CORTLAND ORGANIZES RELIEF FOR CONEMAUGH VALLEY, PA.

The Cortland Democrat, Friday, June 7, 1889.

HELP FOR THE SUFFERERS.

A PUBLIC MEETING CALLED FOR FRIDAY EVENING.

Let Every Citizen Respond to the Call and Be at the Court House to Aid in the Work.

To the President of the Village of Cortland:

   SIR: In view of the sorrowful calamity [Johnstown Flood—CC editor] that has lately befallen a whole community in a sister State and the destitution and suffering resulting therefrom, we feel moved by considerations of a common practical humanity, and a common practical Christianity to express our sympathy, by sending relief to those stricken communities.

   Therefore, we, the undersigned earnestly request that you call a public meeting as soon as practicable that some concerted action may be taken. Geo. P. Avery, John Arthur, H. A. Cordo, J. A. Robinson, J. L. Robertson, Clark & Nourse, Wickwire Bros., Wesley Hooker, C. L. Kinney, Wm. Martin, Wm. H. Clark, Ollie Ingraham, Kellogg & Curtis, H. J. Harrington, E. Keator, R. T. Peck, Phil. Sugerman, I. Whiteson, A. M. Jewett, W. D. Riley, Glann & Clark, F. M. Johnston, J. M. Samson, Sager & Jennings, J. A. Jayne, Beard & Peck, L. D. Garrison, William E. Fitch, D. C. Bliss, H. M. Kellogg, Dickinson & McGraw, F. W. Collins, Chas. W. Collins, Burgess & Bingham, H. F. Benton, Edgcomb & Ballard, C. F. Thompson, Briggs & Peck, Hugh Duffy, F. W. Kingsbury, Sackett L. Wright, I. Edgcomb, C. W. Stoker, G. J. Mager, F. N. Harrington, Geo. L. Warren, Warren, Tanner & Co., D. F. Wallace, C. P. Walrad, Benj. L. Webb, Fitz Boynton, A. S. Brown, Geo. P. Hollenbeck, Watkins Bros., G. F. Beaudry, I. B. Knickerbocker, H. B. Hubbard, Hubbard & Buck, Tanner Brothers.

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   Pursuant to the prayer of the foregoing petition and the dictates of humanity I hereby request all citizens to meet at the Court House in the Village of Cortland on the 7th day of June next, at 8 o'clock P. M., to form a suitable organization to afford relief to the sufferers by the recent catastrophe in the Conemaugh Valley in the State of Pennsylvania.

   IRVING H. PALMER,

   President of the Village of Cortland.

Coroner's Inquest.

   Our Blodgett Mills' correspondent gives the particulars of a terrible accident that occurred near that place last Monday morning and which resulted in the death of Timothy Grady, a respectable and highly esteemed resident of this town. The body was brought to this place on the train and Coroner Moore notified, who empanelled the following jury: Henry Kennedy, foreman; L. V. Smith, E. A. McGraw, H. F. Benton, Wm. Corcoran and Sidney Harrington. After viewing the body the inquest was adjourned to Wednesday morning at 10 A. M. at Firemen's Hall.

   On Wednesday morning the inquest was resumed. William Wallace, of Syracuse, the engineer in charge of the engine that killed Grady, was sworn. He testified that just before the train arrived at the crossing, Mr. Grady was standing on the east side of the track apparently watching a cow that was coming towards him from the other side. Just before reaching the crossing Mr. Grady started to cross the track and the engineer endeavored to stop the train, but it was impossible to do so, owing to the short distance intervening. The whistle had been blowing for some distance before reaching the crossing to drive the cows from the track.

   Edward Brass of Syracuse, who was the fireman on board the engine, was also sworn and corroborated engineer Wallace in all essential particulars.

   John H. Howard, Esq., of this place, who was a passenger on board the train testified to the fact that the whistle was sounded several times before reaching the crossing.

   Dr. Jerome Angel of this village, who made the autopsy of the body, was sworn and testified as to deceased's injuries. He found both his neck and back broken, his left shoulder dislocated, both legs broken between the knee and thigh and the left one broken twice between the knee and foot, the left arm broken twice between the elbow and wrist, the right one broken between the shoulder and elbow and several ribs fractured. There was a deep cut upon the back of his head, but otherwise there were no abrasions of the skin upon the body.

