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ADDISON
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1816
Tuesday,
Feb. 20.
PETITIONS REFERRED.
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William Wambaugh, and others, inhabitants of the town of Addison, in the
county of Steuben, praying for the building of a dam across the Cansiteo
river.
Commercial Advertiser (New York, NY) Monday
February 26, 1816; page 2. |
1840
ADDISON REPUBLICAN. -
This is the title of a new paper, started in Steuben County, by Issac D.
Boyd, the first number of which we have just received. It supports
Harrison and Tyler, with much talent and zeal.
Hudson River
Chronicle (Sing-Sing, NY) Tuesday, March 17, 1840; page
3. |
1841
The Whigs of Steuben
County have nominated WASHINGTON BARNES of Addison, WILLIAM H. BULL of
BAth, and CHARLES OLIVER of Dansville for Assembly, with HENRY BROTHER for
Clerk. This is a stong ticket. Mr. Brother is the only Whig elected to an
important office in the County these ten years, having been chosen Sheriff
in 1837. Our friends are the minority there, but fully understand that the
Sixth Senate District is to be lost by their apathy or saved by their
exertion. They will do their whole duty.
Log Cabin (New York, NY)
Saturday, October 30, 1841; page
2. |
1841
NEW YORK AND ERIE RAILROAD CONVENTION.
At a meeting of the Delegates from the several Towns of the County of Steuben, held pursuant to notice, at the house of Wm. B. Jones, in the village of Addison, on the 24th day of December, 1841, on motion of Almen Beeman, JOHN McBURNEY, Esq., of Painted Post, was elected President, Capt. JOHN THOMSON, of Addison, Vice President, and JOEL D. GILLET, Secretary.
On motion of Maj. S. B. Denton, the following gentlemen were appointed by the chair to prepare resolutions for the consideration of the Convetion. - F. R. Wagoner, of Addison, G. T. Spenser, S. B. Denton and H. S. Williams, of Corning, Robert Land, of Painted Post, Jeffrey Smith, of Woodhull, John Thompson, of Addison.
In the absence of the the Committee, on motion, the Report of Major C. B. Stuart, Chief Engineer, Susquehannah division, was read, together with other matters of information, showing the progress of the work, the amount of timber delivered and under contract, the expenditures made, &c &c on the Susquehannah division of said road, after which the commitee on resolutions appeared and reported the following preamble and resolutions, which were unanomously adopted by the Convention.
Whereas, the speedy completion of the New-York and Erie Railroad, is of great importance to the inhabitants of the County of Steuben; by affording them facilities which they cannot otherwise have, for the transportation of their immense quantites of lumber, produce, &c &c to the metropolis of this State.
And, Whereas, the crisis has arrived when the ultimate success of this great enterprise is placed beyond a doubt, and with its speedy completion in no inconsiderable degree depends upon the decisive, and energetic action of the inhabitants of that portion of the State through which it passes.
And, Whereas, by the constrution of the New-York and Erie Railroad, the interests of this State will be preserved and protected from a threatened and unnatural direction of trade towards other eastern markets: - by providing a way, by which passengers, merchandize and produce, may be cheaply, rapidly and regularly transported, at all seasons of the year, in less than forty-eight hours from the City of New-York, to the southern shores of Lake Erie.
And Whereas the Legislature has loaned to the New York and Erie Railroad Company, Three millions of Dollars, which, together with one and a half millions of the Company's funds has already been expended to this great work, in the completion of fifty miles of the Eastern Division, (already yielding a large revenue) and the grading of about two hundred miles additional road bed, and the purchase of the superstructure timber, for over one hundred miles of the distance, of which fifty miles is through the county of Steuben.
And Whereas it is now ascertained, beyond all doubt, that if the State shall assist us in the completion of this enterprise, by such share of the public patronage, as in a past distribution would fall to the southern tier of counties; and which we as citizens, have a right most respectfully to demand: - this work can be [?] from the termination of the Chenango Canal at Binghamton, to Lake Erie, during the year 1812, and from Binghamton to Goshen, within two years from this time - Therefore,
Resolved, That we respectfully and earnestly ask the Legislature of this state at their past session, to cause the speedy completion of the New York and Erie Railroad, by adopting it as a State work, with a sufficient appropriation, or by subscribing to the stock, and amending the charter so as to give the State a diretion in its prosecution, or by such further loans to the Company as will continue the rapid progress of the work to its final completion.
Resolved, That in vew of the work already done under our own observation, and from the reports of the officers who have charge of the work in other counties, we are truly encouraged, and believe that with the necessary and the whole Road can and will be constructed with regard to expedition and economy, unequalled by any other work of Internal Improvement in the State.
Resolved, That this convention pledge its efforts now and henceforth to this great enterprise, to promote the interests of which we have this day assembled, and that come what will, the New York and Erie Railroad must and shall be made.
On motion, Resolved, That the proceedings of this Convention be published in all the papers printed in this County, and the Albany Evening Journal and Albany Argus.
On motion Resolved, That Wm. S. Hubbell, John McBurney, John Thompson, S. B. Denton and Wm. Hawley be appointed a committee to call future meetings.
Resolved, That this Convention do now adjourn.
JOHN McBURNEY, President.
JOHN THOMPSON, Vice President
J. D. GILLET, Secretary.
Albany Evening Journal (Albany, NY)
January 4, 1842. |
1844
IN ASSEMBLY
- April 20.
