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CORTLAND AND VICINITY.
Mercury ten degrees below zero Monday morning.
The only place to obtain
Saratoga water is at Brown & Maybury's.
Before this month passes, the
post-office will be removed to quarters in the new block corner Main and
Tompkins streets.
Mr. Lamont Calvert left the
post-office on Tuesday for his former position as railroad postal clerk, his
route being between Syracuse and New York.
Mr. H. M. Kellogg has sold
forty Dockash ranges during the past season. This is about four times as many
as he anticipated selling including the winter. That range is a great stove and
it goes off at a 2:40 or a 42 gait.
Some
of the most elegant imported toilet sets may be seen at Brown & Maybury's
drug store, and those in want of rich and beautiful goods for the holidays
should call there. Their advertisement specifies the variety they keep, to
which we refer our readers.
For the first time in eight years the Sunday-school of the M. E. Church
will indulge in the enjoyable festivities of a Christmas tree, but as Christmas
comes this year on Monday, they will be held on that evening. A part of the
programme will be a literary entertainment, of which Mrs. Nash, Mrs. Twiss and
Miss Henry have charge.
“The fumes of turkey and other
good things coming from Firemen's Hall indicate that the New England dinner
today will be worth attending.”—Cortland Cor. Syr. Herald. As it
was not intended to have turkey; as turkey was not advertised; and as there was
no turkey, that correspondent must possess a strongly imaginative turkey nose.
He ought to be on the smelling committee.
The new Sunday law received but
little attention in this village last Sunday. The barbers, we are informed, closed
their shops. But then this is a quiet community generally speaking, and a penal
code was unnecessary to influence our people to conduct themselves properly. It
looked, however, as though some of them were taking advantage of the code as an
excuse for not cleaning their sidewalks of snow, thus allowing the feelings of
those religiously inclined to be evilly influenced by an unclean pathway.
Friday afternoon as Mr. Ira
Hatfield and his son Louis were riding along Tompkins street, and then passing
Prospect street, a number of sleds on which boys were coasting frightened the
horse, which ran against the curbstone, upsetting the cutter and throwing out
the occupants. Louis' head came in contact with a tree and was somewhat cut,
and he was otherwise bruised. Mr. H. escaped unhurt. The colt ran for home and arrived in safety, the
cutter having righted. Coasting on Prospect street came to a stop by order of
the trustees, as it has on all other streets.
Messrs. W. T. Smith and Geo. H.
Arnold have purchased the interest of Mr. L. J. Fitzgerald in the Cortland
Omnibus factory.
Neighbor Huntington, of the McGrawville
Sentinel, has lately furnished his office with an improved Guernsey
power press. That means prosperity, and we, therefore, congratulate the Sentinel.
The forenoon of the 6th was not so cloudy but that the transit of Venus
was observed from this section, and many availed themselves of the opportunity
of seeing a little black spot between them and the sun.
One of the new street cars for
the Cortland and Homer Railway has arrived but will not probably be put on the
road until the railroad crossing matter is determined. It is a beautiful vehicle,
of the bobtail pattern, and is from the Jones Manufacturing Company of Schenectady.
Last Friday Miss M. A.
Blashfield, of Homer, slipped on the ice and falling broke her hip at the
joint. Drs. Green and Goodell were called and the fracture was set, and while
she is doing as well as can be expected under the circumstances, it will be
long ere she recovers the full use of her limb, if she ever does. The
unfortunate lady is a sister of Supervisor H. W. Blashfield.
About one o'clock Tuesday
morning Mrs. Mortimer Harrington was awakened by the crackling of flames.
Investigation showed the upper part of their house, corner of Crandall and Mill
[Clinton Ave.] streets, to be on fire. Alarm was instantly given, the fire
department was quickly at work, connection being made with the hydrant corner
of Pendleton street, but only a portion of the furniture was saved. Mr. and
Mrs. Harrington and their son, a young lad, were the only persons in the house,
which was insured for $1,150 by H. J. Messenger in the Niagara Company. Mr.
Harrington does not know how the fire originated. The building was one and a
half stories in height and 22x26 feet square.
On Friday last, Mr. Charles
Chesebrough, of the firm of Bristol & Chesebrough, shirt manufacturers, was
at Canastota intending to take the U. I. & E. train for Cortland. Starting
from the Central depot he crossed the track ahead of a passenger train from New
York, but was struck by the locomotive of a freight train which he had not
seen. He was thrown into the air a few feet and fell back on the snow plow, and
was thus carried about three-fourths of a mile ere the train was stopped.
