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County.—Rev. Mr. T&ggert baa resigned the pastor-

ate of the Episcopal church at Norwood—Mm L. Ooodall was appointed postmis-

treen at West Fd^dain, Thuralay.*—Au effort in being made at Poetdam to m

tabllith a public library and reading room.—Mr. Close, posUuastor at South Colton,

has refurnished the office with a uew set ofboxes and furniture.

—There will be a social at the residence ofR. a DiUingham, Lisbon, Thursday evening,Jan. Oth, under the auspices of St. Luke'sEpiscopal society.

—The Brookville Recorder says that an oilpainting by MJSB Butyi^of Canton, is on exhi-bition in the vtiojbow ot^Fehan's tnnsie storein that town and, is mtw<fc Admired.

—Pasneugers trains on the Carthage A Ad-irondack railroad now make regular trips be-tween Carthage and Jayvllle and connect atCarthage with trains on the Utioa road.

—There will be a donation at Chapman'shall, Morristown, Thursday eveuing, Jan. 18,for the benefit of Rev. D. L. Phelps. All arecordially invited. By order of Com.

—J. D. Smith, of DeKaltyTunction, whiledriving a load of bark from Trout L*k«, wasthrown from the toad, striking upon a stone,breaking several ribs and injuring him badly

—James 8. and Win, Moore, of Hammond,have purchased the Frontier cheese factory,Oswegatchie, of Mrs. Elizabeth Roberts. Theconsideration was $1,2N). The Messrs. Moorewill conduct the factory hereafter.

—The box factory and planing mill atHewittville, near Potsdam, was destroyed byEre last Wednesday night The mill was theproperty of the Fotedam Lumber Co., andcontained quite an amount of lumber and agood deal of valuable machinery. The build-ing and contents were insured for $5,U00,which will probably nearly cover the loss.

—Two years ago, Dec. 29, one of the coldestnights of that winter, Yale* Hall, at Nor-wood, burned. In the removing of goodsfrom the endangered buildiugs, a valuableshawl belonging to Mrs. A. H. Bean, and afine comforter belonging to Mrs. Q. E. Hol-brook, were lost As a thorough search theday following failed to find the articles, itwas concluded they had been stolen. LastMonday night, Dec. 20, just two years fromthe night of the fire, a package was left at 8.A. Wilbur'n house, near the site of the old hall,which contained the lost shawl and comfort-er. The shawl showed the marks of wear,butwith the comfortable, proved au uncomforta-ble possession.—Norwood News.

Wednesday morning'the Association wascalled to order at the npj>olnt%*l time by thepresident. E. F. McDonald reftd » paper ongrammar and w n followed by U. H. Uubb,of Hammond, with one on the study of histo-ry. Electiou of officers resulted as follows:President, Heury Priest; vice-president, C.C. Shutts; recording secretary, T. B. Mackey;corresponding secretary, M. R. Sackett;treasurer, G. A- Lewis. After the customaryresolutions to the village of Norwood and tberailroads for courtesies shown, the Associa-tion adjourned to meet at Keusselaer Fails,one year from date.

—The Bt Lawrence county Teachers1 Asso-ciation held its annual meeting at Norwoodlast week Monday and Tuesday. Monday af-ternoon the association came to order, and inabsence of President Haig, Rev. J. 8. Lee,D. D., of Canton, was chosen chairman. Apaper on the "Metric System," was read byZeuas Clarke, of Morristown, which evokedmuch dtacuftsion, especially in regard to theobjections to the system. In the evening apaper was read by Dr. Lee, for his son, Fred-eric Lee, Ph. D., on "The Machinery of theGerman University," after which ProfessorMann, of Potsdam, gave an address on a "Plea-for Physical Science in our Common Schools."Tuesday morning the association was favoredby some excellent papers on our commonschools and the subject of "Map Drawing,"which elicited a lively discussion. A classrecitation, conducted by Miss Hale, of Nor-wood, was specially interesting. In the af-ternoon four articles were read, one by BuptWhitney, of Ogdensburg, on the''Kinder-garten,'1 one by T. B. Mackey, on "SchoolGovernment," one byW. T. Duffy, of Og-densUurg, on "Professional Enthusiasm," andone by Prin. M. R. Sackett, on "School Su-pervision," in this state, everyone of whichwould deserve to be especially mentioned did•pace permit. In the evening Dr. Lee, ofCanton, read a history of the association, andProf. H. P. Forbes, of Canton, delivered anintensely interesting address on the "Mindsof Children," for which he was tendered avote of thanks by the association.

It was an oriental doctrine that womenhave no souls. More enlightened philosophyconcedes that they have purer, finer, moreexalted souls than men. But they are toooften contained in feeble, suffering bodies,which hamper and retard their fulldevelop-metit For all these painful ailmenta inci-dent to the sex, Dr. Pierce's "Favorite Pre-scription" in the best specific in the world,and is sold under a positive guarantee that itwill do all that is claimed for It Price re-duced to one dollar. By druggists.

The K u w u Spring* and Fort Oov-, Ington Railroad.

