04 Aug 1848
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Newspaper
The Clermont Courier
Location
Batavia, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Aug 04, 1848
Page
1
The notice outlines payment terms of one dollar seventy five cents or two dollars depending on payment timing, and states discontinuation will not occur until arrears are cleared. Advertisements are billed at the usual rates.
Extracted passages define justice and honesty from Christian ethics, citing biblical rules on honoring authorities, kindness to kin, repaying debts, and living industriously. The piece argues honest debt payment reflects Christian duty, warning that failing to pay debts harms one’s character and public reputation.
E Scofield urges the mercy of justice in debt matters. The text questions the value of ability without effort to repay, recommending cultivation of honesty, ongoing effort to settle debts, and open communication with creditors.
An excerpt from The Parlor Magazine recounts Jerusalem under Roman siege with Mara the mother of Zophar and her infant as famine and bloodshed devastate the city. Mara travels from Judea to Jerusalem, mourns, and ends by killing her child to spare it the horrors, then dies after a dramatic confrontation with soldiers.
In April 1847 a law required clergy to report weddings and physicians to report births and deaths. A City Inspector’s report shows only about fifty births and under a dozen marriages in a year for a city of half a million, with 11,158 deaths logged by the coroner. The article accuses clergy and doctors of dereliction and suggests penalties be added to enforce the law.
Scientific American reports Professor Wheatston of London devised a double mirror apparatus giving eight hundred revolutions per second. He estimates electricity in a copper wire one fifteenth inch thick travels faster than light across planetary spaces, at least 238,999 miles per second, and notes that intense light exists for far less than a millionth of a second yet remains visible to the eye.
A German man and a Philadelphia woman wed within an hour after he declared his interest. They spent the rest of the evening with her engaging in small business pursuits, leading to both being placed in the lockup as a brawl ensued and two or three men were knocked down. The new wife also secured a brief jail stay in the adjacent cell during the incidents.
A Buffalo Express retells Benton’s 1846 Senate remarks on Cass and the Oregon treaty. He explains a “simples” cure for a horse’s blindness and a “big head” malady, then shifts to nutmeg tree growth and a potato disease cure from Scientific American.
At a Royal Agricultural Society meeting in Hogland Professor Sewell described horses shod with a leather artificial sole between shoe and hoof. He said this method helps recover from hoof injuries such as contractions brittleness sand cracks thrush canker corns and similar affections. Sewell has used the technique for thirty years.
Cambridge Reveille reports a Park County citizen says Hon. Kin ry Secrest refuses to serve as a mass elector saying the strain is too strong for his stomach and health poor. He declines the honor along with others like Lewis Cass and John B. Neds who also refuse the contingent role.
The article contrasts Gen. Washington’s stance on presidential pledges with Gen. Taylor’s, noting Washington’s reluctance to bind himself and framing such reluctance as a core Whig principle. It cites letters from 1789 to Benjamin Harrison and Benjamin Lincoln, arguing that public service requires liberty to act for justice and the public good without pledges.
A Boston Journal note recounts Lewis Cass as minister to France in 1837 taking a pleasure tour through Italy Sicily Malta Greece the Archipelago Constantinople Egypt Palestine and Syria with about twenty five intermediate stops. The biographer allegedly omits Cass drawing his ministerial salary and traveling largely on a government ship. On return he is said to have given Jordan River waters to Louis Philippe for baptizing the Count of Paris.
A blue eyed, self possessed young woman rebukes a prying spinster who asks if she is engaged to Dr. C. She replies that it is none of the spinster's business and to tell others she does not know.
A man with a grudge burst into a sausage shop and deposited a dead cat on the counter saying the remark makes nineteen. He fled as shocked customers watched, leaving their purchases behind. Signa:
A Pennsylvania canvasser for the fourth district faced a blunt response from a plain elector who refused to vote, citing his principles. The judge corrected the approach, saying, My friend I admire your sincerity but do your manners.
Supper Death report notes the passing of Mr. William Bell, a highly respected local figure, who died suddenly before jazz. The cause is listed as apoplexy, with a brief unidentified signature.
The text outlines upcoming state elections in August and November for governor and legislature across Kentucky Indiana Missouri Iowa Illinois North Carolina and mentions possible Senate vacancies. It references party affiliations and candidates like J J Grittenden and Geo Badger while noting how vacancies may affect the U.S. Senate composition.
In Hamilton county at the School House in the village on Saturday evening, Hezekiah Stites, Esq., was named chair with J. Secretary. Addrey and Headly Jr. present as attendants. The gathering notes waning Cass support and growing Democratic activity nationwide as pro Van Buren factions organize.
The letter questions Col. Weller’s defalcation of about $11,090 and whether Butler County is insulated from loss. It argues a private trust breach makes him unreliable as a public financial agent and contrasts his stance with Seabury Ford’s actions and local bank concerns raised by Western Slavery.
The Louisville Journal reports about 300 Mississippi regiments arriving in New Orleans aboard the steamer Fayette. General Taylor visits Baton Rouge and the story notes widespread intent to vote for a candidate while recounting a tale of O Connell and a proposal memory involving Matty.
The article recounts Diocletian voluntarily stepping down from the imperial throne and living in Dalmatia in peaceful retirement. It notes his devotion to garden cultivation and his reluctance to return to power, quoting his remark about tending cabbages in Salona. It also mentions Morse’s telegraph line crossing the Hudson encased in gutta-percha.
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