23 Nov 1848
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Newspaper
The Clermont Courier
Location
Batavia, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Nov 23, 1848
Page
1
A printed publication lists subscription rates of one dollar seventy five cents if paid in advance or within sixty days, and two dollars if delayed. It states the paper will not be discontinued for arrears until all owed amounts are paid and mentions advertisements at usual rates.
A mournful scene centers on a dying child and a bereaved parent, with vivid religious and sentimental language, describing the final moments as the child slips away and is laid to rest, the parent seeking solace in faith and the hope of reunion. The excerpt emphasizes the child’s beauty, purity, and the inevitability of death.
The article traces cholera's many names and origins, detailing its modern Asiatic birth and early outbreaks from 1762 in Hindostan through the epic 1817 epidemic. It maps its global spread from Jessore to Calcutta, Bengal, Bombay, Ceylon, Malacca, Siam, Canton, and to Europe and the Americas, noting wide reach yet African exemption and late 1840s resurgence in India and Europe.
Rub the spots with animal fat then wrap the articles in thick paper for two or three days. Clean grease with soft flannel. Rub the spot with powdered rotten stone and sweet oil. Polish with powdered emery, then finish with finely powdered chalk or magnesia on soft leather.
A hungry man entered an open Dover Street house in Boston on Saturday and stole ten piping hot meat pies just taken from the oven. The incident highlights careless security and a small but sharp theft in the neighborhood.
In Belleview, Mary Wilson is sought by Squire Lindsey, but Joe Simmons, a village fool, wins her after a quilting bee scheme. Mary suspects harm after an eye incident but learns Joe deceived all, marrying her to become the village belle and claiming his eye was not blind.
Professor B Silli man Jr reports examinations of alluvial gold from the Chaudiere Valley in Canada. Lumps are smooth with quartz fragments, embedded in a detrital slate-like matrix. Mineralogy resembles Russian gold districts, suggesting potential for a rich auriferous region as a few tons yield about four dollars per ton. A Hunt's Magazine quote on labor and Sabbath ends the note.
The Pennsylvania Railroad now under construction from Harrisburg to Pittsburg will be 251 miles long, totaling 358 miles from Philadelphia to Pittsburg. It crosses Allegheny Mountains via Sugar Run Gap, descends Juniata Valley with low grades, and features easy curves. From Pittsburg to Cincinnati the railroad spans 333 miles via Mansfield Wooster and Columbus, or 495 miles by the river, with faster travel expected than steamboats.
An excerpt from Daniel Webster's speech in Fantail Hall Boston praising labor as a cornerstone of society. He rejects feudal and oppressive toil and lauds workers earning wages, building capital, educating children, worship, voting rights, and upholding the state. He declares his sympathies with American labor and vows support.
The article explains how insect lifespans relate to their food source. It notes caterpillars born and die with leaves, and some insects exist for only hours as ephemera. It describes a worm at river mouths that becomes a fly in a single day, emerging at six and dying by eleven at night.
Coleridge recalls meeting a stranger whose attentive, noninterrupting conversation earns him a favorable impression until a late apple dessert reveal shatters the illusion as the guest cries Them's the jock ies for me leading to a comic disappointment in diners.
The Hero, a powerful locomotive on the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, pulled a 192 car train on Tuesday last. The cars carried coal from Cumberland and flour from intermediate points, reported by witnesses to be the heaviest train ever seen on the road.
Mrs Partington observes that value remains fixed, noting her experience of paying the same amount for a dollar's worth of flour regardless of market price. The remark shows her wit about price perception in varied economic conditions.
The article laments shifting alignments as Ohio and South Carolina unite in policy, while New York and Pennsylvania align with Massachusetts and New England, and Boston Lexington Concord and Bunker Hill are cited as enduring symbols. It criticizes Free Soilers for causing sectional realignment and praises the West’s supposed freedom.
The article explains a gardener's technique for perpetual roses, arguing against allowing all blossoms in June. It advises pinching out each visible bud from mid May to mid June to conserve strength for afterbloom, resulting in large clusters of roses in July through October.
A reader disputes market pundits from the New York Herald claiming pork prices would remain inactive. The writer recalls two prior misreads and asserts their own pork share was active, contrasting with expected trends and pitching comments about pitch.
An Iowa speaker labels his opponent soulless mocking a birth death moment. He claims extensive inquiries show no one died in the hours before the opponent drew breath and asks citizens to draw the inference.
A quirky set of Victorian vignettes describes social acts at a public dinner. A quickcut on appearances, a church visit without funds, mediating a quarrel, bowing to a lady from an omnibus, and bringing a new hat to an evening party capture urban manners in brisk, wry strokes.
Parisian police have arrested a band of robbers led by a man who kept a ledger crediting each thief with stolen items and receipts. An engagement book listed theatres churches and other places to be visited on specific days by gang members.
A proverb notes that a man who can employ himself is never miserable while the idle suffer. It suggests solitary confinement with no work as the harshest punishment. The reflection contrasts industry with idleness and links purpose to well being.
A historical instruction describes preserving eggs for two years by mixing eight quarts of unstacked lime, half a pound of common salt, two ounces of cream tartar with water to float an egg, then sealing in a water-tight cask with the eggs.
A reflective passage extols fidelity, faithfulness and truth as the noblest virtues and essential endowments of the human mind, framing them as supreme moral qualities.
A child’s joke asks why orphans are the happiest children. The reply notes they have no mother to spank them, delivering a small, humorous moment.
An 18th or 19th century Whig Review piece tells of a lawyer who billed a client for “watching the night and thinking of his bust.” The tale contrasts vanity with virtue and talent, noting that true qualities accompany one to the grave despite earthly fame.
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