Reports of Committees
By Mr. COCHRANE, by bill, to annex a part of the town of Woodhull to
Addison, Steuben co.
Albany Evening Journal (Albany, NY) Saturday,
April 20, 1844; page 2. |
1855
Great
Freshet.
Addison, Steuben county, N. Y.}
April 21,
1855.}
Messrs. Editors: - As the Express train
which left New York this morning was approaching this place, and when
opposite the Mountain gorge made by Goodhue Creek, a mass of water, one
fourth of a mile in width, and seven feet high, instantly breaking away,
came down with the velocity of fifty miles per hour, and striking the
front of the train, demolished the engine and baggage car, and nearly
capsized the entire train. The engineer and fireman saved their lives by
jumping, barely escaping being drowned. The passengers received a few
bruises. The fog was so dense as to prevent the engineer from seeing the
coming of this flood of waters, and had the train been its length farther
ahead, it, and its freight of humanity would have been swept away by the
flood.
The volume of water was immense, being
the contents of nine large mill ponds which in bursting their bounds
carried away nine mills and five dwellings houses. Saddest of all, a young
mother and her babe were drowned. The babe was discovered lifeless
floating down in its little cradle, and was taken from the waters by the
passengers. - Many persons barely escaped with their lives. The
impetuosity of the torrent, the rocks torn from their beds trees
up-rooted, thousands of legs set free, mills, houses, and cattle all madly
carrying everything before them in their wild flight, beggars description
and rivaled, in awful grandeur and intensity, an Alpine
avalanche.
The track of the Railroad is
covered for half a mile to the depth of five feet with rocks, logs and
soil, so that trains will not pass before Tuesday next. -
Correspondence of the Cleveland Herald.
Wisconsin Patriot (Madison,
WI) Saturday, May 5, 1855; page 4. |
1856
Correspondence of
the Journal.
ALBANY, Feb. 11th, 1856.
How well prepared out Legislature ofre today to commence their labors, is
quite uncertain; but true it is that the past week has been the busiest of
the session, and if the ideas of some of them are not queerly mixed up and
disarranged, it will not be because there has been insufficient variety in
the subjects that have claimed their attention, or that every side of
every question has not had its advocates, all ready and willing to give
fight gratuitously to the members of those honorable bodies, that
represent the people of this State at the Capitol. It is no easy nor
pleasant task for wholly disinterested committees, desirous as they are to
promote the weal of their fellow-citizens, and anxious, as they must be,
that their every official act shall be such as to commend itself to
watchful constituencies to give an impartial decision on the multitudinous
matters that are pressed upon them; more particularly as the claimants and
their opponents will bring forward arguments, facts and data apparently
equal in fairness and weight, and will present an array of petitions,
memorials, maps and diagrams, that would inevitably appal any but a
veritable politician.
Thus to the Committee on
Bridges have been referred numerous remonstrances against the proposed
bridge across the Hudson at this city, while at the same time, as many or
a greater number of petitions favoring the project have been sent in from
many of the adjoining counties, that think it may be a possibility be a
benefit to them. Thus, likewise, the Committee on Towns and Counties has
been besieged by a noisy host, som clamoring for one thing and some for
another. - As an instance, application is made for the erection of the
county of Erwin from a portion of Steuben with the co. seat at Corning.
The villages of Addison and Bath (the latter the present shire town) are
deadly opposed to it and have their lobbies here to defeat it if possible.
The county of Canisteo, with the county seat at Hornellsville, to be
composed of parts of Steuben and Allegany, is also petitioned for by the
citizens of nearly every town included in the bill (and I may add it is a
meritorious undertaking) and yet not only Addison and Bath are arrayed in
open hostility to it, but also many of the towns in Allegany. And these
latter, while they combat the one scheme, offer still a third, which seeks
to divide Allegany at about its center, on an east and west line, making a
county seat at Scio and one at Oramel. And for all these plans there is no
lack of arguments, or philanthropic worthies to present them. That some of
them are actually demanded by the necessities of the calities, none can
deny, but the query very naturally suggests itself, must it not be a
delcate as well as difficult matter for the Committee to whom the above
applications (and many more that might be might be mentioned) are
referred, to give a satisfactory and yest just opinion?
Jamestown
Journal (Jamestown, NY) Friday, February 15, 1856; page
2. |
1857
Large Fire
at Addison, New York.
ADDISON, Steuben county, May 27,
1857.
An extensive fire occurred in this
village this morning by which a large portion of it, on the south
side of the Canisteo river, was destroyed. The fire commenced in a cabinet
maker's shop, and burned twenty-nine dwelling houses and places of
business. The loss has not been exactly ascertained, but is probably
$30,000. Partly insured.
New York Herald (New York, NY) Thursday,
May 28, 1857; page 4.
New York, May
27
The town of Addison, in Steuben
county, this State, was nearly destroyed by fire this morning. It is on
the New York and Erie Railroad, 300 miles from this city, and
contains 2,000 inhabitants. Thirty stores and dwellings have been burnt.
The loss is estimated at $30,000.
New Albany Daily Ledger (New
Albany, IN) Thursday, May 28, 1857; page
3.