MASSKNA.—Your Fort Covington corres-pondent in his letter of the 30th, ult, makesa few statements which I think need correc-tion. I do not propose Indulging in any epi-thets, and think I can tnake a clear case with-out calling any one a liar, or getting oft" thatworn out gag, the worm Rtory. Asjae states,we did stipulate that all money raised hereshould be expended by our directors at thisend of the line; some of it, however, did slipout of our hands. The gentleman is notprobably aware that we have a receipt fromDr. GtUis, Treasurer of the Company, fortwo htmd^ed dollars, money advanced toContractor Cunningham for work done athis end of the line; or of receipts from Attor-ney Btlas W. Wilson, for one hundred andtwenty-five dollars for services, he stating

that he could not get any money at his end;nor Is he probably aware that Massena paidEngineer Farnaworth's linemen in full fortheir services. We think had bo known all thishe would have been more moderate iu hi*language; these several iteim togetherequal in amount the entire stock taken bythe Fort people in *he R. R. We are per-fectly aware we did not pay any moneyfor bridges there, in fact, we don't know ofany bridge having been built by our road atail; we ao know though that a bridge wasbuilt over the Salmon river and have an ideathat our Fort friends wcrald like our road tofather it; as we do not want to detract fromthat Fort Covington enterprise the U. 8. andCanada R. R..that linkfof one mile (flVe-eights^of* which is finished) which binds twogrW countries together, we will leave itwith that corporation and let them finishtheir incomplete three-€ights of a mile. Thethroat* of publishing some letters in JudgeFoster's possession is no doubt very terrify-ing, but we think we can stand i t It hasbeen our endeavor to have some light thrownin the dark places, and we should be pleasedto be enlightened with our Helena friends.We have not done or written anything weare ashamed or afraid of, and if Judge Fos-ter has got anything that reflect* on any ofour people we would like to have it printed.We have heard this reflection before.We heard it at our last meeting and since,we hear of it whenever "the Judge" and hisFort friends think they are losing their grip;like our Republican friends' bloody shirt, i tis waved in the hour of peril, but the letteror letters are never shown, nor can' they be,as they ao not exUt And now Mr. Editor, Iwould like to take a little more of your spaceregarding this R. R.; it might prove of inter-est to the stockholders between here and they o r t _Over two years ago the company wasorganized, the capitol stock $aiti,000 par val-ue stock $25.00. At a meeting at Hogans-burg, stock to the amount of $21,000, wastaken, parties along the route taking whatthey could, and Judge Foster taking what wasleft, afterwards other stock was subscribedfor, tbe total being $23,000 to $23,000 worth;of this amount Massena took over $11,000,Fort Covington we believe about $400. Whendirectors were elected, at Judge Foster^ re-queet, four were taken from the Fort, twoeach from Bombay and Hogansburg and fourfrom Massena. Judge Foster at large. Weacquiesced to this injustice knowing we couldnot build the R, R. ourselves and thinking asthe Judge and his backing were going*fc>bulk! it, he Bhould have the say. Ground,was brokeu Nov. 1884 at Bombay, Hogan*-burg and Massena and work was carried onas long as the weather would permit; at Bom-bay, ibelieve they worked in the swamps allwinter. In the spring we started again; Ho-gansburg was told to wait After we hadgraded to the Philips farm we were told tostop, then camo the contention over changingthe line from Hogansburg to Helena, our di-rectors sided with HogauHburg. The Judgehaving tbe deciding vote cast it in favor ofHelena. Although wo thought that Ho^aus-burg had not been treated fairly in the mat-ter, we joined in with the majority and didwhat we could to make tho R. R. a^uccew onthe new route; this controversy lost us aboutthree months. We were early driven fromonr work by the wet weather.' At the annu-al election 1886 the same directors and officerswera ohonen excepting Hogawtburg, two be-ing for Helena hi tl»«ir plium We were toldevHrytiiliig « P thriving iWan tiafly rusu!rij&=tioii of work in the spring, hut to reportewere submitted. No work was clone in 188Q,excepting some "Bees" held by the Bombaypeople, who graded about half a mile. Allsummer we have been fed by promises «ndrumors. Before our last annual meeting oneof our stockholders here wrote Judge Fostertelling him we wanted matters better adjust-ed in the boaiti of directors, that we wantedsome of the directors at the Fort given to oth-er points, that their representation was entire-ly too large for the amount of stock subscrib-ed, vie: four directors for four hundred dol-lars. We also wrote that we should want re-ports, at the meeting, from the president,treasurer ami engineer. We wanted to knowhow much stockhad been subscribed for? howmuch paid for? how much money had beenexpended and for what! and how much in-debtedness there we»i Our object in makingthese enquiries was to find out the actual con-dition of the company, (we had never had areport since organisation,) and to find outwho tho stockholders wero and how muchthey had paid in. We had heait1 that onesubscriber to four hundred and five shares hadgiven his check to the treasurer to pay theten per cent thus enabling the treasurer tocertify that it had been paid in, but that thecheck had never been presented or paid, asthis was an important point we wanted toknow of i t At the meeting Judge Fostergave us one of his verbose speeches, the sumand substance of which was to stand by himand to elect the same directors. We didget from him though, that the indebtednessagainst the road was over $43,000. Thei-ewere no reports made. - The treasurer, (not astockholder) making a speech also, telling uswhat to do. but saying he could not make areport for lack of material. Our Massenafriends left the meeting in disgust, refusingto vote, and the meeting finished up the farceby dropping one of our directors and electing•one from Helena in his place. From what wecould make out the condition of the road isas follows: Debt against the road over $43,-000. Assets, about fifteen miles of gradingmostly on other people's land, total assetsunder $20,000. As the entire road could begraded (not including culverts and bridges)for $20,000, and the right of way secured forless than $21,000, it looks to us as though therehad been very bad management to put itmildly. We are very much disappointed inall this. We wanted the/oad badly and werewilling to devote our time and money to i tAs it 5 now we look on the road as insolventand think we have heard the last of i t Wehave lost all confidence in Judge Foster andthink he ha? no money himself nor has thebacking of which he brags no much. I hopeI may prove wrong in the matter, but in themeantime must sign myself as a

