CORTLAND IN 1891, RIOTING IN PEKIN, POETRY MACHINE, AND WASHINGTON LETTER

 

Cortland Hospital on North Main Street.

CORTLAND IN 1891.

INTERESTING LOCAL EVENTS OF  THAT YEAR.

City Hospital Established—Democratic Board of Supervisors Again—Hon. R. T. Peck's Senatorial Campaign—A Few Marriage—Mentionettes.

   The year 1891 will ever be a memorable one with the people of Cortland, for the reason that the city hospital association was formed during the year. Early in January the Loyal Circle of Kings' Daughters took hold of the matter and appointed a committee to devise ways and means for the organization of the association, the committee being composed of the following ladies: Mesdames Uri Clark, L. J. Fitzgerald, A. E. Buck. W. P. Robinson, Lewis Bouton, C. P. Walrad, Wm. H. Clark, W. J. Perkins, E. D. Robbins. Newton Cone, G. I. Pruden, Jerome Squires, S. N. Holden, F. W. Collins, J. H. Hoose, Geo. J. Mager, A. A. Carley, F. O. Hyatt, G. W. Bradford, B. T. Wright, R. H. Duell, Aaron Sager, Alice Ettling, G. W. Davenport, E. B. Grannls. Ida Ingraham, C. E. Ingalls, C. F. Thompson, Mark Brownell.

   The association was organized February 23, the following ladies forming the board of managers: Mesdames Mary E. Dowd, D. C. Smith, Frank Place, A. E. Buck, J. S. Squires, C. F. Thompson, L. J. Fitzgerald, Hugh Duffey, W. H. Clark, Alice Ettling, Newton Cone, D. Kratzer, Jerome Squires, J. H. Hoose, A. H. Watkins, C. B. Hitchcock, F. O. Hyatt. G. I. Pruden, I. Whiteson, Miss Louise Hunter.

   The advisory board was as follows: Rev. J. A. Robinson, C. P. Walrad. H. L. Gleason, C. F. Wickwire, G. W. Bradford, A. Sager, G. L. Warren, S. N. Holden, J. R. Schermerhorn. Life members, Hon. J. J. Belden and G. F. Edgell.

DEATH OF JUDGE DUELL.

   Hon. R. Holland Duell died on the 11th of February, al the age of 67 years. Mr. Duell was for years one of the best known gentlemen in Central New York, being especially prominent in political circles. His funeral was held on the 14th, the following gentlemen serving as bearers: Dr. J. H. Hoose, Judge A. P. Smith, B. A. Benedict, Judge J. E. Eggleston, C. P. Walrad and A. A. Carley.

MARRIAGES.

   March 4, by Rev. J. L. Robertson, Edward Stillson, and Miss Martha Collins. March 16, by Rev. Edward Taylor, Bryant C. Winchell and Miss Hattie T. Weyant. April 29, by Rev. J. J. McLoghlin, Wm. F. Maher and Miss Mary Corcoran. June 10, by Rev. J. L. Robertson, Alfred C. Walrad, and Miss Anne Hudson. June 27, by Rev. L. R. Webber, Chas. H. Stevens of the Homer Republican, and Miss Mida Barton of Sackett's Harbor. June 25, by Rev. J. J. McLoghlin, Frank Leighton of Syracuse and Miss Catharine Helena Fitzgerald of Cortland. September 16, by Rev. G. E. Purucker, O. K. George of Cortland and Miss Anna W. Chidsey of Candor. January 7, by Rev. J. J. McLoghlln, Dewitt Howard and Miss Kate McMahon.

POLITICS AND POLITICIANS.

