28 Feb 1877
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Newspaper
The Clermont Courier
Location
Batavia, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Feb 28, 1877
Page
1
A family gathers on a stormy night as a father tells a tale for Edith Selle Robert Will and Fred. A barefoot child from the vineyards appears seeking shelter and a tambourine, and the motherly home welcomes her with care, weaving a poignant lesson of love.
In New York two merchants discuss how to handle Carlton in trouble. Elder favors hard lines while Highland urges extended aid, leading to Carlton’s rescue when Elder, later ruined, is saved by Carlton’s cash and support. Elder reforms, later prospering and never oppressing debtors again.
In a Virginia City tale, John McCullough recalls pranks during Merchant of Venice rehearsals where a jack-in-the-box gag hits him on the nose and later a dwarf actor roles in a staged scare. A wandering A C Y schemes scams with Peewit as watchers confront playful con games and a prank chase ends in mock defeat.
At a recent Universalist ministers meeting in Boston Rev Mr Wib bert said he wrote to Mr Moody asking why Universalist Christians have not been invited to unite with Moody meeting organizers. They see no good reason to refrain from taking part in a shared Savior worship.
Governor Colquitt of Georgia is described as a zealous Methodist who preaches to the enslaved workers he employs. Ben Hill, newly elected U S Senator from the same state, is also a Methodist.
Seventy four churches in Baltimore are Methodist, with 47 belonging to the Methodist Episcopal, 8 to the Methodist Episcopal Church South, 8 to the Methodist Protestant, 5 to the Methodist, and 6 to the African Methodist Episcopal denomination.
The Ohio Legislature records a week of bills and debates in February detailing codification of laws, banking measures, and education. Actions include passage of a canal land bill, amendments on intermarriage prohibitions, and a contentious Crox Harman election case scheduling.
The report notes petitions from 1,081 Ashtabula County citizens and 400 voters plus 500 women from Lake County calling for more stringent liquor laws. The item highlights organized civic action across neighboring counties.
An English parish curate filling in for a rector delivers a Sunday sermon on the Prodigal Son. He emphasizes the fatted calf as a cherished family symbol, provoking wide-eyed astonishment and amused reaction from a rural congregation. The scene evokes local color and a lighthearted moral moment.
A Russian heir apparent, resembling Nicholas, reportedly possesses prodigious strength and notable self control. An anecdote recounts his handling of a post office letter tampering incident when he confronted the emperor. He presented a twisted silver ruble as proof of his anger, then the official departed.
A Wheeling pastor recounted by the Wheeling Leader faced a highwayman who demanded money. He answered with a staged sermon and attempted to convert the thief before suddenly kicking him and fleeing, leaving the pistolless robber penitent and stunned.
The Glermont Courier sets legal and transient ads at 1.00 per square for the first insertion and 0.50 for each additional insertion. Yearly discounts apply. Business cards up to six lines cost 6.00 per year.
A Gen Dix poem excerpt notes a lifelong resident who never left his rural home. He toils in paternal fields, aging with strength, avoiding war and bustle, living by crops and seasons. His life centers on the same field from dawn to sunset, with Verona and distant routes of travel only in thought.
A Scribner March page column recounts wry remarks on time, a west convention rumor about the Ashtabula disaster, a restaurateur’s joke on oyster stews, and a Sioux City tale of a grudging traveler. It also notes Boston jokes, March verse from H. H., a cake recipe note, and playful wants ads with a boastful seventeen-year-old.
Les Mondes outlines M. Toselli's plan for an 1878 Paris Exhibition aquarium inside a large iron case with rocks and plants. Visitors will view from galleries while Toselli demonstrates a diving bell, electric illumination, pneumatic stone recovery, and other marine apparatus. Dr Schliemann is noted as a Sacramento gold dust banker turned naturalized U.S. citizen.
Adjutant General Drum recalls a tale from 1861 about Admiral Smith and his son Captain Joseph Smith. As the ram ironclad threatened Norfolk, the Union sent the Cumberland and Congress to Hampton Roads where both wooden ships fell to battle. A dispatch read Congress struck her colors, and Admiral Smith quipped Joe’s dead though the message did not state it.
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