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3GNI&I! ^Wt^^iPS^^fei^Kiapw THE WATERTOWN HERALD. $1.50 In Advance. WATEKTOWN, JEFFEBSOJT COUNTF, N\. Y., SATURDAY, JTJLT 3, 1886. Vol I. No. 1. (OVGBESSIONAL CAMPAIGN, A* Viewed by Some of the St. Law- rence County People. POTSDAM, July 2.—It is generally be- lieved here that Hon. A. X. Parker would not have been a candidate for re nomination had it not been for General Merritt. It is pretty well understood that the latter would like to go to con- gress himself, and for that purpose in- duced Parker to enter the race, he well knowing that it would create trouble. The disoord likely to follow would be the general's opportunity to secure the coveted nomination. Two years ago Mr. Parker made a solemn promise that if he would be allowed to return a third time he would not ask to be sent back. This kept ex- Senator L} r nde out of the race at a time when his chances of carrying St. Law- rence county were at least even. Gen- eral Merritt was aware of this agreement. But to fa||Vfe it carried out he would have to iiiliigjir in obscurity and allow Mr. Lynde ito go to congress. Merritt has accomplished his purpose in kickinp up a row, but further than that he will not make anything. Even some of Mr. Parker's friends here say that Mf. Lynde's friends would be perfectly justi- fied in joining forces with Jefferson in selecting Mr. Parker's successor. OGDENSBURGll, July 2.—The congres- sional situation in this district is becom- ing more interesting at this time than anyone outside of th?> county would imagine. The politicians here are waking up to the fact that the ante convention light is to be the hottest and bitterest that lias convulsed this republican stronghold for years, It is but a short time ago, that all the leading lepublioans here were in apparent sympathy with D. H. Lynde in his ft^ht for the nomina- tion. Now a bitter fight is being waged against him by many of the leading men in the county. This change of front is something that the rank and file of the party cannot understand. They are won- dering why the men who have hereto- fore been opposed to Mr. Parker should turn around now and become his active supporters. Various theories are ad- vanced for this action. Some believe that the fear of Gen. Curtis as an inde- pendent candidate, in the event of Mr. Lynde's nomination, has driven his sup- porters from hitn. Others declare that it is only to advance their own interest that the politiciHim have _gune oyer to Mr. Parker. There are-those who believe that it is a part of the program to stir up a big row iu order tlmt a compromise candidate will get the vote of Ine '\\St.' Lawrence county delegate. The com- promise of course would make one of him a candidate. When he announced at the close of the session that he would not be a candidate for reelection it was thought that he meant lo succeed Sena- tor Kuapp. The aspect of the ease has led some to believe that some other of the ring is to go to the senate or that Mr. Knapp will be returned for a second term. OTIST FIGHT MONOPOLY. To the Editor of the HERALU : The blighting effect of the consolida tion of all the railroads entering Water- tertown is being felt and observed on all sides. The rates on freight to and from Watertown have been raised in such pro- portions that every merchant in this city will be obliged to pay in excess of what her formerly paid although former rates were high enough. The manufacturers will be hit next and it is said that the R. W. & O. company isdetenxtfned to grasp, before another six months, from $5,000 $10,000 from the leading manufacturers of Watertown. The merchants and manufacturers of this city can ill afford to pay such unjust rates in the present depressed condition of business, but they can with less hard- ship stand the injustice than can the farmers and working men. Watertown was on the high road to prosperity till the day on which it was announced that the Utice & Black River railroad was leased to the R. W. & Q. ompany. If it was not for that lease, buildings costing over two hundred thousand dol- lars would ere now be in process of erec- tion. The virtual consolidation of the above railways has deprived Watertow n of this increased activity and has depriv- ed many a good mechanic of a good job. Previous to the consolidation there were prospects that several enterprising persons would induce large capitalists to invest in manufacturing enterprise in this city. But the merchants aud manufacturers ale not the principal sufferers. The farm- ers are now less able to bear the tax put upon their produce than any other class in