Rochester, Monroe, NY
Democrat & Chronicle
Jan. 3, 1877
DIED

CLARKE - On the 28th of December, at his late residence, on the Ridge road, in the town of Parma, Ezekil CLARKE, aged seventy-two years. Mr. CLARKE was in good health in the morning, and while preparing to go to Brockport was taken with sickness and pain in the stomach and fell length-wise upon the floor at 5 p.m., when walking in the family room, with an attack of apoplexy, dying in a few minutes, and soon after his family gathered around him. He was an old and highly respected citizen of Parma, coming from Washington county more than forty years ago, and residing the most of the time on the farm where he died. He leaves a wife and a son and daughter, with connections in this city and a wide circle of them with other friends in Parma and Ogden to mourn his sudden and unexpected death.

HOLAHAN - In this city, January 2d, 1876(yes it says 1876), Mary HOLAHAN, aged 21 years.
-Funeral from the residence, number 61 Davis street, on Thursday morning at 8 o'clock and from St. Bridget's church at 8 ½ o'clock. Friends are invited to attend.

LAWRENCE - At Canandaigua, December 30th 1876, Captain T. A. LAWRENCE, aged 77 years.
-Funeral to be held at Masseth house, Canandaigua, January 2d, 1877, at 2 p.m.
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THE COURTS

In 1873 Henry C. THATCHER, a cotton broker of Boston, paid $6,300 on drafts made by DICKINSON Brothers, of Memphis, Tenn. The bills of lading attached to the drafts were, it is alleged, fictitious, and THATCHER had the DICKINSONS arrested by Boston detectives on a requisition issued by Governor RICE, of Massachusetts, The governor of Tennessee now releases the DICKINSONS on the ground that they cannot be tried in Massachusetts for an offense committed in Tennessee.
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FATAL RAILROAD ACCIDENT

A Young Man Struck and Almost Instantly Killed by an Express Train at South Byron - His Horse also Killed and the Cutter Broken in Pieces

A sad and fatal accident occurred at South Byron on the Central railroad yesterday morning, the particulars of which are as follows: During the severe snow storm the street crossings of the track had for several days been blockaded by freight trains, but on the evening previous, by the efforts of the company's employes, they were again cleared. A new Year's party was held at the hotel of Jerome GILLETTE, opposite the railroad. It was largely attended by representatives of the best families of the surrounding towns, and the festivities were continued until morning. About 6 o'clock a freight train arrived from the west, drew up over the crossing in front of the hotel and parted, allowing a space of about twenty feet for teams to pass. A young man named Charles HUMPHREY, having driven his young lady to her home was himself returning, and crossed the track between the parted cars. The storm and the cars prevented him from hearing the express train which came thundering along from the west, and striking him, buried horse, cutter and man into the air. HUMPHREY'S was instantly killed. He was a noble young man and will be greatly mourned.
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A NEW FIRM

By the announcement in another column it will be seen that the firm of Seth J. ARNOLD & Co., State street, has been dissolved by mutual consent. One of the former partners, Thomas J. HURLEY, will in connection with Hosea ROGERS, under the firm name of Thomas J. HURLEY & Co., continue the business at the location occupied by the former firm.
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BROKE HIS LEG

H. A. BENTLY slipped upon the sidewalk at the northeast corner of Main and State streets about 6 o'clock last evening. In falling, one of his legs was broken. Officers HAGEL and HAYDEN assisted Mr. BENTLY to a hack, and conveyed him to the city hospital. The injured man is about twenty-seven years old, and came from England to Rochester only a few months since.
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FIRE YESTERDAY MORNING

The residence of Albert PIKE, corner of Frank and Spencer streets, was the scene of a trifling conflagration yesterday morning. About 10 o'clock a spark from the chimney ignited a portion of the house, and an alarm was given from box 46, corner of Vincent place and State street. Active and Alert hose company hitched their carriages to a car, and were thus enabled to reach the scene of action in good season without the personal assistance of many fireman. The flames were extinguished before the department arrived and no serious damage was sustained.
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RAILROAD ACCIDENT AT BUFFALO

