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a ’ .A'WM-'i'Wisffi'-'as. >iifeK*»aes®tesS£^saiisiss« .. ’ -■ ,' ■ i . ■ . • ' .. • Mvmw* aE YOLUME 1. CHATHAM, COLUMBIA COUNTY, N, Y., FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 12, 1886. NUMBER 5. Business Cards. Clias. E. Barrett, A TTORNEY and Counselor, East Chatham, N.Y. N. S. Post. A TTORNEY at Law and Notary. Public, TWom ntrAAt F. I. Park, /~1ENERAL Insurance Agent, Masonic Build- ing. Park Row. A. S. Ford. /\' < OAL and Wood of the best grades; also ^ Baled Hay and Straw. Mr. and Mrs. A. E. Barrett, E LECTROPATHIC Physicians. No. 13 Park \Row. Consultations tree. G-. K. Daley, A TTORNEY and Counselor at Law, and - t A. civil Justice. Main street. \Win. C. Daley, A TTORNEY and Counselor at Law. Office ■AA jj^Morris block, Main street. C. M. Harmon, Examinations free. Masonic Building, Room No. 1, Park Row. TkENTlST •1 — ' Bnildii Cornelius Shufelt, A TTORNEY and Counselor and Notary Pub- AA He. Office in Cadman Building, Main street. McClellan & Brown, TTORNEYS and Counselors at Lav in Masonic Building, Park Row. Office Has just received th.e Largest and. most Complete Stock: of Carpets and Floor Oil Cloths, Consisting of Joseph. Summer ISSUES tickets to and from Europe for $15. Now is tbe time to send for your friends from all parts of Europe. P. H. Garrity, TAEALER in all kinds of Flour, Peed, Seeds, J-J &rain. Hay, Salt, etc. Masonic Building. Next door to A. J. Fellows 1 drug store. Azro Chace Hanor, TZ5HYSICIAN. Office — Room No. 7, Masonic -*■ Building. Hours, S to 10 A. m ., 3 to 5 p . m . Telephone in Fellows ’ drug store connects with residence on Payn Avenue. F. E. Allen, > XVERMONT Marble Works, opposite Masonic V Building. Chatham. Granite and Marble Monuments, Headstones, Coping and Cemetery wbrk of all kinds. Stanwix Hall, M AIN street, Chatham, M. A. Hsrding, pro prietor. Free ’ Bus to and from all trains. Particular attention paid to commercial men. L ivery connected with house. ___________ , Chas. Smith & Co., CHATHAM Marble Works, manufacturers of ^ . every description of Marble and Granite Cemetery Work. Best of goods guaranteed at reasenable prices. Austerlitz street, near B. & A. R. B- Grossing. Chatham, N. Y. . Dr- A- M- Calkins, OURGEON Dentist. Office next door to » — > Hawley ’ s hardware store, Main street, Chatham. All work guaranteed as reprer sopted. ____ ____________________________ - A. J. Fellows- TARUGS and Medicines. A full line of every- -LJ thing belonging to a first-class drug store at popular prices. A share of the public pat ronage solicited. Prescriptions preparea care fully' at the Chatham Pharmacy, Masonic ' Budding. Parties in want of Par/or, Cook Stove Yards of All-Wool Ingrains At 60, 65 and 70 Cts. per Yard. TAPESTRY BKI SSEI.LS At from SOc. a Yard up. COTTON AND WOOL INGRAINS, 25, 30, 35 and 40 Cents a Yard. . Look before buying elsewhere. ©lit Of every description from 25 cents a yard up. RUGS I RUGS! RUGS! The Best Assortment-for tlie Least Money. OUR FALL STOCK OF OR- 3?*5r G. ES 'Will find it to their interest to postpone buying until they have inspected the PAPER HANGINGS Has just arrived, and we are now [prepared to slxow^ tlie Best and most Complete Stock ever siiown in ColnnYbia Connty. CROCKERYt -AT- POPULAR PRICES NOW BEING EXHIBITED AT HAWLEY ’ S HARDWARE and bTOYE STORE MAIN ST., - - CHATHAM, N. Y. POST-OFFICE PALAYER. BY A VILLAGE POSTMASTER. Parties wishing to purchase anything in this line can save 20 by. buying of us. We will call your at tention to our stock of 6 per cent. Hanging and Siand tamps which we think will please any desiring.to purchase. READ THE DAILY PRESS AND KNICKERBOCKER AND SUNDAY PRESS. THEY ARE PURE, HIGH-TONED AND IN DEPENDENT. THE POPULAR NEWS PAPERS AT THE CAPITAL OF THE EMPIRE STATE. APT, THE NEWS, BOTH ASSOCI ATED PRESS DISPATCHES AND SPECIALS. CO HP LETS MARKET REPORTS. DAILY, by mail, WEEKLY PRESS, SUNDAY PRESS, - §6 per year. - $1 per year. $2 per year. SPECIMEN COPIES SENT FREE. These papers are printed, folded and counted on a Web Perfecting Press, at the rate of 30,000 an hour. The Press buildings are lighted with -the Edison Electric Light. The Daily Press office is one of the most complete Newspaper offices in the world. THE PRESS CO., 18 Beaver St,, Albany, V. IF YOU WANT TOILET PAPERS, Below we give you a few of the many bargains in GROCERIES And our conscience permits us to Undersell All in spite of the signals of distress raised by inferior Canal Grocers, Standard Granulated Sugar, 16 lbs for $1. Standard A Sugar, 16 lbs for $1. Standard C Sugar, 17 lbs for $1, Babbitt ’ s Best Soap, 22 bars, $1, Best Laundry Starch, 20 lbs $1. Best Syrnp, 2 gallons for $1. Bure Maple Syrup, 1 gallon, $1. 