MR. PECK WANTS MR. HENDRICKS' PLACE

Rufus T. Peck.

The Cortland Democrat, Friday, March 27, 1891.

WANTS MR. HENDRICKS'S PLACE.

Cortland County's Candidate for the State Senate in the Field.

(Special Dispatch to the Syracuse Herald.)

   CORTLAND, March 23.—The question whether Cortland county Republican politicians would have a candidate in the field for State Senator, to take the place of Senator Hendricks of Syracuse, has been settled and Member of Assembly R. T. Peck is the man. Mr. Peck was home from Albany to spend Sunday [sic]. To the Herald correspondent Mr. Peck said that he should enter the field as a candidate for State Senator. Mr. Peck has the assurance that he will have a united and solid delegation from Cortland county.

   The claim is made for Mr. Peck that he has gained great favor with the farmers and grangers of both Cortland and Onondaga counties by efforts in their behalf at Albany. His friends point to his oleomargarine bill, which, if it becomes a law, will be a great benefit to the butter-makers and dairymen of the State, and say that through this act alone he has gained the friendship of the farmers.

   The politicians here say that it is now time that Cortland county was recognized. They say that Mr. Peck has demonstrated while in the Assembly that he is competent to fill the place of State Senator. Onondaga county will be strongly pressed to give the nomination to "little Cortland'' this fall.

Subsidy Grabs.

   The policy of taking millions of money every year from the earnings of the people and bestowing them upon capitalists who build and own ships is not Democratic. It is the Republican policy as assuming that the American people are too stupid to trade with other people without getting cheated. It is the policy of assuming that the American people need guardians in the persons of Blaine and McKinley to tell what they may buy and what they shall not buy; to tell them where they may buy and where they shall not buy; to teach them that it would be ruinous to buy from their best customers and money-in-their-pockets to buy from their poorest customers; to force them by law to invest their money in ships and give the profits to a few capitalists, to make them pay for deadheading goods to people who don't want them and can't pay for them.—Chicago Herald (Dem.)

What the Bill Is.

   Mr. Peck's oleomargarine bill, which passed the Assembly by four score votes Friday, makes the using of oleomargarine as a part of compensation to employes a misdemeanor, in like manner as the manufacture and sale. If it becomes a law, it will prevent this article from being shipped into this State and sold to hotel keepers and boarding-house keepers direct from the manufacturers, and will enable the Dairy Commissioner to reach a class of law-breakers who have found a loophole in the present law and are evading it. In short, it will shut out this article from the State.—Syracuse Herald.

PAGE FOUR/EDITORIALS.

   The bill to establish a State Printing Office in Albany was killed in the committee of the Senate after passing the house. It was a bad bill and deserved to be killed. A few printers thought they saw an opportunity to establish a state bureau where they could while away the time at big salaries and the people could foot the bills. The state printing is being done at very low figures now under the contract system, which gives the work to the lowest bidder. If a bureau had been created there would have been a superintendent at a large salary and superintendents of the different departments with more salaries. It would have been an immense political scheme and would simply benefit the party in power at the expense of the people. The U. S. Printing office in Washington is wasting the people's money every year and should be abated.

   The word League seems to have a pleasant sound on the tympanum of the average Cortland Republican. Last week a number of young Republicans met in the office of H. L. Bronson, Esq., and formed an association to be known and called "The Young Men's Prohibitory Amendment League," for the "purpose of active work in furthering the interests of that amendment." The League is officered as follows: President, S. J. Sornberger; Vice-President, A. H. Starr; secretary, Minor C. Eastman; treasurer, Benj. L. Webb. It is understood that the gentlemen composing this League were not eligible to membership in "The Republican League" or Silk Stocking Club, which seems to be entirely under the control and management of the liquor element of the Republican party. About election time, however, we shall see, as usual, the members of both organizations working together in harmony to elect whiskey Republicans as well as temperance Republicans to office.

Grand Army of the Republic badge or medal authorized by Congress for veterans of the Civil War.

NEIGHBORING COUNTIES.

   CHENANGO.—John H. Hicks, Esq., has been appointed by the Supreme Court to examine the trust securities in the hands of the County Treasurer.

   The Norwich Board of Health has organized by choosing R. A. Thompson, M. D., President; D. P. Holmes, Secretary; Byron J. Ormsby, M. D., Health Officer.

   Henry Clemens suicided at Norwich, Monday evening, to escape arrest for beating his wife and not providing for his family. He fired three balls into his right side.

   It is said that at the Lyon Brook cheese factory each patron's milk is to be tested by the acid test, and dividends will be made according to the butter fats in each dairyman's milk.

   James H. Throop, Superintendent of the Norwich Illuminating Company, went to Middletown, Conn., last week, where he purchased a dynamo to take the place of that which has supplied the inside arc lights. He has also made arrangements for putting in additional power.

