HUNGER CONQUERS

The Cortland Democrat, Friday, November 27, 1891.

HUNGER CONQUERS.

He Fasted Too Long for Tired Nature's Needs.

   G. Henry Stratton was until early in the fall a meat cook in the Messenger House in Cortland. Among his other acquirements he had the faculty of abstaining from food for long periods of time. He had a record made in Buffalo of fasting for 30 days.

   About the first of October Stratton, after undergoing a thorough course of training left Cortland, went to New York, entering upon a fasting trial at Huber's Fourteenth Street Museum. From October 5th until Nov. 12th, 411/2 days he went without taking anything into his stomach except water. Last week Thursday morning he died in Bellevue Hospital. Stratton's fast at the museum ended Monday afternoon Nov. 16th. Four days before the close of the fast by the advice of physicians champagne in small quantities was given him.

   The Mail and Express gives this account of the events succeeding the close of the fast: "Monday morning when the fast was ended, he refused absolutely to take any food. When the physicians tried to force him to eat, he stuffed a handkerchief in his mouth. I will not eat until I have fasted fifty days,' said he. He was taken from Huber's residence, 107 East Thirteenth street, to Bellevue Tuesday noon in an exhausted condition. He was placed in one of the medical wards, but from his actions the physicians found that he was also suffering from alcoholism. He was then transferred to the alcoholic ward. Dr. Hollister refused to say whether Stratton's death was due to exhaustion or alcoholism. Dr. Douglas, of the insane pavilion, thinks that death was due to exhaustion, although alcoholism might have hastened his demise.

   The autopsy was made by Deputy Coroner Donlin at the Morgue Friday afternoon, and alcoholism was said to be the immediate cause of death. A brother A. S. Stratton, of No. 70 Pine street, Brooklyn, called at the hospital in the morning and said that he would take charge of the remains.

   The news of the death of Stratton had not reached the District Attorney's office when a Mail and Express man called. Assistant District Attorneys Charles E. Simms, Jr., and John D. Lindsay, looked up the authorities bearing upon the case, but could find nothing which would warrant the prosecution of the dime museum managers. The decision of Chief Justice Folger in the celebrated Cowley case, the eighty-third New York, would cover the death of the faster if he had been a minor. Cowley had the custody of children in what he represented to be a charitable institution. He starved and neglected them and was sent to prison for the crime. He was bound by the law to care for these children. 

   "So far as I can see," said Mr. Simms, the museum people were not legally bound to supply Stratton with food. There was a moral obligation to be sure, but that does not furnish the grounds for a criminal prosecution."

   "Mr. Lindsay said: I might see a burglar at work, but I could not be prosecuted for neglecting to hinder him. I might see a child fall into the water and drown, and make no effort at rescue, yet the law could not hold me responsible. This man Stratton abstained from food voluntarily. It can not be argued that it was a case of suicide, and that the museum managers were accessories to that crime, for the reason that suicide was not intended, and fasting is no more a crime than such tests of endurance as bicycle races and six days go-as-you-please affairs."

The First Assembly District.

(From the Syracuse Evening Herald, Nov.24.)

   The contest over the Member of Assembly in the First Assembly district is making itself felt all over the State. The latest development is perhaps the most noteworthy of the series. It is the presentation of charges to the Governor against County Clerk Cotton by William B. Kirk, member of the Democratic State committee from this district, and the summoning of the Clerk to a hearing before the Governor at Albany to-morrow. These charges are given elsewhere in the Herald to-day.

   It is evident that County Clerk Cotton finds himself so unpleasantly involved in this matter because he followed the advice of George N. Kennedy, a Justice of the Supreme court, whose partisanship has outrun his political acumen. Mr. Cotton as secretary of the Board of County Canvassers is a ministerial officer, but he took counsel with Justice Kennedy as to a plain clerical duty. No one, we are confident, thinks for a moment that he has committed any willful wrong, and he is simply unfortunate in having such an adviser as Mr. Kennedy.