   The jury found the following verdict:

   The undersigned empanelled to ascertain how Timothy Grady came to his death do say upon their oaths aforesaid that Timothy Grady in the town of Cortlandville on the morning of the 3rd day of June, 1889, at about 6 o'clock, came to his death at the second crossing of the S. B. & N. Y. R. R., south of Cortland village, on the highway leading from Port Watson bridge to Blodgett Mills, by being struck by engine No. 15, drawing the 6 A. M. passenger train and that there is no blame to be attached to the said railroad company.

   It is believed that Mr. Grady unintentionally sacrificed his own life to save his cows. He evidently thought he had time to cross the track, but in this miscalculated.

BLODGETT MILLS.

   A frightful accident occurred near here last Monday morning.  The six o'clock A. M. mail and passenger train going north, at the second railroad crossing about a mile north of this place, struck and instantly killed Timothy Grady, who was driving his cows from the pasture to the barn for milking. He had succeeded in getting a portion of them across, while two remained upon the opposite side. It is believed that in his efforts to save his cows he lost his own life.

   His body was hurled with such terrific violence against the fence as to splinter the boards and break down a fence post. Nearly every bone in his body was said to be broken, but, strange to say, his face remained without a mar. The train stopped and after informing Mrs. Grady of the accident, carried the body to the undertaker's rooms, where it remained until interment, which occurred Tuesday.

  Mr. Grady was a man of about 60 years of age, and had lived in this vicinity nearly twenty years. He was a stone mason by trade, and had accumulated a snug little fortune. He belonged to the better class of Irish citizens, was a strictly temperate man, and a most obliging neighbor. He leaves a widow and two sons to mourn his untimely death. Also several children by a former marriage, who live near Auburn, N. Y.

   Thos. F. Grady, son of the deceased, telegraph operator at Whitney's Point, was in town Monday and Tuesday.

   Quarterly meeting services will be held at the M. E. church next Saturday and Sunday. Presiding Elder U. S. Beebe is expected to be present. A very handsome communion set has been purchased, and will be used on this occasion for the first time.

MARATHON.

   Ex-Assemblyman Peck was in town Tuesday.

   The bastardy case transferred from Homer to this place, was tried before esquires Hulbert and Adams, at the Hulbert Opera House on Monday last. Only one side was taken in evidence, that of the plaintiff. The defendant reserved the right to carry it to a higher court. A verdict was brought in that the plaintiff should pay three dollars a week to support the child, all the expenses connected with the trial and one hundred and twenty five dollars to the young lady to reimburse her for her trouble.

   Chas. Myers has opened a shop in R. R. Maybury's building near the Rogers House.

   The late frost completely slaughtered a young gentleman's garden sauce and shortly afterwards when he viewed them he discovered a very appropriate motto beside the withered stalks, "Dead, but not forgotten."

   Amos Johnson and Art Brainard are off on a fishing excursion.

Spring Races.

   Already we have the largest list of entries for the different races to be trotted June 18, 19 and 20, that the Cortland Driving Park has had for many years. Among the horses entered are Greystone. Starlight, Princess M., Jennie R., DeBarry, Okalona, Frank T., Kingsley, Dandy White Stockings, Milkmaid, Lucy B., Roscoe, Jeweller, Dot Wick. Cortland Maid, Rocket, J. P., W. B. Kirk, Fred Dudley, H. C. L. Cardinal, Kittie Frazier, Harry H. Walton, A. R. Taylorson, and others.

The Irwin Brothers' Circus.

   "Irwin Brothers' big show has been attracting large audiences all through the week, and the throngs show no sign of decreasing in size during the remainder of its stay in Buffalo. The large business done is not unmerited, for the entertainment given for the nominal sum of ten cents is in many respects superior to that offered by some of the fifty cent shows. Pretty girls and athletic men there are in abundance, and the feats they perform are marvels of dexterity and daring. Handsome ponies, trick donkeys, and performing dogs are also to be found, and they attract no small share of the public's attention. Take it altogether it is hard to conceive of a cheaper or pleasanter way of spending an afternoon or evening agreeably than under the tent which contains this skilled troupe."

   Thus speaks the Buffalo Courier of the circus which pitch their tents in this city [?] next week.

HERE AND THERE.

   The Governor has signed the bill granting a new charter to this village.

   Irwin Bros.' circus tents will be erected on the Miller lot north of the village.

   Wickwire Bros. horse Greystone won [bread] money at the Waterville races.

   Go to Tully lake and take a ride on the paddle wheel boat, "Lady of the Lake."

   The Odd Fellows of this county will have a district picnic at Floral Trout Park Saturday, June 29th.