Last Sunday morning, when about twenty miles this side of Buffalo, the New York express train, due in that city at 11:15 a.m., met with an accident, the particulars of which are as follows: A hot journal had caused some disarrangement of the running gear of the rear coach (a "sleeper"), so that when a frog was subsequently encountered the wheels mounted the rail, the car was capsized, and turning over on its side was dragged some distance by the still moving train. Fortunately the coupling finally broke and left it by the side of the track. The occupants were the porter, and a lady and her brother from the east who were on their way to visit the husband of the former, he having been injured by the disaster at Ashtabula. Singularly none of these persons were injured, but nevertheless badly shaken up and frightened. They succeeded in extricating themselves from their unpleasant situation. The car took fire, but the flames were extinguished with snow. The train was running at the ordinary rate of speed, and passed on a mile beyond the scene of the accident before being brought to a standstill. It was then backed up, the persons mentioned were taken on board and Buffalo was reached at the time indicated.
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-Charles A. POOL and family left the city yesterday for New York, where they will take up their residence. Mr. POOL, as has been previously announced, will assume an important position in the grain elevating business and his many friends here wish the best success.

Walter S. HUBBELL, who has for the past three and a half years been connected with the law office of the Hon. George F. DANFORTH, has opened an office for himself at 107 Power's block. Mr. HUBBELL is a young man of fine legal attainments and will, we trust, meet that success he deserves.

Augus McDONALD, assistant district attorney, yesterday severed his business connection with Mr. RAINES and assumed the office recently occupied by Judge RA?SON in the Arcade. He enters into partnership with Mr. NOYES. Josiah SULLIVAN, the capable young lawyer for some time connected with the office of the district attorney, succeeds Mr. McDONALD.

J. Horace McGUIRE, for the past six years one of the most valuable attaches of the office of the county clerk, having retired by the incoming of the new administration, has opened a law office at 107 Powers's block. Mr. McGUIRE has proven an unusually faithful, efficient and courteous official and there are hundreds of men who have reason to be grateful to him and wish him the best success.
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RUNAWAYS YESTERDAY AFTERNOON

Marvin WILLIAMS a resident of West Henrietta was driving down State street a little before 3 o'clock yesterday afternoon, and his horses were frightened at the cars, so that Mr. WILLIAMS started the team in an opposite direction. In turning about the sleigh was upset and the driver thrown to the ground. The horses then started up State street at a speed which the fast mail alone could equal. Upon reaching Market street one of the horses slipped and fell, thus stopping both animals and thus preventing the possibility of more serious damage than several breaks in the harness.

Officer SMITH stopped a runaway horse in front of the arcade at 2 o'clock in the afternoon.

Policeman ALLEN was successful in stopping a runaway in front of the Osborn house at 7 o'clock last evening. The cutter had been turned over several times before the speed of the flying horse was checked.

At 3 o'clock in the afternoon a team belonging to Dr. SUMNER ran away. Starting from Clinton street, they ran down Main street, and were not stopped until they had crossed the swing bridge on West Main street. A gentleman named BOWEN captured the horses, and little or no damage was done.

Another runaway on Front street, the particulars of which we were unable to learn, completes the list.
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REV. GEORGE J. MINGINS

We understand that the above named gentlemen has been engaged to hold a series of special services with the Central Presbyterian church during the week of prayer. Mr. MINGINS is not an entire stranger in this city, having occupied the pulpit of the Central church on two occasions a few years ago when he greatly interested the large congregations that listened to him. He is of Scottish blood, retaining just enough of the broad accent to indicate his origin, and is possessed of a fund of anecdote and illustrations which he uses with marked effect. A curious shrewdness which unconsciously excites a smile and a great deal of pat?os which starts the unb???en tear before the smile has passed away are the noticeable features of his discourse, as he stands up to talk rather than to preach to a congregation. (Didn't get the rest)

