27 Oct 1880
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Newspaper
The Clermont Courier
Location
Batavia, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Oct 27, 1880
Page
1
The Clermont Courier listing shows publication frequency and pricing with irregular OCR errors. It notes a weekly schedule with a stated price of 1.50 per year and mentions payment terms and office details implied by the garbled text.
In an interview with Rev. O H Fowler Grant offers a detailed view of Hancock and Order No 40 portraying Hancock as driven by presidential ambition since 1864 and describing how Congress aimed to enforce Reconstruction while Hancock aligned with Southern interests. Grant recounts dismissals and reshuffles by Johnson and Sheridan, and defends his stance on enforcing federal laws against southern resistance. Fowler, former editor of the Advocate, is now Missionary Secretary of the Methodist Episcopal Church.
Orator denounces state sovereignty as a Democratic tactic while praising Garfield and the Union. He argues government protection must extend across state lines, condemns Confederate loyalties, and urges support for Garfield to preserve national unity, liberty, and an honest ballot.
The New York Tribune argues the Democratic party cannot be trusted with power citing recent actions on resumption, public expenditures, rebel claims, pensions, and treatment of Union soldiers. It warns that entrusting government to this party would yield chaos and urges readers to study the cited facts and share them.
In a Cooper Institute speech, Evarts critiques Democratic stance on voting rights, cites regional suffrage abuses, and contrasts free ballot ideals with alleged inequality. He lampoons political grandstanding while detailing a table of Hayes vs. Tilden votes across Southern counties to illustrate practical outcomes.
The speaker condemns a robbery of the suffrage by comparing it to Tarquin and asks how to protect the vote of the poor freemen. He invokes justice, divine scrutiny, and the moral government of the world to urge action against the injustice.
The Indianapolis Journal records a sharp exchange where Uncle Sam questions Gen. Hancock on the ballot, constitutional law, and civil vs military power. Hancock defends the civil power but confesses alignment with a Democratic platform, ending with the remark that he must go down.
An Owen county pupil offers a humorous piece about a local Meat Market read aloud at a Teachers Institute. The humorous spoof notes morning and evening trade, two meat markets in town, and the idea of providence behind butchering.
The Atlantic Monthly recalls America Vespucci alias an educated Italian woman who visited Washington during the Van Buren era. She sought citizenship and land rights, drew praise in Congress, faced rumors of scandal in Florence and Paris, and faded into seclusion after ties with a Duke and a Parisian circle.
The success of Captain Eads jetties spurs demand for large grain carrying barges and powerful towboats built for coal trade. With 20 feet of water at South Pass, grain shipments to ocean ships at New Orleans rise, prompting purchases by St. Louis New Orleans Transportation Co and Mississippi Valley Transport Co. Barges, 225 by 36 feet with 60 000 bushel capacity, number about 120 to be built along the Ohio River. A tow of five barges, loaded eight feet deep, completes a round trip in twenty days, yielding about eight cents per bushel, yielding substantial income for wholesale grain dispatchers on the Father of Waters.
Legal and transient advertisements cost 1.00 per square for the first insertion and 0.50 for each additional insertion. A liberal yearly reduction is offered. Business cards up to six lines are 4.00 per year.
A jumble of early Ohio items reports deaths from railroad cars and a skull fracture after a fall, stabbings, robberies including a Forest Post Office theft of cash and stamps, runaways injuring riders, and a murder trial in Wooster. Other notes include forgeries in Van Wert and a large scale fraud tied to Geismar Roth in Cincinnati Louisville.
A New York newspaper notes 9 723 news sheets published in the United States with 1 835 Democratic 1 747 Republican and 122 Greenback papers. It also lists state and territorial totals and mentions a firm dealing with brash ad equipment.
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