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Newspaper
The Clermont Courier
Location
Batavia, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jan 17, 1883
Page
1
The notice outlines legal and transient advertisement charges at three dollars per square ten lines for first insertion with ten cents for each additional insertion. A yearly liberal reduction is offered to advertisements during the year.
A widow and her child leaped fifty two feet into the Monongahela River from a suspension bridge near Fairmount West Virginia in personal crisis but both survived the fall.
A Hungarian deluge after a thaw floods Raab and surrounding villages. Six thousand residents flee into a park theater, then face rising water and a partial collapse of dykes. Many lives lost, but higher town parts escape.
In Congress on the 12th a bill for relief of white settlers on Osage Indian lands was referred. A bill to determine presidential disability and provide for removal was introduced. The House calendar includes the Southern Pacific Consolidation bill and a Ship ping bill after amendments. A fire at the National Hotel in Marion, Delaware Breakwater deaths at sea, and Ireland’s crop value drop are noted along with a collision near Bayou Goula and a Nashville suit over a conscience gift to Cumberland Presbyterian Church.
Milwaukee January 10 1883 a devastating blaze at the Newhall House left 25 identified dead and estimates placing fatalities between seventy five and one hundred. The fire trapped guests on upper floors as people leapt to safety and perished amid collapsing walls and flying embers. Authorities report 60 000 dollar loss with 300 000 insurance and scenes of frantic rescue efforts and mourning crowds.
Governor Blackburn of Kentucky has pardoned over 1,500 criminals and remitted fines totaling more than 3 million dollars during nearly four years in office. He has granted respirations on other fines amounting to about 1 million dollars, per the Chicago Herald.
Enterprising artists abroad adopt elevators to reach gallery spaces, aiming for photographs free of the wearied, hopeless expressions seen after climbing five or six flights of stairs to their sky studios.
The Agricultural Department reports new corrected estimates for corn and wheat production in 1882. J R Dodge prepared the figures for the Commissioner Loring alongside prior years, with state by state outputs and regional totals, useful for the coming annual report.
Dun and Company records show US failures at 6 738 in 1882 with liabilities of 101 009 000, up from 5 582 failures and 81 090 000 in 1881, while Canada records 787 failures and 8 500 000 in liabilities, up from 635 failures and 5 500 000 in 1881. The text notes a one in 122 trade exposure and compares earlier years. It also mentions a Canada Southern bridge project for Niagara River to be finished by September 1, 1833, a pension for Solomon F Beals of Brockton Massachusetts, Philadelphia and other cities’ poor relief payments, and Baker City Oregon Chinese laundry tax.
General J J Chamberlain of Maine, chosen by General Grant to receive Lee’s surrender, describes the march to Appomattox in a Bowdoin College lecture. He details Sheridan’s pursuit, the ceasefire, the surrender ceremony, and the emotional assembly as Confederate arms were laid down, ending with a somber march home.
The Louisville Courier Journal denounces the old Whig party as untrustworthy and argues the Republican party now erodes under the death hour. It contends former Whig strongholds will not rally to Republicans and asserts the party is doomed like the Whig party. The piece discusses trust in governments under Adams Harrison and Taylor and recalls Prentice’s Whig newspaper prominence.
A political critique denounces Democratic opposition to Civil service reform in 1884. It mocks boasts of future power, warns of a spoils system, and cites historical graft as a warning while signaling a return to old party practices. Various quips from period papers follow.
The Toledo Blade notes a dispute over campaign funding between Republicans and Democrats. Democrats push resolutions accusing Republicans of forced contributions, while Republicans remain calm and propose investigating Democratic ties with distillers and other funders. The exchange shifts from fury to humor as the matter stalls.
Detroit Free Press reports about 45 000 gas lamps and 46 000 corner levers. A thousand are meant to lean against walls and grapes, a street hardship but not a solution.
A survey of European expeditions in Africa notes four German journeys, with future journal revisions awaited. Reports cover luminous damp-resistant paper formulas, silk coating challenges on textiles, sea oyster vitality estimates, a penetrable theater safety wall patent, and ultra precise rye straw scales weighing to ten-thousandths of a grain, as reported by WN New York and Boston Post.
The Iron Age summarizes a newly invented illuminating gas called metallic gas made in Litertool. It claims three workers can match the output of a thousand by old methods, with sixfold luminosity. Dry, odorless and noncondensing, it travels in pipes and stays bright after months. A New York company produces a lime derived gas with 30 to 50 candle power, touted as a coal and oil free domestic lighting solution.
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