14 May 1879
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Newspaper
The Clermont Courier
Location
Batavia, Ohio, United States of America
Date
May 14, 1879
Page
1
The Glermont Courier lists subscription terms with CHAS. W. PEGG as printer. Yearly rate set at $1.50 in advance. delinquent accounts accrue 82. A. consideration noted for timely payment.
Fragmentary text recalls a conversation about poetry and a plan to divide future work. It references a “sixty-one on Boring” and a decision to allocate one portion to each year. The source voice hints at a pledge for nineteen forty with springtime imagery.
A neglected boy named Cliff polishes clay into art in a rural home, runs away to Boston, discovers a statue world, and becomes a renowned sculptor. Years later a chance encounter with Sukey, the child from his past, reveals the clay mud gal he carved as a child is now a beloved marble statue. Mrs Dusenbury learns Cliff’s fame and reconsiders her earlier harsh judgments.
The piece compares long poems and plays from Marini to Lopez de Vega and Cowper to gauge output. It estimates a reader can cover about two hundred twenty octavo volumes a year if reading eight hours daily, noting variability by subject and pace.
In 1837 Gen Andrew Jackson returns two copper cents sent with mock charity by a Cincinnati Whig firm. He asserts he lives within his means and returns the money unopened to the senders, chiding them for falsehoods about his finances. The letter is preserved with his gruff humor and misspellings.
A St Petersburg correspondent reports the Czar told officials he walked at nine in the morning when a finance clerk type aimed, fired twice missing, a second volley followed, a guard was wounded, the would be assassin was captured, and the Emperor praised Providence for sparing his life.
A 60 year old Stavropol woman scolded her adult son and became enraged at her daughter. The son blocked a strike and later, remorseful, seized an ax and amputated his own hand to avert his mother’s hit. A court summons followed for the son’s involuntary act of self punishment.
A French street dating to the seventh century and linked to Queen Brunehild remains in central Paris amid modern improvements. The Globe notes its historic cruelty tale of Brunehild’s execution in 613, followed by medieval unrest and three famous coffee houses once favored by scholars.
A suburban farmer housed a tramp who ate rations and asked why he would not work. The man claimed there was plenty of farm work, but sought a vineyard where late arrivals win early wages, calling that “New Testament treatment.” He then resumed his search for fair labor.
A brief item titled Advice to the dressmaker urges careful accuracy before proceeding with a garment. The note emphasizes ensuring correctness and proceeding with confidence once ready. It reflects a period stance on skilled craft and prudent work.
May 5 to May 10 summary of Ohio Senate and House actions. Bills on railroad funding, public works reform, and anti Sunday amusements dominate sessions. Debates focus on adjournment moves, pay for lawmakers, and reform measures including convicts labor, police control, and tax allocations.
A student called to exam defines law as a rule of action applying to all actions whether animate or inanimate. Three years into practice he quips that law is an uncertain way of making a precarious living. Newark, California.
A Missouri Kansas and Texas passenger train derailed into a runaway eight mile dash from Parsons to Junction City. Engineer Dave Dunham and fireman Johnny Haley fought aboard during descent. Haley was jailed after assault. Dunham treated for severe injuries.
An English paper prints a colorful, detailed sketch of Cetewayo and a vivid account of Zulu attire including leopard skin cloaks, bone combs, and tusked snuff-boxes. A second column recounts a comical attempt to edit a town newspaper ending with the would be editor chased off.
A Paris victim, intent on retaliation, slipped a pocket pack with a taunting slip into his own pocket. He rode the omnibus again, waited, and after twenty minutes the pickpocket was nabbed. Returning to his seat he found the note replaced by a blue paper reading You are a sly joker.
The passage surveys historical tastes in art and religious symbols, notes ruinous whisky-fueled marriage customs in Russian villages, and traces origins of fans in Egypt India and Isis rites. It also describes dining habits such as pre-meal snacks in Sweden and the habit of taking a sup, detailing social and health implications.
The article explains Houdin's clock that lacks visible works yet keeps accurate time. A brass hand moves via a concealed mechanism inside a knob behind the dial, where a main spring and wheels drive a platinum weight that circles every twelve hours or adjusts to hourly with a simple modification. External interference does not affect the internal timekeeping.
The piece notes the Freyburg mines in Saxony as hosting the world’s longest subterranean construction. It cites goltosinn begun in the twelfth century extending to 123 miles by 1835, with immense silver yield. An 1838 apolloey began and finished a year ago, eight miles long.
The Glermont Courier lists rates for legal and transient ads at $1.00 per ten lines for the first insertion and $0.50 for each subsequent insertion. A yearly liberal reduction is offered to advertisers, with business cards up to six lines priced at $4.00 per year.
Fragmented verse lines describe rain and flowers in playful imagery. The passage presents a whimsical, musical mood inviting readers to welcome nature and listen for favorable sounds around Meriden.
A collage of quips and vignettes from 19th century papers covers jokes about sleeping feet, a dentist mishap, jail vs editors, a widow planting a funeral, a tramps pieing, and a coachman named Herbert Montgomery. The tone is satirical, cataloging witty lines and brief anecdotes to entertain readers.
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