For Mayor: Hon. Wm. H. Gernand
For City Treasurer: Hon. Wm. Heidenreich
For City Auditor: Dr. W. Murray Weidman
Common Council--J.S. Pfleger
School Controllers--? Sprecher, 4 years; Jesse G. Hawley, 2 years
Assessor--George W. Pfleger
Judge--John K. Hoffmaster
Inspector--Owen O'Reilly
Select Council--Samuel Robinson
Common Council--Michael Hammon, Gregory Heine
School Controller--John Denhart
Assessor--William Z. Becker
Judge--George Struben
Inspector--Michael McGrann
Common Council--Jacob Miller, Michael Riley
School Controller--Charles Scull
Assessor--Daniel G. Knabb
Judge--David A. Stout
Inspector--John Hill
Common Council--William C. Krouse
School Controller--William M. Rightmyer
Assessor--Henry Bingaman
Judge--Henry Kerper
Inspector--Daniel Hahn
Common Council--Levi Wunder
Assessor--John C. Strohecker
School Controller--James Mulligan
Judge--Wellington Van Reed
Inspector--Joseph K. Harvey
Common Council--Daniel Miller
School Director--Daniel Coyle
Judge--James Hoffmaster
Inspector--Jonathan L. Reber
Assessor--Phillip K. Miller
Select Council--Frederick W. Lauer
Common Council--James T. Reber
Assessor--William Ermentrout
School Controller--Daniel Ermentrout
Judge--Llewellyn Wannner
Inspector--Jacob Bady
Select Council--Christian Shick
Common Council--Nicholas Heckman, Franklin Bruckman
Assessor--Joseph Malsberger
School Controller--W. Umbenhauer
Judge--Irenaeus Shalter
Inspector--Amos Feger
Common Council--Addy Gehry, Daniel Himmelreich
Assessor--Job Glemmer
School Controller--Jacob Bissikumer
Judge--Jackson Sherman
Inspector--David Kline
Philadelphia has seven skating parks. Reading has none!
A General Intelligence Office has been opened at No. 28 South Seventh street.
People having smoke houses should either keep a cross dog, or an open eye.
From present indications, work of all kinds will be plenty in Reading next season.
Spring must be near at hand, as we notice the boys are indulging in the game of marbles.
Rev. J.J. Kuendig will preach at the Alms House, to-morrow (Sunday) afternoon, at 2 o'clock.
Rev. S. Dormer will preach in St. Matthew's Lutheran Church to-morrow morning and evening.
The Mozart Musical Union will give a concert at Library Hall, on Tuesday evening, Feb. 9th.
Charles S. Hahs, Esq., formerly of this city, has been elected one of the managers of the Commercial Exchange of Philadelphia.
The Friendship Building and Savings Association will hold a meeting on Tuesday evening, at the Jefferson House in Seventh street, between Chestnut and Franklin.
The partnership heretofore existing between Levi Wunder and James E. Stafford, merchant tailors, has been dissolved. The business will be continued by James E. Stafford.
The Union Meeting will be held in the Baptist church, Chestnut Street, above Fourth, this (Saturday) evening, at 7 1/2 o'clock. The public are respectfully invited to be present.
There will be a special meeting of the Democratic Association this (Saturday) evening, at 7 1/2 o'clock, at their rooms in Jameson's Building, corner of Sixth and Penn streets.
Mr. John Fix, who left this city for Graham, North Carolina, some five months ago on a hunting expedition, arrived home safely. He brought with him from the South nine hundred partridges.
The City Scavenger authorizes us to state that any complaints of dead animals or other nuisances lying in the streets, will be promptly attended to by leaving notice at the Mayor's Office, Fifth and Franklin streets.
Jacob Remack, lately of the Rural Retreat, North Eight Street, has bought out the Aulenbach Hall restaurant, lately owned by Mr. A.D. Hoyer, and will take possession of the same on next Monday.
The Schuylkill Navigation Company are engaged in repairing their locks at Lawrenceville, Chester county. The old masonry has been torn away, and is now being re-built. Joseph Phillips, Esq., Superintendent of this Division, has the work under his direction.
Go to Bunting's and see the new styles of Hats. Among them is the Velocipede, and the new style of Silk Hat, the London.
Services in this church to-morrow (Sunday) at 10 o'clock a.m. and 7 p.m.; prayer meeting at 9 a.m. and 6 p.m.; Sunday School at 1 1/4 p.m. Adult Bible Class at 1 1/4 p.m. The Special meetings still continue to be largely attended by anxious inquirers.
