24 Mar 1880
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Newspaper
The Clermont Courier
Location
Batavia, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Mar 24, 1880
Page
1
A damaged fragment laments laborers unseen by the master and a woman's work unshared. The poem contrasts white hands with ongoing toil and a wedding ring absent, and mourns a pitying light fading as folded leads and unfulfilled missions linger in despair.
The narrator encounters John Bunyan Cavendish aka Uncle Jack in California. A buried family tale unfolds as Cavendish learns his long lost brother Jamie died, leaving a fortune to Cavendish and care for orphans. The Christmas scene ends with Cavendish's death and the two brothers reunited in memory as the town settles around them.
Four girls boast about family members with remarkable skills. One claims a brother clears a six-rail fence, another says a father ships six rabbits in a day, a third touts a hand spring landing on feet, and a sister’s husband supposedly walks on his head for half a mile without using his hands.
A New York letter describes Peter the horse at a Detroit firehouse. The animal answers questions, demonstrates balance and obedience, and shares in daily routines such as eating, chewing tobacco, and staying steady at a fire. The men praise Peter as “one of us.”
An American missionary report from Persia details extreme hunger and starvation. Families sell possessions and even children as famine drives people to slaughterhouses and blood consumption. Witnesses describe emaciated women and children, wild-eyed infants, and desperate conditions beyond government aid.
Tipton Times notes a Kokomo debating society session on whether marriage beats single life. The sole married participant argued the negative, arriving the next day with his arm in a sling, a green patch over one eye, and a disheveled look from sleeping in a cellar.
An odd courtroom scene features a young printer as witness in the west side court, his testimony filled with technical jargon and parable phrasing. The judge presses for clarity as the man explains how he was put in a column of the case and faced a stern admonition to stay with the rule.
The Philadelphia scene notes a black Asiatic elephant named Hebe, 23, giving birth to a calf in captivity. The event is portrayed as a landmark in American zoological progress, challenging natolists’ views on captive elephants and symbolizing liberty and adaptation in the United States.
Mrs William M Tweed lived nearly two years after her husband died while in Ludlow Street jail. Since then she stayed abroad and remained an invalid. Her health did not improve with years away, and she was not expected to live long at Tweed's death. Her children included four daughters with marriages to brothers named McGinnis in New Orleans and a Greenwich Connecticut estate. The marriage portions for three married daughters ranged from 25000 to 50000 dollars.
A quotation framing women as observers rather than readers, attributing knowledge to experience over study in a Rousseau-inspired view on gender and learning.
Proceedings show multiple bills read third time and passed including extending protection to harvest home gatherings, authorizing counties to issue bonds, and school district changes. Other measures authorize railroads, regulate elections, renew bonds, and fund school and agricultural needs with various local approvals and transfers.
The Supreme Court ruling upholding the constitutionality of federal election laws deals a blow to Democratic repeal efforts. It curbs long standing attempts to subvert the laws by party leaders and asserts federal supervision of elections, with strong implications for Southern politics and the presidential contest.
The New York Sun editor, long troubled by Grant's imagined ambitions and purple regalia, now claims Secretary Evarts seeks control of coaling stations on the Central American Isthmus. The piece lampoons the editor’s anxieties as an example of partisan fearmongering and political obsession.
The Clermont Gourier lists advertising terms including one dollar per square for first insertion and fifty cents for each additional insertion. Ten lines define a square, with yearly reductions available. Business cards over six lines cost six dollars per year.
The Sun editor calls a "dark design" on liberties as General Grant's empire and Evarts' plans remain unclear. Thoughtful Tilden argues Bayard's secession record makes him a poor Democratic nominee, noting Bayard and Tilden once opposed sword-based solutions during the Civil War era.
A scrambled bundle of quotes debugs Tilden, Logan, Dillaye and Butler amid Democratic and Republican party talk. The excerpt cites Cincinnati conventions, Greenback sentiment, and calls for strong leadership from Grant and others while noting whispers of third-party plans and internal party tensions.
A man entered a Sami Stone store in Missouri and asked to see a revolver and its cartridge. While handling the gun he unintentionally discharged it into his brain. Authorities describe the incident as self-inflicted and note others warned about careless behavior with weapons.
A whimsical line shows the czar giving orders to his prisoners of war while a Baltimore wife trims her scholar with an apron, reflecting playful newspaper wordplay and domestic contrasts.
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