27 Mar 1878
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Newspaper
The Clermont Courier
Location
Batavia, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Mar 27, 1878
Page
1
A fragmented tale portrays Enoc Taylor finding a young woman by a stream with thoughts of oblivion and despair. The piece laments lack of family, love, or support, ending with the verdict Found Drowned and no mourners noted.
Mrs Martin, stranded with her child in a lonely Rouviay inn, confronts a red haired robber under a bed. She bars the door, keeps calm through a stormy vigil, and in a silent struggle pulls a scarf noose to kill the intruder and save her child as midnight nears.
A young man arrives at an auberge seeking his mother and learns a frightened lady upstairs resists language barriers. The door opens to a horror scene as robbers are found hidden under a bed and Mrs Martin, mad with fear, struggles with a scarf while a crying child clings to her.
A Newport ferry scene reveals two women debating second marriages. They recall Miranda Jenkins Tibbitts and her late husband Sam, noting she has remarried Bratton the cigar maker. Opinions vary on Bowing to sprees, child care, and whether a second marriage can work. One speaker insists she would rather be a widow sewing than endure a second husband difficult to govern.
Brooklyn narrator Jenny Lind is depicted in vivid memory, a woman with one ear due to birth, known for dramatic outbursts and a striking style. The tale recalls Lind gifting fifty dollars in gold and secretly aiding a Swedish cabinetmaker with about eight hundred dollars, showing a generous side behind the public image.
The ManoGany teeth are introduced for buyers who confirmedly chew tobacco. The product targets users seeking a traditional chewing accessory and is positioned as a durable option in regional markets.
This department presents comments from American and European journals on topics of public interest. The editor does not endorse all sentiments but offers the material as noteworthy for general attention.
An editorial railing against a new silver dollar credits an English artist with an un-American eagle and an impractical tail. It argues the coin’s design insults American heritage, hints at a motive by a British designer, and calls to restore the dollar to the grandfather era. The piece ends recalling Lincoln’s era and a failed Vatican accord, with a later vindication.
The writer praises the new Pope for activity, intelligence, and frugality while noting his impatience and potential lack of steady temper. He plans to curb luxury, dismiss excess attendants, and curb the militia’s influence, warning ultramontane critics may attack him as too conciliatory.
A reminiscence recalls Pope Pius IX in 1875 resisting Lincoln’s envoy who urged appointing American cardinals. Cardinal Antonelli doubted the plan, while the Pope, recalling America’s place in the church, expressed willingness to create American cardinals and to include diverse races in the Sacred College.
The piece notes widespread unemployment and slow revival of industry in the United States. It compares the difficult period to a fall from a cliff with a laborious ascent, urging investment and patience as natural laws slowly restore trade and business. It concludes that Americans, on the whole, remain better off than many others despite hardship.
Augustus Johnson, the first man to be executed for murder of a Black man in Georgia, confessed to four killings and was suspected of many more. The sentence followed testimony of homicidal mania and prior insanity, amid tales of brutal acts including a severed ear as proof.
Mrs Elizabeth Oakes Smith recalls N P Willis aiding struggling writers with tact and support. A highlighted case involved Emily Chubbuck who adopted the pen name Fanny Forrester after Willis advised how to attract readers. The anecdote notes Willis helped writers reinvent identities, foreshadowing later fame for Emily and the Ern est Helfenstein alias.
In a dusty stall a livery stable man warns a young buyer that a mule is a kicker as they inspect sleeping animals. The man notes he fears damage to the stable roof and carriages after the sale, while the buyer concentrates on choosing the correct horse to view.
An All the Year Round sketch surveys Miss Dan and Miss Margery An as vocal art enthusiasts. It notes Miss Dan’s energetic, outspoken manner, Morris green dress, Rubens hat, and Heatherley training. It traces Miss Margery An from water colors to oils and sculpture, pondering future marriage and a life of art. The piece critiques artistic cant among young women and their debates on decoration and taste.
An old painter seeks to capture guilt and innocence. He visits a jail and paints a wretched inmate beside a child at prayer. The two figures prove to be one and the same man, Rupert, later known as Randall, ruined by bad company.
A collection of wry epitaphs and literary blurbs illustrating double meaning and wordplay. It cites epitaphs about resurrection hopes and a mother’s grim tally of children as two dead and three living, then recalls a Steele quip and an animal painter anecdote tied to a royal greeting.
A well known Utica doctor escorted a young lady home and gave her a trodhe to ease her throat. He instructed slow dissolution in the mouth but she felt no relief and sent back a pantaloon button with a note accusing him of giving the wrong trodhe.
In a village store story, John Berry recalls driving a horse seventy two miles in a single icy day. Onlookers note two miles is a strong daily pace, while Uncle Token adds it was a long day in June.
Ohio legislature reports a busy sequence of actions with Senate bills funding Cincinnati street cleaning, militia law codification, and rat and hawk tail rewards discussed. House approves reorganization of Deaf and Dumb institution, tax and school measures, and Soldiers and Sailors Home reforms, while debates on Southern Railroad bonds and Cincinnati police bills continue. The week closes with votes on alderman quotas, blind asylum restructuring, and university college funding.
A report notes Philadelphia is known as the City of Brotherly Love due to its high volume of fee marriages and divorce cases, reflecting a bustling civic life and legal activity.
The Clermont Courier lists advertising rates for legal and transient ads at $1.00 per square (ten lines) for first insertion and $0.50 for each additional insertion. A yearly liberal reduction is offered. Business cards up to six lines cost $6.00 per year.
A fragmentary poem reflects a dream of distant meetings with a beloved figure. The speaker encounters obstacles and fate, with repeated refrain that their fate cries out it may not be. The verse traverses longing, sorrow, and the elusive possibility of union beyond time.
A collage of clipped phrases and mumbled quotes from diverse papers. jokes, aphorisms, and stray lines hint at humor and editorial chatter. It weaves references to New York Graphic, Camden Post, Oil City Derrick, Boston Traveler, and other papers with scattered maxims and wry comments on society, literature, and daily life.
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