WHAT MANNER OF MAN IS THIS?

The Cortland News, Friday, October 22, 1886.

Many Tons of Grapes Frozen — Sale of a Railroad.

   ELMIRA, N.Y., Oct. 18.—According to careful estimates made to-day by prominent grape growers of Hammondsport, five hundred tons of grapes were frozen on the vines on the shores of Lake Keuka Saturday night. The mercury went down to twenty degrees above zero. The varieties frozen were principally Catawba, Concord and Diana. The Bath and Hammondsport railroad has been sold by Capt. Allen Wood, of Hammondsport, to Henry S. Stebbins, of Canandaigua, for $85,000. The road is a three foot gauge, nine miles in length, and was first operated in 1875. It is the chief outlet of the Lake Keuka grape region, and does a big grape freight and excursion business.

LATE NEWS ITEMS.

   Returns received by the Kingston Freeman show that many tons of grapes were frozen on the vines at various points along the Hudson valley.

  

TOWN CORRESPONDENCE.

PREBLE, Oct. 21, 1886.

   Frank, it seems as if the chestnuts were about fit to pick. We are all waiting for an invitation. Do not forget us as we are very fond of them.

   That $40 suit and $12 hat has resulted in a wedding, just as I told you it would be, Thomas Howard, of this place, to Miss Hattie Preston, of East Homer. We wish them a happy voyage o'er life's ocean.

   The Anti-Grangers here have said a great deal about the Grangers not patronizing home dealers. But we are told that the anti’s are getting their groceries and dry goods in Syracuse at wholesale prices.

   Slab City is manifesting a great deal of enterprise, for they have a new school house nearly completed for the winter term. Miss Cora Manchester is the teacher.

   On Saturday night of last week, Seth Aldrich breathed his last. He was 82 years of age and had lived in town for many years. Mr. Aldrich was a pleasant appearing man and always the same every day, and was highly esteemed by both old and young. The services were held on Tuesday at the M. E. church of which he was a member.

   The Democrats say get all the Republicans you can to vote the Prohibition ticket, and we shall win the race this fall. I believe every Republican understands their game by this time and will pull straight at the coming election. But I will say this, if the Prohibition party was gotten up out of pure principle, instead of revenge, they would poll a large vote this fall. The Prohibitionist reminds me of a circumstance that occurred with one of my neighbors a few years ago. He had a balky horse and the only way he could be used was to go-ahead with an ear of corn, but the horse was out of luck for it never got the corn. So it is with the Democrats wearing the Prohibition cloak to influence weak minded Republicans to vote with the whisky party. So you see they would be just as sure of being a temperance man as the horse was at getting the corn, eh.

FREETOWN, Oct. 21, 1886.

   Mel Furber has commenced work with his brother in the Gage & Hitchcock cutter works in Homer.

   The Shepherd Cheese factory are making cheese only every other day. They will close up about the first of November

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TRUXTON, Oct. 21, 1886.

   A lively turnabout happened to Mr. Perry one day this week. While out driving a pair of young horses hitched to a top buggy belonging to K. C. Arnold, the colts saw something which caused them to jump to one side in a manner that brought them up suddenly against a limb of a tree which hangs over the road. It took the top of the buggy completely off and threw both occupants of the carnage to the ground, K. C. Arnold being in company with Perry. The horses made a dash and with a broken neck-yoke they made quite a lively run for a short ways, jumping a fence into a meadow and clearing themselves from the buggy. No serious damage done; only the carriage considerably demolished. Mr. Perry was out driving the horses the next morning.

   Connie & Stevens' firkin factory is in running order again. Their engineer, Mr. Jackson, has moved his family to Homer as the factory will be closed in about three weeks.

   They say Fred Woodward, the undertaker, is soon to move up in the First Ward, one door west of the Baptist church.

   Mrs. Wm. Maycumber left here on Saturday last to go to Weedsport, soon to leave there for Florida for the winter intending to engage in dressmaking. William goes with her to engage in the poultry business.

VIRGIL-GEE HILL, Oct. 21, 1886.

