24 Apr 1878
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Newspaper
The Clermont Courier
Location
Batavia, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Apr 24, 1878
Page
1
Dream landscape at midnight expresses longing for spring bloom beneath ice and snow. The speaker vows to follow the beloved through winter to find blooming May flower, unmasked by melting snows as Harper's Magazine hints at a May issue poem.
A woman Minerva Oaks braves a Montana blizzard to find her husband Jim Oaks after a Christmas Eve storm strands him and others at a mining camp. She searches with lantern and rifle, is found frozen near Wild Swan Gulch clutching a Testament that confirms her faith and devotion.
The boy Jim, trembling, lifts an open book and declares that she has left him a Christmas present, highlighting the emotional moment and the unusual gift amid the scene.
An Illinois genius creates a device with a strong battery under the buggy seat and wires to the bit and cropper. When activated by the driver, electricity travels to the cropper and passes along the horse’s spine to the head, instantly paralyzing the animal and stopping a runaway.
A collage of quips, aphorisms, anecdotes, and brief notices. It mentions a Judy in Ithaca finding a barn thief, a coroner’s verdict on death by excess, a three-toothed saw, and a King-fish dinner news item. Regional quirks include Washington office repairs and a fur suit anecdote.
Mr Bryce reports finding a wood fragment on a summit in Armenia famed as Ararat or a high peak. He cautions it could prove nothing still leaving open the ark possibility. He notes Ararat is not identified with any single biblical mountain and remarks the view is grand yet austere from the top.
A department of our paper presents comments from leading American and European journals on questions of public interest. The editor does not necessarily endorse all sentiments but offers these topics as worthy of general attention.
The London Spectator observes that Russian diplomats are dedicated yet trained in antiquated methods. They struggle to understand nations and hinder progress by clinging to individual-focused tactics. Napoleon and Bismarck are cited as models of flexible finesse, contrasting with a rigid, outdated approach.
The piece contrasts Tweed’s brilliant early career with a dark ending, likening him to a robber caught in a web of conspiracy. It notes his capacity and generosity, yet argues honesty would have earned him lasting fame. It warns the lure of fortune via dishonesty will persist despite his fate.
The New York Graphic notes Prof Huxley’s wish for a Bishop Butler rival to test orthodox and scientific camps. Reverend Cook of Boston is praised for challenging scientific deductions yet harshly criticized for endorsing elective affinities and free love in his marriage lecture. He is urged to reconsider his views after study of race history beyond Goethe.
The New York Herald notes Baker Pasha, once imprisoned for assault, has regained royal favor after selling his sword to the Turk. Despite court dinners and the Queen’s purported wish to reinstate him in the army, social reaction remains cautious and divided as hints surface.
The speaker notes that court power is strong but in the country the mood differs. Baker’s crime is described as odious and memory remains sharp among locals who distrust fashionable sympathies. A man claims Baker could not rejoin the army without a revolution, reflecting the perceived strength of indignation among well-connected locals.
The New York Bey Post highlights a wage table from 1863 onward showing rising female domestic service pay since the war with a brief dip and rebound by 1876. Demand outweighs supply overall, though reduced by households using family labor. Irish prosperity lowers white servant numbers while German and French workers are scarce. American girls prefer independence over service, while the South shows a surplus of domestics.
The piece surveys the Wandering Jew legend from medieval monks to Southey and Eugene Sue and notes its dubious use in later literature. It then shifts to a dense April legislative diary detailing Senate and House actions across Ohio and neighboring states, including bills on tax boards, municipal codes, canal management, education text books, debtors sales, railroad law, and appointments, with daily votes and amendments through April 19.
A Monday morning school trek features a boy in dazzling light blue breeches that draw taunting shouts from younger peers. The scene escalates as he defends the fashion, faces rout and humiliation, and wonders how parents could ever allow such dye to be worn in public.
It may be interesting to boys to know that stamping letters or figures upon coins, or drilling holes in them, destroys their legal tender quality. When thus mutilated they are not money, but simply pieces of metal. Such tampering with coins is legal.
Queen Victoria's physician William Gull advises the fatigued to eat raisins instead of drinking wine or other alcohol. He emphasizes raisins as a sustaining alternative amid overwork.
A Victorian tale warns that lovers facing breach of promise suits may be trapped by a hidden phonograph in the wall recording every word as the lovers drift toward marriage, and the fear of a courthouse judgment drives the man to the altar.
A malnourished boy follows a woman begging for money to buy bread. She refuses, citing lack of food and illness in his family. The boy clings to her and finally stands on his head against a wall, reported by the Philadelphia Bulletin.
The Glermont Courier lists advertising prices for legal notices and transient ads at one dollar per square for the first insertion and fifty cents for each additional insertion. A yearly reduction applies, with business cards limited to six lines at four dollars per year.
Poem-like text urging faith in each other and justice guiding life. It emphasizes kind words to lift sorrow, letting dreary clouds depart as time passes, pledges of love, and the power of faith to prevent despair. It warns that careless words ruin reputations, but faith in right leads to triumph.
A collage of jokes and brief notes from an era, featuring satirical quips on justice, politics, and daily life. It includes wry lines about public figures, lighter anecdotes about English sparrows and umbrellas, and observations on social customs and humorous mishaps across cities and states.
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