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CORTLAND
AND VICINITY.
The Board of
Education is found. See notice "To Contractors."
Mr. Henry Kennedy, corner of
Railroad and Greenbush streets, is building an addition to his house.
Cooler weather the past week
and enough snow Tuesday afternoon to cover the ground, but it disappeared
Wednesday morning.
Dr. Frederick Hyde has been
appointed by the Governor and confirmed by the Senate as trustee of the State
Idiot Asylum at Syracuse.
Mr. C. B. Allard had the
misfortune on Sunday to lose one of the horses he drives to Syracuse every
Saturday. The animal died of pneumonia.
At the Woman's Suffrage
Convention held at Poughkeepsie last week Miss Mary Hitchcock, of this village,
was elected one of the vice-presidents.
Mr. H. F. Benton is erecting
quite a large addition to his planning mill, in which he intends to put some of
the machinery now on the second floor of the main building.
By the recent purchase of the
Midland road from Cortland to DeRuyter, the Utica, Ithaca & Elmira Railroad
Company have become owners of the entire road from Elmira to Canastota.
A family of emigrants, twelve
in number, from the North of Ireland, arrived here on Sunday morning last, en
route to Cortland. Being unable to reach their destination on that day, and
being entirely without means, they were sent to the County House by Overseer of
the Poor Cunningham, where they remained until Monday morning, when they were sent
to Cortland.—Binghamton Rep.
Mr. C. H. Orr, of the firm of Sweet, Orr & Co., Wappinger's Falls,
N. Y., a gentleman of several years' experience as a manufacturer of shirts and
overalls, has become associated with E. D. Crosley & Sons. Orders enough to
keep the new firm busy for the next three months, aided by ten sewing machines,
have already been received. It is the intention of the firm to begin soon the
erection of the main building.
Last Saturday, the 21st, papers
were served on the Delaware, Lackawanna & Western and the Syracuse,
Binghamton & New York Railroad Companies, on a motion asking for the
appointment of commissioners to determine the conditions on which the Cortland
& Homer Street Railway Company may cross the tracks [between Homer and
Cortland—CC editor] of said companies. The argument on the motion will be heard
by Judge Follett at Owego on Tuesday next.
Senator McCarthy's bill
providing that the Utica, Chenango and Cortland railroad company shall
hereafter be known as
the Erie and Central New York Railroad Company, and that said company may extend
the line of its road from its present terminus in the village of Cortland through
the counties of Cortland and Onondaga to the city of Syracuse, has been passed
by the Legislature and will take effect immediately on being signed by the
Governor.
The new Congregational church
will be all completed this week. The extreme length is 103 feet and extreme width
70 feet. The floor surface contains over 5,000 square feet. There are 130 pews
or sittings in all, without chairs in the aisles, for over 700 people. The floor
is bowled or sloping, so that all can see the speaker easily. The inside work
where wood is used is of ash and cherry finished in oil. The Sabbath-school
paid for the carpets and the Ladies’ Society for the cushions.
Rev. Dr. Wm. M. Taylor, of New York city, who
is to preach the sermon at the dedication of the new Congregational church on
May 8, at 2 P. M., is one of the most brilliant orators and preachers in the
United States. An audience of four or five thousand people greet him at each Sabbath
service in his immense Tabernacle on Broadway. He is also well known as a
newspaper and book writer. All who have heard him or read his books have been
charmed with his strength of intellect and fervid eloquence.
Last Wednesday evening the Y.
P. A. of the M. E. church held its regular meeting at the residence of Prof.
Stowell, at which time Mr. D. Eugene Smith gave a very interesting account of
his journey to Central America and of the fruits and vegetables of that
country. Mr. Smith showed how the social standing and government of the
"States" was superior in every respect to those of any country he had
visited. All who listened to Mr. Smith felt as though the hour had passed very
pleasantly and profitably.
W. W. Gale has again become a
resident of Cortland and an employe of the Omnibus Company.
The Board of Managers of the
Library Association will hold their meeting for May on Tuesday, at 4 o'clock, at
the residence of Mrs. J. L. Watrous.
Among the new books added this week
to the village library will be found a book on machine construction and drawing
to which attention of machinists is called. The boys have all been generously
remembered in this list of new books.
A friend suggests that in these
days of postoffice stealing we ought to warn the people of McGrawville to keep
an eye on their postoffice, to take it in nights, or to tow it into deep water
and be sure that the anchor don't drag. Virgil has taken the Cortland
postoffice, and as a new block is soon going up in the south part of our
village, that may want a postoffice, too, and our McGrawville friends had
better sleep with one eye open. [See earlier post Removal of Post Office—CC editor.]
Dr. C. Artemus Ward, formerly a
Methodist minister of the Wyoming, N. Y., conference, arrested at Waterbury, Conn.,
on a charge of marrying a Connecticut wife while he had another living in
Candor, N. Y., has now what seems to be a perfect defense. His counsel has
returned from Tioga county and produces a transcript of the record, granting a
divorce to his first wife. There are likely to be several suits brought by Ward
to secure damages for false imprisonment.
Mr. Jas. S. Squires has let the
contract for the erection of a brick block [old Clock Tower building, destroyed by fire April 11, 2006—CC editor]
on the corner of Main and Tompkins streets, west of the Messenger House, to our
townsman, Mr. D. G. Corwin, who will do the entire work from the first breaking
of the ground to the lull completion of the building, which will be three
stories in height, and cover the ground now occupied by the Eagle block. Work
will be commenced about the middle of next month and the building completed by
the first of January, 1884.
