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| The Central School was opened in April 1893. |
The Cortland Democrat, Friday, March 20,
1891.
PAGE FOUR/EDITORIALS.
We sincerely hope the Republican board of
school commissioners will show that the confidence reposed in them by the voters
of this village has not been unworthily bestowed. We believe they will endeavor
to discharge their duties honestly and well, because they are good business men
and honest citizens. The fact that Democratic taxpayers were willing to vote to
tax themselves to raise $30,000, to be placed in these gentlemen's hands to be used
in paying for a site and building a new school building, speaks well for them. If
they were not good men Democrats would not have voted to place so large a sum
of money in the hands of a strictly partisan board. If, however, the board had
been composed of equally as reputable Democrats, would the Republican taxpayers
of this village have voted to place such a sum in their hands? We believe not.
Certain fair-minded Republican citizens undertook
to have the Republican convention nominate two Democrats and two Republicans to
make up the four commissioners to be elected at the recent charter election,
but the politicians would not consent to it and of course the better element in
the party, who were in favor of the schools being kept out of politics, were forced
to succumb. It does seem as though the managers of the Republican party in this
place would be ashamed of the amount of cheek they display on every occasion.
It was the height of impudence for them to refuse to have a single Democrat on
the board of nine school commissioners, and then expect Democrats to vote to
put $30,000 in the hands of an exclusively Republican board to spend. We call
attention to the fact simply to show how much more liberal minded the Democrats
of Cortland are than the Republicans.
Ancient as well as modern philosophers contend
that all mankind are more liable to tell the truth than they are to tell an untruth,
for the reason that the truth first takes possession of the mind and it requires
an effort to dislodge it. This rule may be and doubtless is correct in most cases,
but we venture to assert, that there are some people whose minds are
constructed on a different plan. With them when the false once takes possession
of the mind, it never vacates, and it is just as impossible for the truth ever
to find lodgement therein, as it is to fill a jug with water that is already filled
to overflowing with Castor oil. With these persons, the false arises first and
takes possession, the truth cannot enter and after repeated failures makes no
further attempt. Some of these persons acquire the habit, some are born so and
still others take pains to add the habit to their natural talent in the
direction of falsification.
The editor of the Cortland Standard denies
that the conduct of the election at the recent town meeting was unfair and
disgraceful, except as a Democratic mob made it so, and charges that Gov. Hill
refused to allow the law to be amended in such a manner that the election
could be conducted in an orderly manner. All that the amendment asked was, that
the law should not apply to town meetings. If the law is necessary at all, it
is just as needful at town meetings as at the general elections, and the
legislature was right in refusing to allow the amendment to pass. The ballot
law was passed by a Republican legislature and if it failed to work to the
satisfaction of the heelers of the party, Democrats were not to blame.
The fact that members of the Republican
League were allowed inside the polling place, that they were permitted to enter
booths with voters contrary to law, that the members of the board were all republicans,
that the constables in attendance to preserve order were of the same political
persuasion, that they permitted republicans to jump the railing instead of taking
their place in the line as Democrats were forced to do if they voted at all,
can be proven beyond a question of doubt.
The DEMOCRAT can prove also, that Republican
candidates were permitted to distribute pasters within the rail contrary to law,
and that workers were allowed to electioneer within 150 feet of the polls.
These are not mere assertions but facts that can be proven to the satisfaction
of any one but the editor of the Standard. The Republicans had the power in their hands and they determined to make
a farce of the election and they succeeded. Many respectable Republicans were
disgusted with the manner in
which their party was conducting
the election and were free to say
so. A Republican lawyer and official is reported to have said to the board, that "It was doubtful if the law would warrant them in their methods of
conducting the election."
It would be far better for our
neighbor to learn the facts before he makes such sweeping denials. We do not
expect that he will ever be brought to see or feel the truth, but he ought not
to wade so deep in the mire at the other end of the line. Possibly he will deny
that, contrary to law, some of the republican candidates at the charter
election were allowed to fill the booths with their pasters. The Ballot Reform
pleases Democrats where it is properly observed, but not where its provisions are
ruthlessly trampled upon.
