The Cortland Democrat, Friday, April 1,
1892.
Is She a Fraud?
Miss Olaf Krarer has entertained pleased audiences
in Norwich and elsewhere [Cortland] in this vicinity with her graphic story of
life in East Greenland, and her escape with her family from that isolated
country. The New York Sun says Miss
Krarer is believed to be a fraud. At Winnipeg, where over one thousand
Icelanders are settled, no stock is taken in her statements, and in an article
which appeared in the Winnipeg Tribune,
of the 4th inst., it is stated that the woman is said to have been formerly
a resident of Manitoba, of Icelandic descent, exceptionally small in stature,
who left the province some years ago with an American family, and has since
resided in the United States.
The editor of an Icelandic paper published
at Winnipeg says the woman's story is an old fake, he having some three years
ago reprinted the principal portion of her lecture, to show the kind of
mendacious rubbish that was circulated among the people of the United States.
Even Miss Krarer's comments on Iceland were erroneous. The Sun has invited
Miss Krarer or any of her friends to furnish proofs of her story, but as yet
has received no reply.—Chenango Union.
A
Brilliant Wedding.
On Wednesday evening a large party of
invited guests assembled at the residence of Mr. and Mrs. Robert Busby on North
Main-st., to witness the marriage ceremony of their daughter, Anna Miller
Busby, to Mr. George H. Kennedy, also of Cortland. The rooms were tastefully
decorated with smilax, palms and cut flowers, and incandescent lights lent a
lustrous splendor to the occasion. The bride was dressed in cream white faille
silk, her only ornament being the groom's gift, handsome diamond ear-rings. She
carried an elegant bouquet of bridal rose in her hand. Rev. J. L. Robertson
officiated. The ushers were Messrs. F. J. Peck, B. W. Rood, T. N/ McCarthy and
F. L. Perry. Miss Jennie Humes and Master Eddie Greene acted as pages. Mr. Will
T. Busby, brother of the bride, was groomsman, and Miss Minnie Brownell acted
as bridesmaid. The bride’s father gave the bride away.
A reception followed the ceremony, after
which delicious refreshments were served. Dancing came nest and was indulged in
until quite a late hour to the music of Mangang's orchestra.
Mr. and Mrs. Kennedy left on the 11:20 P. M.
train south for a short bridal tour.
The following guest from out of town were
present: Syracuse, Mrs. Marguerette Nye, Mr. F. K. McFall, and Masters Eddie
and Bert Greene; Homer, Mr. and Mrs. N. H. Waters, Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Foster,
Miss Fannie Brockway, Miss Coral Bates, Mr. Lester Bennett and Miss Francis
Pierce; Truxton, Mr. and Mrs. Frank Hacket and son Robert, Mrs. Burdett Pierce
and Misses Millie and Bertha Pierce; Cazenovia, Mr. and Mrs. B. L. Bernard;
Marathon, Miss Mary B. Adams and Miss Satie Lyman; New York, Mr. W. T. Bushby;
Baldwinsville, Mr. R. M. Skeele.
Mr. Kennedy is one of Cortland's most
promising young business men, and the bride is a charming and admirable young
lady who has host of friends here.The good wishes of all will be with them in
the future and the DEMOCRAT joins in the hope that their lives may always be
cast in pleasant places.
Wedding.
A very beautiful wedding took place last
Thursday evening at the home of the bride's parents, Mr. and Mrs. John
Livingston, 137 Railroad street. The contracting parties were Miss Catherine
Livingston and Mr. Thomas Henry Bell. The ceremony was performed by Rev. H. W.
Carr, pastor of the Universalist church, in the presence of a goodly company of
friends and relatives. The wedding gifts were numerous and handsome. The united
couple at once begin the formation of a home and the well wishes of a large
circle of friends speed them onward in their course.
FROM
EVERYWHERE.
There are 509 Indians on the Onondaga reservation.
A quilt is owned in Unadilla with 6,489
pieces in it.
