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Newspaper
Middletown Evening Press
Location
Middletown, New York, United States of America
Date
Dec 09, 1871
Page
1
The Middletown Evening Press lists delivery by carriers at ten cents a week and four cents for a single copy. Mail rates are four dollars per year two dollars six months and one dollar three months. Postage by mail is fifteen cents a quarter. The Orange County Press appears weekly on Friday mornings with two dollars per year.
Mr A B Deming, Newsdealer and bookseller, 18 General agent for the Middletown Evening Press, assumes full charge of village delivery and collections. Biweekly collections will be made. Single copies sell for four cents at Deming's and Vail's Bookstore.
A Syracuse based Methodist Episcopal gathering adopts a resolution urging Christian men to labor in caucus and convention to nominate good men for office. The Utica Herald lauds this step toward purifying politics and urges active participation by Christians to ensure government remains by and for the people.
Congress intensifies effort to end the income tax this session. Gold sells Tuesday at a ten percent premium, the lowest since 1862, with ongoing fluctuations and currency uncertainty. Mr. Sumner proposes replacing greenbacks with compound interest notes funded by gold bearing bonds at maturity.
The Saturday evening train to Thompsons station for Monticello and Monday return is discontinued for winter. Burt Van Loon and Addison Gibbons rode through the tunnel in a crash with icicles over the Ellenville line. no injuries. Uncertainty remains about the Shawangunk tunnel passage by January first. Ellenville depot gains patent lining with a leetle improvement. Track extends over a mile beyond Fallsburgh tunnel as grading advances toward Awk's Mountain. Last Midland tunnel approaches are completed with headings contract set, about 1100 feet long, target six months to complete.
Letters from the People report Rev Dr Garnet spoke at Empire Hall Tuesday. The event drew a small audience of educated readers and ladies and gentlemen who encouraged self help and progress. It fell short of its fundraising goal to lift church debt but sparked moral advancement and mental improvement among attendees.
Mr and Mrs John L Bonnel of this village expect to sail within months for Rio Janeiro Brazil to reside for ten years where he will pursue a railroad enterprise there. The note appears among local items and jottings with other notices.
Two gatherings on Friday engaged Middletown residents in temperance work. At St Pauls Methodist lecture room Dr Putney and Rev Corey spoke while Rev Harvey offered remarks. A Good Templar event at Good Templars Hall featured performers including Chester Belding and Helen Nichols followed by an oyster supper.
A Thursday evening crowd at the Opera House accompanied Mr. Harvey to Paris in a new People’s Lectures series. The Middletown Evening Press notes the lectures, built on Harvey’s European letters, are a rare success for the town’s lecture scene.
On Wednesday around eight pm a bold thief seized a tub of butter from the stoop of the Taylor House and left. Constable Adams pursued the matter and shortly found the empty tub behind Herrick's livery stable, but the thief remained at large.
Mr. George Fredericks sold to Patrick Burke 3% acres of Chester onion meadow at nearly 800 dollars per acre. H A Denniston sold his 200 acre farm near Washingtonville to Peter J Brown of New Jersey.
The Tempe area temperature readings are listed by Mc Monagle & Rogers' Standard Thermometer North at Drug Store. Observations show variations across morning hours with values around 8.86 to 9.82 in the cited timetable and format.
To The Craft. Printers who file copies of their papers for binding should select those only which register well and then fold the sheets by the printing before laying away. We are prepared to do all kinds of binding at shortest notice.
Dexter trots a mile in 2 14 at a private trial. Bonner drove Star tle four year old in 36 at a quarter mile. Lovell offers 2500 to match American Girl against any trotter except Goldsmith Maid. Grant buys Young Thorn for 8000. Curtiss Hambletonian dies suddenly in Kentucky. Bonner buys Princess and dam of Clara G for breeding. Hall and Brown Rover expelled for fraud in 3 10 at Waverley Port. Average race horse stride about 23 feet, some near 27. No mile in one minute. Salina and Fadladeor hold fastest mile on record at 1 43.
Tomorrow evening Rev J H Gunning begins a series on the Miracles. Grace Church holds divine service tomorrow morning and evening with Sabbath School in the afternoon. St Paul M E Church notes its First Anniversary Meeting of the Juvenile Missionary Society tomorrow evening at 7:30 with an announced program. Bishop Morris reaches seventy eight in April though too feeble for public service beyond benediction. The item mentions Methodist church growth and a Vermont pastor anecdote on modern improvements, plus a Cincinnati sermon denouncing theatres as hotbeds of immorality.
Reports from the period note English Republican rifts at a meeting and Jules Ferry becoming French Minister to Washington. Spanish municipal elections favor the Radical party while Sumner presses civil rights bills. Fires in Hagerstown and other cities, rail and telegraph disruptions, and a coast gale with multiple fatalities are reported.
A nostalgic monologue-poem recounts a Kansas visit and the joyous news of Jennie becoming a mother. An elderly storyteller reflects on past journeys, family bonds, and hard travel on mountain roads, ending with reconciliation and memory.
In a rural sitting room, Mary Flowers receives four hundred dollars from husband Reuben to buy furs. Tempted by fashion, she wrestles with conscience after a stranger brings a neglected child to their door. The child finds warmth by their fire as the couple contemplates sacrifice and charity.
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