   The Democrats were again successful in securing a majority of the board of supervisors, the following members of that political faith having been elected: Cincinnatus, T. E. Dye; Freetown, Horace Martin; Harford, R. F. Chappius; Marathon, Myron N. Pierce; Preble, Seth Hobart; Solon, Henry Kelley; Truxton, Peter D. Muller; Willet, Wilson Greene. These Republican supervisors were chosen: Cortlandville, R. B. Smith; Cuyler, Henry Howes; Homer, W. H. Crane; Lapeer, Royal Johnson; Scott, E. W. Childs; Taylor, O. P. Miner; Virgil, W. L. Chaplin.

Calvin P. Walrad.

   At the village election, C. P. Walrad was chosen president, having been nominated by the Republicans and endorsed by the Democrats. Other officers elected were as follows: Trustee first ward, Harry Swan; third ward, Duane Howard; treasurer, Edward Alley; school commissioners, three years, Chas. F. Brown, R. B. Smith, Henry A. Dickinson; one year, E. F. Jennings.

   At the Republican county convention held August 24, the usual strife over nominations ensued. For member of assembly James H. Tripp was named on the first ballot, receiving 62 votes to 22 for C. O. Newton, four for John Barry and two for E. E. Mellon. The first ballot for sheriff disclosed the following candidates: John Miller 30, Henry Howes 21, John O. Reid 12, Adam Hilsinger 12, A. R. Overton 9, R. L. Cass 6. Miller was nominated on the second ballot. Stephen K Jones was nominated on the fourth ballot for county clerk, his competitors being Frank J. Collier, H. T. Bushnell and A. J. Fuller. The candidate for district attorney was Jerome Squires, and A. W. Angel was named for superintendent of the poor.

   A Republican caucus to elect delegates to the senatorial convention was held August 21, an immense vote being polled owing to the fact that Hon. R. T. Peck was a candidate for state senator. C. P. Walrad, S. N. Holden, A. L. Cole and Wm. Corcoran each received 773 votes, and C. F. Wickwire, H. M.  Kellogg, C. E. Reed and Edward Keator each received 299 votes.

   R. T. Peck was nominated at the convention, and though he received the largest number of votes he was not given his seat for the reason that a large number of ballots in Onondaga county were marked through an error of the printer.

   The Democratic county convention was held September 11, the following ticket being placed in nomination: Member of assembly, Peter D. Muller; sheriff, C. E. Van Brocklin; county clerk, R. W. Bourne; district attorney, I. H. Palmer; superintendent of the poor, Ralph Butler; coroners, Drs. H. D. Hunt and Daniel Cook.

   Hugh Duffey was chairman of the Democratic county committee, and D. W. Van Hoesen secretary.

NEW CITY HALL AGITATED.

   Early in the year 1891 an effort was made to secure the erection of a new city hall. On the evening of January 14 a meeting was held to consider the matter, Aaron Sager being chairman and Dr. S. J. Sornberger secretary. The project was advocated by several speakers, and two or three gentlemen spoke in opposition. The result of the deliberations was the appointment of a committee to ascertain the cost of the Dowd lot on Court-st., owned by Wickwire Bros., and secure estimates for a building. Another meeting was held on the 24th of the same month, and it was voted as the sense of those assembled that the village sell Fireman's hall for a sum not less than $15,000, and to purchase another site and erect a new building, the entire expense not to exceed $20.000.

STATE FLOWER.

   During the month of May a vote was taken in the village schools upon the selection of a state flower, the rose receiving 425 votes and the goldenrod 660. At the Pomeroy-st. school the rose received 146 and the goldenrod 24, and up in the Schermerhorn-st. school the rose was favored by 5 pupils and the goldenrod by 131.

BRIEF MENTIONS.

   During the month of January D. E. Call sold a half interest in his meat market to Frank Schellinger and bought a half interest in the coal business with William Martin.

   On the evening of January 13 Mrs. N. J. Peck gave a banquet and reception to the members of Orris Hose company at her home in Lincoln-ave., the occasion being a most happy one for all present, and especially to Mr. and Mrs. Peck, who were the recipients of a handsome silver tea set from the company, Dorr C. Smith making the presentation speech.

