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Newspaper

The Clermont Courier

Location

Batavia, Ohio, United States of America

Date

Aug 08, 1877

Page

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Browning Br Terms One Fifty Per Year

The notice outlines Browning BR terms set at 1.50 dollars per year with advance payment details. It specifies pricing cadence and collection method for readers.

Believe Me True In Affection Dear Friend

Tender verse pleads for belief in true affection. The speaker repeats assurances of fidelity despite separation, vows unchanging devotion, and a hope to reunite, asking the recipient to keep faith and to remember their love as a guiding companion.

Skeleton in the shaft unearthed in Crawford County tale

In Crawford County Michigan a summer trekker and companion discovered a buried shaft with a mummy like skeleton. A bound almanac from 1866 and a torn wallet hinted at a lone explorer’s fate, fate sealed by a broken leg and a ten year wait for rescue.

Crawford County Michigan Will H. French French Martin Acre

Fragmented political theatre and oddities in Bacon era satire

A Berkshire Courier note mocks political stalemate with Ohio vote threats and a lobster red housewife jam scene. It parodies Virginia Gazette calls for a political giant and riffs on odd era humor about cats, travel costs, and a worm dropping down a sleeve with comic consequences.

Hayes Ohio Berkshire Courier The Virginia Gazette Mohammed Black Hills

Woman Rescued After 33 Years Hidden in Italian Cave

A woman found in a Udine cave had been imprisoned for thirty three years. Her father opposed her marriage to an Austrian officer, then died, and her sister continued the confinement. After release she is pale and emaciated, with a voice reduced to a hoarse whisper.

Udine Italy Tie

Canebrake Lands in Alabama Gain Sudden Favor

The canebrake lands of Alabama are rapidly rising in desirability and within a few years a plantation in that region may become as scarce as it was before the war.

Alabama

Bear Rescues Girl in Michigan Pine Forest Tale

An Iowa or Michigan settler recounts a bear kidnapping in Mason County near Lake Michigan. A hunter party tracks the bear to Pere Marquette River where the child sits unharmed on a log in the water, hugged by a motherly bear. Indians tell similar legends of bear child-stealing.

Dro GL. Leach Michigan Mason County Lake Michigan Pere Marquette River

Not Dead but Sleeping in Panic Over Hoop Skirt Snake

A timid San Jose woman faintly survives after feeling a bite while walking in a grass plot. She seeks an antidote with brandy, writes poison on a visiting card, and sleeps. A doctor later finds she was pierced by hoop skirt wires misinterpreted as a snake bite. Imagination plus liquor caused the tale.

San Jose

Melbourne Shark Fever Drives Prize Policy and Bounties

News notes three to five men and several dogs eaten by sharks off Melbourne. The government offered a bounty for capture but paid one shilling per foot with no reward for sharks under two feet. Fishermen discarded small sharks and kept fishing to earn up to twenty dollars daily.

Melbourne Australia

Three Guards Remain to Protect Savannah Barracks

Only three soldiers stay on duty to guard the Savannah barracks as others have been reassigned or deployed, leaving the security post with a reduced guard contingent.

Savannah

Perilous whaling voyage and escape from brutal captain

The Hunter of New Bedford sailed on a four year South Pacific whaling cruise with Richard D. Day and Charles I. Mayhew aboard as green hands. They fled at Panama with seven Portuguese after brutal beatings, witnessed by Mayhew, and found refuge with George Burt before returning on the Acapulco. Mayhew suffers Panama fever while Day recounts harsh conditions and a harsh voyage.

Hunter New Bedford Holt South Pacific Richard D. Day Charles I. Mayhew Dr. Day Thomas Mayhew Fall River Panama Young Day McDonald Day Mayhew George Burt Pall River Acapulco

Untold social gambits on West Adams Street

A lighthearted scene unfolds at a West Adams Street gathering where a timid gentleman helps a beauty plot to nudge her fiancé. The ruse leads to a resolved reconciliation in the library, but the benefactor goes unrewarded as the woman more gravely blesses her betrothed and scorns the helping suitor.

iChicago Tribune West Adams Street Alonzo

Aboard the Ri mac rail hand-car descent above Anchi

Twelve thousand feet above the Pacific a party of twelve thousand feet above the Pacific a party of twelve inches? Actually twelve travelers ride a hand car down the risky gorge of the Rimac. The author revels in the route’s grandeur while one admiral-like traveler abandons the ride after ten miles. The rest return repeatedly for the thrill of the descent.

