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Newspaper
The Clermont Courier
Location
Batavia, Ohio, United States of America
Date
May 31, 1876
Page
1
The Clermont Courier is a weekly publication edited by Browning Brothers. It lists annual terms at $1.50 per year and announces regular Wednesday publication.
Prof. Perrey of Toulouse reports more earthquakes near full moon than at quadrature, citing 3280 quakes when the moon is close and 3015 when far between 1843 and 1872. Also notes a heated boot heel device, a horse shoe heater, speech shifts on woman suffrage, costly social ills, and a surge in hair trade with Marseille’s imports and Paris chiffoniers collecting hair scraps for five francs per kilogram.
A Cincinnati Gazette correspondent notes California citizens claim the state could not prosper without Chinese workers. Farmers rely on them as industrious, labor saving and quick learners. Wages cited include forty dollars monthly for cooks, twenty for dishwashers, three to four dollars daily for harvesters, thirty dollars monthly for farm hands, and two dollars daily for store porters, all paid in gold.
The article outlines Epwa Akps Pierrepont born 1817 in New Haven educated at Yale and Old Grammar School. It traces his career from admission to the bar in 1840 to practice in Columbus New York and service as District Attorney and United States Attorney General in 1875. It also notes a Bristol England bath death linked to post meals and epilepsy.
In a flourishing town built on Sabina’s old farm site, ten years after Sabina’s burial a tale unfolds of Mr. Frederic Gorham. He now presides over rents of grand buildings and earnings once rumored as speculation. The speaker insists Gorham’s wealth came from kindness and care for his father’s sister, Sabina.
A city market scene unfolds as Sabina, a rugged aunt, aids the sympathetic boy Fred Gorham who wins her favor. Fred escorts Sabina to his family. Cornelia Caldwell eyes his fortune, while Sabina’s life ends with a bequest that makes Fred the heir to a farm and house.
Fred Gorham shelters a secret love for Cornelia Caldwell as Aunt Sabina arrives to test loyalties at the Gorham home. Mrs. Gorham frets over appearances while Fred, the true Gorham, plans for a future beyond wealth and social games.
The first mate of the steamer Pat Cleburne survived a deadly boiler explosion on the Ohio River near Shawnee Town Illinois. He was trapped between timbers and saved Captain Fowler and five passengers, while the crew member Alex Porter and others were rescued or perished. Fourteen killed or missing. The rescued crew member carried women to safety then escaped to the yawl. The captain and other officers did not survive.
The piece discusses a pre-Raphaelite Venus scene in a medieval garden and the lifelike presence of the gaunt red haired figure in society circles. It notes the art school’s obsession with medievalism and the striking, nearly living embodiment of the movement seen in certain London circles. A restaurant price anecdote and a strange cremation tale follow.
A New York Commercial Advertiser tale condemns the habit of gentlemen leaving their female companions during a theater visit to “sweeten their breath.” A young man so behaved was later found to have wandered the afternoon, then fell outside the theater and was escorted to the station house for the night.
An old white woman, recently convicted for drunkenness, received aid from a former slave who traveled to the jail with food and money. The man said he had served her since childhood and brought what he could for her comfort. Meanwhile, reports note General Joseph Hooker at Hot Springs Arkansas for health concerns.
The Indianapolis Journal argues Senator McDonald may bluff about exposing the Democratic War connection. It cites past Democratic actions and critics, urging a full reckoning of the party’s war conduct, emancipation stance, and defeats of Republican critics, while defending Republican governance amid postwar turmoil.
A Congressional voice rails at Republican leadership noting past mischiefs and frauds while praising wartime feats. It argues sixteen years in power saw vast mobilization, Reconstruction, and debt, with few losses or derelictions and credit mobilizer exposure.
The piece critiques Connecticut Democrats for aiding a corrupt leadership and resisting reform. It contrasts Eaton and Barnum with alleged party hypocrisy, noting Republican presses condemn Democratic figures while Democratic outlets rarely repudiate them. It argues reform lacks genuine support within the party and cites salary cuts as hollow symbolism.
A collage of quips and anecdotes from a long-ago period includes musings on etiquette in St. Louis, smallpox vaccination paradoxes, a Philadelphia youth defending Sunday contracts, and observations on aging actors in New York. It notes a Taunton death, a Western editor’s critique, and a humorous tale of a dog returning a found ten-pound note in Queensland. The piece blends aphorisms with short vignettes and social commentary.
Legal and transient advertisements priced at 1.00 per square for the first insertion and 0.50 for each additional insertion. Yearly liberal reductions offered. Business cards up to six lines 6.00 per year.
A playful poem in Scribner shows a maiden who loves Sir Philip Sidney more with each day than any wooing suitor. She imagines him arriving on a doughty steed to seek her favor, then rejects all earthly matches in favor of the idealized poet.
An eminent Icelander Bjorn Gunlaugsson died at Reykjawk on March 17. Born in 1788, he promoted Icelandic culture and is famed as the collector of materials for the renowned map of Iceland which won the top prize at the Paris Geographical Exhibition. He authored several small mathematical and philosophical works. In Savannah, Dr. Stuart Robinson supported the Pan-Presbyterian Council while J. Gire spoke against it.
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