   The large ice-house belonging to the Little York Ice company, located near the D., L. & W. tracks was built early in 1891. It has a capacity of 1,200 tons.

   A. E. Buck was kicked by a horse January 25 and seriously injured.

   A serious lamp explosion occurred early in the morning of February 4, when a lamp exploded in the rooms of H. H. Pomeroy, over his dry goods and ladles' furnishing store, 13 Railroad-st. Mrs. Pomeroy was getting ready to take the early train for Syracuse, and while she stepped down to the store for something the lamp exploded. She had placed $1,800 on a stand near the lamp and the entire amount was destroyed.

   The Free Methodist church in Schermerhorn- st. was dedicated in January.

   Rev. H. W. Carr first became pastor of the Universalist church, being installed and ordained September 8.

   The handsome edifice known as the Hopkins block in Main-st. was built in 1891.

   Hon. D. W. Van Hoesen met with an unpleasant experience on the 15th of April while navigating a craft in the river. During his college career he had learned the art of canoe building, and having constructed a beauty weighing only 38 pounds, Captain and Mrs. Van Hoesen went to Tully and embarked in the frail vessel for Cortland. All went well until they reached a point south of Little York, when the captain failed to port his helm at the right time and the craft dumped its cargo in the raging river. Captain Van Hoesen rescued his wife and canoe, and the journey was resumed without further mishap, landing being made at Brayton's mill.

   It was in 1891 that an appropriation of $55,800 was secured from the state for the purpose of erecting the extension on the Normal building.

   On the night of April 20 C. Fred Thompson's store was burglarized, and a small amount of cash stolen

   April 27, the grist mill of E. Clark Carley at Marathon was destroyed by fire, the loss being about $9,800.

   May 14, a 2-year old son of Mr. and Mrs. Dwight Love died from swallowing a peanut.

   The Homer-ave. M. E. church was dedicated May 27.

   On Memorial day Judge Eggleston delivered an address at Geneva, and on the 8th of June he was given a handsome gold-beaded ebony cane by the G. A. R. of that place.

   The Congregational church and society purchased a $3,000 organ in July.

   The grand lodge of the Knights of Pythias met in Cortland July 28.

   The beautiful home of Mr. and Mrs. A. M. Jewett, Monroe Heights, was erected in the summer.

   Dr. F. J. Cheney was first appointed principal of the Normal school in 1891.

   The original officers of the Tioughnioga club, organized in 1891, were: President, Wesley Hooker; vice president, Albert Allen; secretary, S. M. Ballard. treasurer, C. P. Walrad; executive committee, F. C. Straat, Hugh Duffey, F. D. Smith, W. H. Newton and J. S. Bull.

   The annual session of the Central New York M. E. conference was held in Cortland in October.

   Col. Frank Place was superintendent of the village schools.

   On November 1 Ed. Robbins bought of D. L. Bliss & Son the cigar stand still conducted by him.

   Ridgeway Rowley, now a prominent Cortland gentleman, edited the Palo Alto at Mayfield, Cal. in 1891.

   On Thanksgiving morning a bad wreck occurred on the D., L. & W. road at Messengerville, when a passenger and a freight train came together.

 

OFFICIALS ATTACKED.

Rioting in Pekin Reaches an Acute Stage. Japanese Chancellor Killed.

   Official dispatches received in diplomatic quarters in Washington show that the rioting in Pekin has reached an acute stage, with the rioters directing a number of their assaults against members of the different foreign legations there. One of these dispatches states that the secretary of the Belgian legation was attacked twice on Monday and escaped after being maltreated by the mob. On the same day two officials of the British legation serving as student interpreters were attacked by a large crowd of roughs. The young Englishmen held the attacking party back for a time, but when the mob threatened to close in on them they drew revolvers and by a show of force made their retreat without bodily injury.