The town of Addison, in Steuben
county, N. Y., was nearly destroyed by fire yesterday morning. Nearly the
whole of that part of the village south of the Carnsted river was
destroyed. The number of buildings burnt is thrity, being the most
business portion of the town. Loss $30,000.
Lowell Daily
Citizen & News (Lowell, MA) Thursday, May 28, 1857; page
2. |
1869
NEWS OF THE
DAY.
A fire at Addison, Steuben
county, New York, yesterday morning, burnt the cigar store of O. ODELL,
the hardware store of A. G. CRANE, and the block occupied by J. N. Brown,
dry goods; J. & P. W. ORE, grocers; GENNESS & JUNE, grocers, and
H. REYNOLDS & SON, flour and feed store. Total loss, $30,000; insured
for $20,000.
The Cincinnati Daily Gazette (Cincinnati, OH)
Wednesday, January 27, 1869; page 2.
Republicanism
Exemplified.
Doubtless many of our
readers remember a rebellion, and that within a few years we have had a
right smart little war in the United States, between the North and the
South. And they will remember that the Republican party in power proposed
to put down the aristocracy existing at the South by the strong arm of
Norther labor, that the aforesaid labor in the North might be protected.
The party in power called upon the poor men to rally to the support of the
flag, that the rebelion might be put down and they made more prosperous.
They said the Democrats were enemies of the soldiers and that they, the
Republicans, were the only real friends the workingmen, the honest men,
the patriotic fighters and sufferers of the country, had. Our readers,
many of them, doubtless, remember what the Republicans said about these
things. We remember very well.
In the county
of Steuben, in the State of New yOrk, is a very snug little village called
Addison. In and about Addison reside as many, if not more, good fellows,
brave men, and lovers of their country, as can be found in any place of
equal size in the United States.
When the
nation sent up its cry for help, Addison responded. A large number of
soldiers went from there, among others GEORGE L. TAGGART. He had been a
Republican since the organization of the party. In 1861 he was very active
in helping to raise the Sixty-fourth Regiment, N. Y. V. When the regiment
was organized he was made Adjutant thereof, and served in that capacity
till death. It was said there was no braver officer in the Army of the
Potomac. He fought, and fought well. As a soldier he was a success. At
Fair Oaks he received two wounds and died, leaving a widow and three
little children to struggle on and live as best they could. By the fate of
war the woman whom GEORGE TAGGART loved, and who was the mother of his
babes, became a widow. She gave her husband to the cause of her country,
and he fell.
The Republicans owed it to her to
at least keep faith, and place no obstacles in her path. For years she has
mourned for the loss of a brave man, who was her chosen one of all the
earth - for years she has toiled early and late to support the little ones
left her. Nobly has she battled. By earnest work long continued being able
to care for her family and keep them from the poor-house, winning the
while the admiration of a large circle of friends, who have learned to
admire her for womanly worth and virtue.
At
last, through the exertions of a few individuals who believe in keeping
faith with the ones who fought, and the wives of those who fell, her case
was laid before President JOHNSON, and she was given the post-office at
Addison. She has managed this port-office well, no one living being able
to find any fault with her administration of the affairs in her keeping.
It was but a pittance she could receive there, but certain candidates for
office looked with eny upon the Addison post-office, and by aid of
official Republicans high in authority succeeded in having this honest,
virtuous, and estimable widow removed, that a political sneak by the name
of SCHOFIELD might have the place. The new appointee, SCHOFIELD, never
went to war. Never shouldered a musket or periled his life for his
country, but remained from the first of the rebellion to the last a
stay-at-home, doing nothing for the relief of his country, or for the
relief of those who were suffering in her defense. He has been in Addison
hardly long enough to gain a residence there, and his only qualification
is that he is a pet of HAMILTON WARD, another Republican sneak, now
representing or misrepresenting that district in
Congress.
Republicans do love the soldiers!
They keep faith with them. They are so kind to the widows of those who
fell, and so careful of the orphans of those who fell in
battle.
Here is a deserving woman turned out
of office to make room for a sneaking, loyal, blatant, carpet-bagger,
without friends reputation or a record which would win by the respect of
any honorable man.
Who says that the poor
people are not benefited by the result of the war? This administration
cares not so much for the widow or the soldier as for a spotted dog, and
regards all promises made to the ones who fought as of no
account.
We are glad to know that the best of
the Republicans of that section have entered a protest against the
appointment of SCHOFIELD, but, alas, the voice of an honest Republican is
not heard in Washington nor Prayers or appeals, however just, do no read
the ears of GRANT. The only way to get him is with a basket on your arm
well-filled with blooded-dogs, whose plaintive whining may reach his
ear.
We merely allude to this, giving names
and locations, that the Republicans who are so anxious to right the wrongs
of others may know that here is a case deserving the sympathy of every
honest man and every patriot in the country.
Pomeroy's Democrat
(New York, NY) July 28, 1869; page
4. |
1870
Division of
Counties.
The people of Steuben
county are just now in a state of turmoil. The county is a large one. It
has two shiretowns - Bath and Corning. It is proposed to divide the
county, making a new one, to be called Canisteo, with the county seat at
Addison, and attaching Corning to the new one. This will leave Bath the
county seat of Steuben - make Addison the county seat of Canisteo, and
leave Corning in the new county, but without shiretown honors. Not wishing
to be left out in the wet, Corning goes in to divide the county, but asks
to make Hornellsville west, and Corning east from Addison, half shire
towns, holding courts alternately in each, leaving Addison, the originator
of the scheme to divide, like a little kernel of wheat between the upper
and nether mill-stones. And so there is a nice little fight going on
there. Everybody is signing petitions or remonstrances, and somebody will
be disappointed. Why not have a cout-house, jail, judge, &c., in every
town? Never mind the taxes!