   Mr. Kirk's part in the matter is entirely political. As member of the Democratic State committee for the district, he was naturally chosen to sign the affidavits in this purely political move on the part of the Democrats. They are seeking by resort to technicalities to gain a party advantage. And Mr. Kirk, as the official head of the party in Onondaga Cortland district by virtue of his committee position, takes the formal action. 

    And the Republicans have Justice Kennedy to thank for the present complications. In his partisan readiness to relieve the anxiety of Rufus T. Peck over the Senatorial vote, he ordered that the Canvassers complete at once the count for that office, without waiting for the returns to be sent back for correction. He succeeded in his purpose to have Mr. Peck declared elected. Next, when the Canvassers, obeying his instructions not to have the returns corrected, proceeded to canvass the vote for Member of Assembly, and to declare the result on the face of the returns, he again issued a mandamus, taking exactly the opposite ground, and ordering that the returns be corrected, in order to arrive at a political result that pleased him.

   It is fair to say that Justice Kennedy is endeavoring to make himself the Canvassing Board, its official members simply carrying out his instructions. He has, we understand, advised the County Clerk in private, and he has used expressions in public that already show him to be a partisan ready for any political emergency. His attempt to intimidate the chairman of the Board of Canvassers by threatening him in a matter entirely foreign to the case in hand called for the rebuke promptly administered to him by the chairman's counsel, and the happening was a most extraordinary one. It is lamentable that a Justice of the Supreme Court so soon to retire from his judicial position should leave such a record of partisanship behind him. The Republican managers chose not wisely when they had resort to George N. Kennedy, J. S. C.

   As for the merits of the contest between Mr. Munroe and Mr. Ryan, we are confident that the people of this county, irrespective of party, will admit that a plurality of the votes for Member of Assembly were cast for Mr. Munroe. Whatever may be the outcome of the struggle now going on, that conviction will remain in the minds of Democrats and Republicans alike.

   The new ballot law is a splendid one, but it is not perfect because, in the first place, some voters are not using brains enough in voting under it. The uproar in Sullivan county over Member of Assembly and in Dutchess county over State Senator is directly attributable to careless voting. To a certain extent the trouble in Onondaga county is traceable to the same cause. Voters must wake up and cast correct ballots if they would see less difficulty in canvassing the vote. If the present contests serve such purpose they will not have been in vain. And notably in this First Assembly district fight has it been shown that many inspectors of election are either ignorant, stupid or careless. They should not hold their office if they cannot perform its plain duty correctly. They ought to know enough to write a name correctly when it is in plain print before them. They ought to know enough to fill out blanks plainly directed. A suitable civil service examination would be a good thing for not a few Inspectors of Election in this county.
 

COUNTY CLERK COTTON.

He is Summoned to Appear Before Gov. Hill and Answer Four Serious Charges.

   SYRACUSE, N, Y., Nov. 23.—[Special.]— To-day, County Clerk George G. Cotton was served by a special messenger from Albany with a copy of an order citing him to appear in Albany Wednesday, November 25, at the executive chamber, at two M., to answer to charges of misconduct in office. He is a bitter partisan, and it is charged that he has used his position for partisan purposes. The petitioner is ex-Mayor and Democratic State Committeeman William B. Kirk, a gentleman of high standing and influence.

   There are four specifications. They are distinct and clear. First, that he omitted official endorsements on the ballots. Second. that he assumed illegal and unwarranted authority in issuing illegal and erroneous directions to inspectors and ballot clerks, by which ballots cast might be identified. Third, that he exceeded his authority as secretary of the board of canvassers; and fourth, that "he changed, or caused to be changed, in various important respects the election returns" filed in his office. The latter is a serious charge. It is stated that there is evidence sufficient to convict him on that alone.

[By Associated Press.]

   SYRACUSE, NOV. 23.—The county board of canvassers met at noon, to-day, and then adjourned until 4 o'clock in the afternoon. At 4 o'clock they came together again, but transacted no business. Something came from Gov. Hill later. It was in the form of summons to County Clerk Cotton, informing him that charges had been preferred against him for malfeasance in office, and that he should go before the governor in Albany, on Wednesday afternoon, at two o'clock, to answer to the charges.

