THE WHITE HOUSE KINDERGARTEN

Cortland Evening Standard, Thursday, March 26, 1896.

THE WHITE HOUSE KINDERGARTEN.

Miss Frieda Barthman Teaches Ruth and Esther Cleveland.

   Miss Frieda Barthman, who has been engaged as special instructress for the children of the White House, is regarded as one of the brightest kindergartners in the country. She comes from Boston, where she held the position as principal instructor in the kindergarten department of the Thomas N. Hart school. Miss Barthman owes her present good fortune, for the fame which she will gain by her new engagement may well be regarded as such, partly to an accident, but mainly to her well earned reputation as a successful teacher of children. She first met Mrs. Cleveland at Marion a few years ago while taking a summer vacation. The president's wife was attracted by her cheerful, winning ways and when she wanted an instructress for her children she sent for the Boston girl.

   Miss Barthman comes naturally by her talent for teaching, for her mother, Mrs. Emilie Barthman, is one of the foremost of the pioneer kindergartners and has been employed in the Boston school ever since the inception of the Froebel system, having been the first teacher selected by Mrs. Mary Quincy Shaw when she inaugurated kindergarten teaching 18 years ago as a purely philanthropic venture.

   Miss Barthman is a rather pretty young lady of about 25. She began teaching eight years ago as an assistant to her mother. She is of German extraction and comes of an excellent family which, previous to reverses, was wealthy. She is well prepared for the instruction of the first children of the land, for she has passed through the several grades of the public schools in Boston as well as the girls' high school, and has taken a course of special instruction in private schools, including a course under the noted kindergartner, Miss Lucy H. Symonds.

   At first she was engaged to teach only the president's two older children, Ruth and Esther, but the wives of some of the cabinet officers wished to take advantage of the opportunity, and a class of about ten children, representing Uncle Sam's official family, was made up, and Miss Barthman will have them under her charge in the White House nursery for three hours a day for the next few months. She will tell them pretty little stories, teach them cute little songs, show them how to make mud pies of artistic design, and generally prepare their young minds for the more serious instruction which is to come later.

Cartoon image of Nicolas Tesla.

PAGE TWO—EDITORIALS.

They Make Time Pass Quickly.

   One of Tesla's experiments with X rays should not be lost sight of by the American people or by anybody. He and one of his assistants as well find that if these mysterious rays are directed powerfully upon the human head the top of the head gets warm, and there supervenes throughout a pleasing, soothing sensation and a tendency to sleep. While the experiments do not seem to have progressed to the point of actually putting the patient to sleep, they make him feel sleepy. Most and best of all, while the Roentgen rays are streaming upon your head, the time seems to pass away very quickly. Both Tesla and his assistant noticed that fact.

   Exquisite and wondrous are the possibilities to be deduced. The nervous irritability of the American people can be brought down and tempered to the point where they will be the gentlest, steadiest people in the world. When the little emperor of Germany shows a disposition to make a break, all the court physician will need to do will be to subject William to the sweet and soothing influence of the Roentgen rays. He can do this without his majesty's knowledge.

   Again, when American congressmen begin to shout and rant and roar and say things that set the teeth of European newspaper editors on edge, a mild application of Roentgen rays upon their heads will make them roar as gently as sucking doves. If simultaneously those who must listen to their speeches try an application to their own heads with a pocket machine while the orations are in process of deliverment, "the time will seem to pass very quickly," as Tesla says. It is always known beforehand when any pet bore in the United States senate is to orate, and it will be easy enough for the presiding officer and those whom decorum forces to remain to slyly apply the Roentgen rays. Nay, the Roentgen ray machine may even be taken to church.

   ◘ The rapidity with which electrical discoveries and inventions follow one another tends to take the breath away. It is impossible even to keep up with Tesla, leaving out all the rest. If Tesla's latest reported achievement results as he believes it will, there need be no more telegraph or telephone wires. It is reported that he has been able to telegraph through Pike's peak from one side to the other without the intervention of wires or any conducting medium. He tapped the earth current and sent a communication through the solid bed of rock.

   A romantic tale is printed of how he add a companion stationed themselves on different sides of the mountain. They had each one of the little harmonicons which in various patterns are common. The friend on his side of the mountain, so the story goes, played "Ben Bolt" on his harmonicon. Tesla on the other side of the mountain connected his harp with the ground by means of wires and waited. In due course of time, so the tale told in the New York World informs us, his harp also vibrated to the familiar strains of "Ben Bolt." If the music had been anything but "Ben Bolt," the story would not be so open to suspicion. As it is, who knows but the friend Svengalied Tesla, or Tesla Svengalied the friend? At any rate, one waits further developments.