12 lbs Best Boneless Pork, $1. Pillsbury ’ s Best .Flour, $5:50 bbl Christian ’ s Superlative, 5.50 Hubbard ’ s Superlative; 5.50 Wonderful Patent, 5.50 Best St. Louis, .5.00 Spengler ’ s B. W, Flour, 65c sack Bolted Corn Meal, 2c lb Oat Meal, 5 cents per pound, CARP BT, -OR — WRAPPING PAPERS OF ANY KIND, BIGS, TWINE, PIPER, &fl. At New York prices, go to GEORGE TOMPKINS ’ MANUFACTURING SUPPLYSTORE, MAIN ST., - - CHATHAM, N. Y. We Sell the Best TEA Ever Offered for 40 Cents, Pure Pepper for only 25 cents per lb; Cinnamon, 25 cts; Cloves, 30 cts; Mustard, 35 cts; Ginger, 20 cts; Dwight ’ s Saler- atus, 6 cts; Corn Starch, 8 cts; Cleveland ’ s Baking Powder,. 40 cts; First Class Honey 12 1-2 cts; Hew. Crop Mixed Nuts, loots, W. V. Reynolds & Vtain St l ohal THA. m :, in . y . Doctor Johnson is credited with the sage remark that ‘ ‘ weather is a subject of con versation for fools. ” Understanding he did not mean that wise men never speak of the weather, the majority of postmasters will agree with me that the doctor was about right. During the spell of cold weather experienced since election, I have been obliged to . agree at least 150 times a day that it was cold; and since then, it has been dinged into my ears as many times that we may, perhaps, have sleighing for “ Thanksgiving day. ” Old ’ Squire Biggs has just finished tell ing me about the cold weather of all the winters in his recollection and the minutest details of all the hot weather for the past fifty years. He has worn himself out, while I am completely prostrated. Now, I have heard the whole grist of yarns at each marked change in the weather for the last ten years and during that time I have been living in continual fear that there would be a sufficient variation to bring the ’ squire down like a wolf on the fold. I never got the best of him but once, and that was by telling him a lot of his own stories in the presence of an admiring crowd. Id came near killing the old man and he has since spent hours in explaining to me how won derfully my recitation coincided with his own experience. It is considered a breach >of etiquette to propound questions to royalty. Queen Victoria is never bothered with conundrums ; the Prince of Wales is not asked to set up the cigars, and no one would think of slapping the Kaiser or Czar on the back as a preliminary to inquiring how the weather suits them. When I think of this, I sometimes feel willing to throw up my commission as postmaster and accept a situation as king. Mentioning it to little Jake Smeaton the other day, I took occasion to remark: ' t “ Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown, ” to which he smirkingly made answer, that \he saw no reason for me to be uneasy on- that account. That made me mad. In addition to the inalienable rights guaran teed by the constitution to each citizen of the United States, I claim the right to be bald-headed. If bears were as plentiful and as attentive to bald-headed persons now as in ancient times, I would cheerfully fur nish them a few small-boy free lunches. But though they patronize their patron saint to the extent of using large quantities of alleged'bear ’ s grease, bald-headed men continue to part their hair in the middle and glisten in the sun like a looking glass globe. However, as “ maids, like moth, are caught by glare, ” the bald-headed man is reasonably sure to catch a young wife when, he wants one, and as that is what too many of them are after, they are as a class, happy and contented. Jack Billings, whose face •wears the ex pression of an inscriptionless grave stone, and who sports a dominique complexion, and a pair of strabismic