08 Mar 1876
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Newspaper
The Clermont Courier
Location
Batavia, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Mar 08, 1876
Page
1
Reports cover tension over media freedom and potential libel suits, a Plymouth Church secret session intrusion by reporters, a fatal duel at Post Oaks Texas involving Brit Irawis and Secrest, and urban planning notes including a massive Atlas Hotel in Philadelphia. The piece also mentions Paris housing layouts, a Berks County arithmetic prodigy, and a Missouri whitewash mine, illustrating varied 19th century topics.
An Indian press criticizes gifts given by the Prince of Wales after his India visit, noting a trade in impractical items like clasp knives and pencil cases. The piece mocks the cargo choice as influenced by Fenimore Cooper and Catlin. A separate report recalls Major Voyer of Quebec dying after inadvertently discharging a pistol while describing Varreau’s self inflicted wound.
Cincinnati residents praise a peanut trade as a new railroad to the south opens a corridor for vast shipments. Officials anticipate up to 200000 bushels daily moving north from peanut producing regions to major markets, with Porkopolis poised to gain a flourishing industry.
A market woman driving along the Richmond road just outside Brooklyn found her hat bricks under her feet set fire to the wagon straw. Her clothes caught, she was engulfed in flames and fatally burned, with recovery deemed impossible.
A cautious observer warns that a woman’s lower lip betrays offense or hurt. The first sign of grief appears there if you look closely with keen eyes. The Consul General of the German Empire in New York reports Thomas the dynamite fiend as a British subject.
The Clermont Courier lists advertising rates: legal and transient ads at $1.00 per square (ten lines) for first insertion and $0.50 for each additional insertion. Yearly liberal reductions offered. Business cards up to six lines are $6.00 per year.
A rural couple recalls their golden wedding while posing for a photograph. Their nostalgia clashes with a chaotic scene as a mule injures Mr. Boblink and his dog Towser, leaving a camphor scent lingering for days.
On a frosty Sunday morning a stray mule invades Mr. Boblink’s garden tearing straw from plants and demolishing a fancy arbor. Towser barks as the animal, aged and scarred, stands calm, while Mr. Boblink prepares to eject the intruder with quiet restraint.
A Taunton man aged forty six is described as having a remarkable series of brush with danger and misfortune. His life includes shipwreck, a near rail accident, close calls at sea and land, Gettysburg wounds, Libby prison exposure, shark encounter, two drafts, injuries in the New York riot, a barrell scene with a noose, a California earthquake crush, and a prolonged hunger. The note links Taunton to Jimmy Blanchard’s segment location.
The text ranks warmth by food type, noting pea soup as warmest, pork as warmest meat, and tea with ginger as the best hot drink for cold journeys. It adds coffee is good, while wine and spirits are warned as dangerous and likely to cause jaundice.
Knee breeches and silk stockings are returning to fashion as trends shift. Saw mills are accumulating sawdust, signaling changes in production and storage patterns.
C P Marsh testifies before Congress about the Fort Sill post tradership and a proposed sale arrangements with John S Evans. He details pressure from Mrs Belknap and Mrs Bower to secure the position, a $12000 annual bonus, and payments routed to Mrs Belknap and officials, plus reductions amid protests and press scrutiny.
A miserly husband loses the price of his wife’s hair pins in a bet on a losing dog at a fight, illustrating time’s turbulent stream and the wretched state of poverty.
The column notes trends for spring wear with baggier pants and dog earred collars. It also recalls a tale of hereditary gout and a handyman family burden, plus a preacher mockingly advising women to return home after washing without lingering for extras.
A detailed tribute to a prominent American historian and statesman, noting his Harvard and Gottingen studies, European connections, naval and political service, and lifelong dedication to writing the nation's history. It describes his daily routine, mansion, library, and ongoing work as he guides his country through public labor and scholarly achievement.
The Cincinnati Gazette notes the fall of Secretary Belknap amid public calamity as evidence of a dishonorable bargain involving his wife and associates. C P Marsh testifies to a Fort Sill post tradership scheme with annual bonuses and payments to Belknap’s wives and heirs, while whether Belknap knew remains unclear.
A Detroit Press story recalls a young man who, after his father's business collapse, resolves to free his fiancée from an engagement. He enters the home with resolve, then confesses the news and is met with surprising pragmatism and humor about wealth and duty. A Paris barber death adds a final ironic note about money.
A lyrical portrait of a healthy cheerful peasant boy bound for labor and simple joy. The poem celebrates his vigor, family harmony, and the pain free life he leads from sunrise to twilight beneath rural skies. It contrasts his stormless lot with the speaker’s own longing for such carefree simplicity.
A collage of aphorisms and vignettes on kindness and life. Bits about sleep ending cares, a pupil praising a teacher, jokes, death, poverty, Tennyson, and meteors. Reflections on truth in happiness, a blind man and laughter, and comparisons of nature’s subtle grace to grace in the church and soul.
Oates Brothers received a remarkable bale from Isaac Harris of Mooresville that resembles wool but lacks staple and merchantable value in textiles. Harris hopes for high returns in Philadelphia, though buyers doubt it will fetch a price. The fuzzy growth cannot be clearly classified as cotton or wool.
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