22 Nov 1876
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Newspaper
The Clermont Courier
Location
Batavia, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Nov 22, 1876
Page
1
The report surveys past close presidential votes in the Electoral College, a mid-1800s steamer mutiny near Cuba with Cuban refugees aboard, and a London Standard Vienna note on Russian mobilization. It also covers the Centennial Exhibition totals, a Kentucky bridge project, a dying preacher’s reflections, an ancient Versailles orange tree, a San Francisco theater panic, and a man’s claim on a three-year-old car.
A poem recalling an old pine and walnut tree near Newcastle by the Kittery river. The verse pairs memory with sea wind and war imagery as a pine mast in a imagined battle, the walnut and pine linked as friends, and a final mythic image of the Admiral’s coffin carved from the walnut.
Milly Harland and Tony Tubs face hardship in a tale of poor families seeking work. Tony vows to fund his mother’s soft bed and better clothes by making wooden toys and toothpicks. Mr. Sylvester helps set up Tony’s tent store on Main Street, spawning a thriving small business.
The current Baptist totals in New York State reach 105232 with one third in city churches. City churches supply three quarters of benevolent fund money. About ten thousand were baptized last year. Ole Bull sailed again for Europe surprising friends who expected a Boston winter stay.
Across items from politics to culture a varied snapshot includes a note that no candidate won a majority, a Lancaster woman Anna Bruner dies at 108, a Turkic Paris resident faces a scandal, Joseph Smith Jr. preaches in California denying Brigham Young, Sioux customs on mirrors and sacred possessions, royal fortune figures in Louis Napoleon era wealth, Broadway singers vie for spots, a Noah’s Ark joke, a Mrs Susan Ellis Laura Smith wills body to surgeons, and a portrait of Tennyson at sixty six with hay fever.
The New York World notes that a man who gives up his seat to a woman in a crowded streetcar often ends up stranded, mocked by the conductor, and comes to see humanity as hollow. The piece warns that such courtesy can yield a cynical realization about strangers. Also mentions a circulating report of a U.S. note to Spain over religious persecution and potential formal protest with Britain.
The World argues that in Texas Louisiana Mississippi Alabama etc the shotgun policy and intimidation drove Black voters from polls. It contends organized violence propped Tilden and Hendricks, while Republicans faced suppression, militarized policing, and ballot manipulation in several Southern states including North Carolina. The piece condemns Democrats for eroding federal authority and harming Black rights.
Partial OCR fragment notes political discussion and mentions polling places and negro voters in Raleigh. The readable text hints at a Raleigh letter criticizing or describing advocates and actions around elections and polling concerns.
Washington Special to the Inter Ocean reports Caleb Cushing doubts a presidential stalemate can endure. He discusses possible vacancies if no candidate is declared by March, the role of Congress, and the need to summon a remedy under constitutional principles.
A 19th century political screed argues Delaware's state voting results were achieved by fraud through unlawful omission of names from assessment lists. It cites thousands disfranchised, lists two names, and alleges Democratic leaders knew and allowed it.
A stark meditation on how ignorance and economic hardship afflict the nation and state, condemning the continued existence of wrongs without apparent remedies. The piece voices collective guilt and calls for attention to the struggles of the poor and marginalized.
The Gazette lists 25 U.S. Senate terms expiring next March with current members, their likely successors, and the new legislatures' party leanings. It notes nine seats already filled, five Democrats and four Republicans, and projects party balance depending on outcomes in Louisiana, South Carolina, and Florida.
The piece argues that Democrats seek to disfranchise black field hands in Louisiana and Florida, claiming such moves betray the Constitution. It asserts that universal amnesty and impartial suffrage were keys to Reconstruction and that Northern victors must defend black voters against disfranchisement by white elites.
The Republican party can take great pride in its Presidential candidate. From nomination to election his conduct has been discreet and honorable. He did not seek the nomination nor manipulate the process but served Ohio as chief magistrate in Columbus.
Legal and transient advertisements priced at 1.00 per square for the first insertion and 0.50 for each additional insertion. Yearly discounts available. Business cards limited to six lines at 9.60 per year.
A reflective poem pleads for a simple memorial, asking that no grand statue or fame be carved. The speaker desires only a quiet tribute from Love, a fresh flower, and a silent tear to ease longing and keep memory alive.
A miscellany of quips and anecdotes from Wyart chairs to cholera jokes, plus a verse on autumn days and reflections on genius. The column riffs on gifts, dignity, and a young woman killed en route to marriage, with quotes from Chambers and Hazlitt and a Norristown Herald note on a “pocket gymnasium.”
The notice from Louis W. Cuffee and Richard Hasbrook, fired from Orlando Hand’s Bridgehampton farm for not voting the Tilden and Hendricks ticket, offers themselves as reliable farm hands. One seeks a new winter tenement after dismissal. The text notes the workers were labeled farm hands by employers seen as respectable.
A sailor returning from the Mediterranean reports a rough English Channel crossing with driving sleet fog and east winds. He quips that the weather is foul indeed, contrasting it with calm blue skies.
An experimental two garment fire suit designed like a diver's outfit lets firemen enter burning structures. The inner rubber suit and outer leather layer, with a helmet and air supply, create pressure to separate the outer shell, supply fresh air, and vent smoke. It includes two hose branches for blasting water and directing streams.
In New York City two deaf mutes spoke on politics to a largely hearing impaired audience. The event drew attendees who had never heard a sound, highlighting accessibility concerns and civic engagement among the deaf community.
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