legs, has tacked up' notice that his dog is lost. This post- office is not running opposition to the vil lage newspapers and no notice has ever sur vived a single night. If the dog had lost Jack, he would not have advertised the fact. The dog does not wear an overcoat with a fur muff on each sleeve. Jack is a killing young man, or thinks he is, which amounts to the same thing, and ho hopes that someone will mistake him for a min strel. He works in the. summer, but always stays home in the winter to take care of the old folks, he says. Jack has his counter part in other neighborhoods ; perhaps the reader may be able to pick him out. There is but one good thing about this one, and that is his appetite; he creates a famine at every donation party for miles around. Colonel Dumby, who is the proprietor of a well upholstered bank account, has come in to talk politics. He always reminds me of a judge delivering a charge and.no one is expected to talk back. He is as uncom promising as an Irishman at a fair, never permitting any one to agree with him and his dictatorial statements are unanswerable, except with a club. Still, notwithstanding his obstinacy, the colonel is useful at times, as he always clears the house ijfithin fifteen minutes after his arrival, which is some times a great relief to me. Even politics is preferable to the jiost mortem games of base ball that are nightly dissected by the village boys, but as long as they don ’ t smoke cigarettes, I won ’ t grum ble at them. I draw the line at cigarettes. If I had a boy Inclined to puff these ele ments of dudeism, I would send him to Mexico, and if that did not effect a cure, I would give him up. What with smoking cigarettes and eating red pepper, the Mexi cans are in a constant state of progression toward cremation. A greaser; will eat a meal of aquafortis soap, pick his teeth with a red hot shingle nail, smoke a dozen corn shuck cigarettes, snuff an ounce of Cay enne pepper, drink a quart of pulque and imagine himself a millionaire. Pulque, dear reader, is the active principle of Jersey lightning, obtained by crude methods from native plants and is as fiery as an untamed steed. We have a poker club in our town. It may not be generally known that the poker club is the most fashionable secret society in existence, that it has many active members in every town and that it is never necessary to impose fines for non-attendance. Poker debts are always first preferences — pew rent, grocery bills, etc., coming in a long way afterward, in fact, honest debts are generally the first ones boycotted. A young man has just been in to borrow five dollars till to-morrow morning. I passed. We had an exciting time here one night last week, caused by the cry of a panther ; at least, several of the boys who told the big gest hunting stories, said it was a panther, and no one dared to risk his reputation by calling it anything else ; but after various fowling pieces and other muzzle-loaders that may have been arquebuses, or match locks or juzails had been fired into a hollow tree, Mrs. Simpkin ’ s yellow cat was drawn forth and the crowd fled in dismay. Since then, I have only to mention that it is about time for Mrs. S. to call for her mail, when several particularly troublesome young men have a pressing engagement elsewhere. While making up the mail to-night, my mar row was nearly frozen by the supercillious smiles of the rival undertakers who chanced to meet at the general delivery. Wiggins, who is a new importation, and a “ funeral director, ” prides himself on his knowledge of embalming and talks m a lofty manner of the wonderful scientific strides recently taken in the interests of people who have ceased to take any interest in themselves; while Jenison, who is merely a plain un dertaker, thinks it is impossibl j for anyone else to duplicate his sepulchral manner of announcing permission to look at the re mains. . He hinted that his competitor ’ s knowlege of embalming was gleaned dur ing an apprenticeship in a herring pickling factory up in Maine, when fearing that the conversation might become personal, I closed the store and let them talk out doors, with the cold wave to keep them