The Cortland Democrat, Friday, December
7, 1888.
VIRGIL.
Mr. Dell Huson met with quite an accident on
Nov. 28. While going into the barn he ran into a scantling and cut his head
quite badly.
Barrett H. Elster was buried on Monday Nov. 26.
Another old resident of Virgil has passed away. One by one the land marks
leave us.
Mr. Abram Chubb of Cortland was buried in
our cemetery on Tuesday of last week.
Harry Ingraham has been doing quite a
business in painting and varnishing cutters in this place. Just in time for the
first sleighing.
The
Virgil factory has sold their fall butter for 26 1/2 cts. a pound, and their
cheese for seven cents a pound.
Hay is selling at ten dollars per ton at the
barn.
The Chrisman school district have a new school
house built this fall and are at present waiting to be accepted by the
district.
Price Rounds has bought the building that
was used at the factory in 1887 for a refrigerator and is moving it home for a
barn. Barnes & Foster do the work.
Thanksgiving passed off very nicely in our
place, with services at the M. E. Church. Elder Gates delivered a very
interesting sermon.
There was at the Thanksgiving gathering at
James Oakes', forty people who partook of oysters and turkey with vivacity, all
enjoying themselves wonderfully, and hoping that they may all meet again under like
circumstances.
At the Thanksgiving party given by our
landlord F. D. Freer, all went off quiet and very nice, there being one hundred
and eighteen couples reported as being present. All speak in the highest of
terms for the music furnished by the Cincinnatus orchestra.
School Commissioner Stillman stopped with
the Virgil people on Monday night.
At the Grange election of officers the
following officers were elected: W. M., Monroe Miller; Overseer, S. D. Deyo;
Lecturer, F. E. Price; Steward, E. V. Price; A. Steward, Warren E. Foster;
Chaplain, E. A. Crain; Treasurer, Wm. Tyler; Secretary, J. H. May; G. K., S. Hutchings;
Pomona, Sally Crain; Flora, Ann Eliza Price; Ceres, May L. Price; L. A. Steward,
Eunice Colligan.
In looking over the proceedings of the Board
of Supervisors [November 1888] as we get them from week to week, we cannot help
but notice the contrast between the various representatives on the present
board, as well as of some that have passed into history. While some of our
former representatives have appeared to represent the interests of individuals instead
of the interests of the town they are chosen to represent, we now have a
man that looks and works for the interests of the over-burdened tax
payers of his town; and when the proceedings of the board come to be examined
by the hosts of tax payers who are to pay all of these expenses, it will be at
least some satisfaction to such members as have shown a disposition for economy
to know that the tax payers appreciate that some of their representatives have
fought a good fight, have kept the faith, and that there is henceforth laid up
for them favors to be conferred. When disbanded from the present session, they
shall return to their respective homes to receive the congratulations of their
constituents.
CUMMIN. [reporter's pen name]
MARATHON.
The tenement block of John Dunphy is well
under way. The roof is being tinned and it is expected the building will be finished
in about six weeks.
The Ida May Burlesque troupe are to be here
on Wednesday of this present week. They give
an entertainment in Hulbert's Opera House.
Henry Boice of Lapeer, while sitting up with
a corpse some few weeks ago, became accidentally poisoned from the liquid used in
covering the face of the deceased. His nose was in a bad condition for several
days, but it is now getting better.
BUYING CABINET OFFICE.
The Talk of Wanamaker and Alger Controlling
the Government With Money.
(Washington
correspondent N. Y. Times)
The two most
prominent names used so far as likely to be included in the Cabinet list are
those of Mr. Wanamaker and Gen. R. A. Alger. The only comment that is
made upon the mention of these names is that they indicate a determination to
reward in proportion to the amount of material aid given to elect Harrison. Mr.
Wanamaker in commonly credited with having raised $400,000 for the campaign. He stands first in the order of eminent Republicans
considered worthy to be advisers to the President. Gen. Alger is spoken of as
having given "liberally." He comes next in the approval of the managers. If this is the plan
upon which the Cabinet is to be constructed it will only be necessary to find
the subscription list in order to learn who the men are to be who will direct
the affairs of the country for four years.
(From the
New York Evening Post.)
