25 Jul 1877
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Newspaper
The Clermont Courier
Location
Batavia, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jul 25, 1877
Page
1
A meditation on aging and virtue contrasts quiet rest with active service. The speaker argues against worldly contentment, urging pursuit of truth, mercy, and justice. The path offered lies in using every moment and place to do right, leaving God to guide the rest.
A destitute boy George Dunn sells papers on State Street. He accepts a quarter eagle by mistake, contemplates keeping it but decides to return it after conscience and a stranger’s timely intervention. The generous merchant hires him for five dollars weekly in his counting room.
A grateful new partner repeats a pledge of aid to a once poor boy who earned a living as a newsboy. The merchant recalls his own rise from poverty and offers ongoing support to the youth, inviting him to return tomorrow to his counting room and start a brighter path. Two months later the boy appears neatly dressed in the shop.
The Whitehall Review notes King Alfonso of Spain plans to marry Dona Mercedes Montpensier y Borbon, his cousin, after delays tied to court politics. Isabella II opposes the match but the king presses on, anticipating a Cortes announcement from La Granja after a planned stay with Montpensier.
This compact moral advice urges penny care and prudent spending. It cautions that income must exceed outgo, warns against waste in small daily costs, and stresses practical thrift. It counsels temperate dress, warm lodging, and delaying luxury. It ends with the value of saving for future security.
A wife discovers two letters from her husband dated after their three month marriage. One note asks for a pocket handkerchief, the other promises kisses and affection and hints at an imminent return. The story unfolds as she retrieves the item and reads the romantic missives.
Dr Agnew of New York City argues the eye is soft at birth and shaped by use. He links near work and poor posture with tissue strain, predicting progressive myopia as the eye shifts from spherical to ellipsoidal, worsened by early school tasks and close focusing.
A Indian murder case prompts legal debate on whether lack of intent negates a murder charge. A juggler claimed bulletproof power and invited the prisoner to shoot him with a loaded musket, which killed the juggler. Similar English case showed a wizard escaping death after being shot.
Miss Hillern, a renowned Boston pedestrian, displays a tall statuesque frame and slim waist, with small feet and seamless stockings. She avoids tight lacing, wears high laced goat skin shoes, and sustains herself on beef tea and raw yolks during exertion while sketching oil paintings in leisure.
Forty years under Queen Victoria marks a record reign alongside Henry II Edward III George II and Elizabeth I yet the era was peaceful by contrast with earlier English history which shows wars with France Spain and colonies across many 18th and 19th centuries A minister visits a sick parishioner who jokes about sleepless nights because his nose kept his eyes apart in a witty old anecdote.
A Cincinnati curiosity at Kraus and List drugstore in Walnut Hills features a cricket with a live fifteen inch worm protruding from its body. Under a microscope the worm appears snake like with a three fourth inch head and visible eyes. Both the cricket and the snake worm are preserved in alcohol for viewing.
Captain John Tobin, once a California resident and later in St Louis and Springfield, is named as a principal witness for District Attorney Howard. He recounts aiding Mormon emigrants, resigning as Territorial militia instructor, guiding anti Mormon travelers chased by Brigham Young and followers, ambush and theft of horses, two deaths, and a near blind eye injury. He asserts having documentary evidence of Brigham Young’s plot against the government and Gentiles.
An excerpt from The Galaxy describes a ducking stool used to discipline scolding women. A riveted oaken frame on wheels carried a seated offender to water where the beam tipped, submerging the occupant briefly. The article notes the practice is now rare, with little record of husbands intervening for wives.
A London Standard correspondent portrays Erzeroum streets as a tangled eel net with sunken houses and grass roofs. Inside, families share crowded rooms with animals, smoke from dung fires, and scarce light. Armenian women roast mutton on feast days, otherwise bread and cheese suffice.
Near Yuma Arizona on the Southern Pacific Railroad engineers faced steep grades. Colonel Grey devised a loop to gain elevation by winding the line around the mountain then entering a short tunnel and looping to end up above the starting point.
Bob Burdette of the Burlington Hawk-Eye delivers a Fourth of July oration railing against political wrangling and praising American freedom. He mocks currency concerns, railroads, and weather forecasts while lauding the founding fathers and George Washington in a period voice.
Civil engineers study a plan to drain the Zuyder Zee with a 24.75 mile dam across the gulf. Pumps estimated at 1,716,000,000 gallons per day would empty the enclosure in six years. Area 500,000 acres with drainage cost put at 67 million dollars. About 430,000 acres expected suitable for agriculture at an average price of 800 dollars per acre.
A distinguished looking stranger appeared in Philadelphia asking for bread. When questioned why he would not work he shuddered and said he had been a government clerk for sixteen years and had forgotten how. Turkey has raised ten million dollars on the jewels of the late Sultan.
In Danbury a love triangle ends in a comic duel as two suitors vie for Julia. The jewelry man is taunted, a frantic quarreling escalates, and he is showered with eggs in a wild chase through yard and garden as Julia watches in disbelief.
The Clermont Courier lists advertising and transient ad rates at one dollar per ten lines for first insertion and fifty cents for each additional insertion. A liberal yearly reduction is offered. Business cards up to six lines cost six dollars per year.
A poetic meditation on Love Hope and Patience as Graces guiding education and character. The speaker likens them to Atlas supporting a globe of the child, urging unity of virtues and enduring strength. The verse traces how Love sustains Hope, and how Patience finally upholds both when toil wears them down.
A quirky, fragmentary account describes Mary as proprietor of a small sheep and her travels through local areas. The text notes a Southdown following her, a presiding seminary atmosphere, and a mutinous student’s expulsion yet lingering near the school.
A collage of humorous quips and brief anecdotes from various papers. It cites playful lines about newspaper men, rattlesnakes, temperance lectures, love, literature, car conductors, and odd dialogues. Also includes poems and light columns with brief local jests and male gossip.
A justice of the peace, Capt Hobbs, was deceived by a man and woman who posed as a couple seeking marriage. The groom charged three dollars and handed a counterfeit twenty. The pair departed. the bride revealed a disguising turnabout as a man. The justice identified the counterfeit note but the culprits remain at large.
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