18 May 1872
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Newspaper
Middletown Evening Press
Location
Middletown, New York, United States of America
Date
May 18, 1872
Page
1
The Middletown Evening Press lists publication days as Tuesday Thursday and Saturday afternoons at five o'clock from Gothic Hall first floor office in 1872 Orange County New York.
Directory lists pastors and regular Sabbath services for First Baptist Mulberry Street Primitive Baptist St Josephs First Congregational St Pauls Grace Church A M E Zion First Presbyterian Second Presbyterian and more with service hours Sabbath school times and church addresses noted for parishioners and residents.
The Middletown Mercury and the New Paltz Times attack the paper's editor for backing the Cincinnati platform. The Times calls him passive and cowards while orange County Democrats rally against party fixation on Greeley and Grant. They insist true Democrats won t vote for Cincinnati backed candidates.
Horace Greeley speaks at the January 5 1871 reorganization of the Republican General Committee urging gratitude for Grants Fifteenth Amendment support while noting some presidential appointment flaws He favors Grant as a strong 1872 candidate and calls for broad party unity and moderation to bolster Republican prospects nationwide.
The Middletown village meeting reduced spending for gas street lamps and street work from 1600 to 1500 and 6000 to 4000 respectively. Other cuts followed including cross walks printing and advertising and police and water board costs, while academy expansion was rejected and education funding to be decided later. Warwick and Goshen plan Decoration Day joint services with the Grand Army.
Citizens urged to attend the benefit concert at Buall's Opera House next Thursday evening in Middletown. First benefit for the new Middletown Cornet Band. tickets are selling fast and a large turnout is expected for a strong programme.
The Board of Trustees of the Middletown Home for the Insane will hold a meeting in Middletown on the upcoming Wednesday to discuss administration and operations.
A village reports a plan to build a large hotel on parsonage grounds opposite the Press office. A sidewalk committee fences the site to display show bills for a circus and gauges local interest among business men to subscribe stock, promising 10 percent return at occupancy. If insufficient support is found, the project may be abandoned.
The Grace Church seating is free on Sabbath evenings with Whitsunday services announced for tomorrow. Rev. Gunning will speak on Spiritual Declension in the morning and Christ among the Doctors in the evening, followed by baptism at Hillside Cemetery. Baptism by immersion at Westtown's Presbyterian church on the previous Sunday caused excitement, including the Monell wife. St Pauls M E Sabbath School officers for the coming year are listed, and Rev. Corey's sermon tomorrow evening will be Pontius Pilate.
Col. Sproat, Supt. of the Monhagen Water Works, reports the Monhagen Reservoir has fallen one inch daily for ten days. Widespread daily water use for street sprinkling threatens a very low supply unless rain arrives soon.
Personal, Ira B. Mills and John J. Beattie of this village graduated from Albany Law School with Bachelor of Laws. Mills opened an office and begins practice locally. Senator Madden attended nearly all sessions, with praise for his diligence amid a party shift in Albany.
The Gazette notes strong improvement in Port Jervis with an estimated 200000 spent on new buildings this year including an Opera House and Episcopal church. It sees 1872 adding about 100 more structures, plus new streets and a coal yard, with real estate up 50 percent in one area and plans for a Midland short line and Erie shops relocation signaling substantial progress.
Local items announce openings at Turner's and upcoming concerts at Cavanaugh's with strangers seeking strawberries and love songs. They urge Decoration Day prep, rain prayers, cemetery lot inspections, and a mass meeting at the depot with a post office gathering. The piece notes rising demand to enforce Excise and Game laws amid political reform.
A kerosene barrel at Howell's depot spilled during removal ignite steps when sparks from a passing train set the area alight. Citizens with shovels quickly extinguished the blaze by covering it with dirt before it could threaten the building.
Hon. C. H. Winfield defends a Cincinnati movement backing Mr. Greeley and urges Democrats to unite to defeat Grant. He argues that independent aid is needed and that the Democrats pledged their good faith to support any anti Grant ticket, while warning of a three ticket race and stating his intention to back the Democratic National Convention nominee if endorsed.
The Commodore, after receiving intelligence of blue fish near Babylon on Wednesday, intends to leave next week for a favorite resort. He will stop at the Watson House, run by Selah C. Smith, famed hotel man, where Mrs. Gen. Sherman and Gen. Geo. B. McClellan with families have already taken rooms for the season.
The Congregational Church foundation sees floor timbers fixed and the builder pledges a first level ready for a large audience to hear renowned foreign speakers and witness the corner-stone ceremonies on Thursday next.
Ninety six cans of milk are now being carried over the Crawford Branch of the Midland daily. The section traversed by the Crawford Branch will yet become a prolific source of supply of the lacteal fluid.
A grain of musk drops in a room and years pass yet the scent lingers. The verse asserts that every deed approved by God leaves a lasting good influence, enduring across time and east or west.
Mamie, the Waif of Nautilus Island, adapts to a glamorous city home guided by Aunt Thankful and Uncle Miah. She blossoms into striking beauty yet longs for the Maine coast and Obed as she weighs a return to her rustic origins against the allure of refined society.
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