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Newspaper
The Clermont Courier
Location
Batavia, Ohio, United States of America
Date
May 24, 1849
Page
4
Poem by He W Longfellow expresses enduring grief and celestial faith. It reflects deep emotion, longing, and the hope of reunion in a heavenly dwelling. The speaker urges patience while acknowledging the sorrow and the need to ease the pain.
A fairy tale warns two sisters by a well. The elder’s speech spills venom while the younger’s words are sweet. The fairy curses: pure speech yields gems, but a serpent follows every harsh word. Slanders blight all they touch.
A message from a respected local writer, who died a year after composing these lines, laments changing fortunes and contemplates destiny. The excerpt includes a Newtonian life retrospect and meditations on faith as night falls over the growing city.
The piece explains seed germination from seed parts and conditions like air heat and moisture. It then extols the tulip as a flower of beauty and argues its form reflects a creator, contrasting its lack of scent with the pink and urging virtue over vanity.
The text reflects on beauty fading like a tulip and how outer charm fails with time. It asserts that virtue and mind endure after physical form decays and urges a life of goodness to lessen the impact of death and inspire mourning by the virtuous and afflicted alike.
A tale ties a southern planter, his daughter, and a widowed husband famed for Buena Vista. The daughter dies, the father and son-in-law reunite on a victorious field, and Jefferson Davis sees a rare hour of triumph as a new president prepares to take office.
John Jolliffe files in the Court of Common Pleas of Clermont County a Bill in Chancery seeking partition of 361 acres tied to the Gray heirs and related grantees. Notice is given to James W Gray Jane Gray Smith Miller John A Miller Hester Nadenboush John Quincy Adams Nadenboush and others to appear March 21, 1849, or the bill will be confessed. Fishback & Swing solicitors.
A fragment reads on Puritans’ contempt for the rich and eloquent and a destined figure whose actions shift fate, invoking divine signs and biblical writing. The prose closes with a Derbyshire tale of a 70 year old widow marrying her longtime suitor, the parish clerk, to a merry wedding crowd.
Ground and mixed paints of every color kept in stock and for sale at the March 1 Drug & Book Store. The ad notes a wide selection and readiness to serve customers seeking paint products.
Pix Per. For Parr. REST WINES BRANDS For Medicinal purposes offered for sale at a drug or book store.
Ebenezer Hadley and Sarah Hobson file a chancery petition to assign Sarah Hobson’s dower from Josiah Hobson’s Clermont County estate. The described 112 acre tract lies along Grassy Run with bounds through Abernathy, Am rose Gordon, and nearby trees. Defendants must answer within sixty days or the bill may be confessed and a decree entered at the next term.
Court of Common Pleas of Clermont County Ohio files March term 1849 settlement accounts and vouchers for numerous executors guardians and administrators including John Dickey Elenor Mack John Fallon Joseph McKibben C B Huber A Coombs Jr P S Jones H Whiting James Kinnear Henry Moyer John G Rogers L B Leeds Silas V Jordan Bethuel Covall and others with dates and official names noted.
An intercepted 1848 letter from Cincinnatians promotes Dr North's Expectorant cough candy as a remedy for post winter coughs and lung ailments. The note lists Dr Hall's Balsam for the Lungs at Walnut Street and agents A A North & co. with sale via New Drug and Book Store on Main Street Batavia March 1, 1848.
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