The
Cortland Democrat, Friday,
September 16, 1887.
Human
Nature.
Those who want to enjoy a hearty laugh should
go to see "Human Nature" at the Opera House on Monday evening,
September 19. The play abounds in satirical situations and mirth-provoking
climaxes.
Richard
O'Gorman, who plays the leading character, is one of the cleverest comedians before
the public. As a vocalist and dancer he is unequaled. His supporting company
includes some of the brightest and most entertaining of artists. Some remarkably fine scenery will be
exhibited, and the company carries its own Orchestra and Brass Band.
South Main Street to be Paved.
Last
week the village trustees let the contract for paving a portion of the
west side of South Main street, to John C. Townsend of Breesport, N. Y. Fire
brick, said to be very durable, will be used. It will be remembered that at the
last charter election the sum of $1,500 was appropriated for the purpose of paving
this street as far as that amount of money would go. The contractor thinks that
this sum will pave the west side of the street from the Messenger House [corner
Port Watson Street and Main Street—CC editor] to Argyle Place.
Street
Superintendent Dowd is busy with a force of men and teams, cleaning up the
street, and Mr. Townsend expects to commence work on Monday next. It would have
been a wise thing if a sum sufficient to pave the entire street had been appropriated
last spring and it is not at all unlikely that, should the trustees see fit to call
a special election for the purpose, the electors would vote to raise the sum
needed.
That street
is nearly impassable during the spring and fall, owing to the heavy loads that
are constantly being hauled over it, and a good substantial pavement would be a
great improvement and one that is much needed.
Progressive Euchre.
Last
Tuesday evening about forty invited guests assembled at the residence of Mr. and
Mrs. J. Dayton Beach on Tompkins St. and indulged in this delightful game. At
eleven o'clock refreshments consisting of the delicacies of the season were
served after which the game was resumed. Mrs. Jane Newkirk, and Mr. A. M.
Schermerhorn preserved well earned reputations as card players, by carrying
off the large prizes.
Mr.
Fitz Boynton and Mrs. J. F. Maybury, secured the prizes awarded to the poorest players.
The writer stood an even chance with the banker for one of the latter prizes, but
an unlucky cut of the cards ruined his prospects The party broke up at an early
hour, after a most enjoyable occasion.
The Utica, Cortland and Chenango Road.
Three
or four weeks since, we announced, on information received from Mr. Hayes, the
President, that this road was soon to be built. Hon. O. U. Kellogg, acting for
parties whose names, for sufficient reasons, have not been made public, made a
proposition to the directors of the road promising to complete the road to
McGrawville within one year, and to complete the same to Cincinnatus within
three years, the old company to perfect the title to the road-bed and to have
the line put in the same condition it was in when work was abandoned. The
directors at once accepted the proposition, and the building of the road will
soon be commenced.
Map of Cortland.
A
representative of the well known publishing firm of J. W. Vose & Co., of
New York is in town, with a view of publishing a
map of this village. Should he receive a sufficient number of orders to warrant
the enterprise the necessary surveys will be commenced in a few days. The map
will be neatly engraved on a scale of 250 feet to the inch, showing the streets
with their names, boundary lines of the wards and their numbers. The different
lots with their numbers, upon which will be located the buildings designated by
color, to show the material of which they are built, and names of owners of
each. All railroads, Street Railway, School Districts and the Fire Limits,
etc., also Public Buildings designated by name, cemeteries, and public grounds
handsomely colored. The whole to be printed on heavy paper, backed with cloth,
colored by wards, nicely varnished and mounted on rollers. Such a map would prove
a great convenience to every body and we hope the enterprise will receive that measure
of encouragement which its merits deserve.
Rev. O. F. Ingoldsby.
The
examination of the Rev. O. F. Ingoldsby, of Eddytown, Yates County, charged with
obtaining ten shares of the stock of the First National Bank of Cortland, from
Mrs. Lucy Tanner of South Cortland, by false pretenses, was in progress when we
went to press last week. The examination was concluded on Friday and Mr.
Ingoldsby was held to appear before the grand jury. Judge Knox fixed the bail
at $2,000, which the Rev. Ingoldsby was unable to obtain and he was
consequently lodged in jail.
On
Saturday a Mr. Brown of Eddytown, appeared and gave bail for his appearance and
he was released. An action has been commenced against the Starkey Seminary to recover
the stock and Judge Knox has granted an injunction restraining them from disposing
of the same.
New Omnibus.
The
Cortland Omnibus and Cab Co., have just completed a splendid new two horse omnibus
for the Cortland House. The gear is painted green, striped in olive and the panels
are carmine. The inside is trimmed with cardinal mohair plush. The window and
door mountings are of nickel and the ventilators are of stained glass. The
landscape decorations throughout are very neat and appropriate and must have been
the work of a genuine artist. The Cortland busses [sic] have a world-wide reputation
for both style and excellence and we are glad to know that the company find it
impossible to keep up with their orders.
