27 Apr 1881
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Newspaper
The Clermont Courier
Location
Batavia, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Apr 27, 1881
Page
1
Mixed items note 121 smallpox cases and 103 typhus cases in a New York hospital, a mad dog shot in Jersey City, fires destroying San Marcial and Bound Brook, a Negro Exodus to Kansas with 100000 migrants, 25000 Hamburg emigrants to America, a big New Orleans fire, and New York musical festival plans for May with Theodore Thomas directing.
Wisconsin floods overflowed streams damaging property and forcing residents in Fon-du-Lac to abandon homes for safety. The report notes extensive disruption and shelter needs as waters rise across communities.
A fragment reports a person managing to drag themselves out but not surviving, indicating a fatal outcome with limited readable details about location or circumstances.
The Mutual Union Telegraph Company with a capital of ten million dollars has completed their line between New York and Boston and will immediately extend to all western cities of consequence. The system aims to cover nine tenths of the nation’s telegraphic business.
Governor Ordway of New York told a Produce Exchange meeting that from fifty to one hundred thousand dollars is needed to sustain Colorado sufferers for four weeks until seed arrives. Some five hundred thousand acres are devastated and crops nearly ruined by the recent floods.
On May 1 Whitelaw Reid retires from the New York Tribune and will be replaced by John Hay ex Assistant Secretary and author of Little Breeches. Reid travels to Europe and may not accept the Berlin mission. Hay is guaranteed control of the Tribune for five years and Reid plans a return to politics.
The Department of Customs in Canada printed a blacklist of United States exporters who have at any time issued under value invoices. It was sent to every Collector in the Dominion with orders to scrutinize all entries of goods machinery or merchandise linked to the suspected parties.
At the State Convention of Colored Soldiers and Sailors of Maryland last week, resolutions urged Congress to revise the homestead law to allow holders of warrants to dispose of lands rather than merely settle. The group also sought greater political recognition of colored Republicans in Maryland official patronage distributions.
Advices from Bagdad warn of severe plague ravages though confined within the sanitary cordon. Four thousand Nedjed inhabitants fled to salubrious localities. Nedjed and Dijukwa were burned on the 8th. The disease becomes very violent with victims dying within ten hours of infection.
Reports from the Western winter wheat region show extensive damage from the severe winter but no danger of a general harvest failure. In most districts the crop is backward or in poor condition, yet there is no indication of total failure anywhere.
Colonel Fred Grant has resigned from the army where he held First Lieutenant of the Fourth Cavalry and Lieutenant-Colonel on the staff of the Lieutenant-General. He will join the Chicago Texas and Mexican Central Railroad as Civil Engineer. His father-in-law H H Hovare of Chicago is also prominently identified with the road.
In Milwaukee a test case found Wisconsin’s celebrated anti-treating law inoperative due to an error in its text. The bill repealed a law dropped in the state statutes revision, and Judge Mallory ruled the law void.
The clause in Benjamin Disraeli's will directs burial in the Hughenden churchyard vault with his wife Mary Anne Disraeli and requests a funeral of similar simplicity to hers.
In Crittenden County Arkansas Henry White a captured suspect shot and killed Sheriff Beattie fatally wounded Deputy Hendrix and seriously wounded two white Sepaties on two consecutive days. The incidents reflect a violent resistance to arrest with no misses reported.
Imcinda Fowlkes, a colored woman, was hanged at Luenberg Court House Virginia last week for the murder of her husband in January. She claimed a suspected accomplice named Dean was innocent and that she killed her husband due to his cruel treatment and frequent whipping. Her body was given to doctors with her consent.
A Denver and Rio Grande passenger coach from Pueblo to Rock Tunnel jumped the track two miles east of Rock Tunnel and fell 150 feet down an embankment. Fourteen aboard. five men and one woman killed outright. Three lightly and three severely injured. The fireman was injured. no other railroad employees hurt.
A Berlin correspondent reports the Czar still in the small Gatechina chateau, watched by six cordons of soldiers. He never appears outside the inner circle while Aniteschoff Palace is under the Pavlowsky Guards’ guard of three hundred men and a Nihilist manifesto foresees Alexander III's death.