The coal industry of the country employs
300,000 men.
Miles Fellows of Tully broke a bone in his
arm by a recent fall.
General Thomas Petrie, of Peterboro, died
the 15th, aged 88 years.
Syracuse's charter election cost $12,000, or
about 66c for every vote.
It is estimated that the maple sugar bounty
will take $1,500,000.
Max Strakosch, the famous impresario, died
in New York, Thursday.
The people of the United States spent $450,000,000
last year for shoes.
Senator Stanford has refused an offer of
$110,000 for the stallion Advertiser.
The Excelsior Tooth Co., of Whitney's Point
are to move their business to Fort Wayne, Ind.
The American vessel, Indiana, laden with
supplies for the starving Russians, received a splendid reception at Libau.
Charles Shaw, of Portland, Me., widely known
as "Steeple Jack," while repairing the spire of a church at South Livermore,
Thursday morning, fell from the top and was instantly killed.
The "day of rest" among Christians
is Sunday; with the Greeks, Monday; Persians, Tuesday; Assyrians, Wednesday;
Egyptians and Jesids, Thursday; Turks, Friday; and Jews Saturday.
At a meeting of the holders of the Standard
Oil trust certificates, held at the office in New York, Monday, a resolution to
terminate the agreement forming the trust was adopted by a very large majority.
The dissolution of the trust is not looked upon as an indication that the
Standard Oil Company is going out of business.
PAGE
FOUR/EDITORIALS.
The Cortland Standard prophesies that
David B. Hill will soon be "nothing but a small account Senator, then only
a private Democratic citizen, and then…?" Our local prophet may be correct
but the fact remains, that in either capacity, every move Senator Hill makes is
watched by our Republican friends, and has the effect of throwing every member
of the party into a serious attack of political jim-jams.
The Daily Journal is having an awful good
time making promises of wonderful improvements soon to be inaugurated in its
household which shall redound to the benefit of its readers. If these promises,
which have been made from time to time within the past sixteen months, had ever
matured some reliance might be placed upon them. Its neighbor, the Daily Standard
seems to be content with publishing a column or so of flattering notices of
itself, clipped from its exchanges. Whether these notices are spontaneous or solicited
makes very little difference to the public,
but the DEMOCRAT may be pardoned for saying, that the Standard readers
would be better pleased, if its corps of editors had displayed the same amount
of energy in gathering genuine news to fill the space occupied by the notices,
that they have exercised to obtain the compliments. Meanwhile the DEMOCRAT is
pleased to furnish its readers with all the news, in a condensed and readable
form, permitting its neighbors to occupy the entire braggadocio field.
HERE AND
THERE.
Today is All Fools' day. Don't be caught
napping.
Mr. M. J. Muncy has opened a plumbing shop
on Moore street.
A bill introduced in the Legislature makes
it the duty of every town clerk to appoint a deputy.
Vreeland's Minstrels, said to be a superb
organization, will appear in Cortland Opera House to-night.
The fish and game laws of New York State
have been amended so that the open season for trout will begin April 15th.
Porter Crittenden, of Cincinnatus, has purchased
the trotting stallion, "Colonel Taylor,''
formerly owned by the late A. E. Perry, of Geneva.
An acre of land in Homer planted to tobacco
by O. Goodchild, last season, yielded 9,000 pounds of first quality, worth 20
to 23 cents per pound.
L. D. C. Hopkins & Son are first in the field
with early vegetables. Some delicious radishes of their raising graced the editor's
table last Monday.
Mr. J. R. Hathway has purchased the buildings
on the Union Free School site on Railroad-st., for $175, and will move one of
them on his premises to be used as a barn. The others are for sale.
If you see an innocent looking brown paper
parcel lying on the walk don't pick it up. It contains nothing but a brick, and
a dozen wicked urchins are waiting around the corner to laugh at you.
H. H. Pomeroy will move his stock of goods,
Monday, April 4th, to 51 Main St., where he will open with a new and complete
line of Dry Goods. The opening day will be announced later. Give him a call.