DISGUSTED STOCKHOLDER.

Town Correspondence,

HAMMOND Jan. 4th. —Enough snow fell lastFriday and Saturday to make good sleighing.Yesterday morning at 0:15 our thermometerstood at Jw degrees uelow zero. The St. Law-rence river froze across last Wednesday night—Capt Dodge of the Bister's light house ex-tinguished Bis light last Monday morning,Dec. 27th. The Canada light house has notbeen lighted up for three or four weeks. —Theweek of prayer is being observed in the Pres-byterian and Methodist churches, meetingeach night through the woek.— Gen. Curtisspeaks at Hammond on Friday evening ofthis week.—The winter term of the Ham-mond graded school conmiouced with a largeattendance of non-residonta.—Loren W.Wright and Mis« Abi Bishop were marriedat the Prosby terian parsonage tho 28d of Dec.by Itev. D. A. Ferguson.—(*W>. Bishop mov-ed to Oouverneur yesterday.—Mrs. DavidMore died at her home of old age lost Tuesdaythe 38th of Doc. ,»2od 90 years. The last week'sADVALNCB said Hammond wanted a townhall. Mrs. M. U. Taylor has furnished thepeople of Hammond with a good hall for tbelast four years for all town purposes atvery reasonable rates. .•<&jM-Mwtafi| J H

BBUBHTON, Jan. 4.—A son to Mr. and Mrs.James Puiliug, Dec. 81st—John -Howe leftMonday for Canton, to spend the remainderof the winter.—The New Years ball atHumphrey's Hail wan largely attended.About 80 tickets were sold.—A council ofdoctors Were summoned Saturday in behalf ofThomas Weir, who still lingers in A very crit-ical condition.—Considerable snow fell in thislocality last Friday and Saturday, which hasmade good sleighing. Sunday night regis-tered the coldest of the season, $6° belowzero, and remained so till Monday p. m.—Mr.and Mrs. C. H. Footman celebrated theirchina wedding Saturday evening at their res-idence. A good time is reported.—Mrs. HodRaymond and daughter ore guests of Mrs. L.G. Raymoud.—Mrs. Geo. B. S. Crosby is un-der the doctors care, but all hope nothing se-rious.—-Revival meetings are being held atthe Christian church this week.—Sarah andHeury Bradey, who have been visiting theirbrother, James Bradey, returned to theirhome at Carthage, Satuiday.— A son to Mr.and Mrs. (too. Harris, January 4th.

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RKNHKBLAKB FA LI*, Ian. 4.—If not toolate a happy new yenr to*ll the readers. 28 °below zero this nwmiiig.—Christmas trees atM. E. and Congregational churches. Manyhearts' were made happy by their well-filledbranches.—Mr. and Mrs. Wellington Brownand sou, of Moutrose, Dak., are vbiting atDr. Bay ley's. —Meuill Craig, Dayton Gilbertand (J. N. Lewis spent Christmas in town,calling on friendfe.—Mias Bell, of Heuvelton,spent a week with her cousin. Emma Gering.—Mr. D. Thompson and family have movedto their farm on the Canton road. —L. H. Hillwas called to Rutland, Vt , to see his father,who is very sick.-—Thos. McKelvey and fam-ilv spent New Years at Richville.—A youngson at Dan Moore's.—Dec 22d being the 40thannivt rsary of the marriage of Mr. and Mrs.Albert Thompson, their friends took the lib-erty of spending the evening and presentingthem with a gold band china tea set and hang-ing lamp and pepper and salt caster. J. A.Craig in a few well-chosen words, presentedthe articles and Mr. and Mrs. Thompson re-turned thanks. A nice supper, games andvisiting were the pastimes of the evening. —The event of the season oanieoff last Thurs-day, Dec 80th. For one year Julius Wol-farth has been busy getting ready for a partyto celebrate the 11th anniversary of Mr. andMrs. Allen Tracey. Although it was a verycold day nearly "one hundred guests werepresent J. J. Doty, in behalf of Julius andguests, presented Mr. and Mrs. T. with a goldband china dinner and tea set, of 106 pieces,decorated chamber set, gold-lined spoon hold-er '̂silTer butter dish, a very handsome hang-ing lamp and rocker. L. P. Hall, of Canton,cousin of the bride, in an appropriate speechreturned thanks, after wb'cii Julius recited apoem written expressly for tbe occasion, whenall adjourned to the dining room where well-spread tables awaited.—Mrs. Heptonstall,aged 80 years, was buried New Yean day.She had been a sufferer for neafly two yearsFour sons and six daughters, with their fam-ilies, attended her funeral. The youngestdaughter, who lives in Providence, R. I., wasnot nere. . ROZJL

