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Newspaper
The Clermont Courier
Location
Batavia, Ohio, United States of America
Date
May 17, 1849
Page
4
A didactic poem recounts a man lured by a single drink to break his vow and drink poison wine. It contrasts Esau's frenzy with conscience, noting reason falters and life fades as pitying angels weep. The piece urges vigilance against temptation and seeks divine strength.
A poem in dialogue form imagines a sunbeam brightening a heavy heart. The speaker vows gentle lighting of sorrow until joy returns, proceeding in measured steps to ease gloom without intruding.
A spring vision describes nature waking from winter, rivers thawing, birds returning, and fields blooming. It links renewed life to divine blessing, saying the Lord breathes, waters, and enriches harvests, making pastures lush and abundance follow under his steps.
An essay contrasts spring’s renewal in nature with spiritual revival in the believer. It describes how vernal growth awakens virtue, humility, and gratitude toward God, then parallels nature’s awakening with the Christian experience of divine grace filling the soul. The piece highlights beauty in trees, birds, fields, and rivers as evidence of God’s power.
A specimen of frontier oratory ends with a judge awarding a verdict for the defendant after the speaker praises the judge and offers a bottle of Monongahela. The scene portrays courtroom rhetoric and self dramatization in a Western legal setting.
The Abeille of Yvetot reports a poor shepherd, father of a large family, bought a second hand Bible last summer. While turning its pages he found two leaves pasted together. He separated them and uncovered a 500 franc note with a margin inscription stating the writer named him as legatee because he had no heirs. The shepherd feels happier than a king.
The excerpt offers aphorisms praising common sense and modest virtue. It contrasts fine and exalted sense with practical wisdom, warns that praise comes with caveats, and likens persistent effort to repeated tillage. It urges benevolence humility and a steady, generous spirit.
A letter-press excerpt ponders Earth’s age and Britain’s early civility. It cites an Ethnological Journal editor arguing Britain was civilized before Rome, noting empires fall and histories vanish in far less than nine thousand years. The Scientific American quotation frames this as a critique of historical memory.
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The March term 1849 filing lists accounts and vouchers for settlement in the Court of Common Pleas. Names include John Dickey administrator ex'r of Joseph Burns dec'd Eli ner Mack guardian Isaac Mack John S Fallon administrator Joseph Woodmansee dec'd Joseph T McKibben ex'r dec'd C B Huber administrator John Kain dec'd A Coombs Jr ex'r dec'd A Coombs Jr administrator Benjamin F Dailie dec'd J M Witham administrator Nathaniel Witham dec'd Elisha Bennett administrator William Dean dec'd John Utter administrator W B Utter dec'd P S Jones administrator de bonus non Otis Prebie dec'd H Whiting administrator Frederick Whiting dec'd Christian Binkley administrator Henry Whiting dec'd James Kinnear administrator Thomas Goff dec'd Henry Moyer administrator Eliza Moyer dec'd John G Rogers guardian Rachel Ann Fagan L B Leeds administrator George Lear dec'd Silas V Jordan administrator George Pricket dec'd Bethuel Covall dec'd Joseph Martin guardian Josiah S Emery Jacob L Teal guardian Phebe Henry Apple John Trees administrator William Abrams dec'd.
The State of One initiates actions in Carrmont County Court of Common Pleas listing Ebenezer Hadley and Sarah his wife along with J M Hobson E V Hobson Wm Hobson Catharine Hobson A J Hobson J W Hobson William Shoenhill and Mary Ann his wife Rosanna wife of James Jester and others in a civil matter with several defendants and spouses.
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