24 Aug 1839
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Newspaper
The Clermont Courier
Location
Batavia, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Aug 24, 1839
Page
1
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April 1839 journal aboard a Mississippi steamboat notes Randolph village on the Tennessee bank, deck life, and a veteran Miami pioneer Mr. B. from Portland, Maine. It recounts Buckeye births, a faithful dog guarding a corpse, deck versus cabin passage, and wooding scenes with farmers, plus dramatic fire and geological disturbances near Pottsville and the Broad Mountain, ending with a runaway infant incident aboard.
A Philadelphia Gazette piece details a discovered ancient city in Wisconsin near Rock or Crawfish river. Brick walls four to five feet high, about twelve feet thick at base, enclose a three mile irregular square with five large buildings and about fifty smaller ones. Boundary lengths are given, inscription names the city Aztalan. The article ponders who built it and when and whether Wisconsin once held a Hispaniola like mining region.
Laborers digging the mound between Louisville and Portland uncover several graves about three feet deep. One grave contains near a dozen skulls and teeth with bones turning to ashes. A local elder recalls the mound from a poplar-covered past and suggests Choctaw burial customs, with heads and remains indicating ancient Indian interment.
Recipe from Maine Farmer advises treating botts in horses with milk to lure the pests, then feeding oats mixed with pulverized tobacco or tobacco infusion. It claims the tobacco mixture kills the botts within hours and prompts the horse to void them, warning against using this on older horses in cold weather.
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