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| The Floral Trout Park is located between East Avenue and Owen Avenue (upper right corner) on this 1894 map segment. |
Cortland County Teachers' Association.
The
Cortland County Teachers' Association [conference] will be held at Floral Trout
Park, Cortland, N. Y., Saturday, June 27, 1891, from 10 A. M. to 6 P. M.
PROGRAMME.
Music.
"Social
Standing of Teacher," Hattie Pollard, Myra Sweet, Clara Morton.
"Influence
of Teachers Over Pupils Outside of School Hours," Gertrude Elster, Fannie Van Buskirk,
Bessie O'Connell, Ann O'Brien.
Oration—"A
Day Upon the Tioughnioga," Miss A. M. Crane.
"How to Obtain
the Necessary Equipments for Conducting a Modern District School Successfully,"
Mollie Hennessey, H. W. Bradley, Mary Davern.
Recitation,
Minnie Cleary.
"Personality
of Teacher in Teaching," Miss D. N.
Smith, Mary Kerrigan, Mrs. S. M. Briggs, Clara Early.
Music.
"The
Manner of Questioning Pupils," Grace A. Day, Arthur Allen, Lottie Van Hoesen, Frank
Fairbank.
"Shall
Corporal Punishment be Abolished in Our Schools?" Fannie Galusha, Mrs. Fred
Alvord, Anna Hazelton, Henry T. Jones.
Every one
interested in education is invited to come and bring their dinner pail.
W. A.
COON,
L. F.
STILLMAN.
[School Commissioners.]
HERE AND THERE.
Ladies will
be admitted free to seats in the grand stand on the fair grounds throughout the
entire meeting to be held next week.
L. D. C.
Hopkins & Son are supplying the grocers of this place with some of the finest
vegetables that can b e produced anywhere.
Thirty-five
members of Canton Cortland will go into camp in Syracuse, July 8th, to be in
attendance at the first inter-State encampment of the Patriarchs Militant.
Good
order will prevail on the fair grounds throughout the meeting to be held next
week. A competent police force will be in attendance throughout the meeting.
T. Mason
Loring will keep [stage] "Deestrict Skule" in Academy Hall, Homer,
this Friday evening, for the benefit of the building fund of the Baptist
church. Tickets 25 cents each.
Read the
list of entries for the summer meeting to be held on the fair grounds, July 1-4,
which we publish in another column. If you want to see a horse trot, don't fail
to attend.
Cortland
Normal vs. Oneonta Normal ball game was disastrous to the home team by a score
of 5 to 4 at the close of the first half of the ninth inning. William B.
Corcoran, umpire. Game lasted one and one-half hours.
There was
a large audience assembled at the First M. E. church, Monday evening, to listen
to Mrs. Mary Grant Cramer, on "Things you ought to know, " from the temperance
standpoint. The efforts of the W. C. T. U. in securing so entertaining a
speaker were duly appreciated.
The subject
of a local electric light plant occupied the attention of the village board of
trustees at their chambers last Monday night. No conclusions were arrived at,
and the matter was tabled until a future meeting. It is the view of the board
that a larger circuit is for the benefit of the taxpaying community; but how
best to perfect the service requires careful consideration.
William G.
Johnson, money order clerk at the Cortland post-office, was taken ill and
obliged to vacate his desk Monday, June 7th. His death occurred Wednesday afternoon
of the present week at 2 o'clock. Deceased was twenty-two years of age. The funeral will be held from 16 Prospect street,
at 1 P. M., Friday, and will be conducted by the Rev. J. L. Robertson, pastor
of the Presbyterian church, after which the Odd Fellows' services will take place.
The
Trovatiore Banjo, Mandolin and Guitar Club, of Cortland, will give an entertainment
in Cortland Opera House, on the evening of July 10th. The club will be assisted
by the talented elocutionist Miss Villa F. Page, of New Paltz, Mr. F. Mangang,
violinist, Mr. E. W. Drake, of Syracuse, pianist, and Miss Kittie Ray Colvin,
of Marathon, vocalist. The club is composed of some fine musicians, and our
citizens may rest assured that a rare treat is in store for them.
The DEMOCRAT
is under obligations to Mr. F. M. Johnston, the Port Watson Street grocer, for
some of the largest and finest strawberries of the season.
