10 Jan 1883
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Newspaper
The Clermont Courier
Location
Batavia, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jan 10, 1883
Page
1
The week features President Truman presenting the Mississippi River Commission report to the Senate, discussions on the bonded bill, and multiple bills advancing. Sessions note tobacco tax changes, civil and internal tax measures, and Navy ship recommendations while various public depictions, state actions, and notable legal cases are reported nationally.
M Gambetta, France’s leading statesman, died at his Paris home on the 1st of the month from pneumonia following suppressed erysipelas. Born October 30, 1838 in Cahors, he rose as a radical orator, served as Minister of the Interior, and gained fame for daring political actions during the siege of Paris and in subsequent republican disputes.
In the Senate on the fifth the Committee on Pensions will decide on increased pensions for maimed soldiers by the ninth. A postal appropriation for a canal feasibility survey is approved. In the House Mr. Ford defends himself against St Louis Globe-Democrat accusations. The District of Columbia Appropriation Bill passes with a slight amendment. A Miuan paper is warned to stop publishing a monument subscription list. A landslide in Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania buries a wife and two children. Illinois Governor Cuttam estimates year fund revenue at 3,681,000 excluding the Public School Fund of 2,000,000. California wheat and barley totals rise. Western Union actions against Gold and Stock Telegraph Company are pursued. A Cincinnati press association probe reveals a newsless correspondence system. A Mexican, Angs0 Garcia, dies from poison placed by his wife and her lover. both are jailed. A Newburg blaze causes 60,000 in damage. Coronation preparations for King Kalakaua risk sparking rebellion in the Sandwich Islands.
A condensed necrology lists prominent figures who died in 1882 across political, military, theology, literature, journalism, and centenarian categories. Notable names include governors, senators, congressmen, generals, judges, and scholars from the United States, with entries detailing offices held and regions across the nation. The compilation covers political leaders, army officers, lawyers, clergymen, writers, and centenarians.
Washington. December 29. Lieutenant DeLong's lengthy report, found beside his dead body, details the 1879 to 1881 Jeannette voyage, his views on the expedition, and the decision to head for Wrangell Land. It documents the crew's struggles in the ice, the foreshadowed abandonment debate, and De Long's nomination of Sweetman and Ninierman for medals of honor. The log ends with a stark note of drift, peril, and resolve before the ship sank and De Long perished.
The Chicago Tribune compiles telegraph sourced crisis notes for 1882 showing a rise in suicides due to various causes including insanity illness domestic troubles and unknown factors. Notable names include Samuel S Ward Port Huron Mich William H Locke Eufa la Ala Justus Koehler New York Ambrose Fachiti New York Joseph W Curtis Milwaukee and Cornelius Vanderbilt New York among others.
A Long Branch letter recounts a hotel clerk’s romance with a wealthy New York girl. After elopement and a reconciliation, they wed and settled in New Hampshire. He gained his father-in-law’s favor, inherited a small fortune, and became popular in a wide social circle.
Ellsworth Bierkower demonstrates skill with a Winchester by firing through a gas pipe and hatchet edge to split glass balls, with shots fired overhead and with mirrors. A rare rephectomy kidney removal, performed by a San Francisco surgeon on a young woman, and a pejorative incident about a drunken man near Kansas City are noted in the same period piece.
Summary of cases on levy validity where sheriff failed to seize outbuilding patterns, taxation on United States bonds above par, bequests to married women, trustee gifts on death, land foreclosure titles, limitations on due bills, privileged communications, and usury defenses. Notable rulings from New York, Connecticut, Michigan, Illinois, Pennsylvania, and New Jersey courts.
The annual report shows total public printing at $29,981.88 with English and German costs detailed. Paper and envelopes cost $34,802.05, volumes printed reach 283,600, and binding totals $25,359.83. Overall printing, paper, and binding cost $89,887.73, down from last year, with a 21.4 percent rise in work and a 21.2 percent drop in per-volume cost.
A returned American brought home a Bible hidden with valuable jewels. She did not realize how eagerly inspectors search sacred volumes. in New York, the customs officer opened the book and confiscated the dazzling brilliants.
Fights among fish in an Elmira aquarium caused splashing that toppled a rock display. A rock struck the glass, breaking it and flooding the floor with 300 gallons of water and all the fish.
A Detroit Free Press column notes a large share of wealth is tied up in finger rings, pointing to a vast market even as some describe women purchasing rings as a folly tied to fashion and status.
Twenty five Sisters of Mercy traveled from New Orleans to Pensacola as yellow fever struck the area. They aided the sick and reportedly reached their destination unharmed despite the peril surrounding the outbreak.
The Clermont Courier lists rates for legal and transient ads at 1 per square for the first insertion, and ten lines. Each additional insertion costs fifty cents. Yearly ads receive a liberal reduction. Business cards up to six lines are $6 per year.
A collage of humorous lines from various newspapers includes legal misdirections about age and nativity, railroading on single tracks, poets versus politicians, courtroom quips about corkers and drunks, and a joke about a colonel and his daughter. The sources referenced include Norristown Herald Boston Transcript Burlington Hawkeye Rome Sentinel London Figaro and Arkansaw Traveler, reflecting early 20th century wit and cross-paper chatter.
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