IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENT AND SINGING DONKEYS

The Cortland Democrat, Friday, July 10, 1891.

Important Announcement.

   The Elmira, Cortland & Northern Railroad will run a personally conducted excursion to the Thousand Islands of the St. Lawrence River, Alexandria Bay, Clayton and Thousand Island Park, Thursday, July 16th. Tickets will be good on train leaving Elmira at 7:10 A. M., and returning on any regular train Saturday, July 25th, giving eight full days on the river. Fare for the round trip: [from] Elmira to [or] McLean $5.00, Cortland to Rippleton $4.00, Cazenovia to Sylvan Beach $3.50.

   As said before, the excursion will be accompanied by officials of the road to look out for the comfort of the excursionists, saving them the annoyance of the details of travelling, finding hotel accommodations, etc. The excursion train leaves Cortland at 9:48 A. M. Fare for the round trip from Cortland $4.00. Remember tickets good for ten days. For further particulars inquire of local agents, or C. W. Williams, General Passenger Agent.

HERE AND THERE.

   Be sure and attend the concert of the Trovatoire club, in the Opera House, this evening.

   The Sunday school of St. Mary's church held a picnic at Floral Trout Park, on Wednesday.

   Many Cortland people were in attendance at the State Cantonment of Odd Fellows held in the city of Syracuse, this week.

   On Thursday, July 16th, an excursion party from Fayetteville will picnic at Floral Trout Park, arriving on special train.

   Be sure and attend the entertainment to be given by the Trovatoire, Guitar, Mandolin and Banjo club, in the Opera House, this evening.

   Yesterday a union picnic from Cazenovia, Delphi, Rippleton and New Woodstock held possession of the grounds at Floral Trout Park.

   Parties who guessed on the corn in the jar in Burgess & Bingham's store will be interested in reading their advertisement to be found on our last page.

   Lorenzo Bennett, one of Homer's oldest and most respected citizens, suffered a stroke of paralysis last Sunday from which he is not expected to recover.

   The E. C. & N. railroad will run a special excursion train to Sylvan Beach, next Sunday, leaving Cortland at 7:20 A. M.; returning, leaves Sylvan Beach at 5:20. Fare for the round trip, 75 cents.

   The young people of St. Mary's church will give a musical entertainment in Wells' Hall, Saturday evening. The well known Dillon Brothers will take a prominent part in the entertainment. Admission 25 cents.

   July 28th to August 1st are the days assigned for the 23d annual session of Grand Lodge of Knights of Pythias of the State of New York at Cortland. Citizens need not wait a formal invitation to decorate for the occasion.

   A special communication of Cortlandville Lodge, No. 470, F. & A. M., is ordered for Tuesday evening, July 14th, for work and instruction in the third degree. All Master Masons in good standing are requested to be present.

   W. S. Cleveland's Consolidated Minstrels will be the attraction at the Opera House next Wednesday evening, July 15. Tickets on sale at Wallace's, Monday morning.

   The only singing donkeys on earth are owned by Girard Leon, the famous clown, who exhibits them with Cleveland's Consolidated Minstrels. The duet between Leon and one of these animals is said to be far superior to Italian opera.

   A special lecture on "Pleasures and Amusements" will be given by Rev. H. W. Carr, Sunday evening, in the Universalist church. Dedicated especially to young people, but a cordial invitation is extended to all to be present.

   A deed from Dr. J. H. Hoose and wife, conveying to Mrs. Thankful A. Price the house and lot on Railroad street, has been filed in the Clerk's office. Another conveying property on Vinette street to Mrs. Evaline Edgcomb, has also been filed. The consideration in each case was $4,000.

   Last Monday afternoon Mr. M. Wm. Conger, of this place, took a teaspoonful of fluid extract of aconite instead of the medicine prescribed by his physician. Discovering his mistake, he started at once for Dr. Edson's office, who prescribed the proper antidote for the poison and no serious results followed.

   On Wednesday Mr. L. S. Johnson left a basket of the largest and handsomest strawberries at the DEMOCRAT office that we have ever sampled. They were from his market gardens in this village, and consisted of several of the choicest varieties grown. He has a large lot of plants for sale, and parties interested will do well to give him a call.