   About the same time the British summer quarters, 14 miles from Pekin, were burned down. These quarters were quite extensive and had just been completed. They belonged to the British government and not to Sir Claude MacDonald, the British minister at Pekin, which gives added significance to the depredation.

   The killing of the chancellor of the Japanese legation at Pekin, Sugi Akira, is not referred to in the official dispatches to Washington, but full credit is given to this report by the Japanese officials, who are personally acquainted with Mr. Akira and with many of the circumstances detailed.

   The killing of a member of the foreign diplomatic body and the foreign assaults upon the officials of the foreign countries are regarded as presenting the most serious phase of the situation that has thus far occurred.

   The Japanese charge d'affairs in Washington, Mr. Keiziro Nabeshima said: "We have no official confirmation of the killing of our chancellor at Pekin, but there appears to be no doubt of the fact; it presents a most serious condition. The offense is against the entire diplomatic body at Pekin; for if any one of them is subject to such assault they all share in the same danger. Mr. Akira was a bright young man about 38 years old, and had a wife and four children. He was one of the most expert chirographers in Japan, and this gained him the post of chancellor at Pekin, where he went about three years ago."

   Mr. Nabeshima said the Japanese government had pursued the utmost reserve up to this time, not wishing to be open to any suspicions, but he felt that if this tragedy had occurred there would be energetic action taken. One of the significant features of the affair, in his judgment, was that the killing was reported to have been done by the troops of the empress dowager, and not by any lawless mob. While there might be some excuse for mob depredations, Mr. Nabeshima said it would be difficult to take any favorable view of an attack by Chinese soldiers on the officials of foreign governments.

 

OUR POETRY MACHINE.

This Marvelous Invention Again in Running Order.

   For the post seven or eight months the duplex poetry machine, which so delightfully entertained readers of the DEMOCRAT for a time, has been partially disabled owing to the failure of three cogs to work properly. The cogs which caused such disappointment to thousands of readers of this paper are known as laziness, indisposition and contrariness, factors which always cause more or less trouble. The difficulty has been remedied and the machine is ready to turn out

 

Wedding Bells.

HUNT—VAN HOESEN.

   Mr. D. S. Hunt of Preble and Miss Collena Van Hoesen of Homer were married at the Congregational church in Homer by the pastor, Rev. W. F. Kettle, at 4 o'clock yesterday afternoon. The bride is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. C. C. Van Hoesen of Homer, and has been a valued member of the church choir. Mr. Hunt is the son of Dr. H. D. Hunt of Preble and a bright business man. He is one of the proprietors of the Tully Lake Park hotel, which opens for the season to-day and will reside there with his bride.

COTTRELL—FINCH.

   A very pretty home wedding occurred at the home of Mr. and Mrs. D. H. Finch on Locust-ave., Cortland, June 5, when their youngest daughter Maggie C. was united in marriage to Earl H. Cotrell of Scott, the Rev. J. L. Robertson officiating. The house was beautifully decorated with ferns and cut flowers.

   The bride wore a tasty gown of tan Venetian cloth and pink silk, and was attended by her sister, Miss Elizabeth Finch and Miss S. Alene Cottrell, a sister of the groom.

   A bountiful supper was served immediately after the ceremony.

   The happy couple left on the evening train for Syracuse, Baldwinsville and vicinity. Their many friends wish them a long and happy life.

HIKE—JONES.

   On Monday evening at 8 o'clock the home of Mr. and Mrs. Stephen K. Jones, Charles-st., was the scene of a pretty wedding, their only daughter, Miss Myrtie Jones, being united in marriage with Mr. Claude V. Hike, a young business man of the village. The ceremony was performed in the presence of a few friends by Rev. O. A. Houghton. After a wedding supper the bride and groom departs on a bridal trip, taking the train at Blodgett Mills to avoid the usual shower of rice.

BALDWIN—WHEELER.

   Yesterday noon, at the home of Mr. and Mrs. P. C. Wheeler in Cincinnatus, their daughter Miss Annie Wheeler was married to Mr. A. Ray Baldwin of that place.