the community. The butter, cheese and hay buyers are fairly paralyzed in the grasp of this corporation. They feel* 1 themselves at the mercy of «Mr. Parsons and know not upon what to depend. Taken as a disorganized body the people are as helpless as infants. The corporations take advantage of this help- lessness, and by skillful management succeed in the worst forms of persecution. The people of Watertown and vicinity should unite in a general complaint to the board of railroad commissioners for excessive charges on freight. The board of supervisors should be called together and take action in reference to the stock the conspirators the nominee and-ifc ^irera-bj--Wwr-trm-»e bonded to aid the understood that Gen. Merritt aspires to the place. The \deal\ would of course include the return to the legislature of some other politicians in the county during the next two or three years. Hon. Daniel Magone ol this city, though a democrat, is a very conserva- tive man and well versed in the political affairs of both parties. In conversation with your correspondent he admits the possibility of Gen. Curtis'running as an independent caudidateshould Mr. Lynde or Col. Shaw get the regular republican nomination. The last named gentleman will not have any delegates from this county and there is no chance for his getting the support of any one in the county if the combination makes its plans work. Senator Lansing would have the votes of this county it any were to go to a Jefferson county man. Gen. Curtis will quickly gti to work and get the delegates from this district to the assembly convention and await results. It is believed that Mr. Lynde will get the delegates from his district without any trouble. The tide is now turning in his favor and some of his friendB confidently assert that he will have the first district also. GOUVERNEUR, July 2.—The people h«re have been alive to. the interests and possi- bilities involved in the con%ressional can vas for some time pftBt. In this place where the methods o£ the ring politi- cian are lftiovvn and understood there \\could be Nothing but opposition to the proposed scheme to put Mr. Parker to the front again as a nominee for con- gress. Four terms in this position are considered too much for a man who has made no more of a record for himself thau Mr. Parker has during the past six years. The newspapers have been from start opposed to Mr. Parker principally on account of his-being the nominee Carthage, Watertown and Sackets Har- bor railroad. The merchants and hay dealers should insist that their goods be shipped over the Utica & Black River railroad at the same rates as previous to the consolidation. A thorough investigation should be had by the board of railroad commis- sioners into the management of the Carthage, 'Watertown & Sackets Harbor railroad. An effort should be made at once to obtain aid from the state and national governments to improve the harbor at Dexter and dredge Black River to Brownville. If a lock was built at Dexter boats could be run into Brownville and coal and lumber could be brought to Water- town very cheaply. . If Waterto^'u goes backward within the next few years she will have to thank the present citizens for their faint heartedness. We hope in the near future to see the people relieved from the present de- pression. ANTI-MONOPOLIST. Tom Deasley will catch for Devlin, New York's left hand twirler. Another Jettse James. One C. C. Johnson, who was long known as a desperado, but who was not suspected of his true character of horse thief, has made his last raid. He has just been killed in Southern Missouri. Johnson was a peculiar character. He was of mixed white and Indian blood, and had a fair education. He was known in various places in the south and west as a man of polished and polite behavior, excepting at long intervals, when excited, and then he became a most desperate man. For the exhibition of this characteristic he served one term of the politicians and not of the people, j in the Arkansas penitentiary and has who are beginning to believe' that the j been in jail a number of times. He was farming interests should be represented | believed to be a gambler and a specula- to a greater-extent in the national legis- i tor, but^when he was killed it was dis- lature. Mr. Lynde will carry this town i cove =d that he was one of the slickest by a large majority in the primaries 'iorse-thieves the country ever produced, and in the opinion of your correspon- I Some time ago he came into Memphis dent will quite as easily carry his district. ] very frequently, claiming to be a farmer The possibility of Gen. Curtis being