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MORE NEWS OF CHINA, JAPAN AND SOURKROUT





The Cortland Democrat, Friday, November 23, 1894.

More News of China and Japan.
   Any authentic and reliable news about these two countries is seized with avidity by the intelligent public at this time, and an evening spent with the great American traveler, Mr. H. Comstock, will well repay any of our readers. His lecture at the opera house on Dec. 1st, and 3rd nights will be a rich treat and we advise you to hear him. And not only hear him, but to see also the finest and most complete collection of [stereopticon] views ever seen on any American stage. There are over 250 of them and they fully illustrate the talk given by this great traveler on one of the most interesting subjects of the times.
   China, Japan, Corea, Mongolia, Siam fully and graphically described by one who spent thirteen of the best years of his life there. Not traveling for pleasure alone, seeing only the sights reserved for pleasure seekers, but intimately identified with the social, political and commercial life of the whole people.
   Mr. Comstock was all this time under the special protection of the governments of the countries named and had social intercourse with the rulers themselves. He is therefore familiar with every phase of Oriental character and what is better still for his audiences, he has the happy knack of making them almost as much at home with the Celestials as he is himself.
   At a time like this when all civilized people are wondering what the outcome will be of the China-Japan war, an account of these people by one who is almost one of them, is sure to prove both interesting and instructive.

Washington Letter.
(From our Regular Correspondent.)
   WASHINGTON, Nov. 19, 1894—The democratic senators and representatives who have been in Washington since the election have with one or two exceptions talked in a manner that indicated the proper spirit. Their greatest desire, they have said, is to allow the past to rest, and to have the democratic party take a fresh start by getting together in Congress and adopting some legislation that will help the country and incidentally the democratic party in 1896. Just what legislation shall be acted upon is a question that will determine very soon how deep this anxiety for party harmony goes. This idea I have heard most generally expressed by democrats is that Senators and Representatives should not commit themselves to the support of any particular tariff or financial legislation until after the recommendations on those subjects contained in the President's annual message to Congress are made public. That would leave them free to accept the President's recommendations, should they be of such a nature as to be acceptable to the democratic party as a whole, which they are almost certain to be. With the democrats in Senate and House acting in harmony much can be accomplished in a legislative way during the three months of the short session; without harmony there is no hope of accomplishing anything and would not be even if the session were to be three times three months long.
   Since President Cleveland announced that his annual message to Congress would contain important financial recommendations, based upon Secretary Carlisle's annual report, democrats have been greatly interested in learning the nature of Secretary Carlisle's report, but it is as yet a secret, confined to those who have promised to keep it until the report and the President's message are made public. Secretary Carlisle has not been at his office for several days, preferring to work upon his report at his home where he is free from interruption. It is said that the system proposed will supply the elasticity so badly needed in our present financial system. Although Secretary Carlisle has always been known as a friend to silver, no one who will tell has found out what part silver is to play in the proposed new system.
   A laborious attempt is being made by certain parties to have it appear that President Cleveland has exceeded his constitutional authority in dealing with the proposed mediation of the trouble between Japan and China. Their whole story is built upon a false foundation. They say that President Cleveland has offered to act as mediator. He has done nothing of the kind. At the request of the Chinese government he directed Secretary Gresham to ask the Japanese government if it would favorably consider a proposition to have the United States act as mediator in order to put an end to the war. It will be difficult to make sensible people, who are upon principle opposed to war, believe that the President exceeded his authority in thus trying to end a war between two nations with which we are on friendly terms. How friendly we are with Japan may be judged from the fact that a new treaty has just been concluded with that country.
   There is little danger that the republicans of the next House will carry out the threat made by some members of their Congressional campaign committee, to throw out the entire Virginia delegation which is solidly democratic but it would bring out thousands of democratic votes in other States. The leaders of the republican party are too shrewd to put such a a club as that would be in the hands of the democrats, however much the republican contestants from the Virginia Districts may beg.
   Democratic newspaper correspondents, who are as a rule great admirers of Secretary Carlisle, have been in hot water with their editors ever since that bond issue was announced, because they had, on the personal authority of Secretary Carlisle, sent out the positive statement that there would be no immediate issue of bonds. That Secretary Carlisle had a good reason for throwing the boys off the track by telling them up to within forty eight hours of the issue of the call for bids that no bonds would be issued is certain, but to date none of his newspaper friends have been able to find out to a certainly what it was. Speaking of the bond issue, present indications are that the amount to be issued—$50,000,000—will be subscribed for two or three times over. This is gratifying to democrats, whether they approve of the bonds or not, as it indicates in an indisputable manner the confidence felt by capitalists in the administration.
   Some democratic members of the House—notably Hooker, of Miss., and Bailey, of Texas—are criticizing the administration for issuing bonds, but the general impression is that no formal action will be taken on the subject by Congress.

