The Cortland
News, Friday, November 27, 1885.
TOWN CORRESPONDENCE.
Five snow storms have visited
our vicinity since the fall set in.
Mr. and Mrs. John Walrod got a
little in advance of Thanksgiving this year by the arrival of a little girl
last Thursday, which tipped the scales at nine pounds.
George Moore, of this place,
has sold his farm of fifty acres to Fred Benedict, of McLean. Consideration
$3,500.
The cider mills in this
vicinity are yet in full blast, and cider making and drinking are increasing to
an alarming extent. Men who scorn the bar room will make themselves drunk with
hard cider, which is the curse of the country.
Take it cool, Mr. Preble
Correspondent, in regard to the Prohibition party. They have come to stay and
are gaining ground every day. There is no other issue before the people to-day
and come it must and come it will independent of both old parties.
There are a good many people in
Virgil who proclaim themselves Christians, but if they should go to heaven
their neighbors who know them best would take their chances in the other
place.
The farmers seem to be happy,
and why shouldn't they be, when their barns are fairly bursting with the
abundance of the past season? To be sure produce does not command high prices,
but then we all have enough to keep the wolf from the door.
Nearly one-halt the adult
population of the United States are farmers, yet the laws which operate to
place burdens on them are made by lawyers, bankers and other non-producers.
Farmers of this county, think of this.
The Groton correspondent of the Ithaca Journal describes
the women who presented themselves
before the board of inspectors there
to vote as "a motley looking set,
old, young, fair and angular, lean and
full," that "the Board
complacently looked them over,"
etc. No word was said with regard to
the blear-eyed, red-nosed, drunken specimens of male humanity, so called citizens (?) whose votes were received unchallenged.
Preble, Nov. 25, 1885.
John
Reynolds is quite sick.
Dr. Nash, of Cortland, was in
town this week consulting with Dr. Johnson, in regard to Mrs. Hill’s case.
William Foster, of Homer, was in town last week
visiting his best girl and also called upon Mr. Coon, our teacher.
There is a good deal of
ploughing being done this fall in our vicinity. The farmers are reading more
and adopting better methods. My experience has taught me to plough sod in the
fall.
On the fourth of December the
W. C. T. U. [Woman’s Christian Temperance Union] will hold their quarterly
convention at the Presbyterian church. Refreshments will be served at the
church for visitors.
Chicago, N.Y., Nov. 15, 1885.
A number of friends of R. Davis
took possession of his barn last Friday night and husked nearly forty bushels
of corn for him.
J. G. Gager has purchased the
Braman farm. Consideration $4,000.
Married—At the home of the
bride’s father in this place, Nov. 18, by the Rev. Mr. Robinson, Miss Julia Gager to Jerome Hall, of Licklaen.
Rumor says the next wedding
will occur near the marl ponds.
The snow is twenty inches deep
and still coming.
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| Actress Lillian Spencer, book cover. |
CORTLAND
AND VICINITY.
John Sheridan, who escaped from the idiotic department of the County
Alms House last week, was captured near Cold Brook on Sunday, and taken back to
the county institute.
W. T. Smith, superintendent of
the Cortland Omnibus Co., is negotiating with parties in New York to furnish
one hundred omnibuses for the Fifth avenue line in that city. The contract will
amount to about $100,000 and it is to be hoped that the Cortland company will
get it.
Oil took a fearful tumble on
Monday and a great many at our local speculators were dusting around quite
lively to get more money to put up in order to save themselves. Oil is fearful
slippery stuff even if it’s going your way, but when it concludes to take
another turn it takes a cool man, and lots of cash to keep along with it.
Mrs. Lucy J. Shawler, of
Columbus, this county, offered her vote at the late election, and it was
rejected on account of her not being able to swear that she was a male citizen
of the United States, and also on account of her delicacy relative to the statement
of her age.—Greene American.
A young man from Oneida county stepped into our
office on Tuesday last and said that as he had seen several items in Cortland
county papers talking about monstrous pumpkins that weighed all the way from 50
to 75 pounds, he thought it was about time for Oneida county to have a show. He
says that a pumpkin raised in Clinton tipped the beam at 136 pounds. Now the Marathon Independent may bring on its boss liar.
The following books have
recently been added to the Village Library: Congo Free State, Stanley, Bryant’s
poems; Odd Trump Series; The Clifton Picture, Harwood; Flesh and Spirit; After All, Lillian Spencer; Bessie's Fortune, Mrs.
Holmes; Matrimony, Norris; Nellie's Memories, Rose Carey; The Prophet of the
Great Smoky Mountain, Craddock.
By a decision of the courts the
Ontario & Western Railroad has been ordered to reopen and operate that portion
of their line running from Norwich to DeRuyter, via Plymouth, Smyrna and
Otselic, which was abandoned in 1882. This involves on the part of the company
a necessity of rebuilding and putting in proper construction about twenty-eight
miles of road. The case is of such importance that the company will probably
appeal to the Court of Appeals, thus involving further delay before the case is
finally determined.