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HooANflBURQ, Jan. 3>—T. A. Sears has pur-chased the entire stock* of merchandise in thestore recently occupied by H. K. /Dross, atBombay.-Jos. Hall, kt Racket River, nanjust finished a handset/'^^lew residence on a

etaM) of bind which hi* ̂ h trtuwed front Mcs.ridgei —Th« tempumry bridge gt Rfiekut

Hivur h » Usm taken out tu lie repl&om! by anew iron bridge in the spring.-~C. O'Ifeil,salesman of the Fletcher & Mall creamery,sold, the October butter to Messrs. Brown &Meara for 90^c —Mr. P. J. Mullen is spend-ing the winter at bis home in this village.——Mrs. John M jriarty, formerly of this town,died last month at her home In Minnesota.——A baby daughter to Mr. and Mrs. Thos.Lantry, also to Mr. and Mrs. Thos. O'Neil.—Miss Hannah Griffin spent the holidays withfriends in Ogdeusburgand Watertown.—MissMary Milmoe, of Cherubusco, and Miss JuliaBurns, from Maloue, were homo during theholidays,—L. M. Fulton, formerly of Ho-gansbur^aiow an attorney of New York city,and his wife, spent Christmas . with his pa-rents and returned to New York Monday.—There is good crossing on the ice over the S tLawrence at S t Regis; tbe first team crossedon Wednesday.—Mrs. A. Fulton and herdaughter May, spent the past week at Ma-lone visiting friends.—Mrs. Chas. McCuinand Miss Mary Tangney start for Montanaon Wednesday, the former to join her hus-band and the latter to visit her sister, Mrs.John McCarthy.—P. Hahoney is attendingschool at Lawrenceville Academy, and DanDaly, at Fort Covington.—James O'Donovanis teaching at Racket river.—Richai-d Walshwas summoned to MaRsena by telegram to-day to see his mother, who is dangerously illat the residence of her daughter, Mrs. P.McCarthy.—The thermometer registered38°below zero here yesterday morning.—MissTaylor, of Bangor, is the guest. of Mr. andMrs. A. A. Fulton.—Miss May Fulton, whohas been spending the holidays here, will re-turn to Albany to-morrow.—D. H. Bero isclerking for S. G. Grow.—Alison Barlowwrites from Los Angeles, CaL. that the placehas grown wonderfully in the last two years,and that the thermometer registers 85° inthe shade. BLOSSOM.

— >̂ mLOUIBVILLJC, Jan. 8.—Thermometer 80 de-

grees below zero and still freezing.—BusinessIs lively and no end to litigation has therebeen for the past two or three weeks it seem-ingly being the desire of litigants to end theirdisputes ere the old year passed away to givebirth to the new.—Our school opened to-dayunder the tutorship of Prof. C. J. Brown ofWaddington. and to his credit be it said thatwe again welcome him with all due respectand that success may covor his efforts asteacher in the future as it has in the past—The New Year's ball at J. B. Willson's was inall respects a complete success. A large num-ber had congregated at the Willson house ereit grew dark though the weather was very un-favorable. Not far into the eveuing yourcorrespondent was surprised to note that 85couples were partaking 3f the light fantastictoe. Never was a hall, though not large andspacious thronged with such an assemblage ofthe smiling and winsome young. Doubtlesssuch gatherings hardly have a precedent any-where, certainly.not in the history of Louis-ville or its immediate vicinity. They camefrom far and near, which told of the kind ap-preciation and esteem in which the host andhostess were held. At the early hour of 7:80all had gathered from whence the sound ofmusic came, produced by the congenial spiritsof the Madrid orchestra. To the musical earnot a discordant note reached i t Many ofthe lady participants were richly attiredwhich of itself was evident that a society notordinary existed. Many of the gentlemenwere gayly dressed. As the clock tolled thehour of twelve, the guesta were bidden to beseated around the festive board in the well-lighted dining-room, which was laden withsuch delicacies as would have honored a no-bleman's table and proceeded by the palata-ble oysters th^t it was our good fortune to'partake. After the hearty repast, all againrepaired to thahall enjoying themaelveB un-til the dawn of day bade us hastily return toour homes with happy New Year's to all.Hoping that id the near future a repetition ofthe same may%hke place, we extend our re-gards to our Vjpt and hostess for their untir-ing efforts to W | e it pleasant for all.

