The Cortland Democrat, Friday, November 23, 1894.
More News of China
and Japan.
Any authentic and reliable news about these
two countries is seized with avidity by the intelligent public at this time,
and an evening spent with the great American traveler, Mr. H. Comstock, will
well repay any of our readers. His lecture at the opera house on Dec. 1st, and
3rd nights will be a rich treat and we advise you to hear him. And not only
hear him, but to see also the finest and most complete collection of
[stereopticon] views ever seen on any American stage. There are over 250 of
them and they fully illustrate the talk given by this great traveler on one of
the most interesting subjects of the times.
China, Japan, Corea, Mongolia, Siam fully
and graphically described by one who spent thirteen of the best years of his
life there. Not traveling for pleasure alone, seeing only the sights reserved
for pleasure seekers, but intimately identified with the social, political and
commercial life of the whole people.
Mr. Comstock was all this time under the
special protection of the governments of the countries named and had social
intercourse with the rulers themselves. He is therefore familiar with every
phase of Oriental character and what is better still for his audiences, he has
the happy knack of making them almost as much at home with the Celestials as he
is himself.
At a time like this when all civilized
people are wondering what the outcome will be of the China-Japan war, an
account of these people by one who is almost one of them, is sure to prove both
interesting and instructive.
Washington Letter.
(From our Regular
Correspondent.)
WASHINGTON, Nov. 19, 1894—The democratic
senators and representatives who have been in Washington since the election
have with one or two exceptions talked in a manner that indicated the proper
spirit. Their greatest desire, they have said, is to allow the past to rest,
and to have the democratic party take a fresh start by getting together in
Congress and adopting some legislation that will help the country and
incidentally the democratic party in 1896. Just what legislation shall be
acted upon is a question that will determine very soon how deep this anxiety
for party harmony goes. This idea I have heard most generally expressed by
democrats is that Senators and Representatives should not commit themselves to
the support of any particular tariff or financial legislation until after the
recommendations on those subjects contained in the President's annual message
to Congress are made public. That would leave them free to accept the
President's recommendations, should they be of such a nature as to be acceptable
to the democratic party as a whole, which they are almost certain to be. With the
democrats in Senate and House acting in harmony much can be accomplished in a
legislative way during the three months of the short session; without harmony
there is no hope of accomplishing anything and would not be even if the session
were to be three times three months long.
Since President Cleveland announced that his
annual message to Congress would contain important financial recommendations,
based upon Secretary Carlisle's annual report, democrats have been greatly interested
in learning the nature of Secretary Carlisle's report, but it is as yet a secret,
confined to those who have promised to keep it until the report and the
President's message are made public. Secretary Carlisle has not been at his
office for several days, preferring to work upon his report at his home where he
is free from interruption. It is said that the system proposed will supply the
elasticity so badly needed in our present financial system. Although Secretary
Carlisle has always been known as a friend to silver, no one who will tell has
found out what part silver is to play in the proposed new system.
A laborious attempt is being made by certain
parties to have it appear that President Cleveland has exceeded his
constitutional authority in dealing with the proposed mediation of the trouble
between Japan and China. Their whole story is built upon a false foundation.
They say that President Cleveland has offered to act as mediator. He has done
nothing of the kind. At the request of the Chinese government he directed Secretary
Gresham to ask the Japanese government if it would favorably consider a
proposition to have the United States act as mediator in order to put an end to
the war. It will be difficult to make sensible people, who are upon principle
opposed to war, believe that the President exceeded his authority in thus
trying to end a war between two nations with which we are on friendly terms.
How friendly we are with Japan may be judged from the fact that a new treaty
has just been concluded with that country.
There is little danger that the republicans
of the next House will carry out the threat made by some members of their
Congressional campaign committee, to throw out the entire Virginia delegation
which is solidly democratic but it would bring out thousands of democratic
votes in other States. The leaders of the republican party are too shrewd to
put such a a club as that would be in the hands of the democrats, however much
the republican contestants from the Virginia Districts may beg.