E R Blakeslee, the Lake Shore and Michigan Southern mail agent, was arrested in Toledo for bold robberies on pouches headed to Buffalo Rochester Utica and Boston. Lebanon Indiana postmaster was also arrested for rifling registered letters with bail set at 2000.
A St. Louis commission house reports widespread discouraging condition of winter wheat from Missouri, Illinois and Kansas. Serious damage noted in almost every section with some areas facing total ruin. Predictions say the West may yield less than half a crop and quality will be poor.
Dispatch from Uvalde reports a long running feud between General John R Bayler and Gillhirst families ending in a clash. Elder Gillhirst killed, one Gillhirst son mortally wounded, another seriously hurt, young Bayler lightly injured. General Bayler once governed New Mexico.
In Reading Pennsylvania Samuel Butte rick George Gottschalk and William E Ler were arrested charged by Joseph Good with instrumental in causing the death of David Good in fall 1865 at Buckhill. The victim was beaten to death. Gottschalk and Butterick were prominent church members and were seen at a meeting. It is believed Good's wife, then ill, was induced to make a statement implicating the men.
Benjamin Disraeli died at 5 30 am on April 19 after weeks of illness. The 76 year old statesman and author, famed for Vivian Grey and Endymion, succumbed to gout and related complications worsened by bad weather.
Two explosions occurred at the Dittmar Powder Works in Binghamton New York after nitro glycerine ignited in water vaults. A second blast followed from 10 000 pounds of sporting powder nearby. The shock reached forty miles away, but no serious injuries were reported. A separate magazine explosion near Bridgeport Connecticut destroyed powder but caused no deaths.
Ice jams on the Rock River caused massive flooding from Sterling to Rockford. Elgin faces an estimated loss of 500000 dollars as rail lines submerge and bridges collapse. Fox River breaches its gorge above Elgin tearing down dams at Carpentersville and Dunke.
Breaks in a dam sweep away an iron bridge and a railroad bridge near the city. Submerged barns outhouses and stores flood basements and first floors in main streets. Damage put at 100000 dollars. Five men drown at Beloit. Milwaukee river reaches new peak with multiple dam failures near West Bend Thiensville Newburg and surrounding areas.
A night westbound Rock Island express on the trestle over the Maredosia River collapsed, sending the train into the water. Eight lives are lost including the engineer, fireman, several passengers, and a doctor. some passengers survive or escape, with boats and cheers as rescuers search the scene.
Senator Epmunds returns from Florida improved. Hobton named Postmaster at Bowling Green. Parry named Chief Clerk of the Department of the Interior. Treasury to review cotton ties duty amid hoop iron petition. Emancipation celebration disrupted. Court adjournment set. Kilpatrick toward Chile post. Debates over Robertson and Mahone movements continue in Senate. Emigration totals March and nine months end. Indian Office chief clerk Price appointed. Yorktown Centennial discussed. Sanitary Conference ends without consensus. AChicago socialist letter to Garfield shocks. Senate frictions persist with Hill, Mahone. Continuous partisan frictions noted with Mrs Jenks and Senator Morgan.
Two people race over an orchard fence with a fierce-eyed dog close behind. The chase underscores a tense moment on a rural property as neighbors watch anxiously.
The article surveys preservation chemicals for flowers, a six thousand year old sewing model claim, and notes on pseudo scientific findings from Paris sulfur to Carnelly’s liquid to solid heat retention. It covers tobacco poison chemistry and a Chinese Jewish community in Kaifungfu, its decay of rites, and Dr. Martin’s warning on Western Hebrew missionary needs in China.
A Country Gentleman excerpt explains spring crop failures due to moist spring soils becoming compact and dry at heading. Oats and barley perform poorly on old sod. roots hit compacted gaps. Frequent cultivation helps, but under hills no implement reaches. Pulverizing and rolling improve hills and reduce weak spots.
The speaker urges middle aged readers to tally on their fingers the friends from youth who have risen to distinction and become widely known in both continents, noting how rare such survivors are.