   ◘ A curious adaptation of the bicycle principle to water travel has been made. A boat is provided with wheels that partly pass through the bottom. They are worked in the ordinary cycle fashion by men who sit above them in the boat and pedal. The front man steers with his handle bar. The whole outfit is termed a water tandem cycle, and it has been made to travel ten miles an hour. Here is opportunity for rare sport. The water bicycle boat carries one passenger.

   ◘ All the world wishes well to Italy and is consequently glad that the Italian banks have come to the aid of King Humbert and offered to lend the government sufficient money for present needs.

   ◘ Spain has a queer idea of the government of the United States. Shortly after the senate had passed its resolutions, requesting the recognition of the Cubans as belligerents, the prime minister of Spain sent a most courteously worded message to our state department asking that the "government" disavow the senate resolutions. Poor old Spain does not know, even after all these years, that congress, and not the president and his cabinet, is the real government of this country, some of our presidents to the contrary notwithstanding. Spain is apparently not aware that if a two-thirds majority of congress passed even over a president's veto a measure the most abhorrent to him he would have to let it become law.

   ◘ It is not patriotism to burn the little king of Spain in effigy and tear and trample on Spanish flags. It is foolishness, and a very low order of foolishness. By so doing young American college gentlemen place themselves on the precise level of the ignorant Spanish mob that insulted the American consulate at Barcelona.

FORTUNATE WRECK

ON THE LEHIGH VALLEY NEAR CANASTOTA.

Nine Coal Cars Roll Down an Embankment—One Man Hurt, Nobody Killed.

   Quite a serious wreck occurred on the Lehigh Valley railroad about four miles west of Canastota yesterday afternoon. Freight train 13 eastbound was rounding a curve when the rails spread derailing eighteen cars. The first three cars and the engine remained on the track. Nine cars and the caboose rolled down a fifty-foot embankment. The track was badly torn up and a number of trucks were broken under cars that did not go over the bank. Brakeman Thomas Simpson of Elmira went down with one of the cars and was quite seriously hurt, though no bones were broken. He was taken to Canastota to his boarding place and a physician was summoned. He thought the injured man would recover. Conductor P. Carmody and the two other brakemen escaped injury.

   The cars which went down the embankment broke off a telegraph pole and broke the wire. At the train dispatcher's office in Cortland it was suddenly found that no point east of Perryviile could be reached. It was then feared that something had happened. Shortly afterward the news of the accident was telegraphed in a roundabout way, and a wrecking train started from Cortland at 5 o'clock for the scene of the accident. Roadmaster Clancy was at the east end of the line at the time and he hurried to the wreck. Trainmaster Auger went out on this train and remained until 3 o'clock this morning when the wreck was cleared up and the road opened again.

   Passengers east and west were last night transferred around the wreck and the trains proceeded as usual.

   It was a fortunate wreck in that no one was killed and that there is good reason to believe that the one man injured will speedily recover.

Improvements at the Arlington.

   Mr. M. H. Ray, proprietor of the Arlington hotel near the Lehigh Valley station on Railway-ave., has been making some decided improvements upon the hotel property since the recent fire. New floors have been laid and several changes made in the arrangement of rooms on the first floor. The interior has been newly painted and repapered throughout. A number of rooms have been newly carpeted and considerable new furniture has been added. As soon as the weather permits the outside of the building will be treated to a new coat of paint and the building will then present as attractive an appearance as any hotel of its size to be found anywhere.

TO FORM A MCKINLEY CLUB.

Temporary Organization Effected—Adjourned to Friday Night.

   Twenty men assembled in Beaudry hall last night pursuant to a call for a meeting to organize a McKinley club. The meeting was called to order by H.

M. Kellogg, and Major Aaron Sager was elected chairman. Mr. Sager said in part, "We are met here to effect a temporary organization in the interest of one whose name has become a household word. He is pre-eminently an American in every sense of the word. We believe that McKinley will be the next Republican candidate for president and the next president of the United States and anticipating this we are met here to-night. What is your further pleasure?"

   Dr. E. M. Santee nominated L. E. Edgcomb for secretary and he was elected.

   Dr. E. M. Santee moved that a committee of five on permanent organization be appointed, to report Friday night. The chair appointed as such committee C. P. Walrad, W. E. Powers, H. M. Kellogg, G. J. Mager and Dr. E. M. Santee.

   On motion of Dr. E. M. Santee, the meeting adjourned to Friday night at 8 o'clock.

BREVITIES.

   —New advertisements to-day are—W. J. Perkins, when you paint, page 4;

Will Grady, bicycles, page 6.

   —The National Express Co. wagon appeared on the streets this morning in a fresh coat of paint.