   In cleaning up some old papers, Wednesday, Mr. George Rider, of Norwich, found a copy of the Anti-Masonic Telegraph in which was published the official canvas of Chenango County in 1832. There was then but nineteen towns in the county, and the total vote for Governor was 7,094. William L. Marcy, Democrat, received a majority of 80 votes over Francis Granger. John F. Hubbard ran ahead of his ticket and was elected Senator by a majority of 279 over Joseph Juliand, and Henry Mitchell was elected to Congress over Tilly Linde by 370. Three Democratic Assemblymen [were] also elected.

   A car load of trout fry from the Caledonia hatchery went through Norwich on the Ontario & Western road, last week Wednesday, to be used in stocking the streams on the line of that road. They were transported in a special car, the load consisting of sixty-seven cans, or 335,000 fry. Of these 235,000 were brook trout, and 100,000 salmon trout for lake or pond stocking. Some of our fishermen secured several thousand of the little beauties, which were placed in streams in this locality. The Ontario & Western are deserving of much credit for their enterprise in this direction.

   MADISON.—A brass band, sixteen strong, has been organized at Morrisville.

   The Hamilton wire factory will probably be moved to Wabash, Ind.

   The dog poisoner has been doing considerable business in Canastota.

   James Wakefield, of Oneida, was fined $5 for wearing a G. A. R. badge unlawfully.

   Mrs. Hannah King, of Oneida, died Sunday morning, aged 102 years and one month.

   John Guy, an Oneida tough, goes before the next grand jury for pounding his mother.

   Eunice N. Forbes, of Chittenango, has been granted a divorce from her husband, Willis A. Forbes.

   It is said the [pay for labor] suit of the Italians against the Brookfield Railroad Co. has been settled and discontinued.

   The Morrisville Leader retracted its statement about A. S. Hart's pigs being condemned by the Board of Health, but is nevertheless the defendant in a libel suit brought by Mr. Hart, with damages laid at $1,000.

   TOMPKINS.—An annex to the Tompkins county bank is being built.

   Recorder Smith, of Ithaca, recently married a colored couple and received for his fee twenty-five cents.

   Monroe M. Sweetland, as referee, sold the Noyes property, near McLean, at partition sale, Saturday, to Mr. George Fitts. Consideration, $1,900.

   The signing by Gov. Hill of the bill appropriating $120,383.66 for Cornell University, insures the speedy erection of the Law School building, as well as the gymnasium annex.

   The widow of Engineer Orlando Seeley, killed at the Aurora street (Ithaca) crossing a year or so ago, recovered a verdict of $5,000 and costs against the D. L. & W. railroad at the trial last week.

   Chauncey Corl, aged 30, and Bert Corl, aged 13, were indicted for burglary in the third degree. They are charged with breaking into a Groton farmer's barn and stealing his poultry. Both are in jail.

Scientific and Industrial.

   Sawdust is used instead of hair in mortar.

   Petroleum wells have been discovered among the coal beds of Alabama.

   A torpedo net constructed of inter-locking steel rings is soon to be put to a practical test.

   A machine for making shoe strings out of paper is a recent Philadelphia (Penn.) invention.

   A Cincinnati (Ohio) child has been reclaimed from idiocy by the operation of craniotomy.

   If the sun were a hollow air ball, it would take 1,331,000 globes the size of the earth to fill it.

   The Hungarian Minister of Commerce has under consideration a plan for the fastest train in the world, to be run on an electric railway, and to carry passengers from Vienna to Budapesth, 156 miles, in two hours and a half.

   The principle of the compressed paper car wheels, which are so widely used throughout the world, is applied in France to the manufacture of pulleys for power transmission. The pulleys are said to be very light, cheap and serviceable in every respect.

   Forty-three vessels were built last year in San Francisco, Cal., of which seventeen were schooners, fifteen propellers, six sloops, three steamers, one barkentine, and one ship. The total tonnage was 11,671.47 net, which is largely in excess of the previous year.

   A new rolling mill in the Krupp Works at Essen, Germany, is probably larger than any other in the world. It will roll plate about twenty-eight inches thick and nearly twelve feet wide. The rolls are of steel. Each pair in their rough state weighed 100,000 pounds.

   Pyrogranite is a new brick, of Russian origin, that is being tried by English builders. It is made from a combination of fusible and infusible clay, and is strong and hard, resisting a crushing force of five and one-half tons per square inch. It takes a high polish, and the clays may be mixed to give a great variety of colors.

   A patent has been granted for an electrical drill for oil wells. The device consists of a series of motors in tandem, connected in such a way as to make one motor. The design has been to get the power within a six-inch diameter, so that the entire mechanism, which much resembles a common boiler, can be lowered in the well and the power can be applied at the bottom. The drill bits are firmly fastened on the rod, which is worked rapidly in and out of a cylinder, after the manner of a piston rod.