Fire in Preble.
   The saw mill of Leman Calkins located about two miles south of Baltimore was burned down on the morning of the 17th instant. The building was all destroyed, the saw used for sawing lumber and slabs and four saws used for sawing hay slats, with all the belts and some tools, besides the damage that a fire would do to the engine and boiler.
   The men had been sawing hay slats until 9 o'clock P. M. and the engineer did not leave the engine room until 11:45 P. M. The fire in the fire box was down low and banked about a foot and a half deep with saw dust. Water was sprinkled all around both ends of the boiler. The sawyer L. W. Stanton was up in the house at one o'clock A. M. and remained up for half an hour. The mill is in plain sight of his window and about seventy feet away, and if there had been any fire in the mill he would undoubtedly have seen the light. Two other men were up at 2 o'clock and looked out of the window up stairs at the mill and at 2:30 the mill was discovered to be on fire all over and every part seemed to be enveloped in flames.
   The mill was undoubtedly set on fire by some person or persons and they did their work quick and sure. All the shafting and belts were destroyed and it is quite a loss to Mr. Calkins as he is a poor man and had no insurance.

Victory for the O. & W.
   NORWICH, Nov. 16— The case of Williard Monroe and others against the N. Y. O. & W. R. R. company to compel the railroad company to reopen and operate the Auburn branch was decided in favor of the company by Referee Halliday at Ithaca yesterday. When the Ontario & Western company was organized in 1880 it was found that the receiver had abandoned the operation of the Auburn branch and that the bridges and trestles had become almost useless and were unsafe for the passage of trains.
   After an examination by the officers of the new company into the earning capacity of the road it was found it would not be profitable to repair and rebuild the structures that were out of order, consequently the track was taken up and the depot buildings at different stations sold.
   The towns through which the road was operated have paid part on the bonds and have the remainder to pay. The company as well have paid their taxes in full. The branch was abandoned in 1883 and the towns as stated above have paid their bonded indebtedness ever since.
   The road was originally intended to be built from Norwich to Auburn but was only finished as far as DeRuyter. It is safe to say that it will be a long time before there is a railroad in operation through the Canasawacta valley.

PAGE FOUR—EDITORIALS.
   Prof. Davis cast his vote in Cortland Tuesday.—Broome County Herald.
   If there is a republican residing anywhere within a hundred miles of this village that failed to cast his vote in Cortland. Nov. 6, 1894, let him stand up and be counted. It isn't the man that cast his vote here that we are looking after, it's the Republican that didn't. He would indeed be a genuine curiosity.
   The modern reformers in New York, who have been preaching civil service reform in the tenure of office for years past, are now insisting that every democrat holding office in that city, shall be unceremoniously kicked out of office without even a hearing. If civil service reform is good for democrats it ought to be made to pass muster for the republicans. While the rules are in force, even those who have advocated them for years, should be made to assist in their enforcement. If the law was framed and passed simply to keep the republicans in and the democrats out of office, that fact ought to be made clear to the people so they may know how to act in the future. The Republicans and reform democrats of New York city are already so greedy for pelf and place that there will soon be need of another grand uprising of the people.

A Word from the Sourkrout.
   The "sourkrout editor of the Cortland Standard" presents his compliments to the Cortland DEMOCRAT and begs to inform that paper that he has never been in the business of importing cabbages from Germany. That business is one of purely Democratic creation, and one which the Standard wants nothing to do with, save to condemn it. The Standard believes in importing into this country not a single article of agriculture or manufactures which we can produce ourselves. We believe in keeping the American market for Americans alone, and paying wages to our own people, instead of to the monarchy-ridden millions of England and European counties. When we eat sourkrout we want it made of American cabbage, grown on American soil, by American labor, and are willing to pay American prices for it. We believe in the American eagle and anything else that's American. "If any man attempts to haul down the American flag, shoot him on the spot"—whether the flag floats in Hawaii or over a pile of American cabbages grown in Homer or Cortlandville.—Cortland Daily Standard.
   How very, very patriotic! But does the sourkrout editor of the Standard practice what he preaches? When he eats sourkrout he wants it made of American cabbage grown on American soil, by American labor, and he is willing to pay American prices for it, and when he wants to purchase furniture, carpets, rugs, and goods that are kept by Cortland merchants in Cortland stores and are sold by Cortland clerks, he goes to Syracuse and purchases them of Syracuse clerks, who sell the goods manufactured by Syracuse mechanics for Syracuse merchants. It is a good thing to be a protectionist in theory but it would cut more ice to be one in practice. Let us preserve the home market.


HERE AND THERE.
   Fiora Clark has been appointed postmistress at Little York.
   Miss Manwaring has opened a dancing school in Brockway' s hall in Homer.
   Capt. S. M. Byram is dangerously ill at his home in East River of cancer of the stomach.
   The board of education have appointed Mrs. O. K. George, teacher in the Pomeroy school, to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Miss Agnes Grady.
   Mr. J. B. Kellogg stepped on a piece of board in the rear of Kellogg & Curtis' store Monday morning and a nail that was in the board passed through his shoe and entered the hollow of his foot causing it to bleed profusely. Woolen goods were set on fire and the wound was thoroughly smoked.
   The Woman's Christian Temperance Union will meet in their rooms at No. 12 West Court-st., Saturday, Nov. 24, at 2:30 o'clock. The first half hour will be given to devotional exercise, after which selections from Miss Frances Willard's annual address delivered at the National Convention at Cleveland, Nov. 16, will be read. Other interesting items will also be in order. A pleasant and profitable hour may be expected and we invite all to come.
   Mr. John W. Harrington of Harrisburg, Pa., is in town endeavoring to form a stock company for the manufacture of hardware novelties of many kinds, which are said to meet with ready sales. If he succeeds he expects to employ 50 men in the start and will increase the number to 150. He will also employ about 40 girls. The DEMOCRAT sincerely hopes he will meet with substantial encouragement from our citizens.