Notice is given that application has been made to the Court of Common Pleas of this county, to grant a charter of incorporation to the "Fortune Building and Saving Association of Reading," and if no sufficient reason is shown to the contrary, said charter will be granted by the court, on the 8th day of March, 1869.
Yesterday Michael Flaherty, an Irishman living in North Sixth street, was arrested and brought before the alderman on a warrant issued on information lodged by Hannah Flaherty, his wife, charging him with cruel and intolerable treatment, by reason of which she was compelled to leave her home. Michael gave bail in $100 for his appearance at next court.
A treadle attachment for operating sewing machines has recently been invented, which, it is asserted, relieves the operator of the present laborious work. It is stated that in order to accomplish 150 stitches by the old treadles, a weight of seven pounds is required to be raised 165 inches; by the new treadle, to take the same number of stitches, a weight of two and a half pounds need only be moved sixty inches.
The Liberty Fire Company will attend this church, in a body, to-morrow (Sunday) morning, on which occasion Rev. B. Peters will deliver a discourse on "Introspection, or the Duty of Self-Examination." The third Lecture of the Course on the Word Pictures of the Old Testament, will be given in the evening--subject, "The story of Sampson and the importance of its moral lesson to Young Men." The public respectfully invited.
The Fourth of the series of Free Lectures will be delivered at Library Hall, on Thursday evening next, by Mr. Jos. T. Valentine, on the subject of Coal. Those interested in reducing the price of this opaque, mineralogical substance will find in the lecturer a stern and able advocate of their interests. Coal dealers and all who use coal --yotaries of Blackstone; young flames and old fossils; admirers of red hot Democracy, Black Republicanism, or blue light Federalism are invited to the Lecture.
The Schuylkill Navigation Company have nearly completed their spacious and convenient dry docks, on the canal near the Lancaster bridge, in this city, to be used for the repair of the large number of boats employed by them upon their works. The docks are double, and will allow of two boats being docked at one time. Heretofore these repairs have been made at private docks situated at different points on the line of the canal, which made a proper supervision of the work troublesome and inconvenient. They will hereafter, to a great extent, be constructed here, and will provide another source of employment to our mechanics and laboring men.
These works are handsomely and permanently constructed and supplied with every facility for the execution of the work for which they are designed. They will be connected with the saw mill and wood working shops of the Company, by tram ways, so that the timber required can be readily transported from them to the docks. A large basin in connection with them has also been excavated, to be used for the accommodation of boats awaiting repair.
To the curious in such matters, a visit to this new addition of our city industry would prove interesting.
The general repairs usually made in the winter on the works of this Company are progressing rapidly during the present very favorable weather, and it is expected that everything will be ready for an early resumption of business in the spring.
The case was tried twice before this Court, the first time at November Term, 1860, when it resulted, under the direction of the Court, (Jones P.J.) in a verdict for the defts. It was then carried up to the Supreme Court, where judgment was reversed and a new trial awarded. (See 4 Wright, 117.) The second trial was held at January Term, 1867, at which time the facts were fully reported. The retrial of the cause resulted in a verdict for the plffs, for $7,562.83, the amount of the plffs. claim with interest. This second verdict was set aside by the Court, in consequence of some evidence in regard to book entries having as the court thought, been improperly admitted, and some informality in regard to the rendering of the verdict.
The present trial commenced on Thursday morning, the evidence closing at 10 o'clock A.M. on Friday. The counsel then proceeded to argue the case to the jury, but before the conclusion of the argument, a settlement was effected between the parties, in pursuance of which a verdict was taken by consent for the plffs. for $4000 and 805.30 costs, which result may be regarded as a final extinguishment of this well known action, which has been pending in this court for the past ten years. Boyer, Young and J.S. Richards for plffs. J.S. Livingood, Hoffman and H.W. Smith for defts.Lewis Kirk, for the use of George Cutler vs. David Fox, John Fink and John H. Oshburn, late partners in a patent Car Duster.--128, Jan. T. 1860. 29, Jan. '69. Plff. takes non-suit. Mengel for plff. F.L. Smith for Defts.
Wm. McIlvaine & Sons vs. The Reading Industrial Manufacturing Co., et. al.--29, Jan. '69. Rule granted to show cause why the appearance of Louis Richards Esq., for the Reading Industrial Manufacturing Co. shall not be stricken from the record, and cause continued.