Pomeroy's Democrat (New York, NY)
Wednesday, March 23, 1870; page
4. |
1871
HAPS AND
MISHAPS.
Three stores known as Jones'
Block, in Addison, Steuben county, N. Y., were burned yesterday. Loss
$20,000.
The Critic (Washington, DC) Saturday, November 18,
1871; page 2. |
1873
Twenty
Years Ago, Tom!
We have examined
POMEROY'S DEMOCRAT carefully and come the conclusion that "Brick" has not
forgotten how to get up a live newspaper, readable and pithy. There is a
large amount of news crammed into its columns in good shape many sharp
pungent items on matters and things in general, and editorials in the
usual red-hot style of that journal. We cannot indorse all it says, of
course, but still we see nothing, the perusal of which would injure any
mind. POMEROY'S DEMOCRAT has been reviled by all the six-penny sheets in
the country much of which was never deserved.
On reading the above kind notice of this paper in the Addison (N. Y.)
Advertiser, our memory runs back to the winter of 1852, and an
experience in Addison, one of the pleasant villages of Steuben county, N.
Y., we shall never forget.
At the time named
Thomas Messenger owned and edited the Corning Journal, where we
were then working in the second year of an eventful and somewhat lively
apprenticeship. Previous to the winternamed, Tom Messenger, as he was
popularly known and called, sent his brother George to Addison with a lot
of old printing office traps, contrivances and calamities to start a sort
of side-show, branch office, weekly newspaper, with the expectation that
George would strike oil and keep it flowing steadily into the Corning
office, twelve miles distant. But somehow the old things didn't work. The
Addison office failed to pay, and one morning the aforementioned George
came as a Messenger to Tom, with a face longer than a mules' tail, and the
astonishing information that the office had been closed by some gentleman
connected, in an indistinct, way with the sheriff's office, and that the
legal vagabond, whoever he was, would conduct the business in a knock-down
way for the small commision allowed in such
cases!
Tom was a member of the Baptist Church,
and when he learned against the imposing stone, looked George in the face
and said it was a "damned shame" - none of us "boys" felt like blabbing of
his profanity, for in those days printing-offices did not lay around
loose, like Credit Mobilier stock in the reach of Congressmen, and a
deputy sheriff loomed up like Goliah of Gath, or some Saul, towering high
above his brethren. Compared to the feelings of all of us, blue ink was
pale green.
However, there was no use of
crying. The old type, worn down to the second nick, was on the road to -
that place where old type goes, and the world moved on as usual. The
Journal announced the suspension of the Addison concern, and
those who owed the office were invited in the sweetest manner to settle
their little bills when they should be presented by our "gentlemanly
collector." In a few days our "g. c." went forth with his bills. But the
excuses made by that crown mentioned somewhere about the middle of the
fourteenth chapter of Luke (if our memory is not at fault), who were
invited to the supper, were not four spot high compared to the excuses
made by those of Addison when called upon to
settle.
The collector returned in disgust and
poverty. Another appeal with a little ore resin in it was made in the
Journal, and another dove was sent forth. In due time he returned
with No-ah money, not enough to feed ary a rat, let alone a good
printer.
One day the writer hereof was called
to the council and sent off with the bundle of bills calling for a total
of seventy-one dollars for subscription and little balances in
advertising. Having the privilege of walking to Addison and thus put the
fare for a car-ride in our pocket, we started away at three o'clock one
winter morning, and tramped through the snow twelve miles to save thirty
cents, for personal use. The first man we called on for his subscription
was a gentleman named Jones. He kept a store.
"Good morning, Mr. Jones."
"Good morning, sir.
What can I do for you?"
"I have a little bill
for Messenger's paper - it amounts to ninety-four cents! Can you pay
it?"
Then we looked at Jones, and felt like
telling him what an all-fired mean merchant he was not to pay ninety-four
cents at once, and thus keep the office from
failing!
"A bill for ninety-four cents! Are
you duly authorized to settle Messenger's old
matters?"
"Yes, sir. Here is the document
which so reads over a bold signature."
"Yes;
that is all right. Be seated by the stove. You look
coldish."
Then Jones walked around behind the
counter, and we fairly felt the coming tingle of the money he was after.
In a moment he returned with a paper in his hand, and
said:
"Ninety-four cents. Ninety-four from
eight dollars and sixty. Four from ten - six! Ten from sixteen - six! One
from eight - seven! Seven dollars and sixty-six cents. I am glad you are
settling up these little matters. I knew Messenger was hard-up, and never
wanted to bother him. He is a good fellow, and I knew would pay, soon as
he had the means."
"But, Mr. Jones! I don't
understand the matter!"
"Easy enough. I owe
Messenger ninety-four cents. He owes me eight dollars and sixty cents. As
you are settling up, of course you will pay me the balance. My bill is for
goods furnished out of the store."
