Chas W. Pegg Reads Published in The Glermont Courier
The Glermont Courier lists Chas W. Pegg as a published figure in its latest issue. Details on role or context are not provided in the readable fragment.
11 May 1881
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Newspaper
The Clermont Courier
Location
Batavia, Ohio, United States of America
Date
May 11, 1881
Page
1
The Glermont Courier lists Chas W. Pegg as a published figure in its latest issue. Details on role or context are not provided in the readable fragment.
The April notices report Steinhinted meatgrate arriving in New York, Cincinnati property valued at 124 402 640 by the Board of Equalization, and wage hikes for Toledo journeymen painters from 1 50 to 2 per day. Licenses in Lowell to sell liquor go to druggists. saloons are closed. Auburn appoints a bailiff. a Boston-like resignation follows. Galway tenants roast a bailiff until he resigns. In Georgia Banks County three Mormons attract converts. The Tavarna wreck off Otagi NZ claims eighty drowned. The World's Fair financing is secure but subscriptions may be refunded. Canada will send a regiment to Yorktown celebrations. Ohio Attorney General Nash warns against matrimonial alliance companies. An impeachment attempt against Governor Hoyt fails 80 to 52.
A New York chemist warns that an article of food contains more butter than typical products sold, implying concerns over quality and content in the market.
The revenue steamer Thomas Corwin departed on the 4th for an Arctic cruise to safeguard revenue interests in Alaska and conduct a search for the Jeannette whalers.
Montevideo reports the magazine on the sloop of war Doterel exploded leveling the vessel. Eight officers and 135 men were killed. three officers and fourteen others were saved in the incident.
The query asks for the gold to silver weight ratio in monetary units under a bimetallic system. It seeks a clear standard to fix how much pure gold equals pure silver in coinage for monetary value. The answer would specify the relative weights that define one unit of value across both metals.
Last week William R. Carson Joseph Funk Joseph Blackburn Joseph R Black and Henry Arbunkle were arrested and brought before United States Commissioner Smith on charges of issuing worthless bonds for Star Route contractors in England.
Prof Richard A Proctor the noted English astronomer wed Mrs Sallie D Crowley on the 3d in St Joseph Missouri Their acquaintance began during Australia years when both traveled with invalid companions The marriage links a renowned scientist with an American widow in a remote frontier city
A revised Nihilists appeal circulates in St. Petersburg urging the Russian army to rise against the tyrant. The document likens autocracy to a decrepit, despised system and calls for decisive action.
A May 2 dispatch reports six thousand Albanians attacking three Turkish tabors near Prisland. Derviech Pasha arrived with four tabors and defeated the Albanians. Combined losses totaled about 1,800 killed or wounded.
Reports from Santo Domingo indicate possible revolution activity as the Spanish mail steamer is barred from entering the capital port amid alleged unhealthiness of the crew and rising street unrest. In New Jersey, a railroad accident at Ringwood kills engineer Skully and fireman John Maser when a trestle collapses during repairs.
London dispatch reports 1,500 smallpox cases refused hospital admission in 28 days with 297 deaths. Currently 1,014 cases hospitalized and only one bed free. In the last fortnight 153 patients died from the disease.
In Fort Smith United States Court the Payne trial on invading the Indian Territory ended in a verdict against him. The ruling compels Oklahoma to abandon its programme as no land in the Indian Territory may be settled by anyone other than Indians.
The Western Maryland Agricultural Society hosts its annual fair at Cumberland featuring exhibits, livestock displays, and local agricultural events under the society’s guidance.
Maryland has brought suit against Rev Henry Ward Beecher for damages after he failed to deliver their annual address two years ago, violating a contract with the society. A London dispatch reports a £5000 subscription to beautify Hughenden Church as a memorial to Lord Beaconsfield.
The United States Senate ratified the Chinese treaties and the extradition treaty with Colombia, the Consular Convention with Italy, the Morocco taxation agreement, and the Japan United States treaty on reciprocal duties for shipwrecks along their coasts.
