WAIT FOR THE STATE CONVENTION

The Cortland Democrat, Friday, July 17, 1896.

WAIT FOR THE STATE CONVENTION.

From the Albany Argus.

   In midsummer, when the weather is hot, people are apt to be cross and irritable, and on the impulse of the moment to say and do things which, at a cooler time, their judgment would not approve.  For any man to sever his relations with the party to which he has been attached for years and transfer his fealty to the party to which he has been long opposed, is a serious step which should be pre-considered with the most careful deliberation, and should never be taken hastily or on sudden impulse. We, therefore, regret to see it announced that, here and there, certain individuals and newspapers hitherto of the Democratic persuasion have allowed their indignation at the proceedings of the Chicago convention to impel them to desert the old Democratic standard and declare their intention to vote for the Republican candidates.

   We appeal especially to our readers in the State of New York. There need be no hurry. The November election is more than three months away, and there is abundant time for reflection, which may bring them to a different and more judicious frame of mind. Let them follow the example of our delegation at Chicago, who, while voting as a unit against the new platform adopted and refusing to vote for any candidates to be placed upon that platform, abstained from bolting, and preserved under the strictest ruling the "regularity" of the present party organization, thus giving it indisputable control over the party emblem which, under the new ballot system, must beyond all hazard be kept out of the hands of any new organization that may aspire to usurp its place in this State.

   The Democratic State committee will soon call the State convention to nominate presidential electors; to nominate candidates for the offices of Governor, Lieutenant-Governor and Associate Judge of the Court of Appeals; to elect a new State committee and to transact such other business as may properly come before the convention. The delegates to that convention will have before them the report of the delegation to the National convention; they will be fresh from the people in every county of the State, well-advised of their views, their hopes and their wishes and better prepared than any persons or newspapers now can be, to determine what course should be taken by the New York Democracy. The Argus proposes to wait for that decision and to govern its course in accord with it. We appeal to all Democrats in the State to do the same, and whatever they may have been provoked to say in haste, we cannot doubt that "sober second thought" will ultimately prevail.

   The great duty of the hour is to maintain the State Democratic organization intact. However we may think that representatives of other States have erred, whatever may be our differences of opinion as to the matters involved in the presidential election, we must not forget that a State election of the highest importance is at hand—that we are not only to vote for a President of the United States but also for a Governor and a Lieutenant-Governor, for representatives in Congress and for members of a Legislature which is to choose a United States Senator. Let us not throw away everything important to the State because we have not been able to have Federal politics managed as we desire.

   We proudly call New York the Empire State. In population, in wealth, in enterprise, in diversified industries, in education and intelligence, it is an empire in itself, and the greatest of all the States embraced in the indissoluble Union. The Democracy of New York is a great party in itself, always happy to accord with its bretheren in other States in maintaining the principles upon which the national Democratic party was founded a hundred years ago. The Chicago convention has attempted to incorporate in the time-honored creed of the party new doctrines to which many of our people cannot assent. But this is the hasty and intemperate action resulting from a temporary excitement. The work of the Chicago assemblage may not endure; but true Democracy is for all time.

   The coming State convention should nominate a Democratic electoral ticket, composed of the ablest and most faithful Democrats to be selected in their various districts—men of the highest character for intelligence and integrity, competent to elect a President and Vice-President, and if the State convention is not prepared or cannot agree to designate the Chicago candidates, or any others—then leave it entirely to the Democratic presidential electors of New York to vote for whom they shall judge best when the time arrives. This will be the wisest way to hold the party together in this State, if the State convention cannot agree to endorse the Chicago presidential ticket. Each Congressional district, through its delegates in the convention can, as usual, name the elector whom it prefers, and the two electors at large can be chosen by the majority of the whole convention, without dictating the candidates for whom these electors are to vote.

   Leaving it thus to the electors to vote, if elected, for what candidates they may severally deem best, will be a wholesome departure from the unconstitutional practice under which the presidential electors have become mere automatons, and will restore to the electoral college the functions which it was originally designed to possess.

   "From an enlightened view of all the difficulties that attend the subject," says Chancellor Kent, "the Constitution has not thought it safe or prudent to refer the election of a President directly and immediately to the people; but it has confided the power to a small body of electors, appointed in each State, under the direction of the Legislature; and to close the opportunity as much as possible against negotiation, intrigue and corruption, it has declared that Congress may determine the time of choosing the electors, and the day on which they shall vote, and that the day of election shall be the same in every State. The mode of electing the President appears to be well calculated to secure a discreet choice, and to avoid all those evils which the partisans of monarchy have described, and the experience of other nations and past ages have too clearly shown to be the consequence of popular elections. The Constitution has avoided all objections, by confiding the power of election to a small number of select individuals in each State, chosen only a few days before the election, and solely for that purpose. This would seem to be as wise a provision as the wisdom of man could have devised.

   We venture to make the suggestion because it seems the most practicable means of preserving the Democratic organization in the State intact, while the question of presidential candidate is left open to the latest possible date. But whatever may be the determination of the State convention, it should be sustained by every Democrat in the State. Be of good courage, and remember that "all's well that ends well."

