28 Mar 1883
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Newspaper
The Clermont Courier
Location
Batavia, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Mar 28, 1883
Page
1
Legal and all transient advertisements priced at $1 per square (ten lines) for first insertion. Fifty cents for each additional insertion. Yearly liberal reductions apply. Business cards up to six lines may be inserted for $6 per year.
Disbursing Agent Jopez Tuomas appointed. Potomac Flats sea wall to exceed five miles, facing malaria concerns. Treasury plan review ordered as Germany pork ban draws retaliation talks. Sitting Bull to Standing Rock Agency relocation under guard, April 15 departure. Fort Gibson forces assist, Creeks may face prosecution if outbreak continues. Smoking tobacco trades face licensing totals through Internal Revenue Bureau. Oysters Jasper and Industry collide. Jasper sinks and crew perish.
Dems in Rhode Island nominate Governon Strade for governor. The report notes political backing and expected campaign activity.
A stringency in Mexico money markets. a $350000 withdrawal from the National Bank is noted. Threats against the Canterbury Deanery and a coronation alert in Moscow are reported, alongside a true bill for Nugent and Armagh Assassination Society members. Queen Victoria’s injury is serious but not dangerous. Various European political rumors and tariff debates in Berlin, Paris, Vienna, and London are summarized, with commentary on Gladstone and U S tariff changes.
The repository and grand altar at the Brooklyn Cathedral were destroyed by fire on the 23d. Other brief items note embezzlement sentences in Illinois, an Irish National Convention set for April 26 in Philadelphia, a New York trust company defaulter, a runaway hearse accident in Pittsburg, a guilty verdict in Belfast, a Helena flood tied pneumonia deaths, and various federal and treasury notices on whisky exports and life saving stations.
The Ohio Senate and House move through numerous measures on the 14th to 20th, including amendments on legal documents, bonds, wage garnishment, ejectment defenses, probate appeals, road levies, and women doing business. a five member Supreme Court Commission is created and various local improvements funded. bills authorize city borrowing, township reorganizations, and water works. on the 16th a convention and election reform bill提. and the 20th sees toy pistol bans, oath requirements, and further judiciary measures amid adjournment.
Gov. Foster, on the 19th, received from the Treasurer of the United States a draft for 70,943.96 to settle state war claims with the federal government. J. H. Situ of Vinton County lost 370 in currency on the C H V T railroad. Ravenna dispatch reports a funeral for a young woman who died after giving birth, caused by puerperal fever. the child will be a county charge. E G Williams of Springfield was arrested for embezzling from his employers. Ww G Hampton convicted in Gallipolis for robbing his brother in law’s store. Cincinnati Democratic Convention named Stephens, Mulvihill, Harmon, Peck, Von Martels, Shay, Springmeier, Herancourt, and Dawson. no platform adopted.
A last invented fire-escape designed by a woman features a spacious canvas tunnel attached to a window and extending to the ground. Escapes lead to safety though riders may emerge flustered. The item is noted alongside other press snippets on postal cards and public notices.
London reports Lady Florence Dixie attacked near Windsor by two men in women’s clothes. Her dress torn, she swooned after a knife blow but escaped injury aided by her St Bernard dog. Irish origin claims denied. various figures doubt the incident and debate political motives. a later Dublin–New York crossfire adds further uncertainty.
A fragment of verse with racial slurs opens a discussion by J A Macon on American manners. The essay argues manners are not fixed virtues but suitable deportment, comparing American and English societies, noting lack of rank, female-led social life, early youth involvement, and informal home culture as shaping gentility.
A York Pennsylvania family owns part of a silk balloon from the Confederate gunboat Teaser captured in 1863. The balloon reportedly showed about twenty colors, explained by Southern ladies sending their silk dresses to be woven into war balloons.
Dr. Van Aernam of the Cattaraugus and Chautauqua District New York remarks that among the four hundred great men at Lincolns memorial services only nineteen attended Garfields obsequies. He notes in sixteen years one generation has passed quickly on Capitol Hill.
A Cleveland man holds a patent for using wire fences to support telegraph lines. The report notes this innovative approach as a practical improvement in early communications infrastructure. The idea proposes a sturdier, potentially cheaper method for stringing wire, especially across uneven terrain or long distances.
A collage of comic snippets from editorials and humor columns across papers. Notes on a Iowa editor's lengthy piece, jokes about potatoes in prize fights, a peppered post office tale, coal trade slumps, a waiter’s dinner quips, and a moon remark charged by a two shilling line. Also reports a gun cap explosion, a hunting misfire, and the artillery punch beverage described as a forceful, age‑blind drink.
Judge Gildersleeve in New York considered the case of Thomas Jackson who pleaded guilty to stealing a watch from a crossing guard. He was questioned privately, and counsel advised the plea to shift costs onto the county, with the attorney seeking payment if the man were found innocent.
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