entertainment that is worth going to see. As Miss Bishop has appeared in Cortland before it is hardly necessary to say that she will have a large audience.

   Henry Freer has leased the Ithaca House, at Ithaca, and will take possession the first of March.

 

Town Correspondence.

South Cortland, February 3, 1886.

   A great many of the Cortland people, I learn, who have heretofore voted against license, are determined to make Cortland a license town at the coming town meeting. Now let us look at this matter carefully.

   Have these men who have determined to make Cortland a license town, sons? If so, think twice before you vote. If you haven’t a son, remember that other people have—that somebody's son or sons may get drunk on Cortland whisky and cause pain, shame and disgrace to come upon himself and his friends. Think for one moment of the terrible death connected with the Hollenbeck family, and others within the past year in our own town.

   It seems to me that such terrible deaths traceable directly to the influence of intoxicants ought to be sufficient to convince any intelligent man of the necessity of temperance legislation. It ought to be a stronger argument in favor of temperance than the grandest lecture ever delivered. There comes a voice from that sheeted dead that speaks in thunder tones to the people of all communities, showing plainly that it is the duty of all men to suppress this, the most terrible of all evils. Humanity has no rights that the rum traffic is bound to respect; it runs rampant in our land, and its dealers hold their heads high and chuckle at the delusion of the world as they hoard up the dimes which come to them from the poor man's hand; rich and poor, high and low alike are their victims.

   Brother man, dare to do right, dare to be true. How many wrongs does it take to make a right? Do not, I beg of you, because somebody else did wrong [voting] a year ago last fall, divest yourselves of your manhood and give your voice, your influence and your vote to help on this curse which is driving to wretchedness, to crime and to death, yea to eternal death so many of the fairest and noblest of earth. Consider and act in this matter in a manner that you will be willing to meet, when you shall stand face to face with your God, before the tribunal of heaven. Let the temperance people of Cortland awake.

   Very seldom is the road to Cortland in finer condition for business or pleasure than now; the sleighing is fine.

   Upon the recent death of Frederick Hollenbeck, of Virgil, the executor of the estate of the late Henry Hollenbeck, of Dryden, John D. Lamont, of the same place, has succeeded him as administrator.

   Thank you Mr. Harford correspondent for the compliment in the last week’s NEWS. You may "point" your musket this way whenever you choose.

   Some of our people have made a visit to the County House, and report everything in good order. The inmates are well pleased with Mr. Porter and wife and James Young the keepers of the institution.

 

EDITORIAL.

   The remark that the Democrats are very glad to keep many Republicans in offices because they cannot find proper men in their own party to carry on the public business, does not seem much of a jest in connection with recent revelations.

   The Administration [Cleveland] has not yet succeeded in filling our diplomatic positions abroad with competent and satisfactory Democrats, and it is constantly having trouble with its appointments in the various departments. For instance, a Democrat was given a position in the Post-office department, upon the recommendation of several Democratic Congressmen. He superseded an experienced and honest official, whose only fault being a Republican.

   Now it is discovered that the Democratic appointee had served two terms in the Penitentiary, one for grand larceny and one for highway robbery, besides having been sent frequently to jail for minor offences. The scoundrel has been removed; but during his term of office, he handled an immense mail, and who knows what injuries he has done or what plans for future crimes he has been able to concoct?

   The inference that the Democratic party is unable to carry on the government of this country reputably is logical, and the deduction is that the sooner the Republicans are restored to power the better it will be for the people.

 

 

 

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