RAVAGES OF THE ARMY WORM.

State Entomologist Suggests Methods For Its Destruction.

   ALBANY, July 14—State Agricultural Commissioner Charles A. Wieting has received numerous letters from various sections of the state complaining of the ravages of the army worm, and asking what measures can be taken to fight the pest. Commissioner Wieting has obtained the following instructions to the farmers of the state from State Entomologist Lintner outlining the best method to destroy the worm:

   The injuries that the army worm is causing and the alarm that they are exciting, is evidenced by the telegrams that are being received at this office asking for help and that the best remedies be wired at once.

   In several of the instances so far, the caterpillars have come out of rye to invade corn fields adjoining. It is probably now too late to confine them to the rye field, as their work there has largely been done and they have taken to other food plants. A deep ditch or furrow along the field with a perpendicular wall on the other side would have caught most of them, and holes made a foot or two deep at fifteen or twenty feet apart would in a short time be filled with them, where they could easily be crushed or killed with kerosene. A broad band of tar also makes a good barrier if renewed as it becomes filled with its captives.

   When marching over a comparatively smooth piece of ground a heavy roller can be used to crush them. When already entered into a cornfield, they may be kept from proceeding farther by ditching as above indicating. A few rows in advance of the progressing army should also be sprayed with Paris green in water or dusted while the dew is on with Paris green or slacked lime.

   These are the most approved remedies, but it is now pretty late for their use. A large part of the injuries have already been done. Many of the caterpillars have matured and have entered the ground for their change to the moth. In from three to four weeks after hatching from the egg they reach their full growth. During the last three or four days they consume more than in all the rest of their lives. The greater proportion are now nearly full grown, but there are still a few which are about one-third grown, and these may feed for nearly three weeks longer.

   It is not quite certain that this is the true army worm, leucania unipunota. Some of its operations indicate that it may prove to be what is known as the "wheat head army worm," leucania albolinea. Caterpillars of the two are so much alike that I cannot determine this point until some of the moths have been reared.

   The "army worm" when abundant is usually attacked by parasite fly which lays a number of its eggs on the forepart of its body near the head. None of these are to be seen on the caterpillars now with us, nor has any other parasite been observed preying upon it.

   The Democratic National convention held in Chicago last week was called to assemble by the Democratic National Committee, a majority of the members of that committee being in favor of the gold standard. A large majority of the delegates regularly elected to that convention by the several states in the Union, were in favor of silver and they controlled the convention, nominated the ticket and adopted the platform. There are some planks in that platform that are distasteful to eastern Democrats. If the gold standard people had been in the majority, doubtless there would have been some planks in the platform that would have been equally distasteful to those who favor silver, but the gold advocates would have insisted that the action of the convention was binding and that the silver people must support the ticket and they would have been right in this contention.

   Are not the advocates of the gold standard in duty bound to support the ticket nominated by the silver men? We think they are. Any other course would disrupt the grand old party and it would be many years before it would again become solidified. The DEMOCRAT has always favored a gold standard but it believes that the majority should rule. No reasonable Democrat can find fault with the candidates. They are both lifelong Democrats and men of high character and exceptionable ability.

Arthur Sewall.

William J. Bryan.

Washington Letter.

(From our Regular Correspondent.]

   WASHINGTON, July 13, 1896.— Hon. William Jennings Bryan of Nebraska, the democratic candidate for President, needs no introduction to the democrats of the United States, although he is only 36 years old—the youngest man ever honored with the Presidential nomination—his two terms in Congress did that thoroughly. He was a member of the House in the fifty-second and fifty-third Congresses and would probably still be a member if the republicans had not gerrymandered the first district of Nebraska, which he so ably represented.

   In each of the Congresses in which he sat he had the honor, although he was one of the youngest members, of making the speech which was most widely circulated. The first of those speeches was delivered March 16th, 1892, and was against the McKinley tariff law. That speech made his fame and may be considered as having been one of the direct causes of his having been nominated for President by the Chicago convention, and was more widely distributed as a campaign document by the Democratic Congressional Campaign committee than any other speech on the subject, and he became in a day one of the most talked about men in Congress. The other speech was made at the extra session of Congress, called to repeal the purchasing clause of the Sherman silver law, and was against repeal. That speech was at the time and is still regarded as one of the ablest arguments ever made in either branch of Congress for the free coinage of silver, and millions of copies have been sent out by the silver men, and it will probably be even more widely circulated during the coming campaign.

   Mr. Bryan is thoroughly democratic in his manner and ways of living, is easily approached, affable, but never "gaggy." He is a member of the Presbyterian church and when in Washington he always attended with his wife, the New York Ave. Presbyterian church. His wife is, like himself, a lawyer, but she didn't study law with the intention of practicing, but merely took the diploma in order to make herself more companionable to her husband. Mr. Bryan is poor and he never makes any attempt to appear otherwise. When in Washington, he and his family—wife and three children—occupied apartments in the home of a resident of the unfashionable section in the immediate vicinity of  the Capitol building, and with the exception of an occasional lecture before the Y. M. C. A., in which he takes a deep interest, his time is devoted to his Congressional duties and to study.

