WANTED! REWARD!

The Cortland News, Friday, April 20, 1883.

WANTED! REWARD!

   Doubtless this [village] corporation will raise $5,000 more to pay a reward to anyone who will find and bring forth the Board of Education of this village. Two years ago or so a most touching and pathetic appeal was made to our people in behalf (ostensibly and professedly) of the "Pale and wan children" who with hands upraised toward Heaven or elsewhere were beseeching relief from the death-damps of the crowded prison-pens called school-houses.

   Those little hands are still up. The people last year generously voted and paid $5,000 (all that was asked) for their protection, and this year $2,000 more (all that was asked again), and came near voting for a fireproof burglar safe to put the money in till the Board could be found to spend it, and yet the land has not been broken, nor the old lots sold, nor can the Board be got together. After all, gentlemen, wasn't this whole thing a scheme of a lot of schemers to get power that they don't know how to wield?

REMOVAL OF THE POSTOFFICE.

Businessmen Seeking Relief.

   Saturday evening the adjourned meeting from that of Wednesday previous, as announced in last week's NEWS, was held at Fireman's Hall, and on calling to order, Dr. H. O. Jewett, chairman, stated the object of the meeting was to appoint a committee of five to select two citizens to go to Washington and procure such relief from the P. O. Department as will lessen the inconvenience arising from the removal of the postoffice from near the center of the village,—by letter carrier probably—the expense of such carrier to be borne by the citizens to be benefited, the Department to bear no expense whatever. All that was required was an order from the Postmaster-General directing Mr. Nixon [postmaster] to deliver to the carrier the mail belonging to such citizens as should request it.

   The committee appointed at the first meeting to take the names and funds of such persons as desired to contribute to the expenses of the committee to go to Washington, reported that they had thus far received $86, no one having been allowed to pay over $1, but that several had offered four or five dollars each.

   Mr. Isaac W. Brown, who took the census of the village last fall, said that of the 5,897 persons then in the corporation, about 4,200 resided north of Court street. This shows beyond question that the center of the village is yet farther north than Court street, and as the postoffice has been removed an eighth of a mile south of that street, the P. O. Department ought readily to recognize the fact of the inconvenience now to a great majority of the population.

   A committee, consisting of Dr. H. O. Jewett, D. Bauder, D. E. Kinney, A. Sager, D. F. Wallace and Theo. Stevenson, was selected to choose two men to go to Washington, and the meeting adjourned subject to the call of the committee of five.

Lots for sale on Arthur Avenue, Cortland.

CORTLAND AND VICINITY.

   Middle term examinations at the Normal next week.

   Sociable at the Normal parlors Saturday evening of this week.

   Repairs and additions are being made to the Methodist church parsonage.

   John B. Doris' great inter-ocean circus and menagerie on Wednesday, May 2, prox.

   Private interests before public interests, is the motto of the owners of the Standard block.

   The Boston clothing store is offering desirable bargains in overcoats, suits, etc., at 17 South Main street, and our readers will take note thereof.

   Mr. Chas. P. Snider will erect a couple of houses this season on the corner of Elm and Pendleton streets. It is expected that a grocery store will be put up on the extreme corner.

   Judge Duell was in Ithaca Monday to attest to his signature to the original will of Hon. Elias W. Cady, made in 1854. To the will and codicils of Mr. Cady, who died in March last, six congressmen and four supreme court judges have been witnesses. [Say, that ought to make the will and codicils invalid—CC editor.]

   Judge Smith has appointed Mr. Glenn Tisdale stenographer of the County Court and Court of Sessions in place of Mr. L. Larrabee, deceased. The young man is a son of our townsman, Mr. W. D. Tisdale, and will be a worthy successor of a very excellent, intelligent gentleman.

   Mrs. J. H. Spalding, M. D., who came to Cortland last season to practice medicine, graduated in 1877 from the Chicago Homoeopathic College, and from what we hear we should judge she is rapidly acquiring among our people a reputation as a successful practitioner. See business card.

   Our young friends, William Smith and Eugene Snyder, who have lately bought the Allen B. Smith place on Main street and land between that and Adams street, as we announced last week, have laid out the same in 28 lots and offer them for sale. These lots are all desirable, as can be seen by examining the diagram. See local notice.

   We suggest to Mr. M. F. Cleary that he put extra touches on Mr. Randall's garden the coming season, and make it a veritable Eden. Love's labors will not be lost in that case, as a tired, indignant crowd, on their tedious tramp Virgil-ward after their mail, will bless the relief afforded by the sight of shady walks, beautiful lawns, and lovely flowers.

   C. A. Ward, a wandering doctor, who has been in Waterbury, Conn., for some months, is under arrest for bigamy. He has a wife in Candor, Tioga county, who is the daughter of Rev. W. H. Pearne, a Methodist minister of Syracuse. Ward two or three weeks ago married a Miss Bassett, of Danbury, Conn., and last Saturday Dr. Pearne went to Waterbury and had him arrested.

   The company which is to present "Esmeralda," the great domestic play, in Cortland, on t h e 25th of April, comes to us direct from the Madison Square Theatre, New York. Every actor is a worthy artist. The scenery, too, from New York, will be a feature. The play ran 350 nights in New York city and is the third in the album of the great Madison Square Theatre successes. The public may be assured of a fine performance.

