12 Dec 1877
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Newspaper
The Clermont Courier
Location
Batavia, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Dec 12, 1877
Page
1
The President urges national pacification, supports emancipation progress, and endorses congressional action to secure civil rights. He advocates rapid specie resumption, silver coinage carefully balanced with gold, and safeguards public debt. He addresses foreign affairs with Mexico Cuba and Central American republics, and calls for Indian policy reforms and DC improvements.
The War Department report details the 1876 act reducing the army to 25,000 with cavalry excluded. It cites manpower cuts across engineers ordnance and infantry, notes suspension of recruiting then partial revival, and argues the force is too small for frontier defense and riot control. It calls for larger infantry and artillery batteries, retirement limits, West Point improvements, and reforms in pay, contracts, and record publication. It also covers land grants, new posts, desertion legislation, harbor defenses, lake surveys, and armament needs for state militias and coastal forts.
The report details fiscal year 1877 expenditures and receipts of the Post Office Department, noting total outlays of over 33 million dollars and revenues from ordinary receipts money order business and official stamps, with revisions that adjust actual expenditures to about 32.3 million. It covers grants from the Treasury, mail route costs, rail and sea transport costs, postal losses, and counts of arrested offenders under postal laws.
A Philadelphia poetess declares she will not weep as roses die while black oak wood sells for 7.50 a cord. She voices a bold refrain about enduring a five month winter and lifting voices to reach Nevada.
The Clermont Courier lists legal and transient advertisements at $1.00 per square for the first insertion with fifty cents for each additional insertion plus a yearly reduction. Business cards up to six lines cost $6.00 per year.
A lyrical fragment from Chambers Journal asks if the reader has seen the speaker's lost love. The poem likens the maiden to dewy bluebells golden corn white lilies eglantine and red carnations, with light wind laughter and sunbeam smiles. The speaker promises to reveal her name, claiming it is Summer.
An assortment of humorous snippets from newspapers. Jests about bathing suit prices, puns on bells and belles, grace notes on ministers and eggs, comic observations on clergy and social fashions, plus brief poems and quips about editors and dais. Read like a humor column of clipped exchanges and social curiosities.
A Mexican correspondent for the San Francisco Commercial reports hearing a nightly snapping sound in the bushes. He discovers oysters growing along each twig, ten to twenty per cluster, about two inches long and an inch and a half wide, attached to submerged branches that break when heavy with their weight. The sound comes from the sudden closing of thin shells, likened to rain drops on a barn roof. he notes the oysters can be educated but calls it his first oyster concert experience.
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