Medical assistance was procured, when it was found that his left arm at the
elbow was dislocated, and his hip on the same side badly bruised. He received
proper attention, was taken to Syracuse, and came down on the evening train to Cortland.
A month's time will enable him to appear about as usual. On the whole Mr. C.
may consider himself very fortunate.
PAP.
Mr. Carley, as chairman of the
Board of Supervisors, has made a record of which the most ambitious might well
be proud, but he made a mistake the other day which we will explain. The
statute provides that in the election of papers to print the session laws the
two papers receiving the highest number of votes shall be declared elected,
provided they represent the two opposing parties. There are seven Democrats on
the Board. The majority of them chose the Standard as more fairly
representing their party than the Democrat. The Republicans chose THE
NEWS. A vote was taken and the Standard received seven, the exact
Democratic vote, THE
NEWS five and the Democrat three. Clearly THE NEWS and the Standard
were elected, and the chairman should have so announced.
We understand the ostensible
editor of the Standard will, if the Democrat is declared elected,
bring a certiorari to review the proceedings and have his paper declared
elected. It will not do for the editor of the Democrat to claim that the
Standard is not
the Democratic organ because it hoisted the Republican ticket and then week
after week openly declared that it ought to be defeated. That is so thin that
the courts and the public will very easily see through it, however much it may
puzzle the brains of the presiding luminaries of the two Democratic organs in
this county.
One thing ought to be said in
praise of the majority of the Democratic supervisors. They lived up to their
promises and that hasn't always been considered a Democratic trait of
character. When the Democrats promised Wm. H. Clark [editor of the Cortland Standard, a newspaper designated Republican—CC editor] this fall that if he
would go back upon the Republican party he should have the Democratic pap, and
he yielded, they felt bound to carry out their part of the contract, and in
that there is so much that is manly and square that even neighbor Jones [B. B.
Jones, editor of the Cortland Democrat—CC
editor] if his head is clear can hardly help admire, even though it may cost him
some public patronage.
It the Presbyterian church in
this village had given Clark $3.75 for doing that little job which Jones did
for $3 they would have had a notice in the Standard of their social gathering
the same as the other churches, and if Judge Smith had given his patronage to
Clark said Smith would have been an angel instead of continually washing
Clark's mud off from his face. The Democratic party don't propose to repeat the
mistakes of the Presbyterian church, or of Judge Smith, or of Prof. Hoose
[principal of Normal school—CC editor], but to give Clark pap and keep him
sweet. We hope Mr. Carley will when the question comes up again recognize the
inevitable and regard the wishes of that portion of the Democratic party which
believes in carrying out contracts and considers the Standard a better
Democratic organ than the Democrat. It will be a little hard on Jones,
and in the end infinitely harder on the Democratic party. But they will be obliged
to take Clark sooner or later and they may just as well make up their face and
swallow him first as last. Many a child has kicked and squalled as its nose has
been held and the castor oil poured down. But it had to be done, and sometimes
it has done the infant good. We can't promise the same results to the
Democratic party in this case; but as they think it will help them and we don't
need him, and as their representatives have voted him a Democrat, why, let them
have him.
STILL BARKING AT THAT HOLE.
When a man is obliged to use
four or five columns of a newspaper to give conversations with Mr. Ballard and
Mr. Briggs, both dead, and who cannot speak for themselves and refute the lies,
all to explain away the cussedness of the editor in wantonly attempting to ruin
a man he can't bulldoze into giving him patronage, as William H. Clark does this
week, the people will believe that editor to be in a desperate war with his conscience,
or else a crank or a knave. Judge Smith can afford to withhold his patronage
and allow him to rave and show himself.
BOARD OF SUPERVISORS.
Friday.—On motion of Dr.
Angell, the Cortland Democrat and Standard were authorized to
publish the election notices for 1883.
Rev. J. H. Jacobs was heard
upon the correction of the assessment-roll, claiming exemption from taxation on
the ground that he is a minister of the Gospel. The matter was referred to the
committee on jurisprudence.
The correction of the
assessment-roll of Cortlandville was made the special order of business for
Saturday morning.
Several ballots for papers to
publish the session laws were taken : 1st., News 6, Democrat 4, Standard 5; 2d,
NEWS 6, Democrat 4, Standard 5; 3d, NEWS 5, Democrat 5, Standard 5; 4th, NEWS 6,
Democrat 4, Standard 5.
On motion of Mr. Clinton,
further balloting was postponed until the first day of the adjourned session.
The Board resolved to adjourn
from Saturday noon to Monday at 1130 P. M.
The sum of $25 was appropriated
for religious services at the alms-house.
