Monday, February 24, 2014

NEW STREETS IN CORTLAND VILLAGE AND TRAVEL TO DANBY





The Cortland News, Friday, July 14, 1882.
CORTLAND AND VICINITY.
   Now tor Barnum and Jumbo!  One and inseparable, now and for the summer.
   New streets [Taylor and Lansing Streets—CC editor] are being opened west from Owego street south of the U., I. & E. R. R.
   H. M. Kellogg reports the sales of the "Acorn" Oil Stoves larger than ever, and beyond his expectations.
   The [Syracuse] Sunday Herald was distributed in Cortland last Sunday about 9 o'clock A. M. The pony express is making better time.
   New plank walks have been laid by Mrs. Russell Hubbard and Mr. John Rollo, Port Watson street, and A. Van Berggren, Tompkins street.
   Last Saturday the McGrawville base ball club beat the Truxton club for the second time this season, thus entitling them to the second place in the championship of the county.
   Mr. McHenry is pushing work on the horse railroad. To-morrow night will see the ties laid near to the Messenger House. We propose to ride in a horsecar to the Fair in September, any way.
   Forty-nine companies of firemen have announced their intention to attend the State Firemen's Convention at Rochester. Among them are the Orient Hooks of Homer and the Excelsior Hook and Ladder of Cortland.
   The Cortland Box-Loop Company have taken possession of Mr. Henry Brewer's new building and are now well and conveniently located for the manufacture of box-loops. The indications point to a thriving business.
   The village library is open to the public for the drawing of books on Monday from 7 till 9 P. M., also on Saturday from 2 till 9 P. M, of each week. Books that have been drawn may not be returned except on these days of public drawing.
   Mr. W. O. Bunn, of the Homer Republican, is confined to his house by paralysis of the face. We sympathize with friend Bunn in his affliction, and hope the inconvenient misery or miserable inconvenience will be of short duration.
   "There is no better place this side of Heaven," was the remark, uttered reverently, by a gentleman who, before an audience assembled in the hall at Blodgett's Trout Ponds, was speaking of the charms that lovely resort possessed, and of its many inducements for the holding of picnics, reunions, etc., of families and societies. That was said three years ago, was true then, and, with the improvements that have been made….
   A flag-stone walk is being laid by W. R. Randall about the savings bank building.
   Mr. Allard, who drives the Sunday Herald express, will execute commissions for our citizens at low rates.
   We are informed that the rains of last week did considerable damage to wheat in this section. Being about ready for the reaper, and the heads full, much of it was prostrated.
   Reports are current that a railroad is to be constructed on the road-bed of the Utica, Chenango and Cortland. When we can obtain information from good authority in regard to such enterprise, we shall print it.
   A new street [Stewart Place?—CC editor] has been opened from South Main street west along the north line of F. E. Knight's premises, thus making way for occupancy by residences to a large number of lots. The west terminus of the street will be on Reynolds avenue.
   It is no wonder that so many Cortland people go to Little York for a few weeks' sojourn during the summer or a day's pleasure, for it is near, the roads to it are excellent, and after reaching there one can find whatever is wanted in the line of good meals and board, boats, fishing tackle, etc., at Mr. and Mrs. A. B. Raymond's at reasonable rates. Go and be convinced.
   We publish this week the proceedings, for the year 1814, of the Board of Supervisors of this county. We modernize the style, spelling and language, though but few changes in these characteristics are needed. The house of Moses Hopkins where the supervisors met was the old seminary building, which stood where Dr. Frank Goodyear's house now stands, on West Court street.

Now for a Good Time.
   The Emerald Hose Company announce a grand picnic and a right joyous good time on the Fair Grounds, Saturday, Aug. 12. Arrangements have been made and accepted by the Star Base Ball Club of Syracuse and the Flyaways of Binghamton, by which these clubs are to play a match game for a prize of $90, $60 to the winner and $30 to the loser. These clubs have for some time past been trying to meet at one or the other of the cities, and try a game upon its merits, and now on the 12th, on neutral ground, they will have the opportunity, and fine playing will be witnessed. The Emeralds are making arrangements for other games and attractions, which will be duly announced. The profits will be used in the purchase of a four-wheeled hose-carriage for parade.

AN EXTRACT FROM A LETTER.
Which Was Written to His Friend by an Enthusiast Who Has Enjoyed the Benefit of Travel as far as Danby.
   * * * You know what travel can do for a man of rustic habits. Tho’ I really started from Cortland, I will only take you in at Ithaca. You know Freeville, about which nothing is to be said. You know Ithaca, too, of which nothing will be said but that it is low down. You keep going down, down, until your hair rises from fright. But Danby is the objective point. Danby is high up. It is a good land. Blessed is the man that owns a farm in Danby,
   You go up, up, and still UP. It seems as though you must be near the Ararat of Noah's landing. But no, you have more ascent to make, a good deal more. Finally you come to a level and can trot. Do you think you are up? Simple soul! Look over your right shoulder to the west. See that hill! But you need rest. At least I did. You had better finish the hill. I did. But I waited until to-morrow. Brother Johnson will take you up. He did me.
   The top of the hill is a hill piled on another hill. It is a place for devotion and for poetry. It will make you a poet to be there. It did me. While yet under influence from the afflatus, I threw out thought—poetic thought, which is still extant in manuscript. It will lead you to devotion. It did me. You can not do less, as you gaze upon the scene, than say the Lord made it. On reaching the highest top, you have a crescent sweeping round you, springing from the lake on your right and terminating in some indefinite forest on your left. The scene is laid where the latter end of Tompkins abuts Tioga county. You see a lofty wall fronting you. Your elevation, added to the slope which terminates your western view, makes an appearance approximating a perpendicular. The chief elements of that grand view are lake, field, forest and vineyard, while a multitude of animals are scattered to dot the surface.
   Let the imagination have its proper scope, and the panorama before you becomes the carpeted parlor of a Titan, with tapestried walls. Each farm constitutes one figure of the carpet, while the village of Spencer becomes the toy table of the Titan's babies set out with urn and cups and saucers.
   Go and see it; you will return better citizens and much refreshed to Cortland. I did. The travel will polish your manners. It did mine. H. L.

BOX RENT.
Mr. Editor:
   Can you afford a box to put your mail in under the greatly increased tariff for that convenience? I can't.
   Why, don't the authorities at Washington know that a box is just as much a convenience to the distributor as it is to the distributee? Who can afford a two-dollar box to bold a three-cent letter?
                                                                                                          INQUIRER.

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