Valentine Shalter and Elizabeth Shalter, his wife, for the use of said Elizabeth vs. Catherine Umbenhower.--63, Jan. T. 1865. This was an action on the case for damages for slanderous words alleged to have been spoken by the deft. in March 1864, in derogation of the character of Mrs. Elizabeth Shalter for conjugal fidelity. The parties are from Bern township. Mrs. Rebecca Smith, a sister of the defendant, testified that the words were used by the defendant in her own house shortly after the death of her husband, and that three other women were with the witness upon the occasion. The latter upon being called for the defense stated that they did not remember Mrs. Umbenhower using the expressions complained of though they were not present during the whole interview between the defendant and Mrs. Smith. Another witness for the plff. testified that the same expressions had been made use of to her by the defendant, a short time previous to the above. Verdict for plff. for damages. $75. Yundt and J.S. Livingood for plff. F.L. Smith for deft.
The above was the last case for trial the present week.
The Berks County Bible Society's operations are still in progress. At the last meeting of the Society it was found that there was a deficiency in the Treasury of some sixty dollars, and to cover up the deficiency, and to meet existing wants, extra committees on collection were appointed to assist the regularly appointed agent in his praiseworthy effort to raise moneys for the purchase of Bibles to be distributed among those who are without the Sacred Word. The extra committees have been calling upon our citizens during the past week with tolerably gratifying results.
People are continually complaining how impossible it is to persuade washerwomen so to wash flannel clothing as to prevent it from shrinking. Washerwomen are but human, and if one tries to persuade them into unaccustomed grooves, the job will be found much like that of driving pigs to market. Now, by putting a little borax into cold water, it will be found that flannels will not only come out better cleansed, but that there will be absolutely no shrinkage. We throw out the hint, and can vouch for the efficacy of the recipe. But then, of course, it would be very difficult to find a washerwoman who would wash clothes in cold water and use borax.
The following table of distances from Reading to different points may prove of interest to tourists and travelers:
| Places | Miles |
|---|---|
| Reading to Lancaster (by stage) | 34 |
| " " Lancaster (by rail) | 43 |
| " " Harrisburg (by rail) | 54 |
| " " Pottsville (by rail) | 35 |
| " " Allentown (by rail) | 35 |
| " " Bethlehem (by rail) | 40 |
| " " Easton (by rail) | 52 |
| " " Mauch Chunk(by rail) | 64 |
| " " Newark, N.J. (by rail) | 118 |
| " " New York City (by rail) | 128 |
| " " Philadelphia (by rail) | 58 |
| " " Pittsburg (by rail) | 302 |
| " " Erie (by rail) | 450 |
| " " Williamsport (by rail) | 139 |
| " " Elmira, N.Y. (by rail) | 217 |
| " " Niagara Falls (by rail) | 383 |
| " " Baltimore (by rail) | 118 |
| " " Washington, D.C. (by rail) | 156 |
| " " Chambersburg (by rail) | 106 |
| " " Hagerstown, Md. (by rail) | 128 |
Its Marvelous Capacity for Work.--On Wednesday afternoon we were present by invitation at the new Rolling Mill, of the Phila. and Reading Railroad in the northern part of our city, in order to ascertain the result and witness the closing operations of a day's work which should test the full capacity of the mill within a given time of twelve hours. At four o'clock the time had expired, when the "day turn" ceased their operations, to be succeeded by the "night turn" of hands. In a few minutes thereafter we learned from W.E.C. Coxe, Esq., the efficient Superintendent of the Mill that in eight furnaces, ninety-two tons and ten gwt. of iron had been heated and re-heated preparatory to its passage through the rolls making four hundred and five bars of 64 lb. rails in twelve hours. The reader will only appreciate this extraordinary yield when we tell him that the average number of tons of iron heated in this mill is about fifty-two tons per day. Ordinarily, the average here stated is regarded as a good day's work in any of the first-class mills of the country, and that too, where the iron is heated one time only but in the case of the above named mill, this process is uniformly twice undergone. This day's operations is an achievement of which everybody connected with that mammoth establishment may well feel proud. Before testing its capacity, it is believed that the attainment of such a result as that of Wednesday, at this mill was simply impossible, and we may, therefore heartily congratulate the Superintendent, and his host of employees, upon a day's work, which reflects great credit on the establishment and all concerned in its operations. We cannot close this notice without thanking W.E.C. Coxe, Esq., the Superintendent of the Mill; Samuel Stroh, Esq., one of its leading spirits, and Harry McCoy, Esq., the Cashier, for kindness shown to us during our brief visit here.-- Journal
A man employed at the Temple Furnace, this county, was badly burned about the face a few days ago. He was in the act of breaking pig iron when the hot sand splashed in his face. It is feared that one of his eyes are lost.
One of our contemporaries has velocipedeomania on the brain.
Raudenbush & Conrad have opened a new meat store under Library Hall.
E.M. Davis has been appointed agent of the Philadelphia and Reading Railroad, at Ashland.