   After he made his first speech and became a congressional lion, Washington society tried to entice him and Mrs. Bryan within its silken coil, but it was time wasted. He felt that he had something more important to do than to exhibit himself at fashionable social entertainments.

   Mr. Bryan was thus described a few months ago when no one had any idea that he would be the candidate, this year at any rate: "Bryan is a collegiate scholar, and has stored away in his capacious cranium much of the golden grain of wisdom and little of the husks, and it is all there for use, either as argument or embellishment. Some men are so ugly and so ungainly that it is a positive disadvantage to them as public speakers. Some men are so handsome and graceful that they are on good terms with the audience before they open their lips. Of the latter class Bryan is a shining example. His appearance is a passport to the affections of his fellow men."

   Hon. Arthur Sewall of Maine, who has been nominated for Vice President, gives the ticket a geographical balance which will unquestionably add strength to it. He has had wide experience in politics, having been prominently identified as a member of the National Committee with the management of every democratic national campaign of recent years. Mr. Sewall is a successful shipbuilder and business man.

   It is generally believed in Washington that the populist and silver conventions which are to meet at St. Louis next week will endorse Bryan and Sewall and the democratic platform.

   There is much talk in Washington of the probability of President Cleveland and the members of his cabinet joining with the sound money democrats in a movement for the nomination of an independent democratic ticket on a gold platform, but it is based more upon conjecture than upon fact. It is, of course, certain that a considerable number of men who have been democratic leaders will refuse to support Bryan and Sewall and the Chicago platform—that was indicated by the refusal of the most of the gold men to take any further part in the convention after they were defeated on the platform. But will they carry any considerable number of democratic voters with them? That is the important question.

   Senator Call of Florida, now in Washington, was asked if he thought the gold democrats would bolt. He replied: "Many of the leaders will but the masses will not. The trouble is that the leaders are not in touch with the masses and do not know how they feel. The banks and the big newspapers will oppose Bryan and Sewall but that will help elect them."

Squedunk Squibs.

   Little Eddie Kelly has been visiting his friend Peter Grump the attorney this week. There will be a big doins at the town hall next Wednesday evening, July 22.

   Mary Marshal will speak that beautiful story called "A Tramp's Daughter," or "Who Stole the Garden Hose." Jim Brandon the tramp, who came in contact with Julius Hilderbrandt's right hand, is rapidly recovering and will soon be too strong to work. Dell Bosworth will shove the screans at the doins at the town hall July 22. Several of the toopers were practicing their capers on the village green last night. Bridget Malone, Mrs. Hilderbrandt's cook, has been busy all week putting decorations on the platform in the town hall for the doins July 22. Bridget was arrested last week for throwing the cook stove at Charlie Sumner, she pled guilty to arson and was granted a divorce.

 

HERE AND THERE.

   "A Tramp's Daughter" one night only, July 22, [playing at the Cortland Opera House].

   The sale of seats for "A Tramp's Daughter' opens today at the Candy Kitchen.

   The Cortlands beat the Oxfords on the fair grounds last Wednesday afternoon by a score of 13 to 2.

   The Deposit [baseball] club beat the Cortlands on the fair grounds Wednesday afternoon by a score of 5 to 3. It was a strong game.

   The ten cent supper of the Ladies' Aid society of the Universalist church Wednesday netted over $13.

   Master Ned Butler, who had a bullet pass through his head on the Fourth, is so far recovered as to be up and around.

   It is proposed by the St. Vitas Dancing club to hold informal parties at the park every second Friday evening for the rest of the summer.

   The Cortland base ball team play the Shamrocks of Syracuse to-morrow and the Marcellus team next Wednesday. Both games are in Cortland.

   The contest for the bicycle at St. Mary's picnic last Saturday netted $320 to the church. The wheel was awarded to Miss Agnes Dowd, she having 720 votes.

   The cycle parade, which was to have taken place last Tuesday evening, was postponed to this evening on account of the muddy condition of the streets.

   The picnic held in the park last Saturday by St. Mary's church was a grand success in every way. Nearly $500 was netted for the benefit of the organ fund.

   The employes of the Wickwire shops will run an excursion to Long Branch on Onondaga lake, Saturday, August 1st. Fare for round trip, $1, children, half price.

   Regular meeting of the W. C. T. U. on Saturday, July 18, at 3 P. M. Devotionals conducted by Mrs. Snyder. Business meeting followed by a short program of interest.

   The four children of Mr. G. F. Beaudry took part in the bicycle carnival at Syracuse last Friday. Leon and Fred attracted much attention by fancy riding on their small tandem.

   The stock of dry goods in the store of Messrs. Case, Ruggles & Bristol was considerably damaged by water in the fire that occurred in the rooms over the store last week. They are selling off these goods at very low prices and intend to close them out as quick at possible. Read their advertisement in another column.

OFF TO THE NORTH AND HONEST MONEY DEMOCRATS

Lt. Robert Peary.

Cortland Evening Standard, Friday, July 17, 1896.

OFF TO THE NORTH.

Lieutenant Peary and His Party Sail For Greenland.