Wanamaker
is a man of his time. As a purchaser of political influence and honor, he is the product of a system which
has been in existence and growing for twenty years. He is distinguished simply
by having bid higher than any of his predecessors. He found the practice of
purchasing a claim to high office by heavy contributions in money to the party
funds firmly established before he decided to add a political branch to his huge
store. For fully twenty years the doctrine that a man who subscribed heavily
was entitled to a great place, and justified in feeling swindled if he did not
get it, has been striking deeper roots in the political soil. Wanamaker has paid
so much that he naturally feels entitled to several places, or "a
controlling interest" in the governmental business. In other words, he has
brought us one step nearer to the possibility, which now stares us in the face,
of the purchasing of the entire Administration from the National Committee of
the winning party for a sum which many of our rich men could now afford to pay
for such a luxury, and which, as well as we can judge, need not be higher than
say $4,000,000. No such chance has been offered to wealth in the modern world or
in the ancient world since the Praetorian Guard sold the Roman Empire at public
auction.
AN ANARCHIST MEETING.
A Meeting in Chicago Resembling the
Gatherings of Former Days.
CHICAGO,
Nov. 30.—A meeting of 350 people at Thalia Hall, yesterday afternoon, was as
close an imitation as possible of the Anarchist gatherings on the Thanksgiving day
prior to the Hay market outbreak. The speakers were guarded in their
utterances, but the spirit of the assemblage was shown by the distribution
among those present of a number of copies of a hand bill of Herr Moat's, which
caused the disruption in the International Order of 1869, driving out those who
did not believe in dynamite.
The
principal speaker was Albert Curtin. He said the present system of society was
not worth giving thanks for, but was worth cursing to the lowest depths of hell.
Whom should they thank? God? If there was a God, what a monster He must be to
permit so much misery.
Let the fools be thankful for their wickedness. The workmen should stand together
until their ideals of Socialism and Anarchism were fully realized.
PAGE TWO/EDITORIALS.
Barnum
denies the story recently telegraphed from Bridgeport that he had retired from
business. He says that the co-partnership between him and Mr. Baily is for
fifty years.
It is
very thoughtful of the Cleveland Plain Dealer to suggest to the next
administration to ascertain the current price of votes in Canada before
annexing it, and whether they can he delivered in blocks of five. It might be
well to appoint Dudley as a committee of one to investigate this important matter.
— Albany Argus.
The republicans are determined to admit
several of the territories into the Union for the avowed purpose of securing a
few more electoral votes and additional republican Members of Congress and U.
S. Senators. With them, it is not a question as to whether the territories of
the country at large will be benefitted by admitting the former. The only
object in view is to gain some political advantage. As a rule
when territories are admitted, they vote with the administration that was in
power at the time they were admitted to statehood, and as all of the
territories are republican now, the republican party would carry them at the
next Presidential election. While the enemies of the Democratic party will
stoop to almost anything to obtain political advantage, they certainly ought to
have some regard for the fitness of limits. They should not admit territories unless
it can be shown beyond question that they have the requisite population. Some years
since, they admitted Nevada, simply because they desired three more electoral votes
and more representatives in Congress to prevent the Democrats from having a majority
in both houses. The census of 1880 shows that the entire state of Nevada had
only 62,266 population and it has been steadily decreasing since, and yet that barren
desert, with a population about the same as the city of Syracuse, has as much to
say in making the laws of the United States as the great State of New York with
a population of at least 5,000,000. But this is a consideration that will not
weigh with the managers of the Republican party. They are badly frightened, and
they purpose to do everything possible within the next few years, to prevent
the democratic party from again coming into power. Those democrats who were
frightened into voting for Harrison at the last election on account of the
"free trade" bugaboo, must be delighted with the prospect.
FROM
EVERYWHERE.
New York has the largest Jewish population
of any city in the world.
Nine tenths of the crimes in the District of
Columbia are committed by negroes.
A gang of sophomores at Ithaca, Saturday night,
broke into a building occupied by freshmen and stole a flag from the roof. They
did a good deal of damage to the building.
When the news of Harrison's election reached
Avoca, [N. Y.] the Democratic postmaster hung out a placard bearing this
legend: "No Snivel Service here; come and get your post office."
Private Secretary Halford was yesterday in
receipt of a very courteous letter of congratulation from private Secretary Lamont,
kindly offering information respecting the routine business of the executive office.
April 30th, 1889, will be the centennial anniversary
of the inauguration of the "father of his country." The day is a legal
holiday, and it is probable that its celebration in many cities will be a
memorable event. In New York, where the inauguration took place, there will be
a very big time.