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PARISHVILLE, Jan. 1.—We wish you at! ahappy new year.—Tlje donation for Rev. O.C. Barnes, last Wednesday evening, was wellattended. The proceeds were $68.—MissLottie Clark expects to leave, Monday, forSanta Ana, CaL, where she has obtained aposition in a school.—Dr. Folton, of Potsdam.was in town a few days since to counsel withDr. Parker on Mrs. 8. L. Clark's case. Shehas been here for some time and it is fearedher lungs are affected.—Fred Judd is recover-ing from a severe attack of bleeding, causedby a slight wound in the hand, received sometune ago.—J. W. Garvin, of Massena, hasrented the grist mill of 8. R. Cook and takenpossession. He has added a system of "freedelfvery" within the village limits.—A. Traf-f am has rented the Shattuck House to A. E.Bandy, who takes possession, Monday.

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GOLVKIINKUR, Jan. .13.— The tobogganslide on New Year's da&was a big thing. Mr.Win. Denny took the first prise on a tobog-gan of his own mak»; the second prize wasawarded to Arthur Corbln; several hundredpersons were at the slide, many taking partIn the sport.—Several loads of our boys rodeoff to the neighboring villages—we presumefor the purpose of making and keeping NewYear's resolutions.—We had a heavy snowfall on Saturday and Sunday and this morn-ing the mercury marked 30 and 40 degreesbelow fcero.—St James1 church realized $850from their late bazaar.—Mr. J. M. Marshcommences his singing school this week.—TbeReading Room Society will give a supper andsocial on Thursday evening of this week.—Tbe week of prayer will be generally observ-ed in our churches; no union services.—Rev.Mr. Bugbee, of Canton, filled the Presbyter-ian pulpit on Sunday last—Mr. James O.Rutherford has purchased a part interest inthe flour and feed store of C. H. Bartlett,Main street—Ice cutters are getting i«adyfor bufdnetw; the ice has frozen so suddenlythat it must be of good quality.—The FarmerBros, gave a forty dollar overcoat to tbe for-tieth name picked from a hat on New Years1

eve. Mr. John Nickleson proved to be tbefortieth man and is quite proud of his pur-chane.—Dr. J. B. Carpenter is limping withsciatica.—Hooping cough is plenty; four orfive cases in one family.—Mrs. E. Wait, withher nephew, Dick Hinsdale. and Mrs. BobAllen are visiting at Rensselaer Falls.—MissMary Olds is home on a visit from Nebraska.—Gracie, the youngest daughter of James M.Oardiner, died this afternoon of diphtheria.The blow falls with crushing force upon aloving and happy family. SKIPPER.

NICHOLVILLJB, Jan.' JJrd.—The week ofprayer is to be observed in the M. £, church.The 4th quarterly meeting will occur Fridayevening Jan. 21st, and Sunday p. m. Jan. 3o,Rev. A. Bromley P. E. is expected to be pres-ent—Rev. G. N. Harmon of the Baptistchurch at Lawrenceville is expected to preachin the Baptist church here occasionally. He>commenced his labors Sunday, Jan. 2nd.—The holiday festivities arranged fur the bene-fit of the Hunday schools, that of the M. E.church on Christmas eve, and tbe Baptist ouNew Year's night, were very pleasant enter-tainmeutfl and were well attended, notwith-standing the severe storm of Saturday. Thesidewalks throughout the village were put Ina good condition by the firm of the Sweetbrothers with « hrwre and tbeir ingenu>UMmmw plow. TWi ltindu«i Wai fuUy appre-ciated.—Ira H. Bmlth, drugjjiftt, is seriouslysick with typhoid fever.—CT 8. OlmnteadrBchild which has been very sick is now recov-ering.—The Good Templars held a necktiesocial at Geo, Webb's in McEwen street, Fri-day eve, Dec. 81st, and report an enjoyabletime.—Mr.and Mrs. Royal rage and daughterHattie of Minneapolis are visiting friends inthis section.—Mrs. Abbott Cheney of Belle-ville. Kansas, who with her husband wasmaking her first visit east, died very sudden-ly at Mr. S. B. GolTs, a relative,ou Dec. tflst,with paralysis of the heart. Mr. AbbottCheney is tbe eldest son of R. P. Cheney whoremoved to Kansas, lft years ago. Her fath-er a Mr. Scofleld had been telegraphed batarrived too late. He met the procession withthe body enroute for the train to return tothe Kansas home. He had arrived at Law-rence by the morning express. The meetingwas a heart rending one and enlisted the sym-pathy of ail for the sad bereavement—ThePotsdam Normal students return to schoolJan. 3rd. Chittenden and Stacy of the Ogd'ensburg academy, also return the 3rd Of Jan-uary.

