13 Oct 1859
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Newspaper
The Clermont Courier
Location
Batavia, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Oct 13, 1859
Page
1
John Phenix recounts a New York Central Railroad episode in a Knickerbocker Magazine letter. He depicts a guard defending the ladies car at each car change and his heroic yet humorous attempt to accompany a pretty passenger, revealing social tensions and a jab at railway etiquette.
The Clermont Courier notes the fair's Floral Hall dazzles with over one hundred cut flower varieties, hothouse plants, art, and a vast fruit display including apples, pears, grapes, peaches, and quinces. Readers urge longer exhibition, praise Floral Superintendent L C Moore, and question visitors about keeping the displays open longer.
Steamship North American carries China news. Admiral Hope's squadron attempted to pass up the Peiho River toward Pekin but faced 20,000 Chinese troops and heavy fire from forts. Gunboats were disabled, and landing parties suffered severe losses. Only about 100 of 1000 men reached the ditches. most fell to Chinese fire and mud. Russian features noted among Chinese gunners.
In Athens Georgia a grocer known as Uncle Jonny Byers faces a comic calamity when a patron tricks him into mixing soda powders with blue and white packets. Despite repeated attempts the grocer ingests the dangerous brew, belches, and swears to learn the proper recipe, while the prankster ridicules his misread labels.
In a tense scene at a grocery, Johnny and Bob trade taunts over alcohol and payment. Johnny boasts the drink is safe for small minds, while Bob exits before the grocer recovers, muttering insults as he goes.
A boastful gentleman inflates a fox tale until his servant Sam keeps jogging him with figures of merit. After quarter miles and hundred yard lengths are stretched, the teller cries out in frustration that his fox cannot have any tail at all.
A workman felled by noxious gas while working a Barr street well was rescued after the foreman dropped lime and water into the shaft. A second worker planned to descend but was prevented, saving both men from harm. The recovered man surfaced with no ill effects.
The Joker, famed for mischief, accosted a Courier Job Office employee asking if Bible printing could be done. A price and a rush job followed until the joker saw Genesis pages in type, prompting him to cancel the arrangement after paying damages. Moral: beware.
The Summit Co Beacon reports Dovatas at Wooster criticizing a Harper's Magazine review as anonymous. It cites his claim of 130 speeches defending the Dred Scott decision and accuses the author of falsehood and calumny, denouncing anonymous attacks on a high office.
A fragmentary meditation contrasts divine mercy with human neglect. The speaker laments a dying, neglected spirit seeking sustenance and compassion as biblical promises echo from sickness to eternity, recalling Jesus’ tender care amid decay and isolation.
The Albany Journal reports a lawsuit in Albany where an undertaker sues a lawyer over six rosewood items valued at 250 dollars. The trial details a humorous exchange about paying with pudding and a crowded inside, with commentary on busybodies and public perceptions.
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