   Hitchcock Hose company are making arrangements for a grand picnic at Floral Trout ponds, June 15th.

   Don't forget the date of the summer meeting of the Cortland County Agricultural Society, Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday, June 18th, 19th and 20th. A large list of flyers have been entered, and the races promise to be fine.

   Syracuse voted last Tuesday for municipal ownership and Skaneateles lake water. The vote stood 11,302 to 910. It is estimated that it will cost the city $3,000,000 to put in the plant for the water works, and the city is to be bonded for that amount. The people owning the land about the lake object to the enterprise, and there will be many expensive legal squabbles before the water is finally obtained, and Syracuse will have to foot the bills.

   Mr. M. L. Alexander, of this place, and Mr. D. H. Stringham, of New York, have purchased of C. S. & J. S. Bull several acres of land on the east side of the highway [Route 11] leading to Homer, formerly owned by the late Rev. B. F. McLoghlin. The same has been surveyed and laid out into streets and lots. They will have about sixty handsome lots for sale, and as they are located along side the street car line, we presume they will meet with a ready sale. They propose to dispose of them at low figures and on easy terms. The owners will erect two new houses on the plot at once.

The New Presbyterian Church.

   The contract for the building of the new Presbyterian church in this place, was let last week to Mr. L. R. Hopkins, the well known builder, for $40,000, the building to be completed and ready for occupancy one year from April 1st, 1889.

   The stone work will be done by Mr. Wm. Crabtree of Syracuse, who makes this sort of work a specialty. The work of taking down the old edifice was commenced on Monday and as soon as the ground is cleared the new building will be commenced.

   Services will be held in the Cortland Opera House every Sunday morning and in the evening in the session room. The Sunday school will be held in the Opera House at the usual hour. Mr. Hopkins built the Opera House in this village and the one in Watertown and is at present erecting a large addition to the Normal school building at New Paltz. That the new church will be a fine structure and will be well built goes without saying, as Mr. Hopkins is a master of his business and always performs his part of the contract.

 

HEAVIEST TAXES SINCE 1875

The Cortland Democrat, Friday, May 31, 1889.

Heaviest Taxes Since 1875.

(From the Albany Argus.)

   The taxes imposed by the Legislature this year are the heaviest laid upon the people of the State since 1875, when the bounty debt incurred to meet the expenses of the war was virtually extinguished. We believe there is no satisfactory and creditable explanation for this. We believe that the careless, extravagant temper of the Republican majority in the Legislature is responsible for high taxes.

   The Republican party has just bought its way into power in the Nation, when it despaired of its inability to win, and it has been made reckless by its unexpected success. In the Nation it has set out to increase taxes on the necessaries of life; and in this State it believes it can pile up taxes with equal impunity.

   Here is the rate of State taxation for the last fourteen years, and the amount of taxes raised each year to pay the State expenses ordered by the Legislature. Men may explain the facts as best they can. The facts stick out and they will abide.

Year.        Rate.       Total Taxes.

1876         3 11/24    $8,534,284.

1877         3 1/16        8,726,511.

1878         2.9             7,941,298.

1879         2.863         7,690,416.

1880         3.5             9,232,542.

1881         2.25           6,032,830.

1882         2.45           6,820,022.

1883         3.25           9,334,836.

1884         2.575         7,762,573.

1885         2.96           9,160,405.

1886         2.95           9,512,813.

1887         2.70           9,075,046.

1888         2.62           9,089,304.

1889         3.52         12,558,559.

   Republican "explanations" and "defenses" will begin to-day, and will be kept up until November.

PAGE TWO/EDITORIALS.

   Thus far, the present administration has accomplished absolutely nothing that will benefit the country. It has given its best and only efforts towards benefiting the Republican party.

   The editor of the Cortland Standard calls Governor Hill a "political Ethiopian." This to a very elegant expression for the elegantly refined editor to use, but it reminds us of the old saw, "pot calling kettle black." Moravia Register.

   Andrew Carnegie's men, it is stated, have consented to go to work at a reduction of twenty five per cent in wages all around. This scale is to hold good for three years. At the end of that time Carnegie will turn up again as an advocate of "protection to labor," and will tell his men that if the Democratic candidates are elected, wages will be reduced.— Albany Argus.

   The owner of the Bristol woolen mills in Pennsylvania in October paraded in Republican newspapers the statement that if President Cleveland were re-elected he would sell out the mills for twenty-five per cent of their cost. If President Cleveland had been re-elected, this proprietor would have been just fifteen per cent better off than he is under President Harrison, for the mills went into bankruptcy last week, and were sold for only ten per cent of their cost. "Students of the markets," please notice.—Albany Argus.