Imagine the
feelings of Jonah, when he found himself set up in the whale oil business;
of Daniel when King Darius added him to his menagerie of living
curiosities; of the barbarians of the island called Melita, when Paul
shook the viper from his hand and was not bitten, but you can have no idea
of our astonishment at this unheard-of specimen of double
entry.
But Jones was indeed a good
fellow. We "jumped accounts" and called it all square, and to this day
have ever held him in first-case remembrance.
Next, we crossed the river and walked about a mile to find Mr. Wambagh,
who planked a dollar and never asked for his six cents change, nor would
he take it. We put him down on the book of memory at once as a man who
should have a marble monument some day, and, what the boys call, a
booster, at that.
Then we walked from shop to
shop about town to find a creditor, but no money. The only cash we took in
that day was the one dollar from farmer Wambagh, and when night came, that
dollar bill seemed large enough for a horse-blanket. But when the landlord
of the tavern, where we stopped took it all for supper, lodging and a
breakfast of sour buckwheat cakes and half-cooked sausage gravy, it went
down like a thing that was, and was not to be any more for
us.
One of the delinquents lived seven miles
away, over the hills. He too, owed ninety-four cents. After breakfast we
started for him on foot. Up hill and down we trudged, meeting sleighs
laden with produce, but none going in the direction we were. After a cold
walk, we reached the house of the man whose ninety-four cents we were
after. He was sitting in a corner of a fire-place, with a piece of window
glass scraping a nearly finished hickory axe-helve. Hanging from a
pot-hook over the fire was an iron pot, in which beef was being boiled. It
smelled delicious. The man invited us to warm our toes, saying in truth
that the weather was most darned cold, so he could not go into the woods
that day. His wife, at least we supposed her to be his wife, bustled about
preparing dinner. We gently announced the errand on which we were there,
when he at once began to find fault with the
paper.
"It never came regular no
how.
"It was filled up with advertisements,
and he supposed it was to be a readin' paper! or he never would have
patronized it!
"It didn't publish all the
deaths nor marriages in the county, for an aunt of his died two months
after he put his name down for the paper, and her death wan't never in
it.
"It didn't have no murder stories in, and
he never did like the paper, any how!"
General
Sigel never backed out of a fight with more skill than did we combat that
man's assumptions as he advanced them. But he scraped and scraped at that
axe helve, and never proposed scraping out the ninety-four cents. We
argued the case at least an hour, till dinner was ready. At home when we
were a boy, when a stranger or neighbor called in about meal time an extra
plate was always put down for him, but no extra plate went down for us
there!
When dinner was ready the man and his
wife sat down and ate it. When through, he resumed his work. At last we
offered him two shillings for a dinner. The offer was accepted, and if
ever a good-sized boy with a voracious appetite destroyed two shillings
worth of food, we were that same. We took the beef down in hunks. Put
great lumps of butter on the bread, and other great lumps on the potatoes.
Emptied the dish of apple sauce and cracked the crisp pickles like a girl
snapping green beans. The good wife looked scared, as teh man in dismay
asked,
"Did you walk up from
Addison?"
At last, when we could eat no more,
we rose from the table and prepared to leave, as he
said-
"You will settle with my wife for your
dinner!"
"No; I'll credit it on the
bill!"
"No you won't - you'll settle with her
- she's boss."
"Not till you settle with
Messenger for this bill; he is my boss. You have had the paper,
and I don't want it back. I've had the dinner, and you don't want that
back."
Then, said the man, as he put down the
piece of glass, and squinted along his
axe-helve-
"You'd better get out of
here!"
We got.
Returning to town we met the teams, which went in as we came out. It was a
long walk, loaded as we were, not with cash but with the largest
twenty-five cent farmer dinner any one collector ever got away with.
Trudging along up the hill and down, meeting teams every half mile or so,
the idea struck us that if we ever went back to collect the balance from
that delinquent, we should ride out in the evening, remain all night, and
return in the morning - but the visit was never
repeated.
In Addison that night we found two
men, against whom we had bills, in a little saloon near the eastern end of
the bridge, playing four-handed euchre for a dollar a corner. Each of them
paid their bills, which were presented after they had made a winning. One
of the men, a tall chap, with black hair and whiskers said if he was
ever so insulted again by us or any other d--d scoundrel of a printer's
collector, he'd mash the fellow in a minute. The bystanders laughed
immoderately, when he got up from the stool on which he was sitting, and
said, in a voice somewhat inspiring, that if we did not get out of there
in ten seconds he'd heave us through the window. Having no heave remedy on
hand, a stranger kindly held the door open and we walked out from the
loving presence of that man, and found a bed, on which to enjoy a leg-ache
of nineteen pounds to the square inch, from too much trudging up and down
hill without being clad in the proper harness, and with a stomach so much
engaged in digesting out dinner that it asked for nothing more till the
following noon.
After a night's rest, and the
payment of twenty-five cents for lodging, we started out to go the rounds
of the village again. We tracked one man into the belfry of a church and
got him to "come down" literally as well as financially. Another victim we
reached just as he was going into a house to fit a coffin to a man who had
died the morning before. Never shall we forget the look of disgust which
piled itself on top of his sad face as he handed out seventy-five cents in
silver from two pockets and suggested something not very ambiguous
concerning our manners. Considering we were in a house of mourning we
pocketed the cash and gave him his receipted bill, thus allowing him
nineteen cents as a salve for his lacerated heart and ruined finances. The
day was a busy one. By two o'clock when men saw us, the streets were
cleared. We followed men up stairs, down cellar and even out back doors.
