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| Grover Cleveland. |
The McGrawville Sentinel, Thursday, July 14, 1887.
THE PRESIDENT RECEIVING A GRAND ARMY POST.
Prospective Summer Tours the President Will Make—Other News and Notes.
WASHINGTON, July 11.—About 150 members of General Lander post No. 5, Grand Army of the Republic, of Lynn, Mass., accompanied by ladies, called on the president at the White House Thursday. The post formed in front of the National hotel about 5 o'clock and marched up the avenue to the White House, where they were met by the ladies. They formed a hollow square about the east room, and when the president appeared David Walker, the commander of the post, stepped to the front and said:
"Comrades of General Lander, post No. 6, I propose three cheers for Grover Cleveland, president of the United States."
The cheers were given heartily. When they had subsided Mr. Cleveland spoke as follows:
"I can only say to you, gentlemen, that I am glad to meet you here. I have extended to you this courtesy, as I have lately, with much pleasure, to other posts of the Grand Army of the Republic on their way home from visits to their southern friends. I want you to understand that I have lost no confidence in the Grand Army of the Republic as an organization, notwithstanding recent occurrences, to which it is not necessary further to allude. It is incomprehensible to me that men who have risked their lives to save the government should return home to abate one jot or title of the respect and support which every good citizen owes to the government and the constituted authorities. I greet you then as citizens as well as veterans, and I shall be pleased to take you all by the hand."
The president then shook hands with each of them as they marched past in single file. The post formed in line again in front of the White House just in time to see the president and Mrs. Cleveland enter their carriage and start for Oak View. They then marched back to their hotel.
It is pretty well settled that the president will not go west this year since he will not go to St. Louis, his plans for visiting other western cities must be changed. I learned at the White House Thursday, that the only plans that the president had made for leaving the capitol during the summer and autumn, are those for his visit to Clinton, N. Y., on the 12th of this month, which will probably not consume more than a week's time, and for his visit to Atlanta in October next, during the progress of the Georgia state fair.
Last week a paper not in Washington contained the simple announcement: "Mrs. Fish, wife of ex-Secretary Hamilton Fish, died yesterday." No Washington paper contained even a paragraph on the subject. During the eight years of Grant's administration the papers slopped over with adulation of Mrs. Fish and the Washington correspondent was never tired, (though his readers may have been), of description of the receptions and entertainments of the social queen. Now, the death of Mrs. Fish fails to elicit an item.
We may moralize that socio-official life in Washington is artificial and vain, and we may infer that the time will come, indeed is near, when Mrs. Whitney and her baby, and Mrs. Cleveland will be relegated to the oblivion, the "peaceful death in life," to which all good and commonplace people belong.
The good intentions of Senator Ransom of North Carolina, in coming to Washington to do the honors of the capital to a party of excursionists from his state, have been construed into a having another purpose. It is now said that he comes to confer with the president about the vacant seat in the cabinet, to be left by the probable resignation of Secretary Lamar. There is a greater necessity than ever to invent rumors here in the dearth of news. This report may be the result of some such necessity and have no foundation, but it will serve to revive an old story they tell of the senator. At his home in North Carolina, some neighbors and friends were gathered one evening a few years ago, when the conversation fell upon the then approaching nomination of a democratic candidate for president. "Ah! Senator," said one of the visitors, "you ought to have the nomination, we'd all like to see you in the White House." "Humph," said a small son of Mr. Ransom, who was present, "if father was to go in the White House, he'd have a mortgage on it before he'd been there six months." Perhaps the senator from North Carolina may transfer his intention of mortgaging the White House to the interior department, if he gets there, and as the public lands are under the control of the secretary of the interior might be a dangerous experiment to make him a cabinet officer.
The president's determination not to go west seems to meet with very general approval here. Mr. Cleveland is not the man to "swing around the circle," make speeches for every balcony, and interchange repartee with the small boys in trees and on lamp posts. Andy Johnson could do this, but not Grover Cleveland.
Pulaski Retaliates.
PULASKI, N. Y., July 8. The merchants of this place have engineered a novel scheme for punishing a railroad for over charges, in which the aid of president Cleveland was successfully invoked. For the past several years the Rome, Watertown and Ogdensburg railway has gradually increased its passenger and freight charges and restrictions until it cost 34 cents more per 100 pounds on merchandise and l 1/4 cents per mile on passenger rates than other roads charge. The merchants here organized to fight the road and ultimately withdrew all their patronage. Four miles away is the old town of Port Ontario, on Lake Ontario, where there is a semi-centenarian lighthouse, which has not been lighted for several decades, and a harbor whose pier has long been razed by the waves. The merchants went to Washington and stated their case. The president immediately created port Ontario a port of entry and appointed a deputy collector. The old lighthouse is to be put in commission and an appropriation secured to repair the harbor.
