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Newspaper
Middletown Evening Press
Location
Middletown, New York, United States of America
Date
Sep 09, 1871
Page
1
Mr A B Deming Newsdealer Bookseller will have entire charge of village delivery and collections for the Middletown Evening Press. Collections to be made every two weeks. Single copies sold at Deming's and Vail's Bookstore for four cents.
California voters statewide delivered a decisive Republican sweep across offices and ballot measures, signaling broad party dominance in state elections and shaping policy directions for years. The results reflect strong support for GOP candidates in key races and ideological priorities.
Mr Booth wins the governorship and Republicans carry the state legislature and San Francisco ticket. Majority around four thousand. Democrats discouraged as in Connecticut and likely to fare poorly in Massachusetts and Pennsylvania. Republicans hail the result as a favorable early 1871 wind indicator.
Judge Barnard granted a temporary injunction on Thursday stopping Hall Connolly Tweed Sweeney and associates from issuing bonds or paying money to Tamany controlled corporations. The crowded court room cheered as the decision was announced marking the first people’s win against municipal robbery.
Cornelius Walsh was nominated for Governor of New Jersey on the second ballot at the state Republican Convention in Trenton. The platform endorses Fifteenth Amendment, Grant administration, debt reduction, civil service reform, and supports Walsh and pure Republican principles.
The Independent Republican blasts a radical layman of the Methodist Church as a County Judge candidate while the Newburgh Journal rebukes the attack. The man in question is not a candidate and continues his church observances, unaltered by the controversy.
Middletown real estate auction proceeds with weak bidding. Goshen observers arrive to oversee, but demand remains subdued and sale action slow, reflecting subdued local interest in the property.
Sudden death struck the community as Eli Rightmeyer, about 47, collapsed from apoplexy while in his yard. He recently ran a tannery in Ridgeway and had been a partner in Wallace & Rightmeyer before starting his own business, with a wife and niece mourning his loss. The funeral is planned for Tuesday at 2 pm.
Messrs Chas Horton and Slauson have bought Wm Dolson's 148 acre Dolson town farm just outside the village. They plan to lay out streets and divide into three five and ten acre lots for sale to buyers, possibly drawing New York investors. Improvements are anticipated under the new ownership.
European correspondence by Rev. Mr. Harvey praised as among the series best. The extra edition is available at Vail's and Demuing's, with next week’s Orange Co. Press to include it and more content. Subscription price is $2 per year.
The St Pauls M E Sunday School announces its annual picnic at Unionville on Wednesday Sept 15. Buses depart the depot at 11 05 and the group meets at 10 in the church. Round trip tickets cost 35 cents. The invitation extends to friends and all who wish to enjoy a pleasant day in the grove. Plenty of cars are arranged.
Friday night a car killed a calf belonging to Mr. Caper Shaffer near Circleville. About four weeks ago a valuable cow and a sheep were killed similarly. He is seeking town compensation for the losses.
Personal notice records Maj. H. H. Knox of this place leaving Monday with his family to establish a new home in Council Grove Kansas within the Neosha Valley. The gallant cavalryman who served with distinction in the War for the Union will reside in the future in the state.
Henry G. Scofield of Port Jervis, a brakeman on the Erie Railway, died after leaping from a Goshen freight train traveling eighteen miles an hour. He struck his head and his brains were dashed out, killing him instantly.
Fragmentary OCR reports temperature readings at multiple times from a North Street drug store. Data appears garbled with time stamps and odd symbols, but indicates a September event with measurements around early morning to night. No clear date or location beyond the street reference.
Dr. H. Warren serves as Superintendent and Academic Department head. Carrie B Homer and L. C. Wilder lead middle and primary sections with assistants. Primary and intermediate teams include Hartwell Shipman DeKay DeKay Woodward Vail Barlow Shepard Woodward. No 2 No 3 No 1 groups list Moore DeKay Clark Dolsen Baird Haines Parson Harding. Orchard Street School staff include Hanford Corwin.
The Young People’s Meeting at 1st Presbyterian Church will be led by Clark Crawford with the subject Christ’s Miracles. John Morrissey plans to build a Saratoga church from Helmbold winnings. Episcopal convention in Baltimore faces rubrical amendments debate. Methodists in New York state to hold a December convention likely in Syracuse with delegates split by District. Wesley Grove camp meeting featured sermons by Rev Oakley and Rev Corey's successors. Rev Dr William A Westcott accepts call to Centreville Presbyterian Church. Turners fair for the Methodist Church, aided by Col E R Abbott and wife, raised $800 in one day.
Susan Watts, a 32 year old married woman from England residing in Newburgh, consumed two ounces of laudanum on Thursday night and died the following morning. Her husband Watts said fatigue and depression led her to act on repeatedly voiced thoughts of self harm. They had lived in the country nine years with no relatives here. Mrs Watts had no children.
The memoir of the late Fanny Hoffman Tucker by Nev Oakley is available at Deming's and Vail's book stores for 25 cents. Unsold proceeds beyond printing costs will fund a tombstone for the deceased. The booksellers will waive commission on sales.
