06 Jun 1877
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Newspaper
The Clermont Courier
Location
Batavia, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jun 06, 1877
Page
1
A reflective poem contrasts two worn boots with a child’s play and a parent’s worry. The speaker imagines three pairs of boots awaiting care, recalling muddy days and nightly routines as copper toes glow by the fire. The verse moves from fatigue to tenderness as laundry and memories intertwine.
In a village tale, Julia Denham weighs an offer from Edward Fitzroy. Uncle Henry disguises himself to study Fitzroy’s character, observing his kindness to a poor customer and his arrogance to a needy shopper. He rejects Fitzroy, and a year later Julia marries someone wiser and more worthy.
An 18th or early 19th century Highlands tale contrasts a hunter’s reputation with written receipts. A Scottish farmer asks for a loan, receives money, and drafts a receipt. The lender distrusts paper and insists on personal honor and neighborly trust over written promises.
A man in Jefferson County New York offered his son for sale to raise money for his starving family. He received two fifths of the value in crackers and three fifths in tobacco, fueling widespread outrage.
Texas Jack returns with seven Englishmen from Sweetwater country and shares elk, deer, antelope and mountain sheep hunts. He warns bears are the West’s only truly dangerous game, recounting a cinnamon bear rope episode and noting bears can outpace a horse.
A reflective essay on human affections and loss. It contrasts a mother’s grief after her daughter’s death with the blessing of spiritual devotion. The piece argues worldly attachments fade, while true devotion to God sustains, guiding through sorrow.
The Watsonville Transcript reports half to two thirds of California's sheep perished from starvation with over twenty five hundred carcasses along routes from Fresno. Cattle losses are smaller as cattle moved to mountains. Some herds were drowned crossing rivers and others abandoned to starve. Stockmen fear bloodshed in the mountains and many disappear.
Thomas Peggington of East Richford faced a large panther while walking to his sugar orchard with his dog. The dog was killed, Peggington fell from a twenty foot precipice after a brutal struggle and lay unconscious for hours. He is severely injured and recovery is in doubt. Hunters search for the wounded animal.
A letter warns about a ploy where a pack peddler sells goods at low prices then two men arrive with a bogus robbery story to reclaim the goods. The writer urges newspapers to publish alerts to protect readers, noting nonreaders are most at risk.
A collection of witty maxims and eccentric observations mentions well-wishers for oil, dog rescue fundraising, fashion notes on Chinese etiquette, and profiles of memory training. It includes tall tales about politicians, census facts, and stray musings on temperance, trade, and newspaper puns.
A Russian priest who loves whist pauses a game for church duties. He keeps playing with his canonical garb on, then returns to the altar where cards fall. He tests a boy on card names and saints, scolds the congregation, and proudly resumes the game after saving face.
Birds killed on the Western prairies are packed with paper in barrels without freezing and shipped to Leadenhall where they are sold and eaten in London dining rooms beside English partridges and fowls.
The chimney swallow builds stick nests coated with a glue like secretion from its mouth. It is common in small towns and rural areas, often filling chimneys and sometimes blocking drafts. In 1857 Woodbury Connecticut recorded 480 birds fallen from a chimney after prolonged rain.
During the Crimean winter two yachts owned by Mr. Scott Russell arrived with two War Office officers to test a novel submarine engine. The inverted boat design aimed to penetrate Cronstadt Harbor with a twelve man crew. The trial failed as propulsion and weight systems malfunctioned, nearly drowning thirteen sailors, costing about eight thousand pounds.
In Santa Barbara a saloon keeper offers every drinker a numbered ticket. New numbers issued with each drink and at month end numbers enter a lottery wheel for a twenty five dollar prize. The larger the total tickets, the better the odds. The telegraph wires tremble at Turkish generals' names.
A long Gothic piece reports a mysterious shadow in the Little Bighorn valley, described as a vigilant revenant guarding soldiers’ graves. It is linked to Crazy Horse and Dull Knife legends, with scouts and Indians recounting encounters and gunfire from the phantom figure.
Australian reports note two divers drowned while pearl diving in Yorres Straits wearing diving dresses. Two more swimming divers were eaten by sharks, now reducing pearl shell yields. One diver died after his life line fouled on cup shaped coral. he cut the line, pulling the air-pipe from the helmet, leaving his body on the seabed clutching a knife.
During a temperance gathering in a neighboring town a fervent deacon repeatedly shouted Thank Heaven for that as speakers spoke. A guest declared his devotion to the cause, only to be interrupted by the same exclamation. The scene ended with the chairman removing the deranged deacon who was seated on by two men.
Cuviier explains that an elephant’s trunk contains about forty thousand tiny muscles woven in all directions enabling contraction and extension. A double tube runs its length for breathing and drinking while a finger like tip picks up objects and serves as a feeder. The trunk functions like a hand to grasp needles or tear up trees and to strip leaves from branches.
Report notes several electoral commissioners eating apples during a session and appearing to treat proceedings as if in appellate jurisdiction.
Cincinnati emerges as a thriving business center with robust pork, iron, and tobacco trades yet a scarcity of local baseball clubs noted in the page’s casual commentary.
Local paper runs advertising rates for legal notices and transients at 1.00 per square for first insertion with 0.50 for each addition. Yearly liberal reductions offered. Business cards up to six lines priced at 6.00 per year.
A lyric excerpt extols walking with thee through rain and storm. It imagines a serene summer sky turning to a sea of sapphire while white sails drift by. The speaker prefers togetherness amid breakers and a quiet river setting, sung as a Scribner June piece.
A mixed column of quips and anecdotes from earlier times. Snippets include moral maxims, humorous school remarks, a Georgia tale of a mule with a twisted tail, and colonial era jests about names and language. A late nineteenth-century snapshot of wit and whimsy.
The ex Empress received a cordial Maltese and British welcome with a garrison review in her honor. Guards were ordered to salute as she rode by, while a few French Republicans in the crowd protested by keeping hats on and jeering. English naval officers nearby demanded decency and warned offenders.
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