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| Benjamin S. Turner. |
FROM THE
SUNNY SOUTH.
H. M.
Kellogg Receives a Letter from A. L. DeMond.
Mr. H. M. Kellogg has lately received a very
interesting letter from A. L. DeMond, who was graduated from the Normal in
June, 1889, and who is now teaching at Fort Payne, Ala. Part of it will
interest many of his Cortland friends and we are permitted to publish extracts
from it. Mr. DeMond says:
FORT PAYNE, Ala., Jan. 15, 1894.
Mr. Kellogg:
My school has been aided quite a little this
year by the Southern white people, many of whom have become very friendly to me
and my work. One of the leading white lawyers here, a man born and reared in
the South, took a subscription list among the white people in behalf of my
school. He received contributions from the mayor of the city, the probate judge
of the county, and all the county officials. There has been a wonderful change
of sentiment here in the last five years. Things move slowly down here; but
they are moving nevertheless.
I have just been down in the "Black
Belt" of Alabama. It is a black belt sure enough, (as the Southern people
say) black with oppression, poverty, ignorance and crime—a combination of
evils that only time and faithful teaching and the pure sunlight of the Gospel
can drive away. The condition of the colored people in the middle and lower
sections of Alabama is sad and deplorable.
I shook hands with Benjamin Turner, a few
days ago, in Selma, Ala. He is the first colored man that was ever elected to
congress. He said: "My rights are no more considered here than the rights
of a dog. They are under oath-bound pledges, here in the Black Belt, to keep
the black man down. They say if he cowardly retreats, push him back; if he
manfully resists crush him out. That is the policy of the Southern white man in
regard to the black man in the Black Belt."
I never saw so many colored people before in
my life as I saw in Selma. The pastor of our church there, a dear friend of
mine, is a native African. He was born in Africa and brought to this country when
about ten years of age. He was educated in Philadelphia and for a time was a
missionary in Africa. He is a very fine gentleman, a fine speaker and in many
ways a remarkable man. He is worth several thousand dollars and has a beautiful
home.
I am well and busy. Remember me to friends
in Cortland. I trust that you and your family are in good health.
Yours Truly,
A. L. DEMOND.
Oneonta
All Right.
The gentlemen appointed as appraisers to
decide on the amount of insurance to be awarded anent the burning of the
Oneonta Normal have finished their task, allowing the full amount of
seventy-five thousand dollars. The local board go to Albany Saturday to make
arrangements for the receiving of the money.—Oneonta Star.
Governor Flower yesterday signed the bill
appropriating $100,000 for the Oneonta Normal. Oneonta is now all right again
and has $175,000 at its disposal for a new building. It is probable that the
new structure will be much finer than the old, and, in the light of past experience
and present needs, it is expected that some changes will be made in its
arrangements from that of the old building.
MASSMEETING
AT TROY.
An
Immense Gathering to Take Action on the Election Outrages.
TROY, N. Y., March 9.—The massmeeting [sic]
of Troy's citizens at the Fifth Avenue Presbyterian church was one of the most
memorable gatherings in the history of Troy.
The meeting was called that citizens might
give expression to their indignation at the crimes of last Tuesday and they
might formulate plans for the punishment of not only the murder of Robert Ross,
but men who are primarily responsible for the outrages, and to pave the way for
election reforms.
Three thousand people of all political
beliefs crowded into the church long before the meeting was called to order.
Outside the crowd was so dense that a passageway could not be made.
The demands of the people on the street
could not be ignored, and it was decided to hold an overflow meeting in the
Fifth avenue Baptist church, half a block away.
At the conclusion of the addresses Rev. Dr.
Haynes offered a resolution which called for the appointment of 100 citizens to
wait upon Governor Flower and ask him to name a date for the holding of a
special term of court; to designate a special and unbiased judge to preside,
and to call upon the attorney general to prosecute the cases.
The resolution was unanimously adopted and
the committee named.
The committee will appear before the governor
today.
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TWO—EDITORIALS.
Wayland
D. Tisdale.
It will be with considerable surprise that
many of our readers will learn that there is any opposition among Republicans
to the election of Hon. Wayland D. Tisdale as village president. The motives
which influence such opposition, unless they are the result of misapprehension
or misinformation, can hardly be creditable to those entertaining them. No
candidate for village president has ever been nominated with less effort on his
own part than Mr. Tisdale, and there never has been a candidate for village
office whose character was more thoroughly above reproach, whose ability was
more unquestioned or whose faithfulness to every public trust committed to him
more thoroughly proven by past service or more generally conceded. We believe
Mr. Tisdale will make one of the best presidents Cortland has ever had and we
believe further that no valid reason, either personal or otherwise, can be
given why any Republican should oppose him.