an i in that section. He went to New Or- independent candidate has been dis-; leans and married a handsome cre#le and Johnson fought like a tiger and was killed. Rell escaped, but was j a i 1 e d some,distance from the scene of the fight and tells the public about Johnson. He savs that Johnson has stolen more horses than any man in the country, and that is the way he made the immense sums of money he squandered in high living. Johnson's pretty wife is at Memphis, heartbro- ken over the discov- ery of the character of her husband, while the southern country is rejoiced that Johnson will ride on hiB raids through their terri- tory* no more in the flesh. cussed to some extent here. The general opinion is that he will not be in the field but that he will endeavor to make his wife. He said he had quit farming and they lived in excellent stjde in Memphis. Then he disappeared, leaving his wife at return to the assembly secure under the j her home. He went to southern Missouri belief that he wil be a strong candidate for the speakership should the legisla- ture remain republican in polics. Mr, Erwin's chances have been talked of for the 'same position by these people, and it is thought by tome that he aspires where he stole a span of fine horses from a man named Stovall, and started for Kansas with them. For thirty days Stovall and his friends followed the horses and thieves, | finally coming up :h the former anil capturing them. to be and will be a candidate for the [ On die return of /h e party they came same position. It is supposed to be a j-acrosi Johnson and a man named Bell, part of the program to .get him back in returning with another drove of horses, the assembly for the purpose of making I They attempted to capture the thieves, SI KO FOR Dl\OH(E. The Dashing Diamond Decked Couple Who Were »o Loving on the St. Lawrence Have Gone to a Different Court. THOUSAND ISLAND PARK, July 2.— People who frequented the river last summer will remember \Alvin Joslin,\ who, with his wife, attracted much more attention than any other couple during their stay at the hotel here, which was the greater part of the season. Charles L. Davis—the gentleman's name off the stage—was a handsome, dashing fellow of about fiftv and sported lots of diamonds. His wife was equally as gay. They were apparently a very loving couple, although the husband was some thirty odd years his wife's senior. Ihey were to return here this season, and Davis counted lmich on the sport he was going to have, even writing letters to friends telling them that he would soon be with them. But a cloud has been cast over his joyous countenance. He was arrested at\the Morton House in New York a few Hays ago. Mrs. Jennie Davis has sued mm for a divorce, and. he is under $5,00^J»«ii: The gay and happy couple are no longer so. In her complaint Mrs. Jennie Davis tells the story of her marriage and life with her husband. Mrs, Davis is only twenty-one years old, and is a brown- haired, blue-eyed little woman with regular features and a fair share of good looks and vivacity. In August, 1882, she says, she went to the Alcazar Theatre, in NewYork.with a Mr. Gates, who intro- duced her to Actor Charles L. Davis. He told her that he was proprietor of the Alvin Joslin Company, and she told him she had sung a minor part in \The Merry War.'\ Before they separated he asked ^her to join his company, and in the following two weeks she called at his office and had many interviews with him about it. Then he began to call on her her mother's home in East Eighty,third street, proposed marriage to her and was accepted and treated her to any number of theatre tickets and carriage drives, u n Aug. 21 he took his company on the road, leaving his' sister Clara Louise Davis, eleven years old, at his fiancee's house. She did not hear from him for a long time and then came a letter which told her that he had lost his hat in which he- had pasted her ad- \I am sorry to have waited so long,\ he wrote, \to let my little girl wonder if Charles L. is still alive.'\ In October of that year Miss Jennie joined the ' 'Alvin Joslvn\ Company in Scranton, Pa. On Nov. 17, while the company was playing in Albany, Davis visited Miss Jennie in her room and told her he would marry her, she says, as soon as he had settled some trouble he had with a woman named Emma Verne. Th.