   Last Tuesday afternoon, while leading a colt, Mr. N. G. Brown, of Homer avenue, received a kick from the animal, causing a bad wound in the side and breaking his arm between the elbow and wrist. Dr. Angel was called and reduced the fracture and dressed the wound. Mr. Brown is an elderly man and has been in poor health for some time, and his friends fear for his recovery.

   W. O. Bunn, Esq., of Homer, and Elon G. Salisbury, of New York, have purchased the Geneva Courier office and took possession last Monday Mr. Bunn was for several years editor and publisher of the Homer Republican, and Mr. Salisbury has several years' experience in the business. We shall be pleased to see our old neighbor again in the harness and the DEMOCRAT sincerely hopes the Courier will meet with the best of success.

   John Clark, who has done time In Auburn prison, was arrested about two miles north of Auburn, last Friday, on the charge of stealing a horse from Jay Chipman, near Summerhill. He had also appropriated an old harness and wagon. The horse was in his possession when arrested. He will be tried in Ithaca, the crime having been committed in Tompkins county. Sheriff Borthwick advised Chipman to send postal cards describing the property to all the officers in the central part of the State, which advice was acted upon with the above result.

Lawn Party.

   The second lawn party given by the Ladies' Auxiliary of the Y. M. C. A. will be held at Mr. C. B. Hitchcock's, corner of Court and Church streets, Saturday evening of this week. Darby's orchestra will furnish the music. It is most earnestly hoped that every one who attended the last party and many more will be present. All are cordially invited. In case of rain refreshments will be served on the large porch.

Austin Camp Found Guilty.

   AUBURN, N. Y., July 2.—After a hotly contested trial lasting eight days, Austin J. Camp of Moravia, was convicted this evening of kidnapping his daughter, Miss Ada Baird, and having her confined in the Utica asylum, charged with lunacy. The commitment papers were issued by Judge Underwood of Cayuga county, on a certificate made out by Dr. H. E. Allison, of the State asylum, this city and Dr. Harter of Moravia. The jury in rendering their verdict recommended mercy. An application for a new trial will be made tomorrow.

A Clerical Villain Escapes.

   AMHERST, N. Y., July 3.—The trial of Rev. A. B. Staples for the seduction of Miss Trenice, daughter of one of his wealthy parishioners, ended in acquittal of the prisoner yesterday. Staples was for two years a popular assistant pastor of the Baptist church, the most important in town. Last summer, giving his age as 23, he became engaged to Miss Trenice. He ruined the girl and agreed to marry her, but on the day set for the ceremony he married another woman. The prosecution failed to prove that Staples was over 21 years of age. In dismissing the man the judge told him he was escaping the penitentiary only by accident but he could not escape the remorse he would feel, nor the retribution that would surely dog his steps.

PAGE FOUR/EDITORIALS.

   Congressman Niedringhaus, the great manufacturer of American tin plate, imported 2,500,000 pounds of tin plate previous to July 1. That was the date when the McKinley tariff taxing tin plate $2.50 per one hundred pounds went into effect. This tax will be added to the original cost of the tin. Who will pay the tax, the foreigner who made it, or the consumer who uses it? It is plain enough that Congressman Niedringhaus gets the entire amount of tax.

  

   Ex-Vice President Hannibal Hamlin died suddenly while at his club rooms in Bangor, Me., last Saturday, He was elected Vice President on the ticket with Abraham Lincoln in 1860 and was a prominent figure in national affairs during the war and for some years afterwards.

   The Assembly Committee having in charge the investigating of alleged irregularities in the management of the canals has concluded its labors. After the examination of a large number of witnesses, nearly all of whom testified that so far as they were able to judge, the management was excellent, the committee report in accordance with the testimony. Even the man [Sen. Belden] who wrote to the committee in the Assembly last winter charging great wickedness and offering to prove his charges, when placed upon the stand, could not swear to anything in support of his charges, nor could he produce a witness who could testify to anything. The investigation was ordered mainly on the guarantee of this individual that he could substantiate his charges by ample proof. It would serve him right if he were obliged to pay the cost of the investigation.