A reflective note urges firmness of purpose as the world aligns to aid a determined course. It implies collective effort follows steadfast direction, regardless of ultimate destination.
A Chicago Inter-Ocean reprint discusses Rafn's assertion that Norse explorers visited North America around 1000, possibly reaching Narragansett Bay. It notes Norse settlements from Iceland to Greenland, Vinland legends, inscriptions near Dighton Massachusetts, a Fall River brass plate, and echoes Longfellow’s Skeleton in Armor as part of ongoing debate among antiquarians.
M Janssen reports to the French Academy that prolonged exposure in Mendon photography first yields a neutral negative then a reversed positive with light and shadow inversion. Solar negatives require ultra brief times, yet half second exposure on dry plates creates a distinct arc hive image. Landscapes show transparent positives, suns white against sky.
A. Sick of Decatur Illinois submits a home remedy for fowl cholera to the Farmer's Review claiming it cures when others fail. The preparation mixes ground black pepper gunpowder soda sulphur laudanum or coal oil with flour and water and is fed by throat dosing a teaspoonful twice daily until recovered.
Ohio lawmakers adjourn after a lively session with actions including a Ventilation appropriation of 20,000 dollars for the State House and a 450,000 dollar limit on Longview Asylum valuation. Governor Foster commutes a death sentence to life imprisonment and several bills become law or face rejection.
The London Globe defines thrift as self-denial for future goals. Some people inherit a hoarding urge, while others spend money readily and fearlessly. Education can aid but not erase these traits. Self restraint remains the key to developing thrift across classes.
Henry Clay enjoyed whist for years and reportedly paused a game to view a hotel fire in Boston in 1818. Another tale places him leading a late night card session before Congress opened, promising to wash and return to call the chair for another rubber.
The quote reflects on a beauty that transcends visual art, suggesting inner harmony, character, and spirit define true beauty beyond what images capture. It invites contemplation of enduring qualities that endure beyond a moment's sight.
The legislature adjourned sine die at noon April 20 1881. Bloom’s substitute for tobacco inspectorships passed by 74 to 10. courts appoint inspectors and weighers at commission warehouses and license warehouse, with fees and multi location weighing. Several House and Senate bills passed or conferred including tax, heating, and road measures. conference actions on deficiencies and Xenian Home losses debated. salaries, per diem, and clerk pay approved.
The House discussed a substitute for the Senate bill to prevent fraud in tax packing, and recessed after lengthy debate. They passed bills including military claims funding, Clermont County tax levy, minor child protection, and Hamilton County road building. A conference report on the Deficiency Appropriation Bill was approved, and the Xenia Home fire loss claims were confirmed despite initial majority concerns. A liquor tax bill failed, a Clerk pay resolution was adopted, and the Speaker was authorized to certify the Clerks pay totaling 1,100.
The Philadelphia Chronicle notes a chicken scent described as a fowl odor, suggesting it is a present from someone. George is referenced in association with the aroma.
Reading suggests peeling and cutting potatoes then soaking in cold water before cooking to keep them from browning. The advice notes cold-water immersion as a simple step for better texture and color in prepared potatoes.
Legal and transient ads priced at 1.00 per square for first insertion plus 0.50 for each further insertion. Ten lines equal one square. Yearly ads receive a liberal reduction. Business cards up to six lines available at 4.00 per year.
A chaotic slice of Ohio notices spans escape attempts at Saint Clairsville to a Weir murder venue motion denied in court. Reports mention suicides, fires, drownings, a $10,000 water works fund, and warnings about swindlers and runaway horses. Major names include General John H. Young Urbana and Edwin Go editor in Akron.
A critique from Atlantic Monthly questions the propriety of excessive flowers at balls and performances. It argues that many bouquets serve vanity, bribery, or social signaling rather than genuine sentiment, citing multiple examples of overabundant, ostentatious arrangements and their hollow meanings.
A fragment notes that when one man holds a prejudice against another, the son becomes busy in coin-suspicion, hinting at tensions and financial distrust within a household or community.
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