LAST WEEK'S BLIZZARD WAS A SUCCESS

The Cortland Democrat, Friday, March 23, 1888.

Blodgett’s Mills.

   "Nothing succeeds like success." Last week's blizzard was a success surely. In fact it succeeded in keeping every one at home, and was a success in blowing every "item" away, and heaping up the snow like miniature mountains.

   The warm sugar festival was postponed until next week, Tuesday evening.

   Miss Carrie Baum, of Freetown visited Miss Jennie Stafford recently.

   Mrs. J. H. Rease is visiting friends in Baldwinsville.

   Charles Sperry has returned from Minnesota, where he has been spending a number of weeks visiting friends.

   Active preparations are being made by the M. E. Sabbath school, for a concert on Easter evening.

   Mr. J. Branch is very sick with pneumonia.

   Mr. and Mrs. H. T. Coon of Homer visited at Fred Kinney's last Saturday.

   A number of Good Templars from Virgil visited the B. M. Lodge last Friday evening.

   Mrs. Frank Meacham of Michigan is visiting her sister, Mrs. S. B. Smith.

World Building, New York City.

FROM EVERYWHERE.

   The Ithaca Gun Works turned out 4,000 guns last year.

   Oneonta is to have free postal delivery, commencing April 1, 1888.

   Hornellsville becomes the twenty eighth city in the State of New York.

   Sidney has a few cases of smallpox, and has had several fatal ones of spinal meningitis.

   In the Boston walking match, Cartwright made 207 miles in 48 hours, beating the world's record.

   Mrs. Sarah Rogers, a colored woman, died at Cobleskill, N. Y., on the third inst., aged 104 years.

   The New Cayuga County Board of Supervisors consists of twenty-four Republicans and nine Democrats.

   The World says the 9,000 Chinese residents of New York city spend $468,349.75 annually for opium smoking.

   Aunt Carry Currie, living near Middletown, is in her 108 year. She is probably the oldest person in the state.

   At Warsaw Thursday Judge Haight resentenced Bob VanBrunt, the Castile murderer, to be hanged April 13th.

   Charles Johnson, the murderer of Turnkey Walter, was resentenced Tuesday of last week, to be hanged at Waterloo, N. Y., on Friday, April 27.

   John Reynolds, one of the survivors of the famous charge of the six hundred at the battle of Balaklava in the Crimean war, died at his home in Buffalo last Tuesday.

   Every square mile of land in Great Britain and Ireland has to support 200 persons, and in Germany 216 persons. Every square mile in the United States has to support only fourteen persons.

   Mrs. Henrietta Snell, widow of the late Amos J. Snell, of Chicago, offers $10,000 reward for the arrest and detention, until identified, of William B. Tascott, the supposed murderer of her husband.

   The Cattle Trust of Denver, Col., has closed a contract with the French Government to supply the French army with 150,000 head of beef cattle annually. The cattle will be slaughtered at Chicago.

   The National Exchange Bank of Auburn has obtained judgments to the amount of $36,000 against Joseph W. Dunning & Co., of that city. Mr. Dunning has been a heavy dealer in pig iron, and has met with many losses the past year.

   Congressman Scott of Pennsylvania is not quite 60 years of age, is worth $20,000,000, and employs 10,000 men. When he was still in his teens he was a page in the National House of Representatives, and thirty years ago he was a fish peddler in Erie, Pa.

   Some negroes who undertook to set up with a corpse at Middletown one night recently, took the corpse from the table on which it laid, stood it up in a corner, and on its "refusing to drink" pelted the body with missiles. The corpse was found on the floor in the morning.

   French's hotel building, New York, has been sold to Joseph Pulitzer, proprietor of the New York World, who will erect a big building for the World on the site. As is generally known, the site upon which the well-known structure stands is among the most desirable in the city for newspaper purposes. It occupies the entire block in Park Row, between Frankfort street and the Bridge entrance.

To Rent.

   An elegant suite of rooms in the Squires Building. Rent, $9. Inquire of James S. Squires.

Collars for Dogs.

   Mr. Cornwell, of Yates County, introduced in the Assembly at Albany a bill providing that the owner of every dog in the state shall place on the animal a collar bearing the name of the owner. Dogs without collars may be shot.

Page two advertisements, Cortland Democrat, March 23, 1888.