   —Mr. C. E. Wills was yesterday appointed by President Cleveland as postmaster at Homer to succeed Pembroke Pierce.

   —Miss Elizabeth Phillips will give a reception and ball for her dancing class in Vesta lodge parlors on Friday evening, April 10.

   —The City drug store will now be lighted with gas, twelve new Wellsbach burners and gas fixtures having been put in yesterday.

   —In Justice Dowd's court this morning judgment for money loaned was rendered in favor of Charles Dix against H. P. Miller for $9.85.

   —Mills the tailor has rented the store in the Keator block, corner Main and Port Watson-sts. formerly occupied by J. D. Green. Ha takes possession April 1.

   —Regular meeting of W. C. T. U. on Saturday, March 28, at 3 P. M. Consecration service will be held by the president. An interesting program will be given for the after meeting.

   —Dr. and Mrs. George H. Smith entertained a dozen friends very pleasantly last night at their home, 6 East Main-st. A very elegant tea was served at 6:30 o'clock, and whist was the order of the evening.

   —Mr. Joseph H. Fisher, eldest son of Mr. and Mrs. George Fisher, died this afternoon, aged 15 years. He had been ill only since Sunday night with inflammation of the bowels. The funeral arrangements have not yet been made.

   —Bennett & Hartwell are making preparations for the exhibition of bread-making at their store on Railroad-st. which occurs to-morrow. The material has arrived. A barrel of flour will be baked into bread which will be given away.

   —The long looked for incandescent light system was put into operation last week, and so far as we are able to learn is giving the best of satisfaction. The light produced is a clear, penetrating light, and at the prices which Manager

O'Connell has established is as cheap as kerosene, when the care of lamps, and the absence of all heat and smoke, is considered. For use in dwellings he makes a very liberal rate, and many others, not now using them, will undoubtedly do so, soon.—Marathon Independent.

 

BAD DAY FOR COMSTOCK

Anthony Comstock.

Cortland Evening Standard, Wednesday, March 25, 1896.

BAD DAY FOR COMSTOCK.

The Jury Promptly Discharged His Assailant.

ANTHONY RECEIVES A SCORING.

Dr. Leverson Quickly Acquitted of the Charge of Breaking the Peace After Much Evidence as to His Good Character.

   ALBANY, March 25.—The trial of Dr. Montague R. Leverson of Port Richmond, S. I., who was arrested in the Union depot on Feb. 19, charged with breach of the peace, preferred by Anthony Comstock, was held in the court of special sessions here. The charge states that Dr. Leverson, on the date mentioned, jumped upon a seat in the depot, and, pointing to Anthony Comstock, said: "This is Anthony Comstock, the notorious blackmailer, he never earned an honest dollar in his life."

   A jury was impaneled and three witnesses for the people were examined, whose testimony merely corroborated in part the charge. The assistant district attorney then declared the people's case closed.

   The defendant, Dr. Leverson, was first placed on the stand by the defense. He admitted that he made the statements against Mr. Comstock as detailed in the charge, but he stated that he had been provoked by remarks of Mr. Comstock.

   On cross-examination Dr. Leverson admitted that he did not know whether Comstock was a blackmailer or not.

   Several witnesses were called who corroborated the testimony of the defendant.

   Thomas E Wilson, an editor of the New York World; Henry George and Edward W. Chamberlain were called and testified to the good character of Dr. Leverson.

   Ex-District Attorney James W. Eaton, counsel for the defendant, asked each of the above witnesses the following questions and received identically the same answers:

   "Is Mr. Comstock's reputation good or bad?"

   "Bad."

   "Would you believe him under oath?'

   "No."

   Anthony Comstock was then placed on the stand. After testifying in his own behalf he was cross-examined at length by Mr. Eaton.

   During the cross-examination the question at issue was frequently lost sight of and Mr. Comstock was subjected to an examination of his methods of suppressing vice.

   Mr. Eaton asked the defendant if certain accusations against him, published in newspapers, were true.

   "They are not," replied Mr. Comstock.

   "Did you ever hear any accusations against you?" asked Mr. Eaton.

   "I never did," replied Mr. Comstock.

   "Are you deaf Mr. Comstock?" added Mr. Eaton. "Did not Mr. Andrews, before a legislative committee some time ago, say that you were worse than any other man that ever lived since the time of Judas?"

   "I never heard of it."

   "Have not ex-District Attorney Ridgeway and ex-Mayor Grant of New York said that you would rather tell a lie than the truth?"

   "I never heard of such statements."

   "Is not your picture in the rogues' gallery in Summitt, N. J.?"

   "It is not."

   "Were you not dismissed by Sheriff Davidson of New York from his force because you preferred improper charger against superior officers?"

   "I was not."

