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Newspaper
Middletown Evening Press
Location
Middletown, New York, United States of America
Date
Nov 21, 1871
Page
1
Mr. A. B. Deming of the Newsdealer Bookseller will oversee village delivery for the Middletown Evening Press and collect payments biweekly. Single copies are sold at Deming's and Vail's Bookstore for four cents each.
Poem by J. G. Whittier in December Atlantic reflects on a city scorched by fire. It recalls vespers praise after disaster, honors brave rescue efforts, and urges rebuilding with humanity and faith. The piece links savior acts, global sympathy, and the gospel of humanity to the city’s recovery.
The Tweed era Tammany ring is blamed as two savings banks, the Guardian and Bowing Green, suspend operations. William M Tweed served as president of the first bank and, with his gang, ran the other. Depositors, many workers and small savers, face losses and partial recoveries as confidence sinks and bank usefulness declines.
Comptroller Connelly resigns amid graft stigma and Andrew H. Greer is named acting Comptroller. Thomas Murphy resigns Port of New York Collector. Gen Chester A. Arthur nominated to succeed. Park Commissioner Tom Fields and others depart. commission nearly vacant as Tweed remains entrenched in Public Works.
The congregation and friends of Rev. David Beattie are invited to the annual donation visit at the Parsonage in Scotchtown on Wednesday evening November 29. A donation visit will be given Elder Walker on Wednesday evening November 22 at Empire Hall.
On a Friday two men visited J. B. Frothingham president of Union Trust at 73 Broadway New York. While one spoke about a loan the other took 101000 Monticello Railroad bonds from a desk. One man was caught. the other fled. The bonds are valueless but could defraud buyers.
Laborers and contractor Morehead faced legal action amid clashes while building the Milford and Matamoras Railroad. Forty workers were arrested on a trespass charge at Wm. Brodhead’s land. later, R. C. Bull resisted, leading to arrests of the railroad president, assistant contractor, and eight employees for riot. Bail was posted. a hearing is set for the 27th. Cross filed civil damages. the company seeks recompense for delays.
The unfinished Midland line covers Jersey City to Paterson Smiths Mills to Newfoundland and Newfoundland to Franklin Furnace. The Newfoundland to Franklin Furnace section should finish by spring. Opening to Liberty is set for January 1, with grading planned between New York and Hackensack within a week and cars to run in a month. A recent bridge incident on the Hackensack stalled work by two to three weeks after a three inch iron pin failed.
Readers are urged to secure passage for a Europe bound lecture voyage at Bull's Opera House on Thursday evening. Rev Harvey will pilot the ship of lectures drawn from his abroad letters. Course price is $1 for the full series or 25 cents per lecture, benefiting the Congregational Church.
Theodore Bradner, alleged son, contests the probate of Doe G Bradner's will with W T Shaw of Middletown as counsel for the contestant and D F Gedney of Goshen for Mrs Sarah J Ogden the petitioner. Roberts and others versus Erastus Stickney et al deciding title to John Howell farm in Wawayanda with plaintiffs ordered to pay nearly one thousand dollars in costs.
The New Meeting House of the Old School Baptist church at Roberts and Cottage streets will be opened on Wednesday the 29th at 10 o'clock a.m. Several Primitive Baptist ministers will attend and services will run through to the evening of the following day.
The Erie Railway will stop the emigrant train this evening at Chester and Goshen so attendees can hear Horace Greeley in Chester and return the same night. Some travelers from Middletown also expect to attend.
David 8 Jones of this village earns national notice as a successful horticulturist with a massive 104 pound beet named Madden prolific. He roots the giant vegetable as a cross of Fenton and Conkling varieties and promotes it locally and beyond.
The Russian imperial party led by Grand Duke Alexis arrives aboard the Svetlana at Sandy Hook. A formal reception occurs in New York Harbor with the Norske and U S authorities greeting the fleet. Alexis, age 22, is the third surviving son of the Russian emperor and may wed Princess Mary Elizabeth of Prussia.
Sugar Loaf lies between Warwick and Chester on a connecting branch road. It hosts a church schoolhouse hotel two stores a grocery and post office a flour and feed depot a creamery and a blacksmith shop. The surrounding countryside features rolling uplands fertile valleys and distant mountains resembling sugar loaves.
Passaic faces financial distress as village certificates unpaid by Jersey City Mayor ONeill lead to a corporate levy on Passaic property. Sales yield only a few hundred dollars, while officials threaten to attach goods and chattels. Some Aldermen have transferred their effects to their wives.
Fire early Saturday at about one o clock gutted Ambrose Green’s house on the Chas Gillett property near Otisville. Mrs Van Keuren discovered the blaze and the family escaped by the windows as flames raged. Insurance of one thousand dollars covered the dwelling and three hundred dollars on the furniture.
The Montgomery and Erie Railway reports cash earnings and receipts for the year ending Sept 30 1871 at 44026.82 dollars with an excess of revenue over expenses of 2447.97 dollars. The Erie system needs more engines than available. Six engines were built at Dunkirk shops in October.
The town develops a new water system with a nearly finished dam and cement lined pipes. Water supply is ample and quality good as 12 inch mains feed 8 inch laterals and 6 and 4 inch branches to most streets. Reservoir sits 100 to 180 feet above town, total cost about $20000.
Readers send support and opinions from Chester Middletown and beyond. A subscriber praises the Orange Co Press as the best county paper, while local readers request removal of an obstruction on a loading platform. A letter commends Mr Harvey with anticipation for European travel lectures.
A panoramic show at the Opera House tonight replays the Franco Prussian conflict with scenes of pomp war and defeat for France. It features famous towns under bombardment the French capital before and during siege and ends with Peace celebrated amid general applause.
Frank Carmichael presents relics from the Chicago fire brought by his visiting brother Daniel. The fragments include a porcelain match safe clay pipes fused together and a piece of charred paper with figures taken from a safe, forming part of a growing cabinet of curiosities from the scourged city.
The Board of Supervisors of Orange County resumed their sitting on Monday. We will begin a record of their proceedings and have arranged to receive early and full reports.
In a New England kitchen the Bellingers prepare a frugal Thanksgiving while news arrives of Sam Raymond’s promotion to colonel. Martha Raymond seeks aid. Huldah and Letty weigh family loyalties as war spills into domestic life with a soldier’s letter and a village rumor.
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