06 Jul 1881
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Newspaper
The Clermont Courier
Location
Batavia, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jul 06, 1881
Page
1
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A collage of brief items including yellow fever in Panama, New York workers seeking a half-holiday, saloonkeepers forming a beer union, claims of Mexico improvements, Garfield attending Clyde Ohio statue unveiling, a Whit taker Court trial record, Eva Schafer death in Mount Pulaski, tensions with Paleute and Navajo in Colorado, Grant avoiding reporters, a Chicago fast by Griscom, Booth family notes, a Swiss village fire near Aarbury, and U S post office stats as of June 8.
Hon. Henry Stanbury, former Attorney General under Andrew Johnson, died in New York City June 25 at age sixty one. A lifelong friend and defender during the impeachment trial, his career spanned law and public service.
A New York party of seven on a pleasure cruise up Long Island Sound capsized. Five were drowned, including four young men and a young woman, as rescuers searched the waters.
A Valais village of about 300 houses was entirely destroyed by fire. One house was struck by lightning, and high winds drove the flames to engulf the entire settlement. No injuries are reported. Local authorities assess the damage and begin rebuilding plans.
Charles O. Martin, 29, confidential clerk to George W. Brown of Brooklyn, faced charges for a 22,500 defalcation. He protested his innocence, returned home, and killed himself, in what authorities term death by his own action in protest.
The President named R. B. Foster U.S. Marshal for the District of Indiana and Robert G. Holley U.S. Consul to Barbadoes, replacing suspended officials. Philadelphia Mint operations report 54,786,411 coins valued at 259,340,350 for the year. gold total 7,275,926 coins valued at 49,809,274. silver total 9,174,820 coins valued at 9,125,966.
Irritation against France grows in Spain as journals and authorities are accused of concealing that 1,700 Spaniards died in the Oran Arab raids. Spanish refugees arrive from Oran and Spain seeking compensation for losses.
The Sanderson stage traveling between Lake City and Alamozs Colorado was stopped at midnight by two masked highwaymen. They looted five men and one woman from the coach of about 800 to 900 dollars. The amount taken from the mail and treasure box remains unknown.
Stephen Franklin of Philadelphia testified before Examiner Lovejoy that Emil Giro, the chief witness against Mrs. Christiancy, is a man of disreputable character whose actions were depicted in an illustrated New York police paper in 1879.
A letter from Captain Hooper of the revenue steamer Corwin at Ounalaska describes a planned route along the northern Siberian coast. A sledge party will head northwest from Cape Serse in search of the Jeannette.
A large earthslip is active near Sigriswil in the Bernese Alps above Lake Thun. A strip of land with meadows and houses is sliding toward the lake. In Grisons, 1300 sheep and their shepherds were overwhelmed by an avalanche near Bugels.
Baron Magnus, former German minister to Co, has become insane after withdrawing from Copenhagen over the Sarah Bernhardt banquet incident. He was dismissed following Bernhardt's anti-German remarks at the banquet, a moment he could not forget.
Prof. Vennor, in a letter to Canadian papers written late June, warns July will resemble July 1880 with heavy rains and thunder. He forecasts extreme heat between the 10th and 15th, then a cool wave around the 27th or 28th bringing frosts to Canada.
A rural girl is praised for tireless housework and farm chores from dawn to dusk. The verse extols domestic skill, wholesome virtue, and beauty, concluding that one country maiden surpasses many city girls in worth.
Dr. Peters of the Litchfield Observatory and Hamilton College discusses a dark central line on a comet as the nucleus shadow. He links a potential comet seen June 9 by Lord Crawford in Europe and excludes it from 1812 and 1807 events. The New York deadlock over a Senate successor to Conkling and Platt continues. Dr. Mary E. Walker seeks recognition as a vacancy candidate, arguing strong intellectual and moral fitness.
A Constantinople dispatch reports the court convicted Midhat Pasha Mahmoud Pasha Nouri Pasha Ali Bey Nedjib Bey Fahri Bey Hadji Mehmet Mustapha the Wrestler and Mustapha the Gardener of Abdul Aziz murder and sentenced them to death. Izzet Pasha and Zyda Pasha received ten years penal servitude. They have eight days to appeal.
The Treasury Department notes near-match figures this year with Army estimates at 41 million and actual spending 105 thousand below. Navy estimates at 15 million overshot by 800 thousand, Indians at 6.65 million underspent by 110 thousand, and pensions running 200 thousand over the estimate as typical for that department.
The Grand Jury in Albany, New York returned indictments against A. D. Barber for paying E. R. Phelps 12000 to bribe State officers. Barber and Phelps each pleaded not guilty and posted $3000 bail. Chas. A. Edwards was indicted for receiving 7000 from Jos. Dickson to bribe State officers. All cases held over to next court term.
John Davis his wife and daughter fell ill after a noon meal in Pittsburg. Doctors diagnosed poisoning from smoked sturgeon found to contain creosote. Symptoms included intense pains vomiting and purging. Recovery began after treatment.
Rochester dispatch notes observations from Warner Observatory on a comet with a tail 4,000,000 miles long and extending to the North Star. The body recedes from the sun at about 300,000 miles daily and will grow dimmer. Warner prize claims of 200 dollars flood in from across America, including a Connecticut man who says he found it on the 19th.