   HALIFAX, July 17.—The steamer Hope, in command of Captain John Bartlett, having on board Lieutenant Peary and party, has sailed from Sydney, Cape Breton, for Greenland. The vessel carried abundant stores and nine boats, so that she seems prepared for every emergency. The main object of the cruise is to bring home a 40-ton meteorite which is located at Cape York. She also takes three scientific parties, who will be landed at Labrador, South Greenland and Melville bay, respectively.

   Lieutenant Peary himself is accompanied by Hugh Lee and his black servant, Henson. Among those on board are Professor Alf Burton and Professor George H. Barton of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Geologist C. H. Putnam, assistant in the United States coast and geodetic survey, has been detailed to accompany the party to take pendulum and magnetic observations. Russell W. Porter, a student in the architectural department of the institute of technology, goes as an artist and photographer and John C. Phillips, a student of Harvard, as assistant geologist.

   Aside from the general trip in company, one party will be landed for five or six weeks at Devil's Thumb, on the southern end of Melville bay. This region has never before been visited by scientific men. Here careful studies will be made of glaciers, geological features and, to a certain extent, of natural history.

   The Hope will go north to Bowdoin bay, will spend three weeks there and return to Cape York for the meteorite. The ship will then come south, picking up the members of the expedition where they were landed on the trip going northward and will reach Sydney at about the end of September.

William J. Bryan.

Bryan at Kansas City.

   KANSAS CITY, July 17.—Ten thousand people stood packed in the thoroughfare in front of the Coates House and howled themselves into a frenzy of enthusiasm over William J. Bryan, the Democratic presidential nominee. The cheering began at least an hour before the presidential candidate was advertised to appear, and it was kept up, with an occasional lull, until the distinguished free silver advocate appeared on the balcony of the hotel. Then the vast throng broke out with redoubled energy a n d gave him an ovation that was not unlike that which he received after his famous speech at the Chicago convention.

Electric Railway Incorporated.

   ALBANY, July 17.—The Onondaga Lake Railroad company, capitalized at $250,000, has been incorporated with the secretary of state. The company will operate an electric road from Clinton Square, Syracuse, to Long Branch in the town of Geddes, Onondaga county, a distance of seven miles.

PAGE TWO—EDITORIALS.

To Honest Money Democrats.

   There are many honest money Democrats who detest the Chicago platform and yet hesitate to vote for a Republican nominee for president. Here is a scrap of advice for them from the New York Sun:

   Every Democrat who wants to make sure that the revolutionary program of the Red Mob shall not be carried out will not dare to throw away his vote or to stay at home on election day. He will vote for William McKinley, not as a Democrat voting for a Republican, but as an American voting for an American and voting against the dishonor and disaster which the carrying out of the Red platform would bring upon the United States.

   To honest money Democrats who are sticklers for party regularity the Sun also says:

   Those gold-standard Democrats who declare their resolve to swallow the anarchy platform and ticket because these emanate from a Democratic convention, so called, are perhaps too tender in their scruples and too devoted to the idea of regularity. Does anybody believe that the silver men would have put up with a gold platform and a gold candidate if the gold men had had a majority in the convention?

   Before the convention was held, a good many of the delegates uttered their opinions freely. From the respectable element to the Anarchists, from Capt. Evan P. Howell of Atlanta to Pitchfork Tillman, there seemed to be an agreement that silver was Democracy, and that if it was not proclaimed, the silver delegates must and would bolt.

   In Mr. Bryan's own state of Nebraska, at the Democratic state convention in April of the present year, a delegate asserted in a speech that a gold standard man was not a Democrat at all.

   But take the Hon. William Jennings Bryan himself. Does anybody believe that he would have supported Senator Hill [former New York governor—CC editor], or Mr. Whitney, or Governor Flower, or anybody else, on a gold platform? Here is what he said at Birmingham in 1895, when Mr. Bryan was revolving through the South on silver wheels:

   "Nothing in heaven above, on the earth below, or in hell beneath could make me support a gold-standard candidate on a gold-standard platform."

   It is superfluous to show to these Populist condottieri who have captured the Democracy a romantic courtesy and good faith which they are incapable of appreciating.

   Besides, there is no national Democratic party now. There are the elements of it in the several states. There, and without having to kiss the feet of anarchy, Democratic discipline and regularity may be maintained.

   Now is the time for patriotic Democrats to decide where they will stand—with Whitney and Vilas and Gray and Watterson, or with Herr Most and Altgeld and Debs and socialism and anarchy. What real claim has the bolting and fire-eating Bryan to any straight Democrat's support?

Henry Watterson.

COL. WATTERSON SPEAKS.

Says the Democratic Platform is Monstrous and Means a Revolution.

   GENEVA, July 17.—Col. Henry Watterson, who is sojourning here, was interviewed yesterday by a correspondent of the New York Herald touching the crisis in the United States. Col. Watterson said:

   "Personally the ticket nominated at Chicago is an unexceptionable ticket. Mr. Bryan is a most worthy and well educated young man with a talent for what passes for oratory. He is fervid, sincere, poor and honest. Mr. Sewall is a Democrat of long standing and credit. He is a millionaire from Maine who, having nothing to lose politically, thinks he can afford to gratify caprice and amuse himself by playing with populism. It is a ticket that may be made to arouse a good deal of enthusiasm, both real and artificial.