   If it is necessary to keep a tariff of fifteen cents per bushel on potatoes, to prevent people in the Old World from raising potatoes for almost nothing by employing the pauper labor of Europe, and shipping them here for ballast, what is to hinder some republican produce dealer from purchasing several million bushels of the surplus crop now in the hands of American farmers and shipping them as ballast to Europe? There is no tariff on potatoes in England and there would undoubtedly be millions in it for the enterprising produce dealer. If potatoes could be landed in London for fifteen cents per bushel, with no tariff to pay, the speculator who ships them over there as ballast would make his fortune in two months time.

Filling in the Roads with Potatoes.

   A. T. Parsons, of North Lansing, was in the Journal office yesterday, and stated that potatoes were of little value in his township, which is considered the potato patch of the county. He said that fronting the residence of Henry Teeter, who had 24 acres in potatoes last year, and scattered for rods along the middle of the road lay 300 or 400 bushels of large, handsome, perfect potatoes—thrown away.

   Upon being asked if they would not have paid cartage to town, Mr. Parsons said: "If any one in Ithaca would purchase them at any price it would be one not exceeding ten cents a bushel. And it is doubtful if any one would buy them, as every one seems over supplied. Thirty or forty bushels could be hauled at a load; but farm teams are now imperatively needed in spring work. The value of potatoes as food for stock is questionable; and they possess no merit as a fertilizer. They commanded 30 cents last fall; but too many were held for a higher market in the spring."—Ithaca Journal.

Nicaragua Canal.

   NEW YORK, May 24.—The steamship Alvena, to sail hence for Nicaragua May 20th, will carry 50 men and a large quantity of implements and stores for the Nicaragua Canal Construction company, being the pioneer expedition for the commencement of the work of building the Nicaragua Inter-oceanic canal. Other expeditions will follow at short intervals. The engineers of the surveying expedition who have remained in Nicaragua have collected 500 native laborers in readiness to begin operations at once. The first work will include the construction of a pier, a railroad, shops, warehouses and other buildings, dredging Greytown harbor and clearing and dredging the first 13 miles of the canal from Greytown to the divide.

Wanted to Frighten His Wife.

   WATERTOWN, N. Y., May 27.—Cornelius Donnelly was found by his wife yesterday, with a rope around his neck and in the last struggles of strangulation. Donnelly had been married only 4 months and it has developed that he did not intend to commit suicide, but only wanted to frighten his wife into giving him possession of her property, amounting to $16,000. On a previous occasion he had pretended to hang himself and also to cut his throat, and when he tried it again yesterday his wife was not so prompt in rescuing him, as on the former occasions, and when she did arrive he was past saving.

Republican Endorsements.

   Gov. Hill's veto of the Saxton ballot reform bill is pretty generally sustained by the Democratic press and we notice that several republican papers have been commending the act. The Watertown Times, a leading republican paper, edited by Hon. Beman Brockway, who was private secretary to Gov. Fenton and who was appointed Canal Appraiser in 1865, says the Governor's reasons for vetoing the bill are strong ones. The Times says:

   The full text of Gov. Hill's message vetoing the Saxton ballot reform bill puts the Governor in a somewhat better light than the synopsis given yesterday, and if one could have any confidence in the sincerity of the Governor's statements that he is heartily in favor of ballot reform and only objects to the method proposed; that he does not veto the spirit of the bill, but the provisions by which it is manifested, then one could say that the Governor gives some very strong reasons for a veto.

   For it is a fact that the Saxton bill provided a very cumbersome way of reaching the matter of suppressing bribery. Eager that some method be adopted to check this growing evil, this paper has urged its passage, but has from the first insisted that a plain and practicable bill providing for the printing at public expense of the present form of ballot, and a secret room for the voter to pass through to the ballot-box, was all that was necessary.

   As Gov. Hill declares that such are his views also we cannot well criticize them, although we suspect that had such a bill been presented him he would have found reasons for vetoing that. He is now, however, committed in favor of such a law, and the best thing the Legislature could do would be to send it to him, even if it has to extend the session a few days in order to frame and pass it.