   Mr. Comstock's examination was continued in this vein for over two hours and after some testimony had been offered in rebuttal, Mr. Eaton, for the defense, began to sum up. He characterized Anthony Comstock as a "ruthless barbarian who seized works of art which his obscene mind could not appreciate." He said that Comstock's method was to get a man crazy with taunting remarks, until his manhood rebelled and then he would have him arrested for a breach of the peace.

   "Had I been Dr. Leverson," said Mr. Eaton, "I would not have contented myself with calling him a blackmailer, but I would have punched his big, fat face."

   The people used very little time in summing up and the case was given to the jury.

   Fifteen minutes later the jury returned with a verdict of "not guilty" and the defendant was discharged.

EIGHT-HOUR WORKING DAY.

Federation of Labor Will Attempt to Enforce Their Plan.

   INDIANAPOLIS, March 25.—At today's session of the executive council of the American Federation of Labor the subcommittee on the 8-hour problem submitted its report.

   It recommends that May 1 be set as the day to inaugurate the 8-hour plan through the country and that the carpenters be selected as the union to make the test.

   The committee will recommend a strike of all carpenters' unions that are forced to work overtime, beginning on the day that the 8-hour plan goes into effect.

   It is expected that the council will unanimously indorse the action of its committee.

RED CROSS SOCIETY.

Can Carry on its Relief Work Only in Cities.

   CONSTANTINOPLE, March 25. —The council of ministers has decided that the agents of the American Red Cross society sent to Asia Minor to distribute relief to the suffering Armenians shall work only in the cities. The overseers of the villages will prepare lists and send the destitute inhabitants to the cities for relief. This decision probably excludes Zeitoun as a center of relief. The council has also decided that the Red Cross agents must use with power to make changes the lists furnished by the Turkish relief commissions and that the distributions of relief must be made conjointly with the commission. It is hoped here that in practice the agents will be allowed much more freedom than these regulations indicate.

   Telegrams received here from Marash say that typhoid fever is raging. Six Beyrouth physicians and two druggists will probably be sent to work among the sick at that place.

SOLD THEIR GROCERY.

Palmer & Co. to be Succeeded by G. O. Whitcomb.

   When The STANDARD went to press this afternoon arrangements had almost been completed whereby Palmer & Co. were to sell their grocery stock and business to Mr. G. O. Whitcomb, formerly of Gilbertsville, more recently of Whitney Point, and there was little doubt that the deal would be completed.

   The news that Palmer & Co. are to sell out will be received with general regret. They have been in business here for a year and a quarter and have kept a first-class stock and have been highly popular with the trade. They have not yet made any plans for the future but it is to be hoped that they will not leave town.

   Mr. Whitcomb has had some experience in this line of business and will doubtless receive his share of the patronage of Cortland and vicinity.

A SAD AFFAIR.

Child Found Rough on Rats on a Piece of Bread.

   The funeral of Bertha Whiting, the eighteen months old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Perry Whiting, was held at 2 o'clock this afternoon. The cause of her death was poison by rough on rats. The poison had been placed on bread and left on the third shelf in the pantry and it is thought that the bread was accidentally knocked to the floor, where the little girl found it Monday afternoon. She had eaten so much when discovered that her life could not be saved, although Dr. Johnson was hastily summoned and did all in his power to save her.

   Parents cannot be too careful in keeping poison entirely beyond the reach of children.

LITTLE TRUTH IN IT.

E. C. & N. Shops Will Probably Remain Right Here.

   A special dispatch from Waverly to the Elmira Advertiser says: "It is reported that the Lehigh Valley officials have decided to remove the old E., C. & N. shops from Cortland to Sayre. This will be good news for Sayre people, but will have a serious effect on Cortland business men. It is also said that they will build a line from Horseheads to connect with the main line near Odessa."

   It is impossible to verify this report here in Cortland and there is little belief that there is any truth in it. Master Mechanic George Richards and storekeeper James Walsh were in Sayre on Monday of this week getting instructions about the continuance of the regular business in Cortland. Nothing was said to them about a removal and considerable was said which would indicate that the shops are to remain here. The general idea is that the heavy work and the building of new rolling stock will hereafter be done in Sayre, but that light repairs will continue here and that there will be no lessening of the force employed here.

BREVITIES.

   —"A Girl Wanted" company arrived in town this morning from Elmira and are registered at the Messenger House.

   —The Dillon Brothers entertain the members of the "Girl Wanted" company at their home at 6 o'clock dinner to-night before the entertainment.

   —All members of the Y. M. C. A. gymnasium class who expect to take part in the coming gymnasium exhibition are requested to be on hand tonight.

   —The Elmira Telegram on Sunday in connection with its account of the St.

