GONE TO PHILADEPHIA

The Cortland Democrat, Friday, March 30, 1888.

Gone to Philadelphia in Search of a Boarding House.

   Last Wednesday morning A. B. House and son, contractors in the finishing room at the Cortland Desk Co. shops, failed to make their appearance. Inquiry soon developed the fact that the night before, they had purchased tickets at the D. L. & W. station for Philadelphia and left on the 10:33 P. M. train.

   The Desk Co. pay their men in checks, and last Tuesday was the company's payday. Early that afternoon House and son came into the office and asked that their check be made out and given to them in time to draw their money as they wished to settle at the house where they were then boarding and look up another place. The check was given to them and they left the office. Since then they have not been seen and it is fair to presume that they are now searching for lodgings in the Quaker City.

   Their board bill has been paid, but they are indebted to the city drug store to the amount of about $8, principally for cigars, and about $150 to the men whom they had at work for them. A B. House came to this town from Oxford, where he had been employed in the chair factory. He had no family. The son was married, and with his wife, boarded at the same place with his father.

   A suspicion that everything was not right was excited at the [train] depot when Mrs. House, Jr., purchased three tickets for Philadelphia, and when the flight of the illustrious trio became known there was no difficulty in ascertaining the place to which they had gone. It is to be hoped that the train on which they took their leave met with no accident, and that they are now safely lodged in the city of Brotherly Love.

Frank Hiscock

Page Two/Editorials.

   The Republican State Convention called to choose delegates to the Republican National Convention, will be held in Buffalo, May 16th.

   Judge Ruger, the present Chief Justice of the Court of Appeals of this State, is prominently mentioned as likely to succeed the late Chief Justice Waite on the Supreme bench of the United States. His appointment would be eminently satisfactory to the bar of this State.

   Gen. Adam Badeau has brought an action against the family of the late General Grant to recover several thousand dollars claimed to be due him from the estate for revising and correcting the book of memoirs published by Gen. Grant just before his death. Badeau claims that he put the finishing touches on the book, corrected the grammar, and in some cases rewrote whole pages of the same. Col F. D. Grant and Badeau are having a long controversy through the papers, and much bad feeling is manifested on both sides. The prevailing opinion seems to be that the book was printed about as Grant wrote it, and that Badeau's claim is not entitled to much consideration. Gen. Grant was not a very flowery writer, but he had a very plain and concise style of telling what he knew that answered every purpose.

   Syracuse politicians of the Republican persuasion are trying to get up a little boom for Senator Frank Hiscock, as a candidate for the Republican nomination for President. Senator Hiscock has been a very fortunate man in politics, but we think he will prefer to hold fast to what he now has rather than seek a higher place from a party that has not the power to give it to him. Syracuse has been pretty well taken care of, so far as official position is concerned, and it's about time for our ambitious neighbor to occupy a rear seat for a short period. With two judges of the Court of Appeals, a U. S. Senator, a judge of the U. S. Court, two Supreme Court judges, a State Senator and representative in Congress, besides many other smaller offices, Syracuse people should be contented.

Cincinnatus.

   The birds are again with us, and are trying to make us believe that spring is here, but when we think of the blizzard that succeeded their songs of a few days ago, our faith in them wavers. We dare not hope.

   The witnesses in the Forbes will case are in Cortland this week, attending the trial which has been adjourned so many times.

   Mr. Albert Rice, started for Philadelphia Tuesday morning, where he has gone in search of medical and surgical treatment. Dr. W. S. Carruth accompanied him.

   Our genial drugist, N J. Baldwin, was in Cortland Tuesday, on business.

   Miss Mary Muncy, has gone to Alfred Centre, Alleghany Co , where she will attend school.

   Mr. J. Philley, of McDonough, was in town Tuesday.

   "Whit" Bird, who is in the employ of Chester White, caught a fine large owl recently, which Mr. White decided to have stuffed. The work was done by Prof. F. M. Wilson, in a manner that reflects great credit upon his skill as a taxidermist.

   QUEER PEOPLE. [correspondent’s pen name]

Harford.

