PAGE FOUR/EDITORIALS.
What is
there to prevent the importation of a few thousand bushels of potatoes from
Scotland? If as the Cortland Standard maintained during the campaign of 1888, potatoes can be raised for ten cents per
bushel in that country, and can be brought here as ballast free, some one could
make an immense fortune in a short time by engaging in the business. Let us see
how the business would figure. Cost of the potatoes in Scotland 10 cents per bushel,
tariff 25 cents per bushel; total cost landed in New York 35 cents per bushel.
Now potatoes find a ready sale in that market at $1.00 per bushel, which would
leave a handsome profit of 65 cents for every bushel imported. Will the Standard
explain why its proprietor allows this golden opportunity to put money in his purse
to pass by?
In
another column of this issue of the DEMOCRAT will be found a communication from
a citizen of this place making some suggestions with reference to the needs of
a City Hall for this village. It is pretty plain that the village needs a
building of this sort, and if one should be built that will conform to the
requirements which our correspondent suggests, it would pay for itself in a
very few years. We are paying now several hundred dollars rent for the storage
of village property every year, which might be saved if the village owned a
building large enough for the purpose. The board of trustees are obliged to
hire rooms to hold their meetings in and there is no suitable place for a
Police Justice office in town without renting the same.
The
village should own a building large enough to serve all its needs and it could derive an income of several hundred dollars per
year rental. If, as has been suggested, the Engine House be exchanged for the Doud
property on Court street, a building could be erected large enough to
accommodate the village and still have room to spare, which could be rented to
the government for a post office. This would locate the office in the centre of
the village and accommodate all. We hope to see a large turnout at the meeting
called for next Tuesday evening and a full and fair discussion of the question
had.
NEIGHBORING COUNTIES.
CHENANGO.—
Fifty thousand sleds were shipped from the Bainbridge factory before Christmas.
Thomas
Hicks, who carried the mail between Guilford Center and the [R. R.] station, was
killed by the cars while crossing the track, a week ago last Friday.
The largest
stone yet planed in the mill of the F. G. Clarke Blue Stone Co., at Oxford, was turned out on Tuesday night of last
week. It was fifteen feet, nine inches long, by nine feet eight inches wide, and
when planed was ten inches thick, the opposite side being hand dressed.
Solomon
Benderson, the Jew peddler, who carried off a number of watches belonging to parties
in the vicinity of Oxford, and whose arrest in Buffalo was detailed in the Times
of last week, was lodged in the county jail by Deputy Sheriff Rorapaugh on
Tuesday. His brother, with a friend or two came on, and settled with the parties
from whom he had got watches, with the intention of securing his release.
Meantime other parties who had given him watches to repair and had heard
nothing from him, turned up in such numbers that it is doubtful if he has funds
enough to settle or gets out of jail right away. It seems that Benderson had traveled
through this section for a number of years and had got pretty well acquainted with
the people, and on his last trip in September concluded to make a haul, and took
all the watches, rings and other jewelry to repair that people were foolish enough
to trust him with, agreeing to return them, but instead of so doing disposed of
them and confined his trading route in other directions. One party over
Guilford way trusted him with a keep-sake that was valued at $100. There is a
moral in this, and that is that it is better and always safer to trade with
home merchants whom you know, than with peddlers whom you think you know.
LATER.—We
learn that Benderson was released from jail Saturday and immediately left the
county.— Times.
TOMPKINS.—A white owl that was recently shot
in Enfield has been mounted at Willson's.
S. C. Gooding has purchased Geo. Fitts' fine
dairy of butter and on Saturday last shipped it to parties at Jacksonville,
Fla. He gave Mr. Fitts a check for nearly $1,400.
Henry D. Freer, landlord of the Ithaca Hotel
[formerly landlord at the Virgil Hotel—CC editor], gave a grand dinner to the
little ones of the Children's Home at the hotel on Christmas day. It was a
jolly affair for the children and they endeavored to show the kind hearted
landlord their appreciation by happy smiles and entertaining him with little
songs and recitations.
Mrs.
Ed Beard, who died a week ago from consumption at West Groton, will be
remembered by those of our readers who were residents of this county twenty
years ago, in connection with the Lunger-Ferguson murder. She was then little
Anna Lunger, the little girl resided with her grandparents, Jonathan and Sally
Lunger, between Trumansburg and Ithaca, who were murdered and their house
burned by Mike Ferguson, who was convicted and hung for the crime, he being the
last person executed in this county. For some time after the death of her
grandparents, the child was given a home in the family of H. L. Root, then
sheriff of the county, and in after years married Mr. Beard.
MADISON —The aged mother of Father Stanton, of Canastota, had her skull
cracked by the hired girl, Monday night, and may die.
Henry F. Button, formerly of Leonardsville, who
killed his wife while intoxicated some three years since, died in Auburn prison
the 19th. His life sentence is ended.
F. J. Cook, of Madison, settled a suit brought
by the poormaster, for allowing pool tables in his restaurant, by paying $45
and removing the tables. The tables have also been removed from the hotel.
Charles Griffith and Mrs. Burdette
Salisbury, of Erieville, have eloped, the latter taking her two-year-old child,
a lot of household goods and $400 of her husband's pension money. She left a
little son. The families were very intimate, Mrs. Griffith helping Mrs.
Salisbury pack her trunks for a proposed visit to Syracuse.