 

Tully Lake Park Hotel.

Tully Lake Park Hotel Open.

   The Tully Lake Park hotel, the best hostelry on the lakes, has recently been purchased by Messrs. D. S. Hunt and R. R. Van Bergen. who to-day open it for the season. Much work has been put on the building and grounds by the new proprietors, and the price of board has been reduced to $6 per week. This first-class hotel being just across the lake from the Assembly grounds is easy to reach from there, and offers the very best of accommodations. Boarders and transients are sure to be welcomed and well taken care of, and we bespeak for the Tully Lake Park hotel the best season of its existence.

 

Folding Bed Shuts Up.

   M. R. Smith, who lives in the Wickwire building over I. Edgcomb's harness shop, had an unpleasant experience with a folding bed Wednesday afternoon, the treacherous piece of furniture shutting up with Mr. Smith on the wrong side. He succeeded in escaping with only the breaking of his collar bone.

 

Dynamite at McDonough, N. Y.

   What is alleged to be another attempt to blow up the house in East McDonough occupied by Mrs. DeEtte Harrington and Henry Doolay and his son, was made last Saturday morning. District Attorney Matterson is investigating the affair and it is said that he has evidence pointing to the guilty parties.

   The first attempt was made in December of last year. At that time the inmates of the house claimed that the attempt came from the outside, but the neighbors believe that if any intentional explosion occurred it was the work of the inmates.

   The second attempt was more serious and besides an explosion which broke windows, shook the house and blew out a portion of the foundation, a piece of pipe was found which contained a stick of dynamite which was connected by a short fuse with a box of cotton saturated with oil. The cotton and the end of the fuse have the appearance of having been on fire and the theory of the inmates of the house is that there were two of the explosives only one of which worked, and that the one found and described for some reason went out before the spark reached the dynamite.

   The inmates of the house claim to have heard voices in a lot near the house, one of which they think they recognized. They also claim to have found tracks. There is an air of mystery about the case which will perhaps be explained before District Attorney Matterson is through with the case.

William McKinley.

Washington Letter.

(From Our Regular Correspondent.)

   WASHINGTON, D. C., June 11.—The administration is worrying over the news from China. The revolution of the "Boxers" threatens to expose Mr. McKinley's imperialistic program concerning China in advance of the Presidential election, which is just what he was anxious to avoid. In their anxiety to allay public suspicion at home, members of the administration have done some word juggling that would be amusing if the matters involved were not too serious to laugh about.  For instance, official statements to the press from the state department have emphasized the alleged instructions to our minister at Pekin, and to Rear Admiral Kempff, our naval commander in Chinese waters, to act in concert with European powers for the protection of foreigners and their property but not to join a combination of the powers for any purpose. Our representatives over there must be clever indeed if they can act in concert with the European powers without combining with them.

   A marked feature of the political situation is the genuine scare of the Republican leaders over three states which they have heretofore been claiming as certain to cast their electoral votes for McKinley.

   These states are New York, Indiana and Illinois. In New York, with Croker to look after greater New York, and Hill to look after the other portions of the state, pulling loyally together, the Republicans realize that the state will be doubtful. In Indiana, the state ticket nominated by the Democrats, headed by Hon. John W. Kern, is so strong that Indiana Republicans have notified the leaders of the party that the state is in danger. In Illinois, the tide has been running anti-Republican for some time, and appeals for help are being received in Washington. The scare is so bad that prominent Republicans are saying that it is useless to consider candidates from other states for the second place on the McKinley ticket; that he must be taken from one of those three states, and must be a man who will add strength to the ticket. Mr. McKinley has gone out of his way to make friends with Senator Mason of Illinois, who was anti-administrator during the recent session of congress, and has succeeded in getting Mason to promise to take the stump for him. As Mason isn't the sort of man who can be won over by jollying, it is likely that he has received some definite and iron-clad promise of future patronage.