RICHVILUB, Jan. 4.—The newly elected of-ficers of Rich Post, G. A. R , are installed attheir regular meeting this evening.—TheCongregational and Methodist Sunday schoolshave re-organized for 1887. The former haschosen J. Fred Wiser as superintendent: An-nie E. Foster, Secy.; G. F. Spooner, Treas.and Mr. K. C. Bristol and Maud L. Dean tohave charge of the music. The M. E. schoolhas re-elected Thos. H. Jones their effcientsuperintendent, also Miss Hattie L. Cobb,Sec'y. The other officers are as follows: IraG. Havens, Ass't Supt • Joseph Rowland,Treas.: Calvin Mitchell, Chorister and CarrieM. Jones Organist—Postmaster Hendrick hasbeen unable to be at his office since Christ-mas day. He is suffering from fever andague and has been considerably "shaken up,"but is convalescing slowly.—We understandthat Rev. Munro, present pastor of the Con-gregational church of Richville and SouthHoruion, is to be retained in that position foranother year. Rev. Munro is. a thorough,earnest worker and has been successful inbuilding up church interests here.—The newcoach line is in operation between this villageand the R. W. & O. R. R. and is a grand ad-vantage to the traveling public. Mr. AbnerBristol at present has the management—Mr.Geo. A. Kastner received the sad news Lastweek of the death ofr a sister, a resident ofUtica, N. Y. Mrs. Kastner, who has beenunder medical treatment in that city for somemonths past, has so far recovered as to beable ito return to her home here.—MissesNellie Uodard, Maine L, Hurd and Carrie A.Doane were all at home for tho holiday vaca-tion but have returned to their severalschools.—ThomaH McKelvey and family, ofRenssolaer Falls, spent several days last weekvisitiugut Horace White's.—Mrs. J. C. Winerwas aunwnoned to Antwerp to-day by the se-rious illness of her father, Mr. Nathan Cool-idge.—The Masonic annual gathering thisyear, Dec. 33d, was not a financial success buta pleasant company were gathered and a so-cial good time enjoyed. The newly electedofficers of Lodge No. 638 were publicly in-stalled by Past Master H. White, on Tnurs-day evening. Dec. 80th.—Dr. J. H. Clark, ofKemptville, Ont, has been In town the pastweek. We understand he would be pleasedto assume tbe management of the LyiideHouse if he could make satisfactory termswith Landlord Bishop, the present tenantDr. Clark is a veteran at the business.—TheR U. F. 8. has again opened after only oneweek's vacation. Prof. Ford is in his placeworking quietly, but none the less successful-ly, for the best interest of the school. Mr. J.F. Wiser, of the junior department, is popu-lar with his scholars, and the employment ofMiss Mary Taylor, a recent graduate of thisschool, has proved a most successful experi-ment She has succeeded in pleasing bothpatrons and pupils and with the other teach-ers will be retained for the remainder of theschool year. AJAX.

, Jan. 4th. 1887.—Tbe holidays pass-ed off quietly. The entertainjuent in thePresbyterian ohurch, Christmas eve, waswell attended in spite of rain and darknessand all seemed well pleased. The Christmastree was loaded with gifts. The Superintend-ent, Mr. G. Webster received a very nicerocking chair from the Sunday School, andMispegNellieand Delia Melrote received eacha beautiful plush toilet box for getting upthe entertainment and training the children.The exercises consisted of recitations and theChristmas cantata "Santa, Clans Houses -There was a "Very nice party at Pike's hotel.New Year's eve.—Miss Etta B. Boras aadMr. Allen Payne, of 8pragueville,were unit-ed in marriage, Wednesday, the 20th, at theresidence of Walter Robb, in this town.—Miss Jennie Teal, of Wayne county, is visit-ing at Rev. E. B. Fisher's.— The week ofprayer is being observed in the Presbyterianchurch.—Our village school closed Monday,January 3rd.—Miss Carrie Hail, of Gouver-neur, visited friends here, last week.—Mr.James Smith, who has been quite ill is nowconvalescent M.

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RUHSSLL, Jan. 8d,'87.—School commencesto-day with R G. Smith, principal, and MissM. Clark, assistant The above named teach-ers are sufficient to guarantee a first classschool.—Among the personages from out oftown we note, C. L. Fowler, general agentfor the Buffalo Mutual, Woraairs Mutual andGuarantee Mutual Accident Insurance Com-panies, who has appointed L. E. Winslowagent for this town and vicinity.—Dr. J. H.Clark, of Kemptville, Ont and Mrs. MaggieMarseiL Richville, guests at L. E. Window'*—The Ladies' Aid Society met at Mrs. M.Winslow'g, last week.— F. Foster has boughtout a barber fbop at Norwood. He takespossession this week.—Eldin Burt has recov-ered from his late illness.—About seventy-fivepersons from this town attended the NewYear's ball at Edwards.—Mr. and Mrs. K.G. Smith have returned from their trip toVermont, where they visited Mr. and Mrs.Dr. Howard.—We begin to hear slight whis-perings of coming town meeting.—S. Phelpsand N. Stone have gone to blacksmitbing forour new blacksmith, E. Wood.