Already merchandise for Pulaski is brought from Oswego by boat and transferred to this place by teams. Now the merchants are preparing a big petition to the next legislature to adopt such provisions of the interstate law as will reduce the passenger rate of the Rome, Watertown and Ogdensburg road from three and one-quarter cents per mile to two cents and its freight rates to the level of those of other roads, and to prevent a greater charge for a short than a long haul. It is believed that all merchants along the line will join in the effort.
PAGE TWO—EDITORIALS.
The Cortland Standard made an extraordinary effort one week to outstrip its competitors and then printed comparisons with various papers in the county. The comparisons and tables were unfair in every respect and to prove this assertion the SENTINEL will publish an unbiased statement from week to week for a short time. In this statement we present subscription price of each paper; number of inches of reading type selected or written and put in type in home office including paid local notices, and circulation of each paper. The circulations we estimate from the following facts: Cortland Standard, we accept their oath; Democrat, estimated from their statement and from size of bundle of papers run; Homer Republican, from statement of one of their oldest employees; Marathon Independent and Otselic Valley Register, from accepted report, and the MCGRAWVILLE SENTINEL from proofs that we can furnish.
The above table presents stubborn facts based on real newspaper work done in the various offices in the county last week. Let the reader draw a conclusion.
◘ The state superintendent of public instruction has issued his annual circular announcing the time and place of holding examinations of applicants for state certificates as qualified teachers, according to law, to be held on the 23d, 24th, 25th and 26th of August, and the places in this part of the state are at Academy chapel, Elmira; High School building, Syracuse, and High School building, Utica. Candidates must be present at the beginning of the examination, August 23, at 10 o'clock, and produce satisfactory testimonials of good character and of at least two years' successful experience as teachers. These state certificates are considered the highest honor which is bestowed upon teachers, and there are always many applicants for them. Particulars may be obtained by writing to Supt. A. S. Draper at Albany.
Numerous New Monuments.
We find by going through the cemetery that there have been added this spring, in memory of deceased friends, numerous pretty monuments and head-stones sold by E. P. Wright, the genial and accomplished agent of S. M. Benjamin of Cortland. One very tasty monument is placed on Mr. John A. Haughton's lot of an entirely new design that is particularly neat; one cottage monument on the lot of N. G. Brown is of another shape and workmanship, but a credit to Mr. Brown in selection, as well as to the proprietor of the works. Mrs. Deloss H. Torry has a very neat one erected to the memory of her husband; Preston Luce, of Solon, has one for his wife of another shape and design; Mrs. George H. Mynard also has one which is a beauty. Mrs. Helen F. Wildman bought one of Mr. Wright which is to placed in North Pitcher, at the grave of her son, Nattie; E. C. Holden has bought one to be put on his lot of a new design called the Sarcophagus monument. There is nothing like it in McGrawville and probably not in the county, as it is an entirely new design. A dark mottled blue cottage monument for Mrs. William Jacobs and family will be erected, and another fine one for the Tarbell lot. These, with numerous smaller ones, add largely to the beauty of our fine assortment of monuments already in our cemetery.
CORTLAND NEWS.
SNEAK THIEVES IN TOWN.
Saturday night a number of houses in the village were entered by sneak thieves. The first heard of was George Bouton who lives on North Main street. He could not find his pantaloons, and began to find fault with his wife for misplacing them. When she started to get up she was as bad off for wearing apparel as he was. At this juncture one of the neighbors came in with some clothing found in the garden. All was found except the contents of the pocket book—about $15. The same night the gang entered a bed room up stairs in George L. Barker's house on Grant street, by taking out a wire screen. They heard some noise and went no further. The next house was Hon. A. A. Carley's. Here they entered the cellar window and helped themselves to jam and cake. The finger marks were plain on the casing where they crawled up and out. Across the way lives Assessor Beman S. Conger. His cellar was also entered. J. W. Fisher on North Church street also found marks of depredation in his cellar, but nothing of consequence gone. Mrs. Calvert on Prospect street also found where they had been into her house. It is evident that the next night Homer received a visitation from the same lot. Our officials do not seem equal to this sort of a task and no suspicions are entertained.
