06 Dec 1882
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Newspaper
The Clermont Courier
Location
Batavia, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Dec 06, 1882
Page
1
The notice outlines ad rates for transient advertisements with 11 lines for the first insertion and additional insertions, plus a liberal annual reduction. Business cards are limited to six lines and cost six dollars per year.
A flood of sobering events: death by suicide in Chicago tied to love, brutal family violence in Hudson and Milwaukee, and a Pittsburg double murder with a daughter witness. Police pursuits in Topeka leave two officers wounded. San Francisco fish poisoning kills two, with a third dying. plus reshuffles in government bureaus, Native American patrol plans, graft trials, riot scenes in New Orleans and Cincinnati theatre accident, and international marvels from England to Madagascar.
In New York week end summary, Ahmed Vefyk Pasna is named Prime Minister of Turkey. Other items note a Middletown Ohio paper mill boiler explosion killing Adam Foster and injuring several, a Comanche County Texas arrest of three murderers, a Covington to Falmouth train collision with injuries, and various international incidents and disasters.
The National Grange committee on education reports strong support for agricultural instruction and urges greater patronage of agricultural institutions. It favors embedding agricultural science in public schools and colleges, promoting Grange papers, and requiring agricultural curricula for state college attendees to advance farming education and rural uplift. The report calls for state masters to report on pupil numbers, departments, and outreach efforts at the next National Grange meeting.
Charles F. Davis, jailed in Elyria for shooting Charles Wilson last summer, received an eight year penitentiary sentence on the 25th. Davis, a known gambler, led a robbery attempt at Wilson’s home, and later health scares while jailed were reported amid guards.
A New York Tribune editorial analyzes Democratic leaders plans for 1884, contrasting Randall's retrenchment approach with Watterson’s free trade stance. It urges the party to embrace civil service reform, end partisan removals, and pursue merit-based appointments, warning of Republican backlash if insiders stall reform. The piece cites historical party vitality and predicts a Democratic victory hinges on honest reform rather than tariff wrangling.
The piece argues that party fortunes shift despite claimed defeats. It recalls 1861 Democrat losses and 1840 Van Buren collapse, noting Republicans and Democrats alike rise again after disasters. It cites editors who misread history and asserts cycles of revival in U.S. politics.
The piece notes Butler’s 1882 Massachusetts governorship amid a Republican tide and Democratic gains across New England. It discusses earlier Massachusetts politics, Butler’s controversial career, and the broader regional shifts including New Hampshire, Connecticut, Ohio, New York, and Pennsylvania.
A French inventor develops a steam tricycle capable of speeds from fifteen to twenty miles per hour with minimal effort. Reports discuss leather and rawhide horsehoes, solanine risks in potatoes boiled with skins, and disruptions from steam hammer vibrations. Also covered are asbestos paper for forging, brick performance in furnaces, scale insects and pest control, copper use in preserved vegetables, and a New York company forming to market electrical time-indicators with synchronized clock plates for urban stations.
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