Middletown transcript., 1876-01-08
Grange Eleeiioil.

Grange Eleeitons
AT meeting Of Peach Blossom Grange, No
/ 3, held Tuesday evening, December 2sth
\ rs, the following officers were elected for th
ensuing year: W. NJ, Hon. H. A. holland
Overseer, J. NJ. Rothwell; Lecturer, A. P
! Crockett; Steward, Harry Davis; Assist.
Steward, Jas. P. Rothwell; Chaplain, VIM
Green; Treasurer, J. s. Merritt; Secretary
John Cochran; Gate Keeper, G. P. Cochran
Ceres, Miss A. Warren Pomona, Miss A. N
Roberts; Flora, Miss Hurn, Lady Assistan
Steward, Mrs. A. P. Crockett. Co.. Josepl
Hanson, Of His Excellency's staff, was choseI
Board Of Trustees (of one) to serve thre'
years from the date of election.
MAJOR H,
Personal.
Messrs. Chas. Derrickson and NJ. N. Viii.
Its, started from Middletown yesterday for .
trip to Florida. Their design was TO visit thu
Philadelphia Centennial Buildings in thu
morning and attend the meeting Of Messrs
Moody and Sankey in the evening. This
morning they will sail from Philadelphia in
steamer Juniata for Savannah. They expect
TO be gone about six weeks and will doubtless
spend pleasant winter in the land of per
petual Spring. The best wishes Of their
many friends for pleasant trip and safe re-
turn accompany them. Some young ladies,
it is said, entertain great expectations Of fresh
oranges, alligator teeth and white crane feath-
ers on their return.
Statistical Report
OF Forest Presbyterian Church for 1875,
presented last Sabbath. Honey Raised.-
Pastors salary 81, ,150.00. Sabbath morning
collection $l6l.70 Collection for fuel $39 90.
Collection in choir $500. Sessional fund
$3l 81. Monthly concert $65.00. Home and
For Missions $l5 90. Ministerial Relief Sc 90.
Education S. 90. Sustentation $500. Pub
lication $ll.o0. Sabbath school collection
$1,000 Sabbath school library $500. Wo-
mans Union Mission $4,000. Widows Home
in Calcutta $4,000. Ladies for parsonage
$l250o. Entertainment for Mission school
S7O.35. Ladies' Mite Society $l3 90. En-
tainment for Mite Society $4,000. Raised
in Sabbath school for Missions $594l, and
for expenses $l5.44. Raised by Mission
school $2S.25. Raised by Levels school
SIS. .76. Raised for Blind man $3.50. Clock
contributed. Total So, 1880. Sabbath
School in Church. h.-Oficers 6. Teachers
Is. Scholars about lao. Hopeful conver-
sions 2. Deaths l. Volumes in library $50.
1Miss,on School at Armstrongs. Officers 8.
Teachers 8. Scholars 60. Hopeful CONVEX
sIoLs L. Volumes in library 200. Levels
4. Teachers 8. Scholars 30.
Reliuious Services. es.-Sermons and lectures l42.
Prayer meetings 55 Funerals s. Pastoral
visits 203 Baptisms 6. Aembership.-At the
beginning of the year lao. Admitted on ex-
animation 4, on certificate -. Removed by
death 8. Total in communion lag.
New Years Eve.
If there is a town in the United States which,
in proportion to its size and the number of its
can make bigger noise or more
fuss over anything it undertakes to do than
this little town of Middletown, then it certain
" is not down in the census. No people can
yell Louder, swear harder, drink better whis-
key, and raise Cain generally to greater de-
gree than just these same Middletowners. An
ticipating that all the rest of (American)
mankind were going to "get up demonstra-
tions'' to usher in the centennial year, a num-
Der Of people here determined to join in the
hubbub. Consequently, having
made their preparations beforehand, little
before - o'clock they began their salutations
10 the incoming year. Anvils had been
brought into requisition to serve as guns, and
the sleeping citizens were awakened BY the
biggest din that Middletown has heard for
many years. Guns, pistols, fire crackers;
bells, tin horns, yells, big drum, and, above
all, the deafening roar of the improvised can
mons, raised row that surely might have
aroused old Rip Van Winkle from his twenty
years slumber if it had been near him, and
made him think the end Of the world had
come. Every way in which noise could be
made was thought Of and put into practice
and for almost an hour murdered Sleep
The hubbub was kept up pretty much all night
by struggling parties, and all through the day
the toot of those abominable nuisances, tin
horns, was heard on every side. If American
are to be thus noisily celebrated
it will be good thing to confne them to cen
tennials. As sort Of an accessory, or Offset,
to all this noise, the Town Hall and several
dwelling-houses were handsomely decorated
with flags. Flags waved from the cupola on
the Hall, conspicuous, appropriate and very
pretty.