Patrick's banquet last week published an excellent cut of Mr. Edwin Duffey, the toastmaster.

   —Mr. C. Fred Thompson has ordered 20,000 trout fry from the state hatchery at Pleasant valley with which to stock the streams in this vicinity. They are expected to arrive Friday.

   —There will be a special meeting of the A. O. H. at 7 o'clock to-night. It is expected that John and Barry Dillon, who are with a "A Girl Wanted" company, will be initiated into the order.

   —About twenty couples drove to the pleasant farm home of Mr. and Mrs. D. E. Kinney west of the village last evening, where a very enjoyable evening was spent socially. Refreshments were served.

   —Mrs. Phoebe A. Phillips, who has been in failing health for some time, died yesterday afternoon at the home of her daughter. Mrs. D. H. Griffith, 15 Elm-st. The funeral will be held Friday at 8 o'clock and the burial will be in

Homer.

   —The Ithaca Journal says that when the next time table of the Lehigh Valley R. R. is issued the station Ithaca on the old E., C & N. road will be designated East Ithaca to distinguish it from the Ithaca station on the other side of the city on the Geneva branch of the road.

Dillon Brothers Coming To-night.

   A New York flat-building constitutes the scene of "Girl Wanted," the new farce comedy in which Frank Bush and an excellent company appear in Cortland to-night. The first act passes in one of the flats, the second in a restaurant on the ground floor, the third on a roof garden at the top of the building.

  

Mr. Bush essays the role of a stranded comedian who, in order to win a girl and her money masquerades successively as a Yankee jay, a tough boy, a German girl, a Hebrew, an Irishman, and comic opera prima donna. He is but one of several amusing personages in a very lively piece. All have very entertaining specialties to render, and "Girl Wanted" is an attractive entertainment to anybody who likes fun, music and dance.

   The event of the evening will be the rendering of "Put Me Off at Buffalo" by John and Harry Dillon, who are also the authors of "What Right Has He on Broadway."

WILL BOOM CORTLAND.

LEHIGH VALLEY RAILROAD STRETCHING OUT.

North to the St. Lawrence, East to Rotterdam, Probably to Syracuse From Cortland.

   The Syracuse Post of this morning says: Whether the much talked of Lehigh Valley railroad will come to Syracuse remains to be seen, but evidence goes to show that its building would not be a difficult matter. This Lehigh Valley Railroad company will build a new road this summer which will be of great benefit to many towns in this part of the state.

   The facts concerning this were learned by a Post reporter last night from an official of the Lehigh Valley road who was in the city. He stated that the company will build this summer a branch running north from Camden, touching at Watertown, Clayton, Ogdensburg and other junction points on the R., W. & O. road. A line will also be run to Rotterdam, perhaps from Canastota, although the starting point has not yet been decided on. This line will connect with the Fitchburg line and will make a through line from Buffalo to Boston, which is the aim of the company. The Lehigh Valley company obtained control of the E., C. & N. railroad with a view to building this road.

   It is understood that the company has for some time had this line under consideration, and has at last arranged its plans definitely with the exception of some minor details. However, it is assured that work will be commenced as soon as possible and will be pushed through. This will open up to the Lehigh Valley road a large part of Central New York.

   "What about the line which it is said may be built to Syracuse?" was asked.

   "That will probably be built from Cortland," was the reply. "If the company builds such a line I should think that Cortland would be the best point, as it is not so very far from Syracuse and would give an easy grade. I think that when they are building they would come to Syracuse, as that would be tapping a larger town than any of the others."

   Further particulars regarding the move could not be obtained.

 

RAINES ACT FORBIDS COMMUNION WINE

John Raines.

Cortland Evening Standard, Tuesday, March 24, 1896.

FORBIDS COMMUNION WINE.

Clergyman Thinks Raines Bill Will Interfere with Religious Worship.

   A special from Binghamton to the New York World says: "Rev. R. G.  Quennell, rector of Christ's church and dean of the third missionary district of the Episcopal diocese of central New York, claims that the Raines excise law will prevent the administration of the holy communion in churches on Sunday. It will thus, he says, interfere with freedom of religious worship.

   Fermented wines such as are used for communion are within the term ''liquor" and by the Raines bill may neither be sold nor given away on Sunday by any person or association. A church, says Mr. Quennell, is clearly an association within the meaning of the Raines law. The provision will apply equally on week days to persons under eighteen years of age and places not more than 200 feet from a church.

RAINES EXCISE LAW.

Every Bar Closed Up—No Liquor for Love or Money.

