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Newspaper
The Clermont Courier
Location
Batavia, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Dec 12, 1850
Page
4
A brief item recalls childhood friends and shared history with a poem by George P. Morris and a humorous tale about a bachelor editor dreaming of marriage. The piece includes reflections on friendship’s lasting ties and a comic dream sequence about wedding cake and bread versus plum pudding.
A lively jumble recounts a stage coach mishap where a passenger blamed the driver after tumbling from the wagon and later remounts. Other items note a Plymouth doctor using a bell bellows mouthpiece for patient chats, reflections on news reading, and assorted observations on oxen, Niagara, Chinese Magyar echoes, university expulsions, moustache health claims, an Irishman in a Hartford well, and humorous quips about independence and action.
An order of sale from the Court of Common Pleas directs the sheriff to auction multiple parcels in Clermont County on December 21, 1850, at Batavia Court House. The property includes two tracts totaling 36 acres 46 poles, a second 118 acres 26 poles, additional bounded land of about 10 acres, and lots within Batavia town numbered 231 through 259 and others with varied appraised values. Sale terms require one third cash, one third in nine months, and one third in sixteen months with interest and security.
Pursuant to an order of sale I will offer at the courthouse door in Cincinnati on Monday December 8 1850 between 10 AM and 4 PM the real estate in Hawthon County Amerson township Ohio. The property includes three lots with a stone house and vineyard on the bank of the Ohio River. Estimated 14 acres more or less. The sale proceeds to be paid in installments secured by a mortgage on the premises. Compiled by Joseph Kyle Sheriff of Clermont County.
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