The
Farmers' Institute.
The Farmers' Institute was called to order
at the Court House in this place, Monday
morning, by Mr. A. K. Eastman of Waterville, who represents the State
Agricultural Society. The address of welcome was delivered by Mr. N. F. Webb, and
was listened to by the four score farmers present, with attention. The address
was a good one, and was full of practical hints. Mr. A. K. Eastman responded in
a few well chosen words, after which he delivered an address on "Some
Observations on Farming." The address was a very practical one, and was
well received.
In the afternoon Mr. Frank L. Burnham of
East Homer delivered an address on "Butter Making and What Foods Affect
its Quality." The attendance in the afternoon and evening was large. The
address in the evening was by Prof. S. A. Beach of Geneva. Subject: "Diseases Common to Farm
Crops." He gave some valuable information on the methods necessary to prevent
smut on wheat, oats, corn, etc.
On Tuesday, at 10:15, Mr. Eastman called the
meeting to order, and explained the use of the Babcock tester. Several farmers
had samples of milk and buttermilk tested. Mr. Henry Howes of Cuyler then read
a paper on "The Relation of Immigration to American Farmers," which
was interesting, and was listened to with the closest attention.
Prof. H. H. Wing of Cornell University
delivered an address on "The Dairy Cow." He gave some very
interesting facts and figures. To be profitable, a cow should give not less
than 6,000 pounds of milk each year, or be able to make 250 pounds of butter.
For an analysis of the value of different foods to produce milk, he recommended
farmers to apply to Congress for Bulletin No. 11.
WILL HE
COME BACK?
Many
Enquiries Being Made for One of Cortland's Well-Known Business Men.
Last Monday morning Mr. E. A. Hopkins, the
well-known grocer of this place, went to Syracuse accompanied by his wife and
stopped at the Globe Hotel. They were seen at several places in the city during
the day and at about 3:30. P. M. they returned to the hotel with several
bundles. Mr. Hopkins paid his bill and they left for the depot. It is said that
Hopkins put his wife on board the 4 o'clock train for Cortland saying he would
come later. He has not been seen in this locality since.
Before leaving town he had sold his stock of
groceries to Philip Sugerman and Geo. McKean, who took possession Monday
morning. It is said that he has left many creditors not only here but in other
towns, and parties who think they know something of his affairs, say that he
must have taken from $7,000 to $9,000 with him. Syracuse, Rome and Utica
grocery houses are said to be
anxiously wailing his return and it is possible their desire to greet him as a
citizen and business man of Cortland once more, may be realized, but there are
those who think he has shook the dust of Cortland from his feet for good.
The DEMOCRAT does not know and does not care.
It simply gives such facts as it has been able to obtain. Other dealers say that
he has been selling foods for some weeks past for less than they cost and that
his trade has consequently been a very heavy one.
Rumors are about town to the effect that he
joined a young lady, who formerly lived here and that the pair have sought some
other clime. While this may be true, we believe that it would trouble those who
have started the rumor to prove its truth at the present writing.
He Stole
a Pair of Horses.
Last Friday afternoon one Chas. B. Wilson,
who works for Mr. M. L. Grinnell of Scott, rode to Homer with his
employer, and the team was left in the Hotel Windsor stables. Mr. Grinnell had
some purchases to make and he went about his business. Soon after, Wilson met
Fred Graham of this place, and the two [at the stables] took the horse and
drove to Cortland, where they sampled more or less of liquid dizziness and then
drove to McGrawville and exchanged Mr.
Grinnell's team with George Currier for a colt of their own, a watch and $15 in
cash. The colt was left in the barn and Currier drove Wilson and Graham back to
Cortland. Wilson then hired a horse and cutter of M. H. Kingman to go to
Whitneys' Pt., and started off.
A few minutes afterwards Sheriff Miller was
telephoned in regard to the matter, and soon learned that the thief had started
south, and after notifying officers at Marathon and Whitneys' Pt. to look out
for him, started in pursuit. On arriving at Marathon, he found his man enjoying
the hospitality and close companionship of officer Adam Hillsinger. The Sheriff
brought him home and locked him up. He was arraigned before Justice Dorr C.
Smith, and his examination set down for Tuesday morning. A warrant was sworn
out for Graham and he was arrested and the examination set for Tuesday
afternoon.
When Wilson was brought before the Justice
on Tuesday morning, he waived an examination and was held for his appearance
before the next grand jury in the sum of $200. Being unable to procure bail, he
was committed to jail. No one appeared against Graham and he was discharged.
