24 May 1849
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Newspaper
The Clermont Courier
Location
Batavia, Ohio, United States of America
Date
May 24, 1849
Page
1
One dollar and seventy five cents due in advance or within sixty days and two dollars if paid after that. No discontinuation for arrears until all past due amounts are cleared. Advertisements inserted at the usual rates.
A rural muse extols the Farmer's daughter as the true beauty and virtue. Her "blue eyes" and healthful charm outshine jeweled rivals, while innocence and natural grace define her allure more than wealth or fashion. The poem contrasts her with courtly belles and bewailing suitors, praising wholesome charm.
The excerpt argues against idle gossip and evil speaking. It praises wit when gentle and reverent, urges mental culture to avoid slander, and stresses the tongue's power to shape character and happiness. It cites an address on conduct for young ladies and moral conversation.
A sermon on speech as char acter, arguing words engrave the soul and shape duty. Idle talk corrupts character, spreads gossip, and harms happiness, while truthful, gentle speech can heal, build charity, and keep one under divine watch.
A passage discusses Samnites and a custom in which young men are judged for virtue at a public gathering. The most virtuous man earns the right to choose a wife from the nation, touting virtue as dowry and a noble reward for service to the country. Radi. G. P. R. James plans a visit to this country.
The article reframes the Sahara as a chain of oases each with thriving Moorish towns, dated palms and regular caravans from Mogador to Mecca, noting plains lack predators and that war among tribes supports a functional civil society. It also details a Rome Inquisition report describing damp dungeons, skulls, vaults, a hair fragment, and beehive lime kilns below.
The text lists six core commandments: there is one God and Mohammed is His Prophet, fasting during Ramadan, prayer and ablutions five times daily, almsgiving amounting to two and a half percent of property, and a pilgrimage to Mecca and Mount Ararat. It notes Islam’s global presence and emphasizes prayer alms fasting and pilgrimage as key duties. It also details the five daily prayer times from sunset to dawn.
The New York papers argue Forrest had no role in Macready outrages and Macready defends himself against Forrest's accusations. Macready publishes a pamphlet with letters from Bulwar, Fanblacque, Gordon denying charges of incivility. A London Literary Gazette correspondent warns of accidental poisoning myths and offers a mustard remedy as a supposed antidote.
The Foreign Missionary Society reports receipts of 110 081.04 and expenditures of 110 207.30 for the last year. They printed 8 150 copies of the Missionary Chronicle and 7 850 copies of the Annual report of 1848, plus 6 000 copies of Letters to children and Letters to Sabbath Schools each. Since the last report, 21 new missionaries were sent, including five ordained ministers, one licentiate preacher, one physician, one printing press superintendent in China, two male and two female teachers, and eight wives of missionaries. The board now lists 49 ministers, 3 licentiate preachers, 2 teachers, 12 laborers, 4 native Christian teachers and catechists, and reports extensive mission work among Indian tribes, Africa, India, Siam, China, Europe and the Jews with several churches, schools, and presses across stations.
A bearded man in London claimed to be the wandering Jew and said he had been with Noah in the Ark. When asked which country he liked, he chose Spain, prompting remark that a Jew favored the Inquisition era. He replied that Spain was long before Christianity.
The passage notes Pennsylvania imposed a $75 tax on each liquor shop to raise funds. Nonpayment shut down sales and aided temperance. payment would yield $750,000 if statewide. It calls the tax a capital method to liquidate state debts.
Dr. Roberts of Syracuse New York died after touching a bleeding pimple on his forehead with matter from a vaccine scab from a child. He became delirious within hours as the poison acted rapidly.
A reader suggests an old method against crows using shelled corn dyed with a horse hair needle knot to tickle the birds. The grain with hair is planted in fields and the birds pick it up, causing discomfort and self harm.
Morrison cites a dictionary in the Chinese language said to contain forty thousand hieroglyphical characters, claimed to have been compiled eleven hundred years before Christ.
Reports from San Francisco dated March 7, 1849 confirm vast gold finds at Sacramento and the California steamer California idle after crew desertion. Prices soar for town lots, labor pays high wages, and miners amass fortunes while transportation costs and risks rise amid cholera outbreaks along the Missouri.
The Odd Fellows' Lodges of Cincinnati appoint special committees to visit and provide for the sick of their fraternity during the cholera outbreak. The Sons of Temperance and Typographical Society have made similar arrangements to assist members in need.
A Yates county Whig comment suggests country papers form a league to back no candidate for office unless he has been a paid subscriber to each paper for one year prior to his nomination. The proposal ties political support to prior financial commitment to local press.
The writer argues that a small sum saved early can spark fortune as men progress in life. He notes that experience shows provident habits grow with success and encourages young men to start saving, even a modest amount, to secure upward mobility.
A physician visiting wealthy patients would enter the kitchen, greet the cooks, and thank them for their skill. He praised their “ingenious and palatable art of poisoning” that allows medical men to ride in carriages rather than walk and starve without their help.
Lieut Maury of the National Observatory warns in a late address that a star in the southern sky named Argus has suddenly flared from a second or third magnitude to blaze with first magnitude brightness, appearing like a world on fire in the firmament.
The Louisville Democrat editor and Prentice of the Louisville Journal trade sharp barbs over personal beauty. Prentice claims a chloroform kiss led a woman to hang herself from mortification, while another tale alleges a country man knocked down the Democrat editor for modeling. The Democrat replies that Prentice could serve as a scarecrow to deter buzzards.
A clever artist announces a method to transfer a lady's portrait without the sitter present by pressing paper against the face to obtain a vivid image. The claim is described as foul slander.
The passage notes that Romans used the term Apple for various fruits including apricot peach pomegranate citron and orange. They distinguished each by the country as a modifier to Apple.
A California writer depicts a young woman as fearless and skilled in frontier ways. She rides wild horses, lassos deftly, and rifles with precision. She carries a hunting knife, knows stag and buffalo anatomy, rejects corsets and bonnets, wears no fur or flounces, and speaks no English.
The article notes codfish liver oil has valuable medicinal properties and is excellent for consumption scarlet fever bronchitis rheumatism and similar ailments when pure. It advises obtaining it from a reputable pharmacist.
Mrs Partington quips that since Gen Taylor’s electrifying rise women swoon over his beauty and compare kissing a President to smelling the pomegranate. She adds it’s better to have a galvanized President than a decomposed monarch of royal distraction.
Hon Alex Rameey rose from a journeyman cabinet maker fifteen years ago to manual school, then studied law, served in Congress, and is now Governor of Minnesota.
A mother admonishes her seven year old to not delay tasks until tomorrow. He retorts that they should eat the remaining plum pudding tonight.
Horn argues a sick man’s vote is illegal while the Siamese Twins, Whigs, back Gen Taylor in a double shot. The Duke of Wellington is recorded as 60 years old on the first of the month.
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