12 May 1848
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Newspaper
The Clermont Courier
Location
Batavia, Ohio, United States of America
Date
May 12, 1848
Page
1
Printer announces rates: seventy-five cents with payment in advance or within sixty days, two dollars if payment delayed beyond that. No discontinuation while accounts are settled. advertisers urged to pay promptly to ensure insertion.
From London comes detail on unrest abroad, including Danish Holstein issues and French political strain. The report notes Chartist protests, violence in the streets, and petitions rejected by Parliament, alongside strained Ireland, with famine in Mayo Galway and Dublin scenes of distress.
Berlin dispatches report Hungary proclaimed independence and Archduke Stephen chosen king. In Prussia, German Confederation efforts are suspended amid Prussia Denmark disputes over the Duchies.
The article notes that in 1843 eight million one thousand four hundred forty pounds one shilling and four pence was spent by Britons on tobacco. It then compares this to a hypothetical pigtail of tobacco stretching 99 470 miles, long enough to encircle the world four times.
The article alleges a court martial in Mexico investigates a pillow case, calling it dirty and claiming efforts to bolster the general are useless. It claims Pillow will be stripped of borrowed feathers.
A long reflection on fate and charity urges caring for the indigent, recalling a prisoner's remorse for hoarding wealth. A naval officer’s letters describe Mexico’s Tuspan River region as a fertile paradise where land is common, crops flourish, and emigration could create wealth and happiness for families, with land access and preemption details.
Governor Briggs spoke at the dedication of the Westfield Normal School about self reliance and hard work as routes to success. He recalled a poor boy who sat on a hard plank seat and rose to become the Commonwealth’s Chief Magistrate, honored beyond his deserts.
The Cabinet de Lecture recalls Napoleon asking if the church wardens relics were wooden or silver and declaring their mission. He then sent the twelve apostles to the Paris mint to fulfill their global journey.
A Monteville child near Rouen ingested pinches of arsenic thinking them flour. The poison caused severe convulsions and grim prognosis until a physician gave hydrated peroxide of iron, which promptly neutralized the poison and saved the child.
The article equates annual drink costs in the United States to 50 to 150 million dollars, suggests a mid point of 75 million, and argues this sum could fund schools, railroads, and missionaries. It asserts temperance undermines health and morale, producing illness, crime, and ruined lives, describing the broader social harm.
The article recounts dwarfs and giants in historic lore and science. It notes Bebe the Polish dwarf weighed a pound at birth and grew to 22 inches, later serving King Stanislaus and dying in 1763. It compares Borwalski, St Liiliare's Goliah estimates, and claims Patagonia averages, with claims on intelligence and lifespan.
A reflective piece notes how men's actions hinge on their temper and pulse, with a person capable of bold generosity one hour and timid caution the next. It suggests daily mood swings alter behavior before and after meals and over brief moments.
A precursor urging youth to adopt trades over professorships. An anecdote tells of a heir apprenticed to a mechanic at fifteen, who then built a fortune by skill and industry while supporting his aging father, proving a trade can become a lasting estate.
An old note describes a heavy man lifted by four lifters. The lifters raise when the man signals after inhaling, finding the body rise easier than when he lies on chairs. The piece also discusses marriage as a school of virtue and social order.
The Dollar News lampoons neighbors who borrow papers, arguing that at less than four cents a week a man can subscribe and avoid the stingy practice. It laments the erosion of newspaper value and calls out cheapness as a breach of courtesy and personal finance.
Pierre Ramonial was arrested after a quarrel in New Orleans when he drew a pistol and shot Virgillio Sellares. The ball hit the forehead between the eyes, traveled under the skin, and exit at the back of the neck without serious injury, a rare escape noted by the examining surgeon.
An elegant writer argues a man gains pleasure only with a partner to lean on, listen, and share impressions. Shared experiences heighten enjoyment, like roses improved by collaboration, while solitary thoughts feel dull and spiritless.
A dated moral exhortation links labor, industry, and virtue as the path to true nobility. It denounces idleness as leading to immorality and vice and extols toil of mind, heart, or hand as the sole mark of true manhood.
The passage recalls Whitfield and Chesterfield during a sermon where a blind beggar, led by a staff, misses a handhold and falls from a precipice. Chesterfield cries out in shock, declaring death has occurred as the fall echoes.
The thirty-fifth annual report shows the Colonization Society in strong health and planning to ship 310 emancipated slaves to Liberia this year, with 50 more to depart from New York soon. Transportation costs total about $18,000, and the Society appeals for public contributions to meet the aim.
A pint of water divided into two halves dissolves an ounce of rock candy in one half and an ounce of gum arabic in the other. Strain, then add an ounce of paragogic and half an ounce of antimonial wine. An adult's daily dose is a table spoonful morning and evening. dessert spoonful for a child. tea spoonful for a little one. If cough remains troublesome, repeat two or three times daily.
The passage describes a famous poet rising at four in summer and five in winter, studying in the forenoon, exercising in the afternoon, and singing in the evening while playing several instruments. He had a fine voice and understood harmony, and from Paradise Lost he seems passionately fond of music and flowers, retiring at nine and composing a wife in bed.
A Frenchman praised Mrs. Siddons in Isabella at Drury Lane yet said the effect fell short of a Paris performance of Misanthropy and Repentance. He claimed heavy tears from the audience soaked his clothes while he sheltered himself with an umbrella.
In Rochester a judge remarked that many law students are nun skalls yet will admit all to the bar to spare their feelings. In New York City a very bright youth on Grand street astounds his mother who must gaze at him through “snobed” glass.
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