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VOLUME 1. ' CHATHAM, COLUMBIA COUNTY, N. Y., FRIDAY, DECEMBEE 3, 1886. NUMBER 8. Business Cards. Chas- E. Barrett, A TTORNEY and Counselor, East Chatham, -TV N.Y. N- S. Post. ATTORNEY at Law and Notary Public, Mam street. 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, T7LECTR0PATHIC Physicians. No. IS Park 1 Row. Consultations free. G. K. Daley, . A TTORNEY and Counselor at Law, and - tr ^- Civil Justice, Main street. Wm. C. Daley, A TTORNEY and Counselor at Law. Office -tA- in Morris block. Main street. C. M. Harmon, T'iENTI ST. Examinations free. Masonic Building, Room No. 1, Park Row. Cornelius Shufelt, A TTORNEY and Counselor and Notary Pub- lie. Office in Cadman Building, Main street. McClellan & Brown, A TTORNEYS and Counselors at Law. Office in Masonic Building, Park Row. Joseph. Summer TSSUES tickets to and from Europe for $15. L Now is the time to send for your friends from all parts of Europe. P. H. Garrity, T'vEALER in all kinds of Flour, Feed, Seeds, -l — ' Grain, Hay, Sait, etc. Masonic Building. Next door to A. J. Fellows' drug store. Azro Chace Hanor, TDHYSICIAN. Office — Room No. T, Masonic -L Buildinir. Hours, 8 to 10 a . m ., o to 5 p. m . Telephone ih ’ Fellows ’ drug store connects with residence on Payn Avenue. F. E. Allen, 7ERM0NT Marble Works, opposite Masonic V Building. Chatham. Granite and Marble Monuments, Headstones, Coping and Cemetery work of all kinds. Stanwix Hall, T v /TAIN street, Chatham, M. A. Harding, pro- JLVJL pj-ietor. Free ’ Bus to and from all trains. Particular attention oa ’ d to commercial men. Livery connected with house. Chas- Smith & Co., CHATHAM Marble Works, manufacturers of L a every description of Marble and Granite Cemetery Work. Beat of goods guaranteed at reasenable prices. Austeriitz street, near B. & A. R. R- crossing. Chatham, N. Y. Dr- A- M- Calkins. QURGEDN Dentist. Office next door to jjawlev ’ s hardware store, Main street, Chatham. * All work guaranteed as repre sented. ______ - _ ___________________ _ A. J. Fellows. D RUGS and Medicines. A full line of every thing belonging to a first-class drug store at popular prices. , A share of the public pat ronage solicited. Prescriptions prepared care fully at the Chatham Pharmacy, Masonic Building. Parties in want of a Parlor, Cook Stove ----- OR ------ 2=1. -£L IN' C3, El Will find it to their interest to postpone buying until they have inspected the Q I ----- AT ------ POPULAR PRICES NOW BEING EXHIBITED AT HAWLEY ’ S HARDWARE and STOYE STORE MAIN ST., - - CHATHAM, N. Y. READ THE DAILY PRESS MD KNICKERBOCKER AND SUNDAY PRESS. THEY ARE PURE, HIGH-TONED AND IN DEPENDENT. THE POPULAR NEWS PAPERS AT THE CAPITAL OF THE EMPIRE STATE. ALL THE NEWS, BOTH ASSOCI ATED PRESS DISPATCHES AND SPECIALS. COMPLETE MARKET REPORTS. DAILY, by mail, - - - §6 per year. WEEKLY PRESS, - - ' - $1 per year. SUNDAY PRESS, - - - $2 per year. “ SPECIMEN COPIES SENT FREE. These papers are printed, folded and counted on a Web Perfecting Press, at the rate of 30,000 an hour. The Press buildings are lighted with the Edison Electric Light. The Daily Press office is one of the most complete Newspaper offices in the world. THE PRESS CO., 18 Beaver St., AIHany, NT. T. IF YOU WANT TOILET PAPERS, CARPET, — OR — WRAPPING PAPERS OF ANY KIND, BIGS, TWINE, PAPER, &C. At New York prices, go to GEORGE TOMPKINS ’ MANTJEA C TURING SUPPLY STORE, MAIN ST., - - CHATHAM, N.Y. T 3E3E 3S3 Union Cash Store Has just received. th.e Largest and. most Complete Stock: of Carpets and Floor Oil Cloths, Consisting of 8,000 Yards of All-Wool Ingrains, At 60, 65 and 70 Cts. per Yard. TAPESTRY BR11SSELLS At from 5©e. a Yard yp« COTTON AND WOOL INGRAINS. 25, 30, 35 and 40 Gents a Yard. Look before buying elsewhere. 2,700 Yards of Oil Cloths Of every description from 25 cents a yard up. RUGS! RUGS! RUGS! The Best Assortment for the Least Money. OUR FALL. STOCK OF PAPER HANGINGS has just arrived, and we are now prepared to show the Best and most Complete Stock: ever shown in Columbia County. CROCKERY! Parties wishing to purchase anything in this line can save 20 per cent, by buying of us. We will call your at tention to our stock of Hanging and Stand &amj>$ which we think will please any desiring to purchase. 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 Syrup, 2 gallons for $1. Pure Maple Syrup, 1 gallon, $1. 12 lbs Best Boneless Pork, $1. Spongier ’ s Buckwheat Flour 65c. Per Sack. Pillsbnry ’ 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 Bolted Corn Meal, 2c lb Oat Meal, 5 cents per pound. 