Democratic newspaper correspondents, who are
as a rule great admirers of Secretary Carlisle, have been in hot water with
their editors ever since that bond issue was announced, because they had, on
the personal authority of Secretary Carlisle, sent out the positive statement that
there would be no immediate issue of bonds. That Secretary Carlisle had a good
reason for throwing the boys off the track by telling them up to within forty
eight hours of the issue of the call for bids that no bonds would be issued is
certain, but to date none of his newspaper friends have been able to find out
to a certainly what it was. Speaking of the bond issue, present indications are
that the amount to be issued—$50,000,000—will be subscribed for two or three times
over. This is gratifying to democrats, whether they approve of the bonds or
not, as it indicates in an indisputable manner the confidence felt by
capitalists in the administration.
Some democratic members of the House—notably
Hooker, of Miss., and Bailey, of Texas—are criticizing the administration for
issuing bonds, but the general impression is that no formal action will be
taken on the subject by Congress.
Fire in Preble.
The saw mill of Leman Calkins located about
two miles south of Baltimore was burned down on the morning of the 17th
instant. The building was all destroyed, the saw used for sawing lumber and
slabs and four saws used for sawing hay slats, with all the belts and some
tools, besides the damage that a fire would do to the engine and boiler.
The men had been sawing hay slats until 9
o'clock P. M. and the engineer did not leave the engine room until 11:45 P. M.
The fire in the fire box was down low and banked about a foot and a half deep
with saw dust. Water was sprinkled all around both ends of the boiler. The sawyer
L. W. Stanton was up in the house at one o'clock A. M. and remained up for half
an hour. The mill is in plain sight of his window and about seventy feet away,
and if there had been any fire in the mill he would undoubtedly have seen the
light. Two other men were up at 2 o'clock and looked out of the window up
stairs at the mill and at 2:30 the mill was discovered to be on fire all over
and every part seemed to be enveloped in flames.
The mill was undoubtedly set on fire by some
person or persons and they did their work quick and sure. All the shafting and
belts were destroyed and it is quite a loss to Mr. Calkins as he is a poor man
and had no insurance.
Victory for the O.
& W.
NORWICH, Nov. 16— The case of Williard
Monroe and others against the N. Y. O. & W. R. R. company to compel the railroad
company to reopen and operate the Auburn branch was decided in favor of the
company by Referee Halliday at Ithaca yesterday. When the Ontario & Western
company was organized in 1880 it was found that the receiver had abandoned the
operation of the Auburn branch and that the bridges and trestles had become almost
useless and were unsafe for the passage of trains.
After an examination by the officers of the
new company into the earning capacity of the road it was found it would not be
profitable to repair and rebuild the structures that were out of order,
consequently the track was taken up and the depot buildings at different
stations sold.
The towns through which the road was
operated have paid part on the bonds and have the remainder to pay. The company
as well have paid their taxes in full. The branch was abandoned in 1883 and the
towns as stated above have paid their bonded indebtedness ever since.
The road was originally intended to be built
from Norwich to Auburn but was only finished as far as DeRuyter. It is safe to
say that it will be a long time before there is a railroad in operation through
the Canasawacta valley.
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FOUR—EDITORIALS.
Prof. Davis cast his vote in Cortland
Tuesday.—Broome County Herald.
If there is a republican residing anywhere
within a hundred miles of this village that failed to cast his vote in
Cortland. Nov. 6, 1894, let him stand up and be counted. It isn't the man that
cast his vote here that we are looking after, it's the Republican that didn't.
He would indeed be a genuine curiosity.
The modern reformers in New York, who have
been preaching civil service reform in the tenure of office for years past, are
now insisting that every democrat holding office in that city, shall be
unceremoniously kicked out of office without even a hearing. If civil service
reform is good for democrats it ought to be made to pass muster for the
republicans. While the rules are in force, even those who have advocated them
for years, should be made to assist in their enforcement. If the law was framed
and passed simply to keep the republicans in and the democrats out of office,
that fact ought to be made clear to the people so they may know how to act in
the future. The Republicans and reform democrats of New York city are already
so greedy for pelf and place that there will soon be need of another grand
uprising of the people.