A HORRIBLE ACCIDENT.
An accident occurred Monday evening which appeals to the sympathies of anyone. Mrs. Frank Thompson lives in the fourth story of the Keator block with her three children. The oldest is a girl of thirteen; the youngest a boy of three and a half years. She was deserted by her husband some time ago, who took away everything of value in the house. Her stove and feather bed have gone to pay grocery bills and she was out at work to buy something for the children to eat. About six o'clock the youngest boy, who had become restless, climbed up into the window and fell headlong into the alleyway below. A clothes line caught his foot in the decent and whirled him over and over. He struck on one leg and shoulder, breaking the leg three times. Dr. White was near and did all possible for the little sufferer. A purse of $30 was raised at once by those who were standing around. The family will be taken to the county house for the long care which will be necessary for the little one if he survives. He is alive at this writing, strange as it seems.
SATURDAY'S BALL GAME.
The ball game Saturday between the clubs of Cortland and McGrawville for the championship of the county resulted in a score of 9 to 0 in favor of Cortland. A fair game was played until the eighth inning, when the score stood at 11 to 7 in favor of Cortland. Then the McGrawville club kicked at a decision of the umpire and of course lost the game. The point was that the striker was hit by a pitched ball at which it is claimed he struck for the fourth time. Being struck by the ball would give him his base, but if he struck at it he was out, a man being on first.
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| Grace Episcopal Church. |
CHURCH ITEMS.
The walls of the new [Grace] Episcopal church are rising rapidly.
Eight new members were recently received in the Congregational church.
Dr. Robinson of the Presbyterian church has been in rather poor health for the past few weeks.
At the old stone University [Universalist?] church regular meetings will be held at 3 P. M. for the ensuing year. Rev. E. H. Gilchrist has been engaged for pastor.
At the Methodist church Presiding Elder U. S. Beebe delivered a strong discourse Sunday evening. In the morning were held the regular quarterly meeting services.
All the four congregations on Church street unite in their evening services during July and August. Last Sunday evening all were at the Methodist church. Next Sunday at the Presbyterian, and so in regular rotation.
NEWS IN PARAGRAPHS.
Mr. Bourne of Columbus, Ohio, is in town organizing a lodge of the American Protective League. There seem to be some very advantageous features [insurance] in this organization.
William Corcoran and Burt Kinney, who were playing in the Danbury, Conn., ball club, have been released at their own request. There has been some mismanagement and there is danger that the league to which the club belonged will disband. They will play with the Cortland club for the present. The game Saturday is with the Central Citys of Syracuse.
There were two fire alarms on Wednesday of last week. The first was before noon in a house on Tompkins street owned by Louis Hatfield. The second was the tea store of Eccleston & Millard near the Cortland house. Mr. Millard was removing a roasting of coffee from the oven when it caught from the fire and immediately blazed up filling the room with smoke. The wall near caught fire but energetic work got it under control before the force reached there.
EDITOR'S EASY CHAIR.
—Mrs. H. Hughes is on the sick list.
—Ed Martin was in town a days ago.
—Charles Martin is in Binghamton visiting friends.
—Dell Bingham and Lute Sherwood are visiting in Onondaga county.
—E. O. Pike is in South Otselic assisting his son, Charles, through haying.
—Cyrus Oothoudt and wife, accompanied by their children, recently visited relatives in Fabius.
—Rev. A. C. Smith delivers the union service address at the M. E. church next Sunday evening.
—R. C. Rollo of Killawog, and Miss Kate Rollo, his niece, of Moravia, are visiting at Well Dibble's this week.
—John O'Donnel left at this office a few days ago a couple of fine ripe tomatoes, the first we have seen this season.
—Miss Nancy Woodford was called home to Marionville a few days ago by the sudden severe sickness of her brother.
—Charles Brownell, who is well known here, has made a trip of the Atlantic, we learn, and is now taking in sights in the old country.
—We have been told that a detachment of the salvation army will pour "hot shot" into McGrawville soon, but cannot vouch for the truth of the statement.
—C. J. Greenwood was not here Sunday, as announced, to occupy the Baptist pulpit, on account of sickness, but in his stead Rev. Mr. Lyon preached both morning and evening.
—Eugene Gardner, who has been running C. D. Greenman's engine for some time, has recently accepted a position in the machine shop of the E. C. & N. railroad at Cortland. He seems very much pleased with his present job.
— O. A. Manzer, of the Camden Advance-Journal, and his wife, visited his mother, Mrs. E. B. Goodell, and other relatives in this place during the past week. Mr. Manzer returned home Monday but his wife remains for a short time.