   Senator M. S. Quay of Pennsylvania is being assailed on all sides by his brethren of the Republican party. It is claimed by them now that he is a rascal of the deepest dye and that he ought to resign as chairman of the National Republican Committee. In view of the fact that the party was glad to accept the fruits of his rascally work in the campaign of 1888, they ought not now to find fault with his methods. The receiver of stolen goods is generally considered to be about as bad as the thief.

John Wanamaker.

Washington Letter.

(From our Regular Correspondence.)

   WASHINGTON, July 6, 1891.—Mr. Wanamaker knows a good deal more than he did, and his increase of knowledge hasn't added any to his opinion of himself. He has been humiliated by finding out that he was after all only a clerk for Mr. Harrison.

   The long delay in giving out the list of Steamship companies which have been selected under the mail subsidy law, passed by the billion dollar Congress to carry our foreign mails, is at last explained. Some weeks ago Mr. Wanamaker stated that he had completed the list and would in a few days make it public. Mr. Harrison at once sent for Mr. Wanamaker and told him not to make the list public before bringing it to him for revision. Mr. W. kicked, but he had to give up the list, and Mr. Harrison carried it with him when he went to the summer capital at Cape May Point. At the Post-office department they expect that [Postmaster General] Mr. Wanamaker, who spent the Fourth and Sunday at Cape May Point, will bring the revised list back to-morrow, and that it will at once be made public.

   It is learned from a source that is authentic that no lines running out of Southern ports south of Norfolk, except Tampa, Fla.; Galveston, Tex.; and New Orleans, will get any of the subsidy money which is to be put where it will do the most good to—the republican party.

   And that isn't the only time that Mr. Wanamaker has been recently humiliated by the gentleman who is now so industriously at work to secure a renomination to the Presidency. The last Congress, among its other efforts to dissipate the Treasury surplus, created an entirely new office, that of Fourth Assistant Postmaster General, and the salary for the new officer became available on the first of the present month. Mr. Wanamaker supposed, of course, that he would be allowed to select the man to fill the office, but he was quickly undeceived by Mr. Harrison, who not only selected the man, but also ordered the P. M. G. to turn over to him as a part of his duties the supervision of the fourth-class post-offices.

   This necessitated an entire reorganization of the entire department, as the fourth-class postmasters had been for years under the direct control of the first assistant. Well, that reorganization is now going on. Maj. Rathbone, the new Fourth Assistant Postmaster General, is a practical politician of the Ohio school, and what he doesn't know about the methods used by the republicans during the last three national campaigns would hardly be worth knowing. He is relied upon to swing the army of small postmasters into line for Harrison, and instead of the notorious dispatch "How are the departments doing?" which Garfield, when a candidate, sent to Brady, of Star route fame, Mr. Harrison will be telegraphing to Rathbone: "How are the post-offices doing?" Meanwhile Mr. Wanamaker is, to use a bit of slang, not "in it.''

   The Pension Office is going to be the cause of some very lively times in the next Congress, between the investigations that are to be made into its workings and the renewal of the fight for its transfer to the War department, which it now seems will certainly be made, and there is reason to believe that the movement will be more popular than ever before, and that it will go through.

   The Washington people are as much puzzled about the real condition of Mr. Blaine's health as they can possibly be. One telegram will say that he is perfectly well and the next that he is dangerously ill; one person will inform you that he is in daily communication with his assistants at the Department of State, and another that he has had no communication with that department since he left Washington. You can take your choice, but it would be safe to charge nine-tenths of the statements exaggerating Mr. Blaine's physical and mental condition to anti-Blaine republicans, who fear that he may accept the nomination of his party next year.

   Nothing but good news comes to the headquarters of the National Association of Democratic Clubs in this city. The association now has branches in every State, and the work of thoroughly organizing the voters in each State is going on, more energetically in some States than in others, but moving along everywhere.

   The question of where will the next national convention be held? is beginning to be asked of prominent members of the party who come here. Washington wants it, and as it will shortly have a grand hall which will seat 7,000 people, it sees no good reason why it shouldn't have it.

   Some imaginative newspaper writer sent out from here a story that Mr. Mills had decided to withdraw from the Speakship contest. Needless to say it was a fake without the slightest foundation. Mr. Mills has never had an idea of withdrawing, and as sure as the democratic caucus meets his name will be presented to it and will not be withdrawn until he or some other good democrat has been nominated for Speaker.