08 Mar 1849
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Newspaper
The Clermont Courier
Location
Batavia, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Mar 08, 1849
Page
1
Printed and published by Andrew MM Gest announces rates of one dollar seventy five cents for advance or within sixty days and two dollars after. paper not discontinued until arrears are paid. advertisements at usual rates.
The Fourth of July 1844 tale from the Pacific trail recounts Henry and Emma’s pioneer wedding near the South Pass. A sudden Indian raid, a daring rescue by Sosone riders, and Moore the crime lord are set against a dramatic cliff chase at Jacob’s Tower in the Oregon country.
A brief romantic moment unfolds as a character revives with simple reassurance and a quivering murmur. The narrator hints at further adventures featuring Henry and Emma at Feather River and teases a forthcoming story about the World's Mint Gold Mines.
Governor Ransom of Michigan recounts reclaiming a 15 acre field overrun with grubs oak thickets. He describes cutting and burning, then grazing a flock of more than a hundred sheep to top regrowth. After months the land recovered with lush pasturage and no living grubs remained.
The passage extols light as essential to life and all beauty while noting humanity still understands little about the principle. It credits light with enabling colors and forms through solar radiation, and describes repeated tests with prisms, crystals, chemicals, and electricity that fail to reveal its ultimate nature or path, remaining an enduring mystery.
An old miller tells a cautionary tale about his dog that leapt at swallows to catch game and died after crashing on rocks below. He urges young men to calculate the odds before pursuing gold, advising careful judgment before taking dangers.
A man sends a boy with a letter and postage money to the Post Office. The boy returns with money and reports he slipped a letter through a hole, just as others did, and got his letter in for nothing.
The annual report notes Auburn and Sing Sing totals, counts of female convicts, and pardons showing bias against the poor. A prison physician advocates life restraint for some inmates over long release. Guilt confessions, self-views on imprisonment, and occupations at Auburn are recorded with social details.
The El Dorado origin explains the 1541 search by Gonzalo Pizarro for a fabled realm east of the Andes. The gilded king wore daily gold dust, lived in Manoa, and his palace featured porphyry columns, alabaster, ivory throne, and gold steps guarded by lions.
A letter to the St. Louis Union from Puebla New Mexico dated November 28 describes Col Fremont and party starting on November 26 to ascend the first range near Puebla. The party battles two feet of snow and climbs toward the top as they seek a southern Pacific route avoiding their former continental crossing. The survey aims to aid Congress in choosing a western terminus for a great railroad.
Washington hears an application for a patent on the Aerial Railway or balloon wire way to California. The projected mail and passenger line from New York to San Francisco is estimated at 1.3 million dollars. The road promises fast through travel in two to five days with favorable winds and no baggage allowance.
A Chippewa groom seeks marriage by making presents to the bride’s parents and, if accepted, proceeds to bring the bride to his lodge. There is no formal oath or endowment required beyond the gifts and the union, and the couple are said to be happy.
A deacon creates a clever device a long squirt gun fixed under the pulpit chair. It pivots to spray water into the sleeper's face regardless of their location in the church, ensuring alertness during services.
The Boston Post replies to a sender marked with Jack Ass on a copy, asking to identify the sender at what stable he can be found. A drunken quarrel in Nottingham leads to Horrie Death as the wife of John Thomas is killed amid involvement by her husband, a son, and two others. St Louis population figures show a rise by 27,450 to 63,471.
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