NO FROST IN SIGHT AND CEMETERY NOTICE

Charity Hospital, New Orleans.

Cortland Evening Standard, Saturday, October 23, 1897.

NO FROST IN SIGHT.

Meanwhile Yellow Fever Takes a Fresh Grip on New Orleans.

   NEW ORLEANS, OCT. 23.—The new cases of yellow fever have reached 50 and there have been no fewer than five deaths, of which one was that of a distinguished citizen, Rev. Dr. Purzer of the Valence Street Baptist church.

   Three cases developed in the asylum for destitute orphan boys, and it seems now as if every institution of this character in the city will be infected to some extent.

   The list of new cases has been swelled by three in the home of State Senator Cage. Mr. Cage was taken sick a few days ago. His wife, who nursed him, was stricken, as was also a servant.

   Captain Kerkam of the weather bureau says that frost need not be expected until November.

Memphis Quarantined.

   JACKSON, Miss., Oct. 23.—The state board of health issued the following official statement:

   The board has been advised of the existence of a case of suspicious fever at

Memphis, and in consequence has promulgated an order quarantining against that city.

   One new case is reported from Cayuga; under treatment, 15.

   Bay St. Louis has one new case.

   Clinton has 11 cases under treatment.

   At Edwards there are four new cases.

New Patients at Scranton.

   SCRANTON, Miss., Oct. 23.—The fever report is 19 new cases for Scranton and four for Pascagoula; one death at Scranton.

WEEKLY TRADE REVIEW.

Falling Off In Demand—Trade Irregular.

COLLECTIONS REPORTED SLOW.

Unusual Warm Spell Holds Back Sales of Winter Clothing, Rendering Money Close—Bessemer Steal Higher—Foundry Iron Stationary.

   NEW YORK, Oct. 23.—Bradstreet's says: While the general trade movement is somewhat irregular and there are further evidences of falling off in demand, the volume of business continues of large proportions. Speculation in wool has ceased and demand for the staple is less than for weeks past. Cotton goods are dull on the weakness of raw cotton, and jobbers report drygoods slower than a week ago.

   Interior merchants in the Central West have not distributed fall stocks as promptly as expected, and many jobbers at Western centers find that they over-estimated the consumptive demand when securing fall goods.

   Unreasonably warm weather has interfered with the movement of heavy goods at the West, but rains in Kansas, Oklahoma and Nebraska have improved the agricultural outlook. Relatively, the greatest activity in trade is reported by Kansas City and Omaha merchants.

   While quarantine regulations have been raised in Texas and modified in Louisiana, business throughout most of the Gulf states remains practically at a standstill. Almost all the larger Eastern cities report a decreased movement of merchandise, and a tendency of collections to fall away, notably Baltimore, owing to its Southern connections.

   The industrial situation continues to furnish employment to as many as at any preceding period this year and at higher wages.

   Production of iron, steel, machinery, stoves, [railroad] car and structural work, coke, glass and woolen goods continues heavy. Steel mills have orders to carry them into 1898 and decline contracts for next year's delivery. This explains the advance in the price of Bessemer pig iron, while the foundry grades remain unchanged.

   Other advances in prices are hides at Western centers, window glass, wheat and lard, while quotations for pork, sugar, lumber, coal, shoes and a long list of other staples remain unchanged.

   Cotton and print cloths are lower, as are glucose, Indian corn, oats, flour, beef, coffee, lead and copper.

Percy Field, Cornell--Princeton vs. Cornell.

CORNELL VS. PRINCETON.

Immense Crowd Gathered at Percy Field. Ribbons and Cheers.

   ITHACA, N. Y., Oct. 23.—Business is practically suspended here and everyone has gone to Percy Field to witness the great football match between Princeton's "Tigers" and Cornell.

   Percy Field is filled to overflowing, the splendid weather bringing out the largest crowd for many a day. Everyone wears the colors of their favorite, the red and white of Cornell predominating but there is enough of Princeton's "yellow and black" floating to give variety and spice to the game.

   Enthusiasm is no name for it. Over from the left comes the 'Cornell, I Yell," only to be carried back by the force of the Princeton college yell, given with a will by hundreds of husky-lunged students and admirers.

  The crowded grand stand is a sea of smiling girlish faces, their handsome costumes adding a splendid finish to a beautiful picture. The girls are rank partisans, joining the cheering for their favorites with a will.

   Betting favors Princeton, but there is plenty of Cornell money in sight, their victory over Lafayette adding to their confidence.

   But they have the hardest kind of a battle before them. This year Princeton is acknowledged to have the strongest team on the gridiron, having all of her last year's eleven.

   Cornell is not so fortunate, only having five of last year's team to build on, but the strong determined spirit that has so often landed Cornell a winner may avail again, but this is not generally believed.

   The field is in perfect condition for the contest.

PAGE TWO—EDITORIALS.

Traveling Scholarships.