Wednesday Mrs. Walter Rood, residing on Lincoln avenue, having occasion to
move a stove from one room to another, pasted a piece of paper over the
pipe-hole in the chimney. On the following morning, the paper caught fire, and
the pieces falling into the room where the stove had been, set fire to a bed
near the chimney, and the department were summoned, but the flames were extinguished
without the assistance of the firemen after burning into the mattress and charring
the woodwork. It was a costly piece of economy for Mrs. Rood.
Under the new law the Fifth
and Sixth Judicial districts, which are placed together to constitute the
fourth department, consist of the counties of Onondaga, Oneida, Jefferson,
Oswego, Herkimer and Lewis, comprising the Fifth district, and Broome, Chemung,
Chenango, Cortland, Delaware, Madison, Otsego, Schuyler, Tioga and Tompkins, comprising
the Sixth Judicial district. In the extent of territory embraced within its
limits, the Fourth department will be the largest in the State, and in the
volume of its litigated business it will not fall behind the third and fifth
departments. It will be equipped with eleven judges which will leave eight
judges to do the circuit work which is now done by six.— Utica Herald.
Going north on the east side of Main street you glance across the road
and see over the front of a store on the corner of Main and Court streets a
sign which reads, "The popular." While thinking what that may mean,
you arrive at a point opposite and look again with a hope that the mystery will
be cleared up, when, behold, a change! It now reads, in handsome plain gilt letters,
“W. H. Tuttle.” As you continue
to move along with your eye on that sign another metamorphosis occurs and you
now read, "Shoe Store," while the words previously visible have
disappeared. The whole is the work of that skillful artist, Chas. H. Jones, and
it indicates a place where every thing in the line of boots and shoes may be had
at reasonable prices, as Mr. M. A. Rice will convince whoever will give him the
opportunity.
CHENINGO. [near Truxton, N. Y.]
Correspondence of THE NEWS, April 24, 1883.
J. L. Ryan is drawing logs to
Crainville for Byron Widger.
"Bill" will remember
forever that a tack points heavenward when it means the most mischief.
Mosquitoes and barefooted boys
have put in an appearance.
Maple sugar season has been
almost a failure and unless [Prof.] Wiggins gives us a cold wave soon farmers
will adjourn sugar-making sine die.
James Goddard is engaged in
plowing his forty-acre pasture on the hill.
Asa Andrews, of Cowles
Settlement, and Miss Nora Steele, of this place, were married a few days ago
and at once started on their wedding tour to Wayne county, where they remain
for some time.
Calkins' steam mill is now
running at full blast and sawing from 9,000 to 11,000 feet per day. The large
number of logs will soon be converted into lumber. Eve. McChestney is sawyer
and “Bob” Hair is chief engineer. Many other hands are employed and the mill
runs to a “T.”
It is said that printer's ink
used in the form of an advertisement will prevent store doors from squeaking.
Now, "Gus," just on the eve of the opening of spring trade is a most
propitious time to test the virtue of the said-to-be panacea.
It is house-cleaning time again
and happy is the man who can find a place of rest for the sole of his foot
within his own door. But thrice happy he, who, wearied with the disorder
reigning in his home, can quietly take his hat and slink out of the nearest
door and make his way to the grocery and there remain till the last curtain is
hung, the last carpet stretched, and the bureau laboriously worked back into
its accustomed place.
The
housekeeper giveth a lively hop,
And
we hear the swish and the flippety flop
Of
the moisty, misty, maddening mop.
And,
lo, the horrible horrors rush
Athwart
our souls at the soapy gush
Of
the slippery, slimy, scrubbing brush.
From
early morn till evening gloom,
We
hear the scratching in hall and room
Of
the boisterous, busily bobbing broom.
PREBLE.
Correspondence of THE NEWS,
April 24, 1883.
The village school has commenced under the instruction of Miss Shaw, of Fabius.
Mr. Fuller, of Vesper, has
rented the Barrett block and will prepare it for a billiard saloon. We think
Preble will be well filled with liquor men.
On Thursday of last week, while
two of the Van Patten boys were plowing, the one with the rear team got over the
fence for a drink of sap and the rattling of the dry leaves started his team
and they ran into the head team, upsetting the other boy and the two teams
skipped for the barn. Fortunately but little injury was done to either boy or
teams.
The law suit between Silas Baldwin,
plaintiff, and John Cummings, defendant, on Saturday last, before Frank
Collier, justice, was dismissed on the ground that the justice was the main witness
for defendant.
On Wednesday last, Mr. Loyd, of
Shawville, started for town. After driving two miles or more his colt became
unmanageable, threw him to the ground and dragged him some distance. Thinking
that his life was worth more than the horse he let go. The horse was caught by
Howard Hollenbeck. Mr. Loyd was not hurt much, but the colt was cut badly.
Tom is desirous to love some
one, but yet is afraid to marry on account of female extravagance. We think the
trouble is that Tom has not found the right one yet. There are plenty of sweet,
true girls hereabouts who can economize in all ways. Tom is 24 years old. Delay
is unwise.
SCOTT.
Correspondence of THE NEWS, April 25, 1883.
The burial of Mrs. Gershom Clarke occurred at the Scott cemetery last
Sunday. She died at her home near Glen Haven after a protracted illness.
The Scott Cemetery Association convene to-day (Tuesday) for the purpose of
examining locations and determining on a site for the same.
Miss
Norah Grant has been at Rome to have a cancer removed. Also Mrs. Ed. Slocum.
Rev. William M. Taylor obituary:
http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=7376083
Rev. William M. Taylor obituary:
http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=7376083
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