14 Mar 1877
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Newspaper
The Clermont Courier
Location
Batavia, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Mar 14, 1877
Page
1
The Clermont Courier lists subscription terms at 1.50 per year. It appears to be a clerical notice with garbled OCR text referencing Browning and Vance, possibly names or departments, within a weekly publication context.
A humorous anecdote from Herald of Health describing a man blundering with boots and misplacing feet. The narrator notes the folly of forcing a left shoe on the right foot and cites everyday troubles from such clumsy errors. The quip ends with a moral on fitting the correct shoe to the correct foot.
Two boys nicknamed Tip and Top drift from city begging toward a rumored free farm out west. They survive hunger by sharing meager meals and rough shelter, meet kindness from a doughnut girl and a woodsman, and finally abandon the farm plan to seek new roads and a future.
A list of former governors occupying Senate seats includes Clay ton Harvey Boutwell Stevenson An thony Alcorn Booth Oglesby Morton Whyte Hamlin Randolph and Burn side. The record highlights career transitions from state leadership to federal legislative roles.
Sixty thousand people in Pittsburg have signed the temperance pledge since December under the labors of Mr. Murphy and report shows very few backsliders.
The South Carolina Conference lists 4,512 probationers and 25,022 full members with 300 local preachers. It reports 239 churches and 16 parsonages valued at $100,000.
The act requires Ohio parents or guardians to send children aged eight to fourteen to a common school for at least twelve weeks per year starting September 1 1877 with certain exceptions. It imposes school records, employer restrictions, fines for violations, and duties on school boards and clerks to enforce and fund education for underage workers.
An 1877 Ohio act imposes fines from ten to twenty dollars per offense for noncompliance, with affidavits from a school board member or district taxpayer. It counts two weeks of half-time or night school as one week of day school and takes effect September 1, 1877.
The New York Sunday Citizen reports plans for May 21 commemorations of Pius IX’s fiftieth episcopal anniversary in Rome. American Catholics and Canadian groups, led by Mrs. General Sherman, will aid in charity drives and pilgrim efforts, with funds raised in St. Andrew’s Church and other venues to support the pope and the poor for conscience sake.
The narrative describes a convention dais where justices sit in a straight line and Evarts delivers long ornate sentences. Observers include Field, Bradley, Clifford, Strong, Miller, Edmunds, Frelinghuysen, Morton, Bayard, Thurman, Payne, Abbott, Garfield, Hoar, and Hunton analyzing expressions and postures in a vivid, satirical style.
Gen Changarnier died leaving a record as a French patriot soldier who lived from the Reign of Terror to the early Republic. He fought in Algeria and at Metz, opposed Bonaparte’s usurpation, and stood with Bazaine during the Franco-Prussian war. He was opinionated yet honored for his steadfast patriotism.
A number of graduates from Drew Seminary request recommendations this spring for the Western Methodist Conference. Eastern Conferences are crowded and cannot accept recommendations for years.
Senate and House records show actions including governor resignation from R. B. Hayes and election of H. W. Curtiss as president. Bills pass on transverse ditches, negotiable paper fraud, reduced poll tax, and legal advertising rates. Inauguration planning and expunging earlier resolutions are noted with party debates. A hog cholera investigation commission is created.
From Barber’s Historical Collections of Connecticut a Salisbury incident on November 8 1802 describes stones wood and mortar hurled at a clothier shop and later at Mr Landon’s house. Glass broke on multiple sides with no visible assailant while hundreds gathered and debated witchcraft versus sleight of hand.
The article describes the hunter hyena or mebbie of Central and Southern Africa, its appearance, pack behavior, hunting strategy, and interactions with game and cattle, noting its cooperative hunting and vocal pack calls. It then shifts to a letter about Big Bone Lick in Boone County Kentucky, detailing fossil bone beds, salt and sulfur springs, and historic explorations and transfers of mammoth and mastodon remains to museums.
An Englishman urges Lancashire and London manufacturers to guard against foreign glass. He reports 72 casks already at sea as the first installment destined for Lancashire and London, with more shipments planned, and notes American glass compares well on color finish and temperature resistance.
The query asks whether visible emotion like blushes and tears constitutes a hue and cry. It discusses public distress signals and whether personal emotion should trigger communal alarm under social norms of the period.
A historical note on the cuttle-fish dismissing legends of kraken-like monsters. It cites Denys de Montfort joking about sea monsters and recalls Beale and Gosse descriptions of gigantic cuttle-fish, with real features like the beak and long limbs.
Five years ago McComb City Mississippi had no Catholics. Rev Fathers Enright and Samy conducted a mission there to good effect, leading to a substantial growth in Catholic members, now the largest religious group in town.
Legal and transient ads priced at 1.00 per share for first insertion and 0.50 for each further insertion. Yearly liberal reductions offered. Business cards up to six lines cost 6.00 per year.
A London Spectator excerpt describes a rustic scene with Molly and a maker bound by longing and flowers. The verse depicts affection, a dreamy awakening, and the renewal of love among daisies in a pastoral meadow setting.
A miscellany of oddities and anecdotes features misfit slippers sold for fish traps, a king saving a pigeon then describing it as pie, Newfoundland wildlife contrasts, Longfellow verse, and a New York style of humorous local notices. It also notes a tiny Georgian compositor, a tooth-for-change caper, art as therapy, and sentimental crises amid American and Canadian misadventures.
The article notes Constantinople lies thirteen miles around, enclosed by western walls with the Golden Horn to the north and Bosporus to the south, separating Galata and Scutari. It calls the harbor city a prime site for imperial development, home to about half a million people including Armenians Jews Arabs and Turks, with Turks making about half the population.
The piece argues that victory over sin blends sunny gentleness with strong resolve. It asserts Jesus combined divine gentleness with wondrous strength and firmness to endure the world’s trials.
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