Rochester, Monroe, NY Union & Advertiser Mon Sept 1, 1879 LOCAL MATTERS -The first of the series of the lectures by Hon. J. M. PEEBLES, at the Academy of Music on State street, takes place to-morrow evening. He will lecture on "Southern India," &c. -Yesterday a team of horses owned by a man named STEARNS, of Gates, ran away, and at the junction of Frank and Lyell streets came in collision with a lamppost which, with its attachments, was demolished. When they ran against another post they were caught. -Yesterday evening, on West avenue, near Canal street, a man named IRVIN, of Gates, was driving west on the wrong side of the street, and another man was driving Dr. HENION'S horse and buggy east. A collision took place between them, in which the doctor's buggy had one of its wheels broken off. On advice of Policeman FAY, IRVIN paid for the damage. -The straw stack, which we mentioned on Saturday last, as having been set on fire by lightning and burned last Thursday night in Chili, belonged to Lewis D. CARPENTER, a farmer near the Ballentine bridge. His barns were saved by the strenuous efforts of his neighbors. -A man in Holley is said to have invented a machine for cutting eel grass that will discount the grass-growing capacity of the Erie canal. -Yesterday Paul WENTZ was arrested on a telegram from Dunkirk, charging him with non- support of his wife. Paul claims he is willing to support his wife if she will leave her folks. He left this morning for Dunkirk. -On Saturday the BARTHOLOMAY Brewing Company bought tickets for their 125 employees for a trip to Niagara Falls and return. The ticket entitled the holder to all the privileges of the Falls, & c. -COREY will play second base for the Hop Bitters nine, and act as change pitcher. The unreliability of LEARY is assigned as the reason for this change. **** The Late Joshua Eaton As the following history and tribute to the memory of the late Joshua EATON contains several facts not heretofore published, we give it space today, although we have already given one extended notice of the deceased: Charlotte, Aug. 29, 1879 DIED - At his residence in the village of Charlotte, Aug. 27, 1879, of general debility, Joshua EATON, aged 74 years 5 months. Mr. EATON was born at Wilton, New Hampshire, March 23, 1805. At an early age his parents removed to Jefferson county, N. Y. He married Miss Harriet KINNEY, of Rodman, who died in 1844, leaving two daughters who survive him. He was for some years a merchant at Sackett's Harbor, but being unfortunate in that business he afterwards became book-keeper and storekeeper of the Dexter Manufacturing Co., at Dexter, N. Y. In 1845 he married Miss Adeline F. BAKER, who died at Charlotte last summer leaving no children. Upon the election of James K. POLK as President he received the appointment of Deputy Collector of Sackett's Harbor, which position he held through that administration and during which time he resided in Sackett's Harbor, N. Y. In 1849 he removed from Sackett's Harbor to Charlotte, when it was practically dead to business, purchased the warehouse and stock property and began trying to build up a business for himself. Among the first things he was to get a charter and organize a company to build a plank road to Rochester, which by hard work was accomplished. He was also successful in getting the American line of steamers to stop at Charlotte instead of the Upper Landing. His next endeavor was to get a railroad from Charlotte to Rochester. For weeks and months he labored with the Rochester people to get the stock taken, but only one man, the late Harvey ELY, responded. At last he succeeded in getting Azariah BOODY (who was then building the Niagara Falls branch of the New York Central & Hudson River Railroad) interested, and they succeeded in getting the stock taken outside of Rochester and the road built, and when the consolidation of the different roads from Albany west occurred the Charlotte branch was taken in as part of the Niagara Falls road. Mr. EATON was one of the founders of the First Presbyterian Church of Charlotte, of which he was an elder, and by his liberality contributed largely to its support. He was also instrumental in getting the iron furnace built here, and in all improvements of docks; in fact to him more than any other man is Charlotte indebted for her past and present prosperity. He held various offices of trust and twice was elected supervisor of Greece. The village loses a good citizen, the church a good supporter and elder, the society a good neighbor, his family a good father, and we all a good friend, one who will be universally missed wherever known. His life was an active one, and now, having gone to his reward, may his be the welcome plaudit. "Well done, good and faithful servant; enter into the joy of your Lord." A. R. B. **** Find ALL of the News Abstracts for Monroe Co., NY at http://www.newspaperabstracts.com/NY/Monroe/index.html -- GjS