William Mortimer, the painter, is in DeRuyter
again after an absence of some three years. He has been in a New York hospital
for over two years past, having been nearly killed by falling forty feet while
painting one of Gotham's towers. A leg and
an arm and one jaw were broken. He soon returns to the hospital to have the shattered
jaw replaced by a silver one.
TOWN
REPORTS.
TRUXTON.
Mrs. Sarah Gilbert is sick. She has gastric fever.
Dr. J. C. Nelson has been quite sick but is
again out. He was called to Pitcher, Monday, by Dr. Andrews for counsel.
We would hardly recommend "Baron Munchausen"
as a work of historical merit or as a narrative where one might hope to find
even the shadow of verity.
Some of the "boys" have been
holding a series of "shiverees" which finally resulted in obtaining
the munificent sum of $3 from a certain newly married man of parsimonious proclivities.
GROTON
CITY.
The young people attended a party at Cortland
last Friday evening.
Mrs. Charles Steadman and son Walter, spent
New Year's day with Mrs. A. H. Bliss.
Mr. G. Fuller and family, with other friends,
spent New Year's at Mr. Horace Kirks.
Mr. and Mrs. Frank Brown returned last week
from their bridal tour at Niagara Falls.
The Hatfield families attended the funeral of
Mr. Mason Hatfield at South Cortland, last Saturday.
Messrs. Charles Cooper and Frank Youmans attended
church at Summer Hill last sabbath
evening.
Mr. and Mrs. Amos Personius have been visiting
at Mr. Bentley's and other places. Mrs. Personius will be remembered by her many
friends as Miss Mabel Locke.
A prayer meeting will be held at Mr. Horace
Kirk's every Wednesday evening till further notice. All are invited to attend and
help make these meetings profitable.
AUNT CELESTIA.
HERE
AND THERE.
Old newspapers for sale at this office for 20
cents per hundred.
Four persons, two ladies and two gentlemen, united
with the Universalist church last Sunday.
The Binghamton Leader issued a
handsome souvenir for 1891, just before New Year's. It is a dandy.
A mock trial will be a pleasing pastime for
the members of the Y. M. C. A. and their friends at the Association hall, this evening.
The Cortland Union Bee Keepers' Association will
hold their annual meeting in the W. C. T. U. rooms in this place, January 13th,
1891.
The regular meeting of Loyal Temperance Legion,
Co. B, will be held on Friday, Jan. 9th, at the W. C. T. U. rooms, at 3 P. M.
All young people above the age of ten are cordially invited.
The regular semi-monthly mothers' meeting (west)
will be held at the residence of Mrs. J. E. Wheeler, 47 Park street, on
Thursday, Jan. 15th, at 3 P. M. Subject, "Influence
of dress upon the health." All ladies are cordially invited.
The New York Daily News issues about the
neatest thing in the line of a calendar we have seen in many a day. The colors are
harmonious and the engraving representing a newsboy selling the News, is
a tasty and showy piece of work.
Sheriff Borthwick returned from Towanda,
Pa., Saturday evening, with John Loomis, who escaped jail on Saturday night,
Dec. 13th, 1890. Loomis spends his days in slumber or feigning the same. He is
securely locked during the night.
The snug winter weather does not check the
budding of aspirants on the town meeting bush. Several blossoms have opened within
the past few days, and while there is promise for a large display, appearances indicate
the political hue to be unsuited for the people's garden.
Mr. Horace Perkins, market gardener and
"Onion King" of Cortland county, brought to this office some
specimens of a new variety of onions grown by him, which are very large in
size, of superior quality, mild in flavor, and good keepers. Mr.
Perkins feels assured that he has a variety in this line of vegetables that
will suit his customers in the future.
Mr. W. J. Corcoran, of the firm of Sager
& Corcoran, general merchants of Solon, has purchased the interest of his
partner, and will hereafter conduct the business alone. Mr. Corcoran is
a thorough business man and has made hosts of friends during his residence in
Solon. He is entitled to the patronage of the good people in his vicinity and
we have no doubt he will be successful.
Mr. D. E. Call has sold a half interest in his
meat market to Mr. F. Skellinger, of DeRuyter,
and on January 1st he purchased of Mr. Wm. Martin, proprietor of the Excelsior
Coal Co., a one-half interest in the coal business. Mr. Call is an excellent
business man, and has many friends in this village and vicinity who will take pains
to give him their orders. The new firm are prepared to fill all orders promptly
for any variety of coal to be found in the market.
The Second National Bank declared a
semi-annual dividend of 3 per cent to its stockholders and placed $1500 to the
credit of undivided profits on January 1st.
F. M. Johnston, the grocer, at No. 9 Port Watson
street, quotes prices on some staple articles in an advertisement on eighth page
that will interest the many readers of the DEMOCRAT.
The marriage of Mr. Dewitt Howard to Miss
Kate McMahon took place at St. Mary's church at 8 o'clock, Wednesday morning. A
wedding breakfast and reception was held at the residence of the bride's parents,
on Railroad street, after the ceremony. Both of the contracting parties are well
and most favorably known in this village. They will make their home in Cortland.
At the opening of 1891 the officers of the
National Bank of Cortland reported the net earnings of that institution for the
preceding six months to have been $9,164.44;
of which $6,250 was paid to stockholders, a semi-annual dividend of 5 per
cent, having been declared January 1st; $2,414.44 was carried to undivided profits,
and $500 added to the premium account.
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