13 Oct 1880
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Newspaper
The Clermont Courier
Location
Batavia, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Oct 13, 1880
Page
1
The Glermont Courier lists its publication schedule and pricing terms. Editor and professor Chas W Pegg is noted. subscription is $1.50 annually in advance with renewal conditions if unpaid within the year.
Senator Booth of California denounces the Democratic nomination of Hancock as either conversion or hypocrisy. He argues Republicans preserved the Union, condemns Democratic obstruction, lauds Lincoln era gains, emancipation, and asserts Democrats would ruin national progress if restored to power.
A partisan call urges voters to back the Republican ticket to block the Democratic party’s alleged history of unfaithfulness and attempts to undermine election laws. It defends Reconstruction era actions, attacks Democratic leadership, and praises General Garfield while criticizing Missouri loyalty claims and urging strong turnout to ensure fraud protection.
A Chicago Tribune note discusses Judge Trumbull's claim that Missouri provided more Union troops than some small Republican states and identifies flaws in that assertion.
Washington special to the Chicago Tribune quotes a South Carolina Republican noting the North must vote solidly for Garfield or the Solid South will control the outcome. The piece discusses census claims, southern voting power, and Confederate veterans rallied for any effort to counter Hancock. It warns against tributes to the Union and flags while urging loyalty in the South.
The Pullman Palace Car Company proposes replacing silver and nickel trim with oroide on its cars. The new finish is described as resembling fire-gilt, wearing like gold, and resisting tarnish.
A long report on spontaneous combustion cites Professor Weissman and numerous cases Acharcoal in a Leipzig outbuilding ignited by wind and snow A fire risk from wood ashes and potash fumes in damp conditions Linseed oil lampblack and oilcloth fires in factories and a Virginia farmers oilcloth roll A War Department knapsack batch burned in Philadelphia A maple of hay oatmeal and cornmeal spontaneous fires and a Lancaster cedar piece that ignited after cleaning dust A Leadville bear encounter ends with Campbell injured but surviving in a dramatic frontier tale
At Agra central prison pigeons drink from a tank guarded by freshwater turtles that bite off heads of birds alighting nearby. Pigeons learn to skim the water, land away from the edge, then dash for quick sips. Also notes entertaining mynahs mimicking fowl calls and a remark on American visitors to the Tower of London. The piece ends with a reflective line on happiness and sorrow.
A Detroit Free Press piece ribbing housewives on the endless canning season and the looming winter supply crisis as 30 million jars and 5 000 pounds per family strain households. It notes husbands tire of requests for more jars and sugar while empires of preserves shift from peaches to tomatoes and beyond.
Nantucket correspondent recalls Captain Wood recounting being swallowed and crushed by a whale then freed as the creature died. He lost his scalp scar and a lump on the side. others note the boat was knocked aside and the crew feared death. A separate note mentions a Middletown Vermont savings bank nest-egg yielding eight children $98.95 each after 40 years.
Solon Robinson travels 1000 miles to Juniata County Pennsylvania to view a hillside orchard on the Juniata River near Thompson. He notes 15,000 peach trees 10,000 quince trees and 9,000 Siberian crab-apple trees with minimal disease and the first full peach crop being harvested July 21 this year. The land, formerly misrepresented as iron ore, yielded fruit instead under owner H Bradford of Connecticut River Yankee.
The new Mississippi code effective November 1, 1880 ends the disabilities of married women. It grants wives full property rights, capacity to sue and be sued, and to contract as if not married, abolishes dower and courtesy, and allows mutual inheritance with protections for dissenting spouses. The change is noted as radical and likely to attract attention in other states.
Jaen Geer, a hunter and trapper from Basket region, works year round catching game and in summer kills rattlesnakes for oil. He uses a crotched stick to subdue snakes and removes venom to keep or extract oil selling at one dollar per ounce. Geer claims strong cures for bites and notes a productive year with nearly a hundred snakes killed in three months. New York Times
An orator at a temperance mass meeting derides U S alcohol intake with shocking figures while a secretary humorously explains a personal habit of occasional tonics and beer. The Burlington blankeye and Detroit Free Press snippets append a satire tone about abstinence and a German learning anecdote.
Legal and transient ads cost 41.00 per square for ten lines. Each additional insertion is 0.50. Yearly advertisers receive a liberal reduction. Business cards over six lines priced at 86.00 per year.
German archaeologists report a near complete antediluvian rhinoceros skeleton found six feet deep in the Breigerthal near Schellenberg. Dr Baltzer, excavating in Nordhausen, describes a towering specimen with a near intact jaw and teeth, though the skull show signs of surface weathering. The skeleton, once assembled, will be shown to the High School of Madgeburg.
The retired United States Supreme Court justice Harlan is described as passionately fond of football. The report suggests this as a valuable pointer for young men aiming to call on his daughters.
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