Rochester, Monroe, NY
Union & Advertiser
Fri Feb 9, 1877
LOCAL MATTERS
Items in Brief
--A kite was seen yesterday. The
boys are beginning this sport early.
--If Utica is a wicked place, it
affords plenty of material to get up a religious revival with.
--An exchange remarks that sudden
deaths are prevalent now, and advises its readers to be careful.
--Alice ROURKE, aged 16, is missing
from Oswego. She bore a good reputation, and has been in delicate health.
--The butcher bird has driven the
sparrows away from Saratoga, and Col. RITCHIE of the Sarat_gian exults over
a fallen foe as follows:
"Why were those sparrows
little dead beats;
Because they left town when the
butcher's bill was presented."
--When "Colonel" J.
Holmes GROVER (actor, author, artist, &c.), shoots his 'Arrow' in the
direction of the Chronicle office, he may tip it with a $20 bill, long due
-- (Yates County chronicle.
--Steam is replacing horses on the
street car lines of Philadelphia. The Market street line continues to add to
the number of steam cars on its line, and they give complete satisfaction.
--The wild turkeys in Pennsylvania
are much in the same strait as the sparrows in Rochester - short of food.
The former are found almost starved to death in some of the woods, the deep
snow preventing them from obtaining their ordinary food.
--The Amsterdam Recorder is
responsible for the statement that since the departure of Fred. SMITH from
Johnstown, the story has leaked out that there was a secret plot on foot in
Johnstown to assassinate him, which would have been executed had he longer
remained there.
Mr. Fred. SMITH,
of our Opera House Company, who comes from Johnstown, hands us the above,
with the remark that he is not that Fred. SMITH, and that he will have a
benefit at the Opera House to-morrow afternoon and evening, and the audience
may rest assured that he will not assassinate the part he assumes.
--Thirty-six hundred barrels of
potatoes were shipped from Troy to New York by the Hudson River railroad on
Wednesday. The prices paid were as follows: Peerless, twenty shillings;
Early Rose, twenty-two shillings, and Peachblows three dollars per barrel.
--Ruel BLAKE of Livonia was worth
some where from $80,000 to $100,000, but lost it all, and is now, it is
stated, in the County House. A few years litigation in which he became
involved, willingly or unwillingly, swept the fortune away.
--The number of oranges to be seen
daily on our streets often occasions the question where they all come from.
The crop in Louisiana last year is estimated to have been 32,000,000
oranges, and this is one source of supply. It requires 70,000 trees to
produce that number of fruit.
--Sportsmen will wish they were
near Freson, California, when they hear on the authority of a paper from
that place, that a flock of wild geese forming a solid column seven miles
long passed over that town recently.
--Yesterday the thermometer ranged
from 18' to 30', and at noon to-day read 29', with slightly rising
barometer, fresh west winds, and clear weather. Relative humidity of the air
67 per cent. The morning western reports give stationary to falling
barometer, slight changes in the temperature, northeast to southerly winds,
and clear and partly cloudy weather.
--A horse owned by William K. DEAN
ran away yesterday afternoon. Near the corner of Jay street the beast became
possessed of an inclination to enter a meat market, and ran his head through
a window in the market of Henry HEDDITCH. The cutter was badly broken and
the horse was somewhat cut, but will live to run again.
--The Democrat yesterday morning
published a small-pox case, and left it to be inferred that all the children
who had been attending No. 11 school had been exposed to the contagion.
To-day it attempts to disabuse the public mind in regard to that
erroneous impression. Would it not be as well in such cases to inquire into
the facts before publishing statements calculated to produce alarm. If
country exchanges propose to revive their cry against coming to Rochester to
trade let them credit the small-pox items to the Democrat.
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SUDDEN DEATH
Alderman Morehardt's Wife Dies
Suddenly of Apoplexy
The many friends of Alderman
MOREHARDT will hear with regret of the great affliction that has befallen
him in the sudden death of his wife, who expired suddenly this morning,
about half-past 11 o'clock, at her home, 196 North Clinton street. Mrs.
MOREHARDT had not been in perfect health for some time past, and was under
medical treatment, but she was able to be around the house and attend to her
household duties. This morning Mrs. MOREHARDT sent her daughter to the drug
store for a plaster, and there was no one in the house but her son, he was
in a back room, and hearing some noise in the room where his mother was,
went in and found her sitting on a chair, but unable to speak. He went for a
neighbor and when he came back found his mother dead.
Dr.
KUICHLING was called and pronounced the cause of death to be apoplexy.
Deceased
was 55 years of age and was born in Germany. Two sons and a daughter all of
whom are of age, survive her.
Coroner
MORRISON was summoned, but did not think it necessary to call a jury.
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A QUESTION AS TO THE COMPOSITION OF
COBBLE STONES.
This morning Mayor PARSONS received
the following telegram from the Mayor of Toronto:
Please telegraph
at once what kind of pavement is used by the Street Railway Company between
the rails, and if it is a different material from that used on the other
portions of the street; also say if cobble stone is a prepared stone, or a
common field stone.
The first
part of this dispatch was very easy to answer, but the last part proved a
sticker, Webster's dictionary was consulted, but no comfort was derived
therefrom. Mr. WEBSTER, with the utmost disregard for the knowledge of
mankind in general, merely designating a cobble stone as a "round
fragment of stone." A messenger was dispatched to interview several of
the residents on Sophia street, but even they, with all their experience,
could not answer the question. It was at last resolved to take one from
Sophia street and send it to Professor LATTIMORE for analyzation. On his
report being received it will be forwarded to the Mayor of Toronto, who
will, no doubt, carefully preserve it for the benefit of future generations
of Canadians.
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ST. VALENTINE'S HEADQUARTERS
This year is at Williamson &
Higbie's Powers Block, Bookstore, entrance to the elevators. Parents sending
their children there for Valentines will receive prompt attention and
reasonable prices. A new stock of cut pictures for albums just received, all
new designs.
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DIVORCE GRANTED
Julia GOODGER has just been granted
a decree of divorce from John H. GOODGER, who was proved to have been false
to his marriage vows.
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ELEVATED TRACKS
This morning the plans of the
proposed elevated tracks were placed on exhibition in the City Clerk's
office, and those who are interested in the matter would do well to examine
them. They show that the proposed bridge will be a very handsome piece of
work, built exclusively of wrought iron galvanized. No stone of any
description will be used in its construction except for the foundation of
the piers, which will be also of wrought iron. The abutments will all be
open, while the trestle work will be latticed. The erection of this bridge
will compel the widening of the bridge across the river, the width of which
will be increased 100 feet, and it is understood that the Company will in
future do all their switching on this bridge instead of at present at Mill
and State streets. The matter will come before the Common Council at their
next regular meeting, when all will have an opportunity of being heard.
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ONE OF BENNETT'S SETTLERS FOR
ROCHESTER
J. G. BENNETT, who since his duel
with MAY appears to have grown tired of shooting small game, sold his kennel
of dogs Wednesday and the prices obtained were very low. He recently
imported a brace of settlers for which he was said to have paid $2,000, and
they brought at the sale but $40. There were a number of other settlers, and
one of them was bought by G. J. WHITNEY of Rochester.
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