Obituary.
Dr.
John B. Benton died at Owego, Sunday morning, Sept. 11, 1887, age 76 years. Born
in Virgil, Cortland Co., studying his profession here at Cortland, he graduated
in Madison in 1842. He began practicing the healing art in Spencer, Tioga Co., where
he married a daughter of Judge Fisher. Afterward he returned to Owego and for a
while lived on a farm at Tioga Centre where he also responded to calls in his
profession.
Twice
married he leaves two children by his first wife and one by the latter. While be
lived among us, he was noted for his urbanity and integrity and made many warm
friends. His pen was often employed on political, social, poetical or medical subjects
and there never lived a warmer friend, more ardent patriot or sincere Christian
or more genial citizen, than our lamented friend who will on Tuesday next at 12
M. find his resting place at his early home, Spencer.--H.
Gov. Hill to Cortland.
Gov.
D. B. Hill arrived in Cortland at 6:30 Wednesday afternoon from Syracuse on his
way to Ithaca where he spoke at the fair yesterday. Ha was considerably
surprised to find that he would have to remain in Cortland over night before he
could get a train to his destination.
After tea he held an impromptu reception in the parlors of the Messenger
House, and a large number of our citizens of all parties availed themselves of
the opportunity to pay their respects
to the Chief Magistrate of the State. The Governor conversed freely with all and
showed pretty conclusively that he had convictions on all public questions and
was not at all afraid to give than expression.
At
about 9:30 the Mechanics Band attended by a large crowd of people gave him a
serenade and Gov. Hill made a speech from the balcony of the hotel. He
intimated that the application which had been pending for some time, for leave
to organize a military company in this place would be granted. All who met the
Governor, expressed themselves as being very favorably impressed with his
intellectual qualifications and his sociability, in fact they all voted that he
was, a "Jim Dandy."
The Dog Races.
The
dog races to be held each day during the county fair will undoubtedly be very interesting.
We clip the following notice from the Brockton, Mass., Enterprise:
The crowd seemed to get as much amusement out of
the dog races as from any of the events. It was a race that was up and up, and
the one that could "get there" the fastest won, the pool box not
entering into the scheme. The dogs are evidently of the hound species and are
built on a plan that is calculated to make runners. They are thin, quick, and
nervous. The canines seem to enter into the sport with great zest, and it is worth
something to see how anxious they are to be off. The distance they race is about
200 yards. The dogs were taken up near the distance pole where the start was to
be made. One of the trainers then ran down the track with a large piece of
white cotton cloth in his band. As soon as he started the dogs would fix their
eyes on the cloth in his hand and be impatient to start. When he had reached a
point 300 yards, he stopped, and the dogs were then loosened. There were three
in each heat, and the way they would bound towards the white cloth held by the
trainer was a caution. They were speedy and well matched, and made the race an
exciting one. The first one to reach the goal would be given one piece of the
cloth and the second the other. The third would be left without any, and he would
promptly proceed to try and get one of the pieces from the others, a lively scramble
ensuing. Three races were run and each was enjoyed by the large crowd.
The County Fair.
Besides the usual exhibition of fine horses, cattle, sheep and other
live stock, the speed contests to take place on each day, will be well worth
the price of admission to the grounds. The following is the programme:
TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 27TH.
Named Race, Purse $50.
Running Race, Purse $50.
Dog Race, PURSE $150.
WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 28TH.
2:35 Class, Purse $150.
Running Race, Purse $100.
Dog Race, Purse $150.
THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 29TH.
2:50 Race Purse $150.
Free for All, Purse $200.
Dog Race, Purse $150.
All
purses divided as follows: First horse 50 per cent, second horse 25 per cent,
third horse 15 per cent, fourth horse 10 per cent. Purses not otherwise
specified are for trotting.
All
trotting races, mile heats, 3 in 5 to harness and will be governed by the rules
of the American Trotting Association. Four entries required to fill and three
to start. Entry fee, ten percent of purse. Horses will be called at 2 o'clock
P. M. each day. A horse distancing the field, or any part thereof, will receive
but one premium.
If,
owing to bad weather, or any other unavoidable cause the Society shall be
unable to start one or more of its races on or before 3 o'clock P. M. of the last day, such race or
races shall be declared "off," and the entrance money will be
refunded. No premiums to ruled-out horses.
Address
all communications, entries, etc., to H. H. GREENMAN, Sec'y.
Natural Gas at Wolcott.
Wolcott,
N. Y., Sept. 13.—A strong vein of gas was struck at the Wolcott gas well this
afternoon at a depth of 2,100 feet. The force threw the gravel and water to the
top of the derrick, seventy-five feet high. Drilling continues and the force continues
to increase. The people are excited and confidant of heat and light sufficient
for the town.
Who Will Pension the Taxpayer?