   The Raines excise bill became the Raines excise law at about 11:30 o'clock yesterday morning. If one had never heard of the bill or the law and had tried to get a drink of liquor in Cortland last night or to-day he would have thought that something had happened. No sooner did it become known here that Governor Morton had appended his official signature to the excise bill then the bars began to close up. Nothing that the Good Government club accomplished last year with all its exertion began to compare with the result produced by Governor Morton with a single dash of his pen.

   This morning a STANDARD reporter paid a visit to the leading hotels and saloons in Cortland and found every bar closed, and in one case the barroom locked up. In one place five men appeared and called for drinks while the reporter was there and in each case the request was peremptorily refused. At the next place visited one of these same men appeared and made the same request, but the liquor was not forthcoming. The cause of this sudden closing up and absolute deviate from the law is that prosecutions refusal [sic] to are now in the hands of the state instead of private individuals, and if a man should be convicted now of violation of this law he would forfeit all chance of securing a tax certificate for five years to come, according to Section 23, subdivision 7 of the law.

   It is the unanimous opinion of the hotel and saloon men that they will be able to procure a liquor tax certificate at least by May 1. Said one of them this morning, "I have taken able counsel on the matter and am confident that the granting of drug store licenses here, has rendered Cortland a license town even though we ourselves have none. Senator Raines has said practically this same thing and on May 1, I shall apply for a certificate and I expect to get it."

   They all declare that it would be folly to attempt to sell strong drink now that the matter is in the hands of the state officials. A leading hotel man was asked his opinion of the law. His answer was, "I believe it is a good law for the hotel men. It will have the effect of shutting up the low dives and I believe the more we see of its workings the better we shall like it."

A Chicken Supper.

   It is not often that such a degree of harmony and perfect good will exists between labor and capital as is found in the office of the National Medicine Co. of Cortland. Dr. J. M. Hawley Monday evening gave a very pleasant sleighride to Little York to his office employees—nine ladies. A most delicious chicken supper was served at the Raymond House at 6 o'clock, After spending the evening with music and dancing the party turned their facts homeward at an early hour. A most enjoyable time was had by all.

Public Money Apportioned.

   School Commissioners Miller and Van Hoesen have apportioned the public school money to the various towns in the county as follows:

   FIRST DISTRICT.

   Cincinnatus, $818.95

   Cortlandville, $6,073.01

   Freetown, $902.94

   Harford, $925.10

   Lapeer, $904.24

   Marathon, $1,439.06

   Virgil, $2,108.68

   Willett, $701.66

   SECOND DISTRICT.

   Cuyler, $1,459.53

   Homer, $3,124.21

   Preble, $1,254.66

   Scott, $1,029.77

   Solon, $1,024.85

   Taylor, $999.35

   Truxton, $1,625.99

BREVITIES.

   —There will be a regular meeting of the Protective Police tomorrow night.

   —New advertisements to-day are—Wesson-Nivison Co., watch this space, page 6.

   —Messrs. Harris & Moore will this week move their grocery business from their present location on Port Watson-st. into the Squires building, 116 South Main-st. and 3 Tompkins-st.

   —Bertha, the eighteen months-old child of Mr. and Mrs. Perry Whiting, who live on the Wickwire farm, died at 8 o'clock last night. The funeral will be held to-morrow at 1 o'clock.

   —Some very low thermometers were reported this morning. Mail Carrier I. Dan Lester says his was 12 degrees below zero and others give similar reports. That is pretty cold for the last week in March.

   —Mr. T. H. Youngs has returned from Buffalo with a carload of twenty-two western horses and now he is receiving calls from all the horsemen at the Cortland House stables. Some of the animals are fine ones.

   —Mrs. S. M. Ballard has received from Mr. and Mrs. E. H. Brewer, who are spending the winter in Florida, a box of luscious strawberries such as are daily gracing their table in the sunny South. They are treating their friends to a taste of the favorite fruit.

   —Dr. Gazlay has announced himself as a candidate for excise inspector under the new Raines law and is circulating a petition to that effect. The doctor claims that his is the only real petition in circulation as it was not started until after the new law went into effect.

   —An assistant in the department of mathematics at the Normal arrived at the home of Prof. W. A. Cornish at about 6 o'clock last night. The professor and his wife extended to him a hearty welcome and the former will see to it that his development in the line of mathematics comes up to the proper standard.

   —The Y. M. C. A. is arranging for the eighth anniversary of the association to be held on Sunday, April 19. Instead of the union platform meeting as heretofore, services will be held in the various churches, also at the East Side in the Congregational rooms and in the Baptist chapel on the West Side. A report of the year's work will be given in each place and also an address along association lines,

   —Arrangements have been made for a large delegation from Cortland to the Congregational convention which meets at Auburn next Saturday. Over one hundred from here will attend. County Judge J. E. Eggleston heads the regular delegation.—Cortland Cor., Syracuse Journal.—We wonder if the Republicans who are planning to go to Auburn on Saturday have it in mind that they are to attend a church convention, and we wonder if the Congregationalists will father the organization.

