Chenango American, Greene, NY, July 3, 1879
Marriages
At the parsonage in East Pharsalia [Chenango Co. NY] June 6th by Rev. H.W.H. Watkins, Mr. R.S. Yeomans of Preston [Chenango Co. NY] to Miss Anna Ford of McDonough [Chenango Co. NY].
In Walton [Delaware Co. NY] June 11th, by Rev. Samuel E. Carr, Mr. Willis Bidwell of Coventry [Chenango Co. NY] and Miss Hestella N. Gifford of East Masonville [Delaware Co. NY].
A pleasant little gathering of about fifty met at the residence of Mr. and Mrs. W.T. Pancoast of Page Brook [Chenango Co. NY] on Wednesday eve, June 18th to participate in the celebration of the fifth anniversary of their wedded life.
Deaths
In Smithville [Chenango Co. NY] June 28th, Mr. Samuel Marriam aged 85 years, 9 months and 14 days.
In Bainbridge [Chenango Co. NY] June 23d, Mr. Edwin Atwater aged 75 years.
In Bainbridge [Chenango Co. NY], June 25th, Mr. Horace Scott aged 61 years.
In Brooklyn, June 25th, Lottie B. Davidson wife of Dr. Robert T. Davidson, formerly of this village, aged 21 years and 10 months.
Bainbridge Republican, Bainbridge, NY, August 14, 1879
Birth
Harpursville, Broome Co. NY: Mr. Arthur Mudge is about the happiest man in town. It is a son.
Deaths
Henry O. Southworth a prominent member of the bar in New Berlin [Chenango Co. NY] thirty years ago, died at Babcock Hull in the town of Bridgewater, Oneida County [NY], Tuesday of last week, 66 years of age.
At Fairview [PA], Saturday evening, the six-year-old daughter of Edward Ryan endeavored to cross the railroad by crawling under a freight train. Her nurse, Cassie Laflin, aged 18, started to bring her back, when the train started and both girls were killed.
Patrick Moran a mason of Binghamton [Broome Co. NY] fell from a scaffold in the new Catholic church at Towanda, in which he was engaged in plastering, last week and was instantly killed. The distance was thirty feet, and the fall broke his neck.
Elliot Danforth, Esq. attended the funeral of his great uncle, Peter E. Swart Esq. one of the oldest residents of Middleburg [Schoharie Co. NY] on Tuesday.
It is with pain that we record the death of our esteemed townsman, Mr. Peter Z. Swart, which occurred last Saturday morning in the sixty-seventh year of his age. Perhaps no man was better known or more deeply respected in this part of the county than Mr. Swart and many who knew him only through his kindly acts and honorable manner of dealing, will mourn the loss of a friend. He has held many local offices in this town [Middleburg] and always filled them with the same marked ability and nobleness of purpose that characterized the management of his own affairs through life. The funeral took place on Tuesday and was largely attended. [The Cobleskill Index, Cobleskill, NY, Aug. 14, 1879]
Chenango Semi-Weekly Telegraph, Norwich, NY, July 5, 1879
The County Jail and Inmates
Through the courtesy of Sheriff Hill and Keeper Cook we visited the County Jail on Wednesday afternoon last. The jail now contains only seven prisoners, the smallest number that he been in the institution for a long time. There are no tramps in the jail, and the people of the county have reason to congratulate themselves on the success of the tramp law recently enacted by the Board of Supervisors.
Esther Mudge, the New Berlin [Chenango Co. NY] woman, charged with infanticide has the whole upper floor of the jail to herself, and when we entered the apartment was reading a paper. Her incarceration does not seem to trouble her to any great extent, and she chatted as pleasantly as if oblivious of the terrible crime with which she is charged.
On the first floor, seated at a table enjoying a social game of cards was Fred Jackson, the colored man indicted for the murder of his mother at Oxford [Chenango Co. NY] last winter; Elijah Melius the absconding collector of the town of Coventry [Chenango Co. NY], recently brought back from the West; Charles Wood, the burglar who broke into the depots at Earlville, Sherburne, Oxford and stations of the Erie, near Binghamton; Luallen Tyler charged with forgery, and over whom an indictment has been pending since 1874; Edward Cobb for "breaking up" housekeeping in a too abrupt manner and Anthony Gravelin the Sherburne [Chenango Co. NY] shoemaker, who, while intoxicated, assaulted his wife.
About the time McCann was executed, [Fred] Jackson was indisposed and very despondent for several days, but under medical treatment has fully recovered and is now looking well and apparently in the enjoyment of his usual health. He says but little in regard to the tragedy and still stoutly maintains his innocence of the crime. The story current that he was feigning insanity was entirely without foundation, as we are informed by Keeper Cook. He is very quiet in his demeanor but is apparently a general favorite with the other prisoners.
[Elijah] Melius does not stand the confinement as well as the other prisoners and looks pale, haggard and careworn. He is naturally a very active man, accustomed to a plenty of outdoor exercise. When first incarcerated he made overtures for a compromise, but the effort failed and his bondsmen are determined to show him no leniency, and he will probably be compelled to abandon farming as an occupation and learn a trade under the supervision of prison officials.
The station burglar that gives his name as Charles Wood (no doubt an alias) is a mystery to everyone. He is not at all reticent and talks freely in regard to the crimes he has committed, giving information and details to the officers that could only be known by his own telling. He is an expert letterer and has his name marked upon the floor in the jail in text letters that in shape or style few painters could equal and stamps his story of being a longshoreman by profession as untrue and it is more than possible that Sheriff Hill has in his prisoner "larger game" than is generally anticipated.
Anthony Gravelin has nearly served his sentence of ninety days imposed upon him for assault upon his wife while in a drunken frenzy and will be liberated on the 8th inst. When sober, he is a quiet, peaceable and well-disposed man, but rum brings out the devil that is in him, and when on his sprees is a dangerous character. It is hoped that his ninety days' experience in jail will prove a temperance lecture that he will heed and that he will cease to drink of the poison that makes a beast of him.
Luallen Tyler is in for a forgery committed in this county some six years ago, was arrested at the time, given a hearing before a justice in Greene [Chenango Co. NY] who ordered him committed to jail to await the action of the Grand Jury. On his way to Norwich, he escaped from the constable having him in charge and has since been at liberty until some six weeks ago when Sheriff Hill got track of him and he was a second time arrested and committed to jail. His trial will probably take place at the next term of court.
Edward Cobb of Sherburne is serving a sentence of 90 days for drunkenness and disorderly conduct. Cobb is an inoffensive man when sober, but occasionally takes too much of the "ardent," and at such times is quarrelsome and ugly. It is to be hoped that he will also profit by his imprisonment and forever abandon his cups.
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