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Newspaper
Middletown Evening Press
Location
Middletown, New York, United States of America
Date
May 21, 1872
Page
1
The Middletown Evening Press issued in Middletown Orange County New York, on Tuesdays Thursdays and Saturdays at five o clock. Office located in Gothic Hall first floor.
A Democrat shifts to Greeley and Brown while a Cincinnati convention figure judges his own stance. The Legislature creates a 32 member constitutional commission with equal GOP and Democrat representation. Leaders doubt southern colored voters switch to Greeley. Colored men’s convention in New Orleans settles the question.
The piece argues Democratic presses push to split Republicans to win with a straight Democratic ticket. It notes Michigan Republican papers back no Cincinnati push and Pennsylvania papers mostly back a Baltimore party nomination. Northwestern New York only one GOP paper supports Greeley, edited by a dubious writer known for anti Republican stances.
A 3,000,000 mortgage is recorded in Luzerne County with 3,000 revenue stamps, covering 300 pages. Bonner’s Startle shows a 2:19 mile, 1:09 first half. Southern speech cites risks of using niggardly term. A Lafayette man fails to light a lamp after leaving a club, then an explosion occurs not from kerosene. Delaware & Hudson Canal Co posts 1,665,622.78 net profit for 1871. coal output 2,011,333 tons, near 1870. Sid Sullivan falls from a moving Elmira train, may recover. Hunterdon, Somerset, Sussex, Warren form the IV District in New Jersey. all Democrats. Hudson River fast trains cut Albany-New York time by 20 minutes per timetable. Midland Railroad track advances toward the New Jersey cut on the 22d. bridges four times cross the Erie between Middletown and New York. Jersey City Depot to be terminus. Snufftown sinkage troubles persist. engines sink in mud but safe measures planned before regular service.
The piece lists letters with local figures and shops from Adams boot and shoe man to Zero at the Everett estate. It notes names like Beattie twice voted, Post beaten, Quick constable and Wanamee a hard one to beat, ending with Mone Anon.
The Erie Railway Engine No 293 plunged into the Passaic River after a drawbridge was left open by neglect. No injuries were reported. A railroad is likely to run between Mongaup and Barryville with extensions toward Shahola and the coal regions while the Midland expands links at Franklin Ogdensburg and Newark for ore transport. Two water cranes were installed at Franklin with a 17000 gallon tank and a turbine wheel to pump lake water to fill engines.
The Rev. Nathaniel E. Pierson, aged 59, died in Escanaba Michigan on May 19 after an accident followed by erysipelas. Formerly pastor at Unionville and Ridgebury, he served as Union Army chaplain in the Civil War and led Hoffman-S. A. M. of Ridgebury. He leaves a widow, three children in the west, and a daughter married to Wm. Bailey of Ridgebury. Deep sympathy is extended to his family.
Mrs Wadsworth wife of Henry A Wadsworth Surrogate of the county died Sunday night at Unionville after medical aid from Dr D C Winfield and Dr Whittaker, leaving a husband and three children, the youngest a few days old. The deceased was described as a lady of amiable qualities and will be sincerely mourned.
A gravel loaded construction train car on the N J Midland broke loose at the top of a heavy grade beyond Ogdensburgh and thundered down the mountain. It struck a milk train at Franklin just as the engineer braced the moving train, causing damage but averting disaster if the other train had stood still.
Rain fell Saturday night and Sunday, ending weeks of drought and extinguishing fires that had burned in various places. The total loss from the woods fires is estimated at two to three million dollars, with further injury from the drought. The rain's value is hard to measure.
Pamphlet by S D Seward LL.D. of New York recently issued by Baker Voorhees Co. at 66 Nassau reviews the title registration of real estate, gives a brief historical survey, notes defects in the present system, and offers improvement suggestions.
A stock company that recently bought Masonic Grove near Unionville and set up a trout pond has moved its stock to ponds better suited for the business near Wattsboro in Sullivan County.
Judge Low states the Midland passenger depot for this station will be permanently located within a month likely a fortnight. The report confirms the decisive move and assures progress.
To night Dist Deputy R W A Edward Suffern will visit Hoffman. Lodge opens at 8 o clock sharp.
An M and E W V R R employee in Neeleytown suffered a calf injury from a coupling pin while coupling cars. Electus Douglas of Montgomery was badly cut and stunned after being thrown forward by a jack-screw while repairing a Walden house. The Swift Stager paper mill at Wallkill near Montgomery nears completion with masonry and turbine wheels in place, with an expected $60,000 setup and October start. Rev S Case baptized sixteen, aged 14 to 73, while a singing school began under E G Fowler. Supervisor H H Clark, ill with typhus, worsened after a brief improvement and remains critically ill.
The Corner Stone ceremonies on Thursday begin at 2 o'clock and are expected to draw many visitors. The event follows Beecher style notes and notes on local art, with references to the Dolly Varden Gallery and Hotel decor. A Port Jervis boy suffered a bad injury after a fall from a balcony.
A statement asserts the New York Sun article last Saturday misrepresented the Robinson Little affair in Putnam County. It claims all major points are false except minor details like the deceased person’s birth date and birthplace.
Horton and Slawson sold the Wm. Dolson farm in Dolson town to Hon H R Low and bought back from him his share in land along Grand avenue formerly acquired from R VanHorn.
Floor timbers are being laid on the foundation and a large audience is promised for the corner-stone ceremony to be held Thursday with celebrated speakers from abroad expected to attend. The builder aims to have the first floor completed for the event.
The Evening Press lists temperature variations from North Street Drug Store at 9 AM 12 PM 3 PM 6 PM and 9 PM on May 18. Readings show 0.60 to 0.86 across intervals with consistent drift.
Differences between employers and journey men bricklayers and masons in New York City are settled with the loss of only one day. The workers win and begin the eight hour rule today. Carpenters hope for a similar outcome.
Henry Ward Beecher writes in the Christian Union urging the Philadelphia Convention to nominate General Grant over Horace Greeley. He argues a new party would harm the nation and calls for a strong, united Republican line to restore order, safety, and reform, warning against desertion and coalition with Democrats.
Orange County commissioners Smith and Slauson and superintendents Wilber and Warren travel to Rochester for the annual Convention of School Commissioners and Superintendents. Senator Madden heads to Albany to participate in impeachment court proceedings against Judge Barnard. Gov Parker names ex Governor Haines of Hamburgh to represent New Jersey at the London World’s Convention on Prison Reform. The New Jersey Historical Society is authorized to obtain colonial documents 1701 to 1776, with $3,000 allocated for the effort.
A California reader rewrites a burlesque Farm Ballad to argue that a wife's mother should not bear all public slights in marriage. The piece contrasts two mothers in law and ends with a sharp reminder that marriages involve two mothers in law, deterring most orphans from matrimony.
Mamie Hortons and Obed struggle with love on Nautilus Island as she vows not to break a promise and crosses the Bar in freezing ice. A disastrous ice-floe jam sweeps the channel. Obed reaches the shore to grief and the waif is lost to the sea, a red hood the sole clue.
Josephine McCarthy of Albany was found not guilty of murdering Henry H. Hall of Ogdensburg in a felonious assault on Milton H. Thompson on a Utica street car. The jury returned the verdict after hours of deliberation, provoking applause. McCarthy was rearrested on a separate assault charge.
Both houses announce a final adjournment date of May 29 signaling end of the current session. The agreement comes after unanimous consent to adjournment and procedural steps completed for the session wrap.
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