Hiram Shaw of Summer Hill, cut his throat
with a razor, last week Monday. He had been ill all winter, and was suffering
from melancholia. He leaves a wife, an aged mother and two children.
Messrs. Taylor & Harrington, of Homer,
have been awarded the contract for building the new club house for the Sportsmen's
club between this village and Homer. The building will be 12x24, with a veranda.
Cut flowers will last three times as long if
a little salt and charcoal is put in the vase of water. By stripping the leaves
from the stem which stands in the water the life of the blossom is prolonged,
as these leaves only vitiate the water. Every day at least the water should be
changed, and the ends of the stalks snipped with a knife.
The Y. M. C. A. club, on Tuesday, gave a pie
festival The interest of the occasion centered on the person who could eat a
whole pie the quickest. There were three prizes. Mr. Guy Wallace won the first
in 2 minutes, 56 seconds. Mr. Geo. Waters second, in 5 minutes 6 seconds, ad
Mr. Chas. Straat, 3d, in 5 minutes. 15 seconds.
Frank A. Bickford, of Cortland, and General
Manager Palmer, of Auburn, were in town last week, soliciting the purchase of
tickets of the Empire State Telephone company. It is a condition of their extending
the line from Cortland to Binghamton, through this place, that $500 worth of
tickets be purchased. Of this amount Marathon was expected to furnish $350, and
Cortland and Cincinnatus have agreed to furnish the balance.—Marathon Independent.
An important change has been made in the
regulations governing the competition for the State scholarships at Corned University.
After the examination next June and until further notice, this examination will
be in following subjects: Arithmetic, English, algebra, plane geometry, and either
Latin, French or German. The requirements of one language is thus added, and
the examinations in geography, physiology and American history are no longer to
be demanded. This change is made for the reason that at least one language is
now required for admission to the course in the university and frequently those
holding State scholarships have come to the university, and failed on the
entrance examination in the language chosen. The requirements for admission to
the university remain unchanged.
TOWN
REPORTS.
LITTLE
YORK.
We were astonished as we read in last week's
Homer Republican, "Congressman James J.
Belden has decided to recommend Mr. Pembroke Pierce for the office of post
master." We knew that H. W. Blashfield had circulated a petition and was
said to have a majority of the Republican patrons of the office, and then some democrats
receive mall there. His one term as Supervisor and over twenty years as Justice
of the Peace certainly gave him "a business experience" which would
enable him to perform the duties of the office to the satisfaction of its
patrons. His zeal and fidelity to his party had been most severely tried but
never found wanting. Once
having been squarely nominated by a Republican caucus for Supervisor he was beaten
by an independent nomination of a republican—the democrats not deserting their own
nomination. At his next nomination the democrats lent him a friendly aid and he
was elected. We were his competitor five times for Justice and never did he say
or do an unkindly thing to beat us. He never kicked when his party maltreated
him. His political forbearance almost ceased to be a virtue. Yet now in a time of
need he asks for this recognition of his faithful services and is beaten by one
with whom at least once if not twice we have voted on national issues and we
never voted a republican ticket. There was some power behind the throne in this
county that has produced the result and we surmise that a certain family alliance
produced it. Most certainly "a live mule is more to be feared than a dead
lion." Kickers always have and always will get better feed than the steady
pullers—in either party.
SUMMER
HILL.
Several loads of potatoes were drawn to
Moravia and Cortland last week.
The Methodist church in this place has been
opened and Rev. Charles Shurger of North
Summer Hill will hold services there on Sunday afternoons. The church has been
closed for two or three years.
Mr. Hiram Shaw has been ill for some time
and very much depressed in spirits. On Monday, March 21st, he went to the barn
and when his wife, thinking he had been gone a long time, went to find him, he
lay there dead with his throat cut. Dr. Westfall
was called, but life was gone. His family were dependent on him for support.
[Reminder: We copy articles as they were printed, past rules of grammar included—CC editor.]
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