In another column will be
found a full account of the uprising of the people in New Orleans last
Saturday, and the consequent shooting of the Italians who had been tried and
acquitted of the murder of Chief of Police Hennessy last October. It was
charged that the jury that acquitted them had been bribed, and that at least some
of the accused belonged to a secret organization known as the Mafia, and had been
driven out of their own country. Acts of lawlessness are to be deprecated always,
but sometimes an outraged public has no other alternative but to take the law
in their own hands. When crime goes unpunished by the courts, the people from whom
the power to punish originates, sometimes assume the power delegated to others,
and mete out justice to offenders.
In their own country the Mafia
are reported to be a secret organization of banditti and assassins. If they
have been banished from home and come to America with the idea of preying upon
the people, they must not complain if the people take summary measures to
suppress them. The threats of the Italians of Chicago and other cities will not
be heeded. If these men had been citizens of any other country or even native Americans,
the result would under the same circumstances have been the same. The shooting
was not on account of race prejudice, but because of a failure of justice and
the fact that those who were killed were believed to belong to a secret order
of bandits.
LEASED BY THE CENTRAL.
The Ogdensburg Road Becomes Vanderbilt
Property.
NEW YORK, March 15.—The Rome, Watertown
& Ogdensburg railroad will hereafter be known as a Vanderbilt
property. For many days there has been a lively contest between the New York
Central and Hudson River railroad and the Canadian Pacific railroad, as to which would ultimately secure the
controlling interest in the property. The question was definitely settled at
noon yesterday, when a ninety-nine years' or a perpetual lease of the
Ogdensburg road was executed to the New York Central people. The exact terms of
the lease was not made public, except that they provide for the payment of 5
per cent yearly on the outstanding capital stock of the Ogdensburg company.
The fight between the
Canadian, Pacific and the New York Central has been a hot one for several weeks
past. Last Thursday it was announced that the Canadian Pacific had probably secured control of the road. The mere announcement
seems to have aroused the New York Central people to activity which met with
success. The absorption of this road by the New York Central gives the latter
control of the Adirondack region of New York State. It also gives it the
control of the passenger and freight traffic from the principal points on the
St. Lawrence river, and along the south shore of Lake Ontario from Ogdensburg
to the Niagara river.
NEIGHBORING COUNTIES.
CHENANGO.—McDonough is said to
produce more maple sugar than any town in the county.
Geo. W. Brooms of Norwich has
a novelty in a colt foaled last August. Instead of hair this colt is covered
with wool.
The manager of Henry's Burlesque
Company was fined $10 at Norwich for exhibiting objectionable photographs of scantily
dressed females.
Ed A. Potter, a former employe
[sic] in that office, has become proprietor of the Otselic Herald, and
taken possession. Ex-editor Davenport has entered a Medical College at
Burlington, Vt.
At North Pitcher the freshet
of the 25th ult. was the heaviest in many years. The iron bridge near Eugene
Franklin's was carried down the stream, and D. W. D. Smith's flume was washed
out.
Dr. George D. Johnson had a
white owl on exhibition last week. He was caught in a Coventry farmer's hen
house. When the farmer entered his hen house Thursday morning, the owl flew on
to his head and commenced a vigorous pecking, but was killed in short order.
Hon. H. A. Truesdell on Monday
evening introduced a bill in the Assembly, to consolidate the offices of
Superintendent of the Poor and the keeper of the poor house of Chenango county.
It is proposed to make the Superintendent of the Poor also keeper of the poor
house, abandoning the office of keeper, thus saving the county about $600 a
year, that being the keeper's salary.
A wedding occurred at the jail
in Norwich, Monday afternoon, the contracting parties being Clarence Mulford,
of Kortright, Delaware county, who was sent up from Oxford for thirty days, for
petit larceny, and Miss Ella Ryder, of Bainbridge. The ceremony was gracefully performed by Justice Nash, in the presence
of a select company of gentlemen friends. The bride's mother was present at the
ceremony.
MADISON.— Fred A. Gates, a
Leonardsville butcher, has skipped out, leaving many creditors and a young wife
and child.
Jonathan Butler, of Oneida,
settled the breach of promise case commenced against him by Miss Jennie Fulton
by paying $2,500.
Charles Butler, a Lebanon lad,
met with a bad accident Saturday, getting an iron bar driven into his head and
through the skull. An operation was performed and his recovery is expected.
TOMPKINS.—The contest over the Fayerweather will is ended and Cornell will get its $200,000.
A very readable little church
paper is issued monthly by the First Baptist church of Ithaca.
The pink-eye is around, and
several severe cases are reported from Lansingville and the lake road.
