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Newspaper
Reading Eagle
Location
Reading, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Feb 12, 1869
Page
3
The page records a summary of social happenings and local notices. It mentions a grand Duster Hose giveaway on Saturday, February 20, a Washington’s Birthday bank holiday, a foremen’s parade lineup, and community chatter about spring and weather. Also listed are post office letters for women and men, a near-suffocation incident, and a long local list of residents and visitors.
A February 1839 letter condemns people who trample others rights and force conformity. It attacks critics who insult opposers, pry into private matters, and demand universal agreement, labeling such adherents as selfish, self-deluded tyrants in every class and country.
The excerpt follows a journalist wandering a new town reporting on coal trains, crowds near the depot, a growing school, a chapel planned for spring, nine new frame houses, and activity at the Reading Steam Forge. It notes a near robbery scare, a dog at a door, and concludes with a tally of two hundred sixty five Pennsylvania papers.
The Reavina market notes banking, U S bonds, and gold in New York. Wheat and corn trade shows steady demand. ledgers indicate higher activity from Schuylkill county with bakers and retailers buying in bulk. Hay and oats markets see seller patience with prices easing and mills running full.
In Philadelphia trade remains dull last week with unsettled prices across leading articles. Quoreitron bark advances while cotton and coffee show fair demand and higher or maintained prices. flour and molasses activity. wheat, rye, corn, and oats soft or unchanged. pig iron steady. naval stores, petroleum, sugar, whisky, and wool varied in demand and pricing.
Readings North Eighth Street shop offers all kinds of machinery and castings. Experienced machinists handle machine work and pattern making by expert pattern makers. Orders promptly filled on reasonable terms by Seyfert, McManus & Co.
A Monday to Friday note reports travel not brisk and trains short of passengers. Boys play tops while girls prefer hoops. the latter are faster. Jacob Roth was discharged after being suspected in horse stealing. the grand jury ignored the indictment. Mr. Daniel B. Lewis requests publication denying theft of doodles from Aulenbach Cemetery.
A local scheme seeks an act of incorporation to form a Turnpike Company on the Schilling Turnpike built by the county and Cymru Reading citizens. Critics warn maritime of selling property to gain toll income and question the lawmakers plans.
A late dispatch reports the flying Justice of the Peace reaching home safely via the Oldéy Pike near Exeter. He entered by Sixth street expecting a court but found a gathering of doctors, lawyers, officials, and real estate agents at a so called Boring Party. He left, praising peace and lamenting improper exhibitions of morality.
The Senate Judiciary Committee seeks discharge from Judge Underwood inquiry. A resolution by Mr. Davis condemns Butler and House conduct during Electoral vote counting. The House takes up Butler’s protest resolution, with Shellabarger, Thomas, Eldridge opposing and Bingham and Schenck split. the measure is laid over.
Washington correspondence notes that repeal of the Tenure of Office Act is unlikely before March while many senators prefer to wait and observe. Some express distrust in President elect Grant for not sharing secrets, though a strong faction favors repeal. If not repealed, a three month spring session is anticipated.
In Harrisburg debates, 400 copies of the Attorney General’s opinion were ordered printed for the Senate. The bill creating Pereche county from Crawford, Warren, Forest and Venango passed 21 to 10. A writs of error bill in legal cases failed in the afternoon. The House read bills on coal taxes and militia reform. A militia act reduces company size to 32 in peacetime and imposes a tax for nonmembers. An anecdote from General McClellan and President Lincoln’s meeting is recounted.
In April Mr. Robert Wason sold a 71 pound shoat to W H Byers of Williamsport District. The pig reached 170 pounds by September then vanished. On January 27 the straw stack was removed to reveal the pig alive, having lived five months on straw with no water, milk, or corn. The owner plans to profit from the hermit pig’s recovery.
Gen Grant to be notified by congressional committee tomorrow. In Richmond a nolle prosequi was entered in treason cases including Davis and Longstreet, with Davis’s sureties discharged. Mississippi Convention may proceed at another session. Ways and Means to repeal river St Lawrence conference. Dr Mudd pardon sent for signature. Nebraska Legislature backs female suffrage. Wisconsin memorial seeks aid for Central Pacific and land taxation of Indian patents. Indiana district nominates Tyson for Congress. Two Female Suffrage Conventions open in Chicago. Indians near Fort Pherson provoke troops. Murderer Whelan hanged in Ottawa with no demonstration. Franklin Tennessee fire destroys business district. linked to negro incitement.
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