23 Aug 1849
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Newspaper
The Clermont Courier
Location
Batavia, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Aug 23, 1849
Page
1
Printed and published by Andrew Migest. Subscription price one dollar seventy five cents in advance or within sixty days. If payment is delayed beyond sixty days two dollars. Paper will not be discontinued until all arrearages are paid. Advertisements inserted at usual rates.
Batavia hosts the Clermont County Agricultural Society special meeting on July 24 1849 to set the annual exhibition for September on Alrey's Run. A committee including B W Pease Joseph Shaw and F D Salt will select ground and negotiate contracts. Premiums are listed for cattle sheep swine horses poultry butter cheese honey flowers fruit field crops and more with detailed requirements for fattening dairy stock and crop reports. Discretionary premiums may be awarded for domestic manufacture and fine collections.
The Board will arrange premiums and announce them before the exhibition. They aim to gather all possible funds, with about one hundred dollars already raised and expected to double before the event. All interested should join by sending their names and a one dollar admission to the undersigned or to John Hancock, Secretary, at New Richmond. By order of the Board. THOS. S. SHIELDS. President. July 31, 1849.
In a detailed account, Ewd Stabler of Sandy Spring Maryland shares decades of trial on lime plaster and bones to renew exhausted soils. He documents durable gains from lime, limited but lasting benefits from guano, and advises on drainage furrows and long term soil health for profitable, permanent improvement.
New York Chamber of Commerce endorsed Whitney's railroad to the Pacific at Tuesday's meeting. A long report considered other propositions and recommended Whitney's plan, arguing the road should belong to the Nation when finished. A resolution urged Congress to accept the plan while ownership remained an open question.
A New York correspondent notes a forthcoming tariff convention in your city on the seventh prox. The gathering aims to unite Southern tariff friends and Pennsylvanians to seek a middle ground for tariff revision. It is described as an important convention.
Reports from Louisiana interior state that cane, cotton, and corn suffer severe damage from continual rains. Texas experiences heavy rainfall but holds optimism for eventual crop yields. Georgia meanwhile reports better prospects for cotton and corn.
The Washington Union notes the blood of dismissed office-holders will not sink in the ground. A Louisville Journal quips that the blood of a dragon slain by Hercules once produced an armed crop, implying that if such blood did sink, it could sprout thieves.
A 112 year old woman of African descent on the John C. Calhoun estate is described as having been brought from Africa and living with the family for a century. She reportedly has 63 descendants all living on the plantation.
An American Farmer editorial urges ditch dirt be carted to cow yards to be converted into manure by cattle. It claims the manure produced will be as valuable next spring as the same amount of stable curing, promoting practical waste reuse on farms.
The article asserts that wire fences are increasingly used on farms nationwide. They are praised as inexpensive and versatile, meeting or surpassing the function of common fences while also serving an ornamental purpose.
A bloody clash in Southern Illinois between self styled Regulators and Flatheads left several dead on both sides. The incident reflects local factional violence among citizens in the region.
Lately died at Liverpool Mrs Mayee wife of Mr Mayee who was her nineteenth husband in a concise obituary noting a widow with a long marriage history and identifying her spouse and place of death.
Quote from Fuller on passions describing them as moving bodies that gain momentum and move without ground until they reach a bottom. The line reflects a view of uncontrollable forces shaping behavior.
A compact historic aphorism cites love as the great instrument and engine of nature, the bud and cement of society, and the spring and spirit of the universe attributed to Dr. South.
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