07 Jul 1875
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Newspaper
The Clermont Courier
Location
Batavia, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jul 07, 1875
Page
1
A terse notice outlines a two year payment term offering a $1.50 per unit rate for the item Brow, with details implied by truncated OCR. The fragment suggests installment terms and pricing but lacks complete context or entities.
Parliament considers laying electric telegraph links between island light stations and the mainland. A British Arctic manual will compile papers from learned societies to summarize Greenland and surrounding seas. Public sorrow shifts to Acapulco where two more orphans join a long list after their mother dies at age 132, leaving two sons aged 100 and 90.
A hunting-knife valued at 35000 dollars, owned by the jeweler to the King of Portugal, was lost in the Cadiz foundered off Portugal. The sheath and handle immortalize wildlife heads in silver, depicting stags bears wolves and more. Also notes on painless death from lightning and a Swedish medical student at Upsala and gender equality in science.
W B Greenlaw president issued order placing road under trustees with R K Dow appointed manager custodian. Vice President Hugh L Brinkley owner of two thirds stock sought injunction from Chancellor Morgan as transfer not authorized by directors. Brinkley retains depot and offices in Memphis pending injunction decision.
The article notes Americans travel with tight pockets, using bargaining skills learned from English. They ride second class, pressure landlords, ignore guides, and pay little, seeking receipts. Dealers in art and trinkets complain of Yankee sharpness as they tour Europe cheaply, enjoying meals and lodging at half the former cost.
Mortimer Thompson known by the pen name Doesticks died June 25 in New York at forty four. A Tribune staffer he served as reporter dramatic critic and war correspondent. He published books including The Witches of New York and the Elephant Club. He struggled with opium habits in later years and leaves two widows and children in care of James Parton.
A poem by the Indianapolis Courier editor envisions burying Bartholomew in a woodland grave with bees singing woodpeckers and straddie bugs. In winter Bartholomew’s resting place is visited by his brother Josiah and Jane with a sled.
The Controller of the Currency reports $1,615,525 in national bank currency issued since May 27 with 80 percent of legal tender notes retired. July’s outstanding legal tenders total $375,772,580. Several robberies and fires across states are noted, including Lawrence Kansas escape of five men and a later surrender by McDaniels. Sheridan reports tension at Matamoras, Texas. Bank suspensions, fires in North Hadley and Kinney Texas are cited with losses. International items cover trials, naval actions, rifle matches, floods, and political shifts in Europe and Asia.
The text explains that fainting results from insufficient blood to the brain and that recovery occurs when the head is lowered below the heart. It argues gravity aids blood flow to the brain in the recumbent position and notes people naturally fall and often recover when laid down.
At the Pera Police Court a district chief of beggars reported a theft of property including a gold chain three gold watches two pairs of earrings four rings and five silver spoons valued at 200 pounds. He had lent money to fellow beggars and accepted jewelry as security. Police recovered the stolen jewelry and returned it to him.
The article details the Amazon as the world’s most voluminous river with a three feet per second water level difference across seasons. It describes its trunk from Peru’s Andes to Brazil’s Atlantic coast, its twelve vast affluents, and the bypaths igarapes paranas and furos. It notes two thousand mile navigation reliability and favorable winds aiding speed from Para to Obydos.
A string of humorous vignettes describes quarrels over trivial matters and misfired social interactions. A New Orleans man jokes about burial when asked for water while others ponder awkward questions from lovers. A Nevada widow is lampooned for a silver coffin and public froth ensues. A professor confuses a cow and a street encounter ends in a bar scene with a man trying to break a twenty.
A review notes in Pall Mall Wallis' French Gallery a striking portrait of Christ by Gabriel Max. The face begins with closed eyes then opens on closer view, appearing miraculous as if winking. The work is painted on a coarse canvas nailed to a board, convincingly mimicking a flat painting.
A man carries an object and walks while a woman is described as never walking she jumps runs dances capers to and fro caracoles and moves everywhere in lively terms reflecting a playful contrast between the two figures from the text.
A seventeen to eighteen year old Miss Bosie from near Sandusky Ohio uses a double barreled shotgun to deter a would be intruder in her home. She orders the man from the premises and gains time until her brothers return as the threat retreats. The piece also warns against pork related trichinosis and unsafe animal feed practices highlighting farm safety.
At a New York reformatory festival a speaker praised a cure from Dr Hatfield. The doctor allegedly prescribed an orange each morning half an hour before breakfast, claiming it would suppress liquor cravings and even alter taste to make rum repulsive.
The Augusta Chronicle reports Ike Hooper, condemned killer, lost his black hair to white overnight after his fate was sealed by Governor Smith not granting clemency. Keeper Bridges noted crown hair turning snowy white. Hooper grew calmer as the day passed.
According to G W P Custis memories the grooming of Washingtons white horses began the night before riding with whiting paste, body clothes, and clean straw. In the morning the paste set hard and was rubbed in to give glossy satin coats, blackened hooves, washed mouths, cleaned teeth, and leopard skin housings fitted before led to service.
A pipe found between the teeth of a Schiller victim is offered for sale in a Paris shop window with an asking price of five francs. The intriguing relic draws curious buyers and local chatter about the sensational case.
The giraffe is presented as a remarkable creature once deemed mythical for its colossal height and odd form. It moves with rapid, jumping strides, with fore and hind legs on the same side moving together, and its tail and neck swing in unison. The animal is gentle yet timid, with acute senses, a mobile tongue like a trunk, a seven‑joint neck, and horns covered in hair. Males darken with age, females lighter, and its diet centers on mokaala leaves.
The Attorney General rules that a son born in the United States to a Prussian immigrant holds dual nationality. While minor he owes German military duties under his father's allegiance, but upon reaching adulthood he may return to the United States as an American citizen with full rights, potentially including eligibility for the presidency. The note ends with an unrelated culinary aside about greasing a kettle.
The Clermont Courier lists legal and transient ads at 1.00 per square for first insertion, 0.50 for each additional insertion, with yearly reductions. Business cards up to six lines cost 6.00 per year.
A vivid Civil War era scene depicts Continental troops in ragged regiments standing firm as grenadiers clash. Cannon fire, drum rolls, and a rampant unicorn banner sweep the dawn as St George’s cannoneers blaze. A colonel leads through a smoke cloud as blue bullets fly and six pounders roar.
A collage of quips and notices touches on daily life and culture. Snippets reference German sausages and duties, a New York organ grant, cricket clubs, legal paths, charity emblems, amateur fishing, and a Vermont death, with ironic musings on fatherly gifts and children eating bread and molasses.
A Parisian who recently returned from the Cape travels with two companions. They enter a cabin, hunger drives them to steal an omelet and mushrooms from an elderly woman, who screams as they eat. The trio fall ill for fifteen days and never hear a mushroom without fear.
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