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Newspaper
Middletown Evening Press
Location
Middletown, New York, United States of America
Date
Aug 01, 1871
Page
1
The Middletown Evening Press offers home delivery by carriers at ten cents weekly for subscribers, four cents for single copies, and mail rates of 400 a year, 200 for six months, or 100 for three months. The Times and local weekly in Ontario County list terms and advertiser contact.
Mr A B Deming of 18 the General agent for the MippLeTOwN EVENING Press will handle village delivery and collections therefor. Collections will be made every two weeks. Single copies of the current issue may be purchased at Deming's and at Vail's Bookstore for four cents.
The Mercury ridicules critics of Ulysses Grant for travel away from Washington, arguing past presidents also spent time at other places. It lists dates of Washington, Jefferson, Madison, Monroe, Adams, Jackson and others’ absences, defending Grant’s pattern as not harming public interests.
The piece argues Democratic errors will overwhelm the party unless cast aside and questions Gov. Hoffman about removing Edward L. Carey, Port Warden, amid riot testimony. It frames Carey’s $5,000 office as a test of the governor’s commitment to suppress mob violence and uphold law.
A Washington dispatch reports the California visit long hyped by papers will not occur this year. The President may still travel later with Mrs. Grant and part of the family from Long Branch. The change undermines Democratic critics who relied on the trip for headlines.
A Nebraska report recounts a tornado near Omaha that hurled a freight train off its track and a severe storm that carried a quarter mile of track over a four foot fence into the prairie. The account notes unusually strong fencing for the feat.
Port Jervis Gazette reports a thief entered the Cuddeback stable at Huguenot and stole a sorrel mare with white facial markings, a light open buggy, and light harness. A $50 reward is offered for property recovery and thief conviction. Suspect path leads toward Sullivan County. same night two tubs of butter and baked goods were taken from Lewis Cuddeback in Cuddebackville.
Joseph Clark, last of the rioters involved in the assault on Polieiss, was sentenced by Justice Powelson to six months in Goshen jail after pleading guilty at the German Picnic scene. Cunningham fled during examination and remains at large. officials condemn the escape and seek his capture and punishment.
The funeral for Fanny Hoffman Tucker was held Monday afternoon at the Episcopal Church with many Masonic members present. Rev Capron delivered the burial service and praised the deceased temper and intellect, noting her as an adopted child of the lodge. Interment followed at Fullerton place near State Hill, with Rev Oakley offering closing remarks at the grave.
The Warwick Advertiser notes two accidental deaths in the vicinity in the past week from opium overdose. David Conklin, about 38, died in a barn near Amity on Thursday morning, and Mrs Ama da Crogan, about 70, died at the County Poor House on Saturday morning.
The Fulton Patriot reports twelve wheeled passenger coaches with Gilbert patent windows now running on the Midland. When open they exclude dust cinders and smoke making travel the most easy comfortable and elegant on any road in the state.
This item reports the death of Mrs Joanna Bonnell of the village. It notes her husband Joseph Bonnell was buried two weeks earlier. Mrs Bonnell had been bedridden for several months and bore her illness with notable Christian resignation.
Under current mail, Port Jervis papers arrive two or three days late. The Saturday Evening Gazette reached readers only on Tuesday afternoon and the Elmira Gazette arrived with last night’s edition, showing slow delivery.
Weather outlook appears favorable for tomorrow and local readers expect a large turnout at the Masonic Grove picnic. Organizers anticipate a good time with strong community participation and solid attendance.
On Thursday evening the O U A M hosts a peach and cream festival at Empire Halls. Goodall will perform piano and violin in both halls and the event closes with a grand social ball. See adv.
A new post office is established at Winterton on the Midland two miles from Bloomingburgh with James E. Winters named post master.
The forger John Potter was tracked by A Capman and W W Shaw who found him in Adrian Michigan. On governor backed requisition he was brought to Goshen jail. Potter formerly lived in New Jersey and Westtown. He sold bogus notes to Squire Chapman and Frederick Dunning with false indorsements by Dietch Hunt Wickham and Wickham. He had a recent fight at Wickham in which he nearly killed a man.
Personal visits note Prof A B Farnham visiting Middletown from Bath Mo with possible relocation offers. J Ralph Van Duzer sails on a month long western tour to Niagara Falls Chicago Milwaukee Fond du Lac and more, with Wm 8 Jackson tagging along to Milwaukie. A corps of local notables plans an extended trip to Watkins Glen Niagara Falls Toronto and beyond with Prof Mallette and others.
The late Dr. Taylor residence on Orchard Street owned by his daughter Mrs. Balsky sold at sheriff’s sale this afternoon. Dr. G A Emory purchased it for 6400 dollars. The Casey property on Main Street sold at public sale Saturday afternoon for about 6825 dollars, auctioneer M Lewis Clark, with P Meehan handling the bid.
The Telegraph reports a Saturday evening blaze at Vail's Gate consuming the hotel and its barn. Inmates heard a pistol shot before flames appeared. house contents and liquors were saved. Insured for 1500. loss amount not learned. Property owned by Thomas P. Ryan.
Horsemen are asked to call at the press office to inspect Hiram Woodruff’s trotting horses work. An exchange notes Dexter sold for 30000, a remarkable price, while Longfellow the Kentucky horse who won at Long Branch draws offers well above 100000, which his owner rejects and may not accept even that.
Friday evening just before 6 o'clock a laborer assisting J. M. Mapes while retiping Theron Weller's chimney on Division a1 fell from the top round of a ladder to the ground and broke his collar bone.
A wartime item titled Variegated Appendage is described as active again, signaling ongoing conflict activity. The report emphasizes recurring movements and potential escalation, with emphasis on strategic implications for involved factions.
Explosion of the Westfield boiler at South Ferry in New York City kills over forty and injures nearly two hundred. The wrecked steamer lies shattered with bodies, survivors, and mothers searching for missing children as Battery and Whitehall boatmen rescue dozens and recover the dead amid chaos and sorrow.
A collage of items from August notes including advertisements for J W Decker and J K Still, removal carpentry by R Van Morn & Son, and local social asides. Mentions Sherman and Grant politics, Irish lectures, farm women in Iowa Indiana, and a remark on music education. Also covers school vacation, weather, burglar anecdote, Saratoga gossip, stockholders meeting, railroad work to Bullville, and Surrogate Court guardianship changes in Swartwout family.
New York papers recount the Staten Island ferry catastrophe with growing death tolls and injuries. Hospitals morgues and police stations report mesmerising scenes as searchers recover bodies and survivors. Disagreement persists on the number of dead from 62 to 123 and responsibility for the explosion remains unresolved.
The Tri States Union reports long trips and crowded upper canal sections reduce profits for canal boatmen. Typical trips now take three weeks with fewer than fifty boats arriving daily at Rondout, well below the brisk times of eighty. Coal shipments also lag, pushing traffic onto rail to Weehawken direct.
In the twenty four hours ending 9 30 Thursday July 27 Port Jervis station saw 128 trains arrive and depart. 111 were Eastern Division and 62 Delaware Division movements. Cars totaled 2218 and 2246 respectively, 4464 in all, the largest ever for that period at Port Jervis and indicative of Erie business activity.
The New York Times issued over three hundred thousand copies in a single Saturday edition, the largest daily paper run in the country and perhaps the world. It aims for every voter to have the issue.
By act of the last Legislature, collectors of school districts must post notices in five public places within the district stating where they will receive taxes at one per cent for two weeks. This is a renewal of an old provision repealed in 1865.
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