   The charges against County Clerk Cotton were made upon the affidavit of ex-Mayor W. B. Kirk, of this city. There are four counts in the charges. The first alleges that County Clerk Cotton purposely mixed the ballots delivered to the town clerks of the towns of Camillus and Tully, thereby marking them and destroying the secrecy of the ballot. The second count charges that County Clerk Cotton refused to deliver a copy of the certificate of election voted by the canvassing board to Patrick J. Ryan, Democratic candidate for member of Assembly in the First district, upon application. The third count charges that County Clerk Cotton wrongfully instructed the inspectors of election in instructing them to affix their signatures to the stubs upon the ballots. The last count charges the county clerk with tampering with the returns, changing their face and with allowing members of the Republican county committee to have free access to the returns during the absence of the members of the board of canvassers.

Kennedy vs. Kennedy.

(From the Brooklyn Eagle.)

   The Democratic Board of Supervisors of Onondaga County on Thursday received a peremptory order from a Republican Judge named Kennedy "not to make any correction on the face of returns, but to declare the result as those returns correct or incorrect, [as] might indicate." The Board of Supervisors literally and instantly obeyed this order, with the result of declaring the election of a Democrat by a plurality when, in point of fact, a Republican appeared entitled to the seat, if ballots intended for him but incidentally misspelt were counted, as they ought to be, in his favor.

   On Friday the same Republican Judge solemnly overruled himself, reversed his order and issued another one to the Supervisors, directing them to do what they were engaged in doing, when he stopped them by his original mandate. They are to reconvene on Monday and are to allow to the Republican candidate the misspelt ballots which were intended for him.

   The only moral to be drawn from the Onondaga incident is that Judge Kennedy was too quick on the trigger in his first order in the presumed interest of his own party, and had solemnly stultified himself in his second order, in the interests of justice and common sense, as well as incidentally in the interests of his own party.

 

AN OLD SOLDIER

The Cortland Democrat, Friday, November 20, 1891.

An Old Soldier.

   Tommy Reagan of Truxton, an old veteran of the N. Y. Vols., aged 90 years, was on the street yesterday as smiling as ever. He is growing feeble, but was glad to meet his old comrades again. He had his shoes blacked and silk hat brushed up as neat as a pin, and with his Grand Army badge looked every inch a soldier.

   The following is a little history of the life of Thomas Reagan. Mr. Reagan was born in Croom, County of Limerick, Ireland, in May, 1801. Came to New York city in 1835, lived in said city at the corner of Thompson and Fourth streets for ten years, and worked in a coal yard for Loder & Sons. Served eight years in militia under Gen. Doughty, who gave him full uniform, served three years in the 157th regiment in the late war and was placed in the commissary department by P. H. McGraw, Quartermaster of said regiment, and was honorably discharged on the 10th day of July, 1865, at Charleston, S. C. by reason of the close of the war. He had charge of the U. S. mail from trains to post office for fifteen years. He is a member of G. A. R. and draws a pension of $12 per month and at this date he is ninety years of age. He was officer of the guard in the G. A. R. at Truxton, N. Y., which place he resigned on account of poor health.

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HERE AND THERE.

   The year 1892 will be leap year.

   The ladies of Grace church are making arrangements for a Kirmess to be held soon after the holidays.

   The [Republican] Silk Stocking club has expelled three members for non-payment of dues. Only the wealthy need apply.

   The C. L. S. C. will meet at the residence of Miss Anna Hawley, 73 Railroad street, Monday evening, Nov. 23d.

   W. H. Hall, proprietor of the Virgil hotel, will give a Thanksgiving party Thursday evening, Nov. 26th. Music by Palmer & Talbot's full orchestra. Full bill, $1.50.

   In the series of Leffingwell prize orations at Amherst College, Herbert P. Gallinger of Cortland was awarded the first place in the division. His subject was "Literature and Science."

   The half and quarter dollar and dime silver coins that have been familiar since 1835, will be retired from circulation after January 1st next, and new designs will be substituted after that date.