Ministers'
Association.
The pastors of some of the Cortland churches
and several from the adjoining towns held a meeting in the study of the
Presbyterian Church in this place last Monday morning for the purpose of organizing
a Ministers' Association. Dr. H. A. Cordo of this place was called to the chair
and Rev. W. H. Pound also of Cortland acted as secretary. Dr. H. A. Cordo, Rev.
E. C. Olney and Rev. C. E. Hamilton were appointed a committee to prepare a
constitution.
The association will meet the second and fourth
Mondays of each month, the next meeting to be held in the chapel of the Baptist
Church in this village, March 13 at 10:30 A. M. The object of the association is
to discuss important measures and methods for conducting their work and for
mutual fellowship. The subject of "How to enforce the no-license law'' will
come before them at an early day.
The following pastors were present: Rev.
Messrs. H. A. Cordo, W. H. Robertson, E. C. Olney, D. D. Forward, E. J.
Brooker, D. D. Campbell, C. E. Hamilton, J. J. Cowles, N. S. Burd, J. T. Greene,
S. F. Sanford and W. H. Pound.
Their
Golden Anniversary.
Last Monday was the fiftieth anniversary of
the marriage of Mr. and Mrs. Mahion D. Murphy, and they were at home to a large
number of their friends, who took occasion to visit them. Mrs. H. A. McKiernan,
who acted as bridesmaid fifty years ago, and Mrs. I. R. M. Pomeroy assisted in
receiving the guests, while Mr. M. D. Murphy, Jr., acted as usher. Mrs. Mabel
M. Miller served the refreshments. Many valuables were left as reminders of the
occasion.
During the evening Mr. Westcott, the artist,
took a picture of the family. Owing to illness in the family the occasion was
an informal one and the invitations extended were general, otherwise the many
friends of Mr. and Mrs. Murphy would have been as royally entertained as they have
been on many previous occasions of note.
Lynching
of a Black Fiend.
KNOXVILLE, Tenn., Feb. 26.—The lynching at
Jellico last night of the negro Joe Payne, for assaulting Miss Fannie Bell
Cecil, was in itself a very tame affair. He confessed the crime and was swung
up to the nearest tree without any noise. The mob pinned a placard on his back,
vowing death to anyone who should disturb the body until 10 o'clock to-day. At
that hour fully 5,000 people had gathered from neighboring towns. Miss Cecil
sent word that she would take pleasure in cutting down the body. Her wishes
were granted, and with a sharp knife she severed rope and the body fell to the
ground. She smiled as she cut the rope and the act was greeted with cheers from
the vast crowd.
She is a very handsome young woman of 18,
and of good family. Les Tye, a negro who assaulted Miss Bryant last December,
has been located in West Virginia, and will be brought to Jellico in a day or
two. He will be lynched as soon as he arrives. The negroes of that locality are
greatly wrought up over the affair.
Anarchists
Get Their Deserts.
PITTSBURG, Feb. 26.—Henry C. Bauer
and Carl Knold, the anarchists convicted as accessories of Berkman in
the shooting of Chairman H. C. Frick of the Carnegie Steel company, were
sentenced yesterday to five years' imprisonment in the Western penitentiary.
The anarchists did not appear at all concerned, and left the courtroom smiling.
Carnegie
a Radical Free Trader.
NEW YORK, Feb. 27.—A Washington special says
republicans and democrat alike are discussing with great interest a report
which has gained wide circulation that Andrew Carnegie, the Pittsburg millionaire,
has become a free trader. It stated that Mr. Carnegie is as radical an anti-protectionist
as Henry Watterson, Henry George or other free traders could wish. Many
republicans, claiming to be close to Mr. Carnegie, assert that the story is
true.
Purge the
Pension Lists.
Mr. John DeWitt Warner has presented to the
House of Representatives an earnest appeal of Union veterans in favor of
purging the pension roll. It urges the adoption of the following reforms in the
existing pension laws and the administration.
First—The payment of pensions only to those who, by wounds or disability, have
been actually disabled in the service of their country, and to the widows and
orphan children of such pensioners when in need.
Second—A cutting off from the pension roll of all men, disabled or otherwise, who
are in the receipt of incomes ample for their support and the maintenance of
the family.
Third—A cutting off from the pension of all deserters and soldiers or sailors who
proved false to their oaths and were dishonorably discharged from the service.
