27 Nov 1878
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Newspaper
The Clermont Courier
Location
Batavia, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Nov 27, 1878
Page
1
The Clermont Courier lists a yearly subscription at 51.50 in advance with 2 dollars paid within the year. Publisher credit shows John R. Woodlief as the agent.
A narrator recalls Willie, her brown eyed schoolmate with bright cheeks and a backward hat. She cherishes pressed leaves from his dictionary, recalls shared study and protection, and grieves as Willie is missing, then dead, with years passing since that sad farewell.
A Cincinnati Enquirer sketch recounts Quantrell’s guerrillas who joined Louisiana Governor Allen in forming state scouts in 1863. Joe Lee led six men in a failed spring 1864 attempt to seize General Grant at Milliken’s Bend, marching through marshes before alarm and pursuit forced retreat.
A meditation on the craft of typography and the printer’s case. The article links the arranged type to poetry and news, describing how each letter shapes meaning, from wedding to burial notices, and lauds the art preservative in a world where ink binds time.
The Coal Trade Review notes rapid settlement of the Western country and a growing fuel need. Kansas coal fields in Bourbon Crawford and Cherokee Counties yield thick veins and plentiful output from Fort Scott Cherokee and Carbon Pittsburg shafts. Lead mines near Cherokee County outshine Galena and Mineral Point with Shot Creek mines, while nearby 10 lead mines span thirty square miles.
A Liverpool ship's log records a Welshman named Owen torn to pieces by a fifteen-foot shark off Java while four companions swam nearby. The account extols sharks as vulture like predators, notes their size and danger, and describes hunting methods from harpoons to explosive torpedo bait used by the Royal Navy.
An elderly inventor known as Apple John dies in a New York cellar after thirty years of solitary toil on a perpetual motion idea. He kept an apple stand to fund his work and found happiness through Hope, the companion he believed would become his bride. He died with a smile, his decaying fruits and a dream beside him.
New York correspondence recounts a famed surgeon performing an amputation amid crowd praise. A spectator flagged a dangerous bleed but the surgeon pressed on, vanity eclipsing warning signs. The boy died next morning, and the surgeon mourned, realizing pride had killed him.
Readers note a blend of humor and preaching in Beecher's sermons as described by the Free Press. The satire and moral instruction mingle, leaving some unsure which element dominates the other in his talks.
A collage of brief items reports on crimes in India with three Hindoo suspects likely to face hanging, European royal intrigues, Egyptian mummies turned to paper proposed by the Khedive, and notes on German socialists, Sweden’s Crown Prince, and Berlin’s crowded cellars. It also covers American crime, a Michigan court ruling on a married woman’s lending, executions and a humane death observation, billiard house humor, Iowa prairie fires death, Western hardship stories, Napoleon’s Egyptian expedition survivor Darrey, and his reminiscences of Kleber’s execution.
A collection of quotations on intellect gender, self-control, moral conduct, criticism, and human life. Blackwell argues women’s intellect is not inferior, Longfellow reflects on reading life, and the author muses on critique, self-improvement, and the spice of life arising from uncertainty.
In a Norristown Herald blurb, a writer muses that if two mosquitoes aboard the Ark had become troublesome and bloodthirsty, landing on Noah’s nose fifteen times a minute, Noah might have jumped from sleep and frescoed the boat’s ceiling with their gore.
The Enquirer recalls a spate of disappearances in Cincinnati from before 1860. A young clerk vanishes after a country trip. a scalp is found but claimed as dissections. shoe-maker John Guechs and his wife vanish leaving a double disappearance. Melissa Shane, a fourteen year old, may have fallen to Barking. Leonard Whitcomb vanishes from Burnet House after a brief cigar visit.
In Eureka Nevada a married couple famed for virtue and thriving children face a perilous rift. The vanished first husband, long believed dead, discovers his wife and children in their prosperous new life yet cannot reveal himself, choosing silent endurance like a modern Enoch Arden.
The Boston Advertiser notes eighty five vessels connected to US ports were totally lost or missing in October. Among them were three steamers, three ships, fourteen brgs, seven brigs, and fifty eight schooners with a total vessel value of 1 162 000 dollars. The John Bramhall lies stranded off Little Gull Island, with over a million insured but likely felt mainly by foreign offices.
The Elmira Gazette muses on courtship and vanity, warning men to observe nature's truth before proposing. It quips about a woman's wardrobe, implying social expectations and the contrast between appearance and reality with a playful, cheeky tone.
An enterprise writer recounts oversized figures from Britain and a local note on Navarro, noting a giant of the past and predicting Navarro may become the fattest man on record if his growth continues.
Francis Asbury, pioneer Methodist bishop in America, lifelong bachelor, explains celibacy with calls to preach at sixteen and travels spanning thousands of miles. He notes a sixty four dollar salary, supporting his English mother, and pawns to aid pioneers. Stories include dodging marriage among circuits and a Kentucky night at a log tavern refusing whisky. A ferryman in Ohio once ferried ministers free, declaring ministers and babies should not be charged.
A collection of wry anecdotes on forgetfulness among various groups. Notes include forgetful husbands and wives about names buttons and umbrellas, missed teeth brushing, mistaken change, love struck youths, and polite social missteps. An Esquimaux custom on vendetta is described with stealthy nightly killings and facial tattooing marking the avenger.
Rates listed for legal and transient ads at 1.00 per square of ten lines for first insertion and 0.50 for each further insertion. Yearly reductions offered. Business cards up to six lines priced at 86.00 per year.
A poem recalls a famed editor who rewrote others work from his own couch by night without clothing, performing many edits and sometimes taking credit. The piece laments unpaid writing by editors and questions originality as the editor’s own verses proliferate under his influence.
A collage of witty snippets and short anecdotes from various papers heat up a day with jokes about politicians, professors, and poets. Curious exchanges, punny gags, and cartoons reflect light editorial wit in a spread of humorous items and civic sketches.
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