Weather and global reports highlight heat, crops, and epidemics
The piece notes extreme heat and a busy harvest season with generally favorable crop reports in the East and West. It mentions localized grasshopper issues, sunstroke deaths, fever outbreaks in Key West and Rio de Janeiro, and a Carlist retreat in Spain. It also reports on a freed enslaved girl near Leavenworth and provides details on British India’s military strength, including native and British forces in Bengal.
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New England
Middle States
Key West
Rio Janeiro
Smith sisters pay taxes to save cows in Glastonbury
In Glastonbury Connecticut the Smith sisters finally agree to pay taxes after years of resisting tax collectors and cow sales. They claim a practical lesson that keeping a cow is cheaper than buying milk for a large family and that resisting law is unwise.
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Smith Sisters
Glastonbury
Conn
Bank Circulation Changes and Local Celebrations
The Controller of the Currency reports June additions of 1 315 525 in circulation and 33 009 626 in legal tender deposits, with total pool 29 336 832 and net July 1 holdings of 1 976 766 for retiring circulation. Hoiano plans centennials. Ghent centennial slated for Nov 6 1876, with Ultramontanes opposing as a war on Catholicism. London beer shops and gun palaces rival 73 miles. 38 thousand drunkards brought before magistrates annually.
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Hoiano
Ghent
Netherlands
Spain
London
Charing Cross
Portsmouth
Secretary seeks pass for Hayden expedition through Southern Colorado
The Interior Secretary telegraphed to Ouray urging safe passage for Prof Hayden's exploring expedition through Southern Colorado without molestation. The item notes various frontier incidents and political musings across the nation, including Indian Territory tensions and recent crimes.
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Secretary of the Interior
Ouray
Colorado
Prof. Hayden
Desperate Train Robbery Attempt West of Terre Haute
Six to eight masked men attacked the Vandalia line on train No. 5 near Lone Point. They boarded the engine and baggage car while Messenger Burke defended the express car from a fortified position. The engineer was killed during the assault as Burke repelled the raiders until assistance arrived.
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Young
Little Popaigie
Nebraska
Company D
Second Cavalry
Col
Boudinot
Indian Territory
United States District Court
Fort Smith
Ark
Bozeman
Pease
Slunter’s Springs
Massachusetts
Atlantic Cotton
Lawrence
Salmon Falls
Southside
Far Rockaway
N. Y
Norfolk
Isaac Bell
Chicago Evening Journal
Des Moines
Greenfield
Adair County
Middle River
A. Montgomery
Thomas Montgomery
J. R. Baker
Ohio & Mississippi Railroad
Cincinnati
St. Louis
Marvin
Mt. Gilead, O
Olney
Portland
First Baptist
Payson Memorial
Chestnut Street
Victoria
Bermeo
Cantavieja
Aragon
Castellan
Buda-Pesth
Milford
Penn
Farmers’ Loan and Trust Company
Court of Common Pleas
Pike County
Jewett
New York
Frank P. Blair, Jr
New York Evening Post
F. H. Eccles
Stock Exchange and Gold Exchange
National Mechanics’ Banking Association
Third National Bank
Eccles
Saratoga
Montreal
Mechanics’ National Bank
Corregaray
Cantarieja
Burke
McKeen
Vandalia Road
Terre Haute
General Hayes Heroism in Shenandoah Valley Charge
Sheridan recalls a 1864 Shenandoah Valley clash where General Hayes leads Ohio troops through a marsh to outflank Confederate batteries. The moment proves decisive as blue lines press forward despite heavy fire, mud, and smoke, inspiring a fierce pursuit and victory.
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Winchester
General Hayes
George A. Sheridan
Louisiana
Cincinnati
Hayes
Shenandoah
Ohio
Southern editor rebukes cowardly critic over Longstreet
A Georgia reader attacks General Longstreet with a racial taunt and threats, prompting Gainesville Southrow to retaliate with harsh defamation of the unnamed critic. The exchange questions loyalty and bravery tied to Civil War service and Confederate legitimacy.
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General Longstreet
Augusta
Gainesville
New Orleans
General Hayes and the Ohio political outlook in 1880s
The New York Graphic outlines General Hayes’s political rise from 1864 election to governorship and discusses Ohio’s Western Reserve voting strength. It criticizes inflation planks, forecasts a strong Republican showing, and urges Thurman to oppose inflation to rally Democrats.
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General Hayes
Ohio
Congress
Allen G. Thurman
George H. Pendleton
Noyes
Hayes
Western Reserve
Ohio Democrats
Hendricks
Tilden
Bayard
Thurman
New York Graphic
Advertising Rates in The Clermont Courier
The Clermont Courier lists advertising and transient ad rates: legal and transient ads four dollars per square for the first insertion, fifty cents for each additional insertion. Yearly ad reductions apply. Business cards up to six lines cost six dollars per year.
The Neighbor’s Door Draped in Mourning
A speaker haunts a neighbor’s door with a draped entrance and barred light. The poem contrasts shared grief and unseen pain between two souls, both suffering. A crape on the neighbor’s door marks a death, while the speaker laments unspoken sorrow and the cycles of distress.
Fragments of Daily Life and Wit from a 19th Century Page
A collage of quips and verses on morals, home life, and everyday humor. Anecdotes range from a Maine girl’s marriage after a long absence to a conchologist in court. The piece includes puns, reflections on virtue, and light verse about homes, neighbors, and sunshine.
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Maine
Isaac L. Rice
Teachers’ Institute
Ohio
Holmes
Healthy Brain Through Blood Nourishment and Exercise
The article argues that a healthy brain requires adequate blood, proper food and air, and well-functioning organs. It asserts that healthy parents and proper stimulants and use are needed to develop and sustain brain health, linking nutrition to intelligent and volitional function. It notes the Sorosis sisters of New York will not patronize stores that keep shopgirls standing all day.
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Solomon
Sorosis Sisters
New York
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Phillips, Leake & Co
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Phillips
Kautrowitz
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Horn Lake
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Henley
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I. T
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Col. Coleman
M. W. Reynolds
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B. W. Perkins
Labette
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Chicago
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Milwaukee
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the Grange
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Paulding
Bill Allen
Bill
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Just Cause
Memphis
Work of Desperatcoes
The
Clermont Courier
Sappho
O. W. Holmes
Mary Jane
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