Fourth—The appointment of the necessary medical and other examining boards to
revise the pension lists for the purpose of carrying out these reforms.
Fifth—The absolute discontinuance of all further legislation looking to the
enlargement of the pension list.
Sixth—To cut off from the pension roll all widows who shall appear, upon
reasonable evidence, to have married veterans with the fraudulent intent of
securing a pension upon the death of her husband.
Seventh—The application
of such portion of the saving made by these reforms as may be necessary to
afford a reasonable competence to the increase of the pensions granted to
deserving and disabled veterans who actually served and were honorably
discharged, and of the widows and orphans of such veterans.
Among the signers are Gens. Martin T. McMahon
and W. F. Smith, officers of all grades, and enlisted men.
In his speech presenting the petition Mr. Warner
declared that he spoke in the name of the veterans who were misrepresented by
the demagogic appeals of the advocates of the pension agents, and demanded that
the "whole pension system shall be, as it ought to be, an honor to the country
and a glory to its beneficiaries."
This is the whole case in a nutshell.
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FOUR—EDITORIALS.
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The Cortland Standard and other
republican journals are calling the attention of their readers to the fact that
when President Harrison called his law partner, W. H. H. Miller, into his
cabinet as Attorney General, democratic papers criticized him severely for so
doing, and the Standard thinks that President Cleveland should be
criticised for appointing his old law partner, Wilson S. Bissell to the office
of Postmaster General. The Standard should tell its readers that when
Harrison appointed Miller Attorney General, the latter was then his law
partner, and that when Mr. Cleveland appointed Mr. Bissell to the office of
Postmaster General, the law partnership between them had been dissolved for
more than thirteen years. Here is a distinction and a difference.
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Gen. Gustave P. T. Beauregard, who died in
New Orleans last week, was one of the last of the really able generals in the
Confederate service. He was born near New Orleans in 1817, and graduated from
West Point in 1838. He served in the Mexican war and was breveted major for
gallant services. At the time of the breaking out of the late civil war he was
superintendent of the Military Academy at West Point but resigned after a
month's service to accept a Brigadier General's commission in the confederate
army. He commanded in many important battles during the war and attained the
highest rank in the service, that of full General. After the war he became a
resident of New Orleans, and was soon after elected President of the New Orleans,
Jackson & Mississippi railroad.
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The Panama Canal scandal has been stirring
France to its foundations and Ferdinand De Lesseps and his son Charles have
been tried and sentenced to terms in prison for the part they took in
squandering the millions raised for the project. But France is not alone
interested in the trouble, for the scandal has crossed the water and landed on
our own shores. It is now claimed that $40,000,000 was deposited with the
banking house of J. & W. Seligman of New York, and that Mr. Colne,
the Canal company's agent at Panama, drew the money from the bank, and for all
the Seligman's knew, it was used in the construction of the canal. Richard W.
Thompson of Indiana, secretary of the navy under President Hayes, familiarly
known as Uncle Dick Thompson, was president of the American end of the canal
company for eight years and received a salary of $25,000 per year. Colne was
also Thompson's secretary. The latter is now in his eighty-fourth year. His
testimony was recently taken at Terre Haute. He stated that he had never before
heard that the banking houses of J. & W. Seligman, Drexel, Morgan &
Co., and Winslow, Lanier & Co., had received $50,000 each for their
services or that the Seligmans disbursed $40,000,000 through Secretary Colne.
He also testified that not a cent was paid American newspapers to boom the
canal and overcome the opposition of the government to the French scheme on the
ground that it was a violation of the Monroe doctrine. The matter is undergoing
investigation at the hands of a committee of Congress and no one can predict what
the result will be.
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Henry F. King, a promising young lawyer of
Syracuse, died of typhoid fever last Friday, aged 32 years. Mr. King formerly
resided in Tully, and had many friends in this place, who will be sorry to
learn of his early demise.
Burglars
About.
The billiard parlor of W. B. Rood, second
floor of the Democrat building in this place, was entered sometime during the
night of last Thursday and $28 taken from the cash register, $2 from the cigar
case and about $3 worth of cigars. Entrance was affected by forcing the transom
over one of the doors leading into the hall. A billiard ball was used to smash
the cash register. Suspicion rests upon a well dressed young man of good
appearance, who had been hanging about the place all the day and evening. He had
been stopping with C. R. Shaw at 10 Squires-st., and traded overcoats with him
receiving six dollars to boot. The morning after the robbery, he stole the
overcoat he traded to Shaw and has not since been seen.
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