03 Apr 1846
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Newspaper
The Clermont Courier
Location
Batavia, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Apr 03, 1846
Page
1
Printed weekly by A M Gest and L D Morris states subscription terms: one dollar seventy five cents in advance, two dollars within a year, and two dollars fifty cents if not paid by year end. It mentions advertising rates at the usual rater.
Charles Robb argues against a county poor house in Clermont, condemning it as tyrannical and inhumane. He warns it would separate families and deny religious liberty, calling for continued public aid without institutionalizing the poor. He cites Louisiana moving government to Baton Rouge in 1849.
The piece argues that true education requires parental responsibility and self effort. It recalls a personal reform from idle youth to studious life and warns that neglect leads to ignorance, jail, or worse. The author cites moral and practical benefits of learning and cautions against excuses for laziness.
A Rochester Democrat correspondent details Rhine scenery with vast vineyards on steep terraces, labor by hand on narrow plots, and floating raft settlements. He describes pilots, families aboard, a hermit’s gunfire echoing to lure passengers, and Byronian reflections on farewell to the Rhine.
Ledyard reports from Yakutsk and Siberia a brutal December cold with frozen mercury at minus temperatures. He notes quicksilver and water freeze quickly, air condenses like fog, and wind is rare but dangerous. Homes rely on ice windows as glass is impractical. Timber cracks and rivers gape, illustrating the season’s brutal fury. Capt. Back, accompanying Capt. Rose, echoes the harsh northern conditions.
In deeply frozen conditions a narrator describes experiments on sulphuric and nitric ether and pyroligneous acid as the thermometer sank to 102 degrees below freezing. Ink froze, wood split, skin cracked, hair iced, and wildlife vanished from the stark landscape.
A Boston Star excerpt urges local shopkeepers like boot makers and hatters to use newspaper advertising to reach beyond passersby. A street scene discussion shows a shoe maker agreeing to try an ad in the paper to announce location, offerings, and varieties, to farmers and town customers beyond his doorway.
The Knickerbocker recounts Judge Olin of Vermont, father of Wesleyan University’s president, who calmly endured a sharp attack from a young attorney. Afterward he tells a tale of a dog barking at the moon, drawing laughter and a moral about changing times when industry and labor fall out of fashion.
A Nashville mob incident ends in Judson being wounded after a pistol duel with Porterfield and a mob pursuit. The Nashville Whig and Cin. Chronicle recount the tale as a warning against dissolute living and slander. The piece also touches on the Water Cure as advised health practice and a Pennsylvanian source on a Wy oming Valley feud between Shawnee and Delaware over a grass hopper incident.
Somerset Post reports a town locofoco gathering at the Court House during court week. A Zanesville Aurora speaker urged hard money, but the crowd, aside from office holders, filled with skeptics, leaving the meeting a notable failure.
A Cincinnati Chronicle critique notes Gen Sam Houston of Texas touring to Washington to assume a U.S. Senate seat. The piece contrasts his savage past with intellect and mocks society for admiring the office over the man.
The column shares miscellaneous notes on postage by weight for papers with stamps, potato water to kill pests, plaster of Paris on stable floors to prevent scratches, and how to dry watery potatoes with lime. It also cites daily flour consumption in New York and an estimate by Albert Gallatin of sixty five million dollars for a potential war with England.
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