FROM EVERYWHERE.
Great
Britain's national debt amounts at present to $3,492,000,000. It is more than four
times as large as the debt of the United States.
John B. Gaylord,
a well-known carpenter and joiner in Geneva, terminated his life by drowning in
Seneca lake Sunday morning.
Pennsylvania
makes fifty-two out of every 100 tons of rolled iron in the United States, and
sixty-nine out of every 100 tons of steel rails.
The
oldest college in North America was founded in 1531—the College of St.
Ildefonso, in the city of Mexico. The next is Laval College, Quebec, Canada.
Of the
twelve students who entered the competitive examination for Cornell scholarship
at Syracuse, five of those passing the best examinations were from the country schools
and the six poorest were all from the Syracuse High School.
The
financial report for the month of June, issued at Buffalo by the Cigar-makers' International union of America, shows a cash
balance on hand January 1, 1890, of $385,136.54. There was paid out for sick benefits
$13,414.27, out of work benefits $22,760.50 and death benefits $26,043. The balance
on hand January 1, 1891, was $383,072.87.
A large
balloon belonging to Count Apraxine was being inflated with gas near St. Petersburg, Sunday, when it escaped from the
people who were holding it to the ground, and carried upward four workmen who were
in the car. The balloon rose rapidly to a great height and then burst. The bodies
of the four unlucky workmen fell to the ground after the explosion and were smashed
almost beyond recognition.
While out
ginseng hunting near Green lake, Sunday, Erwin C. Dana and Fred Case of Manlius, came suddenly upon a ferocious
looking wild beast, the size of a large dog, with huge paws, a long tail and mouth
full of big teeth. The animal, followed by a small cub, disappeared in the opposite
direction from that taken by the boys, who lit out for the clearing as fast as
their legs could carry them. They believe it was a panther.
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| William Henry Harrison. |
(From our
Regular Correspondence.)
WASHINGTON,
June 22, 1891.—The terrible effects of the crime of "check-kiting" by
private individuals should have been sufficient to have prevented the Treasurer
of the United States from engaging in the reprehensible practice, but they were
not. For two days there were checks outstanding against the Treasury amounting
to nearly one million dollars more than the amount of cash available to pay
them therein. Thus the much-denied deficit made its debut.
Some
people believe that Secretary Foster, by directing these checks to be issued
when he knew that there were no available funds in the Treasury to meet them,
so far exceeded his authority as to lay himself liable to impeachment. It would
be no excuse to say that he expected the money to pay them to be in the
Treasury before they were presented for payment—that's the excuse of all the
"check-kiters."
Let the
fact be remembered that republicans high and low, big and little, have persisted
in saying that there would be no deficit, and that for two days there was a
deficit, one day amounting to $787,108, and the next to a little less. It is
not surprising that Secretary Foster was anxious to extend the $50,000,000 of
four-and-a-half per cent bonds which will mature next September. It seems to
have simply been a question of default or extension, and Mr. Foster chose the
lesser evil.
Another
republican official is in trouble. Notwithstanding the fate of his immediate predecessor,
who was dismissed for financial irregularities in spite of the attempt of Speaker
Reed to protect and shield him, Postmaster Hathaway of the House of Representatives,
has got himself into a similar scrape. His predecessor assessed the contractor
for hauling the mails to and from the office, and Mr. Hathaway has been
assessing the employes [sic] of his office in order to pay salaries to his friends
not carried on the official pay-roll.
Steve
Elkins does not propose getting left if he can help it, as long as there is a chance
to get even at the expense of the Government, and it may be that his company—the
North American Commercial—which is the lessee of the Alaskan Seal privileges,
was acting upon advice given him by his friend Mr. Blaine, when it filed notice
with the Treasury department of its intention to claim $400,000 for being
prevented from taking the stipulated number of seals during the season of 1890,
$150,000 for its expenditures on the seal islands, and an indefinite amount for
the present season. Mr. Blaine has already committed himself officially as
being of the opinion that the company is entitled to damages, but it remains to
be seen whether he will be willing to approve a claim of such magnitude as
Elkins has had the nerve to present.