—The new Bicycle law now in effect gives to "bicycles, tricycles and other vehicles propelled by manumotive or pedomotive power" the same rights and privileges as is given to carriages, but villages can regulate the riding of them to certain speeds and prohibit their use on footpaths or sidewalks at option.
—The new extension of the E. C. & N. railroad from Cazenovia to Camden was to be formally opened last Sunday with an excursion, but the laity of Camden raised an objection to Sunday excursioning and circulated a petition praying people not to attend it. It has created an adverse feeling that may hurt the road's patronage for a little while.
—What "bit of news" at Cortland could tempt "Prohi" of the Monitor, and "Lightning" of the Telegram to drive there so quickly Monday night, and even with a barefooted horse? The last seen of them they were deeply engrossed in conversation with Justice Squires on the stairway of the Union Hall block. Let us see—the case of George Vincent and Mrs. Carpenter was on. Shall we weave a connection?
—We have heard many comments on the three stories recently published in separate issues of the SENTINEL, under the heads of "An Habitual Criminal," "Marriage a Felony" and "Bigamy With One Wife." Concerning these T. E. Willson, the author, writes us that in main point and feature they are true, the first one being modified only sufficient to make it not libelous. They are each traps in the law into which many would easily fall and Mr. Willson, who is connected with the New York World, told the stories with exceeding great interest.
—The game of ball at Cortland Saturday between the Athletes and Cortland stock nine was a fizzle, and the SENTINEL expected no more, for it was a game of deception from beginning to end. The captains of both clubs announced that there were stakes to play for of from $25 to $50, but such was not the case nor the intention, for neither club dared put up a cent. The Athletes were beaten 9 to 0 according to the umpire who made a questionable decision, although the Athletes had seven scores to their credit and favorable opportunities when the game was busted. Neither club deserves praise. The Athletes should not have played a club selected from all over central New York, and Cortland should not have asked them to.
—Dwight Goodell is visiting his brother in Onativia this week.
—Miss A. F. Huntington is making some repairs in her house on Church street.
—Frank Wildman is manipulating a buzz saw in the Hitchcock cutter works, Cortland.
—Rev. Robinson of Cortland exchanged pulpits with Rev. E. H. Dickinson of the Presbyterian church Sunday.
—Mrs. E. H. Dickinson and her sister Miss Carter started yesterday for the Adirondacks where they will stop a short time.
—Miss Carrie Welch started yesterday for Kingston, Ill., where she will visit relatives and friends during the next two months.
—Thomas Rogers returned from his visit in Pennsylvania this week. He was accompanied home by his brother Amos, who will visit in this section a short time.
—An exchange suggests that if the people of America would find half as much fault with their representatives in congress as they do with their base ball clubs, this country would be much better governed.
—Garfield Lodge of Blodgett Mills entertained Centennial Lodge of Good Templars in this place Tuesday evening. The visiting lodge took full charge of the business and social sessions and its programme of entertainment was a highly interesting one.
—We learn that Miss Matie Albro met with an accident during her visit among friends near Killawog. While getting out of a buggy her dress caught, throwing her to the ground and severely bruising one side of her face.
—Mr. Frederic L. Squires, who was recently connected with the SENTINEL as Cortland local reporter, started last Friday for Chautauqua, having been engaged by the Chautauqua Assembly to take charge of the Chautauqua press correspondence bureau for the season.
—The following puzzle may be of interest: Two trains, each consisting of a locomotive (A and B) and four cars and traveling in opposite directions on same track meet each other at a turn-table large enough to hold either an engine and a car, two cars or both locomotives. The trains must pass each other, and it can be done.
—A Cincinnatus correspondent writes the following: "Messrs. E. Colegrove and B. A. Benedict of Cortland were in town one day last week, in behalf of the proposed railroad to this place. As near as we can learn these gentlemen are backed by capital people who, if possible, will put a railroad to this place, making this the terminus. This question is one which has long been agitated by many of the citizens, some being favorable and some unfavorable. A right of way can easily be obtained of this town, and soon we hope to see the iron horse come steaming up the valley. Should a railroad come to this place, we foresee property of every kind springing up in Cincinnatus, and the Rip Van Winkle sleep she has so long indulged in will pass away. Why such a railroad would not pay we can not see. The large section by which Cincinnatus is surrounded would make this a place of shipment, and by so doing increase the business of the merchants here. Hurrah for the railroad."
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