03 Mar 1880
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Newspaper
The Clermont Courier
Location
Batavia, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Mar 03, 1880
Page
1
In a dramatic incident aboard a moving train, a man risks his life to save a woman at the scene as a second passenger dies. The event unfolds near a hilltop home where the couple’s plans to wed are stated, and the survivor is cared for by nurses and a doctor while neighbors remember the brave act.
Aunt Leona narrates her life from Presumpscut Pocket to Paris, unveiling a concealed painting and a dramatic escape with Merton Howell. A Russian fiancé, a jeweled string of pearls, and a bold union in Paris redefine the family’s fortunes before returning to Hollywood and lasting fame.
Compendium of week’s Ohio news reports multiple killings and accidents across Findlay Elyra Van Wert and other towns. The county covers arson, drownings, legal suits, and public notices including a local option petition count 46500 and a postoffice war at Findlay. A trotting stallion died in Urbana and a man killed by a falling tree near Findlay. Municipal and legal actions touch Akron Cleveland Urbana and Columbus with libel suits, burglaries, and school hour enforcement.
A late night seance winds down when a woman plays a few bars of The Sweet By and By on the piano. The act signals the end of disturbing happenings for that evening according to witnesses.
Proceedings list mixed bills and actions from both chambers. Senate passage covers advertisement regulation, village ordinances review, and canal culverts at New Bremen. House players include county debt levy, officer liability for unbudgeted spending, guardians embezzlement prohibitions, and Cincinnati bond and tax issues, plus requests to repeal building laws and expand Sunday liquor and amusements powers.
Nasby arrives in Plugville Indiana on February 1 1880 to aid Democrats in preventing African Americans from settling, denouncing immigration as a threat to white supremacy. He recounts a meeting at Bonebraker's grosery where anti immigration resolutions were passed and a mob targeted Quaker settlers. The piece links local politics to broader Democratic struggles and criticizes party disarray.
A Chicago Times fragment questions the Democratic party’s platform for the next Presidential election. It declares party managers lack a clear creed policy or proposal and criticizes the current state of American party competition.
The piece argues Mr. Tilden should retire to win party harmony, warning that a continued contest would leave him broken and neglected. It then surveys Utah land policy, detailing Wasatch barriers, Ute and Uintah reservations, irrigation limits, and Mormon control of land titles within incorporated towns to bar Gentile settlers.
A fragmentary 19th century clipping cites Norristown Herald and Rochester Express on Samuel Tilden, the Fusionists, and Democratic woes. It mocks Tilden’s marriage rumors, hints at Republican Chicago conventions, and quips about Greenback vexations and party fortunes amid volatile U.S. politics.
The article surveys billiards origins in France and Italy, notes Shakespeare’s Cleopatra reference, and discusses early forms with three balls and no pockets. It traces evolution from rudimentary play to a tabled game and mentions French practice of using three balls on tables often without pockets.
A reader asks how to tell a fresh egg from a stale one. The Burlington Hawkeye suggests tasting as a method with a playful reply.
A newspaper report describes women employed as spotters by the New York Central Railroad. They use small mirrors and notebooks to track fare payments while facing away from conductors. One spy dropped her kit when entangled with a drummer, who recovered her items after the train moved on.
A sweeping tale follows a wealthy Yale man who becomes a machinist, loses social recognition, and rises to mayor of New Haven with vast wealth and 1500 employees. He aids the widow of a former lover, while the pair’s fates diverge as social expectations clash and a previous betrothal dissolves.
Insterburg Germany a Bavarian beer accident sent unfit beer into a brewery drain that flowed into a pond in the park. Three hundred tons of beer flooded the surface and fish behaved oddly, some floating on their sides others circling or sticking their heads out of the water. The pond appeared dark with fish thronging the surface.
The Chedlermont Courier states legal and transient advertisements cost $1.00 per square (ten lines) for the first insertion and $0.50 for each subsequent insertion. Yearly ads receive liberal reductions. Business cards up to six lines are $4.00 per year.
Eugene Field writes of regional towns and rivers invoking a plea for lasting peace. The verse names Passamaquoddy and Pamedumcook and calls for an end to conflict. References include Skowhegan Piscataquis Kennebunk and Casco in a hopeful, regional mood.
A collage of quips and vignettes from a late era, poking fun at money, watches, poets, smoking boys, and social habits. It riffs on railway delays, Americanized months, and manners, ending with a clergyman aboard a sea voyage noting sailors’ swearing amid a storm.
An offer of £850000 was made for the London Telegraph and declined by its proprietors Law son Levy & Co. The Times is valued around £5000000, the Standard £2000000, and the News £1000000. Telegraph price asked is about £1.5 million. Telegraphs have rising circulation and advertising patronage compared with peers.
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