SOME OLD PAPERS

The Marathon Independent, Wednesday, April 9, 1884.

HOME AND HEREABOUT.

   —Agusty Wind from up north was in town all of last week.

   —Welcome Cook, of Whitney's Point, was in town Monday.

   ---A Homer lady has just completed a silk quilt containing 2,182 pieces.

   —A telephone line from Homer to Auburn, via Scott, Glen Haven, etc., is proposed.

   —A. C. Robacher had the misfortune to drop a block of marble upon his foot last Thursday.

   ---The Stockwell Wagon company have been shipping a carload of wagons per day for the past two weeks.

   —The Cortland Democrat began its 21st volume last week. It reports prosperity in all its departments, and it certainly deserves it.

   —F. H. Gee, late of Fair Haven and Fort Byron, is credited with sufficient temerity to start a newspaper at Cato in this county.—Moravia Register.

   —The city of Augusta, Ga., was recently sued by an insurance company because of her lack of water supply. Let unprotected Marathon take notice.

   —President Corwin wishes us to give notice to all who are in the habit of catching on trains at this station, that they will be arrested unless the practice is stopped.

   —Read George Schermerhorn's auction notice elsewhere. He has sold his farm to Mrs. Moses Rogers, and expects to leave soon for Nebraska, where he will make his future home.

   —Last Sunday's Elmira Telegram contained an excellent portrait of Elmer E. Burlingame, son of Miles Burlingame, Esq., of Willett, N. Y., and a valued member of the Telegram's editorial staff.

   —At the Fire Department meeting last night L. C. Hall was chosen Chief Engineer, and L. D. Terwilllger Assistant.

   ---Mr. J. F. Wheeler has resigned the position of Superintendent of the Cortland Co. Alms House, and R. M. Hilsinger formerly of Marathon, who has held the position of assistant for the past two or three years, has been appointed to fill the vacancy. James Youngs of this place takes the position vacated by Mr. Hilsinger.

   —The Rev. James L. Meagher, pastor of St. Stephen's Roman Catholic Church, Marathon, Cortland county, New York, was a guest at the archiepiscopal residence on Charles street yesterday. His mission in Baltimore was to gather data for a history of the cathedral. He is an author of note, and is engaged in writing up the noted cathedrals of the world. He has already described and illustrated, in book form, thirty-five of the most famous religious edifices in Europe, and his "Festal Days," a work relating to the different feasts of the Catholic Church, has had a wide circulation. From this city Father Meagher will proceed to Philadelphia.—Baltimore Sun.

Some Old Papers.

   J. M. Crosby of this village, the other day produced for our inspection several papers of the days of our forefathers, which are very interesting reading. One of the oldest is a copy of Horace Greeley's now well-known campaign paper the "Log Cabin," which bears date May 30, 1840. As is well known this paper was published during the campaign of Harrison and Tyler, against Van Buren and Johnson. Of it Mr. Greely says in his Recollections: "Its circulation was entirely without precedent. The weekly issues ran rapidly up to 80,000, and might have been increased had I ample facilities for printing and mailing to 100,000."

   Then there are two copies of that other paper of Mr. Greeley's "The New Yorker," one of Nov. 28, 1835 and the other of January 30, 1836. There is also a mammoth fourth of July edition of the "Brother Jonathan," a nine-column, eight page, highly illustrated journal, whose illustrations would not compare favorably for fineness with those of Harpers of to-day.

   There are also two copies of the McGrawville "Express," published at McGrawville, N. Y., then the site of Gerritt Smith's Central College, by Benedict & Boynton, and are dated January 25, 1846 and March 8, of the same year. In the latter issue is the following taken from the congressional proceedings:—

   "In the Senate a personal encounter took place between Messrs. Foote and Cameron, the former striking the latter in the face. In the House there was a fight between Root, Giddings and Mead—another between Johnson of Arkansas and Ficklin of Illinois. Johnson was knocked down, Ficklin drawing blood."

   And still people talk about those "good old times" and that the world is growing worse.

AUCTION!

