26 Aug 1837
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Newspaper
The Clermont Courier
Location
Batavia, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Aug 26, 1837
Page
1
A 19th century excerpt describes frontier fur trade life led by Capt. Bonneville with Shoshoni and Eutaw groups and a love flight story ending in a settlement over a lost wife. It also contrasts Highland poverty in Scotland with bagpipe music connecting rural toil and culture.
A reflection on the wildness and independence of Ossianic heroes and the rugged peoples who inhabit harsh landscapes. The author admires their character while noting the foreigners would not trade their own homes for these austere abodes, which remain deeply loved.
The chaplains at Connecticut, Aubaro, and Philadelphia prisons report many inmates lost or left home young, lacked parental controls, and faced temptations leading to crime. Highlights include counts of early independence, broken apprenticeships, gambling, intemperance, and foreign-born or out-of-state origins. A Danube disaster near Rugensburg kills up to 30 with many injured, praised relief efforts from Prince Texis.
Benjamin Asbury of New Jersey tested strength and skill by mowing three acres at League Island owned by Charles Wharton. The feat, witnessed by a large party, was completed between sunrise and sundown in three minutes of the limit, followed by a celebratory repast and a purse for the mower.
A Philadelphia report states primary schools spend 585000 dollars annually, now over a million with half from the state and half from taxes. Forty five counties have academies, seventeen operating mostly in debt, state aid totaling about 240 thousand with seven hundred students in operation. Fourteen incorporated colleges exist, eleven active, total college grants 224600 dollars.
The Ottawa tribe, about two hundred strong, encamps near the Maumee preparing to move west of the Mississippi under agent Del McElwain and paymaster Capt McCruger of Rochester New York. The Chillicothe Advertiser criticizes Col Win K Bond of Congress for church leadership in a sharp partisan attack. Russia’s gold and silver output last year totals 3.64 million and 1.675 million respectively as it seeks markets in England.
The Princess of Boston is reported lost after striking a sunken rock in the Malta channel. The American consul at Palermo says the rock is not charted and lies where a volcano once appeared and vanished. Public unrest in the Cavadas rises daily.
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