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A Trip in a Canoe.
While our
townsman D. W. Van Hoesen, Esq., was at Hamilton College, he obtained plans and
specifications for a canvass canoe, which he constructed himself outside of study
hours. It is a frail looking little craft and only weighs 38 pounds, but Mr. Van
Hoesen has sailed down the Mohawk and Hudson rivers in it without accident, and
two years since he started from Brayton's Mills in this village, and went down the
Tioughnioga and Susquehanna rivers to Harrisburg, Pa., coming home by rail. The
canoe will carry besides two persons, considerable luggage, which is stowed
away in the fore and aft water-tight compartments.
On
Wednesday morning, in pursuance of a plan long contemplated, Mr. and Mrs. Van
Hoesen took the 6 o'clock train for Tully, and at about 7:30 o'clock the canoe was
pushed from the bank on Tully lake bound with its occupants for Cortland. Although
the water was high and the current in the streams strong, they passed through
the Tully, Goodell [Goodale] and Little York lakes, and their outlets without
accident until about 1 1/2 miles this side of Little York, when the current got
the best of them and flung them against the top of a tree, and out into about
four feet of swiftly running water. They managed with some difficulty, to reach
the bank and Van Hoesen ran below and overhauled the craft, when they again got
on board and came safely through to Brayton's Mills in this village, where they
landed at 5:30 P. M., somewhat wet but in good spirits. Fortunately they are
none the worse for the impromptu bath and insist that they had a splendid ride
and an enjoyable time generally.
Cortland Sportmen's Club.
Last
Monday evening several members of the sporting fraternity in this vicinity, met
at the residence of A. M. Schermerhorn on Tompkins-st. in this place, and organized
the Cortland County Sportsmen's Club. The following are the charter members: A.
M. Schermerhorn, W. H. Newton, E. C. Rindge, J. D. Schermerhorn, L. W. Porter,
Edward Harrington,W. A. Clark. A. D. Wallace, Chas. Randall, Chas. T. Smith and
E. A. Williams. The following annual
members were elected: David Morris, Edward Moran, Peter Nodecker, Putnam
Martin, A. J. Barber. Many persons from other towns in the county have filed
applications to become members and will be admitted as it is designed to be a
county organization. Wednesday afternoon of each week was selected as the time
for trap shooting which takes place on the grounds of the Cortland and Homer
Gun Club just north of the gas works [north of Central N. Y. Living History
Center—CC editor]. The following officers were chosen for the ensuing year:
Captain
and President—A. M. Schermerhorn, of Cortland.
Lieutenant—E.
A. Williams, of Homer,
Secretary
and Treasurer—E. C. Rindge, of Cortland.
One of
the principle objects of the association will be the stocking of the streams in
the County with game fish and the protection of game and fish therein. Parties found
hunting or fishing out of season or breaking the game laws of the state in any particular
will be promptly and vigorously prosecuted.
A
committee was appointed to submit constitution and by-laws for the government of
the club at the next meeting which is subject to the call of the President.
This is a
move in the right direction and if the organization is supported by members from
every town in the county as it should be, the fishing and hunting in this county
ought to be excellent within
the next two years. There are no better trout streams any where than those in
this county and the lakes and streams will furnish pickerel and bass in plenty,
if illegal fishing is prohibited and poachers promptly punished. There would be
fair sport for the hunter also if the laws were lived up to.
It is to
be hoped that the lovers of this sort of sport in every town in the county, will
join the club and assist in preserving the fish and game.
Plum Loomis in Trouble Again.
Chief of
Police Dagwell, of Utica, with a posse made up of other officers of that city
and Rome, visited the farm house of William Loomis, north of Higginsville, at about
4 o'clock Saturday morning, in search of Plumb Loomis and Jos. Dunn, who were
wanted to answer a charge of burglary committed in Waterville about a year ago,
and for which both men bad been indicted. The house was surrounded by the officers
and on entering, Plumb was found in bed, and captured without resistance. He
denied that he had been in hiding, as claimed, but "would have gone to
Utica on receipt of a postal card saying that he was wanted."
His case
had been called on Friday, when he failed to put in an appearance, as had also
Dunn, whose whereabouts are not known, and he has probably made good his escape. Loomis was taken to Utica jail
to await the result of the trial. Let the outcome be what it may, the affair is a tame one compared with the
exciting experiences and tragedies connected with the earlier history of the once
notorious gang, of which Plumb was
one of the chief actors.
FROM EVERYWHERE.
The wool
hat trust has collapsed.
Kansas
has 50,000 colored residents.
There are
80,000 Alliance men in Georgia.
Cuba is
beginning to ship molasses in bulk.
There are
nearly 300 Arabians in St. Louis.
Arctic
whalebone now sells for $6 a pound.
A new
Opera House is again talked of for Binghamton.
Owego's
Soldiers Monument will be dedicated July 4th.
The
assembly has passed the bill making Good Friday a legal holiday.
Bond
& McCollom, of Whitney's Point marble dealers, have assigned [bankrupt].
America's
first metallic tin ingot was made March 20 at Cajalco, Cal.
Two men
killed seventy-seven muskrats, while floating in a boat from Oxford to Brisbin,
during high water.
It is
worth knowing that the taking of a pension certificate as a pledge for a debt is
a misdemeanor punishable by a fine of $100.
The big
Buffalo bucket shop of G. L. Allen & Co. has collapsed, with unpaid debts
of $75,000. The firm had seventy offices in the country.
Harriet
Dutcher died in the Washington county poor-house last week, aged 116 years. She
was the first white person registered there, April 12, 1834.
Geo. I.
and D. F. Wilber have purchased of J. D. Rockefeller, president of the Standard
oil company, a white female fawn deer, to be placed in the Wilber park at
Oneonta. This stock was imported from Africa by Mr. Rockefeller some six years
ago, and are very rare.
Clark's Arcade, the largest structure in Elizabeth,
N. Y., containing the post office, headquarters of the New York & New Jersey
Telephone company, the Third Regiment armory, the District court and many law
and other offices was burned Monday. The total loss is estimated at $400,000.
Asked
about the future of the great show, Mr. Bailey, Barnum's partner, said: "Barnum
& Bailey had articles of agreement drawn expressly stipulating that "in
case of the death of either the show would go on, as usual. This agreement was
also made binding upon the respective heirs and assigns, so that it became and
is an absolute and imperative condition."
In Starke
county, Ind., Fred Smith, 14 years old, was shot dead by his cousin, Amil
Smith, 19 years of age. Smith and his brother were sawing wood when Amil, who
had been hunting, approached them. In a playful manner the hunter said to Fred
that he could kill him, and, without further ceremony, pulled the trigger, killing
him instantly.
Old Dan Rice, after a retirement of years, is soon to re-enter the sawdust arena again.
Old Dan is the oldest and most popularly known man ever seen in the circus ring.
His new show will be a big one-ring affair, with all the novelties. He will
open in Jersey City on the 15th of May, after which he will hover around the
places on the Sound, by boat—later in the season he will travel by rail.
A big row
is brewing between the northern and southern wings of the Farmers' Alliance. Captain Power, who is in Cincinnati to
arrange for the convention of May 19th, says that the Southern members are
treating it coldly. He doubts whether any Southern States will be represented, besides
Texas and Missouri. The meeting is to further the third party movement, which
is very strong among the Western members, while the Southern alliance is opposed
to the idea. The latter are urging a postponement until next February.
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