   "The platform is monstrous. It not only means national repudiation and spoliation, but is an open door to revolution. If the leaders of this movement could come into power those of them who have any sense of accountability, and conception of orderly government would be quickly set aside by the wild elements behind. In this way civil war, as foreshadowed by the Chicago outbreaks last year, could be precipitated upon the country. Then the strong hand of the federal power was interposed, but if this were withheld the reign of the mob would be easy enough.

   "What of the proposal to put another Democratic ticket in the field?

   "You will observe," said Col. Watterson, "that those who are so quick to urge concentration of all sound money men upon McKinley are either Republicans who naturally seek to swell their party ranks by such an unexpected accession or those Democrats who from a sense of sheer outrage and disgust, leap at conclusions, not caring to take two bites at a cherry.

   "But there are considerations which neither class takes into account. There are from two to four millions of stanch Democrats who may not be so easily transferred from one party to the other, yet whose votes can be made just as effectual in suppressing anarchy as the votes of those Republicans who directly support McKinley. The Democrats must have some abiding place. They cannot find it under a flag of which one-half is for sound money and the other half for protection. Mr. McKinley cannot compromise an issue which he has made the cornerstone of his political belief.

   "It is true that the money issue, not the tariff issue, is in the ascendant now, but there must be logical consistency in all things and neither McKinley nor his party can ignore tariff pledges without self-stultification. Hence a new Democratic convention with another Democratic ticket and directed by wise counsels, is the sole hope of the Democratic future and would be the only refuge for those Democrats who have nowhere else to go.

   "Failure to respect the convictions and exigencies of these Democrats will be in the highest degree unsafe. As between McKinley and Mr. Bryan in the final outcome Bryan could probably get as many of these voters as McKinley, while many would refuse to go to the polls, but a sound Democratic ticket would get them all. Thus after the election the opposition may be organized on a sound basis and not relegated to the wild horses of Populism for three years more of ruinous agitation with another life or death struggle at the end of them. It is not certain that a ticket headed by Carlisle or Whitney and placed upon a real Democratic platform would not get more votes than the ticket headed by Bryan. The complete disintegration of the Democratic party is an event to be contemplated by thoughtful persons only with forebodings of evil."

FIRE AT BLODGETT MILLS.

Big Hay Barn of A. B. Freeman Destroyed. Loss $1,800. Insurance $400.

   The splendid large hay barn of A. B. Freeman, a quarter of a mile north of

Blodgett Mills, was totally destroyed by fire late yesterday afternoon with all its contents. Mr. Freeman assisted by his son. A. B. Freeman, Jr., was drawing hay into the barn from a field across the street. About twenty tons of hay had already been put into three different mows, filling them slightly above the level of the floor, the mows extending to the bottom of the underground part. The men had just thrown off a load with the horse fork and had gone again into the field. They had just begun to put on another load when glancing toward the barn they discovered flames coming out over the doors upon the barn floor. They rushed back and before they got there the flames were coming out of the roof.

   The fire was discovered at Blodgett Mills village and the big whistle of the chair factory blew loud and long. All the men turned out and farmers from all the surrounding country hastened in the same direction. Within ten minutes there were seventy-five men there, the fire having started about 4:15.

   The burning barn stood at the west end of a long row of farm buildings, the dwelling house being almost at the east end. The wind was strong from the west and it looked as though every building would be destroyed. The horse barn stood nearest and was a hundred feet away. That was on fire inside of ten minutes. Ladders were put up and a bucket brigade was formed. The men seized upon a quantity of tin sap buckets and passed water up to those on the roof and a constant stream was flowing down the roof. The water was taken from wells and from a big tank filled from a spring, but it looked as though this would run short. Milk cans in that vicinity were plenty and several teams drew water from the river, so that there was plenty for use.

   In a half hour the roof had fallen in, the walls were down and there was only a mass of smoking ruins of what had been one of the finest barns in that section of the country.

   It was remarkably fortunate that so many men were at hand or all the buildings would have been destroyed. The barn was 33 by 90 feet in size and had a wing on the south side 12 by 90 feet. It had a basement with a fine stone wall on the lower side. The roof was of steel. There was in the barn about twenty tons of hay, a mowing machine, a double sleigh, two cutters and a young calf, all of which were destroyed. Mr. Freeman estimates his total loss at about $1,800, and has an insurance of $400 on the building, placed with the grange. Mr. Freeman says if it had not been for the most speedy and energetic work on the part of kind neighbors he should not have a roof or building on the place at present.

   The cause of the fire is believed to be friction from the pulleys upon the rope of a horse fork. There is no other thing that it can be laid to. No one about the place smokes. No one besides the family had been there. The hay that was going in was pretty green, but it had not had time to heat. Besides, the hay in the mows scarcely came up to the floors, while the flames were first seen over the doors, nearly up to the eaves. This is a new cause of fire and one farmers should carefully look out for.

