From the Chenango Union of Norwich, NY
Wednesday, May 11, 1870

   The DeRuyter correspondent of the Oneida Dispatch writes as follows :

"Our railroad, we now learn, will be entirely abandoned about the first of September next - by the contractors. The strike is now fully over, and the men have mostly resumed work. Work on the trestle portion is now commenced, and the steam shovel will be in operation the present week.

   "Will the editors of the Oswego Times and Syracuse Standard come to DeRuyter and see some three hundred men at work on our road? Then they may be convinced that it is abandoned - over the left."