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; New Crop Mixed Nuts, l5cts. The Best WHIP You JEver Saw For filets. W. V. Reynolds & Co., Main «t l9 OH y VTII a AIVI, IV.. Y. CURB-STONE CRAYONS, THINGS SEEN, HEARD AND EVOLVED BY THE MAN ABOUT TOWN. Girls, is there a nice young man on whom you wish to bestow a Christmas present ? It is a hard question to solve — that of mak ing an appropriate Christmas gift — is it not ? Now, let the Man About Town give you some advice on this matter, and remember, he speaks from experience. One of the nicest presents for a gentleman is a pair of slippers. You make them of leather and velvet and silk floss. On the toes you embroider a white goose. This will not signify anything to the young man for he won ’ t kno w what they'are. Bless his heart, he will be so tickled that he won ’ t even look to see what size they are, but will yank off bis No. 9 ’ s and tbrust his great toe in side as easily as you put on a kid glove. If they don ’ t exactly fit him you may be sure he will not tell you. No young man, with any style about him, wants the curious world to know the size of his feet. There are other equally appropriate and beautiful presents you can make. I have seen some very nice cigar-cases which would make a nice gift. You should first ascertain whether the young man smokes. If he . don ’ t — give him a cigar-case by all means. He will keep it a great deal longer than if he smoked, you know. But there is one present you may make and always feel sure whether you are giving it to the right per son or not, and that is a moustache cup. For fear of an optical delusion, the safest plan is to press your lips beneath the young man ’ s nose. If you experience a tickling, wish-I-could-die-on-the-spot feeling, you can buy a cup. He has a moustache. * * “ Why don ’ t you come out strong against the town gossips ? ” asked a Kinderhook street man who lounged up against the desk in the postoffice while the morning mail was being distributed the other day. “ There are a number of them in town who make it their special business to attend to their neighbors ’ affairs, to exaggerate state ments and stir up trouble. They pounce onto some poor innocent and tear him or her all to pieces and then chuckle and cackle as though they had done something grand. When they can ’ t find anything else to talk : about they make up lies. I tell you the meanest thing that lives is the gossip, and the world would be better if they were all placed in a bunch and a dozen bolts of chained lightning turned loose upon them. ” ■a- * * “ Come, now, my friend, ” replied the Alan About Town. ‘ ‘ you are too hard on them. Talk never hurt anyone, and a lie without foundation will not stand long. If your actions are such as to encourage gossip change them, or boldly say you don ’ t care a continental what people say. One thing you must remember, and that is, that as long as you are on the earth peo ple will think and talk about you. If you pass people on the street, they think about you — your past actions for a second flit through their mind. If your conduct is above reproach, none will think or talk evil about you. But there is where the trouble lies. Have you not done things which at the time you knew would result in gossip? Have you not at the lime weighed the pleasure on one side and the gossip on the other, and decided in favor of the pleasure? Have you not said, T don ’ t care if they do talk? ’ But, alas! now after the pleasure is past, when the talk is beginning to weigh, you begin to plead the baby act and inveigh against the gos sips for doing what you expected them to do. Brace up, my friend, and take your medicine like a man. Tell them now as you told them some time ago, T don ’ t care if they do talk, ’ . Talk-is cheap, anyway — it won ’ t hurt you. If you have done noth ing serious, if your conduct has been all right, all the gossips in creation can ’ t blacken your character. * * * The Columbia County Teachers ’ Associa tion is to hold a session at East Chatham next week. Four or five years ago the Alan About Town attended the sessions of this association, and listened to essays from some of the bright female school teachers, and, brethren, it occurred to him that the papers were about as good as the speeches and addresses made to the more dignified Institute by the big-salaried State instruct ors. No doubt you would have agreed bad you heard them. Now, did it ever occur to you that there is something wrong in adjusting the salaries of school teach ers? You will invariably find that the men are paid more than women for teach ing. Why is this thus? Isn ’ t it' radically wrong that a woman who teaches the same branches in the same grade of school as a man should receive a lower salary? Is not the laboreress worthy of her hire? Doesn ’ t the saleslady (that ’ s a dizzy word) receive the same salary as a salesman (beg pardon, salesgentleman) m a dry goods store? Dozens of instances can be cited where women ’ s work is recognized in every-day business as equal to that of a man, and she. is paid accordingly. Why not, in the case of a female school-teacher? I wonder one of them doesn ’ t make the subject a text for an essay before the Association next week. I throw Ibis out as a hint. I am not a woman ’ s rights advocate, by a large ma jority, but I believe in fair play and fair pay, and nine-tenths of the female school teachers of Columbia county don ’ t get either. * * •Jf I heard a good story the other day con cerning one of my