15 Oct 1857
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Newspaper
The Clermont Courier
Location
Batavia, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Oct 15, 1857
Page
1
A reflective poem warns that fortune shifts and ranks rise and fall. The speaker urges humility, caution toward pride, and consideration of others, noting that today’s top may become tomorrow’s bottom as fate reshapes status and wealth.
A reflective poem speaks of a personal treasured volume of memories kept on each heart's shelf. It contrasts bright childhood pages with tenfold more pages bathed in tears, suggesting enduring sorrow alongside joy.
Charged as a diabolical initiation rite, the discourse warns members of the Sixth Degree of the Temple that faithlessness brings hellish punishment while fidelity grants heavenly reward. It portrays skeletons and burning lakes as consequences of treachery, urging unwavering devotion to Mormonism and urging brotherly support, favors, and suppression of other loyalties.
In Congress, Judge Dorsey of Maryland and Samuel P. Carson of North Carolina argued over constituent literacy and national intelligence. Dorsey's humorous reply recalled events from 1812 to 1814 and a tale of tar, turpentine, and a single reader, ending with a satirical scene of the President's arrival and a town landlord's quizzical inquiry.
The excerpt discusses using black sulphur and lime dust, tobacco-water, and damp skin treatments to eradicate parasites in fowls and parrots. It then shifts to a historical survey of ancient fortunes, listing sums attributed to Croesus, Seneca, Tiberius, Vespasian, Milo, Caesar, Cleopatra, and Lucullus, with notable extravagant costs and purchases.
A parliamentary return on East India shows British territories covering about 1 400 576 square miles with 131 990 101 residents in British states and 87 920 247 in native areas. French and Portuguese possessions total 1 204 square miles with 1 749 489 occupants.
A duel between a Frenchman and an American ends when the Yankee agrees to buy the other's shot for a thousand pounds after the Frenchman fails to hit. The story riffs into a comic label on preserves and a locomotive joke about a girl who traveled fifty miles on a railroad and finished by carriage.
The text recalls Campbell’s years after conversion marked by doubt and inner conflict. It mentions a letter to John Newton, the shift from self outward focus to trusting in Jesus, and the enduring peace found in the gospel, contrasting worldly comforts with the eternal foundation in Christ.
A lengthy, damaged text laments aging believers and urges restraint with youthful passion. It contrasts enduring life in Christ with pressure to abandon sinful works, invoking biblical promises and memory to guide conduct.
A grocer urges equal treatment of all worshippers regardless of status. A boy explains delays caused by others cleaning butter hairs and motes. The passage notes the moral aim of hospitality and the boy’s remark about quality control, ending with a remark about a man who impressed a coquette and a patent for stone cutting.
A tale recalls young Joseph Buckminster at age three crossing the Piscataqua ferry with his mother while his father waits on the opposite shore. The child’s trust and love for his father become a talisman against fear, urging readers to learn from a trusting heart.
A Minuella correspondent predicts the grasshopper invasion will spread slowly across states this year. He warns midwestern and central regions may see early swarms and deposits along river valleys, with fears of widespread but uneven damage.
The notice lists bill of prices and rules for ads with rates per square, advance payment, and a 25 percent surcharge for late payment. It notes higher charges for special notices and double column advertisements, and states a 50 percent increase for ads loaded under Special Notices.
Tomac a Loyalsock resident sleeping on his canal boat deck near Highspire was struck by a bridge. The blow knocked loose a section of the skull but he remained conscious and rational after the accident. He was taken to Highspire for treatment by Dr Rutherford who replaced the bone and splinters. He returned home to Loyalsock.
A Philadelphia notice from February 22 1758 9 offers thirty shillings reward and costs for the thief of various garments and goods including silk stockings a Holland shirt a castor hat and leather breeches tied to a case against an Irishman named Child. The ad asks readers to capture the thief and bring them to justice to claim the reward.
The excerpt cites Lady Hester Stanhope valuing 13 million per year as pauper level and Louis Philippe reacting to John Jacob Astor’s 25 million fortune with shock at perceived poverty. The remarks illustrate differing ideas of comfort and wealth.
The passage notes the Dead Sea name from lack of livable life, describes a flat northern bottom with a depth near 2128 feet, and mentions saline mud and salt cubes. It claims expedition findings support Holy Land history of sunken cities as per Captain Livnch.
A fragment shows a father and son discussing a duck shot by the son, followed by a wife urging them to rise. The dialogue hints at family relations, pride, politeness, and morning routine disruptions in a rural household.
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