A Word from the
Sourkrout.
The "sourkrout editor of the Cortland Standard"
presents his compliments to the Cortland DEMOCRAT and begs to inform that
paper that he has never been in the business of importing cabbages from
Germany. That business is one of purely Democratic creation, and one which the Standard
wants nothing to do with, save to condemn it. The Standard believes in importing into
this country not a single article of agriculture or manufactures which we can
produce ourselves. We believe in keeping the American market for Americans
alone, and paying wages to our own people, instead of to the monarchy-ridden
millions of England and European counties. When we eat sourkrout we want it
made of American cabbage, grown on American soil, by American labor, and are
willing to pay American prices for it. We believe in the American eagle and
anything else that's American. "If any man attempts to haul down the
American flag, shoot him on the spot"—whether the flag floats in Hawaii or
over a pile of American cabbages grown in Homer or Cortlandville.—Cortland
Daily Standard.
How very, very patriotic! But does the
sourkrout editor of the Standard practice what he preaches? When he eats
sourkrout he wants it made of American cabbage grown on American soil, by
American labor, and he is willing to pay American prices for it, and when he
wants to purchase furniture, carpets, rugs, and goods that are kept by Cortland
merchants in Cortland stores and are sold by Cortland clerks, he goes to
Syracuse and purchases them of Syracuse clerks, who sell the goods manufactured
by Syracuse mechanics for Syracuse merchants. It is a good thing to be a
protectionist in theory but it would cut more ice to be one in practice. Let us
preserve the home market.
HERE AND THERE.
Fiora Clark has been appointed postmistress
at Little York.
Miss Manwaring has opened a dancing school
in Brockway' s hall in Homer.
Capt. S. M. Byram is dangerously ill at his
home in East River of cancer of the stomach.
The board of education have appointed Mrs.
O. K. George, teacher in the Pomeroy school, to fill the vacancy caused by the
resignation of Miss Agnes Grady.
Mr. J. B. Kellogg stepped on a piece of board
in the rear of Kellogg & Curtis' store Monday morning and a nail that was
in the board passed through his shoe and entered the hollow of his foot causing
it to bleed profusely. Woolen goods were set on fire and the wound was
thoroughly smoked.
The Woman's Christian Temperance Union will
meet in their rooms at No. 12 West Court-st., Saturday, Nov. 24, at 2:30 o'clock.
The first half hour will be given to devotional exercise, after which selections
from Miss Frances Willard's annual address delivered at the National Convention
at Cleveland, Nov. 16, will be read. Other interesting
items will also be in order. A pleasant and profitable hour may be expected and
we invite all to come.
Mr. John W. Harrington of Harrisburg, Pa.,
is in town endeavoring to form a stock company for the manufacture of hardware
novelties of many kinds, which are said to meet with ready sales. If he
succeeds he expects to employ 50 men in the start and will increase the number
to 150. He will also employ about 40 girls. The DEMOCRAT sincerely
hopes he will meet with substantial encouragement from our citizens.
FROM EVERYWHERE.
In the past two weeks 15 deer have been shot
in Sullivan county.
Dr. Moore of Morris was accidentally shot
and killed recently while hunting.
A new Italian rifle will send a bullet
through five inches of solid oak at a distance of 4,000 feet.
A school house on the Guilford road was
robbed last week of books, tables and general school supplies.
The New York, Ontario & Western railroad
will lay a track from Peckville to Hancock Junction, a distance of 47 miles.
The feed mills of Farley & Co., of
Sherburne were burned to the ground last week. They are situated near the depot.
Frank Peck of Oneonta found 100 lbs. of
choice honey between the clapboards and joists of his house. A swarm of bees
located there last summer.
