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Newspaper
The Clermont Courier
Location
Batavia, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jun 07, 1849
Page
4
A patrician lord claims pride in his plebeian father’s birthright and rejects wealth as a measure of worth. He vows to rise by hard work, guided by the omnipotence of will, while a wealthy neighbor reads the speaker’s determined resolve in his face.
A lyrical meditation describes a voice that speaks in dreamy night winds. The gentle tone blends with woodland sounds as day fades and mist rises. It travels from sunny and southern shores across dewy forests. The verse speaks of warmth, renewal, and nature’s soft breath.
The piece elevates the family as the supreme center of human affection. It dwells on the family home hearth table voices and tokens as a vast mine of recollections, linking conjugal parental and sibling love to all tender human relations. It argues that without family earth would be a churchyard and people mere grains of sand.
The passage extols the value of American science and skilled labor to the nation’s wealth and greatness. It praises the endless energy of scientists and artisans, asserting their inventions and improvements in machinery elevate the republic’s status among nations. It notes a claimed 30 percent rise in life expectancy in England over a long period.
The speaker extols the sea as a vast cemetery where all ranks lie unmarked and equal. He recalls ships like the Cookman and Power and notes the ocean’s moral sublimity with its unending storms and melodies. He laments unique gravestones absent on the sea and ponders the unknown fates of many souls.
A mother cites Washingtons mother advising three lessons obedience diligence and truth as foundational. She urges early training to obey keep the habit, to be useful, and to value truth, warning against parents teaching deception and stressing the reward of industrious toil and its pleasures. Byron note closes the piece.
The excerpt blends old verse on the Printer's hour of pay with humorous and moral anecdotes. It cites a negro preacher's paradox about sermon division, notes on wealth and virtue from William Penn, a Yankee pedlar marriage anecdote, and quips on physiognomy, clergy, and odd human behavior. It concludes with a socialist toast about liberty and the gallows.
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In Clermont County Ohio a partition suit seeks division of a 361 acre tract once held by John Gray and now claimed by heirs of Mary Ann Gray and others. The bill names Jane Gray James W Gray John A Miller Hester Nadenboush John Quincy Adams Nadenboush and others. Parties are warned to appear March 21, 1849 or the bill will be confessed. Fishback & Swing solicitors.
Ebenezer Hadley and Sarah his wife filed a chancery petition in Clermont County Ohio seeking to assign the dower of Sarah Hobson in a 112 acre tract described by metes and bounds on Grassy Run as part of Josiah Hobson deceased. Defendants named heirs and representatives must plead within sixty days after the next term or the bill will be confessed and a decree entered. March 29, 1849.
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