15 Aug 1877
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Newspaper
The Clermont Courier
Location
Batavia, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Aug 15, 1877
Page
1
An oddly whimsical piece from the Boston Gazette describing a fantastical dialogue between a lunatic, a beeble goat, a yumpsey cat, and a childlike narrator. It parodies daydream logic with absurd claims about sun kegs, one-legged porpoises, and cakes masquerading as people, ending in a surreal farewell.
A former couple reunites as John Stringer offers to marry Mary Ann and share the meadow and farm after years apart. He proposes to take both wife and land, resolving past quarrels with a simple, mutual understanding. Sophie Mills and past marriages loom as backdrop in a rural settlement scene.
A new sales trick uses a door rude to trap housewives with a fluter bait and a mock law firm bill. A woman buys on trial. a fake attorney later tries to collect, threatening court. The ruse ends with payment under fear of legal action. General Sheridan had a spree of shooting during his recent trip.
A Colorado man, Horter, moves to Atlantic City. He buys a load of oyster shells thinking stones and plants them around his garden. The stench from the open oysters alarms neighbors until a tour reveals the shells. He sells the cottage and moves to Long Branch.
A diverse collection of brief notes includes statistics on dogs in Kansas and cows in Massachusetts, a coal ice-melt quip, Turkish meanings, wages, and punishing welcome, plus oddities about Troy horses, dried apples exports, and Poles in Arkansas. It also mentions Australia meat, Mongolian traits, a Paris health restaurant, a shooting at Union Depot, Providence Tool Company and Turks, Santa Barbara oil, and Photographs of Napoleon IV.
The New York Greenwood drummer Jordan met a hotel room prank where a couple returned to their quarters as he slept. He woke to a supposed ghost after discovering a fellow guest dead asleep on the bed. The trio faced the clerk as the practical joke became a scene at the hotel bar.
In Marion South Carolina a young man named Ivey and Miss Bullard fled toward North Carolina to wed. The bride’s brother shot at them wounding the sister but not the lover. A preacher married them at a nearby house despite the danger and the father’s instructions.
A reflective piece contrasts a strong tempered person who dictates family life with a calm, angelic couple. It notes how servants cater to the dominant figure, while ordinary people face delays, bills, and subservience. Annie Brewster cites Rome on the Pope and a closing quip warns that a seven foot man at night signals a burglar.
Scalded Laurel leaves ease neuralgia and native aluminium sulphate from pyrites in Nepal is valued medicinally. Fahnefelm advises a white cement mix of chalk and kaolin. Mushrooms can yield a second crop with hot salted water. A desert resin yields oils rich in carbon for lighting. Railway spring makers face competition from machine-made springs. A case reports poison from homeopathic camphor used for colds, causing an epileptic seizure and ongoing illness declines.
A group of Syracuse young men camping above Curtiss lake disrobes to bathe as visiting ladies call on them. Seeing the approaching ladies, they flee to their tent leaving clothes on the bank. The distraught visitors fear the swimmers drowned until a youth uses a doorway excuse to explain the situation. Tableau.
During the Pittsburg riot fire several freight cars carrying metals from the Pennsylvania Lead Company at Mansfield were destroyed. Three cars contained pure silver pigs smelted at Mansfield destined for the Philadelphia mint. The silver ran between ties and gutters. proprietors later recovered the metal, but its total value remains undetermined.
The London Daily News notes Captain Crapo and his wife completed a 49 day voyage from New Bedford to London amid storms and fog. They hacked a new drogue after the original failed, repaired a broken rudder, and survived prolonged gales with scant sleep. Captain Crapo plans further travel to Falmouth, London, and the Paris Exhibition.
The Astor brothers, long guided by John Jacob and William B. Astor, split their single family business after their father’s death. Each now operates separate offices, maintaining the Prince Street base while managing mortgages leases and taxes personally. The change marks a potential end of a long cooperative line of business.
An Italian Gazetta d Italia notice from Russia offers a chance to marry into three daughters. The seller seeks a 22 plus, non criminal suitor with affections for his wife, a decent appearance, basic education, obedience to parents, and no Jewish religion constraint. Dowry backed by a bank, details from Lipovetz Salohichovka.
Two young attorneys wrangled before Judge Knox of Virginia over a point of law. The decision came down with the judge replying in good humor to a bold remark by one attorney about fools. The report notes Senator Davis is afflicted with stomach cancer.
Tommy Stewart, nine, was found naked in the Croton fountain near City Hall Park by Officer Snyder. At Tombs Police Court he pleaded and was sent to prison for three days after warning to avoid the House of Refuge.
A man and his stern wife check into the Burnett House where she dictates all arrangements. She registers both, orders meals, supervises baggage, and settles the bill while the husband complies meekly under her dominant direction. A crowd sympathizes with the indignant husband.
A pauper lunatic named Donnelly attacked Mr. Lang on a Glasgow to London train near Bradford with a razor. Lang restrained him, but Donnelly fatally cut his own throat, dying on the car floor. The incident spurs a critique of compartmental English railway design versus the American system.
Legal and transient advertisements offered at 1.00 per square for first insertion and 0.50 for each additional insertion. A liberal annual reduction is provided for yearly advertisers.
A humorous verse by John Paul critiquing rustic lovers and poets who praise dawn assignations. It disputes the realities of five am romances and imagines a maid's sharp reply to a persistent suitor. The speaker weighs fantasies against practical wit and rural mornings.
A mixed collection of anecdotes and quips from Chicago to Boston. A rising man blown by a boiler in Davenport, humorous bets about degrees and economy, cat scares at midnight, and a facetious piebald witness. The Boston Herald notes jurors dining during a hung verdict.
In Pang Yang New York a blind man named Blind Tom works full days in farming tasks from hoeing and potato digging to wall building and threshing. He travels four miles to Centerville with no trouble, chops wood, locates and tends cattle and draws water from the well daily. About sixty he has lived in Pang Yang all his life and is known as a faithful, intelligent worker who requires no supervision.
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