A flock of wild geese flying
north passed over Myers a few days ago. The lake gulls are congregating in
large bodies. From these and kindred symptoms the weather prophets who dwell on
the wave-dashed shores of classic Cayuga are predicting a warm and early
spring.
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| Railroad Jack, a traveling dog claimed by the Wells-Fargo Co. |
It cost $19,000 to kill an
Indian in the late war.
There are 1,198 prisoners in
the Elmira Reformatory.
Anna Dickinson is slowly
improving at the Dansville Asylum.
The Waterloo Woolen company
employs 420 hands and pays $13,000 per month in wages.
Farmers, plant one bean in
each hill of potatoes and thereby get rid of potato bugs. Try it.
Hiram Smith, of Lisle Village,
was found dead in his barn Monday afternoon. Heart disease caused his death.
A Seneca Falls physician is
said to have in his possession a lizard seven inches long, which came from a
man's stomach.
Railroad Jack, the celebrated
traveling dog, was in town last week and visited Oswego and other points at his
leisure.
Probably the longest runaway
record was recently made by an Ithaca [horse] team, which was stopped at
Watkins after running thirty miles.
Frank Fish, the Canandaigua
murderer has had his sentence commuted by Gov. Hill to life imprisonment. Fish
was to have been electrocuted at Auburn prison, where he is now confined,
sometime this month.
Distinctive gowns will be worn
by the Chancellor, deans and professors of the faculty of Syracuse University
at commencement hereafter, and the seniors are also to inaugurate the old
custom of wearing the class cap and gown.
A gang of one hundred men have commenced work
at Watertown laying track for the Camden, Watertown & Northern railway, the
extension of the Elmira, Cortland & Northern to Watertown. The move which
was sudden and unexpected at so early a date, is made to head off the Rome,
Watertown & Ogdensburg, which had filed a map and had material on the ground
for a branch conflicting with the route, and was preparing to go to work within
a few days.
A New York horse life
insurance company, insuring only sound and generally young animals, worth
between $100 and $400 each, reports that of 704 horses dying within the past
five years, 183 died of colic, 77 of inflammation of the bowels, 74 of kidney
trouble, 51 of pneumonia, 52 of sunstroke, 30 of pinkeye, 37 of lockjaw, 23 of
broken legs, 12 of epizootic, 10 of heart disease, 4 of blind staggers, 9
killed by runaways, 4 were drowned, 2 were killed by lightning, 128 died of
unknown diseases, and only 8 were burned.
HERE AND THERE.
Assemblyman
Peck has introduced a bill in the Assembly authorizing the trustees of Cortland
to issue bonds to the amount of $30,000 for a central school building. The bonds
are to draw four per cent interest and be sold not less than par, and $2,000 of
the total is to be paid October, 1891; $6,000 in 1892, $6,000 in 1893, $6,000
in 1894, $5,000 in 1900.
At a
meeting of the Town Board, held last Saturday, B. B. Morehouse was appointed citizen
member of the Town Board of Health, and Dr. M. R Smith, of McGrawrille, was
chosen physician of the board. Justices W. R. Biggar, of Blodgett's Mills, E.
C. Parker, of McGrawville, and Town Clerk W. B. Corcoran were authorized to
issue transit and burial permits.
After
April 1st the store now occupied by Mr. Tim O'Connell as a cigar store will be
occupied by Messrs. Grady A Corcoran, together with the present
wholesale liquor store of Mr. Grady. The partition will be removed, thus making
a commodious store. Cigars and a fine line of tobacconists' supplies will be
added. Mr. Hugh Corcoran, the new member of the firm, is a well known and a
popular young man of Cortland.
Colgate's
new 5 cent toilet soap at Brown & Maybury's drug store.
Cortland
county is represented in Auburn prison by 13 convicts.
The
spring term of McGrawville Academy commences next Monday.
The 45th
Separate Company will have a dance at the armory April 3d.
The
Kindergarten department of Miss Ormsby's school will reopen April 6th.
A full
account of last Saturday and Sunday's [Syracuse] fires will be found on another
page.
Messrs.
W. F. Clark & Co., of Homer, have sold their stock of boots and shoes to Messrs.
A. H. & L. P. Bennett, of the same place, who will continue the business.
Jesse
James, an employe in the Hitchcock shops, lost a finger on his right hand in
one of the planers, last Monday morning. Dr. W. J. Moore dressed the injury.