A survey of wheat fields in Northern Ohio Northern Indiana and Southern Michigan shows roughly twenty reports of good crops thirty fair and fifty poor with many farmers calling conditions very poor and predicting plowed up fields or crop failure.
A May 2 Tunis cablegram reports a nine hour battle at Ain Ismail on April 26 between French forces and Kroumirs as they crossed the frontier. Seventy eight Kroumirs were killed and eighty nine wounded. bombardment of Tabarka killed soldiers and civilians.
The Attorney General holds a statement showing taxes due the State of Pennsylvania totaling 3.5 million dollars from corporations. Standard Oil Company alone is charged with over 3 million and has refused to pay taxes for nine years, arguing it was incorporated in Ohio.
In Cedar Mills Texas two unidentified cowboys rode into town on a high lonesome. Constable Hodges confronted them and was shot dead when one man drew his revolver. The pair escaped by horse, marking the eighth killing in Cedar Mills within a year.
The American Iron and Steel Association reports 1880 rail production at 1,461,837 net tons and 1,305,212 gross tons, up 31 percent from 1879, marking an historic year for iron and steel rail output in the United States.
John Dillon Member of Parliament was arrested on the 2d inst at Port Arlington on his way to Dublin and jailed at Kilmainham. His hostile remarks toward the English Government sparked the arrest and Dublinis agitation grows as Irish MPs threaten a walkout when the Land Bill is read again.
Special from Fort Buford reports Sitting Bull, forty miles away, will not surrender. Emissaries from Sitting Bull lure several young bucks from the agency to join him. He claims the government intends to hang all Indian chiefs to complete the list and told Captain McDonald he would never submit.
A San Francisco dispatch reports Senate ratification of the Chinese immigration treaty met with quiet universal satisfaction. Rising arrivals of Chinese immigrants, about 3000 in six weeks and a 1000 more expected on the steamer, prompted coastal unease and fear of further delays. Locals believe the treaty will stem the current influx and end the Chinaman flow.
Professor Lewis Swift of Warner Observatory in Rochester New York discov ers a bright comet in Andromeda with a northerly motion. He wins 200 as the January prize for first original comet discovery in 1884 from H H Warner Rochester. Swift earlier earned 500 last year for a 1880 discovery and dismisses world ending predictions.
A monk named Parthenicus, respected for prophecy not philosophy, warned of Chios earthquakes for years. His seven predictions, including a sea level sinking quake, have largely proved true, triggering emigration and public uproar after church officials briefly removed him from preaching.
From Constantinople comes word that the preliminary inquiry into Sultan Abdul Aziz's death is closed. Twenty men remain jailed for murder complicity. rumors claim several Pashas and ex-Sultan Murad may face charges. Dr. Dixon finds no force or struggle at death. only jagged forearm cuts possibly from scissors.
The President sent a formal message withdrawing New York United States Marshals and District Attorneys and the Buffalo Collectorship nominations while Robertson for Collector of Customs remains. The move aims to curb Conkling influence. status of Robertson’s nomination remains contested with expectations of a Senate vote next week.
A discussion of women whose daily attire reflects health and refinement. It praises practical, well-made walking and church outfits, clean gloves, neat bonnets, styled hair, minimal cosmetics, and modest veiling. The piece commends modest fashion as aesthetically pleasing and socially appropriate.
Rost. G. Ingersoll appears as counsel for ex-Senator Dorsey amid fallout from the Star Route inquiry. The Senate ratified the Chinese Treaty by a large majority as examinations of Post Office corruption proceed. Nominations were confirmed and a long Star Route item recounted contractor overcharges and disputed service on routes to Montana and Dakota.
The April public debt shows totals for 3 per cent bonds 196,378,600 dollars, five per cent bonds 456,022,950 dollars, four and a half per cent 20,000,000 dollars, four per cent 738,622,700 dollars, and refunding certificates 42,100,000 dollars. It lists Navy pension fund 14,000,000 dollars, matured debt 6,704,865 dollars, legal-tenders 346,741 dollars, and certificates of deposit debt. Available assets total 233,751,195 dollars with cash balance May 1 at 159,647,357 dollars. current liabilities include interest due 2,?0,492 dollars and other figures.