Emerson O. Salisbury, aged 30, a lodger at
108 West Forty-fifth street, New York, committed suicide Saturday morning by taking
morphine. He has a sister, Mrs. A. W. Truman, of DeRuyter, N. Y., for whom he
left a letter stating his purpose to end his life, and saying that loss of
money, health and position drove him to suicide. His mother lives in Detroit.
On Sunday night two thousand Chicago Anarchists
uproariously cheered a tableau in which an Anarchist waved aloft a crimson banner
and trod under foot the Stars and Stripes. The occurrence took place just
outside the city limits at a meeting of the Socialistic Turn Verein. The
tableau was intended to represent the triumph of Anarchy. The central figure
was a snow white bust of August Spies.
HERE AND THERE.
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| Margaret Mather |
Counterfeit
silver dollars are in circulation.
Margaret
Mather in the Opera House, this evening.
The fall term of Marathon Union school commenced last Monday.
The winter term of Cincinnatus Academy opens
Tuesday, Dec. 11th.
The Homer Band will have a fair in Keator
Opera House. Dec. 18th to 23d.
William Santus and family, of Homer, came
near being suffocated by coal gas on the 25th ult.
Our hand engine has been loaned to Marathon
Fire Department while their engine is being repaired.
David Harrington has sold the stage route
from this place to Pitcher, to Root Thorington of Taylor Centre.
S. A King, formerly proprietor of a hotel in
Binghamton, has purchased the lease and fixtures of the Hotel Windsor, in Homer,
and has taken possession.
The report of Health officer Moore, shows
that for the month of November there were 8 deaths, 17 births, and 5 marriages
in this village. Of the deaths, 6 were males, and 2 females.
Thomas Donnelly, for two years past
conductor on the local freight between Canastota
and Cortland, has been promoted to a passenger conductor and has charge of
trains 5 and 6.—DeRuyter Gleaner.
An exchange states that Mr.
Atkins, of McGrawville, has purchased the Mrs. Ferguson property at Pitcher Springs,
and will erect a summer hotel there at once, having about fifty boarders
engaged for next summer.
The Binghamton Daily Leader
has taken the pains to look up the building question in that
city and finds, as a result, that over 500 buildings have been erected
in that enterprising place since December 1st, 1887. It publishes
the names of the owners and the locations of the buildings.
Frank H. Lewis, who has been
on trial in the County Court of Sessions in the Court House, the past week, was found guilty of forgery in the second
degree. He has not yet been sentenced. Lewis will be remembered as the man who
defrauded the Cortland Wagon Company and others out of considerable quantities of
goods.
The license money, heretofore
deducted from the town tax, is now by law and by vote of the Board of
Supervisors added to the county funds. In this way the no license towns of the
county get the benefit of the license money and fines collected in their
less moral sister towns. While they are above licensing in their towns, they
are not above receiving the license money of the other towns. Consistency is
a jewel.—Marathon Independent.
The Farmers' Institute and the New Way.
The day has passed away when
farming in the old way is profitable, yet it is strange that farmers of all
classes are the most reluctant to avail themselves of new methods. What their
fathers and grandfathers did they are inclined to adhere to regardless of consequences,
while the bright go-ahead men excel in thrift, prosperity and profit. The
average farmer is most adverse to making any changes; he seems, rather, to go
on battling for the mere necessaries of life than to get out of the old ruts.
This is all wrong. If there is any man who needs to study his business, and to
avail himself of every advantage to be gained by new and better methods, it
certainly is the farmer.
We are glad to see that a Farmers'
Institute has been appointed for Cortland to be held on Dec. 17 and 18,
beginning at 10:30 A. M. the first day. The State Society is doing a most
commendable thing in going about in this way to meet the farmers, and we hope
the farmers, and particularly the farmers of this county, will show their
appreciation of this action by turning out in force. The hall should he crowded
at the opening session.
NEIGHBORING COUNTIES.
TOMPKINS.—The bills in the
Barber murder case, it is said, already amount to nearly $12,000.
The great prosperity of
Cornell University is attracting wide spread attention.
A bell weighing 2,400 pounds
has been presented to the Episcopal church of Trumansburg, by Mrs. Dr. Lyman
Congdon.
A new apparatus for separating
and measuring the fat in milk has been received at Cornell University
Experiment Station.
The Cornell Register for
1888-89 has been issued and shows that 1,174 students are registered. Of these
798 are residents of New York state and 38 other states and territories are
represented. Sixteen students are from Canada, and there are students from
England, France, Nicaragua, Brazil, Japan, Sandwich Islands, Turkey, United States
of Columbia, Cuba, Porto Rico and Honduras.
