16 Nov 1848
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Newspaper
The Clermont Courier
Location
Batavia, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Nov 16, 1848
Page
1
Printed by Andrew St. Gest outlines subscription terms. One dollar seventy five cents prepaid or within sixty days, two dollars after. Paper not discontinued until all arrears are paid. advertisements charged at usual rates.
The poem recounts Pocahontas expressing longing for a native vale as she lies dying. She asks that her grave be placed in a green vale beneath woods, with streams and birds, near her fathers’ sleep under a green oak shade where her resting place may be.
The narrator describes dawn views over the Moab mountains and Quarantania, a Jordan River crossing from Rihhab, and a perilous Costigan expedition. they note the Dead Sea’s turbid water, lack of fish certainty, buoyancy reports, and a reflective farewell over a mournful, beautiful landscape.
In Brownville Maine a large slate quarry with a sixty yard vein and over one hundred yards wide is described as inexhaustible. A tunnel sixty to eighty yards channels water to the river Pleasant. Welch workers contract the slate and a Brownville slate factory produces writing slates alongside roofing slates, with ten to twelve thousand made last winter and more expected as the quarry expands.
An orchestra member from the Italian troupe at Chesnut Street Theatre won the affections and abducted a wealthy West Walnut Street heiress, the only daughter of a prominent family. The eloper is described as a needy adventurer notable mainly for his abundant facial hair.
In a November dawn engagement near Stein Mortier attacks a Russian position with a single division and is cut off by Doctoroff. Dupont advances to relieve, and Russian and French forces engage in a brutal, protracted fight in a narrow Danube gorge. Mortier is killed in the brutal assault but inspires his troops before the final defeat.
Reports describe an enormous elephant named Tipo Sultan during a Raymond & Waring circus traverse through Harlem. The creature used its trunk to engulf a visible stock of apples and gingerbread from a poor old lady’s stand, breaking the table and chair and tossing the vendor several feet from the road.
Time conquers all as Canterbury rises a Jewish Synagogue on the site of the old enemy house. The piece proclaims a prophecy fulfilled that the Jewish people shall possess the gate of their enemies, with foes swept from the earth.
From various experiments it is established that saw dust soaked in a mixture of concentrated sulphuric and nitric acids and then washed and dried will explode like gunpowder and may unleash greater force if mishandled. The finding is noted as a remarkable late discovery.
The Moniteur reports eight month imports and exports for France with August imports at 8,656,022f versus 11,500,000f last year. Duties for eight months fall to 51,000,000f from 89,000,000f and over 100,000,000f in 1846. linen, hemp, iron, coal, and zinc see declines while exports remain strong, led by soap sugar machines and silk tissue. The Masonic Fraternity reports a surge in new members in six months, unmatched since its founding, and a humorous quip about a lazy man hearing counsel each morning ends with dinner arriving.
The Quarterly Review of the Methodist Church envisions West Coast industry expanding to Ohio riversides. It cites cheap fuel, proximity to cotton regions, vast markets, and population growth as drivers of future manufactories and economic fortune. A French man explains gout and rheumatism with a vice analogy in a aside.
An Atlantic hurricane lifted a plantation overseer’s house on Antigua, flipped it after 80 feet, and left a mother and child with only minor injuries. Queen Victoria’s Highland hat veil style inspired fashion adoption across the region despite heat. A Virginia Synod discussion contrasts acts with resolutions, citing biblical Acts.
The Christian Advocate and Journal reports that the completed minutes of the 1845 annual conferences of the Methodist Episcopal Church northern division show an increase of 4,508 members.
The Washington Monument is about 10 feet above ground and the Association holds funds to raise it about 100 feet. It should stand for a long time at that height unless Congress provides an appropriation to finish the work.
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