   Grant Allen rails against the college education of the present day. He says in an article in The Cosmopolitan that the college course is still the same as it was in the monkish middle ages when nobody but priests had any education and therefore all the college instruction was planned with a view to training priests for the church. Consequently Latin and Greek still compose a large part of the curriculum, when they, especially Greek, are of no more use practically to the present day young man or woman than the priestly garb would be.

   What the youths of today want in college is knowledge of some mathematics and of the natural sciences, like wise an acquaintance with the "great central civilization."

   Mr. Allen's idea of the way to get acquainted with the great central civilization is that the student should travel and see it for himself. One day's visit to the Vatican will give a better idea of its art treasures than a year's study of books would do. Instead of giving millions to found colleges and universities where students may pore over still more books, Mr. Grant Allen would have rich and benevolent people give the same millions to establish traveling scholarships, whereby young Americans might travel in Europe two years and get the invaluable education such a journey would give them. And who shall say Mr. Allen is wrong?

   ◘ On the whole war is a pleasant pastime to contemplate. The French are training bicycle soldiers, and they have become very skillful. Uneasy at this, the Germans are meeting it by training also bicyclists for their army and going likewise a step beyond. They train huge Great Dane dogs to spring out and catch bicyclists by the throat. The dogs are taught to discriminate between the different uniforms so as not to seize any men wearing the German dress. Men clad in French soldier costume, so padded that the dogs cannot hurt them, are made to be the proper prey of the huge beasts, which in time come to understand the distinction perfectly. This beautifully illustrates the much vaunted merciful conduct of war in the nineteenth century.

State Normal School at Cortland, N. Y.

NORMAL ENTERTAINMENTS.

A Coarse of Six to be Given at the Opera House this Winter.

   The Normal entertainment course has come to be one of the features of the winter's program. It began in a small way on the co-operative plan among the societies at the Normal. At first all the entertainments were held in Normal hall. Then some of the leading ones were taken to the Opera House. This met with such general approval, and the patronage of the course came so largely from the residents of Cortland outside of the student element that this year it has been decided to hold the whole course in the Opera House, and none in Normal hall.

   The course selected for this winter is an excellent one. It will consist of six entertainments, as follows:

   Nov. 29—Concert—Euterpe club.

   Dec. 15—Lecture—Charles H. Frazer. Subject. "Random Shots at Flying Follies."

   Jan. 10—Reading—Marshall P. Wilder.

   Feb. 2—Lecture—John Dewitt Miller. Subject, "Uses of Ugliness.''

   March 1—Illustrated lecture on Australia, W. Hinton White.

   March 16—Concert, Schurmann Ladies' orchestra.

   Season tickets will cost $1. Reserved seats for the entire season 60 cents extra making the total cost $1.60 for the entire season. Single tickets, 50 cents. These tickets can be reserved for 10 cents each for each entertainment.

Victor Herbert.

Victor Herbert and His Band.

   Victor Herbert has been assiduously engaged—in spite of all his opera writing and band concerts—for nearly a year, compiling a brand new library for his famous Twenty-second Regiment band. He discarded the old Gilmore library last December, and now has a library of music for his band concerts which is said to be one of the finest and most elaborate in existence. It includes a vast amount of the most modern music, and in the encore music one even catches the familiar strains of certain of the popular and spirited notion of the time and now and then echoes from the cotton fields.

   Herbert, while a masterly musician and strict disciplinarian, often indulges his audiences and is never better delighted than when he is giving an audience just what it most desires. The big band will be here on Tuesday afternoon, Nov. 10, at Cortland Opera House.

Notice.

   The annual meeting of the lot owners in Cortland Rural cemetery will be held at the office of Judge J. E. Eggleston Monday evening, Nov. 1, 1897, at 7 o'clock, at which time three trustees will be elected in place of R. B. Smith, H. P. Goodrich and Fred Conable, whose respective terms of office will expire on that day. Also to hear the report of the treasurer and to attend to any other business that may properly come before the meeting.

   E. A. FISH, Sec.

THE CHRYSANTHEMUM SHOW

To be Held at the Alhambra at Syracuse on Nov. 9, 19 and 11.

   Extensive plans are being made for the annual chrysanthemum show of the Central New York Horticultural society. The exhibition is to be held at the Alhambra, Syracuse, on Nov. 9, 10 and 11, on an unusually extensive scale. The big hall has recently been greatly improved by the addition of immense galleries at the sides, and now has a seating capacity of nearly 3,000. When it is filled with masses of bright colored flowers in addition to lavish decorations of flags and bunting and a brilliant display of electric lights, the effect will certainly be gorgeous.

   Several thousand dollars are offered in premiums for both amateur and professional classes, and many special prizes are offered, among them a $100 Stearns bicycle for the best yellow seedling to be called "The Yellow Fellow."

   Society has taken hold of the show this year with marked enthusiasm, and it is expected that fashion will be on parade every evening. One of the best orchestras in the state has been engaged for the promenade concerts, and the officers of the society announce that they are planning to give a fine bouquet of chrysanthemums as a souvenir to each lady who attends. The queer Japanese flowers are all the rage in New York, and many new and striking varieties will be shown. Arrangements are being made with the railroads to run excursions at reduced rates during the three days of the show. The number of out of town competitors will be very large and any chrysanthemum growers who may care to show can obtain entry blanks and full particulars by addressing A. D. Perry, Syracuse, N. Y.