   A maple sugar party will be given at Grange hall, on Tuesday evening April 3rd. Good music will be furnished and the youngsters can trip the light fantastic sweetly.

   The man and wife from Solon, hired by Eugene Holdrich, are both sick with measles. Their only child, a babe of 11 months, died Saturday of the same disease. Eugene is just coming down with it. Dr. Hammond is the physician in attendance.

   Judge Milo Madison and Clarissa Day visited at Fred Welters, last Saturday.

   Little Bessie, only daughter of Granville and Mary Brusie, was buried one week ago last Sunday. Mrs. Geo. Conklin, who had suffered some time with consumption, was buried last Thursday. Mrs. Davenport Clark, an aged resident of the town of Richford, was buried last Sunday. All these funerals were held at the church at the Mills. Elder Peck officiated at the first, Eld. E. Tyler at the second, and Eld. I. L. Fletcher at the third.

   Henry C. Vincent has purchased the Jackson farm of Wm. Howard. Consideration twenty seven hundred.

   Oh, Benevolence! Thou art but another name for Republican politics in this town. Thou standeth upon the streets and sayeth to the poor voter, thou art my brother and thy wife is my sister; thou bilchest up thy prancing steeds and drivest afar over hilltops and gorges, and thou sayest to the poor voter, come near unto me voter, that I may shake thy friendly hand with the electioneering grasp, such as thy hand never receiveth from me. Oh, voter but once annually? What, art thou astride the electorial fence? Oh, voter, behold I bring thee yellow gold, saith Benevolence, and I scatter it on this side the fence for thy sake, dear voter, that thou mayest hop down from thy perch thereby relieving thy spinal column. Moreover Benevolence, thou art on the alert on the election morn; and thou watchest with a smile as the wooden-legged soldier approaches thy yard with a load of wood and thou sayest, Oh, wooden legged soldier, I will tender unto thee two fold for thy fuel and thou mayest show thy gratitude by the manner you handle your poll; furthermore, Benevolence, thou sayest to the three-fingered old sailor who is a stranger to the ways of this town (having lived here too short a time to be a resident) behold three-fingered sailor I will give thee a measure of flour, and when thou approach the spot where the poll is stuck up, look then upon this sack of flour and let it constrain thee to use only this ballot which I place in thy three fingers, Oh, sailor; also Benevolence thou trailest thy purple robes in the dingy cellar where thou storeth thy hard cider and thou sayest drink ye all from spigot and bung bole, till alas the three-fingered sailor can no longer walk a plank but falls in the water which runs thick as frothing wine with flour from his punctured sack, and as the poor wife runs out with the ladle to skim what she may from the seething water, he cries, Oh, Benevolence, I can endure thy spigot but I am overcome by thy bung hole.

   JOHN. [correspondent’s pen name]

From Everywhere.

   Syracuse is agitating the question of a new $200,000 city hall.

   The Pope has created Mr. Laubet, of New York, a Roman count.

   The report of the Board of Emigration shows 450,845 immigrants arrived in New York last year.

   The Auburn board of trade has spent $4,630 in the past year towards bringing new industries to that city.

   The Governor has signed the bill appropriating $185,000 for a new asylum for insane criminals at Mattewan.

   A bill has been introduced in the House of Representatives to build a ship canal around Niagara Falls in New York.

   Emerald Hose No. 4 will give a grand ball at Taylor Hall Monday evening next.

Good music in attendance. A cordial invitation is extended to all to be present.

   The New York Mail and Express has been sold to Elliott F. Shepard. It is stated that Mr. Shepard acts for himself and not for any syndicate in purchasing the paper. The price is supposed to be $500,000. Mr. Shepard is a son-in-law of the late William H. Vanderbilt.

   John W. Wogen was arraigned Monday before the Wabash county, Ill., circuit court on a charge of inhuman treatment of an insane daughter. The evidence showed that the girl was confined in a miserable log hut, six by eight feet in size, with a seal partition across the centre. Here for years the girl has been confined, entirely naked, with straw for a bed and covering during the cold weather. Wogen was bound over in the sum of $500.