25 Aug 1859
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Newspaper
The Clermont Courier
Location
Batavia, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Aug 25, 1859
Page
1
A poem from the Clermont Courier recalls a past meeting not in fashion or festivities but by a warm hearth. It emphasizes a lingering memory of joyful hours and the hope that memory preserves the eyes that once spoke with love.
The Clermont Courier argues the Republican party upholds Jeffersonian ideals and condemns slavery as an evil while critiquing Democratic attacks. It notes the North South divide over emancipation, cites Jefferson and Washington, and rejects forced abolition or exportation of slavery to new territories, asserting unity against sectional imposition.
The article explains moire like irregular glossing from uneven roller pressure in silk weaving and discusses how fabrics reflect light differently. It then muses on how both men and women could be hard without children, praising their role in refining parental love. A Lebanon Shaker anecdote shows a humorous encounter with a shaker, ending with a cautionary quip about patience.
Dan Russell, Mississippi Auditor candidate, delivers a rambling speech asserting his modesty while boasting of vote getting tactics. He mocks rivals Swan, claims multiple terms, pledges to rotate offices, and invites voters to Jackson to “enter without knocking” at the Auditor’s office.
After a M E Church quarterly gathering, members were struck by a sudden bilious attack as dinner began. Doctors were summoned while Peter Cartwright, the Presiding Elder, declined to eat. The episode caused alarm until it was learned the crowd had been given antimonial wine by mistake, provoking laughter from hardened sinners despite the seriousness of the event.
A New York paper explains meerschaum is sourced from magnesia-rich deposits in Negropont and Samos. The material forms soft, moldable pipes before air hardening, then is boiled in wax or oil for polish and durability, with oils gradually darkening the surface after smoking begins.
Ledyard notes women as more courteous, industrious, and virtuous than men, citing their hospitality and kindness across diverse lands from Denmark to Russia. He contrasts women's conduct with men's, recounting personal interactions and the enduring kindness of women in hardship.
The Christian Advocate portrays the “minimum Christian” as stingy, cynical about preaching, unwilling to attend extra services, critical, and morally lax. He attends only the barest church, excuses worldly pleasures, and strives to live as close to the line between church and world as possible.
An 1831 Opelousas Gazette excerpt complains editors face endless critics as they publish truth fearlessly. It notes editors must balance comments versus facts, avoid claims of bias, and endure complaints over poetry, space, ads, and type size. Each subscriber has a plan, echoing Sisyphus.
The article notes widespread lameness among horses, describing common deformities such as contracted feet, toe-standing, and sunken chests. It urges owners to inspect a horse’s foot, which is a complex structure of many thin horn layers functioning as a hoof and relates the prevalence of blemished hooves to age and neglect.
The Rural New Yorker article critiques horse shoeing methods that burden the animal with multiple elastic layers and heavy weight. It describes the coffin bone structure, the effects of misapplied farriery, and how owners push for flashy, scientific-looking shoeing to improve appearance rather than function. It urges readers to reconsider such practices after twenty five years of observation.
A stylized plea from Artemus Ward to Pittsburg editors, requesting favorable coverage and free travel for editors to attend his wax works exhibition. He complains of journalists' sharp prices and crowding, urging timely notices in his paper and others such as the Plane Dealer. He promises dramatic stunts and asserts his collection includes living wild beasts.
The Rev James L Corning of Buffalo attacks fashionable suppers and dancing in his lectures while recalling Scottish Swiss and German scenes. A New Jersey Farm report describes oats grown in Lawrence township from seed from Calton South Africa maturing in eleven weeks and winning last year’s state fair prize. The fragment ends with a mangled line about a masthead editor and a pirate.
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