(Alta California)
The
new pension bill which the Grand Army of the Republic is asked to indorse [sic] at
St. Louis calls for about $150,000,000. All right. The call is loud enough to
be heard without an ear trumpet. But who will pension the taxpayers when they
are disabled in trying to supply the money?
The Wrath of Cortland.
(From the Syracuse Courier, Sept. 10.)
There
is something minimal in the way the Cortland Standard froths and foams
and alternately threatens and cajoles, in discussion of the question of filling
the vacancy in Congress for this district. Our Cortland friend seems to have
just now been awakened from a Rip Van Winkle nap of at least 20 years, and only
just now to have learned that little Cortland has been all this while an abused
child. When told that this abuse has been going on for decades, our Cortland friend
would doubtless reply: "I don't care; I only heard of it yesterday."
It
will take something more than the Cortland Standard’s bluster to
convince the voters of Onondaga county, that the voters of Cortland suffer any
great distress on account of the denial to them of their "rights,'' in the
various "deals" with Onondaga. Indeed, this is the first time the Cortland Standard
itself has ever been heard to peep a word of protest. And yet, as we have said,
this faith-breaking on the part of the Onondaga branch of the Republican party
has been going on for years.
Time
and time again, the Democratic party has given the Cortland Republicans a
chance to right their wrongs, and they have as often spurned the opportunity. When
the Onondaga Republicans, by virtue of their overpowering numbers in convention
have, year after year, gobbled up Congressional and Senatorial nominations, the Democrats, scrupulously observing the
proprieties and the amenities, which should hold among neighbors, have put in
nomination Cortland candidates worthy of an unanimous Cortland support. How
this tender of the olive branch has been received everybody knows. If
"little Cortland" was burning to maintain her rights, here were golden
opportunities ruthlessly thrown away.
It's
rather late in the day, now, for the Cortland Republicans to be displaying
their sores and asking sympathy. They are not barred by the statute of
limitations. They have stoned away the day of grace. And when the Cortland Standard,
therefore, threatens a bolt, we don't believe a word of it. There isn't
spirit enough left in the Cortland Republicans to kick against their Onondaga
masters.
HERE AND THERE.
Don’t
fail to see the dog races at the fair, Sept. 27th, 28th, 29th.
The Republican
Congressional Convention will be held in Syracuse, on Monday, Sept. 26th.
H. C.
Harrington has moved his music store from the Standard building to No. [9] Port Watson street.
"Human Nature" is the name of a new comedy that will be
produced in the Opera House next Monday evening.
Trains No. 15 and 16, leaving Canastota at 6 P. M. and Camden at 7 A.
M., on the E. C. & N. road, have been discontinued.
The
Cortland Top and Rail Company have a fine lot of their goods on exhibition at
the State Fair now being held in Rochester.
Mr.
Rosell Knapp fed the thumb on his left hand to a buzz planer in the Hitchcock
Manufacturing Company's shops, last Friday night.
The Southern
Central depot in Dryden was partially destroyed by fire last Monday, the roof
having caught fire from a spark from a locomotive.
Subscribers to the DEMOCRAT who are more than one year in
arrears, must settle their accounts at an early date, or they will be left for
collection.
Orris
Hose Company, accompanied by Mechanics' Band, went to Auburn last Tuesday to
take part in the annual parade of the Fire Department in that city. They
returned about 1 o'clock Wednesday morning.
It
may be of advantage at this season of the year to have recalled to mind that a piece
of zinc placed on the live coals in a hot stove, will effectually clean out a stove
pipe, the vapors produced carrying off soot by chemical decomposition.
Last
Friday night burglars broke into the Office in David H. Hannum's barn in Homer and
carried off a trunk containing clothing and thirty dollars in money belonging
to John Hassett, who is in Mr. Hannum's employ. There is no clue to the
thieves.
The
ladies of the Cortland W. C. T. U. are making arrangements for feeding the hungry
during the county fair. The bill of fare for dinner and list of articles in the
lunch department will be all that could be for excellence and variety, and will
be adapted to all conditions of pocket and appetite.
Last
week Wednesday, Henry Cady, night watchman at the E. C. & N. Railway Company's round house in this place, left town.
This is said to be the third time he has left his wife and two children. He wrote
his wife from Syracuse, saying that by the time she received the letter he
would be safe in Canada.
One
of the neatest jobs of painting, so pronounced by good judges, that has been done
in Cortland this season, can be seen at the “Riverside," the residence of
Hon. O. U. Kellogg. The body of the house is of a delicate cream color, with
main trimmings of yellow stone, while the blinds and sash are old gold, and
with Venetian red for the roof makes a striking, and, at the same time
harmonious combination, and in keeping with the pleasant surroundings of Mr. Kellogg’s
stock farm. The improvement is well worth a drive down the river to see. Mr. S.
B. Pierce, of Marathon, formerly
of Blodgett’s Mills, is credited with the workmanship, and the celebrated
John's Asbestos paint, sold by Brown & Maybury, the druggists, was used
throughout.
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