04 Jul 1850
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Newspaper
The Clermont Courier
Location
Batavia, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jul 04, 1850
Page
1
A poem of a mother at a grave contrasts with a faded notice about steady publication dispatch and arrears. The verse recalls lullabies, a cradle, and infant hair as the mother gazes over the hillock while the setting sun paints the scene. The piece closes with the mother’s silent vigil by the child’s grave.
A passenger recounts the Griff ith catastrophe near Cleveland on a Sunday night in June 1850. Dr. Maron Cil y details how he escaped by clinging to the bows and swimming to shore as flames cut through the midship. Dozens perished, many emigrants and families among the dead or missing.
A writer in the Edinburgh Review argues mesmerism is not plausible yet can yield proofs with appeal to many moral and scientific men. He notes rising belief among scientists and predicts a near future formal inquiry to separate errors from the truths.
A ten year old boy in Pittsburgh, Theodore Startman, astonishes with rapid mental solutions to difficult arithmetic questions. Nearby in Lewis Town, Virginia, seventeen year locusts have appeared, signaling an unusual swarming event in the area.
A New Haven experiment by C Robinson shows pouring finely powdered charcoal into a 15 hogshead cistern cleanses water of street dust and grapevine odor. After treatment the water is described as pure, clear, sweet and soft. Other items note Newfoundland ice fields and narcotics effects.
Irish travelers near the Iron City misread a mile board as a town stone. One jokes softly that it marks a dead man named Miles, 43 years old, from Pittsburgh, prompting a grim punchline about the road marker.
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