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Newspaper
Reading Daily Eagle
Location
Reading, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Nov 12, 1868
Page
3
Readable items report a large Neversink Mountain fire making limited damage, a grand billiard exhibition to crown competition between Jools Wett and another champion, and local notices on church meetings, a new free lunch at Columbia Hall, and police dispatches involving two drunks.
Paxranations began last week for building shanties and the immediate start of heavier work on the Lancaster Lebanon Pinegrove Railroad south of Lebanon. The southern road will be pushed in spring as the northern road has processed Gaely during summer and fall.
The narrative notes a large apple crop north of Dauphin county with Sunbury sellers pricing at one dollar per bushel and Milton vendors finding few buyers at seventy five cents. York State apples fetch six dollars per barrel of roughly two bushels and three pecks with many resales, while the East and West report strong crops shipped to New York and Philadelphia markets. Farmers are urged to boost attention to the fruit due to rising demand.
December issue highlights two steel engravings, a mammoth fashion plate, Berlin work patterns, and nearly fifty wood cuts. It offers original copyright novelets by Mrs. Ann S. Stephenson and others, with premiums and club rates, plus specimens mailed gratis.
In Philadelphia on November 12 1868 the money market was extremely tight with government loans at 9 12 to 10 per cent and mixed securities at 10 to 15 percent. The Stock Board was weak and irregular as railroads and canal stocks showed little activity. In New York City bankers faced bank suspensions and rumors of cliques hypothecating stocks with western banks. Experts argued inflation schemes by McCulloch were harmful and urged liquidation of stock bubbles to restore legitimate trade.
A canal boat captain named James Wheeler from Norristown fell overboard at the Blue Mountain Dam above Hamburg last Tuesday night and drowned. his body has not yet been recovered. Additionally, obituaries note the death of Aaron Albright in Washington Street, marked by multiple paralytic strokes. the Rainbow Boys steamer arrival delights locals. revival work at Fifth Street M E Church progresses, and a feature on women's discernment and a note on corrugated iron’s building advantages.
On the third day of the Pennsylvania General Election Law case, defendants Reppert Treichler Eschbach Kehs and Kehs faced jury for riotously disturbing peace at Hereford township polls. The jury acquitted the group while ordering costs. twenty five witnesses testified as officers described required violence or intimidation elements. defendants Williams and Holmes pleaded guilty to larceny of a valise and clothing from Cornelius Haley. each fined five dollars and six months imprisonment.
Reports detail convictions in Reading involving larceny from Mrs. O Nei and others with suspects Hyneman Dunlap and Knoske receiving prison terms. Additional notes cover a mutiny at sea on the Prussian bark Coyattin, men killed, crew tied to an anchor, vessel doomed after mutiny.
Telegram summary lists quiet return of troops to Tipton county Tennessee. Missouri Governor Fletcher declares November 26 as Thanksgiving. Chicago brewery fire causes 20000 loss. Chicago census shows 262054. Buffalo heavy snow. St Paul reports six inches since Sunday. Miss Mary Magee of Troy NY, 20, commits suicide with her father’s revolver. Frederick Miller Brewery in Rochester heavily damaged. loss 16000 with 8000 insured.
The municipal election results announced amid excitement. Pillsbury the Republican won over Citizens candidate Lescure by 17 votes in a 10,000 vote tally. The Citizens party contemplates a contest.
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