   The Poughkeepsie Eagle, edited by John I. Platt, who was one of the Republican leaders in the Assembly in 1886 and last year, and who supported the Saxton bill, also sustains Gov. Hill's veto in the strongest possible language. The Eagle says:

   The Republican party in the State of New York owes Gov. Hill a vote of thanks for his refusal to permit the bill known as the "Saxton Ballot Reform bill" to become a law. We do not believe that the Governor should make use of his veto power to force the majority in the Legislature to shape legislation in accordance with his views, and some of Gov. Hill's acts in this line have in our opinion gone to the verge of usurpation, but not in this case. It is clearly his duty to forbid pernicious legislation, and if there was ever a bill which deserves a veto it was this one.

   The Governor is right in all respects, and as we have stated, no party owes him so much for his manly interference as the Republican party. We feared lest he might bow to the demands that came to him from so many quarters, and while refusing his approval, also decline to take any action, and leave the responsibility of the bill upon those who passed it. Had he done so, the storm of indignation that would have followed an attempt to put the law in practical operation, would have swept the party that passed it out of power for a generation.

   We do not mean to be understood as condemning the Saxton bill in all particulars. There are many excellent provisions in it, but the one thing which its promoters have insisted on as "the essential feature of the reform"—the requirement that ballots shall be furnished by official agency, and that no others shall be used, is such egregious folly that we have been utterly at a loss ever since we first heard of it, to imagine why it was proposed. We have never yet seen anybody who could give any reason for it, nor have we ever read any explanation of how or why it was supposed to be beneficial. Its advocates are content with the parrot like repetition of the statement that it is "the essential feature of the reform," and seem to think that that ought to silence all opposition.

   We do not often so radically disagree with our party, but in this [Dem.] Gov. Hill is right, and the Republican majority is wrong. We hope there will be a genuine reform measure passed some time, but far better none at all than such a one as this. There will no doubt be a good deal of fuss made, and a great deal of abuse heaped on Gov. Hill, but the common sense of the people will sustain the veto.

FROM EVERYWHERE.

   The railroads are not making money.

   There are 960 saloons in Albany, N. Y.

   Iron freight cars are coming into general use.

   There are two eases of leprosy in New York city.

   The Chicago anarchists are showing unusual activity.

   Many horses in the vicinity of Manlius are afflicted with the epizootic.

   We have five mints: at Philadelphia, New Orleans, San Francisco, Denver and Carson City. The first three are still coining. Coins struck at Philadelphia are not marked. "S." stands for the San Francisco mint, "C." for the New Orleans mint, "C. C." for the Carson City mint.

   A week ago last Monday the contractors turned over as finished Crouse Memorial College, donated to Syracuse University by John Crouse, the wealthy retired merchant of that city. The completed building cost $300,000. Architecturally it is said to be unsurpassed for grace and beauty.

   Henry W. Sage intends to give $300,000 to Cornell University for a library. If the university loses the $1,500,000 involved in the pending McGraw-Fiske litigation, Mr. Sage will also give $200,000 for the library building. This will make his total gifts to the institution about $1,000,000.

   An Auburn dispatch says Kemmler, the Buffalo murderer, who is to be killed by electricity in prison next month, has now had three days of confinement and keeps his nerves well. He was at first served with meals from the wardens table, but now gets the food that is furnished in the hospital. His appetite is good and he has recovered from the nervousness he displayed on the night of his arrival. He is locked up in a steel cell and has no opportunity of talking to any person save his watchers.

   Dr. Poucher, the veterinary surgeon, took a calculus the size of a goose egg from the stomach of a $500 horse belonging to Mr. Foster, a Volney farmer, last Thursday. The calculus is a hard, circular substance about the size of a goose egg and when sawn into to-day, exhibited a small piece of iron, probably from a nail, about which it had formed in successive layers. The horse is doing well, and the operation is regarded as one of the finest in horse surgery ever performed.—Oswego Palladium.

   A new company proposes to put twelve mammoth steel steamers into the water of the lakes as fast as they can be built. The boats will be constructed at Sandusky and will cost $325,000 each. They will be 325 feet long each, with a carrying capacity of 3,500 tons. They will be named after States, the six Eastern States being the names of the freight boats, and the six Western ones being the passenger craft. This line will be called the States-Anchor line, and the capital is said to be $12,000,000. Prominent railroad men, principally of the Pennsylvania system, are the projectors of the line, which, when completed will be by far the most complete on the chain of lakes.

 

EMERALD HOSE COMPANY'S 1889 FAIR

The Cortland Democrat, Friday, May 24, 1889.

Emerald Hose Company's Fair.

