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Newspaper
The Clermont Courier
Location
Batavia, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Nov 17, 1875
Page
1
The article notes France keeping a veteran army in prime condition and 150000 young men in temporary active service ready for mobilization. It also mentions clever Esquimaux bear traps, detailed British Museum staff salaries, the Pope's household size, and sulfur production costs and Wyoming deposits.
The Fifth Auditor's report shows foreign minister costs at 336 600 dollars and consular fees yielding 149 000 dollars in surplus. Internal revenue collectors total 2 185 000 dollars in costs with 103 million dollars collected. Spirit stamps 62 700 000, tobacco products 36 000 000, beer storage 5 400 000, special stamps 10 400 000, adhesive stamps 3 600 000. Miscellaneous state department expenditures include 19 900 for Hawaiian Majesty and 1 930 000 for awards to British subjects.
Five brigands stopped a Saragossa railway train and relieved about six hundred passengers of valuables and pocket-money. Three men waited outside while two moved through the cars, aided by the mistaken belief a larger ambush lurked nearby. American sailors were among those robbed and did not resist.
A battered verse narrates a boy on a burning deck with perilous humor as flames lick his clothes and coins pop from his toes. It contrasts with a brutal Tibetan punishment where a criminal is buried neck deep and forced to endure horrific tortures.
In Plainfield Connecticut a mill owned by Sampson Almy & Co and leased to Whipple & Fairbanks burned, satinets production halted, picker and dye houses saved. Loss about 360000 with 40000 insurance. Other fires and incidents across Kansas Missouri and abroad noted with multiple fatalities and recoveries.
The Messenger reports finding part of the pilot house and survivor Henry L Jelly from the Pacific after it sailed from Victoria and foundered near Cape Flattery. A list of passengers includes many Puget Sound and Victoria residents. The wreck, ship value, cargo, and insurance details are given along with other ships reported lost and a large summary of internal revenue data.
The Commissioner of Internal Revenue releases a fiscal year end report for 1875. It compares British excise taxes to U S duties, lists total receipts from 1861 to 1874, and notes increases due to the 1875 act on spirits tobacco and banks. It explains delayed distillery withdrawals before the new rate and provides state by state revenue totals.
The New York Herald prints a telegraphic synopsis from Stanley in Lon don asserting Victoria Nyanza is a single lake not five, with Speke noting two islands are peninsulas. Stanley recounts clashes with slave dealers, a 1,000-strong attack, and a naval review of 84 canoes with 2,500 rowers at Msagura. The King of Utesa rules 2,000,000 subjects and presides over festivities and military displays.
The London barmaid contest drew twenty eight entrants with several pretty contenders. Contestants wore ravishing costumes while propriety, neat dress, and friendly manner guided prize awards. Forty prizes totaling £500 were given for decorum and work ethic.
An immense prairie fire has been raging since October 138 in the neighborhood of Capt. Pollock's camp in the Foot Hills north of Laramie. It began near Beaver Creek head and burned around his camp, destroying hay and grazing options. Both sides of the road to Fort Laramie and the road to Red Cloud up to Buffalo Gap are burned.
The piece argues Mississippi’s Democratic sweep was achieved through intimidation and violence against Black voters, alleging a deliberate White League strategy to suppress Republican turnout. It condemns reported massacres, threats, and organized terror as decisive to the result, while accusing Northern allies of downplaying the brutality.
The article notes Republican dominance in Mississippi since the war with large white and colored populations. It cites census figures and election margins, stating Republicans carried the state by 38,089 in 1869 and Grant’s 34,887 majority in 1872, implying a broad Republican majority.
The New York Times surveys party gains and losses revealing Democrats held 17 states, Republicans 17, with New York giving strong legislative majorities to Republicans. Democrats lose key states like Pennsylvania Ohio New Jersey Massachusetts New Hampshire and Wisconsin. Republicans regain New York and gain in Maryland and other areas amid controversy in Baltimore. Democratic advances in Mississippi are marred by tactics that threaten southern progress.
The article notes the Albert Hall organ built in 1870 as the world’s largest. It has 138 stories, 14 manuals, about 40 000 metal pipes, steam-powered wind, and thirteen couplers for organ sections. Also mentioned is a Cape Colony trap-door spider found in tree bark, hard to detect when its nest is closed.
The document shows Mexico's total debt at 9 522 501 86 dollars and interior debt pared down to 29 257 998 22 dollars in the liquidation.
The Clermont Courier advertises legal and all transient notices at 1.00 per square (ten lines) for first insertion and 0.50 for each additional. Yearly ads receive a liberal reduction. Business cards up to six lines cost 6.00 per year.
A nostalgic poem contrasts playful hints of spring and summer with a fading late autumn scene. It lists shifted time themes from apple time to berry time and cherry time, finishing with images of ripe fruit and a melancholy, lonely earth.
A collage of wry maxims and anecdotes on money honesty manners and misadventure from varied voices. It notes Horrof ill gain as loss warns against debtors and praises polite conversation while sharing light vignettes from daily life and a transport of western ideas.
The Edinburgh Review July argues Lucretia Borgia faced four centuries of calumny with little proof behind vile rumors. Sismondi showed the scandals unlikely. The piece argues public judgment often clings to lies, noting the enduring power of slander and the difficulty of erasing its stain on reputations.
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