21 Apr 1848
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Newspaper
The Clermont Courier
Location
Batavia, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Apr 21, 1848
Page
1
The printer Andrew Gest sets pricing at one dollar seventy five cents if paid in advance or two dollars after sixty days. No discontinuation occurs until all arrearages are settled. Advertisements run at the usual rates.
Joshua Peabody, a Connecticut farmer's son, becomes a strolling peddler with a rainbow wagon and a calf trade tale. He dupes Squire Leeland over a Devonshire bull, turning a charity into a boast of honest dealing and long, winding yarns about prices and breeds.
Joshua pockets his money and leaves after declaring his purpose. The esquire nurses a calf and thrives with unusual care, becoming a neighborhood marvel. A keen observer notes a strange look when neighbors praise Squire Leeland's Devonshire Bull.
A London correspondent reports Paris awaits Belgium's republican shift while Germany faces unrest with Munich under arms and fears of conflict. Prussia concessions are noted as Saxony resists reform. Leipsic petitions aim to sway the King. Hamburg is quiet but Frankfurt shows insurrectionary threat.
The London Times shows a table on the French National Debt and its rise since Louis Philippe with 919,000,900 for a 250,090,000 loan contracted last November by Rothschilds. It notes security taken in rents, municipal borrowings in 1837, and total debt around £209,000,000. The piece then catalogs a long list of miscellaneous facts on population, nature, and antiquity, including measurements, ancient customs, and natural history.
The text reports Dr. W. B. Coolidge found guilty by a jury in the murder of Edward peers at Watertown Me. It notes he aided at the post mortem, and the Cincinnati Chronicle describes the crime as cold blooded with little motive while highlighting Coolidge's charm and family background. It hints at possible death sentence.
A Winchendon Massachusetts man named Cook was arrested on a murder charge for poisoning his wife in 1834 by arsenic. After decades the preserved body was exhumed and chemical testing of the stomach confirmed arsenic, leading to commitment for trial.
A New York letter in the Philadelphia Inquirer reports John Jacob Astor, recently deceased, apportioned by will a sum of 350000 dollars for a grand city library. The annual interest of 24500 dollars will fund book purchases for the metropolis.
Martha Christian was convicted in Wood County Virginia for teaching a female slave to read the Bible. She received a ten year sentence to the Penitentiary.
An exchange notes a friend consoles himself for misfortune by believing nothing of interest is happening. He must have heard a little to infer that there is nothing worth hearing.
The New York Sun recalls a venerable, blind former Secretary of Legation from the court of Berlin who, once in service to the King of Prussia, now wanders as a beggar in a Republican city, playing an old harp for scraps to sustain life.
Paris in exile Louis Philippe reportedly leaves behind 25,900,000 in debts. The London Atlas notes his pattern of paying creditors only every five years, with three years since the last settlement.
It may seem right to a man to obtain his news by borrowing and stealing from neighbors, but the end thereof is annoyance to neighbors and fraud upon the printer. It may seem right to a man to pay everybody before the printer, but the end is he pays the most needy last, if he pays at all.
During rainy conditions the Troy and Montreal line completed a 186 mile test run from Troy to Burington using a battery of cups. The test featured spring water used instead of sulfuric acid and followed five days of prior water flow operation.
John Derby of Ware Massachusetts advertised for a wife and received seventy five applications. Some suitors pressed their claims with vigor, and to escape the predicament one man allegedly tied a rope around his neck and wore a big timepiece.
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