By nine o'clock at night every debtor had been seen from one to five
times, and we had collected fifty-four dollars and some cents, with which
money, less actual expenses, we walked back to Corning the following
day.
Arrived at the Journal office we
found the Messenger brothers at work. Immediately they wanted to know the
result. Standing by the imposing stone, with all hands gathered around, we
took out the uncollectable bills, to read the pencil memorandums made
thereon as the answers made to them were
given.
"No money - no money!" said the
boss.
"Well, I did think that you
would get something!"
Pretty soon the
memorandums were all read, then we brought forth the cash, and when the
vast magnificence thereof was spread on the stone, where all eyes could
feast upon its loveliness, there were kind words and more rejoicing than
when the prodigal son returned to eat veal.
But Addison has changed since then. Now, the people there are rich enough
to pay for their papers in advance, as our subscription books
testify.
Pomeroy's Democrat (New York, NY) Saturday, January
25, 1873; page 2.
IN
GENERAL.
A large tannery belonging to
Wells & Stratton, four miles from Addison, Steuben county, N. Y., was
burned Monday evening; loss $15,000; insured for $10,000.
The Daily
Constitution (Middletown, CT) Wednesday, June 18, 1873; page
2.
THE Annual Fair and Stock
Exhibition of the Steuben County Agricultural Society closes at Addison on
the 27th inst., when the prize trottrs and finest horses of the State are
expected to win valuable prizes, and to delight the Steubenjamins
generally.
Pomeroy's Democrat (New York, NY) Saturday, September 6,
1873; page 1.
THE PRESBYTERY OF
STEUBEN.
This body met in Addison, Sept. 9th.
The Rev. Anson G. Chester of Corning was elected moderator, and the Rev.
S. W. Pratt of Prattsburgh, clerk. The Rev. T. L. Waldo was received from
the Presbytery of Monroe, Rev. Alexander Gulick was dismissed to the
Classis of Ulster, and Rev. P. H. Burghardt to the Presbytery of
Buffalo.
All of our leading churches have
adopted some plan for Systematic Giving, and their reports show great gain
over last year, the church at Bath having given in three months as much as
during the whole of the last year. None of our churches receive aid from
the Home Mission Board. Two are aided by the Sustentation
Fund.
Jasper and Woodhull only are vacant, and
they propose to unite and pay $1000 salary, and parsonage. They are only
five miles apart, and one man can easily do the work they require. The
Stated Clerk is chairman of the Committee on Supplies, and may be
addressed with reference to this field.
The
Presbytery instructed its Commissioners to Auburn Seminary to seek
earnestly to secure, in connection with the new Professorship of Pastoral
Theology and Church Work, a thorough and systematic training of the
students in the art of feeding the lambs of the flock, including
instruction in preaching to children, and drill in the art of teaching
teachers how to teach in the Sunday school.
Presbytery was delightfully entertained in a social manner at the manse,
on the last evening of its session, by the pastor Rev. J. V. C. Nellis, of
whom we hear good reports as an earnest and successful worker. Addison is
an enterprising place of 2000 inhabitants and
growing.
The Rev. J. M. Platt of Bath is hard
at work raising $30,000 for a new church, $10,000 of which has been
already pledged by one family. The next meeting of Presbytery is to be
held at Campbelltown.
STEUBEN.
New York
Evangelist (New York, NY) September 25, 1873; page
6. |
1874
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1875
Another
Good Nomination.
Colonel James E.
Jones, of Addison, N. Y., has been nominated by the Democrats of that
Assembly District, as their candidate for the legislature. A better
selection could not have been made. Colonel Jones is a true, sagacious,
energetic, reliable Democrat, deservedly popular where he is known and a
person of commanding influence in political and business circles. A more
upright, independent man does not live. Addison is in Steuben county. When
the Democrats there nominate and elect Hon. C. C. B. Walker to Congress by
five thousand over an old-time Republican majority of three thousand; when
they nominate and elect to the State Senate by a powerful majority over
Republicans, such a man as Hon. George B. Bradley; when they call to the
front for the Legislature such men as James E. Jones, they strike key
notes for Democracy; set splendid examples, and the people ratify the
nominations thus made. There is no Tammany Ring in that section. The
result is that able, honest, powerful men are nominated to office, and the
people elect such men and thus protect their
interests.
We are glad that we once lived and
that we have friends in Steuben county.
Pomeroy's
Democrat (New York, NY) Saturday, October 23, 1875; page
1. |
1876
TID
BITS.
Col. James E. Jones of Addison,
Steuben county, N. Y., has been nominated by the Democrats of that
District for the Legislature. It will be a great mistake if he is not
elected. He is an old citizen of the place, well and accurately posted on
political history, a man of ripe experience and extensive acquaintance who
has passed though life thus far, in one position of prominence after
another, with no detriment to his good name. Really, an honest, deserving
gentleman he deserves a rousing majority.
Pomeroy's
Democrat (Chicago, IL) Saturday, October 28, 1876; page
4. |
1877
NEW
YORK.
The Greenback men in Addison,
Steuben County, are actively at work. Sept. 19, they organized a club with
seventy-five charter members and elected O. P. Furman, President; and G.