   There will be a turkey shoot at Gay's hotel, Little York, N. Y., on Wednesday, Nov. 25th. The ranges will be 100 rods with telescope sight, 60 rods with globe and pin sight, and 40 rods off hand.

   The union Thanksgiving service this year will be held in the Congregational church, and Rev. Edward Taylor, D. D , will preach. Begin at 11 o'clock. Do not forget the offering for the poor.

   Mr. Charles D. Keator, of New York, bought of Mr. G. S. Van Hoesen a lot situated on the east side of the D. L. & W. railroad, for $500, where he will construct a large building to be used as a creamery.

   A meeting of "The Assembly" was held in Orris Hose rooms last Friday evening, and it was unanimously decided to hold a series of five hops this winter. Dickinson & Beman's orchestra of Binghamton is to furnish the music.

   E. H. Damon, an advertiser from Cortland county, was convicted on complaint of Bill-poster George Castner, with distributing dodgers without a license in violation of the city ordinances. He was fined $5.—Syracuse Journal.

   The wood work in the Grand Central Market and Grocery has lately received a fresh coat of paint, and the walls have been handsomely papered. The work was under the supervision of Mr. Fred Coffin, and is a very creditable piece of work.

   The firm of Duell & Cleary, manufacturers of cigars, has been dissolved, Mr. B. C. Duell retiring. The business will be continued by Messrs. T. T. Enwright, C. J. Cleary, P. F. Quinn and J. F. Cummings, under the firm name of Enwright, Cleary, Quinn & Cummings.

   At the annual meeting of the Congregational society held last Monday evening, the following officers were chosen: Trustees, A. H. Winchell, H. W. Bradley, A. W. Gates; Treasurer, F. J. Doubleday; Clerk, W. D. Tuttle; Ushers, B. T. Wright, Wm. McKinney, S. L. Palmer, Geo. T. Latimer. 

   As the Universalist church has not been invited to join with the other churches in their union services, Thanksgiving day, to give thanks to God for His continued blessing, this church will hold services of praise in their own church at 10 o'clock, Thanksgiving day. As usual, this church will be open to all. Seats free and everybody invited.

   The Horse Show at Madison Square Garden will be the subject of three full page illustrations, together with appropriate comment, in the next number of Harper's Weekly, published November 18th. The same number will contain the first accurate portraits of the Yale and Harvard football teams, from photographs taken expressly for the Weekly.

   Harper's Young People makes the very timely offer of portraits of Christopher Columbus and Amerigo Vespucci—the discoverer of America and the man who gave it its name—free to all those who are on January 31st, 1892, subscribers to the Young People by the year or regular purchasers of it by the week. These portraits are on paper suitable for framing and are capital for one's room, for schools, libraries, and reading clubs, and just the thing for the Columbian year.

   Mrs. Felton R. Furber, of this place, received information on Saturday that by the death of a relative she was made an heir of one-eighth of his estate, her mother's share. As the estate is said to amount to over $100,000, Mrs. Furber's share will be nearly $15,000. Mrs. Furber is to be congratulated on her good fortune in being thus remembered.—Marathon Independent.

   George Gage, employed in the Hitchcock shops, became a benedict not long since, but did not live happily with the partner of his choice, who claims that he was too indolent to earn money enough to support her, consequently she left him. Last Monday evening Gage expressed to his fellow workmen a desire to die, and one of them offered to procure a rope to aid him in shuffling off this mortal coil, which offer was accepted. The rope was brought and Gage made a slip noose of one end and slipping it about his neck, threw the other end over a beam and gave orders to haul away, which orders were promptly complied with. Before reaching the beam he caught hold of the other end of the rope and his assistants soon discovered that he was in earnest and attempted to take him down, but he fought them away. When he was taken down he was found to be unconscious. Deputy Duke Bortwick was sent for and he was locked up. He promises to remain on this terrestial globe provided his wife returns to him, but if she refuses, he declares he will at once make tracks for the great beyond.

  

PAGE FOUR/EDITORIALS.