Maurice Healy, a foundryman at Dunbar Furnace Company in Dunbar Pennsylvania, was murdered near the railroad mouth of a ravine while walking with two companions. Witnesses describe a shout heard after the crime, and Martin Carter found Healy's lifeless body. Healy had recently received threats linked to anti whisky activities. a large reward is offered by the Dunbar Furnace Company for the killers.
James Murrow of Philadelphia past Grand Master of Masons of Pennsylvania died last week from a malignant form of Asiatic cholera. The illness, lasting about eight hours, began with vomiting and purging followed by rice water discharge. Breathing was labored, speech lost, and constant muscle twitching marked near the end before death at dawn from exhaustion.
Won Koon known as Ben Hope Lee a Chinese laundryman wed Laura Cleary in Western Chapel Columbus with about 100 guests. The bride’s father James Cleary a long time mechanic. The couple received diamonds and bracelets as presents and a Chinese banquet followed the ceremony.
Constantinople reports that just before the trial the President of the Court met the Sultan to receive instructions on proceedings. Midhat Pasha defended vigorously and sought to call the Embassy Doctor as a witness. the Court refused. Pasha warned cross examination would matter little after death.
The train plunged into a washed out bridge near Malpais killing the engineer and fireman. A car with thirteen officers burned amid whisky cargo. many soldiers were drowned or burned. News reached Mexico City a day later as President Gonzales ordered an immediate investigation.
A late night accident on the Morelos Railway near Mailpois on the San Antonio river killed 192 soldiers and 13 officers, with 50 others injured. The train fell when an unsafe bridge collapsed under flood conditions and a cargo of alcohol in the freight car exploded, burning and crushing many. The engine and cars were consumed, and the engineer and fireman died from scalding.
A Detroit Free Press excerpt captures a farmer lamenting the shift from rugged, long hours and plain meals to modern hired help. He recalls 19th century workers, contrasts with present day habits, and doubts whether agriculture can endure without changes in labor expectations.
A proverb about a patient dressmaker and village gossip paints the town as a stage for rumor. It notes that a wrongly accused man may stay silent while a justly accused man must seek strong responses to mislead the crowd.
A Nevada mining camp tale unfolds as a piano arrives in a burlesque saloon. An old English pianist, a mysterious benefactor, and a vanished gambler mingle with memory, Christmas cheer, and a sudden fortune stolen in the night.
Sir John Lubbock discusses plant and flower movements as sleep like responses to environmental factors. He notes Darwin's experiments on Maranta arundinacea showing leaves dark to conserve heat, and observes flower sleep linked to pollinator activity, with examples from dandelion, Cyclamen, Linaria cymbalaria, water lilies, and Valisneria detailing stalk movements and seed safety after fertilization.
A waiter recalls a tall man in blue who sat by the door and seemed suspicious for whisky. The man, quiet and polite, requests a boiled egg to steady himself after a restless night, while the waiter tries not to laugh at the odd scene.
James Russell Lowell quotes Goethe to stress that human wonder and delight persist beyond strict science. Imaginative literature remains vital as long as humanity seeks meaning beyond facts, with Goethe’s Walpurgis Nacht illustrating persistent, belief-defying figures.
A London journal surveys when terms like ladies and gentlemen lose their polish and lists phrases that become vulgarisms through misuse. It condemns misapplied titles, overfamiliar fellows, showroom stylish, jolly schoolboy talk, and old fashioned papa and mamma in modern etiquette.
The article notes Dr. Vasilieff’s claim that over 25 years no singer died of consumption in St. Petersburg, urging singing as prevention. It argues cause and effect are complex, noting healthy singers can have weak chests and diseased chests may lack singing ability, and warns against excessive late‑life chest and throat strain.
Thirty years ago William Hall of New York sent $30,000 in bonds and checks to a so called friend named White who turned the funds into cash and vanished. White later returned pretending fortune in California and Hall lent him $6,000, but an envelope of securities proved almost worthless when opened by police. A law student in Cincinnati becomes deaf from smoking and blowing tobacco through his nose. nicotine damaged the eardrum and left him hearing only requests for more.
Legal and transient ads priced at $1 per square inch for the first insertion with ten lines. Fifty cents for each additional insertion. Yearly reductions offered. Business cards limited to six per year at $6.00.
A damaging storm injures wheat across the state on the 29th alt. and multiple deaths follow from accidents and illness. Suicides, drownings, battles with illness, and a fatal tree strike in Pomeroy are noted alongside court actions over slander.
A man recalls an ape taught clever feats to obtain walnuts. The ape uses a napkin servant trick to reach pots, then spins a stone to crush nuts. When ground softens, the ape innovates by tying a string under the walnut and dropping a stone to crack it.
A writer explains that ancient Egyptian mummies stored in rock vaults were dug from tombs and ground into powder sold as an agricultural fertilizer. He notes English cereal crops rely partly on these remains, once laid to rest in Thebes, now shipped to Europe and used to enrich soil in an island in the German Ocean.
A short aphorism contrasts the burden of bearing harm with the higher price of seeking vengeance, implying restraint avoids greater personal or social costs. The saying frames revenge as financially and morally heavier.
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