Democrats and Prohibitionists will naturally
vote for their own nominees, but aside from what may be regarded as political
duty Mr. Tisdale's merits appeal to members of those parties on grounds of
public policy and interest far more forcibly than do their own nominees. Mr. Allen,
the Democratic nominee, is in the employ of the Elmira, Cortland & Northern
railroad company as superintendent. His time is occupied by the duties of his
place, his first obligation is to the railroad company, his tastes are not in
the line of village office and his consent to the nomination was probably only
obtained with the idea of filling the ticket and without any thought of his
election. The office would be a burden to him even if it were offered to him by
unanimous consent.
Mr. Chas. W. Collins, the Prohibition
candidate, is in no way better fitted for the office than Mr. Tisdale, and in
many ways not so well. He is, furthermore, one of the last men that Republicans
should vote for. He left the party to help organize the Prohibition party in this
county, and has ever since been one of its chief managers and one of the most
stubborn opponents of Republicanism in every way, at local, state and presidential
elections. What peculiar or special qualifications for the place he possesses
no one has yet discovered—unless in the eyes of the members of his own party
his Prohibition principles constitute such qualifications.
This is not a time when personal piques or
disappointments, nor factional resentments or grudges should have influence.
Narrow and unworthy as such feelings are at any time, they are especially so
now. To-day, if ever, Republican nominees should he given by their party
associates full credit for every qualification which they possess and should be
heartily supported on their merits, forgetting old scores and all unpleasant
feelings which may at any time have existed, and remembering only the
experiences of the country under one year of Democratic rule, and the
obligation which rests upon every
Republican
to do his best, in season and out of season, to unify, harmonize and strengthen
the party, and to prepare it for victory next November and every succeeding
November till the government of the nation is once more in the hands of
Republican leaders and guided by Republican principles and in the enjoyment of
Republican prosperity.
Frank J.
Doubleday.
Democrats in the Fourth Ward are
industriously circulating the story that Mr. Frank J.
Doubleday, the Republican nominee for trustee, is a Prohibitionist. It ought to
be a sufficient answer to such a charge that the Prohibitionists have a
candidate of their own in that ward in the person of Mr. E. A. Fish. If Mr. Doubleday
were a member of their party, Mr. Fish certainly would not be in the field. Mr.
Doubleday has always been a faithful and earnest Republican. He is an
intelligent, substantial and valuable citizen and will make an excellent
trustee.
The only ground on which the charge that he
is a Prohibitionist could be based is that he is not given to indulgence in the
flowing bowl—and he certainly ought not to make the worse trustee on that
account. If every Republican who fails to go on an occasional or
semi-occasional "toot" were to be classed as a Prohibitionist, the
ranks of the third party would immediately begin to bulge.
Mr. Doubleday did not ask or desire the
nomination. He was selected on account of his merits to represent the Republican
party in a close ward, and has consented to serve as a political and public
duty. Nothing can truthfully be said against him, and to whatever falsehoods may
be put in circulation concerning him, the residents of his ward should turn a
deaf ear. He deserves an emphatic endorsement at the polls.
◘
When
Italian unity was established under Victor Emmanuel and Garibaldi, an offer of
$600,000 a year from the new government was made to the pope in lieu of his
former supremacy in the papal states. The popes have hitherto never accepted
this annuity, preferring to go to faithful Catholics the world over for the
"Peter's pence." At the beginning of 1894, the first time since 1870,
the Italian government and the papal court exchanged civilities to a slight
extent. This may mean that Pope Leo is going to take another radical step and
make friends with Italy at last. In that case there would be no further question
of his leaving Italy. He would also come into possession of nearly $15,000,000
back pay.
◘
All the
governments in the world are heavily in debt. Nearly every separate state of
this Union is heavily in debt. Nearly every individual in civilization is more or
less in debt, It is time for all to turn over a leaf, make a new deal, buckle
down and pay all these debts and take a solemn oath, if the good Lord lets them
live to get through, never to go in debt again.
A Word
to Property-Owners.
There are some ugly rumors in circulation
concerning attempts being made in the name of the Cortland & Homer Electric
Co. to secure rights of way along the proposed route of the electric railway to
McGrawville and about Cortland for the purpose of shutting out the Cortland
& Homer Co. or compelling them to buy the rights so secured. It will be
wise for every property-holder who is applied to in the name of the Electric
company to inquire where the capital is to come from with which they can build
a road. The Cortland & Homer Railroad Co. means the present
Cortland, Homer Horse Railroad Co., and the foreign capitalists who propose to
put $150,000 into building the electric road, and whose business and financial
standing guarantees that they will do it. We believe that no public spirited
citizen who knows all the facts will lend himself to embarrass this most
desirable public improvement or to further the private interests of any
individuals to the detriment of those of the people. Give your rights of way to
the representatives of the Cortland & Homer Horse Railroad Co. only, if you
want to be sure of an electric road.
COURT
PROCEEDINGS.
The
Betts Case Still Excites Much Interest.