A. Kress, Secretary. This club meets every Wednesday night in Union
Block.
Pomeroy's Democrat (Chicago, IL) Saturday,
September 29, 1877; page 4, col.
3. |
1878
NEW
YORK.
Uri Mulford writes from
Corning: Shall hold 100 mass meetings in this section and push the good
work for greenbacks. At Addison July 16, at convention of Second Assembly
District of Steuben County, Shupe and his New York Advocate wre denounced
as traitors and can no longer receive support from Greenbackers in this
vicinity. I held large grove meeting at Nelson, Pa., a short time since,
and the whole town is in an uproar on subject of greenbacks. One of the
best results of meeting was conversion to Greenbackism of Mr. Morgan
Seely, banker of Osceola. Monday night we held a meeting at his place, and
organized a club which already numbers half the voters in that town. Shall
press forward in good work in Steuben County. Shupe fell on flat market
here. Nationalism and dark lanterns not wanted!
Pomeroy's
Democrat (Chicago, IL) Saturday, July 27, 1878; page
3.
From the East.
We have been favored with a call from Col. James E. Jones, of Addison, New
York, who brings good news from the Greenback men there, and in fact all
along the Greenback belt through which he travels. We regret that our
duties and engagements in the great big West are such that we cannot spare
the time to attend the Addison Fair and address the people, as we are
invited to. To our hundreds of warm, personal friends in Steuben county,
once our home, we send greeting, and say to them that while they are at
work for the Greenback cause on the mortgaged hillsides of that section,
we are at work here on the mortgaged prairies, to help lift the load of
National debt that holds labor in slavery to untaxed
idlers.
Pomeroy's Democrat (Chicago, IL) Saturday, September 14,
1878; page 1. |
1882
WALL STREET
GOSSIP.
YESTERDAY surveyors commenced
running a narrow-guage route from Addison, Steuben County, N. Y. to Gains,
Tioga County, Pa., a distance of forty miles. Richard G. Taylor of Buffalo
will be President of the new road, which is designed to act as a feeder to
the Erie.
The Wall Street Daily News (New York, NY) Friday,
June 2, 1882; page 2. |
1884
FACT AND
FANCY
"If you will save my daughter,"
said William Edminster, a wealthy farmer of Erwin Township, Steuben
county, N. Y., to Dr. Rush Brown of Addison, ten days ago, "I will give
you a hundred acres of my best land." The farmer's daughter May, aged
eighteen, was ill of typhoid fever, and the doctor had given her up. Dr.
Brown took her case. She is now pronounced out of danger, and her
convalescence is only a matter of time. As Farmer Edminster has no land
worth less than $50 an acre, Dr. Drown will receive at least a $5000 fee
for his services. - [Troy Times.
St. Albans Daily
Messenger (St. Albans, VT) Monday, October 6, 1884; page
4. |
1885
PERILOUS
RIDE ON A RAFT.
The Adventures of Two Rash Citizens of Steuben
County.
Two prominent citizens of
Steuben county, Col. Henry Baldwin, of Addison, and E. P. Hollis, of
Woodhull, had a thrilling experience and narrow escape from death by
drowning in attempting to make the trip on a raft on the Tuscarora creek
between Woodhull and Addison a few days ago. The distance is fourteen
miles, and the stream for that distance, writes a Corning, N. Y.,
correspondent of the New York Times, generally has a wild and
rapid flow, but in time of flood it becomes a torrent, flowing between
high, rocky banks, and bordered by overhanging trees whose branches extend
directly above the channel. The creek has a fall of 400 feet in fourteen
miles, and no attempt had ever before been made to navigate it. Col.
Baldwin had business in Woodhull, and after transacting it he and Mr.
Hollis walked to the creek to see the flood which was roaring between the
banks, there being a fiercer current than had been known for years. While
looking at it, Col. Baldwin, who is a bold and experienced river pilot,
bantered Hollis to make a trip with him on a raft to Addison. Hollis
agreed to the proposition, and they spent the day n construction a raft,
sixteen feet long and six feet wide. They got it ready to "pull out," and
started at 4:50 p. m. The news of the proposed voyage had become known in
the neighborhood, and by the time the men started the creek was lined with
excited people for two miles below Woodhull, while others had horses
saddled and wagons in readiness to follow the raft to see the result of
the trip. The current was so stong, however, that the raft was soon
carried out of sight in the gorge through which the creek flows. Telephone
messages were sent to Addison announcing the rash attempt to navigate the
stream and almost the entire populace gathered at the creek to await the
arrival of the two men. They did not come, and the belief became universal
that they had been wrecked and drowned. It was late the next morning when
the news was received that the raft had been wrecked after the journey was
half made, but that the men had escaped.
Seven
miles from Woodhull the stream had cut two extra channels through Ladien's
island. Across the main one a large beech tree had fallen, and its
branches made a network obstruction below the surface. For six miles the
voyagers had been compelled to the flat most of the time to avoid being
swept off the raft into the torrent by the low-hanging branches of trees
and they had lost one of their oars in a collision with a rock which
nearly swamped them. As they approached the island where the beech tree
lay across the main channel they saw their danger, and put all their
strength to staff remaining oar to pilot the raft into one of the other
channels. The torrent was too swift, and the raft kept straight on its
course and swept down upon the obstruction at a terriffic rate of speed.