compa*y. Rensselaer County. GENERAL - GL EANINGS. • — The hoard of supervisors has adjourned until Nov. 22. — Joseph Anderson, aged 16, of Hoosick Falls, assisted other lads in snapping caps on a gun, Sunday, and his eyes were blown out by a charge of gunpowder. — The November term of the circuit court and court of oyer and terminer was opened on Monday by Judge Parker, E. S. Sliter, of Greenbush, was made foreman of the grand jury. — Joseph Whyland ’ s dwelling, in the town of Poestenkill, • was burned last Fri day together with its contents. The loss is estimated at $2,500. Sparks from a chim ney caused the fire. — A 13-year old lad was arrested in Troy last Friday for stealing a sweet potato. The youthful highwayman was caught red handed and taken to the police station. The captain thought he was altogether toa dangerous to have around the station-house, and so sent him home. — The supervisors met as a hoard of county canvassers on Tuesday. Calvin Yan Salisbury, of Nassau, was chosen chairman and sub-committees were appoint ed, as follows: on state and county votes, Messrs. Herrington, O ’ Neil and Tibbitts; on assembly votes, Messrs. Sweet, Dutcher and Crandell. The canvass was completed on Tuesday afternoon. The vote was the same as published in the C hatham R e publican last week. NASSAU. CURRENT COMMENT. Two stiffs lay out in the autumn air, ’ Neath the morning' light when the count was o ’ er. And Cleveland is weeping and tearing his hair For those who will never come back any more; For men must vote and booms be undone, For there ’ re few to elect and many to run. And good-bye to Free Trade and its moan ing. — Tribune Kiroe,for Kurd and Morrison. — The fifteenth congress, like the forty- ninth, will not contain a member by the name of Smth. — Rochester Post-Express . — Mrs. Langtry is said to he writing a novel by proxy. What a pity it is that she does not apply the same method to her acting. —Many a man who thinks he is going to set the world afire finds to his sorrow that somebodyhas turned tbe hose on him. — New Haven News. Election is over, but congress is coming on,'a war in Europe is not altogether im probable, and the newspapers still continue to hold the field. — N. Y. Tribune. — The English policy of free trade will never become popular in this country while workingmen continue to think for them selves, and to vote according to their con victions. ’ — The brakemen nave been holding a national convention at A ’ tonto, Texas, Delegates were present from N ’ york, Schorgo, ’ Troit, ’ Timore ’ Slewis, Snfrisco and other cities. — Boston Press. — Whoever raises a pound of wool or bushel of barley can do it no longer after the Democratic party concludes a reci procity treaty and votes wool on the free list. — Rochester Democrat and Chronicle. — The democratic members of the next house unknown to fame number nearly one- half the strength of the party, while the re publicans will have less than one-third new members and have parted with but few men of any influence in shaping legislation. — Possibly the next number of Allen Thorndike Rice ’ s Ncn'th Amencan Review will contain an open letter to that prominent public man, Alike Gregan, who used Air. Rice ’ s money to buy votes for Air. Rice ’ s opponent at the late election. — Rochester Herald. — The West is the land of poesy. A Alinneapolis paper says : ‘ ‘ Corn, the friend alike to poet, peasant and speculator, hovered lovingly a moment at 43 cents and then alighted with pink-doved feet at 44. ” The man who wrote this apostrophe must have been corned. — People who come to this city from the West over the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad report that at the station near Romney, W. Va., there is a large sign which reads: . “ This is the place where President Cleve land shot the deer, Oct. 15, 1886.” The sign is painted in large letters and attracts .the attention of everybody in the passing trains and every one wonders why it is there, because the President did not shoot the deer, being a quarter of a mile away when the animal was killed by Air. Bivins. — Baltimore American. — About five inches of snow fell here ou baturday night. — Aliss Gideon will lecture