FROM EVERYWHERE.
   In the past two weeks 15 deer have been shot in Sullivan county.
   Dr. Moore of Morris was accidentally shot and killed recently while hunting.
   A new Italian rifle will send a bullet through five inches of solid oak at a distance of 4,000 feet.
   A school house on the Guilford road was robbed last week of books, tables and general school supplies.
   The New York, Ontario & Western railroad will lay a track from Peckville to Hancock Junction, a distance of 47 miles.
   The feed mills of Farley & Co., of Sherburne were burned to the ground last week. They are situated near the depot.
   Frank Peck of Oneonta found 100 lbs. of choice honey between the clapboards and joists of his house. A swarm of bees located there last summer.
   Edwin W. Scammel, a prominent business man of Tully, has commenced divorce proceedings against his wife, Ada, on statuary grounds. Dr. George E. Barker of the same town is named as co-respondent. The evidence in the case was secured by a lady detective.
   A number of Owego's business men have decided to go down deep into the earth in the towns of Scriba, New Haven and Mexico in search of natural gas and oil. Farmers on whose land the indications looked most favorable were approached and this proposition made: For the privilege of sinking a well, the farmer is to receive one-eighth of the gas found.
   Toad Harbor, a hamlet on the shore of Oneida Lake, about two miles cast of Brewerton, was the scene of a probably fatal accident, Saturday morning. Nelson Van Antwerp and an acquaintance started from that place that morning to hunt ducks. They put out from shore in a small boat, their guns lying in the bottom. A sudden lurch of the boat caused one of the guns to roll over. In doing which it was accidently discharged. The contents of the weapon struck Van Antwerp in the abdomen, inflicting a fearful wound, besides taking off a couple of fingers. The condition of the injured man was extremely critical, at last accounts.

TOWN REPORTS.
Taylor.
   Orrin Newell is visiting his sister, Mrs. A. H. Jordan.
   Edwin Crump has rented a farm in Solon for the ensuing year.
   Mrs. W. H. DeLong and children are visiting her parents in Potsdam, N. Y.
   Emons Allen of south Cuyler was a pleasant guest at Everett Rood's, Thursday.
   Ransom Halbert, who has been seriously ill for several weeks past is gaining slowly.
   Joe Mark raised the frame to his barn Friday. He will move back to his farm in the spring.
   Mrs. Russell Brooks visited her sons in Syracuse this week. She will also visit Myron Andrews & nephew, who is very low with consumption.
   If we would believe some of the bombastic utterances of some of our republican friends, the living should die faster in order to make business more plentiful for the undertaker and the monument maker and it will now be unnecessary for the living to work any longer now that Morton is elected. What fools some mortals are!
   Another old inhabitant, Ira Fox, died suddenly at 5 o'clock Sunday morning, aged about 75 years. He had the grip last winter, since then he has been gradually failing, although he has been able to be around most of the time since then. The last time he was any distance from home was election day when he went to the polls to vote for Hill. For four or five days before the end came he had not been feeling as well as usual. Mr. Fox was a man of a jovial, kindly disposition and leaves many friends who sincerely regret his death. He leaves a wife and nine children to mourn the loss of a husband and father.
   A sad accident took place at the residence of Edwin White, Monday afternoon the 12 inst. which resulted in the instant death of John D. White, father of the above with whom he had been living since the death of his wife a few years ago. The particulars, as near as we have been enabled to learn them, are as follows: Edwin and his father were engaged in drawing pumpkins from the barn and storing them in the cellar. The old gentleman drove the team one way around the house while Edwin went the other. The latter had no sooner reached the hatchway than he was called to by his daughter, who told him his father was having trouble with the horses. Hearing this he hastened to assist his father, but was too late. When he reached there his father lay upon the ground with his neck broken, dead, while the horses dashed against the bars, one of them being thrown. They were soon secured. What caused Mr. White's neck to be broken is not clear as there was none who witnessed it when done although it is supposed that the horse made a sudden start and caught his head between the wagon box and a leaning tree under which they passed, as pieces of bark from off the tree was found in his whiskers and this is why we conclude that this theory is the correct one. Mr. White was in his 81st year. He was a kind friend and neighbor and was respected by all who knew him. His tragic death has cast a gloom over the whole community. The funeral was held at Cincinnatus, Wednesday, the place of his birth and former home. He leaves two sons, Edwin and Thomas, and a daughter Mrs. Rufus Cass, and others in the midst to mourn his loss. "Requiescat in peace."
   CALAMET. [pen name of local correspondent.]
 

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