27 Jan 1852
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Newspaper
Elyria Courier
Location
Elyria, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jan 27, 1852
Page
1
A fragment from a discourse on self education and personal effort. It argues that books and teachers aid but do not create learning, and that true education comes from one’s own mind exercised in emergencies. It cites discipline over raw strength, contrasting with mythic power. Daniel Webster is referenced.
Detroit Advertiser notes a man bought Otard at Brady's and left a card with seven of clubs near the liquor handle. Alderman C mocks the act, fearing theft by another passerby as a potential eight spot thief. London panels report Buckingham Palace garden walk. Potomac ice blocks three miles below Great Falls.
Fragmentary verse narrative describes a joyous winter ride. Imagery includes snow, hoofbeats, music, and laughter as riders glide with a friend beneath a rising tide of feeling and wind. The speaker longs for waves no more and seeks speed in a gleaming night ride.
In a humorous reminiscence, a husband recalls his wife’s shift from traditional remedies to homeopathy. She shelves apothecary stocks, relies on pellets for headaches and sore throats, and clashes with the town’s Dr. Moses over medical authority. A tense encounter ends with the husband’s brief cure using a nostrum, but leaves him with nervous trouble eased only by port wine.
A heated exchange unfolds among Mrs Jones, a Fighting Man, and an editor over publishing a poem by the Parnassus climber. The editor refuses as the work is not fit, the Fighting Man presses for justice, and a compromise allows printing with correction rights. The piece concludes with two dream poems about water and love and a counsel to seek shared safety through partnership.
A 1824 Columbus winter term court in bank dissolved as the Ohio Court in Bank closes its last decisions. It upheld constitutions, lauded for law, and noted two railroad cases from Wyandot and Crawford counties on the legality of county subscriptions to railroad companies.
The piece covers court actions on county subscriptions to railroad projects, injunctive attempts to block taxes in many counties, and a decisive ruling that a majority cannot unilaterally tax property to fund railroad stock. It notes a judge’s dictum on minority rights and constitutional limits, plus related dramatic obituary prose.
U.S. Geologist Mr. Foster describes woven cloth found near the bottom of a mound in Cesar Charleston Jackson County. The coarse hemp or seaweed fabric, enveloping a skeleton and bound with cord, shows advanced weaving. Samples from Ohio indicate similar substanes and craft, suggesting industrious mound builders and surprising arts before European contact.
A traveling Presbyterian correspondent recalls Tolan B. Gough of Worcester Massachusetts as a leading public speaker on temperance. He has traveled about seventy four thousand miles and given two thousand sixteen addresses to crowds, with over one hundred seventy thousand pledging abstinence, while serving at Rev Edward N Kirks Boston church.
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