   Emerald Hose Company's fair opened in Taylor Opera House last Monday evening and is a grand success in every respect. Lieut. Gov. Jones of Binghamton arrived in town on the 7:19 P. M. train and was met at the depot by the reception committee, the Hitchcock Mfg. Company’s band, Canton Cortland No. 27 Patriarch's Militant, Hitchcock Hose Company and Emerald Hose, and was escorted to the Messenger House, Canton Cortland acting as the immediate escort.

   At 8:30, the same line was formed and the march taken up for the hall which was filled with spectators. Hon. R. T. Peck was chairman of the evening and after a few remarks introduced [Lt.] Gov. Jones, who delivered an excellent address which met the approval of all those present. The following programme was then given:

   Quartette—"The Flag without a Stain," Messrs. Hardy, Edward, Frank and John Lanigan.

   Recitation— "The Green Flag at Spotsylvania," Miss Minnie F. Cleary.

   Polka—Hitchcock Mfg. Co. Band.

   Quartette—"We Meet again To-night," Messrs. Walsh, Dowd, Place, Barnes and Davis.

   March— Emerald Hose— Hitchcock Mfg. Co. Band.

   This part of the entertainment was also especially good and the audience testified their appreciation by frequent applause. After these exercises Fischer's band struck up and a large number of those present engaged in dancing.

CANTON CORTLAND'S RECEPTION.

   After the entertainment was over [Lt.] Gov. Jones and Gen. J. O. Woodward of Albany, Commander of the Patriarchs Militant of the department of New York, Division of the Atlantic, visited Vesta Lodge I. O. O. F., at their handsome rooms in the Second National Bank building where an informal reception was held, after which the party repaired to the Messenger House where an excellent supper had been provided, upon short notice, by the proprietor.

   Gen. Woodward acted as toastmaster. The first toast proposed was the health of [Lt.] Gov. Jones, who responded in a fitting manner. The following is a list of the subsequent toasts and the gentlemen who responded:

   The village of Cortland—I. H. Palmer.

   The [State] Legislature—Hon. R. T. Peck.

   The Press—Wm. H. Clark.

   The Odd Fellows of the State of New York—J. E. Eggleston, Esq.

   The Law—Judge S. S. Knox.

   Emerald Hose Co.—Ex-Chief, M. F. Cleary.

   The Ladies—John Courtney Jr.

   Innocents Abroad—J. F. Maybury.

   Canton Cortland—Capt. G. I. Pruden.

   Many friends of Canton Cortland were invited and accepted the hospitalities of the Patriarchs. It was nearly midnight when [Lt.] Gov. Jones said 'Good Night" and the company dispersed, all feeling that they had spent the evening most enjoyably.

   The hall is very tastefully draped and decorated, the stars and stripes mingling with the green. There are five booths, all very handsome and each is in charge of the lady friends of the company, who have assisted in every way possible to make the fair the grand success it has proved to be.

   The Misses Delia Buckly and Kate Dillon have charge of booth No. 1. Miss Molly Barry and Miss Anna Manchester No. 2, Mrs. Archie Lucy and Mrs. Chas. Abbott No. 3, the Misses May and Kittie Dowd No. 4; and booth No. 5, where ice cream is sold, is in charge of Misses Kittie Kennedy, Bridget Fitzgerald, Maggie Welsh, Nellie Fitzgerald, Nellie McEvoy and Mrs. Quinlan. The hall has been filled to overflowing each evening and the best of order and good feeling have prevailed.

   The fair lasts all the week with a change of programme each evening. Dancing commences at 10 each evening. We advise all to attend as the cause is a worthy one and the entertainment is well worth the price of admission. The grand drawing of prizes takes place on Saturday evening.

The Men on Horseback.

   The horseback riders of Cortland held a meeting in this village last Tuesday evening and perfected an organization. The meeting was called to order by Dr. J. H. Hoose, on whose motion J. F. Maybury was made chairman and E. F. Jennings, secretary. The following officers were elected:

   President—Dr. J. H. Hoose.

   Secretary— Dr. D. E. Smith.

   Treasurer—J. F. Maybury.

   On motion "The Cortland Riding Club" was selected as the name of the association

   The following members were elected:

   J. H. Hoose, S. S. Knox, A. P. Smith, G. P. Avery, D. E. Smith, J. F. Maybury, Webster Young, C. F. Thompson, A. R. Peck, E. F. Squires, C. F. Wickwire, E. F. Jennings, Robt. Bushby, F. W. Higgins, J. M. Milne, J. H. Schermerhorn, F. J. Peck, Geo. S. Sands, Floyd Hitchcock, B. E. Miller, Eugene Powers, Mason Ingalls, Sanford Ellsworth, M. C. Eastman, E. M. Santee.

