Newsy Paragraphs. —Bouckville fa to have a new depot. ane Utica poultry show will open Jan. loth. —Jacob Lower of Canastota to dead, aged 69 years, Middletown is the only wet spot in Orange County. ~The price of potatoes for shipping: has one up to 800 at Worcester. re —The Herkimer county board stands 13 Democrats and nine Republicans. —On account of rabies 4 dog quaran tine has been established in the town of Verona. —The fall for the building fund of St. Bernard's church, Waterville, netted $1,600. —D. I. Pope and wife of New Berlin will spend the winter with relatives in Newark, N. J. —I. 8. Sears recently organized ao grange st Erieville with an Initial membership of 91. —A contesting association, the first of its kind In Madison county, has been formed at Woodetoak. —The Sons of Veterans of Onalda are interesting themselves in the erec tion of ‘ soldiers’ monument. —George Pendel of Cortland was sent to the penitentiary for brutally beating an old horse with a beard. —Fire destroyed the upper portions of J. B. McGuire’s feed store at South New Berlin early Tuesday morning. —Nearly one hundred pounds of honey were taken from the Congrega tion 5 church af Moravia on few days —The Waterville Military Band will give its annus ball in the Waterville pers House on Wednesday evening, Nov. 29th. —West Winfield went dry again and now there is some question as to whether Wm. M. Clarke builds that new hotel, “ ~ —George Griswold, the ce man of Sidney; case horse that stands 10 hands high and weighs nearly as much as A ton of coal. —Fire originating from 1 detective stovepipe nearly destroyed the resi dence of Barney Loftus, the sage of Georgetown, on Muller Hill. —There are 6,652 criminals in the prisons of this state, according to the reports of the several institutes made to the superintendents of prisons. —Atwood, the aviator who recently flew over the central part of the state, was married Saturday to the charming sdow of the late Senator Thomas att. —Wm. H. Hoerrner, for thirteen years past supervisor of music in the public schools of Binghamton, has re signed to accept the chair of music at Colgate University. Otsego is ahead on hop quality. DeWitt Mitchell of Schuyler Lake was awarded the 1000 sliver cup by Adolphua Burch of St. Lauia for the best hops grown in the United States. —An Oneonta dog attacked 9 per cupine and was so well olled with its quills that the veterinary to whom It was taken deemed it best to kill the canine as he beat way to end his misery. —Senator Harvey D. Hinman o Binghamton has brought a 850,001 U result against Willis Sharpe Kilmo 88 a result of the mud-stinging Indulgec. io by the Press during the Inte politi cal campaign. —The new Lamberg theatre In Utice will be opened on Monday evening, the 2ith. The Lambers is the largest theatre In Utiga and will be an im portant addition to the amusement places now there. . I — A hawk aught in a steel trap at the New York State Game farm:as ‘Sherburne had sufficient strength to pull the trap loose and fly a by with the heavy trap and several feet c hain attached to one leg. —There is 9 genuine son of the Revo lution, residing at Mount Vision. His name is Richard Nearing, and he is a son of Joseph Nearing, a soldier In the Revolutionary war. Mr. Nearing is eighty-four years old and has resided at Mount Vision for more that fifty years. —Charles E. Tlaesch, of Unadilla, has been retained on behalf of the wife and non of H. R. Bradley, of Tranklio, who was one of the victims of the auto mobile accident at the State fair, and is engaged in an effort to determine just who is liable. Undoubtedly pro ceedings will be taken against the proper parties. — Kid Yokel, who hails from Che néogo Forks, has started on a walk from that pla¢g to Baltimore, Mary land, on a wager of 8250. The money is put up by a couple of Baltimore newspapers and his part is that he covers the distance in a space of 19% hours or Sxzotly’ eight whole days. At the distance 's 400 miles, he will have to cover 50 miles each day to win.