   So strong was the wind that burning brands were carried clear over to the village of Blodgett Mills a quarter of a mile away. The house was partly cleared of furniture when it was thought that it was going. A horse left on a wheelrake when the men started for the fire ran away and smashed the rake and tore his harness to pieces.

BREVITIES.

   —Band concert on the Cortland Athletic Association grounds this evening.

   —The date of the Cortland county fair has been changed to Sept. 15, 16 and 17.

   —A bicycle was found on Main-st. last night by the police and is at police headquarters awaiting the owner.

   —Several Groton people have signified their expectation of riding to Cortland to-night to see the big bicycle parade.

   —Miss Flossie Sears is this afternoon entertaining at her home west of the village a number of her little friends at a haying party.

   —The Cortland baseball team will play the Shamrocks of Syracuse at the fair grounds to-morrow afternoon. Game called at 3:30 P. M.

   —The grounds of the C. A. A. are gaily decorated this afternoon and will present a pretty appearance to-night when lighted after the parade.

   —New advertisements to-day are—G. J. Mager & Co., special prices, page 7; A. S. Burgess, great bargains, page 8; Wm. Grady, bicycles, page 2.

   —Drop into the STANDARD office after the parade to-night and add your name and the name of your wheel to the list of bicyclists and wheels which we are preparing for publication.

   —The Rev. Wm. H. Clarke of Seneca Falls will be with his old friends in Grace church on Sunday, Mr. Watkins exchanging with him and going to Seneca Falls for service on that date.

   —The cottages in Elysium park are rapidly filling up. They are occupied by people from Cortland, Marathon, New York, Boston and Worcester, Mass. Picnickers are also there nearly every day. To-morrow school district No. 15 of Cortlandville will have possession of the grounds.

HOMER.

Gleanings of News From Our Twin Village.

   Among the arrivals at the Mansion House yesterday were Mrs. John Henry and Miss Henry of New York City. They have been regular visitors in Homer during the summer season for many years; and are here again to enjoy our delightful summer climate.

   Mr. and Mrs. G. A. Brockway and Dr. and Mrs. F. R. Thompson rode to McLean and return last evening on their wheels. They were guests at the Elm Tree Inn for supper.

   The army worms have reached Homer and vicinity and are now doing their disastrous work among the gardens and fields in town and in the country. Up to date no one seems to have presented a satisfactory solution to the problem of exterminating this pest.

South Cortland.

   SOUTH CORTLAND, July 15. Dr. D. E. Ensign of McGrawville called on Mr. and Mrs. D. McNish last Wednesday.

   Mrs. Sarah Gallagher spent Sunday with friends in Dryden.

   The army worm is with us. They do not seem to be in all the oat fields yet. G. H. Hyde and N. F. Webb have had to cut their fine fields of oats, each containing about twelve acres.

Texas Valley.

   TEXAS VALLEY, July 15. Dr. H. D. Watson, who graduated in May from the University of the City of New York and who was so fortunate as to secure the hundred dollar prize, has just taken and passed the state examination for a license to practice medicine and surgery in the state of New York, and the Board of Regents of the state of New York has granted Dr. Watson a diploma of special distinction. The diploma has as its distinguishing mark a purple seal with the words "With Honor." In order to obtain this Dr, Watson had to give a percentage of over ninety per cent in several subjects. Dr. Watson is to be congratulated upon his many honors. He is now in the office of Dr. F. W. Higgins at Cortland.

 

HOSTILITIES IN CUBA AND CORTLAND BASEBALL

Gen. Valeriano Wyler.

Cortland Evening Standard, Thursday, July 16, 1896.

HOSTILITIES IN CUBA.

Lively Skirmishes Reported From Havana.

GENERAL WEYLER'S LATEST.

American Citizens Must Register at Once in Order to Obtain Protection.

May Cause Trouble Between Spain and America.

   HAVANA, July 10.—Major Sendeno, in command of the Seragoza battalion operating in the Pajon hills in the province of Santa Clara, encountered the combined insurgent bands of Albertdi, Robau and others. Captain Callejo with the 50-company battalion was detailed to make a rapid advance on the enemy's right flank. At the same time the Sixth company made a gallant bayonet charge before which the insurgents were compelled to abandon their position. Then the guerrilla contingent charged with drawn machetes, putting the insurgents to flight.

   In this engagement 12 insurgents are known to have been killed while 10 were wounded. Of the troops two were killed and five wounded.

   The steamer Montevideo has arrived here, having on board M. Leon Mollie, the new French consul at Havana. He will take charge of the consulate at once, and his predecessor, Count Sala, will embark on board the steamer Lafayette and return to France.

   General Linares, having been informed of the intention of General Maximo Gomez and General Calixto Garcia to bring their respective commands together near Santiago de Cuba and there to join Jose Maceo, sent Albert from San Lucas to intercept them. In consequence of this movement the insurgents were obliged to retrace their steps.

   The Navarro battalion, operating in the province of Santa Clara, killed 12 insurgents in one engagement and a total of 105 in the various encounters there, including Captain Francisco Sardinas, Lieutenant Pablo Colet and Francisco.

   A Spanish cavalry column has had an engagement with insurgents at Hoyo Colorado, province of Havana. Major Cirujeda was wounded in this fight. Seven insurgents, including an officer named Hernandez, were killed.