New Insurance Firm.

   W. A. Stockwell and E. H. Baldwin have formed a partnership with James

A. Nixon for the purpose of conducting a fire and life insurance business. The new organization will be known as James A. Nixon & Co. Its office will be where Mr. Nixon has long been located in the Wallace building. Mr. Nixon is a veteran in fire insurance business. Mr. Baldwin was with Davis, Jenkins & Hakes in fire insurance business, and Mr. Stockwell has for some time been in life insurance business. The combination promises to be a strong one.

BREVITIES.

   —Mrs. Randolph Beard of 11 Church-st. entertained a few invited friends at tea last evening.

   —The Amaranth club gave an enjoyable dancing party in Empire hall last night. Twenty-three couples were in attendance.

   —William Lawrence of Scott was arrested last night on the charge of public intoxication. This morning he paid a fine of $5.

   —New display advertisements to-day are—McKinney & Doubleday, wall paper, page 4; F. K. Brogden, cough syrup, page 4; Hugh T. Reed, "Cadet Life at West Point," page 5.

   —The new road between Geneva and Waterloo—the Lehigh system—will be opened next Sunday, Oct. 24. Connections will be made with all trains on the Lehigh at Geneva.—Ithaca Journal.

   —About forty members of the sixth grade in the Schermerhorn-st. school, with their teacher, Mrs. O. K. George, enjoyed a tramp yesterday afternoon to the woods on the Benham hill north of the village after beechnuts.

   —Chief of Police Linderman received a letter yesterday from Norwich, asking him to look up Benjamin Franklin, a colored man, whose wife was seriously ill. The chief found Mr. Franklin in Homer, gave him the information and the latter started for home.

HOMER.

Gleaning of News From Our Twin Village.

   HOMER, Oct. 23.—The football game yesterday afternoon between the Academics and the Preps resulted in a tie game and neither side scored. The game was a strong one from the start and as in the other game the Academics tried striking the Preps center, but it would not do and when the Preps got the ball their fullback, Newcombe, had no trouble at all in going through the line for five or ten yards. The Preps made a strong game, but seemed to show lack of practice while their opponents played very good ball, but did not seem to score. Their interference playing was good and showed practice. The lineup of the teams was as follows:

   Several football enthusiasts are out of town to-day taking in different games of ball. Some went to Ithaca this morning to see the Cornell-Princeton game and some are in Groton to see the Auburn's 49's play the Groton town team.

   Thursday night's STANDARD contained an account of the growth and work of the O. T. A. M., which should have been O. I. A. M. instead.

   The [Homer] band will again endeavor to give another concert this evening on the green. The concert last week had to be postponed on account of the heavy wind.

   Mr. Holland Wight of Syracuse is visiting his grandmother, Mrs. Mary Whitney, on Warren-st.

   Mrs. S. Z. Miner of Skaneateles, who is visiting in town for a few days, has accepted the invitation of the pastor, Rev. F. A. S. Storer, to teach her class in the Congregational Sunday-school to-morrow. Mrs. Miner is especially anxious to meet her old scholars and desires that they all be there,

   The Missionary society of the Congregational church served supper last evening in the church parlors which was largely attended and enjoyed by all.

   Mr. Murray Morse of Moravia was in town this morning calling on friends.

   Ex-Sheriff Hoxie and wife of Syracuse arrived in town this morning and are to be the guests of Mr. and Mrs. A. B. Daniels over Sunday.

   Mrs. H. Randall of Glen Haven, who has been visiting her daughter Julia at the home of Miss Florence Mourin on Cortland-st., left this morning for a visit in Syracuse.

   Mrs. Redfield of Glen Haven, who has been visiting in Syracuse for a few days, returned home this morning.

   Mr. J. Maus Schermerhorn of New York City is visiting his mother, Mrs. J. M. Schermerhorn, on South Main-st. for a few days.

   Mr. Jacob Crouse of Syracuse is in town looking after his farms in this section of the country.

   Mrs. E. W. Hyatt and Miss Rose J. Ryan are in Syracuse to-day.

  Mrs. LeGraude Fisher and daughter Hazel left this morning for a visit with

relatives at Preble over Sunday.

   Mrs. M. E. Sweeney of Fulton-st. and Miss Nellie McGough of Glen Haven left this morning for a two weeks' stay with their parents at Syracuse.

   Rev. A. S. Merrifleld, financial secretary of the Baptist college at Grand Island, Neb., was a guest at the Baptist parsonage on Friday.

   Mr. Manly Daniels is confined to the house for a few days and during his absence from work Mr. Harmon Hooker is filling his place with O. B. Andrews and Co.

   Mr. J. L. Long of Cortland will commence his services as precentor at the Baptist church to-morrow morning. Mr. Long is a good leader of singers and will no doubt be of great help in the congregational singing of that church which has proved to be quite a successful undertaking.