TOWN REPORTS.

Marathon.

   MARATHON, March 23 —Mr. C. A. Mack expects to leave for Wisconsin to-day, where he is engaged in the missionary work.

   Miss Emma Brooks closes her school at the academy in Blodgett Mills this week and is re-engaged for another term which speaks well for [our] Miss Brooks.

   Rev. E. R. D. Briggs has been invited by the pastor and Wyoming conference to preach on Easter Sunday, April 5, at the Chenango Methodist Episcopal church at Binghamton. During the conference Rev. Briggs will be entertained by Mr. H. G. Cary on Main-st., a member of the Tabernacle church.

   The Lisle Dramatic club presented "At the Picket Line," to a large audience here on Saturday evening.

   Mrs. J. V. N. Williams of Binghamton visited her mother on Friday.

   The M. E. church on Sunday evening was packed to overflowing by the numerous friends of Rev. E. R. D. Briggs to listen to the eloquent sermon he preached to the Masonic Fraternity and the order of the Eastern Star. Members of the Eastern Star had decorated the pulpit in the colors of the chapter and arranged potted plants about the altar. The star of the chapter hung above his head and a white dove was perched among the plants. The arrangement was very neat and tasty and showed the high esteem in which the pastor was held by the orders. Both orders attended in a body and occupied the front seats. The choir was under the direction of Mrs. G. A. Hulbert, organist. His text was taken from the twenty-first verse of second chapter to Paul's letter to the Ephesians and was one of the most eloquent sermons which has been preached in Marathon. Rev. Briggs closed with a very earnest prayer for all his friends. At the close the pastor received many congratulations for his eloquent sermon and kind words. The elder has only one more Sunday and then he closes his five years as pastor of the M. E. church here, which has proven very successful.

   HOMER, March 24. —The Y. P. S. C. E. of the Congregational church will give an entertainment in the church Friday evening of this week. Miss Stobo, elocutionist and Miss Elsie Stuart will take part. There will also be music, drills, recitations, etc. by the young people.

   Ray Hulbert is in town to-day.

   Louis Blaney returned last night from Canisteo, where he has been visiting his sister.

   Horton L. Bates is in Syracuse to-day.

   The advertised letters in the Homer postoffice are: Harvey Dickerson. Persons calling for same please say advertised.

   Wm. A. Bean is on the street again for the first time in several days.

   Do not forget the supper at the M. E. church to-morrow evening. Come and be filled with chopped common taters and country cousin's comforts. Every one is invited.

   A telegram was received Saturday announcing the death of Ransom Greene at San Francisco, Cal., formerly of Cortland. He was born in the town of Willet in 1820 and received a part of his education in Homer under the instruction of Prof. Woolworth of Cortland academy. In 1842 he married Susan W. Dyer and ten children were born to them. They resided many years in Willet on the old homestead, afterwards removed to Cortland, by the railroad crossing between Homer and Cortland. A few years ago he and his family went to California.

   For several months his mental faculties have been failing, and finally a breaking down of the whole system resulted. His son-in-law, W. A. Bishop, took care of him the last few weeks of his life. He leaves a wife, one son and five daughters, nine grandchildren, and two great grandchildren, besides two sisters Mrs. M. Briggs of Cortland and Mrs. Myron Wooster of Homer and a host of friends to mourn his loss. "We pass from the clasp of mourning friends, to the arms of the loved and lost."

Truxton.

   TRUXTON, March 23.— Mrs. E. A. Huntington was called to Syracuse last Saturday by the death or her father who has been ill for some time.

   Mr. Rial Schillinger of Cortland visited friends in town last week.

   Mrs. Wm. Short is slowly recovering from a severe attack of grip with which she has been suffering the last two weeks.

   Last Friday Mr. and Mrs. Fred Robbins started to go to Kenney settlement to visit an uncle, Mr. Albert Haskins, who is very sick. The day was perhaps the most stormy one of this season and the roads so terribly drifted and impassable that on getting both horses down Mr. Robbins gave up getting through and returned, not reaching home until just night.

   After this week the Union school has a vacation until the 1st of April.

   Mr. and Mrs. Frank Rice of Cortland were here last week.

   Miss Phoebe Hicks of Homer has been visiting her sister for several days.

   The Junior league desires to extend thanks to Mrs. Smith and Mrs. Van Valkenburg for so kindly inviting them to their homes, also to the other friends who have aided them in their efforts to secure a good library which they will soon be the possessors of. The proceeds of the maple sugar social last Friday evening were $10.50.

