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Newspaper
New Harmony Register
Location
New Harmony, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Dec 26, 1868
Page
3
A local notice extols New Harmony High School as a leading institution in the Great West and invites residents to celebrate New Year’s Day with open houses. It offers light guidance on prudent visiting etiquette to avoid excess, urging brevity, moderation, and courtesy as holiday traditions continue.
The concert is in active rehearsal and expected to draw a full house. New songs and choruses will be presented along with a humorous pantomime featuring a debut by a local young lady and an African dwarf who is the day’s champion clog dancer. The program also includes conundrums entertaining town wits competing for prizes.
The Ball last night drew a large crowd with much merriment and a sense of holiday festivity. Tonight the juveniles will dance in light fashion at Union Hall. The pork trade remains slow as prices rise to ten dollars per hundred, with buyers reluctant at this level and weekly receipts down from the norm.
The Episcopal and Methodist Churches held Christmas Tree events on Wednesday and Thursday evenings that drew large crowds. Many gifts were distributed to scholars and teachers and outsiders received tokens of esteem. The two churches will alternate Christmas Eve exhibitions with the Episcopal Sunday School hosting next year on Christmas Eve.
A Monday fire razed the large Evansville hardware house of Sonntag & Co. The structure stood as a fine business monument in the city. Estimated loss to building and stock may reach $80,000, partly insured, with Mr. Sonntag well regarded by local merchants.
Prof E T Cox gave a Monday lecture on primary chemistry laws of force and gravity before Mr Mironey's pupils. The session used mechanical toys and apparatus to illustrate concepts clearly and was praised as beneficial and understandable.
Our postmaster Dr W B Allen has resigned over duties and salary and Mr J C Minnen, former postmaster, now runs at the old stand in New Harmony Bakery. Also notices an Evansville optician Rhrrrensera will visit next week at the Viets House with spectacles. Arrtenberg supplies glasses with satisfaction. Ice supply expands with new ice houses by Turatt Moumrorp. New Eclectic Magazine January issue praised, portrait of Joan Ranxin, published by Turnbull & Murpocu, Baltimore, $4.00 a year.
The document notes fixed active force figures of 778000 infantry 54000 cavalry 74000 artillery and 17000 engineers totaling 923000 men with a peacetime reduction to 515000. It also mentions a congressional joke about Senators YaTss and Chandler appointed to standing committees.
The letter from Polly defends moral improvement and female influence while condemning clubs and social meetings as seeds of vice. It criticizes Claude for a rambling attack and cites War General Grant on reconciliation, urging mothers and wives to lead the fight against temptation and promote sobriety and health. An advertisement titled Look out is noted for readers seeking profit.
The January issue of Captain Mayne Aero's On Ward is available at Housekeepers' Imperium for 30 cents per copy or a yearly rate. Tonight Union Hall hosts a juvenile ball to close the week’s festivities, with many cheerful faces expected. The item also lists real estate transfers for the week ending December 21, 1868, detailing numerous parcels in Mt. Vernon and Bellville with varying sums. A New Harmony Retail Market column provides weekly price corrections for flour, wheat, corn, eggs, butter, lard, coffee, sugar, molasses, hides, linseed oil, coal oil, turpentine, vinegar, whiskey, potatoes, dried fruits, salt, beans, tea, and related staples.
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