As soon as it struck the tree it was carried under the surface like a
flash, the men disappearing with it. Orson Ladieu and his wife had seen
the raft coming and witnessed its destruction. It did not seem possible to
them that the men could fail to be entangled in the network of branches
beneath the water and drowned, but to render aid to them was impossible.
Suddenl, however, the raft rose to the surface, fify feet below the tree,
badly stove up and without any oar. The next second Col. Baldwin came up,
fortunately within reach of the raft, which he grasped and drew himself
out upon it. Hollis did not appear for some time afterward, and then the
raft had passed beyond his reach. He was swept by the current swiftly down
stream, but finally clutched an overhanging branch and drew himself out on
the shore of one of the islands where he could not be reached. Col.
Baldwin, being left on the raft without anything to steer it with, was
carried down the stream, in constant danger of being dashed into the
rocks, and after a ride of half a mile whas thrown upon a projecting point
of the shore, where he jumped off. Hurrying back to Ladieu's, he, with the
aid of Ladieu, tried to reach Hollis by means of another raft they
had hastily constructed. This plan was unsuccessful. Finally, after
an hour's trial, and when it looked as if Hollis would be compelled to
remain on the island over night; Ladieu succeeded in throwing a rope to
him. He fastened this about his body, and, jumping into the torrent,
was hauled ashore nearly drowned. Prompt treatment soon restored him,
however. The trip from Woodhull was made in thirty minutes. It is not at
all likely that another attempt will soon be made to navigate Tuscarora
creek.
Kansas City Star (Kansas City, MO) Tuesday, April
28, 1885; page
4. |
1887
Several buildings at
Addison, N. Y., were burned Thursday night causing a loss of
$40,000.
The Springfield Daily Republican (Springfield, MA)
Saturday, April 9, 1887; page
4. |
1888
Destructive Fire in Addison, N.Y.
BINGHAMTON, N.Y., April 21. - At Addison fire destroyed the Addison house, causing a loss of $16,000, three stores and two dwellings belonging to Mrs. Wildrick (loss $9,600), and a number of small stores and houses. W. H. McDowell, a leading citizen was probably fatally injured by a falling beam.
Trenton Evening Times (Trenton, NJ) April 21, 1888; page 4. |
1890
Murdered by
Her Lover.
ELMIRA, New York, June 3.
- Emmett Crane has been lodged in the Bath, Steuben county jail for
fatally shooting Mrs. Gale Perry. The Perry family live about a mile east
of the village of Addison, in Steuben county, and Crane resided there. He
is an inventor of farming impliments and bore a good reputation until last
year, when he met Mrs. Perry. He had ever since paid considerable
attention to the woman, but on Thursday last they had a lover's quarrel
and she ordered him from her home. The inventor started in on a spree,
continuing his debauch until this morning, when he went to the Perry
residence and demanded admittance. As Mrs. Perry ordered him away, he
became enraged, and, whipping out a revolver, shot her just below the
heart. Thoroughly crazed, Crane then fled a short distance from the scene
of the tragedy and attempted to shoot another woman, but was frightened
away by the neighbors. Mrs. Perry's wound is fatal. She is a wife and the
mother of four children. Crane has been urging her to leave her husband
and live with him, threatening to kill her if she did not comply with his
requests.
Daily Boomerang (Laramie, WY) Tuesday, June 3, 1890;
page
1. |
1893
NEWS OF THE DAY
Morris Cohn, an Addison, N.Y., merchant, who was recently badly injured in a wreck on the Erie road at Lackawaxen, has sued the company for $25,000 damages.
Trenton Evening Times (Trenton, NJ) June 10, 1893; page 7. |
1908
Harper J.
Dininny
City Attorney.
Harper J.
Dininny, the present city attorney of Salt Lake City, was born at Addison,
Steuben county, New York, on June 7, 1851. He served during a part of the
war of the rebellion as mounted orderly for his father, who was a colonel
of the one Hundred and Forty-first New York volunteer infantry, and saw
active service upon the peninsula in 1862. After the war he attended
school and college, graduating May 15, 1873, from Union university of the
state of New York and its law department.
Mr.
Dininny practiced his profession at Addison and Elmira, N. Y., for several
years and came to Salt Lake City in the spring of 1891, where he has since
resided and practiced law. In 1896 and 1897 Mr. Dininny was a member of
the fire and police board of this city, which was the only office he had
ever held until he was appointed assistant city attorney by the Hon. Ogden
Hiles, under whom he served until January, 1908, when he became city
attorney, having been elected to that office upon the American party
ticket in November, 1907.
Before coming to
Utah Mr. Dininny had been a zealous worker in the Democratic party and has
always been a firm believer that its principles are the only true
principles upon which government should be conducted to do the greatest
good for the greatest number of the people of this nation. In 1894 he was
chairman of the state Democratic campaign committee and was alway active
in that party until convinced that nothing could be done within it to
prevent its being destroyed by the leaders of the Mormon church, when he
gladly and enthusiastically assisted in the organization of the American
party, the success of which in his opinion, will reinstate the Democratic
party as a political power in this state.
The
standing of Mr. Dininny at the bar of this state is such as to commend him
to persons seeking the services of a lawyer who will serve his client with
faithfulness and to the best of his ability.
The
Evening Telegram (Salt Lake City, UT) Friday, December 18, 1908;
page 27. |
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