A young man by the name of Yeidy had his hand mashed this morning at the Sheet Mill of Seyfert, McManus & Co.
The Mahanoy tunnel on the Philadelphia and Reading Railroad, is being enlarged so as to admit of the passage of wide cars.
Rev. A. Manship of Philadelphia, will preach in this church to-morrow morning and evening. The public are invited--seats free.
The Albany Township Teachers' Institute has been discontinued, the Directors being unwilling to allow the teachers the time for holding them as provided for by law.
Mr. William Bickel, of the Pennsylvania House, purchased two splendid bay horses of William Barnhard of Pricetown. The horses came from the West, and will be used on the farm of Mr. Bickel. We did not learn the price paid for them.
On Thursday night last Mrs. Kulp was burned to death at the residence of her son-in-law, Michael Beard, Esq., in Tamaqua, by her clothing accidentally taking fire. She only lived about twenty minutes after the accident. It seems that at the time she was sitting in a rocking chair in front of the fire.
We are requested to state that pastors and Sunday school superintendents are requested to meet in the Session House of the Presbyterian church on to-morrow (Sabbath) afternoon, at 3 o'clock, for the purpose of taking into consideration the propriety of holding a Sunday school institute in this city at an early date.
The carting of manure and foul and nasty substances through our principal streets should be stopped. North Sixth street and North Fifth street were really unpleasant from this cause yesterday afternoon, caused by the carting of rotten wood shavings to the outskirts of the city. Will our worthy mayor attend to it.
Mr. J.M. Lawrence, of the Park Hotel, has received the following challenge for a friendly shooting match:
Berks vs. Schuylkill.--Six Berks county men will shoot against six Schuylkill county men, 11 birds each, 21 yards rise, 80 yards boundary, 1 1/4 oz. shot; find and trap for each other. To come off at Lawrence's Park Grounds, Pottsville.
Anyone wishing to enter the contest should make an early call on Mr. Lawrence, at the Park Hotel, Pottsville, and "declare his intentions." We have some good "shootists" in Schuylkill county, and we hope to hear of an early day being fixed for the trial of skill.-- Pottsville Standard.
Matters about the Police Headquarters were remarkably quiet this morning. Chief McNall quietly and serenely received the reports from his subordinates and as they came to the railing saluted, reported and filed off, a woe-begone expression was depicted on the countenance of each policeman. Money matters are tight, but there were not many, if any, individuals so last night. The policemen went their rounds the live-long night, without a single thing to relive the monotony of the "beat."
"Not a sound was heard, nor funeral note,
As through the streets they hurried."
Therefore it is that we have nothing to report from Police Headquarters to-day, except that 6 lodgers were accommodated at the Station House last night.
The statement in regard to the acres of the different qualities of land, as published in the Daily Eagle some time since, was partly incorrect. Daniel S. Zacharias, Esq., who surveyed the same furnished the following:
Whole tract 514 acres 19 perches; whereof there is a farm and meadow land, 870 acres 10 perches; woodland, 95 acres 3 perches; waste and pasture land, 85 acres; taken up by roads, buildings, &c., 14 acres. Also a tract of chestnut timber land situated on the Welsh mountains, a few miles distant, containing 25 acres. It will be perceived that the farm is abundantly supplied with timber for fuel and fencing purposes. - D.
Jan. 30th, 1869
Port Clinton, Jan. 30, 1869.
Editor Daily Eagle: Port Clinton is very dull just now. Business is moving slowly, and not much done whatever. It will probably brisk very soon.
A.D. Savage, who died last week at Mishler's Hotel in Reading, was buried last Sunday at Port Clinton. There was a very large gathering of people, numbering about 400, marching in line to the cemetery. The ceremonies were performed by Rev. J.F. Wicklein. Mr. Savage was 40 years and 16 days old.
Rev. B.D. Zweizig preached an impressive sermon last Sunday night at Port Clinton; Subject--"Appearing of Christ." - Reporter.
Notice is hereby given, that the account of Lewis Schaeffer, Committee of Israel K. Kline, a lunatic, has been filed in the Prothonotary's office of Berks county, and that the same will be confirmed on Monday, the 8th day of February next, unless cause be shown to the contrary.
W.B. Griesemer, Prothonotary
Notice is hereby given, that Charles Lear(?), Committee of Ann Wanner, a lunatic, has presented his petition to the Court of Common Pleas of Berks County, praying to be discharged from his said trust--and that he will be discharged on the 3rd day of February next, unless cause be shown to the contrary on or before said day.
W.B. Griesemer, Prothonotary
Submitted by Nancy.
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