COUNTERFEIT BUTTER MUST GO

The Cortland Democrat, Friday, April 8, 1887.

COUNTERFEIT BUTTER MUST GO.

The Court of Appeals Sustain the Constitutionality of the Law.

   The Court of Appeals to-day rendered a decision in the case of the people vs. Lipman Arensberg affirming the judgments of the lower courts. Arensberg is a manufacturer of oleomargarine on Fulton street Brooklyn, and a case was brought against him in the local courts to test constitutionality of the oleomargarine law. He was found guilty and fined $300. The Court of Appeals sustains the verdict and dismissed the appeal. This closes the artificial butter question so far as this State is concerned.

   In the above cited case the Court of Appeals holds that the section of the oleomargarine act which prohibits the coloring of bogus butter so as to resemble the genuine article, is constitutional. The Dairy Commissioner now has the authority to prohibit the manufacture of artificial butter in this state.

   It is none of the grocer’s interest to shed any tears over this interpretation of the Legislature. It will help to relieve him from one of the most cruel and outrageous competitions he has ever had to meet; a competition that, if unchecked, would have driven him into bankruptcy or dishonesty. He can now take heart and feel that the laws of this land are to protect honest men.

   Those who have taken out licenses to sell oleomargarine are out of pocket unless they can sell an uncolored article, as the dairy inspectors can locate every dealer holding government license.

The New Marriage Law.

   The new marriage law went into operation March 22, immediately after receiving the signature of the Governor. Marriages solemnized before that date will not be affected by it, but all later ones must conform to the new law or they will not be legal. The only persons now authorized to perform marriage ceremonies are:

   1. Ministers of the gospel or of legally incorporated religious congregations and priests of every denomination.

   2. Mayors, recorders and aldermen of cities.

   3. Judges of county courts and justices of the peace.

   4. Those designated as Quakers (Friends) are authorized to solemnize marriage in the manner and agreeably to the regulations of their respective societies.

Free Delivery.

   Post Office Inspector Hamilton W. Hall was in town Wednesday to determine if Cortland was to be entitled to Free Delivery service. He appeared much pleased with the town and thought our future outlook first class.

   On all roads leading out of town he fixed the present terminal for Free Delivery. No delivery will be made on streets that have no sidewalks and every house must be correctly numbered to entitle us to the service.

   Four carriers will be appointed and three or four deliveries will be made daily in the business part and two in the outskirts. Boxes will be placed at different points in town for mailing.

   Service will commence July first, provided Inspector Hall's report to the department is favorable, which we have no doubt it will be.

HERE AND THERE.

   Wm. Riley sold his trotter, "Drummer Boy," to C. Nichols and C. Townley, last week.

   The Cortland Omnibus & Cab Company shipped two handsome buses to Buffalo, Wednesday morning.

   W. D. Cloyes, of this place, announces that he has sold nearly $1,000 worth of bicycles this spring.

   There is some talk of paving Railroad street. Both Railroad and South Main streets should be paved.

   Don't forget to hear Frank E. Lathrop, the Shakespearean reader, in the Cortland Opera House, April 29th.

   Patrick Garrity, of this place, who was a member of Co. D, of the old 12th regiment, has been granted a pension.

   Trout can be caught in this part of the State after April 1st, instead of May 1st, as we stated in these columns, recently.

   Charles Saulpaugh, an employee in the Hayes Chair Company's works, fed the end of one thumb to a buzz saw on Wednesday. [Recall, Mr. Hayes was the plaintiff in the libel action against Mr. Strowbridge—CC editor.]

   The E. C. & N. R. R. company are to build an iron bridge in place of the wooden trestle at Brookton, during the coming season.

   The regular meeting of the W. C. T. U. will be held in the parlors of the Baptist church, on Saturday next, at 3 P. M. A full attendance desired.

   A few days since W. B. Stoppard deposited 1,640 trade dollars in the bank. He had held them for some time. Most of them had been taken at par for goods.

   The handsome residence of Mrs. Harmon Hubbard, on Grant street, took fire from the furnace pipes where they enter the chimney, last week Wednesday evening. Fortunately, the occupants discovered the same in time to quench the flames before much damage was done.

   The Patrons’ Fire Relief Association of Cortland county, the Fire Insurance branch of the Grange organization, is carrying today $846,708.00 of insurance, at a cost to the insured of $2.20 every five years, or 44 cents per year on a thousand dollars. — Marathon Independent.

   Mrs. Solomon Sager, who resides at the corner of Squires and Frank streets, in this place, entered complaint before Justice Squires, last Tuesday evening, charging George Sullivan, a fireman on the E. C. & N. road, with having committed a rape on her in the afternoon while her husband was away from home. A warrant was placed in Sheriff Van Hoesen's hands, who, with other officers, went in pursuit of Sullivan. Up to the hour of going to press he had managed to elude the officers.

   At a meeting of the board of trustees, held on Wednesday evening, a contract was made with the electric light company to light the streets for the ensuing year. Four more lights are to be put up. One corner of North Main and Adams streets [near the present Cortland Regional Medical Center--CC editor], one near St. Mary's church, on North Main St., one corner of Railroad and Greenbush, and one corner of Park and Duane streets. The lights are to shed their effulgent rays on benighted pedestrians twenty-three evenings in each month, for which the trustees agree to pay $10 per night.

   Justice Squires is setting up the cigars. It’s a girl.

Henry Ward Beecher

Beecher and His Cow.

   Frank G. Carpenter tells the following story of Henry Ward Beecher:

   He could tell a story well, and I remember seeing one he once told about a cow which he had received in payment for a debt. I think he told the story in one of his lectures. He said:

   "It was a very bad debt, and I came to consider it a bad payment. She was a thin cow, but the former owner said that she was better than she looked, being a cross between a Jersey and the Durham. She looked as though she might have been a cross between an old hair trunk and an abandoned hoop-skirt. 1 kept the brute three days, and no one could appreciate the suffering I endured in that time. The first night she broke through the fence, and reduced to a pulp all the underclothing belonging to my next door neighbor.

   "She put her horns through my bath tub and ate up all my geraniums. She was to give three gallons of milk a day, but she seemed short just then, and never had that to spare while we kept her. The second day she walked into the kitchen and upset a pan of butter and a tub of lard. Then she fell down a well, and when I got her out at a cost of five dollars, she took the colic, whooping cough, or something, and kept us awake all night. Not a green thing was left in my garden; my neighbor's peach trees and the rope on which his underwear grew were as bare of fruit as a singletree, and he did not have a twig of shrubbery left. My neighbor came over to me and said:

   "Now, I don't desire any quarrel, but I want you to keep your cow out of my shrubbery.

   "And I want you, my friend," I said, "to keep your shrubbery out of my cow."