19 Oct 1848
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Newspaper
The Clermont Courier
Location
Batavia, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Oct 19, 1848
Page
1
Printed notice states payment terms: one dollar, or seventy five cents in advance, with two dollars after sixty days. Paper not discontinued until all arrears are paid. Advertisements charged at usual rates.
Charlottesville Advocate reports Hon. Wm. Rives defending his political stance during a four hour address in Albemarle county. He critiques the veto power, condemns the Mexican War as executive usurpation, praises Gen. Taylor and Gen. Cass before praising Fillmore, recalling Jeffersonian and Madisonian views on executive power.
Millard Fillmore, born January 7 1800 in Summer Hill Cayuga County New York, rises from wool carding to law and surveying with Judge Walter Wood support. He builds a Buffalo practice, enters state legislature, serves in Congress and on Ways and Means, then governs as comptroller.
The passage praises two figures as true Americans with temperaments and presences that command respect. It extols their integrity and education, predicts their broad electoral victory, and anticipates national prosperity under their leadership.
Readable excerpts describe Massachusetts and Connecticut tin pedlars trading with an old man and his wife, including clever ruses and Lafayette tin sales. The piece also covers scientific notes on Lake Superior fishes by Professor Agassis, then a London lecture on watchmaking and kit Carson frontiers life with vivid, dated travel sketches and encounters with Pah Utah and Diggers.
A rich man recalls poverty in boyhood and credits half an hour of work per day for wealth. He urges boys to finish tasks first, then play, to form a habit of thrift. Also notes readers’ dependence on local papers, urges subscription, and recounts a few anecdotes about an eagle gift to Paris and Mrs Partington’s daguerreotype. Widows of revolutionary soldiers married before 1860 will receive a pension.
A National Intelligencer statement alleges inmates at Washington's penitentiary are put to partisan activities and that the jailer, a presidential appointee, advocates for confederate interests. The author warns that public reform may soon confront these outrages and a looming crackdown by Old Zack.
A singular custom among innkeepers requires laying the full loaf on the table for the traveller's meal and when he rises, carrying it to the scale. He is charged only for the deficiency in weight that the leaf incurred under his hands.
A nostalgic line recalls how forgetting the fountain and the shade of childhood teaches one to lose the sweetest human heart impressions. The quote evokes longing for early joys and the innocence of youth.
The opening notes in Philadelphia indicate Bain has demonstrated a copying telegraph that can transmit an exact likeness of signatures, portraits, writings, or drawings. Bain aims to form a company in New York to exploit the invention.
A fiddler, rival of Paganini, assaulted by a St Louis justice of the peace. The squire faced prosecution, and the jury returned not guilty with a mangled verdict. The exchange ends with a humorous remark from Sambo about sun and shine.
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