   Dr. A. J. Givens who has had a position at the hospital for insane at St. Peter, Minn., for the past few months, has passed a civil service examination and received an appointment for two years at the New Jersey State Asylum at Middletown. The doctor is a Gee Hill boy, and his many friends and relatives here wish him success.

CORTLAND AND VICINITY.

   The annual renting of seats in the M. E. church, of this place, will occur on Wednesday. October 27th, at 2 p. m., and continue during the evening.

   White & Ingalls, dentists, have obtained a license so they are enabled to do Richmond

Crown and Bridge work, or the insertion of artificial teeth without plates. Wickwire Building, Cortland.

   The project of extending the railroad from Smith's Valley, Madison county, to DeRuyter, to complete a line from Utica south westward, is being agitated, and with a prospect of success.

   Baker & Holdridge, in the furniture manufacturing business on Port Watson

Street, have made assignment for the benefit of creditors to William H. Holdridge, with liabilities of about $5,000 and assets of $3,000.

   Excursion tickets on the D. L. & W. road, to New York will be sold from this place next Wednesday at six dollars for the round trip. These who wish to see the unveiling of the Bartholdi Statue [Statue of Liberty] should take this in.

   Rumor has it that on Friday last Mrs. Charles Schultz, who resides on Orchard Street, attempted to commit suicide by swallowing some "rough on rats," but was unsuccessful because of the prompt administering of an emetic by Dr. Edson. Jealousy is said to have been the cause.

   The employees of the Cortland Wagon Company on Saturday last handed Mechanics’ Band a purse of $45, the result of a subscription paper passed around in that shop. The members of the band desire to return thanks to those interested in getting it up.

   The new books to be found in the library at Mr. Mahan's store are:—Motley's Dutch Republic, Motley's United Netherlands, Next Door, Nature's Serial Story, He Fell in Love with His Wife, The New Man at Rossmore, Yard Stick and Scissors, School in the Light House, Knight of the White Shield, A Perfect Adonis, Newport, Jo's Boys, Joe Wayring at Home, John Parmelee's Curse, Princess, The Mayor of Casterbridge, and a Gentleman of Leisure.

   Charles Cooper, a negro, who with his wife resided in Masonic Hall block, has been at work for some time past for Henry Kennedy. On Wednesday last he was raking up leaves near the storehouse on Greenbush street and as Mr. Kennedy desired to come up town he told Cooper that if any customers came to have them leave their orders and they would be filled at once. Mr. Kennedy was up town about an hour and on his return the darky was missing, as was also the money drawer from the desk in the office. The latter was soon found in the barn attached to the storehouse, but the money, some $15 in silver, had been taken from the till. The authorities were at once notified and the culprit was captured at Marathon by Sheriff Van Hoesen that afternoon.

WHAT MANNER OF MAN IS THIS?

Scared at His own Promises, He Tries to Lay Them at Another’s Door.

   If our memory is to be relied upon last week the columns of the NEWS contained a few words about a certain Democrat who is just now posing in the guise of a Prohibitionist. Of course, that article was answered to a certain extent this week in the paper of which the aforesaid gentleman is political editor, but in whose columns his name never enters. Mr. Hayes retaliates this week by calling the NEWS a hand organ. Well, a hand organ is an instrument that grinds out very disagreeable music, and as our music must have grated on Mr. Hayes' ears last week we don't wonder he wishes to think it was a hand organ. We'll turn the crank once more, Lewis.

   Mr. Hayes’ remarks in the Monitor this week are wholly in the line of calling names, and simply dodge the questions at issue. Never mind--the man is good at dodging. His main harping is on the charter. Hear what he has to say about the four additional Supervisors which last year’s charter provided for:

   “Will the voters of the out towns ‘take the chances’ of packing the Board of Supervisors with four more from Cortland?"

   That little extract will show that either Mr. Hayes has a very short memory, or else he is confident that other people have. It will be remembered that last fall Mr. Hayes was a candidate for Member of Assembly.