   The Albany Times and the Union of the same city have been consolidated and the first number of the Times-Union appeared on Tuesday. John H. Farrell is editor and proprietor, with Hon. J. C. Callicott formerly editor and proprietor of the Times as editor in chief. The newspaper is a newsy sheet, is very ably edited and is neatly printed. We wish it every success.

   Justice Kennedy of Syracuse has issued a mandamus at the instance of R. T. Peck, requiring the County Canvassers of Onondaga county to show cause why they should not canvass the votes of that county for Senator. A subsequent order has been granted by the same Judge, requiring the Board of Canvassers to issue a certificate of election to Mr. Peck, which has been done. This would seem to decide the question in favor of Mr. Peck. [Not so. The contested election was appealed to the New York Court of Appeals, which threw out more than one thousand Peck ballots. This decision gave the victory to Democrat John Nichols—CC editor.]

   James J. Belden has brought an action against ex-Judge Stevenson Burke and his associate directors of the Columbus, Hocking Valley & Toledo railway, to recover the value of $50,000 worth of bonds of the road purchased by him and alleging fraud in the deal. If any one has succeeded in pulling the wool over the eyes of our innocent James he is certainly entitled to the money made in the operation and should draw a comfortable pension besides. Still it is hardly fair for any one to take advantage of his trustful and confiding nature.

   Is the Republican party of this county preparing for a stampede from the ranks? It certainly looks that way. There are two old and well established Republican newspapers in the county, that are always found supporting the ticket to the best of their ability. They have in the past performed a vast amount of labor for the party, for which they received no pay and few thanks. No one can say that the Cortland Standard and the Homer Republican have not supported the party through thick and thin and many times when it would have been far more creditable to them to have done otherwise. They have even printed some whoppers of and concerning Democratic candidates and the Democratic party, besides insisting that certain Republican candidates were reputable and competent men, when the editors knew the contrary to be the fact.

   But all these questionable services seem to be entirely unappreciated by the party, for last week, five of the seven Republican Supervisors signed a paper designating the Cortland Journal as the paper fairly representing the Republican party in this county and consequently appointing it as the paper to publish the session laws thereby making it the official organ of the party in the county. The Journal edited by Tammany Democrats has pretended to be a Republican paper for nearly three months while the Cortland Standard has been giving the party a vigorous support for nearly thirty years. The Homer Republican has done the same for a longer period and yet the Journal is the one paper selected by five of the seven Republican members of the board as fairly representing the Republican party in the county.

   If this brawling infant is all that is required for the support of the G. O. P. in this county, its needs must be few and its wants are easily supplied. The five members of the board have given due notice that hereafter, faithful party service will not be recognized and that all the nice plums and fat takes may be considered the property of Tammany renegades and infants in small clothes. When five of the seven Republican members of the Board of Supervisors go over to the Tammany Democrats, it is not too much to expect that the rank and file will follow.

Mr. Vedder on "Uncle Rufus."

(Buffalo News.)

   "If Mr. Peck was a copperhead and fled to Canada to escape the drafts," said the defeated Commodore P. Vedder to me last night, "he should not be permitted to even enter the Senate chamber. I have no sympathy for that type of men. I do not know that the charge made by the Democrats is true, but, if it is true, Mr. Peck should never be allowed to take his seat, and this I say as a dyed in the wool Republican. I am in favor of putting the responsibility of the State administration where it belongs. The Democrats have elected their State ticket, the Assembly is theirs, and if they have, as they claim, won the Senate, I do not hesitate to say that they should take it, and our people should cease fighting a phantom."

 

W. C. T. U. ORGANIZED FOR 1892 AND SKUNK IN CORTLAND JAIL

The Cortland Democrat, Friday, November 13, 1891.

W. C. T. U.

   The following is a list of the officers, superintendents of departments, and standing committees, of the W. C. T. U. for the coming year:

   President—Mrs. James S. Squires.

   Vice-President—Mrs. Kate Greenman.

   Rec. Sec.—Mrs. Frank Watson.

   Cor. Sec.—Mrs. Edith Cotton.

   Treas.—Miss Sarah Hare.

   Vice-Presidents from the churches:

   1st M. E. Church—Mrs. D. D. Campbell.