   The Industrial commission, so-called, has provided itself with a pleasant summer junket, all of the expenses of which will be paid by the "dear people." It has decided that the industrial conditions, principally flirtations and such along the Northern Atlantic coast, must be investigated during the summer, and has arranged for meetings of the commission during the next three months in Pennsylvania, New Jersey, New York, and the New England states. One of the first duties of a Democratic administration and congress will be to abolish the Republican government commission humbug, which has become so rampant, and so expensive, under the McKinley administration.

   Chairman Payne, of the house ways and means committee, has given away the claim of the Republicans that the reason they did not reduce war taxes at the recent session of congress, was their desire to have that committee grant hearings and study the question during the recess, so that the right sort of bill providing for the reduction might be reported to the house, by the official announcement that the committee would not be called together until just before congress meets. In other words the question of the reduction of war taxes is to be left open until after election, in order that all the big interests may be taxed for the Republican campaign fund.

   Secretary Long has advertised for bids for furnishing armor plate for battleships, under the cowardly law forced through congress the last thing before adjournment, making Mr. Long do what the Republicans of congress were ashamed to do—agree to the prices of the armor trust, which will necessarily be the only bidder to respond to the advertisement. True, the law gives Mr. Long authority to reject the bids if he considers the price too high, and to use the $4,000,000 carried by the act for the establishment of a government plant to make our armor plate, but if he acted upon that authority, the Republican leaders who engineered the cowardly make-shift would throw a few fits; they are figuring on a heavy campaign contribution from the armor trust.

   Mr. McKinley and Gen. E. S. Otis have had a consultation and McKinley has been telling Otis that he was the only real thing in the military way produced by the Philippine war—many believe that Otis produced the war—and that he would have been glad to have made him, instead of Miles, a lieutenant general, but congress fixed it so that promotion had to go to Miles; while Otis, overjoyed at his promotion to be a major general has been telling Mr. McKinley that he is the greatest of all presidents. Outside of the White House there has been no attempt to lionize Otis because of the prevalence of the opinion that he has already received more than was coming to him for anything he achieved during his blundering career in the Philippines.

 

PAGE FOUR—SHORT EDITORIALS.

   The closing days of congress were filled with rumors of corruption. If McKinley should have a second term, it would be a repetition of the second Grant administration so far as steals and jobs are concerned.

   Go back four years and think of the newspapers that supported Palmer and Buckner, or more manly yet, were out and out for McKinley, To-day they are for Bryan, almost as a whole.

   What nice care the Republicans in Cuba have taken of a ''struggling people." After charging his personal underwear to the government, Mr. Rathbone [postal scandal] proceeded to purchase $6,000 worth of safes for the purpose of protecting ft from the moths.

   The McKinley administration was given credit a year ago for the high price of wheat and corn, and now who is responsible for the low price of potatoes? Respectfully referred to the editor of the Standard, who once upon a time was said to have been an expert in the tuber question.

   McKinley has been in the executive chair three years, and during that time he has appointed twenty-two commissions to investigate various things. These commissions have cost $3,300,000 and no men can point to anything they have accomplished, aside from furnishing fat places for Republican hangers-on.

   Republican aspirants for sheriff in this county are as thick as flies' legs in some butter we have seen. Now is our time to nominate and elect a good Democrat. Republican jealousies have elected many a Democrat in Cortland county, and will do it again.

   Democratic harmony was everywhere apparent at the New York convention, and it was the harmony which Cortland county Democrats want, so begin your work now, that the result in November may be sure, for the goal is that desired and lost four years ago.

   William J. Bryan stands now where he did four years ago, the friend and champion of the common people. McKinley posed as such before his election, but we know that he has been traitor to those who elected him. Mr. Bryan has allowed nothing to change him except to grow with events, nor would he change if elected president.

