26 Mar 1879
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Newspaper
The Clermont Courier
Location
Batavia, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Mar 26, 1879
Page
1
The Clermont Gourier announces terms for publication by Woodlief and Proprietor. Yearly advance price stated as $2 within the year. Publication appears dated Wednesday.
A tale of a tall fair woman with roses in June hair and a youth torn by suspense. He fears rejection yet hopes for yes as they share a quiet afternoon on a sofa. He asks for a last token a rosebud from her breast and leaves with a blush and bittersweet memory. Atlantic Monthly.
Nick Pepper, a canal-boat deckhand and bearer of a deathly password, is abducted by two men seeking numbers to a safe. Jacob Messner’s detective and police intervene, rescuing Nick after a staged hanging, as the boy whispers the numbers and dies in the grasp of danger.
An Albany belle prepares to marry a prominent clerk whose sleighing party plan leads to a split shift twist. A driver, risking his job, saves the runaway sleigh and a wounded, grateful suitor ends with a celebratory recovery and a joyous engagement.
The essay argues that while hunting or dangerous tasks may seem heroic, practical welfare relies on a trained eye. It compares hitting nails, drawing straight lines, cutting cloth, and painting, claiming education of the eye enhances any calling. The rawer the sight, the more it needs education, and the more it will repay the effort.
A Vallejo butcher visiting Contra Costa hills buys cattle from a Missouri man living primitively on a thousand heads. He pays with government notes but the trader refuses to indorse them, insisting on gold instead. The exchange highlights a clash of currencies and trust in fragile monetary forms.
In a recent Hamlet performance in New York the graveyard scene unfolds with Hamlet and Horatio amid grave-diggers at work. The first digger proclaims a skull belonging to Stewart while Booth nearly laughs and Owen Fawcett maintains his impassive humor.
In Jerusalem’s Solomon’s Rose Garden tale a pact with morning-land genii is said to be written in saffron and rose-water. The rose acts as symbol in Paris Jews’ edict of the sixteenth century, Tyrol betrothal warnings, and many rites across Europe. Roses mark ecclesiastical wisdom, funerary garlands, and noble honors, from Luther to Rosicrucians, La Rosiere gifts, and Treviso’s rose feast with maidens defending the city with rose-water squirt links.
Advice on choosing reliable market purchases and economical meals. Highlights breakfast combinations such as upper-cut sirloin, fried liver, hash, corn bread and mush. noon fare includes lamb shank stew with vegetables or beans. tea meals suggest chipped beef or lobster, plus soup from bones. Desserts favor boiled rice puddings and cottage puddings.
A collage of mock heroic tales from The Albany Argus mocking rough soldiers and their fount of mispronounced, tangled words. The second fragment shows a professor’s lecture interrupted by darkness and a whispered line about co education, amid a gas lights scene at Aota Columbianza.
A miscellany of reflections on education and character, noting how clothing shapes self perception, then passing to vivid vignettes. An Alabama wager with a goat sparks laughter, Memphis book receptions aid hospitals, and Paris may abolish marshal ranks. Senator Rollins buys Fort George Island for a planned industrial city while Port Jervis reports telegraph hums from temperature shifts. Garfield’s Mentor home is a simple farm cottage with experimental farming, and a French farmer’s murder play ends in suicide amid a crowd. A tragedic quarrel in Georgia leads to a fatal ambush and a Russian belief on mourning.
In Ceylon forests near sunlit paths a massive spider web spans four to eight feet above ground, anchored to tree shoots and bridle roads. The central nest can be as large as a man's head, growing as layers of old webs roll together. The web traps wings and limbs of many insects, forming a den where the spider, its family, and prey reside. When overfilled, the spider releases the web and builds anew around the central core.
A Woodward avenue merchant refused a stranger asking about taking the Berlin mission. The man, with odd attire, pressed the question and implied public opinion. The merchant mocked the idea and the visitor left, noting the German vacancy likely won’t be filled from Detroit.
A March session summary shows eighty four Preble County citizens petitioning for a constitutional ban on intoxicating liquor sales. Bills include insurance fraud suppression, bridge damage penalties, parol evidence in delinquent tax actions, and fiscal year end dates. Senate actions address county officer fees, pipeline charges, and public health measures. Multiple House and Senate measures pass or stall on taxation, notaries, deer hunting timing, and canal improvements. Local and corporate bills follow, with notable votes on appropriations and public works.
Dr. F R Heath describes a 4000 strong group living in Eten Peru at seven degrees south near the sea. They speak a language understood by Chinese laborers, intermarry within their group, keep distinct laws and dress, live by peegeee and mats, and strangle the aged or ill as ordered by their local council.
A Denver man, once known for calm conduct, suffers public shaming after a nose blemish signals his drinking. His wife accuses him of dissipation, the minister confronts deacons, and the tale unfolds as rumors spread through town from an apparent pimple to a symbol of his downfall.
A renowned Zulu hunter confronts a giant lion to prove native prowess. Wounded by a spear, the hunter’s rhinoceros hide shield holds firm as the beast rages. After a patient retreat, a final spear strike kills the lion, drawing praise from British officers and onlookers.
Mrs. Smith burns a fishhook found among her husband’s papers. The hook lodges in his thumb, then escapes into his vest pocket. A colored woman’s dress snag sets off a chase as a fishhook injures a policeman and ends up at the station. Local authorities call for a permanent hook keeper.
The piece by young Boston sculptor Brackett, executed after Allston’s death, stood in his studio where Dana viewed it and remarked with tenderness that “Ah he makes us all look down.” The moment highlighted the elevated manner of the bust and justice to Allston in life.
The Clermont Courier advertises legal and transient notices with a ten line first insertion and reductions for yearly repeats. Business cards are limited to eight lines and priced at 54.00 per year for insertion.
A fragmentary poem muses on reaching the pole and touching skies while balancing dream and reality. It compares earthly wealth to celestial wonders and hints at a moral about the value of a single innocent life amid vast cosmic questions. The excerpt ends with garbled OCR text referencing Chicago Inter-0.
A collage of quips on editors, funerals, laborers, and men’s spring garments in a dated newspaper voice. Includes jokes about editors duties, a Cheyenne massacre reference, herring theft, hanging funeral songs, and male fashion trends with buckhorn buttons.
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