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| P. Mateo Sagasta. |
The
Cortland Democrat, Friday, November 26, 1897.
PAGE FOUR—EDITORIALS.
The Cuban Question.
Washington
dispatches of the 19th inst. in reporting the proceedings of a cabinet meeting
stated that:
"The
opinion was generally expressed that the Cuban question as it affects the United
States was even more favorable than could be expected and that there was especially
good feeling over the outcome of the Competitor case. This case is looked upon
as showing a genuine desire on the part of the Sagasta administration to meet
the wish of the authorities of this country and bring the war to a termination."
It seems
evident from this that the President, in his forthcoming message to Congress, will advise against any legislation at
present for the relief of Cuba, holding out the promise that if this Government
will only wait a little longer Spain will grant all of the relief and reforms
that the Cubans have any right to ask.
On the
evening of the same day, Nov. 19th, it so happened that Hon. Hannis Taylor,
ex-United States Minister to Spain, spoke on the Cuban question to an audience
of 2,000 people in Library hall at Cornell university, Ithaca, and we believe
that Minister Taylor knows quite as much about the situation in Cuba and the
real purpose of the Spanish government, as any member of President McKinley's
Cabinet. In the course of his address Mr. Taylor said that the real difficulty
was the firm determination of the Spanish nation as a whole never to grant to
Cuba the right to govern herself, and the equally firm resolve upon the part of
the Cubans, so long scorned and spurned like wild beasts, not to accept that
form of autonomy now offered, however genuine it might be.
In
conclusion Mr. Taylor said that events are moving rapidly; that no man, not
even the President of the United States, could stop them. He said that if the
President made the fatal mistake of attempting to longer muzzle Congress before
the ink was dry upon his message, events would discredit his predictions. He
added:
"Let
Congress but speak the final and emphatic word—recognition—and in ninety days
the long and bloody tragedy will be over and the whole Christian world will
rejoice, for Cuba will be free."
Perhaps
it may be possible for President McKinley to force Hawaiian annexation upon
Congress, and at the same time ignore the promises made in the St. Louis
platform for Cuban relief, but we doubt it.
◘ More than
eight months have passed since inauguration day, and still a man can bet on what
the administrations Cuban policy is going to be if he wants to.— Binghamton
Leader.
◘ The reciprocity schemes of the present
Administration are not meeting with much success. No honest effort is being made
in that direction with Canada, and from late dispatches it appears that France is
in no hurry to conclude negotiations. The Dingley robber tariff is not one
under which friendly reciprocity treaties will be easy to make.
◘ "The work done by the Democratic mayors
of New York, Albany, Syracuse, Rochester,
Binghamton and Buffalo will have a perceptible affect upon the Democratic vote
next year."—Syracuse Courier. The Courier is
undoubtedly right in its conclusions, and we shall hope that the Democratic
mayors named will remember that in all probability the world will not come to
an end before November 1898.
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| Cortland Hospital. |
CORTLAND HOSPITAL.
North Main Street, Cortland, N. Y.
The hospital is in charge of a
competent trained nurse and is prepared to receive patients upon the following
terms: Private rooms from $7 to $10 per week. Ward beds, including medical and
surgical attendances, $5 per week. Patients of limited means are charged
according to their ability to pay.
Extras: special nursing,
surgical dressings, personal laundry and stimulants.
Accident cases may be taken
immediately to the hospital. Contagious or infectious cases are not received.
Application for admission may be made to any of the executive committee or to
the matron of the hospital.
Mrs. M. E. Doud, 21
Tompkins-st.
Mrs. J. E. Hyatt, 182 South
Main-st.
Mrs. W. H. Clark, 31
Prospect-st.
Mrs. W. H Crane, Homer.
Mrs. A. P McGraw, McGrawville.
Executive Committee.
A Sad Picture.
