12 Nov 1879
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Newspaper
The Clermont Courier
Location
Batavia, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Nov 12, 1879
Page
1
The snippet indicates a publication named The Glermont Gourier issued weekly on Wednesdays. It cites CHAS. WW. PI PROPELIETOR with terms of $1.60 yearly, payable within the year, in 1866 France.
A playful verse about two young lovers and a near wedding plans halted by a witty reporter. The piece mentions a modest damsel and a garland, with dramatic hints about a wedding that could have renamed the couple. The narrator muses on keeping the news quiet until the proper time.
An experienced guide recounts dangers of prairie travel and what it means to be lost on the plains. He shares dramatic cases of wanderers, blizzards, and a fatal incident where a man and boy perished in stacks, plus reflections on guidance, survival, and the Siberian exile system.
A Philadelphia paper notes rising numbers of youths lacking practical trades, warning that untrained men and women drift into politics or dependence. Destitute youths without marketable skills risk becoming tramps or failing to benefit themselves or society.
A woman relates that after doctors declared a child's Brights disease incurable a twenty year old remedy emerged. Boiled beans with pork and potatoes cooked in the first water appeared to relieve the illness, with the child later bearing two children and remaining symptom free unless struck by a cold. The physician who treated the child reportedly verified the unusual result, noting the beans may have mattered because of cooking in first water. The parks look bright for autumn with fresh grass and cheerful scenery in New York.
W H Wells writes to the Chicago Tribune analyzing the word Chicago. Dr J Hammond Trumbull identifies its original meaning as skunk and traces its transfer to a river a city and other uses. The article lists several authorities and notes a chief named Chicago linked to the river.
An incident from Grant's Civil War service recalls a fierce artillery duel at Spottsylvania where Col. McGilder's units were repulsed thrice. Grant rode to the front to rally them, wincing as a bullet struck his finger but joking that it was only tucked away. He urged a renewed assault, which succeeded.
Describes a state of siege from St Petersburg to Odessa amid Nihilist plots. 15 000 porters patrol streets while police monitor them. General Ghourko vests unlimited powers, orders arrests and executions, and enforces court martial arm lists handed to police, signaling fear within the army and state power.
Dr. Holland argues genuine social sympathy and a wish to please others are essential for a good talker. Knowledge, literary familiarity, and awareness of current events fuel engaging conversation, while superficial showmanship and mere facts fail to sustain dialogue. An informed, cultured audience is necessary to provoke and sustain meaningful talk.
A Scotch minister Watty Morrison entertains with storied tricks and a baptism gag involving a puppy. Julia Shepard of Springfield faces accusations of voodoo magic and a child’s arsenic death. Texas claims more mineral wells than any state.
In Harper's Magazine, King notes ancient gem work used diamond scrapers and drills, with demonstrations like a Phoenician lion attacking a bull. He contrasts this with modern copper disk engraving and diamond dust, arguing the old hand method achieves more integrated cutting and polishing.
A young Russian nobleman squandered his fortune and sought money from his sister. When she refused he attempted to poison her, causing a deep sleep but not death. The sister was buried alive after a rushed funeral, later exhumed on inquiry, and the brother confessed and was punished.
Col Scott a former Kentucky governor known as a skilled Indian fighter faced a public challenge to his honor. The challenger demanded acknowledgment and acceptance, but Scott refused, calling him a coward in a laughing exchange. The confrontation ended without violence or agreement.
In 1847 the Directors of German railways formed an association to harmonize administration. By 1850 it included 37 lines, rising to 110 by 1878 with Austro Hungarian Italian Dutch and Scandinavian railways joining. It has mediated rivalries, curbed ruinous competition, and enabled freight cars to move from southern Italy to northern Jutland without unloading.
A man named Samouz NussBauM killed his wife in Girardeau Missouri and shot himself, failing at first but ultimately dying. Police report the couple’s domestic tragedy and the suspect’s death at the scene.
The article recounts the 1830 Liverpool and Manchester railway opening with the Rocket engine winning a £500 prize, the Duke of Wellington and Mr. Huskisson involved, and a fatal accident. It notes 140 passengers carried to Manchester in two hours and compares to Maryland’s Baltimore and Ohio railroad beginnings in 1828 with horse cars and one locomotive.
A Philadelphia correspondent recalls a North Carolina school where a 12 year old colored boy says he does not want to go to school because they hurry him so. The piece contrasts overworked youth with a lax approach to life amid national debates about education and labor.
A Frenchman theorizes tobacco smoke makes fowl flesh pale and tender. He burns caporal in a fowl-house, a chicken eats it, becomes nicotine poisoned. A thief who eats the bird suffers violent pains and is saved after medical treatment.
In Lexington Virginia James Johnson a well known man bet he could out eat fruit at breakfast. Silas Jones and Peter Lindsay joined. Johnson won by eating a watermelon a half a dozen peaches twelve bunches of grapes and other fruit. He fell ill about an hour later and died the same evening.
The Clermont Courier advertises legal and transient ads at 1.00 per word for first insertion and 0.50 for each additional insertion. Yearly reductions are offered. Business cards up to six lines cost 4.00 per year.
A garbled collection of old sayings and names, including light remarks about vaccination, a horse sale price, a duke’s gift, and odd anecdotes. The piece mentions a shoemaker, an heir with $300,000, and a perilous incident where a man’s head is struck, suggesting a jumble of unrelated excerpts from a period source.
A Kentuckian captured by Indians after a massacre at Blueprint survives a year in captivity. His wife, believing him dead, moves on with another until a rifle crack proclaims his return. Nine years later he dies in St. Clair's defeat, and the widow remarries him.
Mrs Joblink presses for a California trip while Mr Joblink computes timing. She pleads for four weeks, he offers to start tomorrow and tears erupt as she accuses him of wanting her to leave. The scene ends with a raucous, celebratory invitation among friends.
A parliamentary division at a supreme crisis in James’s struggle shows the Earl of Midlothian bribing a voter. Captain Kendal, mourning his brother, accepts a £700 yearly stipend to secure his vote, an act Onslow views as saving the nation. The piece also offers a domestic remedy recipe and stray garbled lines about radish tea.
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