Jan. 4, 1877

MARRIED

WILLIAMS - ARCHER - In this city, Tuesday evening January 2d, 1877, by Rev. E. E. WILLIAMS, assisted by Rev. R. M. STRATTON, D. D., Charles A. WILLIAMS and Emma L. ARCHER.
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DIED

ELWELL - In this city, on the afternoon of the 3d inst., Theron D., youngest child of Elijah D. and Julia M. ELWELL, aged 5 years.
-Funeral on Friday, January 5th, at the family residence, number South Chatham street at 10 o'clock a.m. Friends of the family are invited.

Jan. 5, 1877
FRAME - At Ashtabula, Ohio, on Monday, January 1st, 1877, Mrs. Mary A. FRAME, aged 38 years.
-Funeral from the house number 33 Saxton street, this Friday afternoon at 2 o'clock. Friends of the family are invited to attend.
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CRIMES AND CASUALTIES

John McCALL, for murdering Wild Bill, was sentenced to be hanged on March 1st. The one will be appealed.

The steamer Greece, while going to sea Thursday, from New York, went ashore on the west bank and will probably get off at high water.

Miss LONSDALE, a soubrette at Ward's opera house, Newark, N. J., was severely burned by her dress taking fire from the stove in the dressing-room Wednesday night.

Oscar HUDSON, of Jersey City, a mulatto, poured boiling water over Martha SHUTTEL, his mistress, and threw her upon the stove, burning her fatally, on Wednesday. Jealousy.

John DeFRIEST, a driver on a mail wagon, and two others, have been arrested for robbing the mails while in transit from New York to Jersey City. Thirty thousand dollars worth of checks were recovered.
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THE DEATH RECORD

William A. CAMPBELL, of the Denver Democrat, died recently in that city.

Thomas E. MEREDITH, Democratic state senator of the ninth Louisiana district, died on Thursday.

Rev. Michael RONAY, S. P. M., president of St. Louis' college, Forty-second street, New York, died last Saturday in the house of the Fathers of Mercy, Paris, at the age of forty-five, after a long illness.

Judge McCULLY, of the Nova Scotia, supreme court, died Tuesday night, aged sixty-eight. Previous to his appointment to the judgeship he had been a prominent politician for twenty-five years.

Joseph RIPLEY, a brother-in-law of the late Senator BUCKINGHAM, of Connecticut, and a member of one of the oldest families in New England, died at his residence to New York city on Monday last, in the seventy-third year of his age. Mr. RIPLEY was one of the oldest wool brokers in that city, having been engaged in that business for over forty years.

Commodore Abram SIMONSON, an old and respected inhabitant of Richmond county, died at his home in Van Duzer street, Stapleton, on Monday evening, in the seventy-eighth year of his age. He had been for nearly sixty years engaged in the Staten Island shad fisheries and was the head of the well known firm of SIMONSON & Co., fisher??n.
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ARRESTED FOR BURGLARY

As was stated in yesterday morning's paper; two buildings on Plymouth avenue, belonging to Thomas MAHONEY, were burned to the ground. During the conflagration a man was seen entering Mr. MAHONEY's barn, which is located in close proximity to the site of the burned buildings. After the excitement of the fire had partially subsided it was discovered that a quantity of liquor had been taken from the barn. Notice of the burglary was given at the police office, and Detective LAUER was detailed to investigate the matter. Mr. MAHONEY, was very desirous that the thief should not be notified of the fact that an officer was in search of him, and for this reason doubtless refrained from giving as detailed information of incidents in connection with the fire as he would otherwise have done. Detective LAUER arrested Edward GLAVIN yesterday, and the latter will be examined in the police court to-day upon the charge of burglarising Mr. MAHONEY's barn.
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FALLEN FROM VIRTUE