staunch prohibition- party friends that deserves preservation in cold type. He came into this village re cently and visited the store of an equally staunch prohibitionist — in principle — but a Republican in politics yet, and engaged him in debate. “ Why, ” said the prohibi tionist, “ there is no protection from this awful liquor, short of prohibiting its manu facture. Temperance lecturers have talked, argued and entreated people for-the past sixty years, and yet there has been no advance in temperance sentiment. ” “ You are certainly wrong, ” replied the other, and be proceeded to enumerate the occasions when whiskey was no longer considered a fashionable and necessary feature. ‘ ‘ Alaybe you ’ re right, ” suggested the prohibitionist, “ but there is plenty of whiskey in the houses. Everybody keeps it at home. Don ’ t you ? ” “ No, ” said the Republican, “ I never keep a drop of it. Do you keep it in your bouse ? ” “ Y-e-e-s, ” was the re luctant and feeble reply of the man so interested in the advance of temperance sentiment. Now, which of these men is the better prohibitionist ? ONE PLACE FOR THAT SURPLUS. A boy or girl, with an industrial train ing, ought to he worth and would he worth as a worker at least $100 a year more than they are now worth, for three or four years prior to maturity, in which the young folks now have to get the knowledge.of some industry under dif ficulties and by experience. In other words, if a thoroughly good technical school were provided for every boy and girl, at an additional cost of $8 per year for twelve school years, the whole of the cost would be returned in the added value of the worker for only one or three or four years after the school age. This is a good investment, surely. Why should the United States leave it to be made by par-1 eats, many of whom are not able or do not I know its value, when the government has I not to pinch itself, but can meet all the cost with the very surplus about -which so many statesmen are anxious? The surplus revenue is going to be $120,000,000 next year. In 1880 there were 12,8000,000 chil dren of the school age; there are about 15,- 000,000 now, if we have a population of 60, 000-, 000. At $8 for every one of them, and the training in useful trades of a con siderable proportion is already provided for and would not be changed, the present surplus would be invested where it would return with certainty a large profit in the increased usefulness of American boys and girls, their increased efficiency as workers and increased value as citizens. There the surplus is, and a great Demo cratic statesman is so clearly convinced that it cannot be got rid of in any other way that he gravely proposes to lend it out to bondholders. It would be better to lend it out to the boys and girls, giving them a more thorough and -useful education. They cannot help repaying the whole peo ple for the loan, many times over, as they grow up to years of manhood and woman hood. Bondholders do not need more money. American boys and girls do need more and better education, especially in dustrial education. The establishment of industrial schools in ample number, with facilities for giving girls a better knowledge of cooking and sewing and household duties, and boys a better knowledge of handicrafts and pro ductive labor, would repay many fold every dollar invested. A competent statistician has estimated that ignorant cooking and bad management in the providing of food waste $500,000,000 every year for the peo ple of these United States. It would pay to give the girls that are going to do the cooking for the next generation of work ingmen a better start in life. It would pay to give the boys a chance to earn a living early, and especially to know by a little training for what kind of work they have an especial aptitude or taste. Lend out the surplus, Mr. Beck, if you must, but not to the bondholders; lend it to the boys and girls . — New York Tribune. — Alluding to Judge Ingalls ’ decision ordering a new trial of Beckwith, the Aus teriitz murderer, the Kinderhook Rough Notes says: “ Judge Ingalls is known to be opposed to capital punishment, and the law yers have believed, from the time that ‘ cheap John ’ newly-discovered evidence made its appearance, that the judge would do as he has done. There is not much' disappointment over the re sult, but there is a great deal of dis satisfaction because the murderer is not to get his deserts. Of course there will be' another struggle before the appel late courts. It is about time this bumbug- gery over a self-confessed murderer should come to an end. ” — Senator Edmunds denies that he is pre paring a speech attacking the administra tion on its civil service policy. There is no occasion for any such assault, especially from Air. Edmunds. The Democrats seem to be in a mind to do all the criticism of Mr. Cleveland ’ s course that is necessary just novr. — Troy Times. Rensselaer County. RENSSELAER GLEANINGS. — John Conners, a tramp, who said he was 102 years old, applied for shelter at the