in the Re formed church this evening at 7 o'clock. — The Philomathean society held a Japanese tea party on Friday night, at the academy. — Tbe pulpit of the Reformed church will he occupied next Sunday by Rev. Dr. .Chamberlain. — A meeting of the Sunbeam mission band will be held at the residence of Abel Alerchaot, to-day, at 4 p. m. — William Sagendorph, of West Sand- lake, has purchased the Samuel.Reed prop erty on Mill street and will move here next spring. — John Westfall, died at the home of his son-in-law, Justin Harris, last Friday, aged 86 years. The funeral services were held on Tuesday. — Kiltie Harris, daughter of Sylvester Harris, died on Tuesday morning. She was a bright, intelligent girl, the pride of her family, who have, the sympathy of the community in their bereavement. — Gideon Thompson and John Carr, of this town, were convicted of entertaining erratic notions concerning the proprietor- . ship of certain chickens which ' Asa Eddy supposed belonged to him. The two men were consequently sent to jail for four months each. . CAS TLET ON. — William Johnson, of Schodack, sus tained a bad gash in his head and several bruises by being thrown from his wagon, on Sunday. — The funeral of Louis Hoffman, the un fortunate milk vender who was killed in the runaway accident, vras held in the Luther an church at this place, ou Sunday after noon, a large number of villagers attending' the service. — William H. Shockmockson has given his recently imported and valuable Irish setter to Conductor McAuliffe, of the Hud son river railroad, who has added it to the kennel on his farm at Tivoli. STEP HENT OWN. . — Four inches of snow Sunday morning. — The false work is being put up'at the railroad bridge preparatory to building the new iron bridge. — Jas. E. Osgood has shipped- several cars of potatoes to Fortress Monroe, Va., receiving 59 cents per bushel net . , . — Aliss Mary Jolls, while visiting at William Green ’ s, while attempting to get .into a wagom, fell and broke her wrist. Dr. G N. Reynolds reduced the ft acture. — James Madden, a farmer, while com ing from Pittsfield last Tuesday, was thrown from his wagon near Peck ’ s mill, anilreceived injuries which resulted in his death on Wednesday morning. SOUTH SCHODACK. — E. J. Alesick and wife, spent last Sun day with his mother. — W. H. Budd is suffering from erysipe las in his lace and eyes. — Lester Parson and Smith Mesick have gone to Little Falls for a visit. — Lewis Lansing has bought a car-load of cider of Parson ’ s, of Lebanon Springs. — John J. Yan Hoesen, of Rosewood, 111., started for home last Tuesday evening. — Budd & Holmes have dropped to $10 for straw. They have run the press night and day for the past two weeks. — J. S. Budd ’ s team came near running away on Alonday with a load of hay. What was the matter\. Frank ?->. Did you get asleep and fall off ? — Airs. W. H. Frezon was found dead, in her bed at Schodack depot, Saturday morning. She spoke to her son wfien he started, at midnight, for the paper mill hr' which he was employed. The funeral was f held from her late residence, on Sunday. GA RFIEL D. — The snow, was six inches deep in the woods on Alonday last. The thermometer registered 20° above zero, — Air. Atwater is building an addition to bis harness shop. — Charles Reynolds, a young man from South Stephentown, died on Alonday of typhoid fever. — Charles . Allen , is building a nobby little house on the hill for his own use, and if he don ’ t work lively he will he left out in the cold. — Sunday school concert at the Presby- terian church next Sunday evening. B ERLIN . , — Aliss Louise Shafer, after an absence of 13 years in Canada, has returned to her relatives here. — Edward Wilbrant, of South Berlin, lost a child on Sunday, of diphtheria. Its mother is sick with the same disease. — B. Randolph, who has been in popr health for some time, started for Illinois, Alonday, to make his home there, with-the hope of being benefited thereby, t ; i.: . — J. A. Rasico, who has recently opened the new store,, eyidenfly has goodjcredit, in proof of which, we would say, that in ex-» amining his varied stock he finds $150. worth of goods that he had not ordered. .
