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Newspaper
Middletown Evening Press
Location
Middletown, New York, United States of America
Date
Nov 18, 1871
Page
1
The Middletown Evening Press lists publication days as every Tuesday Thursday and Saturday afternoon at five o clock from Gothic Hall. Office located on the first floor.
Aunt Jerusha sits by the kitchen stove lamenting missed chances for love. She imagines Thanksgiving chaos and crowding, recalls hardship, and weighs marriage and law against bachelor life in a humorous regional ballad. S. 8. Conant. Nast's Pictorial Almanac.
Official returns show Orange County backing Madden and Sullivan County favoring Beebe. Madden secures a total district majority of two thousand eighty one, the largest ever achieved by a candidate in this district.
Sullivan County official canvass shows overall votes 5586 with Willers 3018 Scribner 2565. Beebe 3085 Madden 2462. Buckley 3032 Appley 2490. Potts 2031. Reynolds 2614. Dar ling 8024 Minckler 2523. Lovett 2946 McShane 3001 Schoonover 2565 Champlin 2558. Potts leads District Attorney by 317. Beebe leads Senate by 626. Buckley leads Assembly by 542.
The Secretary of the National Republican Committee calls a meeting in Washington on January 11 to decide where the next national convention will be held. An informal canvass favors New York City, with Cincinnati as the competing option.
The Journal reports that two Newburgh citizens are likely to be arrested on charges of illegal voting from the recent election. One man is alleged to have voted at both the First Ward and the Second Ward polls, swearing in his ballot at both sites.
Professor Gunning discussed two creation theories, evolution and spontaneous development, noting La Monte and Agassiz views. He traced life from fish to birds and quadrupeds to humans, debated ties between man and gorilla, and raised questions on material links while affirming divine variety and potential affinity.
Citizens will travel Great Britain France Italy Switzerland and Germany from the Opera House in five evenings for one dollar to aid a church. The steamer leaves at 7 o clock Thursday evening November 23 with all aboard.
Edwin Parmelee sold his 85 acre farm one mile south of Bullville to Daniel Thompson for 110 dollars per acre. The sale is believed to be the highest price paid for land in the town of Crawford.
Evening Press reports variations in temperature from Mc Monagle and Rogers North Street Drug Store using their standard thermometer. Data shows fluctuating readings with numbers listed in the column for the evening.
The Hillside Cemetery in Middletown reports improvements including grading a two acre plot, trimming trees, and new monuments such as Daniel C. Reeve’s memorial. The cemetery cites post Congregational burying ground re interments as controversial but emphasizes orderly grounds and active purchases. Mr Wait remains superintendent under Captain Pronk’s supervisory leadership, with the association note on growing patronage.
The revival at Gardnersville led by Rev. Walton and Rev. Levi Morse continues with about forty seeking prayers and many conversions reported. Greenville Baptist Church notes seven conversions and heightened church activity. Port Jervis pastor Rev. McKinney preached to the congregation last Tuesday. Newburgh District Methodists elected ten clerical and ten lay delegates to attend the State Convention in Syracuse on Dec 5 1871.
Charles W Post, of Hamptonburgh, was killed when a wagon upset during a neighbor’s furniture move. He died from head and hip injuries after going ahead with the removal. He was a farmer, long-time resident, husband of a childless widow, and brother of Alfred Post of Newburgh. The widow is sister to Supervisor Charles M Thompson.
Dr. A. H. Seymour of West Town, with ocean travel knowledge from a European trip last summer, is in frail health and will travel to St. Augustine Florida this fall to reside there through the winter.
George Harrison of Emira was moved from Goshen jail to the asylum last week due to utter insanity after being jailed for burglarizing Bucklin's store at Port Jervis.
The Middletown Hoffman lodge invites J. H. Anthon Grand Master of Masons in New York to speak at Bull's Opera House on November 27. Anthon will present an essay on the Nature and Origin of Freemasonry, a talk expected to draw a wide audience.
Brief items note Europe at Bull's Opera House next Thursday, a ball of the M S R C at Distler's Hall, and social tidbits. Reports of a six day illness in Warwick, Goshen building growth, church debt discharge efforts, a Goshen brakeman injury, and local curiosities plus Warwick water works accidents.
L E Coleman corrects Goshen Democrat statements on Alice Mapes death. He cites nervousness and laudanum use from sugar leaves in her pocket, notes her Saturday stage rides ending at St Luke's Hospital, and insists Mapes had a home with her Middletown aunt and was not contemplating self harm.
Major 8. E. Houghton arrived Thursday evening and stayed at the Taylor House. He wandered the village yesterday, signing and selling photographic portraits of himself while attracting curious attention. Some thought him the Commodore Nutt, though he is shorter than General Tom Thumb by about a head. The Major, age nineteen, hails from Dorchester Massachusetts. He stands 31 inches tall and weighs 41 pounds.
In a Massachusetts style household, Mother Bellinger directs Thanksgiving prep as son Frank fights in the Civil War. Huldah faces family pressure over suitors and rumors of Deacon Bridgem’s proposal, while tensions rise around charity and loyalty amid wartime hardship.
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