It appears that some little excitement was
created in court this morning by the attorneys for the defense in the case of
The People vs. Carleton H. Betts over the quotations in yesterday's STANDARD
from The New York Sun and The New
York World of the previous day, in
relation to the doings of the same defendant in New York City. The attorneys claimed
that the quotations were made at the instigation of some interested parties
with the idea of injuring the defendant, or prejudicing his case. The items
referred to were discovered "by one of the editors of The STANDARD while
looking over those papers and were clipped out by him. Not a word was passed by
him with any one in relation to their use.
This case is creating much interest in
Cortland and in New York and The STANDARD published them as interesting bits of
news. No jury would be prejudiced by them and if there was danger that they
might be prejudiced, it was the duty of the judge to charge them against it.
The STANDARD has no interest in the case except to tell the news and it does
that regardless of where it hits.
After the testimony of Mr. H. L. DeClerq,
the surrogate's clerk in the case of The People vs. Carleton H. Betts, Attorney
William J. Smith of Homer was put on the stand for the purpose of showing the
acts of Betts in the proceedings before the surrogate on accounting of the defendant's
father.
The next witness called was William D.
Dickey of Newburg, N. Y., who claimed that he had known the defendant and his
father for years. The witness claimed that the clause "subject to the $1,800"
was not in it at the time the deed was executed. Attorney O. U. Kellogg, who is
one of the attorneys for the defendant, cross-examined the witness and
endeavored to show that the witness could not testify that the relation of
attorney and client existed. The objection was over-ruled. Witness testified that
the sale was not made subject to the $1,800 and no mention was made at said
sale.
William Heymon of Newburg swore that the
deed was not changed from the time it left the office of William D. Dickey,
till he (the witness) returned it there.
The
next witness sworn was Franklin Pierce of New York. In the direct examination
he testified that he knew Carleton H. Betts and his father. He appeared before
Referee Lewis Bouton on the proceedings to have a new trustee appointed in the
father's place. In his cross examination by B. A. Benedict he stated that he
had made some complaint to District Attorney Jerome Squires.
Court was then adjourned till this morning.
The proceedings of to-day had to be omitted
until to-morrow on account of the pressure of other matter.
BREVITIES.
—Maple sugar sociable at the Homer-ave.
church on Wednesday evening, March 14.
—The new West Side Dairy milk wagon appeared
on our streets a few days ago.
—Yesterday afternoon Mrs. D. D. Burdick
served tea to a few of her most intimate friends,
—Dr. H. A. Cordo will preach in Memorial chapel
on Tompkins-st., next Sunday afternoon at 4 o'clock.
—The Y. M. C. A. Bible class will meet
hereafter at 8 o'clock Saturday evening instead of Sunday afternoon.
—Don't be afraid to inform the editor of any
little item of news, it will please him and help make the paper
interesting.—Ex.
—The Cortland County Sportsmen's club
received this morning 30,000 trout fry, which will immediately be placed in the
trout streams.
—Two
applicants were elected to membership at the meeting of the Wheel club last
evening. It was decided not to reduce the annual dues from six to four dollars.
Other routine business was disposed of.
—The board of education of New York City has
framed a bill for introduction in the legislature this year which provides a
pension for superannuated teachers. It provides that a male teacher to be
eligible for the pension must have been in the service thirty-five years, and a
female teacher thirty years.
—A
ten-pound Hickory boy is the latest arrival at the home of Mr. and Mrs. E. B.
Richardson. He came this morning and Ed says he has a Hickory wheel just right
for him, and he is going to send him out upon a scorcher race to Little York
before long. The pleased look which is on Ed's face as he thinks of the new rider
gives out a brighter light than a full moon or an arc lamp.
—The home of Mr. and Mrs. J. Taylor, 10
Hamlin-st., was thrown open to the Royal Templars and other friends, Monday
evening, who entered and gave their son, Ralph, a happy surprise. The occasion
was his nineteenth birthday. He was presented with a handsome oak rocking
chair. About twenty-five guests were present. About 10 P. M. refreshments were
served, after which a musical program was furnished.
The Britannic and Germanic, two White Star
steamers, have made 200 round trip voyages between Liverpool and New York, a
distance in each case of 1,500,000 miles. They have carried over 100,000 saloon
and 260,000 steerage passengers.
Powerful and large as are the greatest of
modern United States warships, they are all of low stature compared with the towering
structures of sixty or seventy years ago. The United States steamship Pennsylvania,
built about 1828, and supposed at the time to be one of the largest warships
ever launched, was 220 feet long and 58 feet broad. She carried 220 guns, and
towered aloft with five decks. Her complement of men was 1,400.
In Corea a young man is regarded as a mere
child until he takes a wife. He parts his hair in the middle, allows it to hang
in a braid down his back, and goes bareheaded. Just before marriage the hair is
put up in a top knot, and he "takes the hat."—A. B. Leonard, in World Wide Missions.
When [a prisoner resists] Paris police they take
off one of his shoes and compel him to walk like "My son John." He is
so hampered usually by this treatment that there is no further trouble. If this
is not enough they cut his trousers buttons, and force him to use his free hand
to hold on his garments.
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