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Newspaper
The Clermont Courier
Location
Batavia, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jan 07, 1848
Page
1
Advertising and subscription notice outlining payment terms for the newspaper. Subscriptions cost 1.75 in advance or within 60 days, 2.00 after. Paper not discontinued until arrears are paid. Advertisements charged at usual rates.
Miss Alice Carey writes of broken dreams and doom after a broken faith. The speaker longs for a peaceful isle away from hollow lies while recalling shared talks of love and the deathly shadow on her brow. She resolves to endure darkness alone, choosing a sunnier path if seen by the beloved.
Luther visits Rome and witnesses the ruins of ancient Rome and the pomp of the papal court. He laments the contrast between sacred memory and clerical corruption, noting mass excess and mockery at table. He longs for his parents and perceives the gospel light dimmed by dogma.
The last Golden Rule notes charters granted for lodges in Honolulu in the Sandwich Islands and Caracas in Central America. The piece predicts rapid growth of Odd Fellowship across the continent and beyond as prejudice fades through deeds, with brothers welcomed wherever a member may be.
A damp peat bog half a mile long sits on the Northern N H Railway cut into rock thirty to forty feet deep. The bog, so wet and spongy, required large timber dykes to keep it off the track. Its presence on the high summit between the Merrimack and Connecticut rivers astonishes observers.
The New York Boston Atlas correspondent reports Rev. Dr. Humphrey’s lecture praising Liberia’s 1816 beginnings, its progress, and calls for aid. He notes Liberia’s declared independence near July and January implementation, urging support for education, governance, and missionary work to spread civilization and counter the slave trade.
Judge Gray listens to many excuses but grounds the dismissal on dishonorable attempts to avoid service. The juror departs, feeling himself unfit for civic duty.
A humor column suggests an odd home remedy for a bruised nose. It prescribes boiling gum guincum cowdage and tarsimmer into a paste then applying with a whitewash brush. The expected result is the sore peeling away in about an hour.
The article urges rural families and young mechanics to use winter evenings for reading and productive activities. It cites Icelanders as a model of reading and shared labor, and recalls Franklin Whitney Fitch and Telford as examples of self-made knowledge gained in winter. It argues against idle tavern talk and promotes wholesome, instructive pastimes.
Hartford physician Dr. Lee reports five successful rattle snake bites treated with alcohol in large doses. He prescribes a half pint every fifteen minutes, aiming for a quart per hour, arguing liquor absorbs the venom and does not intoxicate the patient while venom remains in the system.
The Lexington Observer notes Mr. Clay may travel to Washington if a Supreme Court case he is counsel for is tried this term, contingent on court timing. A destructive Alabama tornado on the 10th alt. devastated Perry Tuscaloosa and Green counties, demolishing New Bern and killing Perry sheriff Stokes. Cadhoun in February warned that Mexico’s fate would affect U.S. politics, calling it forbidden fruit. A man tends to mirror others in his judgments on humanity.
The Ohio Penitentiary reports 1847 shows 445 to 498 inmates with an average of 461, six deaths, and fewer punishments than prior years. A May fire tested discipline but prisoners assisted firemen without loss. The warden notes a 4000+ volume library, expanded Sabbath School, and improved moral reform. Four inmates escaped, three retaken. Financials show earnings 44,082.21 with disbursements 28,678.20 and a surplus of 15,404.01. At year end 445 inmates: 61 married men, 189 singles, 247 married women, 8 singles.
Washington digest of the Postmaster General report shows routes 153,818, miles 38,887,899, costs 2,406,849, new law effects, and calls for reform flaws. It notes increased revenue, reduced expenditures, and recommended changes to private expresses, sealed letters, letter weights, newspaper postage, and franking.
The Maine senator Fairfield, who served briefly in the U S Senate, died after an operation for dropsy below the knee and caustic treatment. Described as amiable and upright, his sudden death casts a gloom over the holiday season in Wasurmeerton.
The Belle of Illinois bound for New Orleans struck a snag on the fifteenth in the Mississippi River and went down immediately with 90 bales of cotton. The Westwood of Gulf Railway Company burst three boilers below New Orleans, killing 12 crew members. No passengers aboard.
A reflective line suggests that many blame fates for woes while failing to identify true causes. It cites an Indian poet who remarked that had he been born a hatter, people would have gone hatless, illustrating misattribution of misfortune and the vanity of external labels.
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