07 Mar 1877
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Newspaper
The Clermont Courier
Location
Batavia, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Mar 07, 1877
Page
1
A poem lamenting the loss of the vivid Yankee figure in modern America. The speaker contrasts early readings of Sam Slick and American frontier vigor with contemporary culture, manners, and refined society. The appeal shifts from bustling American life to a Britons warning London readers to stay home and read about America in books.
A sentimental narrator recalls a youthful romance with Rosebud, a plain but beloved village girl. He pursues wealth and high society in London, betrays her, and loses his fortune to Miss Hannover. Recalled to Mosswood after a life of flirtation and folly, he learns Rosebud is happily married to Dr. Roper, forgiveness fading, and chooses a modest future, with Rosebud’s memory fading into others’ lives rather than his own renewed.
The day opens cold and raw as crowds line the capital streets for a formal procession to the Capitol. Hayes delivers a long inaugural address urging unity, constitutional fidelity, civil service reform, education, national pacification, and peaceful foreign policy while calling for a six year presidential term and early return to specie payments.
A sheep ranch of six hundred forty thousand acres was recently surveyed in Menard County, Texas, for a Tennessee breeder, indicating a major landholding project and potential livestock development plans.
In Louisville, Americus Symmes defends the Symmes theory and urges a split Arctic expedition. He proposes one group imitate wild beasts northward toward the polar opening and another pursue Howgate’s gradual approach, citing Hall Parry Kane and others to claim a warmer polar north exists beyond the known fringe.
The Cleveland Herald examines who first discovered the Ohio River. debate centers on Robert Cavalier La Salle versus Jesuit maps and wartime church politics. The piece notes missing direct records from 1670s and ongoing scholarly investigation by the historical society secretary.
A quip from the Bluegrass Clipper notes that many err by cutting off the tail of a dog and discarding the wrong end, illustrating a humorous misdirection about priorities.
A condensed report covers Senate and House actions from February 24 to March 2 including Codifying Commission delays, jail bond increases for Seneca County, temperance petitions, canal impact studies, tax and election bills, and a veterans’ hall event. Notable motions include suspension of insane convicts to hospitals, local option petitions, and the Cox Harmon contest proceedings.
A dying lion, mangy and blind, nears the end of his reign. He wanders the lair and hunts feebly for prey, surviving on rare field mice as inferior animals sense fear and threaten him. Sometimes a rustic Arab ends his misery with a club.
An account recalls Mile. Titiens in Plymouth Enagind when she encore performed Kathleen Mavourneen The composer James Crouch Plymouth music master once paid two dollars for a pit seat and heard his song become the night’s highlight, prompting his tearful thanks to the singer.
A mysterious horse illness spread in Scotland with Edinburgh reporting many cases. Over five hundred horses are affected showing weakness swelling eyes and limbs, with tongue spots and intestinal trouble. The disease lasts five to twelve days and may be infectious though some cases seem isolated. Damp weather over six weeks blamed for the widespread sickness in stables and kennels.
A stark contrast is drawn between external victory won on bloody fields and inward triumph achieved in the soul. The text asserts that true conquest of self earns heavenly praise and a royal diadem, while worldly triumphs receive loud acclamations only from crowds.
Legal and transient advertisements cost one dollar per square for first insertion ten lines and fifty cents for each extra insertion. A liberal yearly reduction is offered for advertisers by the year.
A fragment from a poem or song in a Dublin Magazine style, featuring repeated refrain Maureen Cosha Dhas and the Top o the mornin cadence. It evokes affection for a charming Maureen and a lilted Irish banter with references to a Father Maginnis and a hill cabin scene.
A collage of humorous vignettes and reflections on life faith and society. It quotes a child on Jewish feasts, a landlord with a rope rescue, graveyard humor, poultry fortunes and quips on happiness fiction and politeness. It ends with a reverie on newspapers as a theater of life and a wrap of the world.
Historically the Piutes endure harsh winters by relying on rabbit-skin robes and wood. They gather near slag kettles at furnaces for heat, using found warmth from slag cooling to stay alive. They previously set a winter camp at the Eureka Consolidated dump, remaining until spring.
A Great whisky suit is discussed in New York papers, where whisky suits here are typically rags. The item appears in a brief society or fashion mention, reflecting local style discourse and the contrasting view of such attire.
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