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Newspaper
The Clermont Courier
Location
Batavia, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Mar 21, 1850
Page
4
A poem pleads for rain as gods, skies, and nature praise the coming showers. The speaker thanks divine mercy, linking rain to moral cleansing and the bow of love across a war stained sky. Images of corn, flowers, grass, and birds accompany a plea for rain and peace.
A narrative recaps an 1806 New York harbor incident where British Captain Whitby ordered impressments and opened fire on an American merchant brig, killing a sailor named Pierce and provoking a public outcry as crowds mourned and a funeral procession formed.
The account recalls a 1812 shore fight where Rob erts and twenty picked men seized beef from a shore party, clashed with an armed crowd at the wharf, and a heroic Sam Mitchel led a strike to capture a British flag. The episode ends with a naval court martial and lingering tales of a gold watch heirloom.
In a Clermont County Court of Common Pleas filing dated February 7, 18 00 Elliott S Hardin and Algernon S Hardin petition to have the Hardin heirs interests set off in severalty in multiple tracts described by metes and bounds. The lands include parcels near Batavia on the East Fork of the Little Miami and various surveys and deeds totaling over one hundred and fifty acres plus additional forty-one and eighty-nine acre sections. The petition requests an order to partition and assign separate interests to the heirs of Milton B Hardin and others named in the title.
The Adjutant General with five fit appointees oversees annual examinations. The institute's faculty includes Col. T. F Jounson and Col. E. W. Moxeas at West Point, Lieut. Col. Joanson, Maj. Owen, and other professors in chemistry language law ethics and more. Two hundred eighty cadets from eighteen states have entered since 1847 under a nonpartisan policy with strict guardian funds and rigid uniform rules.
The institute touts Col Morceau as a premier engineer trainer with West Point honors. It notes high pay for engineers nationwide, urges math and science aptitude, and pledges health, economy, discipline and moral training at the Blue Lick Springs location.
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