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HKLKKA., Jan. 4th,—We are having someextreme cold weather. Mercury stands thismorning at 90 degrees below aero.—DennisMahony, of Cornwall, was in town on Sun-day, and reports good crossing on the BtLawrence at tbe lower crossing and expectwithin a few days they will drive on the up-

Sr crossing.—Will Schoff, of this place, andlas Hall, of Stockholm, were married on

Christmas day, at the residence of the bride's

S&rents, by Mr. Goss, of Massena,—On Tues-ay; the 28th, lost., at the residence of the

bride, at the Iron Works,* Mrs, Stone, widowof the late Mitchell Stone, and Henry Minklerof the Racket were united in wedlock byJustice Minkler, brother of the groom. Theaged and happy couple have the best wishesof all.—W. JL Hamfin, of the Iron Works,entertained a number of friends on NewYear's.—Most of our young people attendedthe dance at Caul's, on Friday night Theyreport about eighty couple and a good time,as usual.—A few from the Iron Works at-tended the dance at Miller ville, and report afair time at the d&noe and an excellent timereturning noine creeping* through the snowdrifts with wagons.—W. W. Johnson leftthin tnnra£*u|[j for Na*»bua with a c^rioad ofjX»Wi»«»; Noit, HiBl niet with a serious «wl-dent on New Year's day. He slipped andfell on the ice dislocating his shoulder. Dr.Hazen was called and repaired the damage.—Mrs. G. H. Buttler in visiting in Bombay.—The winter term of school at the IronWorks began yesterday, with Mary L. Hur-ley as teacher.—Geo. Wells of St. Regis Fallswas in town last week, on business.

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CANTOH .Jan. 3. -Miss Marie Uotard,teach-er of French and German in the OgdensburgAcademy, was in town during tbe holidays.—Miss Ella Remington, who has been attend-ing school at Clinton Liberal Institute, FortPlain, is at home during vacation.—Miss Ar-abella Rich, who is attending St Agnes school,at Albany, is also home on a visit.—C. R.Wilson and wife have removed to Sherman,Texas.—Dr. A. B. Herrick and wife, withbrother Alfonso, all of Lisbon, D. T., are vis-iting relatives. Dr. Herrick and wife re-turned after the'holidays. Alfonso, who is aDakota farmer, Will not return until spring.—Hon. W. H. Kimball and Hon. A. P. Hep-burn, left on Friday last fo# Albany, to at-tend the opening of the legislature next Tues-day.—C. H. Boyle, of Benton. Montana, whohas been making a trip thro* tbe south andeast, is spending a few days in Canton, beforereturning to the west—Mr. F. T. Post, classof *88, St. Lawrence University, who was ad-mitted to the bar a few months since, has re-moved to Lowville for the practice of his pro;fession.—Diphtheria is still abroad, to someextent—A child of Henry Stickles was buriedon Friday. Other members of the family areill.—Mr, Byron Rogers and wife, who*uavebeen ill with fever, are recovering.—Mrs.Terrence Carl and her mother. Mrs JohnSheridan, went to New York last vaek on avisit to the Misses Harrison, who are spend-ing the winter there.—Mr. C. J. Thompson,of tbe firm of Ekbredge & Thompson-, is seri-ously ilL-*-Quite a crowd assembled at theskating rink Saturday evening, to witness anexciting contest in the shape of catchinga greased pig: Charlie Johnson was the suc-cessful contestant SPUDDY.

FORT COVINGTON.— The Christmas festivi-ties in the different Sabbath schools, passedoff agreeably and very successfully.—NewYears found the men about town in a charit-able mood, which was shown later on by theappearance of a four horse team well loadedby the handsomest men in town, who organ-ized a "Widow's Aid Society," while drivingabout. They at once cleaned out all thebread in the two bakeries and proceeded to'distribute the "staff of life" among the needy.—Miss Fannie Kimball is home Tor the holi-days,as is Charlie Matthews.—Neil Campbell,an old resident of this place, died on the 30tbof December, aged 74 years. Mrs. Higgins,formerly Miss Barr, died at the Centre on themorning of the 3rd, aged 58. Mrs, H. wasfor years a teacher in this vicinity, and herold pupils will git ye to learn of her deatltIt is reported that the masons are to have apublic installation of officers and a ball on theltfth.—The New Years ball at the StaffordHouse was not largely attended.—The ser-vices of the week of prayer were begun onSunday evening in the Presbyterian church.The sermon was preached by the Rev. Mr.McGregor, the new pastor of the Baptistchurch. Mr. McGregor is an able and ingtructive preacher.—Deacon Farlinger knowshow to do a good thing, and while remember-ing his own pastor, didn't forget to send agirt to Father McMorrough, whose services inthe cause of religion and morality are appre-ciated by all classes here.—Oliver Herbert,assistant engineer on tbe express, was serious-ly injured while getting off the cars at PointSt. Charles. Ho fell on his knees and sustain-ed such injuries as will probably keep himconfined for some time.—Miss Martha HcGif-fin is in verypoor health and her recovery isconsidered doubtful. —The new weather sig-nals are bringing too much weather alto-gether. When the mercury drops to 80 toquite time toqutt—Happy new year to everybody. .