Anchi Pacific Rimac

Austere Shumla Hotel Oasis Over Ornamental Waterworks

The Shumla hotel described as austere offers only bare comforts with native beer wine and mastie. A Bulgarian landlord explains a decorative gutter and tanks form an ornamental fountain used by guests before dinner to drink beer or mastic. The piece lightly mocks Balkan artistry amid sparse furnishings.

Shumla New York Herald Pat Vienna

Amusements in a Cossack Camp

London Times correspondent describes Cossack entertainment with horsemen charging for a cap, eight nearby falls, and disciplined riding. After the sport, the group shares tea and wine outside the colonel’s tent while officers, guests, and soldiers toast and playfully lift a Grand Duke’s officer.

London Times

Mutilation murder in Stoticville shocks region near railway depot

James Mulcahy known as James Wilkins, an Irish American, brutally mutilated Ellen Campbell in her bed after claiming to exorcise a fiend. Campbell died within four hours as details emerged at Worcester police, with Mulcahy claiming divine instruction and predicting weather. The victim’s husband Frank Campbell and Father Garrity were among those attending. Mulcahy, recent magistrate lodging and prior jail time in New Brunswick, is described as violent and intoxicated.

Stoticville James Mulcahy James Wilkins Campbells Worcester Mulcahy Wilkins New Worcester Auburn Southbridge Street Churchill Mr. Churchill Campbell Frank Jim Wilkins Nutting Father Garrity St. Anne’s Church Mulcahy Or Wilkins Ellen Campbell Frank Campbell New Brunswick

Twenty Three Young Men Return Home In Hard Times

The piece chronicles twenty three Eastern college graduates catching life on hard times. Eleven work as clerks earning fourteen dollars monthly, one operates a fish boat, two study house painting, one dies of starvation within a week, another drives a street contract team, two become tramps, and the rest live with widowed mothers. It notes how rapid life’s pressures alter career paths and knowledge.

BuRLINGTON /lawk-Eye Trampelovitch Trampleovski Cheverek Upblowich Ktch Starowskovowski Flagovitch Hagely Philadelphia Star Etancon Cincinnati Enquirer Pennsylvania Oregon

Pittsburg Riots Described At Union Depot Scene

A Cincinnati witness recalls eight p m Sunday in Pittsburg during the railroad riot. The Union Depot lies in ruins with burning timbers and a mob looting and rioting around Adams Express and Panhandle shops. Spectators numbers thousands gaze as drunken crowds torch cargo and plunder, while some act with chilling indifference. The riot ends only after widespread destruction and a shift in public opinion over blame.

Pittsburg Cincinnati Union Depot Union Panhandle Aome Charles ‘White Prince Albert Liberty Street Thirty-third Street

The Plight of Railway Laborers and Managers

The New York Sun reports a clash over wages and profits in four major trunk lines the New York Central Erie Pennsylvania and Baltimore and Ohio All argue they cannot pay liv ing wages due to insufficient revenue while laborers demand higher pay The piece attributes the crisis to a decades long railroad war that drove freight and passage rates down causing bankruptcy threats and even riots with arson as a darker facet of the conflict.

Sidney Picolo Troy Deadwood Cheyenne Delmonico New York Custer New York Central Erie Pennsylvania Baltimore and Ohio

Quotations on Lie Joys and Bread by Richter

A compact quotation reflects on lies as daily refreshment, likening harmless house-bread to persistent appeal and suggesting even grand sugar-bread brings only brief pleasure before satiety. The tone hints at a philosophical musing on desire and appetite.

Richter

Advertising rates at Che Clermont Courier

The Che Clermont Courier lists legal and transient ads at 1.00 per ten lines for first insertion and 0.50 for each subsequent insertion. A yearly rate reduction is offered. Business cards up to six lines cost 86.00 per year.

Miss Belle and the Cottage Nook in Scrilmer's Monthly

Dialogue fragments from Scrilmer's Monthly August issue reveal comic rehearsal lines about home life, marriage bets, aging, iced tea, and a playful oak and vine metaphor. The exchanges feature a suitor seeking approval for papering a cottage and a humorous miscommunication about romance and aging.

Scrilmer's

Random Snippets and Satirical Musings From A Turbulent Era

A collage of quips and vignettes from a bustling era includes a sidewalk mishap remark, playful toasts, a Danbury church festival described as an operation, and comic riffs on war songs and canal gossip. It also notes fires, licenses, and a sparring exchange between two lawyers, Doyle and Yelverton, amid broader social quips.

Soldier critiques on battle uniforms in art

The writer mocks battle art for showing too clean faces after firing and uniforms that seem ill fitting. He notes US army quartermasters enforce a strict rule against uniforms that fit infantrymen poorly, a standard never violated.

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