Edwin W. Scammel, a prominent business man
of Tully, has commenced divorce proceedings against his wife, Ada, on statuary
grounds. Dr. George E. Barker of the same town is named as co-respondent. The
evidence in the case was secured by a lady detective.
A number of Owego's business men have
decided to go down deep into the earth in the towns of Scriba, New Haven and
Mexico in search of natural gas and oil. Farmers on whose land the indications
looked most favorable were approached and this proposition made: For the
privilege of sinking a well, the farmer is to receive one-eighth of the gas
found.
Toad Harbor, a hamlet on the shore of Oneida
Lake, about two miles cast of Brewerton, was the scene of a probably fatal
accident, Saturday morning. Nelson Van Antwerp and an acquaintance started
from that place that morning to hunt ducks. They put out from shore in a small
boat, their guns lying in the bottom. A sudden lurch of the boat caused one of
the guns to roll over. In doing which it was accidently discharged. The
contents of the weapon struck Van Antwerp in the abdomen, inflicting a fearful
wound, besides taking off a couple of fingers. The condition of the injured man
was extremely critical, at last accounts.
TOWN REPORTS.
Taylor.
Orrin Newell is visiting his sister, Mrs. A.
H. Jordan.
Edwin Crump has rented a farm in Solon for
the ensuing year.
Mrs. W. H. DeLong and children are visiting
her parents in Potsdam, N. Y.
Emons Allen of south Cuyler was a pleasant
guest at Everett Rood's, Thursday.
Ransom Halbert, who has been seriously ill
for several weeks past is gaining slowly.
Joe Mark raised the frame to his barn Friday.
He will move back to his farm in the spring.
Mrs. Russell Brooks visited her sons in
Syracuse this week. She will also visit Myron Andrews & nephew, who is very
low with consumption.
If we would believe some of the bombastic
utterances of some of our republican friends, the living should die faster in order
to make business more plentiful for the undertaker and the monument maker and
it will now be unnecessary for the living to work any longer now that Morton is
elected. What fools some mortals are!
Another old inhabitant, Ira Fox, died
suddenly at 5 o'clock Sunday morning, aged about 75 years. He had the grip last
winter, since then he has been gradually failing, although he has been able to
be around most of the time since then. The last time he was any distance from home
was election day when he went to the polls to vote for Hill. For four or five
days before the end came he had not been feeling as well as usual. Mr. Fox was
a man of a jovial, kindly disposition and leaves many friends who sincerely regret
his death. He leaves a wife and nine children to mourn the loss of a husband and
father.
A sad accident took place at the residence of
Edwin White, Monday afternoon the 12 inst. which resulted in the instant death
of John D. White, father of the above with whom he had been living since the
death of his wife a few years ago. The particulars, as near as we have been enabled
to learn them, are as follows: Edwin and his father were engaged in drawing
pumpkins from the barn and storing them in the cellar. The old gentleman drove
the team one way around the house while Edwin went the other. The latter had no
sooner reached the hatchway than he was called to by his daughter, who told him
his father was having trouble with the horses. Hearing this he hastened to
assist his father, but was too late. When he reached there his father lay upon
the ground with his neck broken, dead, while the horses dashed against the
bars, one of them being thrown. They were soon secured. What caused Mr. White's
neck to be broken is not clear as there was none who witnessed it when done
although it is supposed that the horse made a sudden start and caught his head
between the wagon box and a leaning tree under which they passed, as pieces of
bark from off the tree was found in his whiskers and this is why we conclude
that this theory is the correct one. Mr. White was in his 81st year. He was a kind
friend and neighbor and was respected by all who knew him. His tragic death has
cast a gloom over the whole community. The funeral was held at Cincinnatus, Wednesday,
the place of his birth and former home. He leaves two sons, Edwin and Thomas,
and a daughter Mrs. Rufus Cass, and others in the midst to mourn his loss. "Requiescat
in peace."
CALAMET. [pen name of local correspondent.]
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