-y then married*, each other on the spot, and Mrs. Davis describes the cer- emony as follows: \He then said to me: 'Jennie, you know- that the courts have decided that a ceremony is unnecessary-. If we agree to be married and I represent you as my wife, we are as legally married as any minister can 'marry us.' At first I did not approve of such a marriage, telling him I would \prefer a ceremony. He said he did not believe in ministers and never attended church or paid any at- \ tention to religion, and we might as^vell ; marry then as at any time. I replied • that if it was his wish to be married in ' this form well and good. He then said: ! 'Well, we can marry now. From this [ time you are my wife,' to which I said: 'Very well. I agree.' He then kissed me and caressed me and we remained together some time. On this occasion the defendant told me not to make the marriage public for some time, because his lawsuit with Emma Verne might be prejudiced by it. With this request I complied.\ It was not until April, 1883, that Davis allowed his wife to make her marriage public. He then gave her a wedding ring, on which he had had engraved, \C. L. D. to J. N., Nov. 24, 1882.\ He said the suit with Emma Verne had been settled. A boy was born to them on Aug. 22, 1883, at the Morton House in this city. He was named Charles Lind- y Davis, after his father. On Sept. 4 Mr. Davis wrote his wife, this letter which is offered in evidence: MY DABLINOI LITTLE Wi^s: The show is over and everything went off well for the first night. The bandlsknocked out the guys and the orchestra 4vas a big hit. Every solo received a fine encore. It is now 7.50 and I taking advantage of the train being late to write to the mother of my offspring. I\ sent you word by the driver who took us to train telling you I left the little bundle*df pawn tick- ets in envelope, or rather I think en- velope is still on them may have worn off. Must close now, little woman, let me know if you get what you want. Accept a nice kiss from HUBBY. In a later letter he writes her: \Last night the big theatre was jammed and the manager said in the morning that Saturday was no good but we packed them $654 another new dress for you the largest house ever seen there.'* Mrs. Davie names a number of the members of the Alvin Joslin Company as co-respondents, and says Davis has declared that he would not live with her any longer. She claims that Davis owns $100,000 worth of diamonds and $100,000 worth of other property and enjoys an income of $25,000 a year. BAHNES CORNERS. BARNES CORNERS, JULY 2, 1886.—Mr. Stephen Giimahaw and daughter of Lorraine, called upon some friends here last week. C. W. Acker of Watertown spent sev- eral day8 with friends here lately. Miss Gardener of Adams, was the guest of Mr. and Mrs. George Smith. Mrs. Mary Jones of Copenhagen, is visiting her sister, Mrs. Lewis Jones. Miss Lena Woolworth of Pinkney Corners, is staying with her sister, Mrs. R. E. Gregg. Mr. aud Mrs. Oscar Goodenough have a very sick child which is not expected to live. Mrs. C. Cipher met with quite a seri- ous accident last week. She fell from a step ladder while engaged in house cleaning and fractured a bone in her ankle, but is getting along finely under the caie of Dr. Fawdry. George Newton, J. Bassett and W. S. Hall were in Lowville last Wednesday to meet the state assessors. Mrs. Mary. D. Hall j is having a new barn built, an old one moved and other improvements made upon her place. Patrick Ryan has improved the ap- pearances of his buildings very much by the new coats of paint which he has put upon them. The sti aw berry and ice cream festival last Friday eve for the benefit of the Rechabite society, was quite largely at- tended and all seemed to enjoy them- selves and appreciate the very nice-re- freshments plated before them. Mr. and Mrs, D. 8. Hall aud daughter were present at the wedding of Mrs. Hall's sister, Miss Ella Brown to Mr. Richard Jennings, which occurred June 20th, at the residence of the bride, in Amboy, Oswego county^ The ceremony was performed by the Kev. 0. Brown, father of the bride. Mrs.Vennings was formerly a resident of this place and her many friends here wish for her a long life of happiness. VIDI. No Man's Land. There is a strip of laud north of the northern arm of the awkwardly shaped state of Texas known as \No Man's Land.