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The Clermont Courier

Location

Batavia, Ohio, United States of America

Date

Jul 26, 1876

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Byng Brothers Newspaper Note

The item lists by NG brothers and notes terms at 1.50 dollars per year in advance. This compact notice appears as a publication snippet indicating a subscription rate and authorship attribution to NG brothers.

Discovery of a new tertiary lake basin near Camp Baker Montana

Grinnell and Dana record a high elevation lake basin near Camp Baker, Montana with miocene and pliocene lake beds. The cream colored clays rise over five thousand feet above sea level, higher than White River and Colorado beds, suggesting possible ancient river connections though terrain details remain uncertain.

Messrs George B. Grinnell Edward S. Dana Camp Baker Montana Helena Mills Big Belt Range Little Belt Crazy Woman Mountains White River Colorado Oregon Baker Lake

Scientists and guns dominate Centennial exhibits and rail drama

The London brightens with Prof Tyndall’s cautionary Alpine tale on snow use in frost and the looming 160 ton Krupp monster. Elsewhere, a dramatic rail clash near Hopewell ends with Ellis’s engine plunging to safety amid obstructions, while rubber harvests in Africa arise from a vine creeper and fierce ants.

Peter the Great W.G. Armstrong Mr. Fraser Woolwich Joseph Whitworth Krupp

Tilden and Vallandigham Copperhead ties scrutinized

A historical critique argues that Samuel J. Tilden and allied New York Copperheads aided the Confederacy by backing antiwar circles and peace measures. It contrasts Democratic 1864 resolutions with Tilden’s wartime actions and praises Hayes and Republican patriotism while warning against a Democratic restoration.

The Engineer's Heroism at Bound Brook Crossing

Late night at East Millstone depot on the Pennsylvania line, telegraph operator relays dispatches as Bound Brook crossing becomes a frontline scene. Pennsylvania, Bound Brook, and Delaware forces fixate for a possible offensive, while the road crowded with anxious troops and locals.

East Millstone Pennsylvania Road Bound Brook Crossing Pennsylvania Company Bound Brook Delaware

Three Robarge Boys Die in Sand Slide at Ferona Station

Three young Robarge children, ages nine and younger, disappeared while strawberry picking near Ferona Station on the New York and Canada Railroad. After a neighborly search, responders uncovered the trio buried under three feet of sand at the foot of a sand bank, suffocated. Their bodies were returned to their grieving parents.

John Robarge Ferona Station New York and Canada Plattsburg

Tilden and the Surrender Resolution Debate

Harper's Weekly discusses claims that Samuel J. Tilden was a lukewarm patriot in the Civil War and that a 1864 Democratic platform surrender resolution misrepresented his stance. The piece notes Tilden, a New York committee member, did not protest the platform then or later.

Tilden New York

Hayes Letter Accepts Cincinnati Nomination Mixed Reviews

The press reacts coolly to Gov. Hayes acceptance letter. Chicago Tribune lauds it as concise and reform minded, while Indianapolis and Chicago Democratic papers praise or critique its civil service stance. Reports note Hayes shows caution, statesmanlike tone, and moderation on the Southern question amid a broad range of opinions.

Copperhead Tilden Indianapolis Sentinel Civil Service Hayes The Chicago Times Democratic Schurz Lincoln Morton Cullom Cincinnati Justinian South

Critics accuse Democrats of weaponizing Custer's death

The New York Commercial Advertiser condemns Democratic attempts to exploit General Custer's massacre for political gain. It cites General Terry’s dispatch alleging Custer disobeyed orders and charged with 300 men against a vastly larger force, arguing the party uses the dead for leadership and capital.

New York Commercial Advertiser Custer West Point Grant Terry Connecticut Sheridan Gibbon

A Grasshopper's Fiddle from St Nicholas

A retelling of an Eastern Kansas grasshopper outbreak and a Moham medan legend about a motto on a logust wing. The piece notes swarms eaten corn, paid gatherers, and the grasshopper fiddling described by a naturalist Harris. It ends with pondering why the insect plays the fiddle.

St. Nicholas Kansas Minnesota Harris Jack

Stray Blackhawk horse causes chaos on Gratiot Avenue

A rough looking horse roams Gratiot Street prompting a man with a rope halter to seek its owner. The animal raided a grocery display spilling eggs and prunes as a clerk chased it with a broom. The owner denies ownership and escapes into a wood-yard after taunting police. The man jokes that strange times allow stealing a halter to chase bass.

Detroit Free Press Gratiot Avenue Blackhawk

Excursion boat starts. frantic crowd on dock

At a Detroit wharf a startled woman misses the start of an excursion boat. As others urge escape she uses a parasol to threaten a fellow passenger while bystanders laugh and wave. A sharp retort targets Mrs Baker about borrowing butter or flat irons.

Granger George Ellis Somerset Junction Delaware Detroit Free Press

Advertising Rates For Local Business Cards

A liberal reduction applies to annual advertising by year. Business cards may be inserted for six lines at six dollars per year.

To Love to Forget and to Die by Joaquin Miller

A reflective poem on love, memory, and death pondering three gifts of the gods. The speaker laments love's peril and pain, imagines the joy and horror of affection, and contemplates life, death, and earthly futility. The poem closes with a somber meditation on time and mortality.

Centennial Era Snippets and Humorous Snatches

A collage of odds and ends from 19th century life including a proposed cannon for fare collection in horse car operations, a Rhode Island spelling feat, spiritualist quips about mourning, a comical servant and game misdirection, a lively depiction of a centennial encampment squaw, seasonal reflections on the four seasons, a quip about a school foot and head, Texas language fines, a gambler’s odd or even tale, and musings on phrenology and character. It also notes Spurgeon praising domestic servants and a proposed Bible medal program for long-serving mistresses.

Commercial Advertiser Boston Commercial Bulletin St. Louis Republican Texas Norristown Herald Spurgeon London

Crusade Against Barrack Style Education in Paris

In France boys are sent to college very young where elementary studies mix with the four year American curriculum. They are kept in barracks like soldiers, deprived of social privileges. Now enlightened educators protest this system and Paris hosts talks exposing its defects. The movement seeks to combine college education with family life as in the United States.

France America Paris United States

Cork Oak Thrives in California Similar to Native Range

The Cork Oak seems to do well in California as in its homeland. Trees planted in 1861 have grown with branches reaching high and thick bark measures one and a half to two inches. The bark peeling process may begin soon.

California

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