   Homer Ave. M. E. Church—Mrs. Julia A. Bouton.

   Presbyterian Church—Miss Alice Purvis.

   Baptist Church—Mrs. Randolph Beard.

   Universalist—Mrs. Noah Parsons.

   Congregational—Mrs. Levi S. Johnson.

   Episcopal—Mrs. L. K. Shankland.

   Free Methodist—Mrs. Ida Winget.

   Catholic Church—Miss Mary A. Dowd.

   Superintendents of Departments:

   Scientific Instruction—Mrs. Julia Stoppard.

   Mothers' Meetings—Mrs. Daniel Smith, Mrs. Alma Walker, Mrs. M. H. Yale, Mrs. Barnes.

   Social Purity—Mrs. H. V. Welch, Mrs. F. D. Reese, Mrs. M. E. Rice, Mrs. S. H. Place.

   Literature—Mrs. Levi S. Johnson.

   Sabbath School Work — Mrs. S. S. Stearns.

   Heredity—Mrs. Scott Robinson.

   Legislation of Petitions—Miss Mary Dowd.

   Press Department—Miss Alice Purvis.

   Temperance Temple—Mrs. Levi S. Johnson.

   Evangelistic Dept.—Mrs. Kate Greenman, Mrs. Alma Walker, Mrs. P. T. Benjamin, Mrs. Ida Winget, Mrs. Anna Bentley.

   Miners, Lumbermen and Sailors Dept.— Mrs. E. W. Jepson, Mrs. M. H. Yale, Mrs. M. T. Perry.

   Sabbath Observance—Mrs. Anna Bentley.

   Juvenile Department—Mrs. Kate Scott Sanders.

   Prison and Jail Work—Mrs. S. J. Parmiter

STANDING COMMITTEE.

   Sick Com.—Mrs. Randolph Beard, Mrs. L. J. Curtis, Mrs. D. H. Fralick, Mrs. Chas. Gregg, Mrs. Julia Tisdale.

   Relief Com.—Mrs. J. J. Carpenter, Mrs. A. Whiting, Mrs. Newton Cone, Mrs. S. P. Bulkley.

   Finance Com.—Mrs. E. Mudge, Mrs. D . Kratzer, Miss Mary Dowd, Miss Libbie Robertson.

   Music Com.—Mrs. E. B. Nash, Mrs. Julia Twiss, Mrs. Edith Cotton.

   Com. on Renting Rooms—Mrs. Randolph Beard.

   Organist—Mrs. Edith Cotton.

HERE AND THERE.

   The Cortland Harness Company's new building is enclosed.

   The Arkansas Traveler at the Opera House, to-morrow evening.

   The work on the Normal School addition is being pushed as fast as possible.

   The C. L. S. C. will meet at the residence of Mrs. J . O. Reid, 128 South Main street, Monday evening, Nov. 16th.

   The second annual reception of the Cortland Wheel Club will be held in their rooms in the DEMOCRAT building, on Friday evening, Nov. 20th.

   New livery barns are being built in the rear of the Mansion House in Homer. They are to be 140x40 feet. The hotel barn is also to be repaired.

   Burgess & Bingham, the well known clothiers, have a new advertisement on our eighth page that will be interesting to a large number of our readers.

   The Ready Workers Mission Band met in the church parlors, Tuesday, to fill a barrel which they are to send to the Home of the Friendless in New York city.

   The citizens of Homer have been putting several thousand German carp in the river at that place, in the hope of improving the fishing in that stream in the near future.

   Republicans in Cortland who bet on Peck's having a plurality in the district of 1000 and 1500, are cursing everybody and everything but the exercise of their own bad judgment. 

   Every candidate in the late campaign, whether elected or not, must file with the County Clerk, within ten days after election, a verified statement of all his election expenses. To-day, Friday, is the last day.

   We hear that G. I. Crane, George Stratt and A. H. Hoag, of Homer, caught over three hundred pickerel and perch from Little York lake, last week, in three days. The particular sort of bait used is not stated.