   Commencing June 10, an overland trip will be made which will pass through Ithaca, Sheldrake, Auburn, Skaneateles, Glen Haven and many intermediate points. All are invited to join whether members of the club or not.

   It is expected that numerous short trips will be made during the summer.

Damaged by Fire and Water.

   At eight o'clock last Thursday evening fire alarm box No. 312, located corner of Washington street and Clinton avenue was pulled and the fire department was soon on the spot. The fire was located in the north end of the roof of the Cortland Steam Laundry and was making considerable headway when discovered. The property is owned by Mr. H. C. Beebe, who lives in the building, but there was no one in the same when the fire was discovered. Mr. Charles Amerman broke a panel in the office door and thus gained entrance to the building. Citizens and firemen assisted in moving the carpets in the carpet cleaning establishment, clothes from the laundry department and household goods, which was accomplished with very little loss or injury. Three or four streams of water finally put out the flames.

   Mrs. Van Auken, one of the employees, lost some of her personal effects by both fire and water. The fire is believed to have started from the pipe of the ironing stove, at a point where it passed through the floor into the second story. The property was insured for something over $6,000, which will more than cover the loss, which will not probably reach over $2,500. Work in the carpet cleaning department has been continued, but the work in the laundry department had to be suspended. Mr. Beebe expects to be ready to open the laundry again the fore part of next week.

She Took Laudanum.

   Last Saturday morning a woman who has been living with a man by the name of Milton Pratt, in the Van Bergen block on Main street, went to a drug store and purchased two ounces of laudanum, which she said she wanted for a lady friend who had to take the drug. She was known to the proprietor of the drug store as Frank Pool and she registered her name as such.

   Returning to her rooms she swallowed nearly the two ounces and then went to the rooms of Mrs. Julia Ballard in the Squires block and told her what she had done and asked her to send for Sheriff Borthwick. The latter called Dr. Reese who administered the proper antidotes which had the desired effect, although friends were compelled to work over her for some time before she fully recovered.

   It seems that Miss Pool married a man by the name of Griffin, some years ago, but after living together for some time they separated. Last Friday night while Miss Pool or Mrs. Griffin was absent from the rooms, Pratt packed up his goods and took the 10 P. M. train south on the D. L. & W. road and has not been seen since. The woman claims that her abandonment by Pratt was what caused her to attempt to take her life.

Decoration Day Parade, Malone, N.Y. 1896

Decoration Day.

   The following is the programme in full to be observed on Decoration Day in this village:

   Formation 8:45 A. M.

   Band at the foot of Clayton Ave. on Main St.

   45th Separate Company, Capt. B. K. Miller commanding, on Main St., right resting on Clayton Ave.

   Carriages containing clergy, Common Council, speakers, and decorated wagon drawn by four horses, on West Court St.

   Post Grover, S. L. Palmer commanding, Main St., right on Court St.

   Veterans on their left.

   Sons of Veterans on their left.

   Woman's Relief Corps will assemble at monument.

LINE OF MARCH.

   Column will move at 9 A. M. sharp, from right to left through Main to North Main, to Grant, to North Church, to Church. Arriving at soldiers' monument, 45th Separate Company will form on Church St. facing monument. Carriages in rear of 45th. Post Grover, veterans, and sons of veterans, will form on the southeast and north of and facing monument. Women's Relief Corps on plot around monument.

   At conclusion of exercises column will reform, move south to Port Watson St., to Tompkins, to cemetery, Women's Relief Corps using sidewalk with escort from Post Grover.

   On arrival at the gates of cemetery, the 45th Separate Company will halt, open ranks, and the column pass through and proceed to decoration of graves. Flowers to be placed on graves by detail from Post Grover.

   After column has passed, the 45th Separate Company will march to speaker's stand and form around the same and space reserved.

   At the conclusion of the decoration of graves the column will return to speaker's stand.

   At the close of exercises at the speaker's stand, the column will reform, with 45th Separate Company in rear of Sons of Veterans, and return to Main St., when parade will be dismissed.

PROGRAMME OF EXCERCISES AT THE MONUMENT.

   Music—by Band.

   Prayer—Rev. John Arthur.

   Address—C. H. Spaulding.

   Music—Glee Club.

AT CEMETERY.

   Prayer— Rev. J. L. Robertson.

