HOUSE OF PROSTITUTION AT CORTLAND'S GRAHAM AVENUE

The Cortland Democrat, December 31, 1886.

A Good Job.

   Last Saturday, Justice Bouton sentenced Mrs. Malvina Carpenter to five months in the Onondaga penitentiary on the charge of keeping a disorderly house and a house of prostitution on Graham Avenue. Her daughter Mattie, who has served a term for being an inmate of such a house, and who was discharged from the penitentiary on the 2nd of November last, was sentenced to confinement in the penitentiary for four months for being an inmate of her mother's disreputable place. Mame Wilcox, who was also an inmate of the house was sentenced to three months in the same institution.

   On Tuesday last, Albert, Maggie and Vernon, aged, 12, 10 and 6, respectively, children of Mrs. Malvina Carpenter, were taken before Justice Bouton, charged with living in a house of prostitution, and sentenced to the Western House of Refuge at Rochester. As the husband and father is serving a sentence in Auburn prison for larceny, and all the other members of the family have been placed in durance vile, the disreputable place kept by the Carpenter family is pretty well broken up. The officers who have had change of the matter, have done well in closing a place that was a stench in the nostrils of all decent people and a discredit to any respectable community.

HERE AND THERE.

   Happy New Year to every reader of the DEMOCRAT.

   The McGrawville corset factory closed last Friday for a week's vacation.

   Wallace & Linderman set up an elegant lunch at the Hotel Brunswick, on Christmas.

   The central office of the Telephone Company will be moved to the offices now occupied by J. & T. E. Courtney, on the 1st of April next.

   Messrs. Robinson & Alport have their skating rink at the trout ponds [located between East Avenue and South Franklin Street, north of the railroad tracks—CC editor] in running order. The young people of both sexes are enjoying themselves on the ice both day and evening.

   To remove clinkers from the stove, sprinkle common table salt on the linings when the stove is cold. Use plenty of it. Build a moderate fire—wood or coal, and in a day or two the clinkers will be gone.—Hall’s Journal of Health.

   When you want anything in the line of groceries or provisions, don't forget that the tidy store on the corner of Main and Port Watson streets is a good place to secure good goods at low prices. The proprietors, Messrs. Peck & Williams, are live business men, and they propose to push things. Read their double column advertisement in another column and give them a call.

   Tom Button, who has been engaged in the tonsorial profession in this place for the past fifteen years, left town last Sunday morning without intending to return. Domestic infelicity is said to be the cause of his departure. Tom was an artist in his line, and was an industrious, steady citizen. He sold his shop before leaving to Al Stevens, of Marathon, who took possession on Monday.

Personals.

   Assemblyman W. D. Tisdale leaves for Albany to-morrow.

   E. G. Gould, Esq., the local of the Standard, is spending the holidays m Boston.

   Mrs. L. D. Garrison left this morning for a few weeks' visit with friends and relations in Troy, Pa., and vicinity.

   Mrs. Geo. C. Hubbard, assisted by Mrs. A. F Aird, of Pulaski and Misses Pamella Hubbard and Lenah Robison, will receive [?] at her residence, No. 116 Port Watson St., on New Year's day, from 2 until 6 o’clock P. M.

   The last number of the Cullison (Kansas) Banner has the name of Clarence V. Kinney at the head, as editor and proprietor. Mr. Kinney will be remembered as a former attache of the DEMOCRAT force. The DEMOCRAT offers its congratulations.

CC editor’s note:

   In an effort to determine the outcome of the 1886 libel suit against the proprietor of the Cortland News, we have jumped ahead in time and sideways in politics to the pages of the Cortland Democrat. Below is the Democrat’s report of the lawsuit, which was also published in a longer version by the Cortland News on Nov. 4, 1886.

A Libel Suit.

   Last Monday Mr. L. S. Hayes of this place commenced an action for libel against S. Ham. Strowbridge, of the Cortland News. An order of arrest accompanied the summons and Mr. Strowbridge was arrested at 6 o'clock P. M. Bail was fixed at $5,000 which was furnished by Mrs. Dr. Strowbridge and Benj. F. Taylor. 
   The plaintiff sues to recover damages to character contained in an article in last week’s News charging plaintiff with perjury in an action heretofore tried in this county, wherein Sackett L. Wright was claimed to be plaintiff and Lewis S. Hayes defendant. Mr. Hayes claims $10,000 damages. I. H. Palmer appears for plaintiff and the defendant has retained A. P. & D. C. Smith.—Cortland Democrat, Nov.5, 1886.

 

   

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