\ It is about 140 miles in length and 30 wide, and lies between Texas ar:d Kansas and touches Colorado, New Mex ico and the Indian Territory, but it be- longs to neither. It generally appears marked on the map as a part of Indian Territory, but it does not belong to it. It belongs to nothing and nobody. It is supposed that the surveyors who ran the lines of Texas and Kansas got drunk and skipped this little garden plat of more than 4.000 square miles. It is larger than the states of Rhode Island and Deleware and nearly as large as Connecticut. Settlers are now pouring into this country and there is likely to be a delightful time there in the the near future. As it has no state or territorial laws, the Winchester rifle law governs the colonists, asiisted by that of the Colt revolver. Fully twenty towns have been laid out, two of them having sev- eral houses already elected. A company from Dodge City* Kansas, has just laid out a new town, in the western part of the strip, and* over fifty wagon loads of lumber had arrived there at last ac- counts, and moreen route. Dodge City can turn out more hard capes, desper- adoes and men who are prepared to die with their hoots on, than even any of. the mining towns can, and if it is' this class of Dodge City people who have gone there the new town will be heard from be- fore long, and will cheer the hearts of those who rejoice in a plentitude of kill- ings by day and by night, and to whom the crack of revolvers are sweet sounds upon the ear, An hotel has already been established at this new town. There are over 1,000 settlers on the lands. They, have all taken claims, but as there are no sur- veys, no records, no land offices, no stakes, there will be lots of claim-jump- iags, oceans of misunderstandings, and undoubtedly a good deal-of bloodshed. It is estimated that there will be 5,000 men in the territory by the first of July. All the roads leading to it are liDed with emigrant wagons, containing families who go there for actual settlement. A good deal of land is also being taken up by the employes of the companies hold- ing cattle on these lands, and this will be another source of evil, if some sort of law is not Boon provided for the gov- ernment of this new community. Con- gress should speedily enact a law to govern this country, but congress was never known to do anything speedily. By extending the northern arm of Texas half a degree north, the strip could be added to that state, but the better way would be to make the headwaters of the Red river the boundary line and cut off this Texas arm and unite it and the \no man's\ strip to the Indian Territory. We may expect interesting reports from this hitherto disregarded country soon. DENMARK. Com tassilling out. Mrs. C. H. Townsend is very low. William Clark is building a new barn. J. C. Otis is having a well drilled in his pasture for his stock. There was about 350 couple present at the party at Pleasant Lake last Friday evening. Only 75 at the prohibition party at Pleasant Lake last Saturday. A large company was expected. The Denmark nine and Oastorland nine played a game of base ball last Sat- urday. The score was 6 to 4. They will play another game this week Thursday for ball, bats .and supper. Mrs. I. Rogers has returned from the county house where she has been for several weeks doctoring with the county M. D. We are informed that Madison Austin continues to grow insane. He is at the Willard asylum in Utica. • Many of the farmers will have new potatoes, on the 4th. Orville Kidney says he will have green peas on the 4th. The Copenhagen news #nd Carthage Leader believes in moving down stream. There was 35 guests present at the fifth wedding anniversary of Mr. and Mrs. Ajjstin Wells on the evening of the 22d. The company presented them with a hanging lamp and an extension table. EVANS MILLS. EVANS MILLS, July 2.—Farmers be- gan haying this week. We join our readers in wishing you abiindant success in your journalistic enterprise. Evans Mills will not celebrate the glo- rious Fourth very extensively. A temperance concert will be given by the M. E. Sunday school on Sunday evening July 11th. An interesting pro- gram is being prepared. We are of the opinion that an enter- prising Chinese laundryrnan could carry on a lucrative business at this place. Mrs. Mary Burt, of Brooklyn, deliver- ed a temperance lecture at the Presby- terian church on Tuesday evening. A goodly number was present and the dis- course was attentively listened to. Our Methodist friends are making ex- tensive preparations for their Indepen- dence festival to be given Saturday night July 3d. Strawberries, pine ap- ples, ice cream and other delicacies will be served by the lodies. The Orleans cornet band will be present to enliven the occasion and assist in the digestion of the refreshments. Mr. Isaac A. Wood of this place deliv- ered a temperance lecture at Champion last Saturday, A correspondent com- pliments the effort as follows: \Mr . Wood presented a well selected and elo- quent array of statistics, facts and utter- ances of prominent men in this and oth- er countries, showing the dreadful mor- al, physical and financial ruin flowing from the liquor traffic.