Edited and Published Weekly by A. M. Gest
The item notes weekly publication duties credited to A. M. Gest, indicating regular editorial work and periodical distribution. It emphasizes the weekly nature and the responsible publisher’s name.
23 Oct 1841
Page 1
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Newspaper
The Clermont Courier
Location
Batavia, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Oct 23, 1841
Page
1
The item notes weekly publication duties credited to A. M. Gest, indicating regular editorial work and periodical distribution. It emphasizes the weekly nature and the responsible publisher’s name.
The tale centers on Col. Gilbert De Lacy and his wife Ida McClelland and their children Adele and the newly returned Adelina. It traces past losses, fragile health, and the fraught marriage of De Lacy to his ailing wife, foreshadowing strife and unseen threats to come. Adele grows under a stern father while Marian St Clair observes tensions and a looming misfortune.
A young woman named Adele wrestles with secret betrothal to a mysterious beloved, fearing her father’s anger and social disapproval. She plans to flee with her lover, but his abrupt departure delays their reunion, as she battles guilt over disobedience and clandestine affection. The piece closes with a moral reflection on Jewish women through Chateaubriand and religious imagery.
A joke about a man who marries a rich wife and a retort to her boast. A husband shows his horse and his wife asserts ownership of the money that bought the horse, prompting the man to reply that the money bought him too.
A devotional poem from the Presbyterian press. It asks for God’s care from morning to night and seeks pardon and grace through faith in Christ. The text emphasizes daily reliance on divine guidance.
A narrator contemplates leaving homeland for distant shores likening it to death and exile. He sketches a prisonlike future landscape with a sea around and no familiar trees or flowers, then finds solace in memory and the holy ache of the past, a passion he calls worthy and freeing.
An autumnal meditation on nature’s decline and renewal, praising a calm departure at life's end. Also a note on singing as prevention and cure for consumption, citing German schools as evidence, and a Victorian moral mirth about Ireland’s restraint from intoxication.
An address at the Springfield Cemetery dedication by Rev. Mr. Peabody extols the sacred ground and pensive reflections on mortality. The speaker contemplates future tenants of the dust, from a child to the aged, and notes marble markers telling who they were or what they might have become.
An Ohio native once a respected congressman and later a heavy drinker is described as having embraced Methodism. After years of ruin and divorce, he repented at the mourners bench, remarried his wife, rebuilt his family, and now travels to warn others to seek salvation.
A moral meditation warns against indulgence and waste. It argues two guests, body and soul, require balance, noting intemperance harms health and finances. Excess leads to ruin, while prudent living nourishes both self and others. Proverbial cautions link self-control to just outcomes.
A fragmentary speech samples reflective verse on secrets and noise. It quotes Crabbe style lines about trust and betrayal in youth, then mocks gossip and vigilant crime with a robber’s refrain. The text blends prose and satirical verse across a short, miscellaneous note.
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