The Gottingen Academy notes curious phenomena called electrical shadows. A concave silked disc on one rod of a machine forms a luminous circle with a small star, shadows appear on the circle when objects intervene. Shadows arise mainly with conductors, vanish with insulators, and even heated glass shows a partial shadow that fades as it cools. The text ends with a moral about drinking to drown sorrow and borrowing to pay for liquor.
Richard A. Proctor notes a striking resemblance between North American plains and the Moon's seas during his journey from Kansas City to Denver Cheyenne Ogden San Francisco and Omaha. He observes prairie to buffalo grass to sage brush on rising plains and likens lunar dark seas to Earthly regions under study.
A debutante at a season event spills terrapin and champagne onto a costly upright piano while dabbing away a spill with her escort, triggering a sticky ruin of keys and strings. The elder guest protests as the piano suffers. progress notes add a second item on spiders in Ceylon that catch birds in their webs.
A string of brief items from across Ohio reports a missing wife in Straitsville, a four foot coal vein found in Centreville, a Miami County Republican convention set for May 28 in Troy, and a Wooster man Frank Searle's suicide. Additional notes cover jewelry theft in Marietta, public fair dates, more suicides, a baby death, mumps closing Holmes schools, a company assignment in Wooster, a Canton death from a fall, a Kent fatal cave in, an unveiling in Clyde, a Lancaster death, a barn fire at Akron, a shooting incident in Youngstown, and various legal and civic items.
M. D. Delaunay argues precocity signals biological inferiority in a paper to the French Societe de Biologie. He notes lower species mature earlier and that inferior human groups show greater early vigor, while higher races mature later as civilization rises. He cautions brain development lags and that precocity inversely tracks evolution.
A man delays arriving for an engagement, hurries in and drops an embroidered butterfly from a chair back. He quickly rises to replace it as a sharp remark notes that time and tidiness wait for no man. The incident leads into a rail road collision described as a bump of destructiveness.
A Louisville Courier-Journal correspondent visits Mr. Longfellow's spacious study filled with portraits, books, and artifacts. The writer notes the room's writing desk, the Wordsworth inkstand, and a glass case with bits of Dante's coffin, describing the house as 150 years old, charming, and still active with the poet's vigorous work.
The piece recalls Horace Greeley announcing the New Morning Journal of Politics Literature and General Intelligence in 1841 and outlines its aims to uplift the People and exclude degrading police ads. It notes the first issue linked to Ann Street, with mail and daily publication at one cent, amid early telegraph and steamship limits.
A Detroit Free Press piece mocks how liars are perceived and how reporters exaggerate news. It notes liars are common, and sensationalized city room reports inflate incidents from a broken arm to murder. A Devonshire anecdote adds a quirk about a toad on a gentleman’s steps for thirty six years.
Rates for legal and transient advertisements set at $1.00 per square for the first insertion ten lines plus $0.50 for each subsequent insertion. Annual reductions offered. Business cards up to six lines priced at $64.00 per year.
A fragmentary verse scene describes footsteps on the floor and a looming visitor. Jagged phrases hint at fear, travel, and urgency as the speaker contemplates retreat or confrontation with an unseen presence. The disjointed lines suggest a poem exploring tension and impending arrival.
A compilation notes various quips on manners, manners, and opinions. It cites a Springfield Republican line about indespensable men, jokes on wind and murders, and comments on education and poetry. It includes a Vermont jury quip and a San Francisco Post remark on murder pardons.
A Capitol policeman aided a July Centennial tramp named George by arranging shelter meals and a cot in Capitol Park. Years later George, now wealthy, visits officer Arthur Thomas in Salt Lake City and reveals his fortune stemming from mineral surveys and rapid wealth.
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