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Newspaper
The Clermont Courier
Location
Batavia, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Apr 17, 1889
Page
3
A poetic Easter meditation opens with images of spring life and the triumph of hope over sorrow. A serialized domestic tale follows Rose Willard’s illness, Mr Clifford’s reserved courtship, class tensions, and a moral awakening that reshapes Rose through charity and love. Easter ends with renewed love and a reconciled future.
The National Tribune notes Bradley T. Johnson echoed Rosser at a Baltimore reunion of the Baltimore Light Artillery. The piece rejects Johnson’s claim that Southern soldiers surpassed Union fighters, arguing history shows Union soldiers as superior in man-for-man soldiership and battlefield outcomes. It cites Grant, Hancock, Mead, and others to dispute the rebel ascendancy.
A fragment from a Powder Magazine item captures a New Yorker endorsing immediate war with Germany while another New Yorker, a Century Magazine stockholder, notes that the era has exhausted its war supply and calls for another war, voiced in Texas.
Colonel H. C. Powers of Starkville recounts a Mississippi precinct in 1880 where 160 colored Republicans and 12 white Democrats voted. Whites swapped results to favor Hancock, later discarding twelve ballots. the incident sparked debate over rightness, while a pension office billing for Corporal Tanner is noted by the Wheeling Intelligencer.
The piece rebuts Richard Smith's charge that Republican Senators who opposed the Payne investigation were bribed or influenced by money. It lists defamed senators, notes many are now deceased, and argues the accusation is a baseless slander undermining Halstead and Logan’s reputations. It cites that the Senate acted within its constitutional power and that state authorities should investigate beyond the caucus.
A collection of 19th century editorial quotes criticizes General Grant, President Harrison, and Democratic leaders. They discuss confidentiality in government, party patriotism, veterans’ care, Behring Sea jurisdiction, and the Arkansas Clayton murder case with opinions from multiple papers. The remarks reflect partisan tensions and calls for accountability and lawful action.
A narrates a counterfeit coin’s life from birth in a coin box to circulation through a pious woman a minister and a bootblack. He describes detection by a church crowd a minister redeeming him with charity money and repeated passes through pockets, until a final hope to be kept by an honest shopkeeper. The tale then notes Fred Grant’s reputation and trustworthiness amid Grant and Ward fallout.
Bombay loses popular officer Colonel Sexton a veteran who rose from ranks in Crimea to combatant officer. At Inkerman he supervised survivors with the Ninety-fifth and later served in India during the mutiny. Now retired with a pension over £1100 yearly after long service in the Indian Staff Corps.
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