Among those brought before
Police Justice Mellon on Monday morning of last week was a man between sixty
and seventy years of age on the charge of public intoxication. The man claimed
to have been a soldier in the Rebellion [Civil War] and showed his pension
papers in proof of his statement, and claimed that he was trying to reach the
Soldiers' Home at Bath where he wished to spend the remnant of shattered life.
After hearing his story
Justice Mellon discharged the prisoner. It was learned afterward that this man
was once well known in many sections of the State as a temperance lecturer of
no mean ability, and in fact was considered one of the most brilliant speakers
in the temperance field about 20 years ago. His name was Horace L. Hurlburt and
there are probably many readers of the DEMOCRAT who have heard this man speak
as much of his work in the cause of temperance was done in the central part of
this state. His home is in Herkimer county, but being in reduced circumstances,
advanced in years and unable at all times to overcome his appetite for drink,
and to withstand temptations against which he has so eloquently warned others,
he is now seeking an asylum in the Soldiers' Home.
It was, indeed, a sad picture,
but let us remember the aged veteran for the good he has done in the defense of
his country and his efforts to uplift men, rather than the failings which are
his. The fact that this once brilliant speaker for the cause of temperance is
now in his old age, brought before a police court on a charge of public
intoxication, should speak more effectively to the young than he was ever able
to do.
ABDUCTION CHARGED.
CHARLES PHILLIPS ARRESTED MONDAY ON A
WARRANT.
Mrs. Emma Miles is the Complainant and Her
15 Year-Old Daughter, Lillian, the alleged Victim—Defense Claims They Were
Married Last Summer.
Monday Mrs. Emma Miles swore
out a warrant and Constable Fred Bowker arrested Charles Phillips that evening,
the charge being abduction.
Mrs. Miles lives between
Cortland and Homer and Lillian is her youngest daughter. Mrs. Miles deposition
charges that Charles Phillips has been living in Homer with Cora Phillips and
that on July 4 last, Phillips invited Lillian to go to Ithaca with him; that
during August while Lillian was employed in the family of John Conway on
Tompkins-st., Cortland, Phillips called on her regularly until forbidden the
house by Mr. Conway; that Lillian then entered the employ of Nicholas Winters;
that the girl ran away from her mother's home November 10.
Phillips was taken before
Justice Dowd and his examination set down for Tuesday afternoon. He was
released on $500 bail. At the examination Attorney W. D. Tuttle appeared for
the defense and E. E. Mellon for the people. Mr. Tuttle moved the discharge of
defendant on the ground that the court had no jurisdiction, even if a crime was
committed as alleged and that it was in Homer, and that the warrant did not
contain sufficient facts to hold the prisoner for the crime alleged. The motion
was denied.
Mr. Tuttle renewed the motion
on other grounds. Attorney Mellon opposed it and it was denied. The case was
adjourned to Wednesday morning. It is understood that both Phillips and Lillian
will claim they were married last summer.
A New Business.
The rooms of the Atlantic
Cereal Co. at No. 33 Railroad-st. were thronged Wednesday afternoon by people who were sampling their Ruby Cerial which
they manufacture as a healthful substitute for coffee. Every one seemed highly
pleased with the new article. The Atlantic Cerial company have just located in
Cortland and will manufacture several breakfast foods, nut foods, etc.
FROM EVERYWHERE.
The State association for the
protection of game and fish will meet at the Yates, Syracuse, on Dec. 9.
The Canastota Electric Light
and Power company's new 1,200 light dynamo has been placed in position at the
station.
Under the new law all villages
in New York State are required to make an enumeration of their inhabitants
during the month of January.
The general offices of the
West Shore and Central railroads will be consolidated the first of the year,
according to current rumor in railroad circles.
One of the largest yields of
corn, yet reported, was raised by Edwin Spurr in Victory. From about 4 1/2
acres he has harvested 611 bushels —Port Byron Chronicle.
Under a new law every citizen
of the State who pays a tax this year must receive a receipt from the town
collector, on which the amount of the assessment and tax is written.
Superintendent of Public Works
George W. Aldridge has announced that navigation on the Erie and other State
canals will close Wednesday, Dec. 1, unless closed earlier by severe weather.
