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Newspaper
The Clermont Courier
Location
Batavia, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Aug 09, 1882
Page
1
A long, mixed digest of 19th century items reports bank cashier misappropriation in Franklin Pennsylvania, political speeches and lectures, western colonization moves, outlaw lore, yellow fever outbreaks, river harbor politics, a fatal freight collision near South Bend, a murder in Monroe County, and various national and international notes including Irish evictions, rail accidents, and Nihilist trials.
The British House of Lords adopted amendments to the Arrears of Rent Bill allowing landlords to refuse tenant relief if they doubt payment ability and enabling recovery from the tenant right fund if a tenant sells a farm after benefiting from the bill. Other bill clauses were agreed. Renesta to attend the Powers Conference only if Suez is discussed. Kino Cerenaro arrives in England. Mexican revenues for the last fiscal year stood at 27.5 million dollars, up 4.5 million from the prior year. A dispatch from August 1 cites a Russian envoy ordered to rejoin the Conference of Powers. Jon s Borrn, who embezzled 3,500 dollars from Allen & Co. jewelers in Chicago, is noted.
Distant dispatches describe General Alison sending troops to blow up Arabi Pasha forts near Ramleh after rebels had destroyed them. British warships fire on Gabari fort. garrison refuses surrender and bombardment lasts hours, fort destroyed. Reports from Aboukir and Ismailia describe ongoing operations, fortifications, and troop movements along the canal.
The Alexandria dispatches report high level clerical and civil figures including Ibrahim Asmed and Kamil from Yeghen along with many dervishes and judges. British troops are ordered to the front and Arabi Pasha is estimated at 70,000 men. The Suez Canal area grows tense amid rumors of a possible massacre of Christians.
The narrative details Senate and House proceedings from late July to early August 1882 including passage and rejection of multiple measures. It notes bills on immigration naval affairs pensions and sundry civil matters, amendments to the naval appropriation bill, the River and Harbor bill veto, the Kelley tax bill debate, and adjournments with various resolutions and diplomatic steps.
Rumors of Cairo firing circulate with no confirmation while panic subsides as Arabs threat appears unlikely. A Bedouin Sheikh claims Arabs deploy twenty thousand fighters and Arabi negotiates with the False Prophet of London. Senate confirms W. W Astor as Minister to Italy. Artemeus Haig dies in Boston. Oxford Female College closed and may become an invalid retreat. A duel in New Orleans leaves William Walsh dead. Irish Constables threaten resignations over pay and promotion. Arm and Coleman hanged at West Point for murder. Cain runs as independent for Congress in South Carolina. Senate and House approve most Naval and civil appropriation items. debates continue over navy yard closures and frontline property transfers. Conference reports adopted with remaining disputes referred to new talks. Continuous legislative wrangling noted as adjournment looms.
President Chester A. Arthur vetoes the river and harbor bill in a full message to the House, urging constitutional limits on local appropriations. He cites growth in spending since 1870 and suggests limiting expenditures to half the bill with war department controls, noting Congress will reconvene in four months to reconsider.
The record outlines total debt figures including extended bonds, certificates, and pension funds, with totals for debt with and without interest. It lists cash in treasury, available assets, and interest details, followed by miscellaneous 19th century notices on book sales, a postal card cover invention, and remarks on spelling reform.
The passage condemns gerrymandering in South Carolina, alleging Democratic and Republican parties carved districts to suppress the majority. It cites census data showing large black voter majorities and argues that six of seven districts would be won by Democrats only through illegal manipulation. The piece warns national voters and presses for adherence to majority rule and constitutional principles.
A quoted Charleston newspaper urges that South Carolina’s new methods of voter control skirt the spirit of the law while staying technically within it. The piece likens Tweed’s defiance of law to ongoing political tactics and condemns law-breakers who boast of legality over morality.
A northern view argues South Democrats aim to suppress black votes to maintain white political supremacy. It recalls the Yazoo plan, notes Charleston and South Carolina laws to create many boxes and misdirect ballots, and warns that registration could yield GOP gains if mixed with illiterate voter targeting. The piece cites the Chicago Journal and Charleston papers.
A Dundreary visitor at the London dog show paid 50000 dollars for a bull-dog described as milk white with red blood-shot eyes. The dog’s jaw chops fall to either side and its smile reveals teeth that alarm spectators, prompting a cautious retreat.
A string of tragedies and local incidents fills the report. James McCammon vanishes on July 27, just before his planned marriage to Miss Phillips in West Lafayette, while drownings and accidents claim several others in Ohio.
The Patent Office reports 15 244 applications in five months, up 2 307 from 1881 and 3 039 from early 1880. Receipts total 428 805 65 dollars, up 64 623 55 from 1881 and 90 660 85 from 1880. If trend continues, year receipts exceed 1 000 000 and applications surpass 36 000. Captain Boyton searched Genesee Falls depths for Sam Patch remains but found none.
The Lowell Courier notes Lester, one of Chicago's heaviest men, plans to build a 4 million dollar hotel that will supposedly make him lighter. The column adds a quip about spending 1.6 million dollars on peanuts last year while facing fines and cultivation issues.
A collection of brief items covering child growth estimates, pulp paper for engineering uses, waterproofing brick arches with asphalt, a French flush rail embedded in concrete, a new explosive cheaper than gunpowder, a Detroit needle-making machine, Brooklyn coinage, milk storage temperatures, lunar air theory, and an intermittent electric lamp design. Includes voices from N Y Sun, N Y Herald, Chicago Tribune, and other periodicals.
A collage of wry epigrams and teases from various papers. The notes mock misquoted phrases and social quirks with playful misprints and regional humor. The excerpt weaves clever lines about newspapers, mistakes, and everyday folly across several humorously tangled vignettes.
A San Francisco correspondent recalls a would be funny broker who released six crabs into a public bath tank to frighten a flirt. The plan backfired as the flustered woman shrieked, suffered fits, and the broker fled in disgrace on a crutch after a crab affixed to her toe. The bath house keeper later found the culprit crabbed with a trap in the pool.
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