09 Apr 1879
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Newspaper
The Clermont Courier
Location
Batavia, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Apr 09, 1879
Page
1
Fragmentary OCR reads as a compact note about terms in a year related to a wool or faculty context. Names, dates, and full phrases are unclear, but the item flags a financial or agreement notion tied to a year. Further readable details may clarify involved parties and precise terms.
A city death notice reports a worker dying in harness after being crushed by a horse drawn vehicle on a crowded street. The incident is described as one of the day’s mishaps showing the dangers faced by drivers and bystanders in the bustling thoroughfares.
Albert Pendergrast, an Englishman in America, pursues a long hoped marriage with Sophie Croker. A mistaken betrothal to Maria Croker leads to mistaken affections, family ultimatums, and a cascade of misjudgments, until a rainstorm reunion with Sophie resolves the tangle.
After ward Miss Maria Croker brought her suit but a sympathetic jury, hearing his simple tale of truth, could not be prevailed upon to return a guilty verdict against this victim of circumstances.
Charles Barnard argues in Harper's Magazine that English locomotives suit insular, straight lines but fail on continental routes. He credits American practice for adapting to varied terrain by following the land, reducing costly bridges and tunnels. He concludes English engines cannot cope with winding, hillbound rails.
The Lindell estate valued at about 6 million dollars was partitioned in 1863-4 under Britton A Hill. Ten heirs received equal shares via blindfolded drawing from two hats with numbers and names, watched by local officials. A crippled beggar drew the final lot as golden half-eagles were handed over.
The piece notes Java natives consuming red earth baked into cakes rich in iron and fat, while other tribes eat earth to stave hunger. It also reports Memphis Tennessee abandoning its municipal charter as mayor and top officers resign, portraying the city as a failed corporation.
Senate and House daily actions span March 31 to April 4 detailing quorum issues, committee work, and bills on election law, local option liquor, road taxes, channel clearing for Mercer County waste water, and prison and asylum provisions. Amendments, adjournments, and various reports are noted with party votes and outcomes.
A Stark portrait of Gov. Roberts of Texas shows him in austere surroundings with a splint-bottom chair, plain table, bed and burned carpet, likened to a half-kept student’s room. The piece notes his austere life amid books and papers in his office as a defining trait.
The New York Tribune reflects on the upcoming census urging a thorough, division-based enumeration to curb state manipulation. It cites Prof Elliott's estimates placing present population near 48.6 million on Jan 1 1879 and discusses likely reapportionment shifts favoring Western states.
A Visalia correspondent reports a boiling spring between Polvadero and Los Gatos creeks where a water-right claimant built a water-wheel powered clothes-wringer. Clothes enter the boiling water, emerge, and pass through rinsing wringers in a cycle lasting about thirty minutes, leaving ranchers quickly finished with laundry.
Rumor says the next Bulgarian prince may be Louis Battenberg son of Alexander of Hesse. Louis serves in the British navy and is a close friend of the Duke of Edinburgh. His father Alexander is an Austrian cavalry general and honorary colonel of the Eighth Russian Hussars.
A son of one of the Siamese twins is a student at Chapel Hill Institute in North Carolina, illustrating the family's continued ties to education and public life.
Ex Secretary Bristow reports a Kentucky county ban record and a Methodist certificate show Thomas Lincoln and Nancy Hanks married on September 23, 1806. The evidence confirms the President's birth lineage and refutes past doubts about their union.
A Grapevine Prairie tarantula near Fort Worth attacked farmer Featherstone’s son after the rock he flipped released the spider from its nest. The tarantula, large and venomous, bit the youth on the hand and arm, causing swelling, but the boy killed the creature.
A Bangor Maine correspondent reports Judge Kent’s ruling in a burglary trial of Thomas Cowdry. Evidence showed he cut a hole in a rubber tent and stole valuables. The judge allowed conviction for the arm shoulder and head. Cowdry was sentenced to two years hard labor in the State prison.
The Clermont Courier lists advertising rates: legal and transient ads 1.00 per square per insertion (ten lines). 0.50 for each subsequent insertion. Yearly reductions offered. Business cards up to six lines 34.00 per year.
An excerpt from the Chicago Tribune expresses hopeful poetry about love and marriage. The speaker wishes for a noble partner, likening longing to spring and sun, and imagines a future wife as patient as a flower awaiting renewal.
A collage of witticisms notes diverse items from humor and observations. It cites humorous lines about seals, electric lights, fashion, family life, and social manners, with short quips from various papers. The piece blends satirical notes on technology, education, morality, and daily routines.
On a bitter winter day W. O. Sherwood, Tim Whiting and James Irwin heated bowlders to fish out of season. They carried hot stones on an iron frame to a nearby still water and dumped them in, then fished but received no nibbles. They returned to the city wiser and resolved to avoid such experiments again.
Reports say the Tsar will overhaul the ae 8 sian navy and shift focus to a Baltic fleet reduction. He resents the minor role of his ironclads in the recent war and plans no major Baltic additions for years while building a Black Sea fleet.
Official Washington statistics challenge the belief that American Indians are shrinking showing births exceed deaths across seventy agencies. The report cites Dr Geo Kellogg analyzing data as the total Indian population is around 170000 with mortality from gunfire and dissipation noted. James James, likely Texas's oldest man, died at 109 years near Red Hill in Virginia on May 10 1764.
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