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Newspaper
The Clermont Courier
Location
Batavia, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jun 14, 1849
Page
1
A exhortatory poem urges steady action and progress. It emphasizes duty, motion, and resilience against hardship, forecasting a brighter future and human advancement despite famine and war. The speaker calls souls to actions high and presses that progress cannot be stopped.
In 1846 a passenger recounts a terrifying mountain stage accident. A calm traveler reveals a near-fatal fall from a precipice, the death of his companions, and his later life with the woman he loves who survived the disaster.
The Methodist Protestant editor recalls John Price alias City John after a murder. Once a playful boy, he grew into a liquor driven killer. The piece warns youths against drinking and gaming and contrasts grace with his ruin. Also notes a name change petition for Martin Van Buren Joss and mentions an extraordinary 114 year old man in Kentucky. Jenny Lind may visit the United States soon.
The Knickerbocker recalls Burchard’s revival meeting closing scene where attendees sent prayer requests forward. Oziel Biggs, six feet tall and a known skeptic, asks prayer for Jim Thompson who runs a tavern below his public house, insisting on testing the power of prayer despite doubt. A final line notes the saying about German peasants using blossoms as tea.
The act amends the 1842 measure to grant exclusive jurisdiction to the first filing county court of common pleas to appoint a receiver, oversee funds, and handle creditor claims for turnpike roads passing through multiple counties. It requires six weeks of public notice, cross filings rules, and inter-county transfer of case records. It also covers costs from tolls and repeals incompatible acts while preserving creditor rights. Also notes tax changes for money brokers and repeals prior 1846 provisions.
The act outlines rights to exception and bill of exception in forcible detainer and other proceedings before Justices of the Peace. It sets on record requirements for judgments of conviction and writs of certiorari, with allowances for signing seals and copying costs. It also covers vacancy procedures for the office and docket transfers between Justices and township clerks.
Archibald Prentice notes striking contrasts after passing the Ohio River. He cites Mills of David Gibson in New Richmond Ohio producing 15664 barrels flour 23612 barrels whiskey and 12145 hogs valued at 298177 total while free-labor northern areas gain wealth, unlike slaveholding southern lands where slaves toil under overseers on tobacco hemp and corn.
The act permits an occupying claimant to choose payment for full valuable improvements or for the land without improvements after judgment for the successful claimant. If the claimant elects to keep the land, he may tender money equal to the land in nature. if he seeks improvements, the successful claimant may tender the value of those improvements. If tender is refused, a jury may set a larger sum.
Instructions for preparing Creaniow gloves involve washing hands, applying gloves, and washing in a basin of turpentine until clean. Afterward hang in a warm area or where air currents remove the turpentine odor. The Paris method reportedly yields substantial profits.
A physician from the east advocates saw dust bread for certain constitutions and says a soup of ten penny nails thickened with saw dust and seasoned with wooden nutmegs can quickly relieve dispersia.
The Boston Post reports Daniel Ayre of Lowell is about to pay upwards of $6,000 to discharge principal and interest in full after his earlier bankruptcy. He plans giving his former creditors an elegant supper to mark the settlement.
On a late defeat of Bem by the Russians five Polish officers were taken and hanged. The fiend like ferocity of the Russians we think is sufficiently known from poles to pole, without this additional proof of it.
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