It has
been stated here that Mr. Cleveland's favorite candidate for Speaker of the House is Representative McMillin of Tennessee. It
had been previously supposed that if Mr. Cleveland had a choice it was Representative
Mills.
Representative
W. L. Wilson, of West Virginia, who is one of the "dark horse" candidates
for Speaker, has joined the editorial fraternity. He is to edit the tariff reform
department of the St. Louis Republic. His editing is to be done from Washington,
and he is to receive a salary of $4,000 a year.
The
National Democrat, which started out under such flattering auspices, has been compelled
by mismanagement on the part of its editor and publisher, to suspend
publication, with a bona-fide subscription list of more than 25,000.
Senator
Kenna is in town. He says he has been recently devoting his time to his private
business, and that he doesn't know anything of interest, politically speaking.
Mr.
Harrison will come over from Cape May Point to preside over a cabinet meeting Friday,
which is to decide how much interest shall be paid on the bonds that are to be
extended and several other more or less important questions, but Mr. Harrison probably
looks forward with more interest to the report of the true inwardness of things
in Ohio, which Secretary Foster, who is now there, is expected to bring, than
he does to any official business. The Harrison men are looking cross-eyed at
the McKinley boom, and unless McKinley makes a bargain with Foster to stand
aside in 1892, if he should be elected Governor this year, he will get no
administration support. But there is reason to believe that he will make the
bargain.
THE OLDEST MAN IN THE STATE.
Eri Grey, in His 108th Year, Taken to the
Poorhouse to Spend His Remaining Days.
KINGSTON,
June 12.—Eri Grey, who is nearing his 108th birthday and is in all probability
the oldest resident of the Empire State, has just been taken from his little home in Roxbury, where he spent many years,
to the Delaware county poorhouse in Delhi. His removal was in opposition to his
will, and is regarded as a lasting disgrace to that pretty mountain village,
where nearly his entire life was spent. It was a pleasure to many tourists to
the Catskills to visit the centenarian and converse with him. Had "Uncle
Eri," as he was familiarly called, lost any or all of his faculties the
case would have been different, but he is to-day as jovial and possesses his
speech, sight, and hearing as good as an ordinary man at forty. A short time
ago he lost the use of his legs, but aside from this he is in apparently good health.
When
being taken to the poorhouse, the person, in whose charge he was, stopped with
him at Crispell's Hotel, at Andes, for dinner. Eri was carried into the
barroom, and while dinner was being prepared many persons took an opportunity
to converse with him. The villagers rushed to the hotel to get a glimpse of the
old man as soon as it was noised about that he was there. "Uncle Eri"
made way with a good substantial meal, consisting of ham, potatoes, vegetables,
and bread and butter. On going back to the barroom he asked for a drink of
whiskey to wash the meal down. Here the difficulty began. The town of Andes is
a "no-license" town, and no strong drink could be obtained at the hotel.
It was suggested that the person in whose charge the old man was should go to
the village druggist and tell him that "Uncle Eri" wanted a drink of
whiskey, and it no doubt would be sent him. The druggist refused, saying that a
physician's prescription must first be obtained. The attendant returned to the
hotel, and all present were astonished that the old man would not be permitted
to enjoy what had been one of the main comforts of his life.
A person
well known in the community happened to be in the hotel at the time, and
requested that the attendant return to the druggist and again plead the old
man's cause, promising that if he did not succeed in getting the desired liquor
he would himself procure a physician's prescription. The second visit brought
the whiskey, which "Uncle Eri" drank with a relish. It was then time
for the old man and his attendant to start for Delhi, as they had several miles
to go. As the attendant was about to pick up Eri and carry him out to the conveyance
the old man suddenly spoke up, saying:
"Not
yet, until I get a good ten-cent cigar. If I am going to the poorhouse it shall
not be as a pauper, but as a gentleman."
The cigar
came quicker than the whiskey. The old man lit it, and puffed away as in scores
of years gone by. Then bidding those about him good-by, "Uncle Eri"
was soon on his way to the place where he will probably spend his remaining
days.
Eri was
born in Connecticut in 1783, and when about 20 years of age came to Greene county,
this State. He was employed by Jay Gould's father on his farm in Roxbury over
sixty years ago.
Eri Grey: http://www.dcnyhistory.org/potters.html
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