   Music—Glee club.

   Address—H. H. Rockwell, Esq., of Elmira. N. Y.

   Music—Glee Club.

   Benediction—Rev. John J. McLoghlin.

   All citizens are cordially invited to assemble at cemetery at 10 A. M. to assist in the ceremonies of the day. Citizens residing on the line of march are requested to decorate.

   Marshall— C.W. Wiles.

   Assistant Marshalls—Robert Bushby, Dr. A. J. White, E. M. Seacord, S. N. Holden, W. E. Phelps, Mark Brownell, John Miller, Joseph Bushby.

HERE AND THERE.

   The city fathers have purchased the Pennock road machine.

   The governor [Hill] has signed the bill enlarging the corporation of Homer.

   Emerald Hose Company's Fair is in full blast. Don't fail to attend to-night.

   Read what Brown & Maybury say about potato bugs in their new advertisement.

   The Homer Band will give an excursion to Oswego and Sodus Bay, on June 10th.

   Tempest Hose Company No. 3, of Homer, will give a dance and exhibition drill in Keator Opera House, May 28th.

   The subject of Rev. Mr. Mitchell’s discourse in the Universalist church, next Sunday evening, will be "Freethinkers."

   The Cortland Cart and Carriage Company shipped a car load of buggies to parties in Hoboken on Monday. They were dandies.

   Licenses have been granted to John Conway on Railway Ave., and Edward J. Riley, proprietor of the Commercial hotel on Church street.

   C. F. Wickwire will start his trotting mare, "Dot Wick," in the three-minute class at Waterville, next week, and T. H. Wickwire has entered "Greystone" in the 2:29 class. Both of these horses are lively steppers.

   Mrs. Lavinia Slater, who is said to have been living with one Geo. Roe, in Masonic Hall block, for some time past, was taken to the County Alms house, last Friday. Roe, who left town some days since, has not yet returned.

   A stock company is being formed in this place for the purpose of boring for oil, gas, salt or coal. We understand that nearly the required sum, $3,000, has already been subscribed. The company expect to commence operations between the Corset Company's buildings and the Tioughnioga river. The location may, however, be changed, although this spot is at present favored by a majority of those interested.

   Mr. George F. Randolph, general passenger agent of the E. C. & N. railroad, notifies us of a change in name of one of the stations on the Canastota Northern road. "South Bay" hereafter is the proper name of the station formerly known as Lakeside. The Canastota Northern road runs north from Canastota through Madison and Oneida counties.

   A few days since, Hon. L. J, Fitzgerald, of this village, purchased of Col. Geo. H. Houtz, of Etna, the standard bred fillies, Wilkie Wonder ( aged 5 years), and Daisy Wilkes Wonder (aged 4 years), by Cortland Wilkes, out of Jennie Wonder. We understand that the price paid for the two was $1500. They are said by good judges to be a remarkably fine pair, and can drive together in better than three minutes. It pays to take pains in breeding.

NEIGHBORING COUNTIES.

   CHENANGO—The main department of Chenango's Poor House at present contains 89 inmates and the Insane department 43.

   Eight thousand brook trout from the State hatchery were placed in the river at Cincinnatus, May 10th, and like number were placed in the river at Pitcher and South Otselic. Hascall R. Hakes, Pitcher's popular game constable, deserves credit for the good work of originating the scheme and bringing them from the hat«hery at Caledonia.

   MADISON.—Cazenovia has a fire bug.

   A new lodge of Odd Fellows has just been organized at DeRuyter, with a membership of 25.

   Dr. Bardeen, of Hamilton, has a "toothsome" display in the form of a case containing 3,000 teeth that he has extracted.

   Q. H. Martindale, proprietor of the Peterboro hotel, was brought home from the Utica asylum, Wednesday, incurably insane.

   TOMPKINS.—Paul Layton, the murdered Dryden man, left 80 heirs.

   The Cornell University Experimental Station bill passed both Houses. Governor Hill nominated Simeon Smith, of Ithaca, Commissioner of State weather bureau.

   Mrs. George Small, residing north of McLean, was terribly burned last week Wednesday forenoon, by her clothes catching fire while she was engaged in burning out worms' nests in an apple tree with a torch, and it is thought that she cannot recover. Either a part of the burning nest or oil from the torch dropped upon her and set fire to her clothes. She was alone at the time, but her cries brought to her aid her husband and the hired man, who tore from her person the little clothing remaining. Mrs. Small is a daughter of James Burton, of Dryden village.

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