   Those who have recently hung aloof from the regular Democratic nominees styling themselves Chicago Platform Democrats, are now in line, and are thoroughly satisfied with the work of the New York convention. Thus we have no defections, as the "Gold Democrats" are also with us, and will go to the polls a solid phalanx of Democrats—winners in the Empire State and also in the Union.

   Occasionally some croaker says, "you'd be all right if you would drop Bryan.'' But can he name another man who is the peer in any respect of the Nebraskan? No, a thousand times no! The strong personality of William Jennings Bryan has kept him before the people four years, and they love him for his manliness and unswerving principles, and they know that if elected he will be, not led, but a leader in the cause of the common people.

   The appointment of Hazel, a ward politician of Buffalo, to be judge of the western district of New York, has brought out the charge—which has been admitted—that he received a commission of $5,000 for selling a yacht to the government for $80,000 during the Spanish-American war. Other commissions were paid, amounting to $15,000, and after the war was over Uncle Sam tried in vain to sell the yacht for $25,000. This is only a sample of the extravagance of the party in power, and it has the sublime audacity to ask the taxpayers to vote the Republican ticket this fall!

 

HERE AND THERE.

   Elmira will have a street fair and exposition July 2 to 7.

   The Lehigh Valley R. R. company has finally placed a flagman at the Main-st. crossing, Edmund Brown securing the job.

   The Patrons of Industry will hold a meeting in Good Templar hall next Tuesday, June 19, at 10 o'clock A. M.

   Giles Rood, who was at one time known in Homer and Cortland, is rusticating in Onondaga penitentiary as the result of tasting too much [booze].

   Astronomical query: What did the large and complete circle around the sun at 1 o'clock yesterday afternoon signify?

   H. T. Stanley will give a spiritualist lecture and test séance at Good Templar hall Sunday evening at 7:30 o'clock. He will speak upon subjects given by the audience.

   The Moravia Register came to us last week enlarged and looking as bright and fresh as a June rose. It was a good newspaper before the enlargement; it is a most excellent one now.

   The W. C. T. U. of Cortland county will hold its quarterly convention in the M. E. church at Virgil, June 19. A carry-all will convey all who can go, returning after the evening session.

   It ought to be unnecessary to remind pathmasters of the law which requires them to have all loose stones moved from the highways, but many of them are very neglectful of this important matter.

   One of the finest drives about this city is towards and beyond South Cortland, the highway being for the most part as smooth and as free from stones as an asphalt pavement. South Cortland people are just about right in everything.

   Mr. G. F. Beaudry to give more room, in fact the entire store, to the wallpaper and stationery business, is closing out his stock of bicycles, bicycle sundries, sporting goods, cigars and tobaccos at very low prices. See his adv. elsewhere.

   C. W. Collins, who has for many years conducted a glassware and crockery store in Cortland, has sold out to M. A. Hudson of Syracuse, who will conduct the Cortland store as a branch establishment to two others—one at Syracuse and the other at Auburn.

   Rev. Dr B. F. Wheeler, presiding elder of this district A. M. E. church, and Prof. Taylor of Tuskagee college, were in Cortland over the Sabbath, and in the evening Prof. Taylor spoke at the A. M. E. Zion church. Rev. Mr. Wheeler will preach in the same church next Sunday evening.

   Proprietor O. L. Ingraham has recently refitted and largely refurnished the Hotel Messenger, including new paper and fresh paint throughout. The house has now an excellent appearance. He has also adopted a check exchange system whereby the traveler has a check for his baggage from the depot to his room.

   Mr. and Mrs. Alexander Mahan of Cortland have been in the city the past week as the guests of their daughters Mrs. Jas. L.  Hickok and Mrs. Robert S. Weed, and have been attending the music festival.  Mr. Mahan is one of the best known men in the state. He is the manager of the Cortland music festival, and for one week each year for 26 years he has given the people of Cortland and nearby cities a veritable feast.—Binghamton Republican.