26 Apr 1860
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Newspaper
The Clermont Courier
Location
Batavia, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Apr 26, 1860
Page
1
A fragment shows advertising price rules per square inch or edge, with no clear date. It mentions 50 percent surcharge for special notices and double column ads. Divorce notices cost five dollars each, payable in advance. unpaid notices may be held.
The account recalls Zachariah Chapman arriving in 1804 to parcel Clermont County land, his skill in dividing surveys, and his reputational steadiness. It also recounts Jacob Ulrey and family leaving Western Pennsylvania for the Falls of the Ohio, crossing the Monongahela voyage by Kentucky boat, and a perilous ice-locked journey near the falls with their infant George, preserved through Mrs. Ulrey’s recollections.
Mrs Utrey recounted a perilous night on moving ice as Ulrey and a companion urged escape with wife and child. Ulrey ferried his family to a Kentucky shore in a canoe after the boat neared falls. He saved money and clothing, then returned for his property and settled later near Ulrey's Run.
Culture of Vines urges timely planting of melons with rich land and compost to boost yields. A reader praises Mountain Sweets despite June frost, while comments mock rival views and political cartoons note Douglas and the Northwest. An Iowa resident is humorously described as one of the laziest men.
A fiery 1860 political tract argues the era is dominated by platform making as Republicans and Democrats mobilize for the coming clash. It traces the Whig collapse, the split to form the Republican platform, and the bloody partisan fireworks from Philadelphia to Cincinnati and beyond. The author paints Northern triumph and Southern resolve amid a grim, polemical battlefield.
A fiery nationwide clash rails against slavery and party manipulation. Proposals invoke extreme platforms, bullfights, and sectional vitriol to spur a unified national response, urging northern and southern blocs to unite or fight.
A rambling critique extols the St Johnsbury Fairbanks platform claiming it prevents government plunder and promotes justice. It mocks conventional parties, cites Belshazzar and weight measurement imagery, and promotes buyable depots nationwide with a Cincinnati outlet listed.
The article outlines gilding by powder and amalgam methods. It details cleaning and polishing a metal item, applying a corked salt solution powder, then burnishing with a blood stone burnisher. It describes dissolving gold and copper in aqua regia, processing ashes to obtain gold, and an alternate gilding using gold amalgam on copper brass or silver, with oven firing to evaporate quicksilver and final brushing and washing.
The article critiques saddle horses for hacks, noting fifteen hands as a practical height and arguing tall horses lack ease and lightness, often carrying long legs and shallow bodies. It contrasts showy appearance with utility and mentions a London Review quote. It also recounts a stagecoach bonnet anecdote and cites Sir Peter Lely on avoiding bad pictures and bad company.
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