   The regular meeting of the W. C. T. U. will be held at the rooms over Collins' store, on Saturday, Nov. 14th, at 2:30 P. M. Consecration service from 2:30 to 3 P. M. A large attendance is desired, as this will be an interesting meeting.

   P. A. Burdick, a distinguished lecturer on the subject of temperance, having been engaged by the pastors and united congregations in Homer, will deliver a series of lectures, commencing at 7:30 P. M., Nov. 18th, in the Congregational church.

   The statement published in the Syracuse Herald last week, that a collision had taken place between Dr. Cheney and the students in the Normal School is denied by the students. Nothing of the kind occurred and the school is running very satisfactorily to all parties.

   A new time table took effect on the E. C. & N. road, last Monday morning. Trains moving east pass this station as follows: 7:20 and 9:46 A. M. and 6:24 P. M.; moving west, 8:52 A. M. and 3:15 P. M., No. 6 arrives from Canastota at 8:00 P. M. Trains 1 and 4 are discontinued north of Canastota. The material change is in the afternoon train going west, which leaves about one half hour earlier. The time table in full will be found on our second page.

   Last Sunday morning Sheriff Borthwick heard an unusual disturbance in the jail, and thinking his boarders might be engaged in a scrap, unlocked the door and went in to quell the disturbance. Instead of a row he discovered a skunk crouching in one corner, where the prisoners had driven it. Deputy Duke and his spaniel dog were called and the prisoners were marched into the Grand Jury room, where the Sheriff stood guard, while Duke and the spaniel undertook the job of getting rid of t he skunk. The dog started for the essence peddler and the latter using his only weapon of defense made tracks for the door, and out through the hall and into Court street they went, where the dog finally killed the skunk. The jail was fumigated and sprinkled with chloride of lime and the prisoners were returned to their quarters.

   Sheriff-elect John Miller and wife gave a dinner party to several of their friends last Tuesday evening.

   A. H. Barber Hose Company, of Marathon, will hold a fair in Hulbert's Opera House, Nov. 25th, 26th and 27th.

   The colored people of Harford Mills will hold a dance at the Owego Valley House on Thanksgiving night, November 26th.

   John O'Connor gives a Thanksgiving party at his hotel in Truxton, Thursday evening, Nov. 26th. Butterfield furnishes the music.

   A very enjoyable evening was spent by about twenty couple who attended the dancing school reception given by Miss Tucker, last Wednesday evening.

   The meeting called by the citizens' committee, to consider the question of the telephone franchise, will be held in Firemen's Hall this evening. It is to be hoped that there will be a full attendance.

   While exercising a colt, the other day, Mr. T. Eugene Dye, the Supervisor of Cincinnatus, was kicked in the groin by the animal and quite seriously injured. He hopes to be sufficiently recovered to be able to attend the sessions of the board next week.

   County Clerk elect S. K. Jones has engaged the present clerk, Mr. H. T. Bushnell, to act as his deputy. This will insure proper management of the routine duties of the office. The present deputy, Mr. Howard J. Harrington, will also remain in the office for a time.

   The Homer Academy football team declined to play the return game with Dryden Academy, last Saturday; and on account of the late hour at which its refusal was received, the local team were unable to arrange any other game for that day. Saturday afternoon of this week, the first of the series of contests of the Dryden, Groton, and Moravia Academy football league will be played upon the fair grounds in this village between the Dryden and Groton teams. Game will be called promptly at 2 o'clock, rain or shine. Admission to the grounds, 15 cents; ladies free. The Rugby game will be something new to most of our people, and next Saturday's match should have a good attendance.—Dryden Herald.

  

Card of Thanks.

   The members of the Emerald Hose Company in general desire to express their sincere thanks to their many friends who so kindly loaned their presence and aid at the recent fair given under the auspices of the company in the Hopkins' Block. To those who so kindly rendered their services in the entertainment and to the many generous donors heartfelt thanks are as well extended. Thanks are particularly extended to Prof. Hardy and Mrs. T. F. Grady for their untiring efforts to make the event a success, and to the young ladies who so ardently worked in the interest of the fair through the many contests.

   EMERALD HOSE COMPANY.