THE OWEGO, RECORD March 19, 1891 ED GRADY'S NARROW ESCAPE. Ed GRADY, a workman in the Tioga Centre Tannery, rode home Monday evening contrary to his expectations. He was walking home and while plodding along an the west-bound track about two miles west of this station, extra freight train No. 533, PRENTICE conductor, came up behind him and unceremoniously lifted off the rails, landing him on his face in the cinders which line the tracks. PRENTICE stopped, picked him up, lagged No 24 and sent him to his station and then he was taken home to Tioga Centre on No. 11. His injuries were not serious, consisting of a badly bruised face. WAVERLY WIDE AWAKE. Tuesday was charter election at Waverly and both the Free Press and Advocate got out extras Monday to have the last word before election. DEDICATION. The new Methodist Episcopal church of Sayre, PA, will be dedicated to the worship of Almighty God on Saturday, March 29, 1891. Services at 10:30 a. m. and 7:30 p. m. Preaching by Bishop Thomas BOWMAN, D. D., of St. Louis, MO. Pastor's and friends of adjoining charges are cordially invited to attend. Y. M. C. A. Notes The association is greatly indebted to W. W. CORBIN and P. C. PETERSON for several copies of Henry DRUMMOND'S latest works and to M. H. THOMAS for the New York Weekly Witness. The men's meeting at the Y. M. C. A. rooms at 4:00 o'clock Sunday was addressed by Rev. L. B. LANGFORD and the association orchestra furnished the music. A good atlas is very much needed. If you haven't one to present to the association, perhaps you know of someone that would be glad to make such a donation if they knew of the want. Dana CONKLIN, general secretary at Oneonta, and Rev. Ethan CURTIS of Syracuse were pleasant callers at the rooms last week. Mr. CURTIS delivered the address at the Sunday school convention Friday evening. ORNITHOLOGICAL MUSEUM. T. F. MOORE, the veteran carriage and wagon manufacturer, has in the little show room in front of his factory on North avenue, a fine display of mounted birds, which attract the attention of all who see them. He has a grand golden eagle, sometimes called a harpy, which was shot in Kansas, and spreads it's wings eight feet. A Roseate S. Bill is a handsome bird from Florida. The bittern which was shot at Big island, ( not Hiawatha island) and a handsome peacock, which, when shot was six years old. and the most beautiful bird of it's kind ever seen in Owego. WANTS TO LEAVE THE COUNTY. The Spencer Needle vigorously advocates that the town of Spencer be allowed to remove itself from Tioga county and become a part of either Tompkins or Chemung county. If this could not be brought about the Needle modestly suggests that adjoining portions of Tompkins, Tioga and Chemung counties be set off into a new county, with Spencer, of course, the county-seat. all of which would of course be very nice - for Spencer. Dr. Katonka CARY is at Kingston, PA. Will he start a sanitarium there? The superintendents of the poor hired Isaac WEMPLE and his wife yesterday to assist at the asylum. Editor NIXON of the Chemung Valley Reporter is to be congratulated upon a successful operation to remove a tumor from his eye. The Susquehanna Transcript imparts the startling information that "the railroad tracks at Owego were covered two feet deep with water Monday night." The articles going the rounds and headed "To Save Fish" do not refer to the game laws but to an effort to get ex-Banker FISH out of prison. Justice of the peace O. B. GLEZEN has the trial this afternoon of Henry WOOD for non-support of his wife Jane. S. S. WALLIS, Esq., for complainant and B. W. LORING, Esq., for defendant. A sharper visited Elmira and tried to get a check cashed on the strength of a forged letter purporting to come from the New York firm of W. N. STEMKOPF. He may visit this place so watch out for him. Messrs. ECKERT and GEER, stenographers, have just completed typewriting out their notes taken in the WINTERS case, before Hon. A. P. EATON. It contained about 200 folios, of which three copies were made. C. G. MERRILL, the D., L. & W. freight agent at Binghamton for the past eighteen years, died suddenly Thursday of pneumonia. Traveling auditor BRIDGEMAN of that road acted as agent until a new agent was chosen. An Eastman heater car, loaded with potatoes, shipped by J. B. WINTERS from Richford last week was burned on the Lehigh near Pittson a day or two ago and he has been notified to send in his claim for damage to the company John HIGGINS who was struck by a locomotive in the West Susquehanna yard Tuesday, died from his injuries at the residence of his son yesterday afternoon. - Hornellsville Press. Bill Grummons [email protected]