On Thursday of last week Eugene
Griffin imbibed too freely of a liquid sometimes called twitch-eye, and while
under the influence of the stuff probably mistook a pair of boots, belonging to
Dickinson & McGraw, and a cap belonging to Bernard Doud
as his own. At any rate, when an officer took charge of him, he
had these articles with him. He was taken before Justice Bouton, who sent
Griffin to the Onondaga Penitentiary for 90 days.
Selover and Schutt yesterday photographed the Mechanics Band and
W. W. Engine Company [Water Witch Engine Co., Cortland Fire Department—CC editor].
There are more hats in Cortland
to-day that are too small for the heads they once fitted than has been known in
some time. Grasp the idea?
Weather prophets are very thick
nowadays. One predicts we will have an open winter; another that it will be
very cold, and a third that we won't have any. You pays your money and takes
your choice, however.
Officer Barry arrested Tim
McCullough Wednesday evening for public Intoxication. McCullough didn't propose to be "taken in" by any man of Mr. Barry’s
size and made a desperate resistance, but Mr. Barry finally succeeded in taking
his man to the cooler. He was arranged before Justice Bierce
Tuesday, who gave him eleven days in the Bastille or eleven dollars. He paid
his fine. Since the above was in type we learn that Ed. Lunnigan, and James
Doud tried to rescue McCullough from officer Barry but did not succeed. Warrants
are out for their arrest.
Accident
at Richford.
Thursday evening, 14 inst.,
Mrs. Frank Scott, of Richford, and a gentleman boarding there were fooling with
a rifle. The weapon was discharged while in the hands of the gentleman, the
contents (a ramrod and bullet,) taking effect in Mrs. Scott's neck. The ramrod
was pulled out of the lady's neck, but the bullet has not been found yet. Mrs.
Scott is in a critical condition. It is the old story—they knew the gun was not
loaded, they had fooled with it several times before. But Emory Scott had been
out shooting the day previous and neglected to remove the cartridge from the
gun.—Marathon Independent.
Has He Skipped?
For some months past Edward Stone, a gunsmith
who has been doing business on Railroad street, has been packing up his tools
and household goods preparatory to moving away from Cortland. About three weeks
since he shipped his goods, as he said, to Philadelphia, and the next day followed
them, leaving his wife and two small children here until he had located. Just
before going he gave his wife five dollars and promised to send for her in the
course of a week or ten days, but as yet no word has been received by her from
him and she fears he has deserted her as he has threatened to do on several occasions
Mrs. Stone is a hard working woman
and is respected by all who knew her, while on the contrary Stone has an uncontrollable
temper and was in a rumpus with somebody nearly all the time.
THE
CENTRAL INJUNCTION.
Leasing
of the West Shore Against Public Policy and Therefore Void.
SYRACUSE, N. Y., NOV. 23.--Last Saturday evening Justice Geo. N. Kennedy of the Supreme Court
on motion of Louis Marshall, granted an injunction restraining the New York Central
Railroad Company from guaranteeing $50,000,000 bonds of the West Shore road, and from perfecting a lease of the West Shore for 400 years. Mr. Marshall
represents 329 shares of capital stock of the New York Central railway, much of which is
owned by Syracuse, but part of which is the property of capitalists in other
cities. The injunction is the outgrowth of a rejection of Mr. Marshall's protest
made before the meeting of directors of the Central road in Albany on Nov. 4th.
At that time he argued that the leasing of the West Shore by the Central was against
public policy, and therefore void; that the statutes of the State forbade the
consolidation of parallel and competing lines of railroad; and that it would entail
an addition of $50,000,000 to the Central road and thus depreciate the Central
stock.
THE
WEST SHORE SOLD.
Knocked
Down to Gentlemen Interested in the N. Y. Central for $22,000,000.
NEWBURG, N. Y., Nov. 24.—The
West Shore railroad was sold to-day at foreclosure sale for $22,000,000. When
preparations for selling were commenced the auctioneer, John Corwin, alluded to
being surrounded by millionaires and railroad magnates, and expressed his
belief that the bidding would be spirited. J. Pierrepont Morgan at once bid
$22,000,000 for the New York, West Shore & Buffalo railway. The auctioneer
dwelt upon the bid a few moments, and then knocked the road down to Mr. Morgan.
The latter announced that he bought the road on behalf of J. Pierrepont Morgan,
Chauncey M. Depew and Ashbel Green. The auctioneer remarked: "A good
firm," which brought down the house. Then papers were signed by the three
purchasers and the referee. The purchasers also made out and signed a
certificate of deposit on the Union Trust company for $750,000 part of the
purchase money prescribed by the terms of the sale, and gave
it to the referee. This ended the proceedings.
References:
West Shore Railroad Company: http://nyc.railfan.net/ws1913.txt
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