The parents of Honora DONOVAN, of Oswego, have, for four months, been doing all in their power to discover her whereabouts, she having left her home early last fall. Since her disappearance the DONAVAN family have been wholly unsuccessful in their search for Honora. She was yesterday discovered in this city, and this is the way it happened:
Last Wednesday night Officer SPEERS arrested a woman for being drunk and disorderly, who gave the name of Mary GORDON. An investigation before Justice WHEELER revealed the fact that Mary GORDON is none other than the missing Honora. The story she told in the police court is a sad one. She says she is only seventeen years old, and was induced to leave her home in Oswego last September.
Accompanying a strange woman to Toronto, she was taken to a den of iniquity, into which she never would have been led had she known the true character of the place before entering it. Here, through compulsion, she soon sank low in the scale of human degradation. Honora claims that previous to the time of her entering this place she had been a virtuous girl, and but for the debasing influences brought to bear upon her in Toronto, she would never have fallen from chastity. As soon as an opportunity presented itself, she escaped from the den into which she had been led, and sought aid at the hands of the mayor of Toronto. She succeeded in procuring a pass to Rochester from this official. After her arrival in this city she became intoxicated and was arrested as stated above. Captain SULLIVAN telegraphed to Oswego, instructing the young lady's friends that she awaited their arrival in Rochester, and would willingly accompany them home. She was sent to jail, where she will be kept until sent for by her parents.

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According to instructions from the girl's friends in Oswego, Captain SULLIVAN's dispatch was addressed to Dr. MILNE or the pastor of St. Peter's church in that city. Late last night notice was given by telegraph that both of the parties to whom the message was addressed refused to pay the charges thereon. It, therefore, devolved upon the authorities of this city to defray the expense of notifying the girl's friends as to her whereabouts. Perhaps Honora's parents were sincere when they gave expression to an earnest desire ro reclaim their lost daughter, but this last action on the part of her friends certainly warrants the assumption that they do not care what becomes of her.
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RAILROAD ACCIDENTS

Two freight trains collided on the Erie road near Buffalo yesterday, killing three men and wounding three others. They were all employes of the company, but no further particulars were given.

Yesterday morning a wild-cat engine, following the Pacific express on the Direct road, ran into the rear sleeping coach near Manlius. The platform was smashed up, but very fortunately no one was injured.

An accident occurred on the Cayuga railroad Monday last, between Cayuga and Union Springs, which proved to be of a very serious character. It seems that the train consisted of two engines and a baggage car, one half of the last being used for passengers. About three miles from Cayuga, the trucks on striking the frog of a switch jumped the track entirely, throwing the train off and striking the rear end of the baggage car against a line of coal dumps standing on the side track. The baggage car was occupied by a number of ladies at the time, and all of them were more or less hurt. Mrs. Daniel D. ANTHONY, of Union Springs, and Mrs. PARKS and daughter, of Aurora, were severely injured, and a number of others received serious bruises. One of the ladies was completely buried by the coal from one of the dumps, and was extricated with difficulty. Surgical aid was at once summoned and all the sufferers were made as comfortable as possible.
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ALMOST A CENTENNARIAN

Joseph ANTHONY, the oldest citizen of the town of Avon, died in that village Tuesday of last week. Touching the history of Mr. ANTHONY, the Livingston County Herald says:
"Had he lived until the 11th day of April next he would have been ninety-nine years old. He had been a resident of Livingston county sixty-five years and of the town of Avon twenty-three years. He was a soldier of the war of 1812, volunteering from the town of Livonia in that year. He leaves an aged widow and a large family of children to mourn him, the oldest of whom is upwards of seventy years of age. He had been very feeble for a year or more previous to his death. The funeral was held at 1 o'clock p. m. Friday, at the Methodist-Episcopal church, the pastor, Rev. L. D. CHASE, officiating, assisted by the Rev. H. P. V. BOGUE, of the Central Presbyterian church.
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