East Albany station, Sunday night. — An association has been organized to secure the erection of monument to the sol diers and sailors who entered the war from this county. — The 25th annual convention of the Rensselaer county musical society will be held in Troy, commencing Jan. 31, 1887, and continuing-four days. — A 13-year-old son of Rev. Mr. Lewis, of Valley Falls.undertook to clean a loaded gun, Friday afternoon, and was instantly killed by the accidental discharge of the weapon. — A colored woman died inTroy, Sunday, from starvation and exposure, and ugly rumors prevail to the effect that the public officials refused aid when called upon. An investigation is in progress. — Six persons ate a Thanksgiving meal consisting of headcheese and pancakes, last week, at the home of Charles Milling, near Schaghticoke, exhibited symptoms of poisoning. Two of them nearly died. A neighbor is suspected of tampering with the food. — The next court of sessions will con- venee in Troy, Dec. 16. Several important cases will be tried, including the indict ments against ex-Chamberlain Church, of Troy, for grand larceny and misappropria tion of public funds. The panel of trial jurors for the term includes Hiram Bout- well and J. G. Brown, of Nassau; Wm. C. Clark, of Hoag ’ s Corners; John W. Boyce, of East Schodack; W. H. Platt, of Gar field, and John Vosburgh, Gilbert Bedell and Nelson Albertson, of Sandlake. BERLIN. -W. J. Lamphier ’ s 5-year-old son had an arm broken one day last week while coasting. — T. A. Clark, our genial hotel keeper, proposes to run a conveyance to Peters- burgh Junction to connect with the early train on the Troy and Boston railroad. — Dr. T. C. Pratt, assisted by the Rev. Messrs. Eaton and Baker, perfected a tem perance organization, Monday night, at the Baptist church. It is known as the Gospel Temperance Nation, and has the following officers; President, J. A. Rasico; vice- president, W. D. Clark; . treasurer, Joseph Hull; secretary, A. Davis. — The case of Wm. F. Taylor,.respt., vs. Elijah J. Alillard, applt. , was argued in the General Term, at Albany, Wednesday. The appeal was from a judgment in favor of plaintiff in an action for trespass. From 1886 to 1850 John and Elijah Alillard were the tenants in common of 170 acres in Ber lin, Rensselaer county. In 1850 they, parr titioned the farm, John taking 100 acres Elijah retaining 70, with the right to gather one-half of the yield of apples yearly on his 100 acres. When Elijah died in 1854 he bequeathed his estate to his.son,the defend ant, who continued to gather in one-half the apples from John ’ s land up to 1861, when he deeded the property to Alary E. Alillard, but continued to gather the half of John ’ s apple crop. In 1879 John sold his 100 acres to his son, who in turn, in 1880, sold to the plaintiff, who repudiated the apple agreement and brought this suit for trespass arid recovered judgment; hence the appeal. ------- -------- SOUTH SCHODACK. — Airs. L. Parson returned home on Mon day. — Lester Parson will board at J. S. Budd ’ s Ibis winter. — C. Winne has sold bis black mare “ Puff, ” to Wm. Knickerbocker. — Farmers are improving the sleighing by baulieg their winter supply of wood. — Abram Van Buren lost one of bis matched pair of gray mares, last Tuesday, with colic. — Aliss Alary J. York, who has been vis iting her sister at St. John's, Mich., is ex pected home this week. — If the dynamiter who had the large, string of fish last week continues to use it, he will soon clean our streams of the finny tribe. — Rev. Mr. Plauss preached in the brick school-house last Sunday^ Rev. Allen Campbell, of Castlcton, will preach next Sunday at 3 p.m. — Tommy Burns came near being blown up with dynamite while painting sleighs in the blacksmith shop. He claims that some imp placed the cartridge under him. The air was blue and bad a brimstone smell when Tommy finished his blessing. — Walter Carpenter, Jr., met with what might have been a fatal accident last Mon day evening, in crossing the dam at the sawmill. His foot slipped and he fell to the rocks below, a distance of about 15 feet. A cut on his temple and a few bruises were the extent of his injuries. A boy less fleshy would have had some broken bones. ------- + ------- MUITZESKILL. — Airs. J. R. Steele has returned from New York. — Mr. George Cross has been on the sick list, but is now improving. — There was no Thanksgiving service in the Reformed church on that day. — Some of the boys enjoyed a skate on the mill pond on Sunday morning last. — Kittle and Baker have finished their contract for drawing telegraph poles for the Western Union. T — The roads have been in a bad condi tion for the past week, but farmers, still continue drawing off produce. — The snbw which fell Thanksgiving day gave quite a little sleighing, many using sleighs in going to church. — Quite a number of the farmers have butchered their hogs, c laiming that they cannot afford to keep them longer on ac count of the short crop of corn; ' _ LR ensselaer C ounty C oxtestied ox page 5.1
