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BOUND VOLUMES, March 20, 2014 200 YEARS AGO On Thursday morning last, between the hours of 3 and 4 o’clock, our citizens were aroused from their slumbers by the alarming cry of fire, which proved to be in the building occupied by Taylor and Graves as a Tailor’s and Barber’s shop, and had made such progress before the alarm became general, that it was impossible to save the building. The end of Messrs. Cook and Craft’s store, which stood about…

BOUND VOLUMES, April 3, 2014 200 YEARS AGO The bill to incorporate the Bank of Otsego has been lost in the Assembly – 46 to 39. Mr. Crafts, agreeably to leave, has introduced a bill to incorporate the “Bank of Cooperstown,” which has been passed to a second reading. This is probably some new modification of the rejected bill; but from the hostile attitude of the senate with regard to Banks generally, little hopes can be entertained of its ultimate…

BOUND VOLUMES, April 10, 2014 200 YEARS AGO Dispatch from Plattsburgh – A Spy Detected: At length, by redoubled vigilance, in spite of the defects of our own laws, the corruption of some of our citizens, and the arts and cunning of the enemy, one Spy, of the hundreds who roam at large over this frontier, has been detected, convicted, and sentenced to Death. He came from the enemy as a deserter, in the uniform of a British corps, had…

BOUND VOLUMES, April 17, 2014 200 YEARS AGO Advertisement – School Money – The proportion of School Money for the County of Otsego, has been received from the Superintendent of Common Schools. The several towns in the County can have the same for the year 1813, by applying for it. An order signed by all the Commissioners, will be necessary, which may be drawn payable to any one of them, or any other person. It will also be necessary that…

BOUND VOLUMES, April 24, 2014 200 YEARS AGO The Armistice – From all information we have obtained on this subject, the following are the particulars, we believe, so far as they have progressed in this important affair. As we understand, a proposition has been received from Sir George Prevost, governor of Lower Canada, by our government, for a suspension of hostilities between the forces of the United States and those of Great Britain under his command in the two Canadas,…

BOUND VOLUMES, May 8, 2014 200 YEARS AGO Married – on Tuesday evening last, by the Rev. John Smith, Samuel Starkweather, Esq., Attorney at Law, to Miss Marcia Averill, daughter of James Averill, Jun. Esq., all of this village. Village Law – Resolved, That no person shall remove any of the fire hooks, ropes or ladders belonging to the Trustees of this village, from the place where they are deposited, without the consent of the President of the village, under…

BOUND VOLUMES, May 22, 2014 175 YEARS AGO The action brought by Mr. Fenimore Cooper against Andrew M. Barber, Editor of the Otsego Republican was decided on Wednesday last at Fonda, Montgomery County, by a verdict of $400 damages in favor of the plaintiff. The complaint was for a libel copied, with some editorial remarks, from the Chenango Telegraph, in connection with a controversy for the possession of the Three-Mile Point, on the west shore of Otsego Lake. There was…

BOUND VOLUMES, May 29, 2014 200 YEARS AGO Anecdote – A Clergyman in Scotland desired his hearers never to call one another liars, but when anyone said the thing that was not, they ought to whistle. On Sunday he preached a sermon on the parable of the loaves and fishes, and being at a loss how to explain it, he said the loaves were not like those now-a-days, they were as big as some of the hills of Scotland! He…

BOUND VOLUMES, June 27, 2014 200 YEARS AGO Died in this village, on Monday evening last, very suddenly, Mr. Jesse H. Starr, about 26 years of age. Mr. Starr attended public worship on Sunday last, and appeared in good health, and went to bed on Sunday evening apparently well – on Monday morning, it was discovered by some of his family, on entering the room where he slept, that he was in a state of insensibility, and continued so, till…