   George Schemerhorn will sell at auction at his residence, one-half mile north of Killawog, on Thursday, April 10, 1884 at 10 o'clock A. M., the following property: 40 tons of hay, five cows, 16 heifers, one pair yearling steers, 1 thoroughbred short horn bull, Poland China boar, Poland China sow, and 9 pigs, 4 shoats, 40 Plymouth Rock fowls, 65 turkeys, 4 ducks, pair work horses, 2 sets double harness, set light double harness, set single harness, 2 lumber wagons, platform wagon, buckboard, ox cart, 2 pair lumber bobs, a power straw cutter, one horse tread power and drag saw attachment, fanning mill and separator, wheel rake, hay tedder, 2 mowing machines, 2 Wiard plows-side hill plows, 2 shovel plows, caldron kettle, 40 or 50 cords stove wood, set milk vats, churns and dairy utensils, a quantity of Burbank potatoes, also a quantity of household furniture.

Who Have Moved?

Changes in Residence which April First Brought About.

   The following is as complete a list as we have been able to make of the changes in location by various people, during the last few weeks. From it will be seen that about fifty families have enjoyed whatever luxury there is in tearing up and settling down, and also that over one-half of these changes have occurred on Cortland street. There are but few houses without a tenant in the corporation, while some are packed with three families.

   Ira Lynde from round house to Messengerville.

   G. W. Lason from Virgil into the round house.

   Geo. Harvey from Clark Mack's house to house purchased by him.

   Helen Rooks from Cemetery hill into part of Geo. Harvey's house.

   Rev. A. H. Tood from Greene into the Butman house.

   T. D. Upham from Butman house to VanDyke house on South St.

   John Robertson from Butman house to [?]

   Wm. Reycroft from Benton house to Binghamton.

   Thomas Dodd from Wheeler house to Kenton house.

   Clark Mack from Nebraska to his house.

   James McDowell from A. D. Boyden's house upon the Miles Robinson farm.

   A. D. Boyden from over Maybury's store into his house.

   Miss M. A. Blodgett from Yates Wooster's house into the old Baptist parsonage.

   Yates Wooster from the Goodale house into his own.

   Joseph A. Cole from the C W. Leach house into the Goodale house.

   E. L. Norton from brown Gothic house to Tanner house on Cemetery hill.

   Clark Sherwood and Ira Knickerbocker from Alex Brown house into brown Gothic house.

   Mr. Gilbert from Cortland into the Alex Brown house.

   Will Hyde from Marathon Exchange to Alex Brown's house.

   Loretta Ogden from Lapeer into her house.

   M. W. Conger from Barber house to McGrawville.

   F. W. Crain from Water street to Barber house.

   Fred Boyden from Smith building to Exchange block.

   Charles Myers from Swift's building to house vacated by O. H. McAnulty.

   Hulslander from Ithaca into the Smith building.

   A. P. Ransford from Baptist parsonage building into Butman block.

   A. Collier from Butman block to Lisle.

   Kate Smith from Baptist parsonage to Swift's building

   Richard Wood from VanOrsdale house to Lewis Swift's house on Bradford street.

   Ann Hoag from Mantanye block to rooms over Maybury's store.

   Rev. J. F. Warner from --- to M. E. Parsonage.

   Rev. J. F.. McLaury from M. E. Parsonage to J. H. Mallery's house.

   Rev. D. J. Williams from Maricle house to Pitcher.

   C. N. Robinson from Bradford tenement into E. W. Hayes' house.

   Israel Woodard from Tanner house into Maricle house.

   Sam Mudge from Dickenson House on East Main street to C. C. Adams' house on Grove street.

   Charles Stevens from south of the village into D. D. Hunt's house on Academy street.

   Edwin Hilsinger from Killawog into Mrs. L. E. Squires' house.

   W. E. Stockwell from S. Hults’ house to Clark Lathrop's.

   W. A. Stockwell from Mrs. Squires' house to the Shevalier house.

   G. L. Earley from Warren street to the Schouten house.

   Mrs. A. L. Burgess from Front street to Warren.

   J. G. Limburger from Cortland to Warren street.

   G. K. Smith from Warren street to Water.

   D. McBierty from Main street to Cortland village.

   J. H. Hammond from Front street to his farm.

Recommended:
“Remember the Old Fanning Mill?” by RichardPalmer: http://www.crookedlakereview.com/articles/101_135/126winter2003/126palmer3.htm

Rev. James L. Meagher, Ancestry.com: http://boards.ancestry.com/thread.aspx?mv=flat&m=235&p=surnames.meagher 

Horace Greeley: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horace_Greeley