   Miss Mabel Crain of Homer has been the guest of Miss Bertha Wiegand for a few days.

   Mr. Thomas Cushing is in quite poor health at present.

   TRUTH.

Harford.

   HARFORD, March 21.—School closed yesterday for a four week's vacation.

   Mrs. Josiah Rood fell down the cellar stairs last Tuesday, breaking her arm and dislocating her shoulder.

   Mr. J. C. Edmonds has purchased the old postoffice building of Mr. N. L. Brown. He intends moving it to the end of his store and using it for a boot and shoe department.

   Mr. Hugh Glazier, the barber, has moved his place of business from the old

postoffice building to the former shoeshop of Mr. Frank Silsbee [sic].

   Mr. B. F. Joiner has been in town a few days this week. Mr. Joiner resides in Flemingville, where he intends to start a grocery store this spring.

   Mr. Beebe, who has had charge of the milk depot here the past year, is going in the milk depot at Whitney Point. Mr. Cameron of Newark Valley is Mr. Beebe's successor here.

   Mr. Cameron has rented the house of Mrs. Sarah Wavle, formerly occupied by Mr. Frank Silsbee.

   The Epworth league gave a sociable at Mr. Simon Seaman's last Wednesday night which was well attended and much enjoyed by those present.

   There will be a chicken pie supper given in the M. E. church next Wednesday evening for the purpose of raising money toward the salary of Mr. Estes.

Scott Road.

   SCOTT ROAD, March 21.—School in the Fairbanks district began last Monday with Mrs. Jennie Crampton, teacher.

   Miss Ella Jones, who has been seriously ill, is recovering.

   Mr. Lewis Babcock, who has lived in the village of Scott the past year, has moved into Thomas Kennedy's house.

   Mr. V. J. Barber has moved into Mr. Reeling's house near the village of Homer.

Penelope.

   PENELOPE, March 23.—C. O. Fuller left Tuesday for Lansingburg, Mich., to be absent about a weak. He went to attend the 100th anniversary of his great aunt, Mrs. Esther Kinney, who moved thirty years ago to Michigan. Ninety years ago Mrs. Kinney, than a little girl of ten, came with her father and brother from Unadilla to Smithville Flats. Though there were a few other settlers beyond Cincinnatus pond, there was no road but the one four miles over to the farm where Mr. Fuller now lives and there built a log house. The little girl keeping house for them while the rest of the family remained behind for a time.

   Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Pierce were pleasantly entertained by E. W. Corey's people one day recently.

   Mrs. Orland Yarner and two children, who have been visiting her parents at Coventry, have returned to their home in this place.

   Mr. and Mrs. Frank Ketchum are visiting his parents at Binghamton.

   The many friends of Geo W. Stevens, Esq., will be sadly surprised to learn that he and his wife have decided to leave Penelope and accept a position in Hotel Ingalls at Willet to which place they move to-day. Mr. Stevens has been a resident of this place more or less of the time during the past fifteen years, having owned and sold many different farms and places here during the time and being a successful mechanic. His departure from our midst is with deepest regret, as he and his wife were very prominent people in society circles and the C. church, to which both had been faithful, devoted members and great workers for some time. Their singing in the Y. P. C. E. society will be greatly missed, but we realize that our loss is another's gain and may success and prosperity attend them in their new vocation.

   H. N. Dillenbeck and wife attended the funeral of his uncle, Saul Dillenbeck, at Cincinnatus last Thursday. Mr. Dillenbeck died at his home in the town of Maine on Monday last. A prayer was held at the house and remains taken to Cincinnatus for interment and funeral services.

   Wm. Bliss lost one of his best dairy cows one week ago Sunday.

   H. W. Carr and family were pleasantly entertained by N. A. Jefford and family on Wednesday evening last.

   On Thursday evening a special grange meeting was held for the purpose of initiating the new members, E. N. Flummerfelt and wife, Devern Arnold and wife.

Brackle.

   BRACKLE, March 23.— Every one is getting ready for sugaring as soon as the blizzard is over.

   A wood bee was held on Monday for Enos Craft, several teams drew him a large pile of wood.

   Miss Retty Silvernail has hired to work for Mr. Youngs the coming season where she has been for the past year.

   Mrs. Tracey Baldwin and daughter Lizzie visited friends in Pitcher recently. Hudson Davis visited at Mr. Deliah Warner's in German a few days the past week.

   Fred Hills has taken Iras Fosgate's sugar bush to work this spring and Westly Phillips has taken one of Charles Rathburn.

   Ernest Saunders, who has been working for R. Harvey, has returned to Tully to see his sister, Mrs. Pitmen, who is about to start for England to visit her mother.

   D.