The furniture and fixtures of
the Chittenango White Sulphur Springs hotel was sold at public auction at the
hotel recently, to satisfy a judgment of $5,859.46 in favor of Jacob Crouse of
Syracuse.
The Hotel Oneida at Sylvan
Beach has been sold under mortgage foreclosure. The hotel was formerly owned by
the late August Maire of Oneida, and conducted by his son, Louis Marie. It was
bid in by the mortgagees for $4,000.
Orris Farmer, an Indian living
on the Onondaga reservation, has sued the Tully Pipe Lime company for $400
damages, alleged to have been sustained by the leaking of brine from the
company's pipes into a spring on the farm, which was thereby ruined.
The Oswego Palladium says
that at least a dozen farmers in the towns of Volney, Granby, Schroeppel and
Constantia are to be prosecuted under instructions from Attorney General
Hancock for adulterating milk furnished to cheese factories the past season.
The new electric road from
Syracuse to Manlius is being pushed forward rapidly and rails are already laid
to a point midway between Fayetteville and Manlius. The big dam at Edwards
Falls is nearly finished, and it is expected that cars will be running by
Christmas.
Over 26,000 barrels of
American apples were shipped to Great Britain week before last and the price
per barrel in Liverpool averaged $3.75. The choicest Newtown pippins brought
$6.30 to $7.25 a barrel. Our American apples have secured an established
reputation abroad.
The New York State Association
of school commissioners and superintendents met at Saratoga last week, and
among other matters disposed of was the election of Commissioner L. A.
Parkhurst of Canastota as first vice president. This places Mr. Parkhurst in
line for the election for president next year.
The charter for the new
electric road from Franklin to Sidney has been filed with the secretary of the
state. The new road will be known as the Delaware terminal railroad company.
The main offices will be located in Sidney. The company has a capital of
$150,000. The road will be 14 miles long and the survey was completed last
week.
Few people know just what wild
birds are protected by law and what are not. The following birds are not
protected by law and can be killed at anytime and anywhere: English sparrow,
crow, hawk, crane, raven, crow blackbird, common blackbird and kingfisher. The
Supreme Court has also decided that poultry running at large is wild game and
the person on whose property they trespass has a perfect right to kill them.
There are six hundred swine on
the State hospital farm at Willard.
NEIGHBORING COUNTIES.
CHENANGO.— Bainbridge is to be
lighted by gas. A stock company has been formed.
The postoffice and Dodge's
wagon shop at Oxford were robbed Monday night, Nov. 9, supposed to be the work
of amateurs.
Bainbridge was visited by a young cyclone one day last week. A brother
of Sheriff Payne had the roof of his barn blown off during the gale and
deposited twenty-five rods away. A number of horses in the barn were uninjured.
MADISON.—DeRuyter is agitating
the organization of a business men's social club.
B. A. Wilbur is making
improvements on the Exchange hotel at Morrisville.
Artemas Martin, a veteran from
Cazenovia, died at the Soldiers' Home at Bath a few days ago.
Andrew M. Felt, a farmer who
resided near Sherburne, committed suicide by hanging himself in a barn on
Friday morning, Nov. 12.
TOMPKINS.—Petty thieving is
reported on the increase in Ithaca.
Fenner & Minturn of Lansing
shipped six car loads of buckwheat last week.
The manufacture of Rockwell's
Umbrella and Cane Rack has begun in Groton by the Groton Novelty Co.
Work on the Cornell Heights
bridge, being erected by the Groton Bridge & Manufacturing Co., is progressing finely.
Two dogs owned by E. A.
Savocool were shot recently while in the act of chasing sheep belonging to
Moses Rowland at Willow Glen.
The covered bridge at Newfield
110 feet in length has been erected fifty years. A recent examination showed its
timbers to be sound and all right.
Another dryer is being put up
at the North Lansing evaporator. The first is 16x20. The new one will be 18x20.