   A number of those with whom he talked will remember that the principal reason he advanced why he should be elected was because this village needed a new charter which would give the village of Cortland additional representation in the Board of Supervisors. He was also so egotistical that he made the assertion that he was the only man who could get such a charter through the legislature, and yet now he charges that Mr. Tisdale is the man who would try and get it through. For shame.

   In conversation on this subject with the editor of this paper, Mr. S. H. Strowbridge, and with two other gentlemen last fall, Mr. Hayes was told that no village in New York State had a representation on a Board of Supervisors. He flatly contradicted it, and said that Ithaca had three Supervisors, which, through his ignorance, or otherwise, he strongly maintained. The statement was not so, and afterwards when spoken to on the subject, he absolutely refused to have anything to say about it. Enough on that line. No legislature would pass such a charter and Mr. Hayes knows it, and yet he keeps harping on the subject in order to influence a few votes among the ignorant in the out-towns, for the intelligent voters take no stock in it.

   Here is another sample of his forgetfulness— we won’t call it by a harsher name.

   "Hon. M. M. Brown, last year in the Assembly, opposed Clark's new charter. This year Clark's friends laid Brown in his little grave."

   Now Mr. Hayes knows, and so does every other man in the county who can read, that Hon. M. M, Brown introduced that charter into the Assembly and worked as hard as he could for its passage. That is a matter of record, and Mr. Hayes could have found it out provided he wanted to tell the truth or had exercised his memory a little. Why does he insist in telling such lies? Does he expect people will believe him or don't he care? Probably truth would make him sick.

   He also charges in an indirect way that the man [William Clark, publisher and editor—CC editor] who runs the Standard also runs the NEWS. In writing that, he knows that he writes what is false, and we will prove it to the satisfaction of every man who reads this article who is open to conviction.

   When the subject was first talked of starting the Monitor, two of the stockholders in it were in flavor of buying out the NEWS on the ground that it had an established business, and there were enough papers here already. Mr. Hayes opposed them and carried his point, and here was the reason he gave in his own words.—"We want the NEWS to keep along to "buck" Mr. Clark, because Clark is afraid of it, and we (the Monitor) will reap the benefit." This he not only said to those interested in the Monitor but he was indiscreet enough to repeat it to us in the business office of the Monitor a few days previous to the first publication of that paper. In other words, Mr. Hayes wanted us as “a cat’s paw to pull his chestnuts out of the fire." He has found out that we do "buck" Mr. Clark and also "buck" Mr. Hayes when he stoops to such untruths as he has written for his paper in the last two weeks, and that is just exactly the reason why he makes the charge above referred to. He will find out, and so will everyone else, that so long as we run the NEWS we shall "buck" everything and everybody that is not square and upright.

   The statement is also reiterated in this week's Monitor that Mr. Tisdale attempted to "foist"—(that’s a good word)—the electric light plant upon the village last spring. If that were so, why did not Mr. Hayes take the trouble to find out whether Mr. Tisdale voted on that resolution or not? The poll list of the last corporation election shows that Mr. Tisdale

refrained from voting on the resolution at all.

   Mr. Hayes, we suppose, will say that W. D. Tisdale was interested in the subject, and so did not vote. That is just the point we make, exactly. His refraining from voting on the subject shows that he is a square man; that he would not have a voice in a matter in which he was personally interested; that he preferred to let the people say whether they wanted it or not. It also shows that Mr. Tisdale was not so anxious to sell the plant that he was willing to demean himself by voting for it. Had he been a man who cared more for his pocket book than for his self respect he would not have acted as he did. Do you "get there," Mr. Hayes.

   We have said nothing in these articles about the character of Mr. Hitchcock, and we do not propose to if it can be avoided, though there are vulnerable points in every man, which are apt to be attacked when he runs for a public office. The practice is to be deprecated, arid we hoped nothing would occur this fall to cast a smirch upon anybody.

   Mr. Hayes has thrown mud at Mr. Tisdale and we have attempted to show what kind of a man was throwing it.

   Shall we turn the crank again, Mr. Hayes?