Elmira, Cortland & Northern R. R. to Extend to Lake Ontario

The Cortland News, Friday, February 4, 1887.

TO EXTEND NORTHWARD.

The E. C. & N. to Have an Outlet on Lake Ontario.

   ITHACA, Feb. 1, 1887. — A special dispatch received here to-day says it seems certain that the Elmira, Cortland and Northern railway will enter Northern New York as a compliment of the Rome, Watertown and Ogdensburg road. Arrangements have just been perfected through agents of President Austin Corbin, whereby the Elmira, Cortland and Northern will have an outlet to Watertown and Lake Ontario.

   The Canastota Northern railroad, which terminates in Camden, Oneida county, is to connect with a new road from that place to Watertown, This latter road is to be constructed by a Watertown syndicate, and then to be leased to the Elmira, Cortland and Northern system. Through this arrangement the Elmira, Cortland and Northern will have communication between the anthracite regions of Pennsylvania and the lake regions, not to mention the passenger traffic to the St. Lawrence and the Thousand Islands.

CORTLAND AND VICINITY.

   A violent thunderstorm yesterday morning passed over Cortland.

   The capital stock of the Hitchcock Mfg. Co. has been increased to $200,000.

   The cigar and confectionery business on Railroad street has changed hands. Phoenix & Vincent are the new proprietors.

   Postal notes are now made out payable at any money order office instead of formerly payable only at such office as the sender might specify.

   F. F. Harrington, the clothier and merchant tailor, has engaged as cutter in his establishment, F. W. Osgood, of Boston, who, for a year past, has been with Geo. Griffin, of Ithaca, in a like capacity.

   Lewis Chapman, Fred Hicks and Delia Reynolds, who were arrested in Homer last week, on a charge of outraging public decency, were examined before Justice Squires on Friday last. The woman was discharged and Hicks and Chapman held in $100 for their appearance before the Grand Jury.

   It is probable that the old wooden building on Main street occupied by Smith & Bates, and owned by B. F. Taylor will give place to a handsome new brick structure the coming spring. Architects are making plans for the new building. Messrs. Smith & Bates will move temporarily into other quarters until the new store is finished.

   The “sharps" who have been "working” farmers for years to get their signatures, which generally turn up on the bottom of a promissory note 'tis said have struck a new deal. They go to a farmer and give him a recipe agreeing to cure him in a certain time of any disease he may have, and if not cured the contract to be void. The farmer is asked to sign an article of agreement, which of course, turns out to be a regular promissory note which the unsuspecting farmer will have to pay.

   William Jenks, who lives near the fair grounds, was last Saturday arrested for assault in the first degree, on complaint of his wife. Mrs. Jenks says that he has seven times threatened her life and has at different times shot at her with a revolver, when crazy with drink. Jenks denies that he ever attempted to take her life, but says he might have threatened it while under the influence of liquor. He carries a revolver on his person, which he says, was one used by him while in the European Secret Service. Mr. and Mrs. Jenks have three children, the eldest a bright girl thirteen years of age. He was held in $600 to await the action of the Grand Jury, in default of which he was sent to jail.

   Mr. H. E. Freer, formerly with this office, has returned from his trial trip with the Morgans & Wilcox Mf’g. Co. of Middletown, and reports excellent success. He starts again Monday for a trip through Massachusetts, and from thence through Ohio and Michigan.

A NEW DEPARTURE.

   Mr. H. H. Greenman, for several years past with the Wickwire Brothers, in this place, has commenced the manufacture of adjustable window screens for the trade at the shop formerly occupied for making wire cloth on Railroad street. This, we believe, is the only adjustable screen made and is destined to have a large sale. Mr. Greenman has given the subject much study and worked hard to find a way in which a screen to fit any window could be made, and at last has been rewarded by success. It is a very simple, but at the same time an ingenious device to go either under the bottom window sash or over the upper one, or both, as may be preferred. They are made of Norway pine, stained to represent cherry or mahogany and covered with Cortland wire cloth, and can be retailed at an extremely low price.

   All windows and door screens heretofore have been made to fit the place for which they were designed, and consequently have been high priced. Mr. Greenman's invention does away with this so that a moderate cost will effectually exclude all flies and insects from any house.