22 Oct 1847
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Newspaper
The Clermont Courier
Location
Batavia, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Oct 22, 1847
Page
1
A poem titled My Life is Like the Summer Rose appears with publication notes in a 19th century newspaper. The piece uses sea tree and desert imagery to muse on mortal fragility, ending with a lament that no one shall mourn the speaker. The page prints subscription terms and ad notices alongside the verse.
A Columbus gathering recalls Captain Riley and a Cincinnati frontier story. A senator narrates a fierce chase from a river settlement with three hostile tribesmen, a gun misfire, and a miraculous escape toward Mill Creek, ending with a dramatic, humorous misfire during a dramatic horse pursuit.
A New Bedford Mercury correspondent in California reports about 3,000 emigrants from the United States, with roughly half arriving last season. He cites a native population of Upper California near 23,000, including about 4,000 of high character and 19,000 neophytes. He thinks California will become a grazing country, noting extreme summer dryness hampers fertility unless irrigation is used.
The piece cites Mrs Partington opposing the magnetic telegraph calling it blasphemy and an outrage on the highway. It recalls her quip about not trusting letters, fearing family secrets and a world exposed by the "lighting" across a wire. The item ends with a digression on ball yarn and skein.
A reflective meditation on death's consequences, arguing life length matters only for its outcomes and that individuals can regulate their own fate to seek a better end.
The Duchess of Choiseul Praslin was found mortally attacked in the Hotel Sebastiani after a thwarted strangling and stabbing attempt by her husband the Duke de Praslin Choiseul. Suspected, he later killed himself with arsenic as investigators charged him with murder. The case drew in magistrates and peers, revealing a web of courtly intrigue and scandal surrounding France’s ruling elite.
A Dayton Transcript report notes three youths from Union County traveling to the Blind Asylum in Columbus. They belong to a family with eight members, five of whom were born blind, attributed by the paper to repeated intermarriage among blood relatives.
Robert K. Dodge a 21 year old printer, after weeks of Millerism induced derangement, died from self inflicted throat cuts and exhaustion. He had attempted poisoning earlier and urged fellow workers to quit their jobs, claiming the end of all things was near.
Watches, remarkable for their extreme thinness, are now manufactured at Geneva. They are not thicker than a line and a sixteenth, just over a twelfth of an inch. The thinness does not affect movement, which remains full, achieved by placing the hands at the side rather than over the works, making the case circumference larger.
A group of about four dozen Whigs from Dayton traveled to Cincinnati to vote, facing a storm but advancing their duty. They left at 3 a.m. Tuesday and returned by yesterday, urging locals to vote or face public reproach. An English surgeon advertises an Organic Vibrator device claimed to restore hearing for the deaf.
Two married women of Nawvoo are shot dead by their husbands under regular but melancholy circumstances. Earlier, Hatch a nearly ninety year old pensioner killed his wife by mistake while aiming at intruders, and soon after Telley killed his wife as she entered a rear door late at night, mistaken for an anti Mormon associate.
Accounts from Greenland describe an unexampled mild winter with little snow nationwide except the far north and brief cold in April. Natives’ fisheries were successful while foreigners were only intermittently so. Iceland also saw an unusually mild winter, especially in the north and east, with heavy rains and snow in the south and west. Icelandic fisheries were very productive.
The Ogdensburg republican notes Martin Thatcher of St Lawrence County faced bankruptcy years ago and, after repayment of the last dollar, was legally relieved by the bankruptcy act following his election as county clerk.
A note of ninety days from an Easter buyer exposed a fraud by a man who claimed to sell fading love letter ink as a safeguard in marriage promises. The purchaser paid for a hundred kits but the promissory note failed to honor the sale, revealing a deliberate deception.
A reader notes several patent cards pasted on tombstones in the Presbyterian Grounds. The writer suspects the placards serve as beacons warning visitors away from quacks and similar practitioners. The action is described as a dubious act possibly meant as philanthropy by a humane impostor.
A distracted note discusses an English remedy for throat distemper using roasted pulp blended with tobacco and spirits, to be bound to the throat at the onset of illness. The historic method reflects 19th century traditional medical practice and cautions about its application.
Frefith company gains government support from Newea to begin an ambitious rail project across the Isthmus of Panama. The move signals a rapid start to the cross isthmus transportation link as officials approve early steps.
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