N. SL MAJOOWB.—DidoCleland were marriedWoodwork schoolJohn Tanner is seriouslyworth-is spending his vaoaticttai

IRISH ROMHC, BOMBAY.school is progressing nicely,scholars in attendance, aadgeneral oaanager. She-mafcwmark, she am aoonuBaadni nthe beam at 180 pounds.—CM"*tbe parties concerned ara JimMiss Seetoy, both of Bombay.Brady are visiting friend* «tand Mary SulUvanaro boa»the holiday*.- We are rtdjable to be out again. —Opr lastat the Cameron and OrKeefesold lately, to J. W. BrownFrank Cotter k making a trad*farm. We wish him succesa*. ,discharged the carpenters at wtfrithouse, when he heard that bfbought a ticket to California,lector, E. J. Frew is aroundSmith & Wesson revolver,light through the first dog tnaiin for 50 cents. R V

BRAMHKA FALLS, Jan. 4.—Xnvhoney was in town the past wesfcmany friends.—Cornelius O—Hon. C. T. Hulburd is inWheeler, proprietor of thehas placed a pool table in tbehotel—Hon. I*. C. Lang is inbusiness.—Mrs. Richardren are spending the holiday*friends in Ogdensburg.—Tbebeen closed the past week.—Sullivan, an old lady aged 80,morning. Her only son cameLead ville a few days beforeto spend the' winter with hisShe wA taken ill suddenlyspeak to her children after theleaves three daughters—Mn. Hayw,Driscoll, of Norwood, and Mrs, Jobkie, with whom she has lived for sotoeHer funeral was held on Monday,B#v.Nynan officiating.—Patrick Baldwin'sest child was buried Wednesday.—Tinof marriage were published for the firatSunday, between Mr. Narrow andBrothers.—Mr. E. Ham andwere married Saturday.—The dnunattcwill be Jan. 14. This is a grandwall played; all should attend that

Piw*, N.Y., Jan. 3d, 1887.—We«stgreetings of the season to the ADVAIwish it a prosperous year andaoc .widening circle of readers. ThrtKtfjfaktlfumns we extend tbe hand of feilimany correspondents, and hope theirforts will be employed daring thekeeping the town correspondence ofVAKCE where it has been so long, farof that of any of ite contemporaries,mas was observed here withatatje atTown Hall in the evening. Theexercises was brief but well deli'which the more important matter ofbutton of presents was proceeded witkwere forgotten, hence all were hfjjgptbe previous evening the hallby George Freeman, our ne*rg&velUi! prat djfcpeiBjg

and all seemed to enjoy thetnsetvttfAnderson, who has been VMMCleveland and Chicago, forweeks, ha* returned home.—Henry ****son of Lewis Marsh, who has been farpast year under treatment at the Uisane Asylum, is at home againcured from that institution.—J. N.of Pennsylvania, has opened a jewelryand repair shop in the town hall stocv.wish him succeed—MiflB Mary Cohas been attending school in Mispending tbe holiday season atConboy. now of Watertown. is u »brief visit at home.—Tbe Sons ofance at their lost regular mooting 4'following officers for the ensuing axWorthy Patriarch, T. E. Haing Scribe, James Conboy;trade Gay; Chaplain, E. O.or, CharleH King: Outside . . __Jones.—The work of the diamondLittle River ore bed has beenand the apparatus removed toNo one outside of those mwhat their explorations have dewe hope the general estimate dtthis deposit has provenbusinesjof our section israw vdne of our products, of whieh-important part. Already it baarailroad of first-class oonstroctfolour doors, and the prospect npVthat through it an era 01 important**enterprise is about to be i

STOCKHOLM, Jan. 1st, 1*7.-*Year to you Mr. Editor, alaocorrespondents and readers,year be the beginning of a ~of us.—Cyrus Pease, #C Ebeen visiting his eld homechildren and friends of Q. W.at his house on the thirtieththeir marriage, and left as aoccasion, a newt ovetwoakmoved to Bangor to asKtof a new butter factory.farm to H. BaUou-Hosea BaO-*from here to Arkansas seven jagain moved, this time to "Cbittendon has sold htehomestead t» his brother, whothe farm himself next •eaton.em has been home from Anjiwhere he is attending a mAlonao Dyke is home fromhe hat been superintending tthe grist mill, burned last j^TJ^L,Riggs* salesman for Greenwooa~sold three months butter * £the August make at SIOctober make at 95 oen$»Crapser is putting ice into]ies now.—Mr. AlbertMiss Ada Wheelock werethus jtealing a, march on <A Christmas tt*»,ChrtetodMW\church, was the event mosfcour vicinity. The wholt wipices of the M. K. SaoavHi ,by their able superintendant,who proved to be the ri^hficasion, maintainingtem.-—CommisBkHierthe river bridge atparty for Mr. and Mrs.the residence of theWheelock, Mondayto Santa QarapleasantW. Tamwhen remindeditwenty years theyof our coming. A

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