This will more loan double the capacity. About one hundred bushels of apples
have been used daily.
It is hoped by Ithacans that
enough money can be raised to establish the plant of the Morgan Knitting mill
in their city. The taxes of the plant will have to be paid for ten years. It is
estimated this could be done for $2,000.
The Ithaca Salt company is
shipping a large number of carloads of salt. The shipments on the Lehigh last
week averaged ten carloads per day. The company anticipates shipping from sixty
to seventy cars per week for some time to come.
HERE AND THERE.
R. C. Tillinghast has gone to
Binghamton as manager of the Binghamton wagon company.
Pecos tribe No. 197, Improved
Order of Red Men, held their first annual dance Wednesday evening.
G. F. Beaudry, who
handles Crescent wheels, will have their make of $75 chainless wheel on sale
soon.
Bingham Bros. & Miller
have a change of advertisement on this page. Read it if you or your family need
clothing.
The front of Stowell's bargain
house has been much improved by the addition of plate glass and a new entrance.
The DEMOCRAT comes to its
readers one day early this week in order that all its employes may enjoy
Thanksgiving as a holiday.
Rev. Charles H. Yatman, the
well known evangelist, will open a series of meetings in the First M. E. church
next Sunday evening.
Mrs. E. S. DeWitt of Buffalo
was in town the first of the week with a handsome display of hand painted china
and embroidery.
The Brookton skunk farm has
been abandoned and the last crop are making things lively and unpleasant for
dwellers in that locality.
C. W. Fleming has purchased
the stock and business of H. C. Hemingway in the Graham building and will add
to the same a full line of fruits, etc.
Manager Wallace cancelled the
week's engagement of the Clair Tuttle comedy company at the opera house after
the performance Monday evening. No comment necessary.
Frank Hayes, an employe of the
Carriage Goods Co., caught his left hand in a set of gears last week and Dr.
Bennett found it necessary to amputate the second finger at the second joint.
Miss Julia Hayes, who has been
a long sufferer from consumption, died at her home near the car barns Saturday
night at the age of 85 years. The funeral was held Tuesday at St. Mary's
church.
The annual ball of Hitchcock
hose last Friday evening was a pronounced success. A nice supper was served in
John L. Lewis lodge rooms by the Daughters of Rebekah. McDermott's music was
all right, too.
Rev. W. H. Pound, pastor of
the Congregational church, has declined a call to become pastor of a large and
flourishing church in Massachusetts, and is to remain here. It is the cause of
much rejoicing both in and out of his church.
Messrs. Dougherty & Miller, as
attorneys for Mary E. Calkins, mortgagee, sold at public sale at the courthouse
on Saturday 33 acres of land in the town of Homer and west of the village on
which there was a mortgage of $1,921. The property was purchased by Samuel
Caughey for $1,950.
John Glish, whose case on the
charge of public intoxication has several times been adjourned, changed his
plea to guilty before Police Justice Mellon Tuesday. The Judge explained to him
the error of his ways and made it clear that another complaint will mean a
sentence on this charge.
PREBLE.
PREBLE, Nov 23.—Henry Crofoot,
who left last June and went to Colorado with a surveying party, is now in
Fresno, California. His friends may expect to hear in the spring that Henry has
started for Klondike, to gather up a load of gold for future use: success to
Henry.
Last week Tuesday night. Mrs.
John Currie died after a lingering illness. She was an old resident of Preble
although born in Scotland and was 81 years old. The funeral was held last
Friday; the services were at the house and Elder McDonald preached the funeral
sermon in his usual impressive manner.
HUNT'S CORNERS.
HUNT'S CORNERS, Nov. 22.—Mrs.
Grace Young and Miss Bertha Brown, visited Mrs. Tim Cane in Lapeer one day last
week.
About fifty invited guests
assembled at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Alva Decker on Wednesday of last week, to
witness the marriage of their daughter Cora to Mr. Charles Jordan. The ceremony
was performed by Rev. Mr. Jones of Lisle, and the presents were numerous and
useful.
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