   At the annual meeting of the Young Men's Christian Association held Monday evening, Mr. B. L. Webb was elected president; Elmer Bangs, vice-president; J. R. Birdlebough, recording secretary; Wm. Latimer, corresponding secretary; Theodore Stevenson, treasurer; C. B. Hitchcock, L. D. Garrison, R. C. Tillinghast, G. S. P. Jewett, directors. The anniversary will be held April 29 at the Methodist church. Sermon by Rev. J. L. Robertson.

   Mr. Thos. Donnelly has taken possession of the blacksmith's shop in the rear of the Dexter House, where he will do horse-shoeing, carriage repairing and blacksmithing in all its branches. Mr. Donnelly learned his trade of Mr. Z. B. Mason, whose shop stood on the north side of Tompkins street, directly across from the beginning of Owego street, and who will be remembered by people who resided here thirty-five or forty years ago. Mr. Donnelly is a skillful mechanic and an intelligent, first-class workman and having lately come to Cortland and again become a resident, he asks for a share of the patronage. We know that he will deserve it.

   It is now pretty well understood that the plan of the Standard building was drawn with the expectation that the postoffice would occupy the room where it is now located, and that the removal of the postoffice had been arranged for by the owners of that building ere the people were aware that such removal had received serious consideration. W. H. Clark, editor of the Standard, would not have removed his office to the new block had he not known that the postoffice would also be removed. If our people are earnest in this matter, and will act consistently, Mr. Clark will gain nothing financially by making public interests subserve his private business.

   At the recent meeting of the Cortland County Sunday-School Association held at Blodgett Mills, measures were adopted to extend instruction in all the towns. Committees were appointed and money was pledged. To further this work, Mr. S. S. Eddy, an agent of the State Association, under the direction of the committee, will visit the towns, and it is earnestly hoped that he will meet with the hearty co-operation of all interested in this important work. In places where no schools exist, Mr. Eddy will organize them, and the pastors of the various churches call for cordial assistance from the intelligent people of the towns. Mr. Eddy will inaugurate the canvass next Sunday evening at t h e Baptist church in this village by delivering an address on the subject of Sunday-schools. He should be welcomed by a full house, the children especially being urged to attend.

[Date should read May 2, 1883. "Mille-Christine, the two-headed girl! The most wonderfully made of all God's creatures. Two heads, two hearts, four arms, and four lower limbs, uniting in a single body, all being perfectly and symetrically formed. Engaged last season, after ten years' absence in Europe, by Mssrs. Batcheller & Doris, and re-engaged by Mr. Doris for this season for the enormous salary of $25,000. She is not a side-show curiosity, but is seen in the Great Inter-Ocean Show free of charge."

THE GREAT INTER-OCEAN SHOW.

Largest and Best Show on Earth.

   It is surprising to see how much that is attractive, entertaining and instructive can be crowded into one day, as it is done by the Great Inter-Ocean, Largest and Best Show, which will be here on Wednesday, May 2d, 1883. Commencing with the throngs of people themselves, the grand free street demonstration, the free exhibition upon the grounds at the end of the parade, matinees and soirees in the arena, the great show itself, together with levees held by the Wonder of the World, Millie-Christine, the Two-Headed Lady, go to make the busiest and best day in the year.

REV. A. H. SHURTLIFF.

   We were glad last week to see the Cortland Standard take back the slander which it uttered the week before against Rev. A. H. Shurtliff. There are scoffers enough against religion without being strengthened by such unfounded attacks upon the respectable clergy by the newspapers. Of course the retraction never cures the injury, for once set such stories in circulation and the lie will travel a hundred miles and reach a thousand ears to one by the retraction.

   Editors cannot be too careful how they give circulation to such stories. THE NEWS heard these rumors but never mentioned the fact. It was perfectly apparent on the face of the matter that the whole thing was a put-up job. The idea that a man of the character of Mr. Shurtliff could stoop to such infamy, as is charged, is opposed to all probabilities, and then the fact that the girl in question continued in the house of Mr. Shurtliff for days and weeks after the alleged assault and ate at his table and associated with his wife and appeared on friendly terms with both, to say nothing of her friendly expressions as to both of them, conclusively refutes the whole story, and when to this is added the undisputed fact that the mother wrote the reverend gentleman a letter demanding $100 hush money as conditions of keeping still, and you have the whole animus of the thing.

   Rev. Alonzo H. Shurtliff rode with old Ossawattomie John Brown on the plains of Kansas when it required the courage of principle to do it, and he is the wrong man to make a blackmailing attack upon. We are glad he never withheld any patronage from the Standard so that the editor could condescend to retract the slander. It is an encouraging sign.

DIED.

   LARRABEE-At his residence in Cincinnatus, April 10, 1883, very suddenly of heart disease, Mr. Lyman J. Larrabee, aged 59 yrs. The community were startled yesterday morning by the report that Mr. L. J. Larrabee, of the firm of Larrabee & Son, cutter builders, had died very suddenly in the night. Mr. Larrabee had been in usual good health the day previous, and attended to his business as usual. In the evening he complained of a pain in his chest; simple remedies were applied and he retired. Between one and two o'clock he aroused his wife, complaining of a severe pain in the vicinity of his heart and Dr. Smith was immediately sent for, but before he arrived the spirit had taken its departure, almost without warning. The deceased was a prominent man of the community, in company with his son carrying on the largest manufacturing interest in town, and several times holding town and county offices. He leaves a wife, three daughters and one son, besides a large circle of relatives and friends to mourn his loss.—Cincinnatus Register.

Circus Proprietor John B. Doris obituary: http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?res=F10E16F83C5813738DDDAE0894DA405B828DF1D3