From the Chenango Union of Norwich, NY
Thursday, January 29, 1874

   Midland Matters. - David Shattuck, the well known and popular conductor on the Auburn Branch, has been transferred to the passenger train on the main line, between this village and Oswego. He will make hosts of friends wherever duty calls him.

   Judson Baldwin is the only conductor on the passenger trains on the Branch. Leaving DeRuyter in the morning, he runs to this village, thence to Cortland and back, and finally returns to DeRuyter in the evening. He is an attentive official, and well liked by the traveling public.

   The "duplex" ticket humbug is one of the greatest nuisances with which the conductors and passengers on the Midland are afflicted.