Last
Monday Wilbur Maltby received a severe scalp wound while at work about one of
the looms in Wickwire Bros.' wire works. Dr. Johnson dressed the injury.
Frank
McCann, a cripple and a tramp, was selling lead pencils on the street, Monday.
The same night officer Sager arrested him for intoxication and lodged him in jail.
The
Willard Y. W. C. T. U. will hold a warm sugar social next week Wednesday evening,
March 25th, at the residence of W. O. Nivison, corner of Church and Port Watson
streets.
Last week
a leak in the water mains near Tisdale's mills, just this side of Homer, was
discovered and repaired. It is calculated that about 1200 gallons of water per day
has been wasted by this leak for some time past.
One day
last week Mr. Eugene Wilcox, of South Cortland, shot a white Arctic owl near
that place that measured 5 feet 2 inches from tip to tip of wing. He was only
slightly crippled and is now on exhibition in a cage.
George
Griffith had an attack of delirium tremens last Monday, and imagined that some
one was trying to cut his throat. Officer Miller took him to jail and his
condition improved under the skillful treatment of a physician.
On
account of the indisposition of District Attorney Bronson, the court appointed ex-District
Attorney I. H. Palmer to prosecute cases on the part of the people during the
present term of court. It is unnecessary to say that business was expedited.
Solomon
Johnson, of Lock Pond, formerly of Homer, who shot one Burdett
Evans, of the first named place a few months
since, wounding him quite severely, was sentenced by Judge Underwood, last
week, to two years and eight months in Auburn prison.
Marathon
charter election occurred last Tuesday. The following ticket was elected: For
President, Theodore L. Corwin; for trustee, for two years, Frank E. Whitmore; for
trustee, for one year, J. C. Davis; treasurer, Lyman Adams; collector, Delos M.
Wheeler.
At the
meeting of the Board of Trustees, held Tuesday evening last, A. B. Springer was
appointed Street Commissioner and Fred Hatch was re-elected Village Clerk. It
is understood that the health board will be appointed at the next meeting, and
that there will be some changes made in the police force.
The
regular meeting of the Women's Christian Temperance Union at the headquarters,
Saturday, 3 P. M., March 4. An hour will be given the local Sup't of Sabbath Observance
to present her cause. All ladies are invited to enjoy the excellent program.
Remember
the meeting of Co. B, Loyal Temperance Legion, at W. C. T. U. rooms, over
Collins' store, on Friday of this week, March 20th, at 3 P. M. Election of
officers and other important business will come before this meeting. All young
people above 12 years of age are earnestly invited.
Aid Asked for the Hospital.
The Board
of Managers of the Cortland Hospital Association has leased the house at 33
Clayton avenue, and has secured a matron. Work will be begun immediately to put
the house in readiness for hospital purposes.
It has
been said that "a hospital stands for the efforts, the gifts, and the self
sacrifice of a multitude of persons." Although many of our citizens have
contributed generous sums of money to start the hospital, yet the co-operation
of a large portion of the community has not been enlisted in the work. In order
that every person may feel a sympathetic and personal interest in the Cortland
Hospital, the Board of Managers invites all persons to contribute something to
aid in its establishment and maintenance.
Gifts of household furniture, especially couches
and easy chairs for the sick-rooms, bedroom crockery, pictures for the walls,
pillows and pillowcases, sheets, blankets, counterpanes, partly worn comfortables
and quilts, table linen, towels, rugs and pieces of carpets will be very
acceptable. These donations may be left at the hospital at any time after March
21, or by notifying any member of the Board, the goods will be called for at
your homes.
Offers of
assistance from the dealers in fuel, groceries, meats, and from the milkmen will
be highly valued—each in its kind will be as valuable as money. If every
household would bear the hospital in mind and contribute occasionally to its needs,
the work of the managers would be greatly lightened. The matron will keep a
book in which she will record all donations not given in money.
Persons
are also invited to donate sums of money. The payment of two dollars
constitutes an annual membership of the Hospital Association—the annual
subscriptions are "the roots that will keep the hospital anchored in your
hearts and homes." All sums of money should be paid to the secretary, Mrs.
Hugh Duffey.
The Board
of Managers hopes and believes that our community will take a deep abiding
interest in the support and welfare of the hospital.
MRS. J.
H. HOOSE, President.
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