The Kingston Press reports at Wawarsing horse trots pool sellers fled with the pool funds, affecting both winners and losers. A Cold Spring course measured after Goldsmith Maid’s famous time shows sixty nine feet over a mile.
Two or three weddings are planned next week. On Tuesday a young furniture man and on Wednesday a notable figure from Empire Block will wed, as Cupid’s archer thins the ranks of unmarried men this fall.
The column notes fall and winter readings in private parlors, recalling last winter at the O. C. M. rooms as very interesting. Similar private parlor entertainments are being arranged, with the first due on South street soon.
A reader group defends publishing a rebuttal in the Evening Press asserting grievances against a political faction. They argue the need for immediate relief from grief and claim friendship across parties while upholding the creed of equal rights and liberty. The writer signs as M. LC and notes no response is expected.
Messrs. Stivers and Kesstneen acknowledge improvements to their store funded by landlords Messrs. Vail and Evans. They note the enhancements include cushions, desk, table, chairs, glass fixtures, iron fire and burglar proof door, and other fittings, expressing hearty gratitude for the effort and expense.
Commodore Matthews returns from Babylon with two shark skins, trophies of his fishing skill, now at Howell Hinchman & Co. tannery for preservation. The South Side Signal notes Middletown excitement as Matthews, aboard Tommy Dodd and Eugenie, hooks a 12 lb shark and a 250 lb catch, to grace his museum.
The Auburn branch of the Midland Railroad aims to reach Cortland by December 1, 1871 and have cars running there. A sink on the line near Snaiftown in a swamp a mile long but half a mile wide sank forty seven feet beneath water after partial filling. The line may require rerouting to circumnavigate the sink. At the Monticello and Port Jervis Railway annual meeting in Port Jervis on the Sth, directors were chosen and a new board elected with seven Erie officials among them.
Sullivan County reports Jack Frost visiting Friday morning and a Monticello Teachers Institute scene where Prof. Johannot received Shakespeare's complete works. The Republican surveys regional disputes with neighbors while Honesdale and Port Jervis clubs debate a canceled game. Local baseball wrangles reflect limited enthusiasm before modern civilization matured.
Penny Mapes wed Chas L Pen hey at the bride's parents' home with L Key officiating. J Emmet Ketcham married Sarah F Corwin at the bride's parents' home with L Little presiding. both couples reside in Mt Hope.
DIED. RIGHTMYRER Sept. 9 in Middletown of apoplexy Eli Rightmeyer 47. Funeral Tuesday Sept. 12 at 2 P M. Burial at Hillside Cemetery. ALLEN Sept. 5 in this village Join Allen formerly of England 60. Funeral Sunday at Grace Church at three o'clock.
A letter from an elderly mother to her son out West warns of corrupt saloons and unsafe alleys. The tone is cautionary and aimed at steering him away from vices and danger encountered in frontier towns.
A collection of brief items includes a Shawl lost notice, weather and fashion remarks, Olive Logan's possible Mid dletown appearance, a spectacular firework display in New York, and the Fair of the American Institute opening in New York City. It notes a Goshen man’s 83 year old nephew, a spike in self harm cases, and political intrigue around Peter B Sweeny aiming to oust Tweed and Connolly. Also mentions a Presbyterian Church auction, a camp meeting idyl story, a Post Office building letter, a deacon injured by a bonnet glare, and Ulster County official Wm H Dederick’s long tenure.
A repairman from Philadelphia is killed near Lawrence Station New Jersey when struck by a New York bound morning train. Boiler explosion at Maumee Valley Flouring Mills New Haven Indiana kills two proprietors and a engineer with three others severely injured. A Philadelphia man is fatally shot in a lager saloon during a card quarrel. Mme Hindley from Barnum's circus dies after being thrown from a carriage near Rome New York. Severe gale drives ships ashore on Lake Erie with vessels and crews lost or saved. Cholera cases rise in Baltic provinces then decline with fatalities, and a steamer from Dantzic to Amsterdam presumed lost with all hands feared dead. A canal drowning occurs near Buffalo. New York appoints commissioners for the Centennial celebration. A railroad collision on the Louisville and Nashville line results in three deaths. The Boston Sons of Temperance approve colored membership without racial distinction.
The Binghamton Standard details severe abuse at the Susquehanna Valley Home where Supt. Van Epp allegedly chained a child to a heavy block for four weeks and kept him on a bare floor with a thin blanket. A manager-appointed commission will investigate the case.
TOLEDO Ohio September 7 Mrs Margaret Finley living near Wabash Ind murdered her three children yesterday forenoon. She beat the infant on a stone and cut the throats of her two eldest children aged nine and eight. She was arrested and jailed yesterday. She is a widow and says she killed the children to get rid of them.
The account describes an American party securing a papal audience by applying through the Pope's secretary, dressing in court fashion via hotel staff, and passing guards to reach Mons. Riccio. It recounts the Vatican, the Pope's isolation, and the Swiss Guard within a tense Rome after Victor Emmanuel.
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