\ CARTHAGE!. O. Holcomb returned from Lis five weeks western trip. Wednesday Seckner, the popular barber, has his shop well located in his new quarters. Quite a good legation from here were in Watertowft this week attending the races. Hon. A. E. Kilby returned, this week from his western trip after an absence of three weeks. Capt. H. J. Welch has been invited to deliver the Fourth of July oration at Felts Mills, to-day. Fireman's parade will be postponed one week on account of some desiring to celebrate on Monday next. Everyone is anxiously looking for the first issue of the new Saturday morning paper. We hope it will meet with gen- eral satisfaction. \Dad's Girl\ was played in Mechanics Opera Hall, Monday and Tuesday even- ings, and listened to by good houses both evenings. There will be no celebration in Car- thage to commemorate the anniversary of American Independence; there will be no let-up in business except when the boys insist on having a \day off.\ Mrs. F. A. South wick, Mrs. H. H. Mills and Miss Minnie Norraander left yesterday, for the Thousand Islands to be gone several weeks. They will oc- cupy a private tent on R. I. park. The race on skates, between James Williams, of Canada and John Lavine of this place, Wednesday evening, was wit- nessed by a large crowd of Carthaginians. The race was concluded at • he end of the third mile and Lavine declared victor. J. W. Clark is much pleased with the record of his pet, \Waxford.\ This speedy little piece of horseflesh passed through a mile of space at the Syracuse races, Saturday, in jusj?2:80±, thereby winning the race. Carthage boys might have been much m >re talkative concerning the game of ball between the Carthage nine and the Copenhagen nine on Monday, had the facts been different. As it was, the score stood Copenhagen 59 and Carthage 10. This was why they were quiet. The handsome new hotel to be known as the Dougherty House was opened to the public Monday last, under the pro- prietorship of James A. Walsh, with Frank Deno, formerly of Watertown, as clerk. This. house occupies the lot for- merly occupied by the stone hotel. It is a fine appearing house, and will doubt- less share well in the hotel patronage of the town. A few went from this place to Alex- andria Bay, Sunday, to hear the great Brooklyn preacher. One person, on being asked the text from which the preacher spoke, replied: \The Thousand Islands and the Twelve Gates of Heaven.\ He said it was the most encouraging sermon he ever heard, and felt quite hopeful until he remembered that he came from C arthage. \* The Carthage & Adirondack road is progressing rapidly. The progress of work on the trestles was somewhat im- peded this week on account of delays in getting the necessary quantity of timber to build with. Engines continue to come for use at the Jayville ore mines. The last one was shipped there last week. At present the company is work- ing about 700 men on all parts of the road. About 100 of these are engaged in laying ties and rails. Two locomo- tives are now in use on the road, one for the construction train and one for the gravel train. Grading beyond Har- risville is being rushed with noticeable results. \Italian street,\ is the name applied to a portion of the street passing from Water street, or it is a portion of Water street. This is a very well populated street, nights and Sundays. The princi- pal hotel on this street is the building formerly known as the ' coupling fac- tory.\ This has been filled with sleep- ing apartment*, and'is'the-place that 200 or more thoroughbred Italians call home. A little way from this commo- dious retreat is a small building con- structed of rough hemlock boards which j is used as a bakery, and in this rustic i structure hundreds of loaves of bread j are turned out every week. A little one side of this is a three sided building with no roof, resembling in many respects a park for infant geese, but it is not^it is the Italian \bath room.\ Sunday is ; wash day, and each Italian is proprietor | of an individual laundry, and as their ! cleanliness and Godliness must be looked I after the same day, they are brought ; into the closest proximity on Sunday. O, \Itala man,\ we'll miss you when , the road is done. 1 The question of cuanging the principal- ship of Carthage Union Free School has been a subject of much talk, and has ; drawn out some very decided opinions. | The dismissal of Prof. Sawyer was never | once thought of by the majority of pat- J rons to the school until it was announc. ! ed that the board had decided to secure j the services of a new man. Parties most • strongly opposed to the action of the board have been in the field with a peti- tion to give an expression of the people by obtaining their signatures, to a peti- tion to the board for them to reconsider their action and if possible induce them to withdraw their vote to discharge Prof. Sawyer. Whether this end will be secur-1 ed is yet to be learned. NATURAL BRIDGE. NATURAL BRIDGE, July 2.