General Weyler's Latest Freak.

   WASHINGTON, July 16.—Some interest has been excited here by the issue of a notice by Captain General Weyler in Havana that he would refuse to recognize as entitled to protection under the Cushing protocol all foreigners (meaning Americans) who do not register in a specially provided book within 30 days from the date of the order. If the purpose of the Spanish officials is to make easier the protection of Americans from unjust treatment then this last order will be well received, but on the other hand it cannot for a moment be contemplated that the captain general, by any order or edict of his own, can withdraw citizenship from an American citizen or exclude him from the protection afforded by the Gushing protocol.

1893 map of Cuba.

CUBA IS LOST.

Spain Might as Well Give Up the Fight and Go Home.

   NEW YORK, July 16.—Gen. Bradley T. Johnson, who has been investigating affairs in Cuba, returned yesterday. Gen. Johnson said: Cuba is lost to Spain. That Spain can never again subdue Cuba may be regarded as conclusive. There is no possibility of the Spaniards with their present or with other forces crushing the revolution. The whole island is in arms against them. The ranks of the insurgents are daily recruited by the best blood in the inland. The leading social clubs in Santiago de Cuba and in Havana have been recently broken up, and the members have gone to the field.

   A large number of students of the University of Havana have left their classes and joined the rebels. This shows the earnestness with which the Cubans regard this struggle. They will never give up and the indications now clearly point to their ultimate success. It is generally understood in Cuba among those who have daily confidential communications with the rebel army that Gen. Maximo Gomez is preparing to strike some great blow in the near future. I do not understand if this is so why Gomez allowed his intentions to be disclosed, but certain it is that Gomez is moving from Puerto Principe eastward toward Maceo's troops, and this looks like a projected combination of the two forces.

   Yellow fever is doing destructive work along the Spanish lines in the trocha. It is certain to become epidemic, although the doctors are fighting it. The Spanish losses through this scourge will be frightful. The disease has as yet made little headway, although a few cases have developed in the slums.

   The war is not likely in my opinion to end soon unless the United States interferes. The Cubans will not abandon the fight until the Spaniards are driven from Cuba, and if necessary the island will be practically destroyed and the Spaniards starved out. Such is the spirit of resistance displayed by the rebels.

   Gen. Johnson [doubts] the idea that either of the Maceos have been killed.

Started for a Cooler Clime.

   SIDNEY, C. B., July 16.—The steamer Hope, with Lieut. Peary's Arctic expedition on board sailed from here to-day on her northern voyage of exploration. Besides the Cornell university and Boston parties under Profs. Turr and Burton, Albert Operti, the well-known Arctic explorer, accompanied the expedition. Lieut. Peary thinks the Hope will return the latter part of September.

IT TOOK TEN INNINGS

FOR DEPOSIT TO WIN FROM CORTLAND YESTERDAY.

The Score Was Five to Three In Favor of the Visitors—Greatest Game Seen Here in Years.

   It required ten innings yesterday afternoon to decide which team should be victorious in a game played on the diamond, Cortland or Deposit. It was certainly the greatest game seen in Cortland in years. It was real, genuine baseball from the time Umpire Dexter said "play ball" until the last man was out.

   Deposit first went to bat, but Moriarty was required to throw only four balls before the side was retired. Cortland went [down] in one two three order. Muleare flied out to Haulihan in the second, Purtell made a two-base hit, but was left on second as his two successors found [sic]. Cortland failed to score in the third, as did Deposit. But in the fourth Moriarty secured his base on balls and scored on a hit by Kinney and an error by Dwyer.

   Deposit scored their first run in the fifth. Schiern hit safely for one base. Mills went out at first, Gallaher was hit by a ball and given first which advanced Schiern to second and he scored on a hit by Wilcox. This made the score even.

   In the sixth inning each side scored a run, leaving it even and keeping the interest at a fever heat. Neither side scored in the seventh, but in the eighth each made a run. No runs were made in the ninth and the score stood three for Cortland and three for Deposit.

   Enthusiasm was now at fever heat. All held their breath and watched closely every move. Wilcox of the Deposits came to bat, knocked a fly to short which Haulihan gathered in. Mahoney stepped up to the plate and secured first base on a dead ball. He stole second in nice shape. Dwyer then made a short ground hit to Moriarty who wisely threw to McMillan at third and retired Mahoney.

   But it was left for Muleare to win the game for Deposit. He planted the ball far over in right field for three bases and Dwyer scored. Purtell came to bat and made a pretty two-bagger, scoring Muleare. Dunn made a fowl hit which was caught by Lovelock and the side retired with a total of five runs.

   It was Cortland's turn to bat and to win the game they must make at least three runs. Flood was first to bat. He hit to short and was put out at first. Gallaher caught Moriarty's short infield fly. Two men were now out and the crowd started to leave the grounds, but the real climax of the game was yet to come.