A communication from the Gas
Company, stating that they had paid their State tax to the Comptroller, and
that they cannot be taxed twice a year on the same property, was referred to
the committee on jurisprudence.
Action on a resolution
authorizing the clerk to purchase 60 blank books for assessment-rolls—45 of 50
pages each, 10 of 75 pages each and 5 of 100 pages each, and to distribute them
among the supervisors, was postponed until Monday P. M.
Saturday.—The committee on
jurisprudence reported that the claim of Rev. J. H. Jacobs was not properly before them, and, on motion of Mr.
Clinton, the same was rejected.
The consideration of the town
abstracts was made a special order for Tuesday, after the regular order of
business.
Monday.—The supervisor of
Cortlandville was authorized to add $3, bill of Isaac Horton as excise
commissioner, to that town's abstract.
The clerk was instructed to
superintend the printing of the supervisor's journal, and to revise the fee
bill.
The supervisor of Preble was
authorized to add $4, the hill allowed John Curry by the town auditors for
damage to sheep and lost and not collected by him, to that town’s abstract.
On motion of Mr. Clinton, it
was decided that all persons doing work for or furnishing supplies to the
county, shall present with their bill the order for the same, or a receipt from
the person ordering and that the clerk be instructed to inform the county
officers of the passage of this resolution.
The resolution instructing the clerk to procure assessment-roll books
was passed.
Tuesday.—A report was received
from Hon. A. P. Smith, stating that since the last session of the Board he had
sent Willis Brown, of Cortlandville, Jan. 9, 1882, and Dolly Stowe, of Harford,
June 24, 1882, to the State Lunatic Asylum at Utica.
[Bottom of news page is ink-smeared, and one paragraph is illegible.—CC
editor]
…Superintendent
of the Poor reported that the expenses for the year ending May 24, 1882, were
$8,968.09 and the rest is $6,004.69, leaving an indebtedness of $2,963.40; also, that they had found everything at the alms-house in
an excellent condition and the inventory of the property showed its value to be
$6,077.32.
The committee
on equalization reported the total value of real estate in the county to be
$8,263,909 and of personal property $1,033,960, which was adopted by a vote of
10 to 5.
The committee
was directed to apportion the State and county taxes and School Commissioners'
expenses among the towns.
The committee
on appropriations reported recommending that a county tax be levied for the
purpose of raising $61,164.41 to meet appropriations, and that the several towns
be taxed for that purpose as follows: Cincinnatus $3,560.20; Cortlandville $20,327.46; Cuyler $4,217.36; Freetown $464.69;
Harford $4,279; Homer $2,173.32; Lapeer $422.84; Marathon $1,415.52; Preble
$181.31; Scott $401.33; Solon $417.47; Taylor $386.36; Truxton $6,015.83;
Virgil $1,086.29; Willett $174.12.
On motion of
Dr. Nelson, the County Treasurer, in case there is an insufficient sum in the
treasury to meet the appropriations to the several public institutions for the
current year, was authorized to use any money in his possession not otherwise
appropriated, and, should there be no such, to borrow on the credit of the
county.
Evening.—The
committee on apportioning the State and county taxes and School Commissioners'
expenses among the several towns reported the following: State tax for schools
$9,913.91; State tax for general purposes $12,167.06; county tax $39,083.44;
apportionment of School Commissioners' expenses $400.
Thursday.—The
Board met, and after transacting routine business, adjourned to Tuesday, Dec.
12.
CORPORATION
PROCEEDINGS.
Special meeting of the Board of Trustees held Nov. 22, 1882, at the
office of I. H. Palmer: Present—I. H. Palmer, Pres.; H. Wells, G. W. Bradford and C.
C. Taylor, Trustees.
Moved and carried that I. H.
Palmer act as clerk pro tem.
On motion the street
commissioner was directed to fix the walk on
the corner of South Main and Court streets between the sidewalk and the
crosswalk.
[Bold text added for emphasis.
It appears from this report that the 1882 demarcation line for North and South
Main Street was at the intersection of Court Street and Main Street—CC editor.]
Moved and carried that Palmer
and Wells be committee authorized to settle with the Horse Railroad Company.
The committee to whom the bill
of the Homer and Cortland Gas-Light Co. was referred reported in favor of
paying the bill.
Resolved, That the time for the collection of taxes be extended sixty days, and
that the collector's warrant therefor be continued in force until the 21st day of
January, 1883.
The following bills were
allowed and ordered paid:
Homer and Cortland Gas Light
Co., gas for streets………. $94.00
Goodale
& Stiles, for kerosene lamps.................................... 7.25
On motion meeting adjourned.
I. H. PALMER, Clerk pro tem.
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