—There was a large attendance at the Universaliat church Sunday evening to hear Prof. Forbes, of Canton. Wm. Hunt is seen on the streets again. Mrs. Wm. Olney is improving slowly. Goodrich & Co. have opened a shoe shop in the old school-house. A Sunday school has been organized at the Universaliat church, with Mr. Starkey as superintendent. The railroad is progressing rapidly. The trestle over Blanchard creek has been commenced and is 22 feet high. Mrs. Treadway, wife of Edward F . Treadway, died June 23. The funeral was held at the Methodist church, Rev. Mr. Bent officiating. The Grange picnic was a success. The bad weather did not keep Lieut. Gover- nor Jones at home. He held the close attention of his hearero in a twenty min- ute speech. Ex-Senator Lansing was here from Watertown. We were called together very sudden- ly on the 29th of June to pay our last respects to Luther Morse, one of our old neighbors from Gardners Corners, but formerly of this place. Our sympathies go out to the widow and son. CASTOKLAND. L. M. Gates is running his saw mill. James Burton spent Sunday with his parents here. Harry Lockwood spent Sunday with friends in Lowville. Master Fred. Boeder is confined to the house with mumps. Miss Libian Gates has been spending a few days with her parents. Frank Pooler, book-keeper for T. B. Basselin, has had to leave his desk for a few days on account of poor health. Leon. Mellon has nearly recovered from injuries received while at work in Basselin's mill. Elssesor Bros, has taken possession of their grist mill lately bought of A. Us Schantz. L. C. Judd has brooken ground for the foundation to bis new house. George Nortz will build the same. If some party who had a few thousand dollars would look this way they might find a good place to invest it. We need a good store in this place as we have none, and the right kind of a man could do a good business. PHILADPLPHIA. PHILADELPHIA, >'. Y., July 2.—C. Scouton is having his house painted. Mr. Loughtin has his house inclosed. D. H. Scofield's block is growing: brick is laid for one story . C. Hall is building a commodious barn on the old site. As many as eight dwelling houses are under way. Mr. Roberts is building a kiln at the water mill to burn wastes. Quite a number went down the river on the excursion Sunday. George Saulsbery picked from bis vines a strawbeery that measured six to one- quarter inches circumference. Bring on your strawberries for measurement. Elton E. Doney, of Clayton, has enter- ed into the employ of P. G. Cleveland, marble dealer of this place. Two trains, one with six and the other - with ten coaches, bearing the banners \Brooklyn Tabernacle to the Thousand Islands,\ pessed through this plnce Tues- day. School closed Tuesday for a nine week's vacation. School picnic on Moss Island Tuesday afternoon. The gorge below the grist mill dam, where in high water time the seatning, foaming noisy stream pounds itself in fury, is dry, and Sundays one can see lovers of picturesque nature climbing the slipery rocks. ELI . ++ WOODS MILLS, NOttTH WILNA. John and Will Kelley, of Osceola, are enjoying their vacation at home. Adelbert Peck and family, of Phila- delphia, wer6 guests at C. D. Peck's and B. E. Cline's last Saturday and Sunday. Harrison and Wesley Canfield, of Kansas, are in town visiting their aged parents, brothers and acquaintances. B. F. Wood and wife, of Watertown, spent Sunday with their parents, Mr. and Mrs. Frank Wood. Mark A. Randall,' of Jersey City, formerly of this place, is visiting his mother and numerous other relatives. John Trembly, a blacksmith of Car- thoge, has rented' of H. W. Ford the blacksmith shop, and moved with his family to this place, where he will be glad to see all who may favor him with their patronage. Children's day was observed in the M, E. church last Sunday. At the close of the morning service five persons were baptized by immersion. The evening was given to the Sunday school. The exercises consisted of singing, responsive readings, recitations, etc. Fifteen thousand people saw Trouba- dour defeat Miss Woodford for a $8,000 stake at the Sheepshead Bay races,. Tuesday. Mr. Bonner has assured President Edwards of the Cleveland driving park, that when Maud S. is ready to attempt to lower the record, she shall try a t Cleveland.