   Kinney came to bat. He hit safely for one base. A mighty shout arose and all saw that there was a fighting chance to bring victory to Cortland. Haulihan hit safely advancing Kinney to second. Buckley came to bat with two men out and two men on bases. A long safe hit would at least tie the score. "One ball," said Umpire Dexter. The next ball thrown Buckley lifted high in the air over second base and all three base runners ran as though life depended upon it. Every one shouted, but Mahoney ran quickly and captured the ball before it reached the earth and the game was over.

   Deposit had won by real hard work. Both teams put up gilt edged ball, and Cortlandites may well feel proud of her players who are doing superb work right along. The summary:

It Has Arrived.

   After considerable correspondence Mr. Kelly has succeeded in securing some of the original printing used for "A Tramp's Daughter." A large consignment was received this morning and will soon be upon the boards [at the Cortland Opera House—CC editor]. Rehearsals are being held nightly and by next Wednesday evening the company will be prepared to give the audience a feast of laughter that would tickle the ribs of an umbrella.

BREVITIES.

   —The residents of Fitz-ave. picnicked at the park yesterday afternoon.

   —The D., L. & W. pay car will pass through Cortland to-morrow.

   —The game of baseball at the fair grounds Saturday afternoon will be between the Cortlands and the Shamrocks of Syracuse.

   —The Pitcher stage wagon has been lettered with an advertisement for Burgess, the clothier, B. R. Carpenter wielded the brush.

   —New advertisements to-day are Bingham Bros. & Miller, men's suits, page 8; The Rex stove, the Rex petroleum stove, page 6.

   —Two Manlius men have been sent to Onondaga penitentiary, having pleaded guilty to the charge of tarring and feathering two cows.

   —Regular meeting of the W. C. T. U. on Saturday, July 18, at 3 P. M. Devotionals conducted by Mrs. Snyder. There will be a business meeting followed by a short program of interest.

   —A simple method of stopping hiccoughs has been accidentally discovered in a French hospital. It consists in thrusting the tongue out of the mouth and holding it thus for a short time.

   —The date of the presentation of the play "A Tramp's Daughter" at McGrawville has been changed from July 28 to Monday evening, July 27. The Cortland date remains unchanged, Wednesday, July 22.

   —Instead of taking their supper at the house yesterday afternoon, the boarders at Mrs. Bulkley's on East Court-st. were invited by Mrs. Bulkley to the park for supper. This was highly appreciated by the boarders.

   —A newspaper has 5,000 readers to 1,000 subscribers. A merchant that puts out 1,000 bills gets possibly 300 or 400 people to read them. These are facts which the good business man always considers.—Ovid Independent.

   —Persons interested should remember that to-morrow, July 17, the village assessors will meet at Firemen's hall to hear complaints for erroneous or excessive assessments, either upon personal or real estate. Those who have presented affidavits will have to be in person.

   —Printing is printing to be sure, but good, accurate, artistic, rapid printing requires organization, ample facilities and experience that is not born of luck. It is not too much to say that the book and job printing department of the Cortland STANDARD have all these, and are able to meet any demand that may be made, "Anything—everything" is the felicitous motto adopted by this branch of our business. A visit to our building will show to what proportion, our job printing department has grown. It is an evolution in mind and mechanism that in worth studying.

CHARLES A. WILLETT

Died Yesterday Afternoon of Concussion of the Brain.

   Mr. Charles A. Willett died at 5 o'clock yesterday afternoon of concussion of the brain, the effects of an encounter with a vicious bull at his farm on South hill April 9. On that day he was at the farm and, as was his custom, went to the barn yard to put into the barn a three-year-old Holstein bull which had been let out to drink. The animal made a fierce plunge at Mr. Willett and before he could recover himself the bull had him on the ground. Mr. Willett caught the bull by one horn and prevented himself from being gored.

   Mr. Willett was shoved through a fence and soon succeeded in catching the ring which was in the animal's nose, when the bull ceased the attack and Mr. Willett led him into the barn.

   Mr. Willett did not seem to be injured at the time, but about five weeks later symptoms of concussion of the brain developed and continued to grow worse until his death yesterday afternoon.

   Mr. Willett was born in Virgil fifty-six years ago and lived in that town until ten years ago when he removed to Cortland where he had since resided. His mother, Mrs. J. D. Price, survives him and besides a wife he leaves one sister, Mrs. Helen M. Waters. The funeral will take place from his late residence, 126 Main-st. at 2 o'clock Friday afternoon. Burial in Cortland Rural cemetery.

The Lehigh Valley Railroad.

   This great railway system was first incorporated in 1846, April 21, as the

Delaware, Lehigh, Schuylkill, and Susquehanna Railroad company, for the purpose of providing a highway for transporting then recently discovered coal to the gateways of commerce.

   In 1853, this name was changed to the Lehigh Valley Railroad company, the road then being wholly in the Lehigh valley.

   In September, 1855, road was opened for traffic between Mauch Chunk and Phillipsburg, a distance of forty-six miles, and two trains were operated in each direction daily.

   From this humble beginning as a coal road, by building new lines, and acquiring smaller roads, from year to year the system has grown to its present position as one of the great trunk lines of the county, transporting many millions of passengers and tons of freight annually. The mileage has increased to two thousand five hundred and thirty miles, and the service and equipment have kept pace with this growth.